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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
WOW copying gradenko's thing of reading

:mods:

cenotaph posted:

I have started reading Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer and it's a banger.



interesting tho. i've had many discussions with friends who, despite being atheist, have the underlying christian and/or western liberal democracy frameworks so ingrained that you have them using lack of evidence as evidence of celestial perfidity.

keep us updated~

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Horatius Bonar
Sep 8, 2011

mila kunis posted:

when these same loving far right freaks organize in canada or the us or anywhere close to home the liberals freak out instead of glorifying them and dropping all mention of fascist flags and slogans of course

Some of these are what you'd call red flags.



It's cool, just the navy flag plus a little red to really make it pop.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
found another one of these

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

mila kunis posted:

found another one of these



aren't these TNO warlord states

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


Nobody believes a word Molotov Putin says

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.

There's a presidential election in two months and not blindly following the USA into a stupid war is an easy way to look good.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
^ yeah, that seems about right

the Australia sub deal? surely that's small potatoes compared to ukraine issues

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Zedhe Khoja posted:

This, by the way, is what has made my aforementioned biases against Putin so strong. As extreme as this might sound, I felt as if Russia's interference in the US 2016 election was an act of war - a direct attack upon a core aspect of America.

anyway let me tell you how russias law requiring media outlets receiving funding from outside of russia to register as foreign agents is putin peeing his pants because he knows he cant beat us in a war of ideas

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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crepeface posted:

^ yeah, that seems about right

the Australia sub deal? surely that's small potatoes compared to ukraine issues

US: Looks like the surrender monkeys needs more American economic backstabbing motivation to defend Ukrainian freedoms

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/IliasAlami/status/1368610321301176330

https://twitter.com/IliasAlami/status/1368610413542338564

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Lol the warmongers are horned up

https://twitter.com/Mont_Jiang/status/1492592273636446209?cxt=HHwWgsC-ifmw4LYpAAAA

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

It’s actually kind of disgusting that they’re openly anticipating exploiting refugees.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
i'm gonna assume that specific picture is of an underage model

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

he is already divorcing his wife in preparation

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


really doubt he's been married to begin with

https://twitter.com/navyhato/status/1470734006375546882

DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

HORNY Ukrainian REFUGEES in YOUR Area!!! Click NOW!!!

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

cenotaph posted:

I have started reading Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer and it's a banger.






Some of these I can't find. We need a book exchange club.

Not that I'd ever advocate filez, of course...

Palladium
May 8, 2012

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it's almost like the cringe factor on Twitter drops by 99% the moment the poster isn't white

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Flavahbeast posted:

really doubt he's been married to begin with

it's actually Black Pigeon Speaks lmfao

https://www.youtube.com/user/TVShinjuku

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

mila kunis posted:

when these same loving far right freaks organize in canada or the us or anywhere close to home the liberals freak out instead of glorifying them and dropping all mention of fascist flags and slogans of course

Um, I've been told on good authority that the far right freaks in Canada were organized by Putin...

Putin

PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN!!!!!

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

sexpig by night posted:

Ukraine was "Just asking for it" rationale. User loses posting privileges for 1 day.

Did you see how it was dressed

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it's actually Black Pigeon Speaks lmfao

https://www.youtube.com/user/TVShinjuku

Lmfao

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

In hindsight the anime villain dialogue should have given it away.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it's actually Black Pigeon Speaks lmfao

https://www.youtube.com/user/TVShinjuku

So, literal pedophile.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

he has a dot net site that links to all of his social media accounts lmao

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Isentropy posted:

Gradenko-2k can you explain why Marcos is running away with the election?

I have met people who support him here but not at a "lol 55 pct of a 10 man race" level

I think it mostly comes down to a collapse of the liberal opposition in the face of right-wing demagoguery that they have no idea how to attack, because they have no argument on material conditions.

If we take the oversimplified analogy that Benigno Aquino III was our Obama in 2010, and Duterte was our Trump in 2016 (i.e. a product of the failures of neoliberal governance), one of the big alarm bells for 2022 was that during the 2019 mid-terms, the most notable argument that the liberal candidates for Congress presented was attacking Duterte repeatedly for being soft on China - since Duterte bragged about taking a jet-ski to plant a Philippine flag on the Spratlys during the 2016 debates, the liberals in 2019 then held a campaign rally on the shore of a fishing community, where they actually had a jet-ski, and then they dared Duterte to get on it. There wasn't any kind of movement analogous to the US's 2018 mid-terms where you could find at least some kind of "snap-back" effect from "progressives". It's like if the only people who ran for seats as Democrats where the former troops and CIA agents whose only argument was Russiagate.

Needless to say, not one of these people won a seats.

Heading into 2022, there was no pedigree or back-bench of liberal candidates for President - similar to how the DNC was so hollowed-out that the 2020 primary was largely a bunch of also-rans and neophytes, there wasn't really anyone on-deck to want to try and take a shot at the Presidency.

Everyone did expect Leni Robredo to be the one to do it, but my take is that there was definitely some reluctance there, because most of these expectations were built up from the fact that she was the Vice President, and was the most senior liberal in the party - it didn't look like she spent a lot of time paving the road for a candidacy the way the other candidates did, and she only threw her hat into the ring on the penultimate day of filing, possibly only after a lot of prodding and cajoling.

Her running mate, Kiko Pangilinan, was even more of a surprise: the guy was basically a shoe-in for a second term in the Senate, but apparently he was convinced to drop all that and take a shot at the VP slot, where it looks like he's going to lose (as Robredo will).

To be clear, Leni Robredo as a person is not anywhere near as odious as Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, and insofar as liberalism is kinda crap at governing, she's also not really been responsible for actively-bad policies on the scale that the Democrats have done, but the problem remains that if you've been subjected to about six straight years of smears and mud-slinging and you refuse to really fight back hard against it (because maybe you didn't think it was going to be you that had to run for President in 2022?) then obviously you're going to be on the back-foot the whole time.

And the rest of the candidates are not really any better: Pacquiao is a Christofascist, Ping Lacson is literally a cop that's been involved in a double-murder, and Isko Moreno is "only" a bog-standard right-wing populist. These people have all picked about 10% of the vote from their geographic and ideological base (Lacson lagging behind because he doesn't have the former), but that gets us to the other problem that even if the race was just Robredo and Marcos, Robredo would probably still lose anyway just because of her specific affiliation with the liberal party - she's not going to pick up all the votes from Pacquiao, Lacson, and Moreno because those people are both too horrified at the Marcoses but too distrustful of the liberals.

_

I'm going to close out this post with a small sample of what's going on the campaign, in regards to debates.

There have been, AFAIK, about three "debates" that have been held so far - debates in quotation marks because they're not the officially-sanctioned ones and they're really more like media interviews with all of the candidates in sequence.

Marcos has refused to attend two of these, and only went to one because he knew the host was going to throw him softballs (which he did). He's also said that he may well skip most of the rest of the upcoming debates as well. The liberals have been banging their drums all day about how this makes him a coward and how "a prospective employee that doesn't even want to show up to a job interview is obviously not suited for the role". The problem here is two-fold:

1. There is no enforcement mechanism in place. Marcos is not obliged to attend a debate, and if he doesn't want to, then he just doesn't show up. The opposition can yell all they want, and they can even make the case that his refusal to attend is supposed to be a point against him as an appeal to voters, but that's all.

2. They largely fail to understand that this makes perfect sense for Marcos - if you're already polling at 50% or whatever, going to a debate is likely only going to hurt your numbers. The kind of person who consumes politics at a level that would make them be influenced by a debate is almost certainly not a Marcos voter in the first place, so it's all downside for them.

The opposition doesn't really have an answer to this.

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

the Leftist War Furry is upset at Jeremy "Czech NKVD" Kkkorbyn for promoting russian disinformation that nato bad

https://twitter.com/War_Takes/status/1492579903136481280

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/WaschukCanUA/status/1492513746375303174?s=20&t=3n7-syC_QRd0Vwo2a5ltQA

quote:

Roman Waschuk (also Roman Vashchuk, Ukrainian: Роман Ващук; born 28 January 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian diplomat of Ukrainian ethnicity, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.
...
Waschuk's parents immigrated to Canada from Western Ukraine after the Second World War. His father was born in present-day Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, his mother born in Buchach. He studied history with focus on Central and Eastern Europe, also German and Russian, receiving 1985 a MA at University of Toronto. He worked for the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals Juli 1985 – December 1986, Providing background information to investigators and counsel on WW2-era events in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. He is fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Serbian. He was member of the Ukrainian Scouting organization "Plast" in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Waschuk


https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-officials-honor-nazi-collaborators-in-ukraine-angering-jewish-groups

OK baizuo
Mar 19, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The whole situation with the Biden admin scaremongering about Russian aggression and trying to provoke a response makes more sense in this light. As someone who used to be a lib until I started radicalizing over the last 3-4 years, I forgot about just how much resentment and animus the typical establishment lib who still believes in Russiagate feels towards Russia because they ruined Her Rightful Turn and inflicted Cheeto Mussolini on America. I used to feel the same way.

Libs lust for dead Russians as revenge for 2016. It's that simple

cenotaph
Mar 2, 2013








Interesting stuff.

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Palladium posted:

it's almost like the cringe factor on Twitter drops by 99% the moment the poster isn't white

HinduNats confirmed white.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

420 Gank Mid posted:

the Leftist War Furry is upset at Jeremy "Czech NKVD" Kkkorbyn for promoting russian disinformation that nato bad

https://twitter.com/War_Takes/status/1492579903136481280

Watching d&d pivot to ‘i always hated jeromy corbrin!’ Over Ukraine is cool as heck

Gresh
Jan 12, 2019



Its also a bunch of people in the Pentagon and CIA wanting revenge on Russia for Syria. Assad's government was only about a few months away from being overrun by all the CIA/Gulf backed sectarian/jihadist hordes before the Russians intervened with their air and logistical support. Syria was the first time the CIA and top Pentagon brass got their asses kicked in 30 years and they're still VERY bitter about it.

thatfatkid
Feb 20, 2011

by Azathoth

Gresh posted:

Its also a bunch of people in the Pentagon and CIA wanting revenge on Russia for Syria. Assad's government was only about a few months away from being overrun by all the CIA/Gulf backed sectarian/jihadist hordes before the Russians intervened with their air and logistical support. Syria was the first time the CIA and top Pentagon brass got their asses kicked in 30 years and they're still VERY bitter about it.

thinking back to the media coverage of the syrian govt with support from russia and their apparent imminent genocide of all life within rebel occupied Aleppo, much like the Ukraine bullshit now it turned out to be complete bullshit.

weird coincidence :thunk:

CaptainACAB
Sep 14, 2021

by Jeffrey of Langley
My favorite thing about Syria was the hysteria over barrel bombs, a weapon significantly less effective than the bombs we drop by the thousand.

strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1492717389460512768?s=20&t=qSh2I6rLjJQscIPG2Vnibw
Hahahaha

thatfatkid
Feb 20, 2011

by Azathoth

Now this is an interesting turn. looking forward to news headlines tomorrow about the imminent Brazilian invasion of ukraine

Quotey
Aug 16, 2006

We went out for lunch and then we stopped for some bubble tea.
Lolling at “Eurasian thread”

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you

thatfatkid posted:

Now this is an interesting turn. looking forward to news headlines tomorrow about the imminent Brazilian invasion of ukraine

pracinhas to crimea

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Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



CaptainACAB posted:

My favorite thing about Syria was the hysteria over barrel bombs, a weapon significantly less effective than the bombs we drop by the thousand.

it's only ethical to turn children into red mist and bloody little chunks if it enhances raytheon shareholder value

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