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bagual
Oct 29, 2010

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politics is just another name for violence
the appealing thing about killing lots and lots of people is that sometimes it works


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Oct 29, 2010

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RT documentary on the YPJ boot camp.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqI0a4VgEs8

I know, it's Russia Today, but this one is pretty cool and has only one mention to russia in the entire program.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-4ATrE8n0

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Oct 29, 2010

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actually we're born to die. loving kkkill'em all!!!!



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also :nws: brazilian protest butts :nws:

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Unchecked realtime updating advertising is the future, for hilarious results:


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Devrim Gündüz posted:

“My friend who was beside me before the explosion was hurled away, [and] was lying down 3-4 meters away. I could not feel my feet…. I did not know what to do…. I panicked, [but] I noticed something at that moment. [My friend] was only smiling…. smiling and hope and light was bursting out of his eyes…. [In the time since] the explosion, I have had numerous operations. My femur is broken in five places, I can’t walk, there is damage in my ankle, it gives me trouble, I lost one of my kidneys and spleen, [and] most importantly I lost my close comrades, but I have not lost one thing…I have not lost hope…. That bomb only had a physical impact, it has not affected our smiles, our resistance, or our dedication to our struggle.”

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Oct 29, 2010

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McDowell posted:

Honj Steak posted:



Adidas has now officially replaced hammer and sickle as the symbol of communist revolution.


I always wondered if they caught on because in a communist utopia everyone should be wearing unpretentious, comfy jumpsuits



Nah, he probably just adopted the slav fashion sense during his time in the USSR.




speaking of slavs, the Abkhazian News Network has uploaded a series of videos of Syrian T-72s mounted with GoPro's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W96VMOm-dW0


I wonder if in the future it will be like a brand competition, "Raw ULTRA-HD warcrime footage brought to you exclusively by Samsung, the official US army tank camera provider"

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"The nanny state is an oppressive leftist institution. Protesters are ungrateful children the state should put limits to just like a good parent does."


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Grand Prize Winner posted:

typical cuckinist

ahahaha

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DiggityDoink posted:

Kinda rude to trick the kid with an ipad printed on some paper.

Totally unrelated and I'm pretty sure these dudes are the bad guys but I've always loved this picture.


I'm the flag-bearing pouch.



Have a las barricadas, but in portuguese! (Also one of the best album fronts ever)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOEozSiVwyE

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Oct 29, 2010

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1958 soviet propaganda cartoon.

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spacetoaster posted:

I specifically said that London police officers get shot all the time

that's not actually true though?

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Oct 29, 2010

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spacetoaster posted:

Seeing different ideas and opinions ARE scary.



"you don't like my posts because of my ~~OPINIONS~~"
*posts apparently non political garbage image with no additional explanation*



In actual news Podemos got 68 chairs in the spanish parliament while PP, the center-right ruling party, lost 64 chairs going down from a 54% absolute majority in parliament (which let them do absurd poo poo like the gag law) to barely 33%. Ciudadanos also got a good showing, so maybe we'll get to see some new politics in action this next few years or more likely these two parties will be absorbed by standard politics after shaking things up a bit on their arrival.

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Oct 29, 2010

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itskage posted:

Yeah the lack of additional information for the image is annoying but the reference to the Sesame Score makes sense with what he said about being exposed to different opinions. Since, I guess that would drag down your score.

Oh haha i didn't watch that video the first time. Made the post seem like complete nonsense, I guess spacetoaster is actually a barely okay poster and I was the bad poster all along? My world is shattered.

That said, having watched the video, sesame credit can't be that different from the chinese state's regular services (which I suppose must have some sort of political screening), just way more efficient in using the internet as a means for automatizing and expanding it's reach. Cronyism, now user-friendly.




Also this system could lead to situations such as in the late East German regime where opposition demonstrations who sang antiquated patriotic songs ironically were put down by the police. I imagine ironic praise detection algorithms would catch the real loyalists all the time.


edit: Also, on space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY

bagual fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Dec 22, 2015

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Oct 29, 2010

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Gullous posted:

I've heard the theory that increased exposure to other cultures reduces your own's willingness to bomb them. More accessible transportation will help to make the world smaller.



I have a feeling that commercial space travel will only mean that CEOs will have orbital insertions as a job requirement for the near future

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Oct 29, 2010

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War is also a major driver for technological advance.





We indeed benefit from space tech, doesn't change the fact that private space flight is either for commercial applications like lowering satellite launch costs or as a rich persons' toy. Sorry for focusing on the political side of the "great advancement for mankind", but it won't actually change much. Also lol at nerds fellating Elon Musk

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Oct 29, 2010

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Squalid posted:

This weird weather is mostly explained by el niño, rather than climate change. Although it is likely climate change has made it more severe than it would have been otherwise.



Well, it is one the hottest el nino years on record, also one of the hottest years period with next year set to break all temperature records so there's that.









also

Vox article I got these images from posted:

El Niño was associated with less tornado activity in the midwestern United States and fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.

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quote:

Gunduz Aghayev

nice


When/where is this?

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Oct 29, 2010

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTOv9BU-xRE

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Kopijeger posted:

Is this supposed to be a reference to the Communist Manifesto, like "A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism"?


Ding ding ding!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoodajgqJn8

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also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imxFcg7xd7o

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Oct 29, 2010

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This year the first March for Satan hit the streets all over Brazil counting with a real tiny attendance rate (most places had under 50 people) and a disproportionate rate of fun costumes per person, protesting basically for more secularism in the state, as the brazilian state adheres to something similar to french laicité in theory but there's cruxifixes in all manners of public courts and buildings of government in practics, as well as a general christian bias everywhere.






quote:

"Get your bible out of my constitution"



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Klaus88 posted:

I've always wondered how groups who are obsessed with racial purity explain places like Brazil, personally.



It's even more puzzling to look at "white pride" brazilian groups composed of people who'd get beat up by any european nazi for the color of their skins and the mere fact that they're goddamn latinos but who knows how these poo poo-for-brains gets their ideas.


Now for some more dystopia vibes, a short movie about an US observation balloon over Kabul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJsrDv_QX0s


ninja edit: also, Brazil is still hella racist, here's a prank/slash social experiment video where two actors, white and black, dress up identical and try to open their car's door with a wire. White guy spends 15 minutes doing it, only person who stops offers him help, black guy gets arrested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQZPrpfKOkQ

bagual fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Jan 19, 2016

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This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but with a puff puff pass

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Oct 29, 2010

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Gonzo McFee posted:

Anybody remember this video of the woman with Asperger's syndrome who gets comforted by her dog to stop her self harming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMniUAgu6I

Cops shot her dead when responding to a neighbour's call stating they were worried she was going to commit suicide.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...a-a6855901.html

ACAB

Dad used to tell a joke about US police where a man jumps off a bridge and a cop shoots him mid-air saying "Suicide is a crime here!"
not that funny anymore

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