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 No.1611121[Reply]

NOOOOOO! THE BIRTHRATES ARE FALLING!!!

WTF is the truth about population boom vs bust? And why are so many rightoids and porkies like Musk obsessed with the birth rates? It makes me suspicious that the porkoids just want us to make more wage slaves? OTOH you have people claiming the WEF/ "elites" are malthusian and want population decrease? which one is it? Wont population collapse be better for the environment, plus doesn't population decline make the rate of profit decline since human labor is the source of value?
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 No.1613273

Protip: only raging autists and misogynists obsess over birthrates being too low.

 No.1613277

>>1613270
Are you fucking for real? This is the same dumbass article I’ve seen put in twitter posts by reactionaries on random screen caps. The data is barely helpful too, it says it’s from fucking standford off a volunteer population, not a general overview of the population of the USA as a whole much less every fucking zoomer in the imperial core, nor does it provide information at all about the actual disposition of those kids or how they changed after those polls were taken.

 No.1613278

>>1613277
Again

GET THE FUCK OFF THE INTERNET.

 No.1613281

>>1613273
Correct response. I have yet to see someone that speeches over this that doesn’t have shitty views on others or is healthy, it’s better off anyway that people actually choose wether or not they even have children since it gives way for populations to decline and stabilize to a level where the leaders of these countries are actually in a position where they can competently manage and develop them into being better places to live in for their people and the youth in them than hyper competitive, stress filled states.

 No.1613283

>>1613277
It was a phone survey of people 18-24 what more do you want? If you want to claim the data is fake then provide some better data that proves your point



/leftypol/

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 No.1608083[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

REMEMBER: слава Канаді! Slava Klanadi!

>european officials say they'll stop buying russian energy

>russian officials say that if europeans stop buying russian energy they will freeze
>european officials keep buying russian energy despite the posturing
<UHHHH Y ISN'T YUROP FREEZING? HELLO, GENERAL WINTER?? DUMB ZIGGERS

>McConnell: American support for Ukraine is not charity. It’s in our own direct interests – not least because degrading Russia helps to deter China.

<China: LE NEUTRAL, LE OPTICS, LE EUROPEAN OUTREACH

>america could grind china to a stalemate against taiw-ACK


>"why isn’t russia building epic wunderwaffen during a war instead of sticking to the more reliable and available models they already have??"

<putting the pathetic nazi faggots who lost WW2 in charge of NATO did irreparable damage to your militaries, jesus christ

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 No.1613254

>>1613234
inb4 they'll remake the Ukraine in some metaverse.

 No.1613255

>>1613156
Reminder that Bakhmut is still defended on the Wikipedo front.

 No.1613276

>>1613181
you love to see it

 No.1613279

>>1613181
They probably already have a pile of "foreign fighter" corpses and they'll use this as a cover to return em home.

 No.1613282

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war… war changed



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 No.1822[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Let's see
>Guts is a low ass commoner bastard born from a corpse, meant to die, raised in a hellish world (that's literally just the same as our own before Guts encounters any actual demons) so harsh and cruel he likely has severe PTSD by the time he's 15
>Best friend Griffith is a social climbing piece of shit who has to murder and scheme to almost make it to the top, even then the ruling class tells him to go fuck himself and he has to sell his soul to the devil and murder all his friends to finally make it
>The ruling class are mostly monsters; the King is a pedophile nut that tries raping his own daughter, the "nicest" nobles were wrapped up in a brutal inquisition
>The whole world is ruled by an impersonal, most amoral entity created by human will but superseding all humans, controlling their lives based on it's own whims which are of course encouraged by the worst human impulses
>The thing everyone worships is literally evil itself
>Even the leaders of the apostles are pawns of the Market, err…."Idea of Evil"
Fuck it
The godhand are the bourgeoisie
The apostles are the petit bourgeois
Fuck yea
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 No.21603

>>21602
lol. that's pretty funny. someone get their grandma to post that on facebook

 No.21604

>>21603
>>21602
>>21596
Go to /siberia/ and stay go.

 No.21609

So now that Rickert and Silat have returned to the story it seems like things will really start moving. There was a reference to time working funny on the fairy island so I wonder if there's going to be some kind of time skip happening. The whole moon thing seems like it would conflict with that THOUGH.

 No.21610

>>21609
To be absolutely honest, I stopped following Berserk after Miura died.

 No.21613

>>21114
Am I the only one that gets Baki vibes from this particular pic? Like the over-tightened muscled look and the head being slightly disproportionate (too big for the body in this case). It's not quite at that level, but it was enough to remind me of it.



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 No.1613047[Reply]

>Since the publication of Elizabeth A. R. Brown's "The Tyranny of a Construct" (1974) and Susan Reynolds's Fiefs and Vassals (1994), there has been ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding medieval society.

Is there an effort by the bourgeoisie to destroy one of the pillars of Marxist theory, by disputing that modes of production like "feudalism," "capitalism," and "socialism" even exist? What, if anything, do you think of the works of Elizabeth Brown and Susan Reyndolds in disputing feudalism?

Have you given much thought to pre-capitalist modes of production?
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 No.1613186

dump

 No.1613212

>>1613047
I've been reading through The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World by Ste. Croix recently where he talks about a bit about serfdom and tenancy being on the rise towards the end of the Roman Empire and how it would be incorrect to call that feudalism since the propertied class still relied primarily on the surplus generated by full on slaves in some form. So now I'm wondering if the primary exploitation that occurs in feudalism was between the serf and his lord, who has his obligations to another kind of lord and so on. That last part trips me up since people call Mexico the republic feudal until the 1930s and Post Qing China feudal up until the defeat of the Kuomintang. Were those obligations to higher lords still dominant in the two places mentioned above (or even required for feudalism the mode of production) or were those places just not feudal by the 20th century? I'm not very well read, please understand.

 No.1613229

>>1613212
>That last part trips me up since people call Mexico the republic feudal until the 1930s and Post Qing China feudal up until the defeat of the Kuomintang.
Semifeudal.

 No.1613236

>>1613212
China had the AMP, did they not?
In Feudalism, land was privately owned in multi-level hierarchy, but in an AMP society there is not much private ownership at all as all land is owned by the state and only managed through appointed officials.

 No.1613280

>>1613186
Ellen Wood's book is great. I started Capitalism and Slavery but never finished it.



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 No.233[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

itt hueg fricken 2d oppai
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A fresh assortment

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 No.21612

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>>20941
Why was this spoilered when >>21017 wasn't, LMAO



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 No.805130[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

🗽United States Politics🦅

Absolute State of America Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth.

🏈💵💸🍔

State mandated propaganda livestreams:
CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8PhLsUcFEegalitarianism
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 No.1613257

>>1613253
Crying about muh pedo thought crimes is peak moralism

 No.1613259

>>1613257
NTA but pedophillic ideation is probably a prelude to actual pedophilia, Agent Kochinski probably needs therapy before he rapes an actual child

 No.1613261

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>>1613257
>freeze peach brah! yeah im admitting to wanting to fuck children and i applaud people who do it but you can't put me in prison cuz i haven't done it yet!!!
cool story faggot, now face the wall

 No.1613264

>>1613245
Native LAfag here. I think its because the more people you are around that you will never ever see again in your life the less there is an incentive to be friendly. Its just an endless sea of strangers. But there may be more to it as >>1613250 points out even in larger cities in places like the Midwest and South people are more friendly.

 No.1613275

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So basically politics has devolved into two camps:
You have the first camp, which engages in apologetics and whitewashes Nazism and neo-Nazism in the service of Western empire.
Then you have the second camp, which hates Nazism because to them it's too liberal. Seriously, the only reasons they don't like Nazism are because they think Nazis are all weird pagans and atheists who oppress true Christian believers, they think that Nazis were socialists who opposed "freedom" (which to these people is doing what God commands of you and nothing else), and they oppose genocide largely as a shibboleth because they have no qualms about persecuting "deserving" segments of the population like the LGBT community or left-wing Jews. Let's also not forget the fact that this camp is a bunch of apocalyptic loons who want to kickstart the end times. They're essentially esoteric Christian Nazis.
It's like Germany vs. Burgundy from TNO.



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 No.296564[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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 No.1612135

In short, what do each of the three volumes of Capital focus on? I understand that Capital Volume 1 discusses the trade of commodities ergo money and how it functions as capital, the concept of labor inherently creating surplus value even if paid for at its full exchange-value, centralization and accumulation of capital causing the capitalist to grain far more than the worker even at the best of times, even if the workers' share of income is growing on an absolute basis(again, optimistic case here) and how the increase of constant capital which initially(if applied in industries that produce necessities or the materials for them) decrease the value of labor-power and therefore increase profit, along with pushing any individual firm's goods below the socially necessary labor time, will eventually destroy the ability to create profit at all and lead to crisis.

Volume II starts(as far as I got before I decided I didn't understand what I read in I on the first go) with expanding on the circle of trade of commodities, revisiting the concept of productive capital that was only brushed on in the first volume in more detail, and I didn't get farther than that.

What is Volume III about? I know it discusses fictitious capital(things like stocks and bonds) but my knowledge ends there.

 No.1612137

>Hence, we see that behind all attempts to represent the circulation of commodities as a source of surplus-value, there lurks a quid pro quo, a mixing up of use-value and exchange-value.

I think that this is a beautiful quote from Chapter 5 just for the fact that Marx BTFO'd the Austrian School four years before they were even born.

 No.1612179

“The
commodity owner can, by his labour, create value, but not self-expanding value.
He can increase the value of his commodity, by adding fresh labour, and
therefore more value to the value in hand, by making, for instance, leather
into boots. The same material has now more value, because it contains a greater
quantity of labour. The boots have therefore more value than the leather, but
the value of the leather remains what it was; it has not expanded itself, has
not, during the making of the boots, annexed surplus-value.”

I don't fully understand this passage. Why is the labor of the commodity owner any different from the labor of the proletariat?

 No.1613268

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Where were you when you realized Marx loved both capitalism and feudalism? picrel

 No.1613274

>>1610932
For all intents and purposes, it's mandatory to have superannuation in Australia. So, if it were true, I don't know how useful that classification would be.
I don't think home ownership (even if it were outright and not partial through mortgage) is capital, at least if you're not renting out the property or using it for producing commercial goods and services.


>does [x] make one petty booj?

It's things like that which make broad, uncritical classification dangerous to take at face value and make sweeping assumptions with. And the worst part of that is when people react with a coping mechanism and make up some bullshit theory to workaround the contradiction, instead of reanalysing the basic assumption.



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 No.941093[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's hyper-normalization of petty internet drama.
Make sure to check and consider to read the reading list!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!

—————————————————–

CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7oEabMTmEww2oeqWuoI3wL-PyJmo2Vbv

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7oEabMTmEwynPKHnsxfdpM7jq68JN8vL
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>>1613209
Yes. He's always been unhinged. But it's getting worse.

 No.1613266

>>1613140
>>1613144
Based Lamarckist. Reject Darwinism.

 No.1613267

>>1613197
>called his website "X"
>it's full of Gen X
It all makes sense now.

 No.1613269

>>1613196
I guess his natural immunity can't cope with the woke mind virus, sounds like a skill issue

 No.1613272

>>1613196
He wants to streaming video games to twitter, but only for paid members. His goal seems to be to gentrifiy the website.



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 No.21588[Reply]

gunbuster > evangelion
evangelion is literally 'what if noriko didn't want to get in the robot?' and 'what if the girls didnt age exponentially' instead. theres a lot to be said about how evangelion is basically what if i made the opposite of gunbuster.
also communism existing into the future with dolphin pilots sound kinda familiar to anyone else?
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 No.21598

>>21597
I'm 52

 No.21599

>>21594
>I diagnose you
I diagnose you with No Argument projector syndrome, especially considering your autism about Derrida's termin of Deconstruction being different to TVTropes, which ignores the development of terminology and its definitions/applications changing over time.
>The problem is in the mid-90s to earlier 2000s there was a whole lot less easily available Mecha for English speaking audiences. At the time I think a lot of people's conception of mecha was voltron and power rangers. Of course Eva would seem like a brutal takedown in comparison.
LMAO Gundam and other popular mecha was available at the time, I remember watching it. Voltron is older than Evangelion while Power Rangers were contemporary to it. Anime in general was niche as fuck at the time, but that's obvious and is not relevant here, since the community that saw Evangelion was mostly made up of people already well acquainted with Japanimation and mecha in particular. Obviously there were deconstructive/satirical/subverted mecha anime before Evangelion, but they were also different, and Evangelion was full of what people currently call deconstruction, not just of mecha. Just because another anime shares some themes or vaguely similar deconstructive elements as Evangelion, does not take away from Evangelion's impact or meaning. Gundam and Gunbuster have their own merits, and they are unique to them, just as Evangelion is unique to itself, the former does not take away from the latter and vice-versa. This retarded 4/a/ idea that you HAVE to drag one work through the mud by dick-measuring it to another is fucking retarded and only applies to something like Darling in the Franxx, because unlike Evangelion which only referenced older anime, it is literally just a rip-off with an inserted Abe-themed story-line.

Even within Derrida's terminology
>Shinji isn't a coward, but just acting the way a fourteen year old kid would if told that he must fight the giant monster outside, especially in the context of him seeing it destroy the Japanese Military just a moment ago.
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>>21597
I mean this is just entertaining discussion for the sake of it, at the end of the day, if some contrarian wants to be mad about me liking Evangelion, that's their problem, I'm just having fun discussing it.
Also
>Evangelion
<children's cartoons
LMAO

 No.21605

>>21594
>>21593
Decided to take a moment to see the claim about "Eva is not a deconstruction" or whatever and found a very coherent take by user Mwohl
>Deconstruction is not just a 'super bitter' critique or a subversion of expectations (e.g. Shinji falling in his first sortie). It's the pursuit and exploration of the core tenants of a work or genre to the point of revealing the internal contradictions it is built upon. This is absolutely something EVA does. Starting from the common narrative goal of 'Pilot the Robot to save the world", EVA first asks "What is a Robot?" (exploring not just the horror of the biological machine that is an EVA but also the implication of a weapon like a mecha in general, a thing made by Man that supersedes his strength and understanding), then "What are 'we'?" (exploring the concept that the otherworldly enemy humanity faces and the weapons used to fight it are actually extensions of each other, and also the notion that the thing one fights against is never truly entirely other) then "What is the world?" (the discourse had after Instrumentality). Ultimately, the idea that the world is a reality you choose based on compromises with the people you form bonds with, and that you can change that reality based on your worldview and outlook, calls into question whether a giant fighting robot was ever the tool with which Shinji's world -or any world- was going to be saved.
>The last of these is carried out in a very post-modern and Brechtian manner, as the sequences in episodes 25 and 26 jump between being abstract visuals that are only possible in the medium of animation and the 'theater' setting, complete with spotlights that make a mechanical thunk when they turn on or off. However, even the concept of 'backstage' has been deconstructed by this point because the drawn and animated characters being in a theater is obviously more of a complete illusion than a pencil sketch of Shinji floating in a void. (This is taken to a new extent in EOE, where live action footage of the film theater itself is included.)
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 No.21611

I don’t really care, the original anime was at least way more realistic about the realities of putting children in charge of such a massive responsibility and even had a fleshed out explanation for how the mechas worked so it didn’t feel completely fictional. Even better Eva 1995 did a lot to discourage adults from seeking escapism as a means to deal with their problems with its bittersweet ending. That’s why I liked it, it’s a reconstruction that stays true to the logic of its setting.



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 No.1613020[Reply]

American propaganda is now overstating its case. Here are some top Google News stories about China's ongoing "collapse."

https://san.com/commentary/chinas-collapse-years-in-the-making-not-an-overnight-event/

>"China is grappling with a range of challenges, including political, economic, and demographic issues. Youth unemployment rates are rising while fertility rates are declining, and banks are predicting a slowdown in economic growth. China’s economy is also feeling the effects of tech companies relocating and product bans being imposed by other countries."


https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/chinas-economic-collapse-carries-warning-about-our-own-future
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-happens-if-china-collapses/ar-AA1hsBEC

Here is the most embarrassing example of the intellectual dishonesty of "China collapse" shit posting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Collapse_of_China

>The Coming Collapse of China is a book by Gordon G. Chang, published in 2001, in which he argued that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was the root cause of many of China's problems and would cause the country's collapse by 2011. When 2011 was almost over, Chang admitted that his prediction was wrong but said it was off by only a year, asserting in Foreign Policy that the CCP would fall in 2012. Consequently he made the magazine's "10 worst predictions of the year" twice.[1][2][3]


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 No.1613117

>>1613115
They're sadists who exactly want to see millions of Chinese people suffer. Thankfully their sick delusions will never come true.

 No.1613121

>>1613115
They are just barking dogs saying BS from their comfy sofa. Sent them on a battleground face to face with PLA and they will piss and shit their pants

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 No.1613157

>>1613020
>>1613141
Friendly Reminder, all of this "China iz collapsing!!!1!!" nonsense is basically nothing but pure projection from the USA/the EU.

 No.1613271

>>1613157
>pure projection from the USA/the EU
I don't think they are collapsing as fast as the propaganda would project, but they *are* in a rush to declare war on China, in order to staunch their own hegemonic decline.

So I see it more like setting up the mood for the eventual declaration of war, the "they hate our freedums" moment.

Because just like the middle east interventions had to be ran on islamophobia, this war has to be run on economic principles, they cannot be disguised, the US is fighting for supremacy. But the point is to , by then, convince the masses that the economic front is already won, China "is already collapsing", and that's why they are "lashing out".

It is projection, but calculated in order to sell the transparent aim of culling a billion Chinese from a neo-colonial standpoint as "harm reduction".



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 No.1613235[Reply]

>Vespasian imposed a Urine Tax (Latin: vectigal urinae) on the distribution of urine from Rome's public urinals (the Roman lower classes urinated into pots, which were later emptied into cesspools). The urine collected from these public urinals was sold as an ingredient for several chemical processes. It was used in tanning, wool production, and also by launderers as a source of ammonia to clean and whiten woollen togas. The buyers of the urine paid the tax.

>The Roman historian Suetonius reports that when Vespasian's son Titus complained about the disgusting nature of the tax, his father held up a gold coin and asked whether he felt offended by its smell. When Titus said "No," Vespasian replied, "Yet it comes from urine".


Urine was big money until the 1950s and frankly it astonishes me we literally piss it away today given it's an amazing chemical feedstock.

Under socialism everyone's piss will be collected to, at the very least, be used in agricultural compost as a nitrogen source. NEETs and truckers who hog their piss in their piss jugs in their mom's basements and their semi trucks are piss kulaks.
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 No.1613240

sauce on text?

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>>1613240
what's your favourite search engine

i bet it's google, you disgusting normalfag.

 No.1613251

*urinates on tree*

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 No.1613260

>>1613238
not if they collect the piss after it drips off them and give it to the economic planners



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https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2023/govt-kicks-privacy-act-can-down-the-road.html
>Of the 116 recommendations in the final report, the federal government has agreed with 38, agreed in-principle with 68, and noted 10.

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 No.1610984

>>1609270
<if t hey swear at me and call me an idiot it must mean they are angry
American. lol. That is how normal people speak, unlike in america if you are an idiot and do retard and dangerous things people will call you one.
>This is a public community protest against neo-nazis, nothing controversial or anti-state.
> No-one is throwing cans of soup, no-one is hiding their identity, no-one is getting nicked.
Imagine thinking the pigs care.
Look. Unless you are a child we both know out of shot will be police teams combing through, collecting these pictures, identifying the participates and using that to index, spy and harass them.
Stop pretending so naive anon we are both old enough to have gone through this many times and see how the reality unfolds. The state does not care if you were doing violence or not, the state cares that you are politically engaged.

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Damn the No campaign parties go hard

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>>1610984
That's not how normal people speak, comrade. That's how /pol/tards speak. Being constantly aggressive in every thread is not healthy.
>American
Which thread do you think we're in mate?

>Look. Unless you are a child we both know out of shot will be police teams combing through, collecting these pictures[blah blah blah forensics]

Look. Unless you are a teen we both know police and/or feds will be taking their own photos, flying surveillance drones, deploying StingRays, using the photos the protest hosts uploaded,, etc. etc. etc. at a publicly advertised protest. There is literally nothing secret about that event or its participants. Anyone who wishes to keep their activism a secret won't be there, or has already failed. A person taking photos on their phone doesn't give them any new information. It's therefore harmless in context, like spitting into a trashcan.
Yes, there definitely are protests where it's actively horrible to take photos at. A non-violent mass community protest saying something as non-controversial as 'fuck off nazis' is not it. Everyone should be taking photos in that one.

If you don't agree, give us a counter-example of how a participant taking a photo/video like that would be useful to police, who already have all the other surveillance methods at their disposal.

>the state cares that you are politically engaged

The state cares if you are threatening the state.
Even the state itself thinks (and that's all that really matters!) they're anti-nazi. It might as well be a 'pedophiles fuck off' protest, it's normal to reject nazis.



/music/

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 No.9297[Reply]

What are some albums made when the artist was inching close to death? (Can be posthumous or released shortly before the artist passed.)


/leftypol/

 No.1612412[Reply]

This will be the official for all things pertaining to the Kurdish plight and struggle against the imperialistic forces of Iran, Türkiye and Syria. I know Rojava and YPG are a touchy subject for some communists, but in no way is it a good idea to be against them. If we can manage to establish an independent Kurdistan, it will be the sole Marxist nation in the Middle East and that only bodes good things for the region long-term.
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 No.1613138

>>1612412
I made this general several times and promise you that it will end in having the same arguments with the same anons linking the same 'papers' until the thread gets bumplocked.

 No.1613139

>>1613138
not my fault that anons here fall for turkish propaganda

 No.1613142

>>1612668
PKK and its affiliates no longer claim to be "Marxist" (changed to "democratic confederalism") and do not advocate a nation state though

 No.1613178

>>1613129
>>1613127
interesting, thanks for posting. i am very skeptical of democratic confederalism as an ideology, seems sort of piecemeal to me, but i dont mean that as a criticism of the actual movement itself which seems like an undeniably admirable liberatory trend. most of my skepticism is because i read some bookchin and was completely unimpressed

 No.1613202

>>1613139
kimse kürt propagandasına inanmıyor



/games/

 No.30750[Reply]

Post game animations, both official and fan made
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 No.30756

TheParryGod does some pretty brilliantly made shorts that would not be out of place as part of the Half-Life canon.

 No.30758

the SWTOR cinematics were pretty cool

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 No.30764

All the Warcraft 3 cinematics are classic, but ending of human campaign is my favorite one.

 No.30767

>>30750
I find this video super cool for some reason



/anime/

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 No.845[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

This is a red-blooded Soviet mech. Say something nice about it!
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 No.21481

Macross Intro

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 No.21569

>But Mr President, Sir, you don't understand! We *need* those 10 trillion dollars to give all our 40ft tall war machines giant titties! It's a vital part of our military strategy!

 No.21606

>>2019
Wasn't the Doshka mech a Soviet one in-story? Or am I misremembering?

 No.21608

>>21569
critical support for the MIC



/anime/

 No.590[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

NGE GENERAL
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION GENERAL

And wow, I fucking hated it to be perfectly honest. It seems like the entire show is only about Shinji's angst (and Rei increasingly I'm sure) and the characters various emotional issues, but like, okay, who cares? The situations they're thrown into are totally absurd and ridiculous so how can I take any of this drama stuff seriously?

Like these kids are the last best hope of mankind and they seem to be totally unsupported by anyone? Shinji was gonna live in a totally empty tenement and it's only his superior's minor moment of reasonable judgement that means he lives with her instead (and she is clearly no kind of parent figure), and Rei lives in a dark, dingy slum dwelling made of all concrete with nobody taking care of her either?

Like, their emotional reactions seems somewhat understandable but also completely dull and uninteresting because the situation they're in is absurd (and even then they both come off as pathetic and unlikeable - and no you can't say 'but that's the point!!', that doesn't make it entertaining to watch).

The less said about the non-angst portions of the story the better, the 'fights' are 10 minutes of foreplay for like 60 seconds of action if that, and while that's a common problem with anime, that doesn't make it excusable.

Yes this series is old and I'm sure it has inspired so much but people still recommend to watch it and it just seemed like garbage. Almost nothing is explained which means I can't possibly feel invested in this absurd world in any way. Every part of the setting seems to have been created with 'style over substance' in mind, urgh, just overall I found it absurd. Try not to give too much spoilers because I guess I might still try watch it, but I really don't see it redeeming itself.

Though for context I also hated 'The Godfather' and 'No Country For Old Men' and thought they were pretentious overlong shit, so maybe I'm just a contrarian.
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 No.20768

>>20646
youtube essayists have done so much damage to media literacy, now everyone is some dumb utilitarian obsessed with plotholes and "advancing the plot"

 No.20769

>>20646
>This doesn't happen in Evangelion for obvious reason
Where did I say it did? Evangelion has no filler. It just has proper pacing where sometimes things happen besides giant mecha fights. You gave a good definition of filler so idk why you were acting like using the word makes you a certain kind of person.

 No.20773

>>20768
Less youtube essayists and more youtube "critics". NTA btw.

>>20741
Agreed. Filler can be really fun or even be good worldbuilding, as long as you're not obsessed with "what next, next, next!" Although I suppose the hate for filler comes from the old days of TV-episodes where you'd be waiting for the continuation of the story that left off last week, only to get something else, which made people impatient.

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>>6109
For me it's Yui too

 No.21607

>>21136
>For me it's Yui too
LMAO



/leftypol/

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 No.1613191

>>1599035
>>1613190
hell yeah we need even less posts and new blood

 No.1613265

>>1613190
I would give the old ">implying new posters shouldn't lurk before posting" but due to various factors i don't know if we can be picky anymore. not that it would help, since the most active staff members for years were already anti-/leftypol/



/leftypol/

 No.1612779[Reply]

1. Pornography is just the commodity form of erotic art. It is what happens when erotic art enters into the domain of capitalism, and as such its production is fraught with equally disgusting abuses as any other form of production. Sex work does not have significant labor praxis, yet, and partly because of its moral stigmatization. So everyone that points out the abuse involved in sex work should be trusted, because we as marxists understand that capitalism necessitates abuse for optimal production.

2. The former notwithstanding, criticisms of its consumption are also valid, because we as marxists also know how capitalism necessitates adulteration and addiction and predatory advertising & monetization schemes. Marx first talked about this w/r/t the adulteration of bread in London bakeries to cut corners on production and squeeze out more profit. More figuratively, we know how capitalism degenerates art and culture, and creates hypnotizing and dumbed-down productions for the television.

3. Thus, to criticize pornography is to criticize capitalist production in general. The sex-positive feminists arguing to union protections for sex workers and against laws like FOSTA/SESTA in the USA, and the radical feminists that argue for complete prohibition both miss the forest for the trees, and choose prohibition or liberal reform, ignoring the choice of abolition.

4. Abolition meaning: to argue that an end to alienated labor is the end of pornography, and the universalization of the opportunity to create genuine, artistic sexual expression in the form of erotica. When pornography is properly freed from its incentive to profit and necessity of labor (many sex workers have no other option), it is no longer pornography, but simply is assimilated into the healthy, age-old and proletarian frankness of human sexuality in an art production.
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 No.1613230

>Pornography is just the commodity form of erotic art
You have started your post with an esoteric, unusual definition of pornography that contradicts almost every person and legal system, so esoteric that I would just call it wrong, changing the definition of an established term to match the hypothesis.
< Can erotic art which is not pornography not be commodified?
< Can the same identical image, one commodified and the other not, be respectively pornography and not pornography?

The pornography question interrelates with capitalism, yes, absolutely, but it is not exclusive to it. Recreational drugs are a pretty decent analogy. Both will exist and be valued by users regardless of economics or stress. Humans receive pleasure from them. There will be desire for people to produce and consume it.

No, criticism of pornography is not limited to criticism of pornography under capitalism.
No, production and consumption of pornography will not cease due to the elimination of capitalism.
But yes, the elimination of the profit motive will have profound positive impacts on eliminating exploitation of the producers (whether actors or otherwise), exploitation of the consumer, enforcement of false scarcity through intellectual property law (and therefore people intentionally not sharing sources to avoid takedowns, or to impersonate and profit), and hopefully, shitty systems where people archive media by clickbait titles instead of useful tags.

 No.1613231

>>1613174
thank you for your profound and insightful contribution to this thread

 No.1613233

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>>1613165
>bad
>less bad

 No.1613241

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>>1612985
I agree.

 No.1613244

>>1613165
>bad
who the fuck invites you idealist dipshits to this site?



/tech/

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 No.20513[Reply]

"I don't know how to torrent. It's too complicated and scary for me, so I'm happy to pay corporations a regular fee for temporary access to their content" is exactly the learned helplessness corporations have been pushing for years with their UI streamlining and walled gardens. It's symptomatic of a bigger problem: "The internet shifted and I don't know (or never learned) how to seek valid information in this new environment." Adding "reddit" to every Google search you make isn't a sustainable solution, it's just one most people landed on for now.

What I think gets often lost is that it's not a personal individual failure as much as it's a deliberate behavioral curation by corporations on the populace. Internet corporations do not want savvy internet users. They want to create mass consumers who value convenience.
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 No.20520

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Most insane thing is that many people will call you a conspiracy theorist for pointing it out. What do these people think is the purpose behind "marketing" and "advertising"? Do these users think multibillion dollar corporations maintain their edge and consolidate monopolies through vibes? Apple has entire teams of psychologists for this kind of thing.

A very basic example of corporations curating consumer behaviors: there is no logical reason why anyone should care if your text message shows up on their phone as blue or green. And yet - tens of thousands of Apple users pay attention and form judgments around it

 No.20522

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>>20513
Social technologies are the answer. Circulating USB sticks between friends. A clubhouse computer terminal that one person has the user for and another person has the password. Stuff like that

 No.20523

>>20522
LAN parties where you teach people how to torrent. Wasn't there something like that? Or was it only for encrypting your emails?

 No.20538

>>20523
I was at my most computer literate in highschool when me and my nerd friends had LAN parties every weekend. I'm eternally trapped in the 2000's.

 No.21780




/roulette/

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 No.2662

=SEXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO



/games/

 No.27867[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

I have a weird fascination with this franchise, particularly its fans. How do they remain so loyal when there's been maybe one or two good games in the last two decades in a sea of average-to-terrible garbage released year after year? How did Sega manage to take all the wrong lessons away from their colossal fuckups of the mid-late 2000s?
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 No.30761

>>29538
who the fuck is in charge of business decisions at sega
>SEGA is cancelling HYENAS and "some unannounced titles under development" from its European studios
they pouring millions of dollars into this slop and then decided to cancel it

 No.30762

>>30761
Lol, I thought HYENAS looked kinda dumb but it seemed to be in a relatively late state, why spend so much money on something just to pull the plug? What a disaster.

 No.30763

>>30761
Also it seems that in the end SEGA paid $776 million for Rovio. So I guess they got it at a steal basically. They could have only funded like 3-4 actually good games with that money.

 No.30765

Final Horizon filtered casuals HARD. Kishimoto got tired of people saying Sonic is too easy.

 No.30766

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This is Jimmy McGill now. Feel old yet?



/leftypol/

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 No.1600330[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Since losing the 2020 Artsakh war to Azerbaijan, the Armenian nation has faced an intense existential crisis over its very existence. Azerbaijan was able to win because Israel sold it advanced weaponry that it used to flatten the Artsakh forces. Since the end of the war, Azerbaijan has been blockading what's left of the Artsakh Republic, and threatening to invade Armenia proper. The ultimate goal of Turkey and Azerbaijan is to take the Zangzeur Corridor from Armenia, thereby connecting Turkey to Azerbaijan to Central Asia. This was the exact same goal the Turks had in 1915, to wipe out the Armenians and create a Greater Turan.

Russia has abandoned Armenia as punishment for the 2018 color revolution. Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia is a traitor and almost probably a Turkish agent. Iran is the only country that has said it would back Armenia if Armenia proper is invaded, because the Islamic Republic hates Azerbaijan for being anti-IRI and pro-Israel. But there's also a huge Azeri population in Iran that could spoil things.

A lot of leftists, especially those who endorse multipolarity, seem to see Turkey as an ally even though it is literally in NATO and can never be trusted.
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 No.1612956

>>1612939
>Armenia is officially neutral on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
So is the USA lol.

 No.1612960

>>1612854
This. People can't remember shit older than two weeks it seems or don't want to. Like you said, Armenia just isn't convenient for anyone other than Iran to keep as an ally, so neither the US, EU or Russia care about them.

 No.1612963

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>>1612707
>every radlib screeching about ziggers
>no one reacts the the one piece of news in the last 50 posts.

 No.1613146

>>1612963
Stepanakert is becoming a ghost town.
It's OVER indeed.

 No.1613149

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>>1612854
>i swear people on here will just make shit up in their head and then fully believe it
It's been that way for years now.



/AKM/

 No.3155[Reply]

The only useful thing I can figure about them is that they make it harder to identify where the source of gunfire is coming from(assuming the shooter is far away enough from whatever they’re shooting at). I believe this because I’m aware that the Doppler effect would make it obvious to anyone near the shot that someone’s firing even if a suppressor did a good enough job a drowning out the source of the shot and most don’t even do that. The only other reason I can think of for making these is for ear protection but then again why not just wear plugs?
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 No.3158

There are 3 sources of sound produced by firearms:
1.Muzzle gas and sound escaping the chamber through the barrel. Usually second loudest sound
2.The sound of the bullet breaking the sound barrier. Usually loudest sound. (lower when the air is a colder temperature, important for selecting loadings).
These two cover 90->99 percent of all firearm sound
3.Action of the gun.
A semi-automatic or automatic firearm tends to produce noise as it cycles the actiob, stripping a spent case out, inserting a new bullet, firing pin hitting the primer to fire the bullet.

Now how about we make a silent firearm?

Firstly, a suppressor slows down the expansion of gas from the barrel of the gun.

Secondly, a subsonic bullet, heavier, sometimes less powder loaded, is made to travel lower than the speed of sound.
Now already we are quiet enough to fire undetected from a distance, depending on the sound of the action, we are quieter than a whisper or quieter than your friend yelling to you across the room.

If we want to make it trully silent? Bolt action. A smooth bolt action will be undetectable to the human ear. A suppressed bolt action .22 rifle will be so quiet that you won't know it fired until you see the bullet hole. You can fire next to someone's ear and they will have no idea, you can sit down and clear the room you are in with well placed aim and the only sound will be bodies hitting the floor. Quieter than a knife. Trully silent. Even semi-automatic .22 rifles firing subs can be effectively silent. May take some tweaking with swapping out the bolt or trigger group depending on the rifle to get complete silence. Ruger 22 takedown is an excellent example. The implication is that you can have as an American, as in many other countries, a maneuverable, lightweight, semi-automatic rifle that can be broken down and reassembled in 5 seconds to fit in a small bag or backpack or in a coat flask pocket which is completely silent and can reliably kill within 200-300 metres with good aim and and decent optics, entirely legal and unregulated except for the supressor, which is a form and a year long wait and a tax stamp or otherwise extremely easy to construct and conceal from a wide variety of materials in temporary or permanent constructions. A water bottle and duct tape will work great for one or two shots as shown in Chechnia.
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And before you ask, yes you can "silence" larger calibre military rifles. The soviet's even made a modular AKSU (7inch barrel ak74) with suppressed subsonic ammo paired with a silenced grenade launcher. Yes you heard that right, silenced'. The special grenades were designed as sneak attack sabotage weapons to destroy key infrastructure and electronics as well vulnerable vehicles such as parked aircraft and missile launchers. Soviet commandos would close in on installations like radar arrays and nuclear facilities, even behind enemy lines, fire their grenades based around IIRC graphite based payload and EMP, as well as HE and fragmentation grenades, then immediately withdraw undetected as the grenades fly to their targets. Another cool nearly silent weapon, VKS, Vyhklop (exhaust) Silenced. Russian 12.7mm suppressed sniper rifle designed for the MDV. It can fire subsonic or supersonic bullets, the supersonics with the big suppressor are only about as much recoil as a standard intermediary rifle shooting supers of a much smaller caliber. Subsonic load is effective out to nearly 800 metres if memory serves correct. Can be used to hit targets behind light cover and to penetrate lightly armoured vehicles such as APCs.

 No.3173

>>3159
No one said anything about large weapons being unsuppressable just that it’s hard to block out the noise made by guns

 No.3182

>>3173
It's not that hard at all if you are shooting subsonic ammunition, which is easy to make from supers or loading from scratch. Just stick a can on it or tape a PET bottle on the end and that is most of the noise blocked.

 No.3809

One of the main benefits that doesn't get talked about very often is that it makes communication in the heat of battle much easier: it's hard to hear what anyone is saying when everyone's ears are ringing and there's loud ass gunshots constantly going off.



/hobby/

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 No.11615[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Noticed a lot people talking about Tolkien’s works and philosophy. So, I created a thread specifically dedicated for that and other things related to it, like the movies and games.
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 No.36504

>>36500
Well he kind of has a point though, I don't know if the CIA was really behind show don't tell but we live in a world of profound misunderstanding and ignorance of what literary/media works even mean and what the basic themes are.

 No.36505

>>36503
Reposting the claims and statements of others that you've already posted, from links that you already posted is not an argument. Ironic that you speak of political utility and its use of preventing critical thought, yet seem to have no critical thought of your own, and perhaps are simply defending your poor writing skills, by blaming the establishment, which is rather lazy and ignores Marx, wherein by this theory that while an individual is often confined by the institutions and social consciousness they of their society, it doesn't preclude the ability to expand and think for oneself and develop.

>>36504
>we live in a world of profound misunderstanding and ignorance of what literary/media works even mean and what the basic themes are.
That has nothing to do with "Show, Don't Tell"* and everything to do with the social environment and education of the society. The same can be said for "write from experience" as the meaning of the term is also seen in Russian literary schools since Soviet times at the very least. People misinterpreting this to be "only write what you know" is misleading and false and is again a result of lack of critical thought, which is what the CIA wants, not the the concepts are inherently ill to begin with, given that they are precisely the method of making a written work genuine and interesting. An impersonal work, makes for boring, disjointed writing, and telling rather than showing is the same thing, a good example is Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which is a boring, dull doorstop of a book that uses far too much exposition, extremely dry descriptions and is a political fantasy of the author, rather than anything based on real experience, which is why it's so distant from anything relatable to most people. This is also why Mein Kampf or All Quiet on the Western Front were so influential, they were written from the heart, regardless of intentions and spoke to people.

*The concept regards writing in a manner that isn't childish exposition, and is something that many cultures over the past centuries have also purported, including the USSR, which means that the CIA can't have been "cultivating" such tenets since these tenets have existed long before the CIA existed and are not endemic to it or iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.36572

>>36500
>"Show don't tell" is a concept in writing that exists in many cultures, such as Soviet writing and Chinese writing
Proofs?
>The idea that exposition causes people to think too much is fucking inane
Tell me how Isaac Asimov could have written his famous Foundation series without heavy use of exposition. Or Arthur C. Clarke could have written Childhood's End without significant amounts of exposition.

>A person that does not think critically, will not be questioning narratives or taking action even if blatantly told in their face

That has nothing to do with it. It is very hard to express broad, complex ideas that extend beyond the scope of a single, individual experience through the lens of a narrative that is exclusively a personal, individual narrative. Once again, Asimov's Foundation series is about history being moved and shaped by broad social and historical forces, which requires exposition to explain and cannot be relayed purely through the individual experience of the characters.

In fact, the reason why the "Golden Age of Sci-fi" passed and most modern sci-fi just isn't the same as classic sci-fi is specifically because these days all the great works of classic sci-fi (which were almost always ideas-driven rather than character-driven) would be regarded as "poorly written."

And that may be on purpose. The FBI admitted to having monitored Asimov and having suspected him of being a pinko.

 No.36574

>>36572
I do kinda wish we could have the best of both worlds though. Some of those books are a chore to read.

 No.36575

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>>36572
>Proofs?
Besides it being self-evident in literature that I've read (from Russian literature of various eras, to French classics, to German novels and Japanese folktales), and my personal anecdote of being taught this by my Soviet-school teachers, and all of my family being taught these things in Soviet times? I can cite you Chehov
>“Не говори мне про свет луны; лучше покажи мне, как лунный свет мерцает в треснутом бокале”. - Антон Чехов
Which translates to
>“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Chehov died in 1904, and wrote this long before the CIA was ever formed, let alone beginning its social engineering.

>how Isaac Asimov could have written his famous Foundation series without heavy use of exposition.

This is a strawman, especially in reference to the greentext excerpt you selected, which was speaking of exposition in regards to getting people to think. By that metric I may as well ask, how did Asimov's books make people think too much? If that were true, why are they still some of the most popular science-fiction books in Western literature? Surely the CIA would recognize their 'danger'!?
And as for how, it is completely possible to do so, as we see in things such as the novelization of the Terminator screenplay, or in any number of science-fiction books by William Gibson. More importantly exposition is not in itself bad, nor did I imply this argument, the point is that exposition itself must be necessary to the story and scenario and written in such a fashion as to immerse the reader in the environment or situation being described, not simply state things, otherwise it's just a crutch to prop up poor descriptive writing.
I think you may not understand what exposition and Show, Don't Tell mean: “Show, don't tell” is a writing technique that allows the reader to experience expository details of the story through actions, sensory details, words, or the expression of characters' emotions, as opposed to through the author's own description of events.
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/tech/

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 No.21755[Reply]

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 No.21767

Even images on this website are webp. Try and save that thumbnail kek. Yet you can't post webp. Weird.

 No.21768

>>21766
Chrome is ass.

 No.21769

>>21768
It is, but it's not IE is basically what I meant. Whatever the case, the shit Chrome does, FF needs to implement. Sometimes even broken shit.

 No.21770

>>21767
Trusted sources only ;) broken settings saved the day. I tried to fix it but I couldn't look too much into it. The way lainchan handles images is very convoluted for no reason.

 No.21779

Eh isn't it one of those exploits where a lot of things have to go wrong for it to work?



/anime/

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 No.2508[Reply]

Post them
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nine9tiz does almost exclusive foot stuff (none of it sniff-trash thankfully) and is… very detailed, although on the other hand most of his feet look the same. The same issue with Zp92. Mr. Canvas isn't a footfag but does do some foot stuff.

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Baoquin Fenzhu from Legend of White Snake

 No.21566

Feet fetishists are mentally retarded it's scientifically verified, just read the wiki

 No.21567

>>21566
proofs???

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/hobby/

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 No.29827[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post what you're wearing today, pieces you want to wear, recent cops, thrifting, inspo, concepts, runways, designers, questions, etc.

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 No.36571

>check reviews of clothes
>low ratings is all americans whining they ruined a piece by using a drier
oh so its actually good and i just have to not be a fucking retard and hang dry, cool

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no reason for a random Skepta & Nike collab shoe has to go this hard



/meta/

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 No.23574[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

it's been up for over 20 min on /siberia/
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 No.29211

I reported like the third spam on /siberia/ today, was it always this active?

 No.29213

do your fucking thing please please 😭😭😭

 No.29215

The same spam post is back again!

 No.29216

mods are too busy downloading it

 No.29217

It's in the pirate thread >>>/siberia/437227



/edu/

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 No.9906[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Thread dedicated to debunking western propaganda and information relating to the NATO encirclement of Russia, Ukrainian government's mistreatment of ethnic Russian minorities and support of fascist militias to do its bidding. Criticism of Russia and its occupation is welcomed aswell.
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>I was quite shocked to discover that Yaroslav Hunka — the Nazi veteran invited to the House of Commons — was actually previously honored (along with several dozen other Waffen SS veterans) by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in 2007. Notably, the Ukrainian ambassador to Canada was a special guest at the ceremony and gave a celebratory speech:

>Previously, in 2003, Yaroslav Hunka represented the very same Ukrainian Canadian Congress at the 8th Ukrainian World Congress in Kiev. Since 1989 he frequently visited Ukraine and even ran for Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) in 1994.


>In 2004 he was made an honorary citizen of Berezhany; war criminals Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych were given the same honor in 2011:


>Given Christia Freeland’s close ties with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, I can’t help but wonder whether she knew Yaroslav Hunka personally and/or was well aware of his invitation to the House.


>Translated photos of the honorary citizens of Berezhany — Yaroslav Hunka, Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych:


https://x.com/ydeigin/status/1707241557215047782

 No.20578

>>20577
John Paul himka the guy quoted in article defending the Nazis from Ukraine is married to….. the daughter of Michael chomiak! Michael chomiak is the nazi grandfather of chrystia Freeland the deputy pm of Canada. The wife of John Paul himka is the the aunt of chrystia Freeland. He is freelands uncle!

Bro this goes deep

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chomiak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John-Paul_Himka
https://coat.ncf.ca/research/Chomiak-Freeland/C-F1.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrystia_Freeland

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On Wikipedia when the war started for 2022 they deleted the "alley of angels" page which was a memorial for hundreds of kids killed on the donbass. The memorial is still there in real life but they erase from history online this way to avoid the killing Ukraine did

You can see the talk page below and some articles

http://1world1way.com/coach/terracts-major_alley-of-angels.html
https://dan-news.ru/en/photos/people-bring-flowers-toys-to-alley-of-angels-in-donetsk/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alley_of_Angels
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Alley_of_Angels
https://trek.zone/en/ukraine/places/912497/alley-of-angels-in-donetsk
A Russia language Wikipedia page of it still exists

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2

And on the talk page part for English one where says "Nothing will ever be good enough" a person posted tons links of articles about it
>Western State propaganda like BBC: good
>Russian State propaganda like Sputnik: bad

 No.20580

>>20579
>"Nothing will ever be good enough"
A Canadian-Ukrainian, probably a glowie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mzajac
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mzajac

He relentlessly edits everyday about the holodmor, Soviet history, Russia, this war, Ukraine and so on. Been a user for 19 years. I found this reddit post that stated he had role in creating the holodmor page in 2005.
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/htpkir/investigating_the_origin_of_the_holodomor_article/

He has made 64000 edits on Wikipedia and it is primarily on Russia/Ukraine/ussr if you scroll thru his edits. He's ranked 1536 for most edits in Wikipedia history. Think of all the topics that exist on there and he ranks that high focusing on this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits



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