SoyViking [he/him]

They’re liberals who are enamoured by socialist aesthetics. It only goes as deep as the Che Guevara t-shirt

Two questions:

1. How do you define fascism?
2. How does that definition apply to China and the DPRK?

To quote Parenti: They support every revolution except the ones that succeeds

Russia has been trying to eradicate the Ukrainian language since Catherine the Great

Even if that was true and not some harebrained ahistorical overgeneralisation what does that have to do with how the Ukrainian state treats it’s Russian-speaking population? We are talking about an Ukrainian law, imposed by the Ukrainian state on Ukrainian citizens living on Ukrainian-controlled territory. How is trying to eradicate the Russian language in Ukraine preventing the alleged Russian policy of eradicating the Ukrainian language in Russia? How does one wrong justify another?

Ukrainian has been an official minority language of the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR and schools in Russia’s new territories are teaching an Ukrainian-language curriculum to students whose families so desires. There’s probably plenty of bad things to say about the Russian education system but giving a language you are hellbent on eradicating official status and teaching it at schools seems like an odd thing to do.

There are countless of well-documented examples of the American empire sponsoring terrorist attacks, sabotage and assassinations against Cuba. To this day the American empire upholds an illegal an unprovoked blockade of the island as well as occupying the land on which the Guantanamo naval base and torture black site is placed.

Before the revolution, America ran Cuba as a colony, leeching off the hard work of Cubans. If anything, the history of American relations with Cuba has been one of profound violence.

But okay, most of the times they made sure to put in a middle-man to do the actual dirty work which absolves them of all sin I guess.

Given the substantial losses of men and equipment and the meagre gains I do think it is safe to assume that the counteroffensive does not go as well as Kiev has hoped for.

I made a comment on a Hexbear post and somebody from Hexbear replied back and now I’m angry.

The only thing Euros remember about the criticism of their colonial borders is that people were mad about the lines being straight.

Anarchist horseshoe theory

Look, if Putler fires his nukes we’ll just use our bigger economy to stop them. Surely, the invisible hand of the market will keep us safe.

I’m Danish and I drive a manual transmission car every day. Most cars here are manual transmission and you legally can’t take driving lessons in an automatic transmission car here so everybody who knows how to drive knows how to drive manual.

I don’t get why so many Americans try to make it seem like some amazing feat of traditional blue-collar masculine excellence to able to do it. It’s not that hard, anybody can learn it in an afternoon.

Just what we needed, another pointless carbon-guzzling ride to amuse the undeserving rich.

In my experience every tech job takes place in a former industrial building that has been converted to office space by real estate speculants.

Apparently you need to see exposed brick to code effectively.

130 km/h (or 80 mph) seems to be the international consensus on what a maximum safe speed is on a well-maintained modern highway.

Those were not vacation days, just days where they could till their own fields instead of their lord’s. For most people life then was full of backbreaking labour, illiteracy, disease and the constant looming threat of starvation. There is no need to romanticise feudalism.

Møgsvin (filth-pig), used as an insult similar to “asshole” or for someone who is literally filthy or messy.

Ikke den hurtigste knallert på havnen (not the fastest moped on the docks), used to describe someone who is stupid.

Pis mig i øret (piss in my ear), similar meaning as “fuck off”.

Svagpisser (weak-pisser), for someone who is squeamish.

Pikhud på fingrene (cock-skin on your fingers), for someone who is squeamish about manual labour or about touching hot objects.

Skidespræller (shitkicker), someone who is annoying and unserious.

Bonderøv (peasant-ass), someone who comes off as rural or in a more broader sense someone who is uncool or uncultured.

Klaphat (clap hat), synonyms with idiot. Refers to a type of hat worn by football fans in the 1980’s featuring a pair of stuffed hands that will clap together when the weather pulls a string.

Millions might have died but a few arms dealers made a lot of money so who can really say if the wars were good or bad?

There’s a reason why they’re kidnapping men off the streets and press-ganging them to fight for the Kiev regime. The slava ukraini epic marvel stuff is not making enough people volunteer to go die in a minefield.

Ukraine good, Russia bad. It follows that these Ukrainians doing bad stuff are in fact Russians.

It’s a non-falsifiable orthodoxy that turns evidence on its head until it fits the pre-conceived narrative.

For what it’s worth, most of the Ukraine flags that people put up in my city when the war started has been taken down months ago.