I wish those 5 were actually as left-wing as depicted here…

If we’re barbaric, it’s because we murder criminals, not because it’s on Youtube.

100% agreed

You all imagine the people who will whoop and cheer; I imagine the people who will recoil in horror

I strongly doubt that though. I feel like a lot of people will cheer. And in any case this will desensitize people to violence; given how reactionary the US populace is, it’s probably not a good thing overall

To expand on what @[email protected] said, this analysis ranges from reductive to completely ahistorical.

Women have been part of the productive workforce long before the notion of equality was even on the table. The idea that women were exclusively bearing and rearing children before the industrial revolution is nonsense, women were crucial workers in agriculture and manufacture and it was impossible for a family to be fed only by the patriarch.

The relationship between capitalism and feminism is actually partly the other way around from what you are presenting. Industrialization required centralization and urbanization, which meant it was easier than ever for women to organize with their colleagues and comrades and demand equal rights. It also eased access to weapons, which allowed for direct violent action to force the ruling class to pay attention. Capitalism accelerated or even sometimes spawned feminist movements, which were always in direct contradiction with the actual capitalists who were entirely male at the time.

The idea that women haven’t won anything is just bullshit. You are right that they didn’t “win” the “right to work”, because they had that “right” forever. But what they actually did win is a smaller gender gap in pay and economic opportunities, access to better education, right to political representation, legal prohibitions on some kinds of gender violence. If you think all of this was somehow “granted” by (male) capitalists because it is profitable, that’s just untrue, most of it was directly or indirectly hurtful to the ruling class when those measures were first introduced.

“All Iranian missiles have been intercepted by our barracks. Our brave personnel also intercepted most of the resulting shrapnel.”

Social democracy thrives only on exploitation of the working class elsewhere. Its citizens enjoy free healthcare and a robust social net, paid for by a person on the other side of the world hyperexploited by the capitalists in charge.

Meanwhile socialist societies, while imperfect or even awful in many ways, actually build the productive forces necessary for human development and thus actual positive human rights.

As if they have a choice LOL

I think the idea is to postpone this long enough to appoint even more pro-trump judges and capture the courts even more, so that when trump inevitably loses (maybe even by default), he can appeal and get a more favorable judge.

Great assessment TBH. Iran is clearly posturing here, they haven’t won yet, even though the US did lose already.

US plutocrats don’t actually care that much whether the stock market is red or green in the short term, they will make money from it either way. I think the existing strategy of jacking up oil prices (which will impact the economy long-term) and also hitting their assets directly where possible (e.g. datacenters and refineries) will have more impact.

However, it is also possible that with some reshuffling of the demands the ceasefire might actually hold. If they allow Trump to not lose face, they could get most of their demands practically met and be the ultimate victors in this. I hope this is how it goes, otherwise we might see a worldwide famine due to fertilizer shortages by the end of this year.

On this particular front Europe is doing OK as well, but it definitely needs to build more, faster, and now. And to do that it needs to build more ties with China. Honestly looking at the (lack of) EU response over the latest US war crimes I’m not holding my breath here.

Felipe VI of Spain can (constitutionally) do the funniest thing right now.

That said, everyone on this planet needs to be building renewables, grid storage, bike lanes and railways ASAP to shake off oil dependency.

Zurab Mikeladze is a Georgian name/surname, not Russian. Given both are fairly popular names in Georgia, I’m assuming there are way more than one person with such a name combo.

Here are some more people with the same name:

• https://enmedic.com/ka/doctors/91d92037-574e-4371-8c4a-5ad86c80eca5
• http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00013666/

If anything, I suspect that “Leonic Leonov” is a typo or misreading of “Leonid Leonov”, a common Russian name/surname, but there would also be hundreds/thousands of people with that exact name.

I will never forgive them for what they did to the Kerbal franchise.

Not a single cent to them, until they either release a worthy sequel, or sell off the rights for cheap to someone who will.

To be fair, it’s the nazis who were acting like americans…

I technically have three names (given name, patronymic, family name). I’ve lived in a few countries, all with different name systems. I’ve found that this is the best easiest rule set to avoid trouble:

• If possible, use only the first and family name, those are very widely understood.
  • If possible, when making a passport in your country of origin, request that those are the only names recorded, and they are transliterated into latin according to some official (or at least widely recognized) ruleset.
• If possible, use the latin transliterations as written in the passport.
  • Otherwise, look up official transliteration rules from latin to local language and use those.
  • Don’t try transliterating by yourself, or transliterating from the original names, it will cause issues.
  • If some system somewhere transliterates your names otherwise, complain loudly before they get committed anywhere.
  • If the local system forces you to have a “common” first name and your name doesn’t fit, choose one that’s as close as possible to the rules described above. If there is no close alternative, choose the one you like, but be prepared for issues down the road.
• If possible, leave all other names as blank, otherwise as -.
  • Don’t try fitting a “middle name” from one system into another.
  • If possible, avoid fitting into the local system at all, e.g. don’t make up a second family name even if the system calls for it. In my case, I didn’t reuse the patronymic even when the local system had it as well, because my father’s name is obviously not a local name so it would look really weird.
  • If asked, say you don’t have any other names.

Of course, this is just what worked best in my specific situations, other countries may be different.

And also, I don’t care at all about my legal name (all my friends call me by another name anyways) so I’m fine dropping a part of it, the goal here is to just make interactions with governments, banks, etc as smooth and easy as possible.

The checks and balances are working mostly as intended. The purpose of the system is:

1. Protect the oligarchy from external threats, should any anti-oligarch politician slip by all the various election disenfranchisement techniques,
2. Moderate any conflicts between factions of the oligarchy to stabilize the dictatorship of the capital.

As far as I can tell,

1. Billionaires are making more billions every day while the rest struggle to get by,
2. Almost all dem politicians and their wealthy neoliberal donors are doing alright despite a literal fascist party being in power.

Besides, even when someone like Mamdani gets elected, they can’t effect any meaningful change because they are “checked” by the pro-capitalist legislature and “balanced” by the corrupt judiciary.

It doesn’t need a reboot, it needs a complete realignment of who’s in charge.

Even with a solid majority, the house and senate democrats will be too full of individual self-interests too do anything of the sort.

It’s not individual self-interests, it’s pretty blatant corruption to protect their donors, the US oligarchs. Any real investigation into republicans will implicate “democrat” billionaires as well.

Nazis took inspiration for holocaust from manifest destiny, soo…

Please put an NSFW tag on that image, it can get you in trouble if you accidentally show it in public in many countries, for good reason.

Nah they were. Being a nazi makes you a bad person, categorically. It doesn’t mean there’s no possibility for change or reform, but it does mean that while someone holds nazi believes they are a vile piece of shit.

What’s up with approx. 1.8?