this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

It's Halloween. Everyone post your scariest neighbourhood photos. A coffee shop across from a house. 😱

Soviet economic and political history is enormously fascinating. It is unfortunately shaped by campists and anti-communists, both of whom don't actually seem to care about the reality of the Soviet system

we gotta call it minmus, right

Hasan on video wearing a goofy ass kevlar vest to walk around and vlog for less than an hour before going back to his million dollar LA mansion to react to tweets it's genuinely pathetic that this loser is one of the biggest left-wing political influencers

I have a note: Please don’t make AI slop versions of actual signs ppl made by hand.

They’ll tell you fascism in this country is a working-class phenomenon. That’s a lie. It’s the ruling class, and their snivelling lackeys like Christian here, who want us divided. Don’t let them win.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

It's like Chris Mason describing the upcoming local elections as 'midterms'. The Americanisation of our media discourse.

Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.

A fun thing to do if you can afford it is to give money to someone doing good work so that they both have more money, can do more work, and feel appreciated for doing the good work

man the mental health difference between online and offline is pretty big in normal times but it an absolute chasm right now being super aware of what’s happening is important but my god it is a drain

Bluesky just got banned in Russia Can't get to it without VPN

He'll be talking colour revolution next. We've seen this before.

It’s just Content all the way down. We live in Baudrillard’s vision of hell

look, i'm the last person that should be giving dating advice, BUT: do the things you like to do, for yourself. try to better yourself, for you. then see who's interested. the moment you start acting a particular way for someone, you're performing a character; you won't be able to do that forever.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

this is literal rosgvardiya

好喜歡 冬天要別在牛仔外套上 當別針富翁

The co-writer of this (Tanya Lukyanova) is working for Russian state affiliated Telegram tabloid "BAZA" as its main producer. It was revealed after her arrest for bribes charges.

US/UK commentary on Russia–Ukraine focuses on the land question most of all, pressing unconditional ceasefire w frozen battle lines as absolute most that can be surrendered to Putin. IMO, there's too little attention on Russian demands regarding NATO & Euro security architecture.

Putin is an authoritarian who won his last election with 87% of the vote and murdered his main political rival.

"cricitizing lavish Uber Eats consumption is ableism" and other such takes

👏bring👏back👏home👏👏economics👏

The US stopped have a north and a south divide and instead has an urban and rural/exurban one, and the rural areas, regardless of where they're located, took on the culture of the rural south. We universalized the worst America has to offer.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

I hope that I am not right, but I do not think that the GOP fucking over rural areas will result in rural areas blaming the GOP: instead they'll double-down on blaming imaginary cultural enemies and resentment/fantasy about how the cities must be worse.

I suggest that PUP consider telling the story of the region by providing Uyghur scholars a chance to tell theirs. Rahile Dawut’s studies of Uyghur folklore and culture tell the story of the region better than anyone. Why not start by publishing translations? madeinchinajournal.com/2023/11/13/r...

A 69-year-old driver with a recent history of speeding in school zones and running reds behind the wheel of a 4000-pound truck with an elevated front grille “aCciDenT”

this is a reminder that the refugees lured by russian and belarusian governments are still dying on the polish-belarusian border because both sides are fucking racist (one exploits real human tragedies, the other is callously indifferent to human suffering if the human is not white-skinned)

At the risk of getting yelled at, this is part of why I keep saying blue state NIMBYism is a travesty for democracy. When we make it so that low-income immigrants, LGBTQ people and pregnant people can't afford to live where they want, think about what they end up being subject to.

will no one think of the car-driving proletariat

Holy shit, they're doing the meme, but completely unironically

It's fun to see billionaires whine about the remote possibility of a public grocery store in New York as "socialism" when the president just expropriated and now personally controls the means of production that was US Steel.

How do I explain to leftists that Eastern Europe is a different dimension

"Calling CECOT a gulag shows your anti-communist biases" is going to remain an all-time reply I've gotten. Beautifully unhinged.

there’s a whole set of reactionaries who are trapped in leftist politics. I guess I appreciate the votes but I hope that one day they can live their truth, and also that people who do not share their reactionary tendencies will stop listening to them

Without going all "arrrrgh Centrists" there is a certain sort of pundit who simply does not believe that there can be organic popular responses to political events, that every event is controlled by explicitly political actors such as "the groups". This is a conspiracy theory.

congratulations texas for leading the way in America in approving a thing that the rest of the world has been building for like 75 years

By the way, in Russia there's a vibe that "Christian (Orthodox) means Russian" or rather "ethnic Russian" that's why there's a lot of weird polls like "are you Christian? yes. Do you believe in God? no. (33% in 2017)"

i love that young zoomers are doing like neo-eclectic revivalism on tiktok

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

man, it's crazy how Russian propaganda efforts just won. Like this guy was taking literally hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Russian government and is now like, one of the president's preferred journalists.

I can’t stand most liberals, but some of my fellow leftists are the the dumbest people on the planet that fall for extremely obvious propaganda just because something is labeled Communist.

I think culturally, Americans have a tendency to view themselves as the scrappy underdogs no matter what and this is toxic when you are the most powerful country ever in a world you ordered to benefit yourself. Leads to a self-destructive victimhood complex from a position of privilege.

as far as i can tell, they are mainly upset at 50501’s nonviolence pledge and like… if you are at a protest that advocates violence on their website, you are about to be arrested by the FBI. that is an op

By the way. This is extremely illegal in most civilized countries on the planet. But American exceptionalism, am I right?

ngl Marxism really is a religion for a lot of Marxists