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Military and Police have showed up in my high school today to leech some clueless highschoolers. They do this every year apparently. The recruiters even started calling juniors and seniors (including me) to sign up for shit. They brought fucking bouncy castle shit with their logos plastered all over it. Makes me fucking sick, them doing this.
I’m a vet and it’s extremely predatory. I hate the idea of military and police trying to brainwash kids who literally don’t know any better. Worked on me to a degree.
They got me as a junior. Biggest regret of my life is having heard those scummy predator motherfuckers out.
Syria and the DPRK have made diplomatic contact!
Oh you are an Che Guevara enjoyer? Then give me a full resume of everything that happened in his entire life 🔫😐
Chad Jon Lee Anderson: K lol
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I revived a plant that suddenly started dying this weekend. I threw a load of coffee rests over it and the fucker is now stronger than ever.
Also, a copy of Blackshirts and Reds just fell on my doorstep. I´m looking forward to reading it.
Coffee revives plants !? Also nice, it’s a very good book. Maybe lemmygrad should have a list with “must reads”?
Yeah apparently it contains nutritious substances like potassium, so if you have leftover coffee(grounds) you can use it on most of your indoor plants.
My gf’s mom has a big vegetable garden and she also uses it to keep snails away. They don’t like caffeine.
Well thats pretty cool !
O shit thank you! Is it similar to using plant food? Better than repotting haha, semi unrelated but I remember seeing an article that birds are learning to use tobacco within their nests since it is a natural pesticide. Same kind of pragmatism.
Yes and no. I believe it’s not good for plants to only use coffee because it contains a lot of nitrogen as well. Plants with an acidic ground will do well with coffee though. But most of the plants I have in my house, which are common houseplants, do pretty well on coffee.
The intelligence of birds can be scary sometimes.
Lenin plant
Juche necromancy
Can we bring back the word “Overmorrow”? It means day after tomorrow and im tired of saying all those syllables and typing that all out
It is already a word in Dutch. We have one too for the day before yesterday but I don’t know how to translate it.
Apparently the similarly archaic English word is “nudiustertian”, but that doesnt roll off the tongue quite so well
Edit: oh wait theres “ereyesterday” which sounds a lot better
Which is also the literal translation in Dutch. Interesting.
Edit: talking about ereyesterday.
It’s þe French, þey ruined our beautiful Germanic language 😢
CorrectionRight-Making: It’s þe Frank-folk, þey made bad our lovesome Deutschlandish tongue
The more I learn about different European languages, the more English starts to look like an outlier, not the other way around (as we are sometimes Led to believe). No gendering of nouns, no word for day after tomorrow or before yesterday. And it just keeps going.
You can bring it overmorrow
clever
all in agreement?
Blackshirts and Reds is great so far.
I got in an argument with someone about communism and they really had problems with the EVERYONE MAKES THE SAME, THAT DOESNT WORK and the BUT WHAT ABOUT FREEDOM arguments.
Somehow I could not find any good explanation about these topics. Does someone on here have some good sources for this? Especially the wages thing. I understand what Marx meant with his wage labour theory and I understand communist visions for wages, but I couldn’t really explain that stuff clearly yesterday. Thanks comrades.
Look at past successes of Socialism. In the USSR more ‘advanced’ careers like doctors were paid more. What was amazing about the Soviet system was that you could do virtually any job and have decent living standards unlike the west. Their was however incentive if you wanted to earn more.
r/artforukraine is the cringiest place on the internet.
the name itself invokes the spirit of liberalism
The real spectre haunting reddit
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Based friends are great. The friends I grew up with have not yet made it to communism unfortunately.
One even joined a neolib party. Naturally, I clown him at every chance I get. The best was when he used the communist fist symbol on his political poster because he thought it looked cool lmao
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There’s only one effective way to fight fascism and it isn’t voting or peaceful demonstrations. But we in America are just not ready for that conversation. The scariest thing about the current political climate is that I think the fashies on the Right have already figured that out while the Libs are too stupid to even realize the danger.
This is to imply that libs wont side with the fascists lmaoooo
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I want Zelenskyy to fucking cease breathing already, and NATO to end the terrorism in Ukraine.
In Minecraft, of course.
Noooo you can’t talk about our wholesome nazi sympathisant like that!!! Russian bot, go fuck yourself!!
The people that are crying about Elon owning Twitter are so fucking annoying. I even saw one communist that said he was gonna delete his account
How is Elon worse than the previous bloodsuckers that used to own Twitter? He literally didn’t even do anything yet and everybody’s already being so dramatic for what
I bet 99% of people b*tching about Elon can’t even name a single previous board member or major (10%+ shareholder) of Twitter
The problems seem to be with the things he wants. His whole free speech shit is just a mask for right wing/fascist ideologies to make their voices heard without criticism. It’s going to be a platform where fascist propaganda will run rampant. Yes, you don’t have to use Twitter. But that’s not the point. The point is what I said above, it will be a dat right echo chamber and capitalism will always profit off that.
It is worrying.
It’s going to be a platform where fascist propaganda will run rampant.
As opposed to now?
Just because it’s bad now doesn’t mean it can’t get worse
True
Just see how far your free speech will get you if you make leftists post fighting for workers’ rights, or anti Tesla posts of whatever. I’m sure that will go down fine.
Just be an chad like me and never use twitter lol, i am sure my life is much better by not even getting close of that bloody jungle.
Yeah, I’ve even seen some people go on about how they’re freaked out a billionaire can just buy twitter and control said narrative… Like twitter wasn’t owned by one before, not to mention basically all telecommunications and media giants.
That said, I think a lot of people will be disappointed when they find out in practice “free speech absolutism” doesn’t exist. I am holding out some hope he will stop banning everyone who disagrees with the corporate narrative, but my hopes aren’t high with Mr “we will coup whoever we want”.
Although I agree that Twitter has always allowed misinformation and has a political bias, Musk has reportedly fired employees who have spoken in disagreement with his actions and this if anything is pushing the social platform to the right/pro-capitalist, I don’t use it but it seems Twitter has alot of centrists that at least make fun of landlords and lobbying. I just don’t want a doomer mentality where nothing is worth saving.
The issue is that most people don’t seem to understand how much Twitter was censoring when it came to politics, so they assume that Elon is going to be the one to do it
I think its because he said he would put “human authentification” like facebook.
You mean like clicking those boxes that say you’re not a robot or choosing the elephant picture that’s right side up?
No i mean, for example, submitting a legal id to the site, like facebook, or youtube.
Oh that’s only for blue checkmark mfs I’m p sure
Anyone know of a good hoi4 mod that is based?
If you find one pls share… i only found weird nazi shit ones lol :(
Kaiserreich has been the least cringe mod I’ve played so far. Kaiserredux could also be cool since you can establish the Soviet Union.
Most of the others I’ve seen have fucking cringe focus trees and political descriptions about Marxism-Leninism and democratic socialism
Ty!
Syindicalist UK and France are based, doing an USSR revival run is awesome too. Patagonia still best country (you can have Stalin and Zhukov as generals before you retake the rest of the country)
well that sounds like a fucking dream I wish I had anything that could run it
Ok now I have to play Patagonia
redworld
Redword is interesting but it has some shit descriptions for socialist ideologies.
Actually never mind fuck that mod.
did you end up finding a good mod
Not really besides Kaiserreich. I haven’t tried Equestria at War though.
Eu4 is better
My mother brushed off my support of communism as a side effect of my ADHD/High-functioning Autism
I don’t want to be here anymore
Your sympathy towards human beings and your fight to make this place more equal must be because something is wrong in your brain!! I, a neurotypical person, have more realistic views such as oppression of minorites and burning the ever living shit out of this planet for the profit of a select few.
What even happened to the Bucha and Kramatorsk stories? Or the hundreds of towns with supposed mass graves Zelensky was talking about? All I hear about now is that Russia is cutting off gass supply to Poland and Bulgaria. But that’s about it.
My home country is now running a story about war crimes commited by the Syrian army because a video of two soldiers killing 10 unarmed people just surfaced. Therefore they can now conclude that the Syrian army has been commiting war crimes on a large scale.
Still waiting for the day the media finds out Israel exists
Im keeping the popcorn out for when they find out America is a country
Kramatorsk disappeared because it became obvious that Ukrainians shot a missle at themselves. Bucha is probably similar because the timeline simply didn’t add up.
My phone lets me change app icons
fucking hell yes
