Before I started losing my hearing I was already used to asking people to repeat themselves, since I was living abroad and not fluent in the language after all. Although back then nobody seemed to mind, since its normal for foreigners. Ironically its my own countrymen who had less patience for it.

Thank you, dear American friend.

good to be bac, had to lay off devices for a while because bright lights gave me headaches

I’m back after a pretty long break. Got a nasty head injury and I’ve been out of it for the past few weeks. But I’m better now, and trying to get back into the swing of things.

I wouldn’t even put Shining path and Khmer Rouge in the same league as the rest of these parties. Like sure, all the others listed are crappy and have bad positions. SP and Pol Pot were committing literal Genocides and pogroms, it’s disingenuous to lump them together like this.

Nice try

Khmer Rouge

You said it better than I did, lmao, I should have just read yours first. But yes, I think currently there isn’t any blatant censorship or algorithmic suppression of left content on Rumble. I’ve seen plenty of Pro Palestinian (and, annoyingly Pro Israel too) content on there with a reasonable viewership. Rumbles management doesn’t care, as they currently just want people to use their platform, and they hardly get advertising due to the stigma against them in corporate circles.

I have no doubt that if the tables flip, and Rumble becomes big and mainstream enough to start getting pressure from the US government and corporate sponsors, this will probably all change and it would just become another Youtube. But that hasn’t happened yet, and it means it’s still able to be uncensored.

Rumble is just that, a platform. That’s how I’ve seen it in my experience. There are leftists there too, even if they are the minority. But this is the same on any other platform, apart from maybe Tankietube and similar. It doesn’t mean that it’s not worth using, if anything I think leftists should put their content anywhere they’re allowed, as the whole point is to get the masses on board. Rumble’s audience is already skeptical of mainstream media and other big tech platforms, so I’d say that it’s more likely your stuff gets traction on there than it would on Youtube for example. The site does have the one massive issue in that it’s got an established large userbase of right wingers because of how the site started off, but I think given enough time this would probably shift a bit since enough leftists start getting booted from Youtube etc. (Recent Russiagate witch-hunting is already proof of this)

I thought only under 21 players could play for the Olympic team?

I’ll never forgive the US for what they did to Allende. Imagine what the world could have become if Latin America was allowed to flourish. I’ll never forget, nor will I forgive.

He’s talking about US Liberals, which is what constitutes “Left” there, and in that sense he’s absolutely right. Blue Maga is cult like in it’s ability to coalesce into a single force behind whoever they’re told to. They switched from full throated support for Genocide Joe to Holocaust Harris at the drop of a hat.

Terrible pun, and it’s flown over everyone’s heads to boot, 3/10

I thought this was fairly common, you have one as head of state and another as head of government. I can’t think of that many places where this isn’t actually the case.

Singapore is a pretty significant petroleum and circuitry exporter. They’re also, you know, not western.

You know that Cuba, China and Venezuela don’t only trade with other socialist countries right? Actually I’m glad you brought up Venezuela, because their biggest trading partner is literally the USA, the same is true for China, but they’ve got several other large partners besides the US. International trade is something that happens regardless of your government’s political leaning, and nearby nations will always prefer trading with each other due to simple pragmatism, unless there is an exceedingly rare situation, like war or severe embargoes.

As long as you’re not in Monaco or the Vatican (is that you, Francis?), there will be a sizeable proletarian class, and potential for a leftist/labor movement. And the idea that your nation is dependent on “capitalism” to survive is not accurate. It’s dependent on trading with foreign markets, which is something socialist nations also do, and in most cases, nearly every nation has to in order to prosper. It’s not a matter of Socialism or Capitalism, but mutually beneficial trade.

Lmao. Learn something new every day

Its not actually caused by Romanization though, because if it were, it would have been spelt with an I or a Y, as is usually done when translating the Cyrillic ё, this is almost certainly due to later humorous interpretations, which, to be fair, Semen is a lot funnier of a name.

Slight correction, his name technically is Semyon or Semion, “Semen” is just how anglos would pronounce it because they don’t know how to make the Slavic equivalent sound.