Basically, Iranian counterinsurgency liquidated a bunch of saboteurs carrying full auto weapons that fire rounds only used by NATO militaries and this got spinned into Tiananmen Square with Islamist characteristics.

万岁 started to be used for the country during the ROC. It wasn’t something invented by the CPC.

I see your stupid sexy Flanders and raise you over, under, in and out, that’s what shoe-tying’s all about Skinner.

my butt is one of my finest qualities

Repeatedly on the front cover of Gigantic Asses.

So much for being too cool for school.

any sort of minor “not feeling so great for some reason” malady

That’s called Covid.

I wish I knew enough about Chinese astrology to infodump astrology fans with “On the Supremacy of the Astrology as Conceived of by the Heirs of Chinese Civilization and the Occidental’s Abortive Attempts to Replicate the Sublime Beauty of said Astrology.”

I mean, the fire inspector does have a point.

Unfortunately, I don’t know a good way to do this on Android / iOS.

I figure you could get yt-dlp to work on Termux. When I try to search for the package in Termux, it gives me python-yt-dlp.

To add to what you’ve originally said, pipelines only work if average people can’t connect the two ends of the pipeline. There’s a reason why the opening end of the fascist pipeline is Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes instead of some blue eyes blonde hair Odin-worshipping freak named Olaf Henriksen. Tate being a brown Muslim and Fuentes being a (gay?) Latino is why they’re at one end of the pipeline while the Olaf Henriksens are at the other end. The Olaf Henriksens shitting on Tate and Fuentes for being [racial slurs] who are ruining white nationalism because they’re [racial slurs] play their part since normal people are going to be more easily fooled by the Tates and Fuentes going, “If you think I’m a white supremacist, you should read what actual white nationalists like Olaf Henriksen say about me. I’m just a normal guy like you who can’t stand the wokes and the [trans slur] and I wanna do something about it. Will you join me?”

The ultimate irony is that if you buy into the idea of hiding your power level^TM or the pipeline^TM, then you pretty much need people shitting on Hasan for being a lib. Otherwise, people are going to wonder why every single vaguely communisty person and org seem to support this dude who is totally not a commie. Imagine if every single vaguely socialisty org from CPUSA to PSL to ACP all pat Hasan on the back going “he’s our guy.” Normal people are going to start asking reasonable questions like “is Hasan a communist?” And just like how some dude going, “I’m not a fascist. I have never said anything remotely fascist” is completely unconvincing if every single fascist loser likes the dude, no one is going to buy Hasan going “I just want free healthcare, bruh” if every single person who wants more than free healthcare gives him the thumbs up.

This is assuming you believe in the pipeline^TM. If you don’t, you can shit on Hasan for having garbage politics lol

I have to use my ml alt to browse the news mega lmao

“Blot out the memory of Amalek!”

I wish they actually did so they would finally stfu about it.

My hope is every time shit like this happens, every time the liberal is forced to remove their mask, it converts some liberals over to socialists, communists, or anarchists.

It will also convert some liberals into fascists until there’s nothing left but fascists and socialists. This is what heightening the contradictions mean.

Micro$oft walked so Microslop can run.

Thesis: “We got 'im.” - Reuters

Antithesis: Khamenei’s Twitter has started posting again.

Synthesis: Khamenei is posting from beyond the grave.

we don’t have enough activity for a thriving community on our own, so we have to pick-and-choose who we federate with. Too closed and the community dies.

sucks to suck

turning it into a slogan like that, while catchy

Nobody’s treating it anything more than a slogan. Slogans should not be expected to be as rigorously thought out as political lines. That’s for manifestos and programmes.

The PLAN is just going to form a blockade surrounding Taiwan and watch Taiwanese society collapse. This is what happens when 98% of your energy has to be imported.

The essay is nothing more than a polemic in an ever-expanding pile of polemics. I think people fall into a trap of trying to find the best argued polemic when as a science, the principle criterion should be first and foremost how well the science can predict phenomena. “China is capitalist” means that you can say “a capitalist state responds to A, B, and C with X, Y, and Z, and since China is a capitalist state facing A, B, and C, it will respond with X, Y, and Z.” Ditto for “China is socialist,” “China is fascist,” “China is authoritarian,” or whatever other label you want to stick to China.

Polemics will often have arguments in the form “China responded to A, B, and C with X, Y, and Z, and since a state that responds to A, B, and C with X, Y, and Z is [adjective], China is [adjective],” but they almost always do it after the fact. It’s no different from some astrologist pulling something out of their ass to explain why a relationship failed. You know, the asspull explanation would’ve been a lot more helpful before the relationship happened. Curious how their actual predictions seem to always either be wrong or be vague enough that they can wiggle their way out of getting called out for being wrong.

Fundamentally, people do not take the idea of the immortal science as a science seriously. The thing about science, the only reason why people even care about science in the first place, is its ability to explain and predict phenomena. Predicting phenomena is key. It’s why meteorology replaced killing birds and divining predictions based on their mangled corpses or sticking sticks in the grounds and somehow predicting weather with them. The reason why people value astronomy over astrology is the science of astronomy can be used to predict solar ellipses, used to predict when the number of solar flares will go up, and so on. Meanwhile, astrology doesn’t predict anything. It may offer some kind of explanation of human behavior, but it certainly can’t predict how people would behave. At best, it offers explanation to explain shit after it had already happened. Virtually all polemics are of this character.