SoyViking [he/him]

They did not lift that burden

In not American but still very much from the imperial cow so I’ll answer anyway. To be honest I think my mom has a great part of the honour. I was always a bookish kid and (among many other things) she pointed me in the direction of communist authors who were, among other things, writing about bourgeois hypocrisy and deconstructing anti-communist propaganda. So from my early teens I was familiar with the idea that bourgeois media is full of bullshit.

It didn’t make me a convinced communist for life (like so many others, I’ve had my lib cringe phase where I believed the worst anti-communist nonsense) but I always had an open mind to listening to the other side.

Later on, around the 2008 financial crash, I was listening to a lot of leftist lectures on YouTube, trying to make sense of it all. Parenti was one of them and that man simply made sense.

It is those who make a claim who has the burden to prove it. It is not everybody else’s job to disprove them. The Zionists’ have failed to present any proof for these racist claims that convinces independent observers

Zionist terrorist organisations are notoriously untrustworthy sources (Beheaded babies, kHamas command centres under hospitals, Iran being just about to have nukes).

the CEO recently boasted about how “60% of their work uses chatGPT”

Jesus Christ… That’s not something to be proud of

Incredible things are happening in China. Thank you for sharing!

If the UK ban works the same way as similar bans in other places, this is a ban on Palestine Action members associating with eachother, no matter what name they use.

They can throw anyone in jail for anti-genocide activism as long as they claim they’re members of Palestine Action.

There’s also “racking up student debt for years and then dropping out because your ADHD spirals out of control”, that’s a really expensive one.

I mean it would kind of solve racism

As if Europeans are not perfectly capable of being racist towards people who look exactly like they do. They invented racism, they’re experts.

Nope.

Those questions are not tough for them at all. The propaganda has it covered and they will give some version of “we tried our gosh darned best to bring the savages freedom and democracy but their barbarian culture was simply too primitive”.

I can’t seem to find anyone in real life who doesn’t.

When did the mayor of NYC become so important

It wouldn’t be so important if there was a meaningful opposition to the Trump regime in congress. But there isn’t, this is the most prominent election where people are offered actual material improvements so it becomes a stand-in for people’s hopes for a better future.

Another hoop you have to jump through in order to become a citizen is that you have to give the local mayor a handshake (skin-to-skin contact legally required). This is considered so important that it was upheld even at the height of COVID.

The reason for this bizarre rule is that chuds convicted themselves that shaking the hand of a woman was some kind of cryptonite to scary “Islamists”. But the mayor is more likely to be a man than a woman, you say. Yes. That is true. It is ridiculous even on its own terms.

If you want to become a naturalised Danish citizen, one of the hoops you have to jump through is to pass a multiple choice trivia quiz with questions such as:

• What demographic did the “Radical Left” party represent when it was founded in 1905? (Smallholders)
• When was “the Christian Danish church” founded (the Viking age)
• What person was associated with the folk high school movement in the 19th century (NFS Grundtvig)

Some of the questions requires participants to parrot state propaganda, such as answering that Greenland ceased to be a colony in 1953.

It is deeply unserious.

I hate that it had to come to this but we are now required to replace the S’es in the name of the US with the more evil and ethnic letter Z:

• United ZtateZ
• UZ
• UZA

Yes. That’s what makes it quite remarkable.

There could be several reasons why such an organisation would publish this. It could have been published with the expectation that it would only be read among the elite who actually needs accurate information. It could also have been published to push for some sort of “renewal of democracy” through tighter control of the media and harsher repression of dissidents. It could also simply be a “look at his brainwashed the Chinese are!” Kind of thing.

Some background information on the source. From NATOpedia:

The Alliance of Democracies Foundation (AoD) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of democracy and free markets across the globe

It was founded in 2017 by war criminal, former NATO secretary general and likely current CIA asset Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Among the co-founders you find the politically connected oligarch Fritz Schur who provided a significant part of the funding for Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s Liberal Party during his tenure as prime minister.

It is an organisation devoted to advance atlanticism, neoliberalism and western imperialism.

Thinking “it’s going to suck so much forgetting to do this this thing” as I receive important information.

I hope it killed a lot of evil people

Triad of Extremism? That sounds kind of cool.

It is kind of hard to make good drama out of “everybody is doing farming and helping eachother to get the best out of a shitty situation”. It is a lot easier to imagine a good narrative when there’s conflict, danger and violence in the picture. The capitalist idea of “human nature” as inherently selfish and evil also push writers towards the more violent narratives.

But could you make a good and engaging narrative based on the premise that humans are inherently good and altruistic? While danger makes a story engaging that danger doesn’t have to come from Mad Max style psychos in bondage gear. The dangers facing the post-apocalyptical society could be the dangers connected to surviving in a world where all supply chains and infrastructure is gone and people have to relearn subsistence farming fast not to starve to death. The danger could also come from the before times, like radioactive fallout or whatever. You could even throw a few leather enthusiasts with guns in the mix but present them as the unsustainable anomaly such marauders would be.