Yeah we need to stop calling these thing conspiracies theories and call them what they are: Reactionary belief systems.

Strictly speaking, it is a theory about a conspiracy, but MSM uses that term for basically anything that doesn’t fit with their narrative. They often seem to use words so widely that they become meaningless, like “genocide” or “fascist”

Maybe I’m wrong, but the lizard people conspiracy is directly tied to antisemitism. You know, with David Icke popularizing it and all.

I’m against conspiracism.

But I also know conspiracies happen.

You don’t have to go that far back, or even leave the shores of the USA. The 50s and early 60s, the Red Scare years, were chock full of lynchings, leftists jailings, black leaders being assassinated (the CIA assassinating a president?), militarism, and imperialism. They had wee kiddies practicing cowering under our desks as school safety events in case of nuclear war. Actually, except for the addition of the climate starting to kill us, little has changed in 60 years. It may seem worse now since the real left has been neutered and replaced with whatever the DSA and their ilk pretend to be.

Definitely feels like Europe in the early 20th century. Fascism and socialism will clash again this century, and we are getting dangerously close to a major war

Good.

Questioning or perhaps preparing the public for “tightening of the belts” rhetoric?

yes

Yeah, an admin said they were dealing with another DDOS attack.

not the way I do it. I’ve found it best to do 45 minutes of shitposting for every 15 minutes of working. can’t steal my surplus value if I don’t give it to them lmao

unfortunately, yes {:>|) — for most jobs, at least. Assuming you’re new at working, it’ll probably get somewhat easier after a few weeks

Sort of. Depending on the job really. It’s important to try and have a clear seperation between your job and your free time. Keep trying to find fun things to do, or rest if you want, and don’t spend too much time making yourself even more miserable. This place is great but it can be mentally draining as well. Try to find a way to not go mental, or look around for more fullfilling jobs.

Reddit gonna reddit

I don’t hate it (yet), but I vastly prefer working on hobby projects

Me. Genuinely enjoy programming itself, but working in the corporate IT field makes me wish I had picked another field instead of falling for the CS meme.

Any work that involves a computer is a big no-no for me

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you monster

Haven’t read anything by him, but AFAICT he

• was arrested for planning a coup in the USSR during WWII; worth noting that many other countries probably would’ve executed him instead, especially during wartime
• wrote “Gulag Archipelago” based almost entirely on unfounded rumours, and liberals still treat it as gospel (here’s an apparent debunking of his claims, although I haven’t read that yet either)
• was a Russian nationalist and highly antisemitic
• publicly supported Fransisco Franco

I’ve read articles like this but haven’t found any solid evidence yet, so take it with a tablespoon of salt

If you do read any of his stuff, please share your thoughts

I’m pretty sure even his own wife says that he’s full of BS

I always start it and after 3 episodes or so I stop watching it. Should I just hang on? Is it really fun?

Not really, sorry

You see everything said in MSM? Borderline the complete opposite. In short: Zelenski posting nazi propaganda on Instagram, the US giving even more money in weapons to Ukraine, Europe shooting themselves in the foot, Russia and the LDPR winning most combats and taking more towns and cities in the east restoring their constitutional borders, Azovstal in Mariupol basically finally done. A slow process to make sure the ukrainian defeat is absolute, it seems.

First major cauldron in Donbass is almost formed along the Severodonetsk-Zolote line. All the major roads leading in there are within artillery distance already and are close to being actually cut off. Reports are between 10-20k troops in that pocket and UAF alledgedly still sending more men in there (though that’s hard to believe). Could possibly be split into two pockets - one around Zolote/Hirske and one around Severodonetsk/Lysychansk.

More pockets forming south of the Popasna-Bakhmut line and around Avdiivka. Lyman is apparently surrounded from 3 sides, while the UAF have blown up the bridge across the river to their backs, so forces there are already or are about to be trapped.

Rough map for all of this

Some videos of small level mutinies have popped up over the past days and weeks in that area already. We’ll see how the Azov surrender and some pressure on the cauldron will affect those numbers.