I just stumbled across the DPRK’s strongest soldier

What if I need that page later? Surely I’ll come back to it later, so it needs to stay open.

AI surveillance bullshit would be my guess

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I want to return to a time before I opened this post.

I’m not arguing that they’re doing a good job, but I do think that’s the intention. The Ukraine adventure was supposed to miraculously either cause regime change in Russia or collapse it entirely to further loot the Soviet Union’s corpse and split Russia away from China, and instead it’s basically demilitarized NATO and started deindustrializing Europe. This latest attack on Iran was clearly supposed to be a “kick in the door and the whole rotting structure comes down” thing and in classic fascist hubris it’s blowing up in their face. So while I think the imperialists have vague ideas of a plan to ultimately confront China, they’re doing it in possibly the most farcical way possible because we’re like three generations of failsons deep at this point.

Yes, that’s it. Thank you!

Not explicitly news related but I hope this is okay since I think a lot of fellow newsheads would like to know that Geopolitical Economy Hour apparently moved to Radhika Desai’s own channel: https://youtube.com/@raddesai. I wondered why they seemingly stopped making episodes on Multipolarista Geopolitical Economy Report. The latest episode talks a bit about whether we’re experiencing World War 3 or if this is “merely” the deaththroes of imperialism. Even though the super powers aren’t in direct conflict with each other (even though they kind of are when NATO troops are basically doing everything but pulling the trigger on Western missiles firing into Russia), the current conflicts are clearly about attempting to encircle China before a direct confrontation, especially cutting off their oil imports and disrupting peaceful development of the BRI. It’s hard to imagine what else to call a conflict clearly intended to seize control of Eurasia, and in my opinion Ukraine and West Asia are just fronts in the same conflict. There was an article from the late 90’s or early 2000’s by Subcommandant Marcos that someone posted here somewhere that argued a similar case about the First Cold War. Curious what others think or if it’s a distinction without a difference. There’s also the question Desai raises about every world war changing the world financial system, and whether the bear trap the US walked face first into with Iran making the energy markets scream has laid the conditions for that shift to begin.

The fuhrerbunker was collapsed with explosives and had been paved over with a parking lot or a playground or something iirc. There’s a sign there marking the place though.

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Real “Russia will run out of missiles in 3 days” hours. Intelligence based purely on vibes.

I have to echo what others have said here. This is not brave or heroic, but rather the dire result of a lack of accessible healthcare. In a sane and just world, this person would have been able to have had this done professionally, rather than DIY it out of desperation. And this is unfortunately a very old phenomenon. In the memoirs of doctor Ludwig Levy-Lenz, head gynecologist at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, the first queer clinic in the entire world which was active during the Weimar period (1919-1933), he described how a sixteen year old trans boy did something similar.

“A sixteen year old [transgender boy] came to us to have [his] well-developed breasts amputated. [He] had the luck, [he] said, to find a job as apprentice to a carpenter, and it was only [his] breasts which prevented [him] from working like the other apprentices.”

“We refused to operate because we considered that at the age of sixteen the [boy’s] mental development was not complete. A few days later, the patient was brought to us having lost a great deal of blood; in order to necessitate amputation, [he] had inflicted upon [himself] deep and severe cuts with a razor. We were able to save the [boy’s] life by a blood transfusion, but I had to remove the breasts.” ^[1]

Transgender healthcare being life saving is not just rhetoric or hyperbole, and it isn’t just referencing the mental health risks in its absence. It is also life saving because, just like abortion, the DIY methods can be significantly more dangerous. The worse the crackdown on trans healthcare gets, the more incidents like this are going to happen. Anyone advocating for restrictions on trans healthcare is in reality advocating for the social murder of trans people, but in “polite” wording.

Back in the day you would get together with your friends in a goddess’ cult and they would cut your balls off as the climax of a religious ceremony.

time moves too fast

I think what a lot of people miss about Hasan is that he is acutely aware that that is his role to play. He talked about it a little bit when he was on the Deprogram.

True Anon without Liz is so sad

why do I need an ai for that when I already do it myself?

The creased flag obviously from amazon is so fucking funny. Absurdly unserious country.

There really needs to be a “Most kudos in the past year/month/whatever” option because older fandoms tend to have works from years and years ago calcify at the top.