• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    10 hours ago

    City subreddit, Western country: ‘look at this cool park, public transport, building, cute cafe’

    City subreddit, Eastern Europe: ‘JOIN NATO JOIN EU PROTEST EU FUCK PUTING JOIN EU EU IS MASTER RACE’

    It’s only brainwashing if it’s the DPRK guys

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    1 day ago

    Europe already spends 2 to 3 times more on defence than Russia and has more manpower and vehicles but there is, apart from us, no party ever highlighting this.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    1 day ago

    Went to a psychologist for a second opinion for starting my trans care last week. He approved it, so that’s nice but he also made me really self conscious about the way I talked. He noticed that I talk with a slightly crooked mouth. He asked why, and insinuated it’s medical. I said that’s it’s because of my autism and it only happens when I’m nervous. He also asked if I’m sure it’s not a by-effect of my DIY medication, to which I replied that I had it my whole life. He then shared a story of an older woman who had the same her whole life, and that she also said that it’s not medical, and that he made her question if it was medical.

    He was nice the whole interview and then he pulls this shit. Now I keep focussing on my mouth when I talk and I notice that I want to avoid conversations more often.

    • sunbleachedfly@lemmygrad.mlاَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ
      3·
      22 hours ago

      Congratulations on getting approved!!! Very exciting, I hope it works out.

      Sounds quite annoying to have to answer a bunch of questions abouut something you don’t want to talk about.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      1 day ago

      Lol that’s weird. It’s one thing to notice such a thing and he’s right when he might think it can be something medical but to insinuate it is is just weird. But then again doctors can be quite strange.

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    That new book by the ex-Facebook employee is a good glimpse into the mind of a terminal liberal. She mentions China in the introduction which I thought was odd because Facebook never operated in China and if you count the evils that Facebook has done, which are countless btw, is China really that important that it should be mentioned in your introduction?

    So I ctrl F China to see what her point of view was. Turns out she is mad that Zucc and other execs were willing to negotiate with China rather being a tool for regime change. She talks about a phone call with another employee who asks her if Zucc should take credit for the Arab Spring. She says that her answer depends on Facebook’s policy towards, because taking credit for it would make it difficult to make inroads in China because it would mean that Facebook facilitates “people’s revolutions” (yeah she called Arab Spring that).

    She completely refuses to understand why Zucc want to do business in China. The fact that China is not only the second largest country but also moderately prosperous with a mind boggling consumer base for Facebook is something she never contends. She is just mad about the ethical implications of bowing down to CCP’s demands. Like its their divinely ordained duty to topple “authoritarian regimes” around the world.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    TIL Bobby Fischer, american chess grandmaster, was deeply into antisemitic conspiracies. He was subscribed to the judeobolshevik conspiracy, and st some point wrote “we should start randomly killing jews”. I wouldnt have known this if not by some random X comment.

    Is there any list about media figures that are antisemitic?

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    To be honest, I would have preferred seeing more leftists take a neutral approach to the Russo-Ukrainian war than siding with Ukraine. ‘Both sides are wrong’ is still an oversimplification and not the best approach to take, but it’s at least easier to understand than siding with a pro-NATO dictatorship of the bourgeoisie that has been lousy with neofascists for at least a decade.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, like i understand the optics about big country attacking small country that makes western leftists side with Ukraine, but i don’t understand how then they completely ignore the US role in this.

      It pretty much declares that western “leftists” are really “right-wing” in a global context and only “left-wing” in their local context, they only want to reap the benefits of western imperialism along with their capitalist overlords, they give no shit about the global class struggle. Yanis Varoufakis is the prime example of this.

  • Jin008@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 days ago

    With the war in Ukraine tilting more and more in favour towards Russia, when do you guys think the war could be over assuming it continues at this pace?

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      2 days ago

      Impossible to say. Too many factors could still go a number of different ways. If i had to take a guess i would say it’s probably going to go on for at least another six months. And i wouldn’t be surprised if it goes on well into next year. But there are things that could happen which would shorten it considerably, such as an unexpected collapse on one of the fronts, a coup in Kiev, or the US cutting off all aid. Barring an event of that sort i don’t think Russia is in any hurry to end it, especially now that Ukraine has been evicted from Kursk. One thing i can tell you is that the Europeans are going to be wholly irrelevant to this process. They have no material capability to follow through on any of their rhetoric.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    2 days ago

    People say the internet is forever, but that is a lie. If someone wants to nuke their digital footprint, it is easier than ever right now.

      • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        2 days ago

        Nothing in particular. I was looking up some lady and I quickly discovered that she hasn’t existed since like 2022, nuked all her socials and fell off the grid overnight. Then I started thinking about myself and how easy it would be to go ghost if i stopped being online for like a week.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      I would say it mostly only applies to famous people and events that lots of people can keep going like whack-a-mole if one source is nuked, or that they can maintain easily as a small part of a large information database (like wikipedia). If you’re a virtual no-name, nobody as random individuals are going to be paying attention to maintain your footprint and, well… in the capitalist context, companies are not going to want to foot the bill to maintain it.

    • ?Geektragedy@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      That is true. Though the process was drawn out over centuries and was generally run as cheaply as possible.

      Why expend a fortune completely pacifying a country when you can put in settlers and let them steal and murder their way to supremacy.