• Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    1 day ago

    On the one hand it bugs me that you never play as a soviet sniper in sniper elite (despite the fact that the soviets were the most prolific snipers in the war), but on the other hand i appreciate that their tradition is to have a level where you kill Hitler

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    1 day ago

    Been getting back into reading fiction. Recently finished something called The Whistler. Was not my choice of genre (horror) but I kinda grabbed it at the library without looking closely lol. Mainly cause it’s indigenous author, so I was like hey, why not.

    Being how I am and wanting to tie it into what I believe these days, in spite of the story being based in part on an indigenous tribe’s “scare them straight” kind of legend and not anything directly to do with what we get up to here, I did notice that the indigenous legend referenced in the book is not far off from a “systems go beyond individuals” perspective if you take out the supernatural part. I don’t want to give too much away, but basically, what it reminded me of is how people say that capitalists are more priests of capitalism than they are capitalism itself. So it’s almost like capitalism is an entity of its own and I can see how this kind of thing could be understood through a supernatural scary lens as well if you take it very literally. Though in our case, it’s not that we’re saying it’s a literal living Cthulhu entity, but more that it reaches a point where a system’s mechanism direct people more than they direct it? Like they get sort of swept up in the mechanisms and it takes on a “life of its own” (figuratively speaking).

    So from a systems and behavior perspective, you could think of the implied warning as being something like, “Don’t just think about your actions as what they are in isolation. Think about what systems they create or contribute to.”

    • the rizzler@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      1 day ago

      i sort of wonder what’s going to happen if and when the hardline nazis in ukraine find out they’ve been used as cannon fodder to advance ameriKKKan interests

      • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        1 day ago

        They’ll take their anger out on europe because it is way easier and their american handlers have been telling them that is was all europe’s idea to use them to hurt Russia.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Chinese people do not want their own government to intervene in Iran for the same reason Americans do not want their government to bomb Iran. The only difference is that chinese people actually have a backbone and a rich history of rebellion against their own governments meanwhile Americans are defeated before they even fight.

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    2 days ago

    it’s unrelated, but i don’t know, with everything going on in the world it’s kind of super wholesome to me to see that kim jong un seems to get along really well with his daughter. 😭 . like, every other world leader in the west is pedophile (djt has been a weirdo disgusting perv to his own daughter) and kim just seems to bring her around places… and like… hang out with her… idk 😭

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    2 days ago

    I watched this video recently talking about how children/teens become “unresponsive” to certain parents as a coping mechanism, where instead of rebelling and trying to argue they just shut down and try to avoid any interaction with the parent.

    I wonder if a lot of the world population feels like that today, where they know that the current governments won’t change so instead they just shut down fron everything and try to interact with it as little as possible.

    I’ll link in here but forwarning, the narration is very irritating. I’m not sure what it reminds me of, but whatever it is it’s annoying as all hell

    https://youtu.be/DihZW5RSGcQ

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    2 days ago

    i think about sinwar dying with an arm missing, alone in a building, throwing anything he could at the oppressor till his last moment, fighting the imperialist entity’s zionist non-entity till his final breath as an old man, and the scarce possessions they found on him including mentos and the quran, as far as i recall, and it is a proud and valiant death. i think of ayatollah dying during the month of ramadan. wow

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      2 days ago

      Glad that I could help. Not gonna lie but the psyop are getting wild. There are too many zionist bots active even in Iranian channels.

      I can’t just imagine the amount of psyops comrades are receiving right now.

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
        11·
        2 days ago

        This is nothing unusual for those of us who have been following the Ukraine conflict since the start. There were times when there was an absolutely insane amount of bots. Russian speaking spaces were (and still are) heavily targeted. Even now there is always some Ukrainian psyop even in “pro-Russian” telegram channels. You can’t prevent all infiltrations, but with time and experience you learn to recognize the bullshit.

        Right now there is a big blitz of botting and information warfare, but eventually it will calm down and there will be concrete on-the-ground results that will be impossible to deny (like how Ukraine can spin all the tall tales and put out all the deep-fakes it wants, but sooner or later Russian advances get undeniably geolocated). It’s why i recommend stepping back and waiting if you are unsure what is trustworthy at the moment.

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    2 days ago

    In those sermons [Khameini] said, “we must look to bring the ideas and system of Islam out of the realm of pure mental abstraction—like all schools of social thought—by looking at practical responsibilities, especially in the realm of social affairs, and reorienting theoretical discussions to see what their implications are for human life, what their goals are, and what methods they prescribe for meeting these goals.”

  • Kasama ☭@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    Two wars in two days.

    I’m kind of surprised this isn’t being described as the beginning of world war III.

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      2 days ago

      theres this one blogger (dont agree w him on everything, but he’s got a good head on most current geopolitical affairs, including supporting china/dprk as progressive for the world despite blogger not being avowed ML + he’s natohater) who argues world war iii has never ended, since the world has long remained at war in different theaters that in many cases are connected to USA waging war against red threat, so it’s really just one long war, USA against all the world and a better future

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    Although I did share some relevant content, I feel nevertheless that I should apologize to Black comrades for how I underperformed for Black History Month. I had originally envisioned going on a marathon where I would share something daily about Black history, but I kept getting distracted from my goal and I went on researching simply whatever intrigued me at the moment. I don’t know if anyone expects much from me given that I am an individual rather than an institution, but I still feel like I must have let someone down, and I am sorry about that.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    I am sort of struggling to find a gift for someone and I realised that gift buying would be so much easier under communism. I would no longer need to worry about being deceived into buying a cheaply made expensive, bad product. I would just trust that the person I am “buying” from actually cares about me and the person I am “buying” the gift for.