This. The South Korean military is literally subordinate to the US’ (on paper, “only in times of war”). Maybe they could break free, but until then the idea the US wasn’t involved in the motions of declaring and enforcing martial law, etc. is pretty laughable.

What an absolutely beautiful smile. It must be protected 🫡

Goals tbh

While they certainly exist, the Communist Party of Britain thankfully is not among them: https://archive.ph/F1Ow4

The Communist Party of Britain affirmed that it supports transgender people’s right to “live equal, full and meaningful lives” after J.K. Rowling, almost as well known at this point for her hatred of trans women as for penning the mega-popular Harry Potter series, expressed tacit support for its candidates. On Saturday, Rowling encouraged her social media followers to vote Communist, a move made in response to the anti-trans feminist group For Women Scotland tweeting that a party spokesperson had told them it stood “in support of [recognizing] the nature of biological sex.” A day later, a statement was released on the party’s official X account clarifying the matter. “For avoidance of doubt, the Communist Party supports the right of trans people to medically transition, to have access to healthcare and live equal, full and meaningful lives, socially, economically and politically,” it said. “We believe that such liberation will only be possible under socialism.” Rowling’s blessing, likely now to be rescinded, came after she published an op-ed in The Times of London on Friday disavowing the Labour Party over its support for trans rights.

Agreed, it’s good that people are talking about this and hopefully (even if it won’t mean much) it hurts their bottom line, but it’d be more surprising if something like this wasn’t the case IMO. Blizzard has a history of being ghouls, Activision is made up of even worse ghouls (the worst kinds of bootlickers in the business, probably), and then they were acquired by Microsoft to make it worse.

Honestly, I agree- the dynamics in the west are such that I just plain don’t have much hope here, especially in the Anglo-settler countries.

Thankfully, the global majority is not white (and the west European-descended and dominated racist bloc rejected Russia), and demography even in the cores is on our side. And thankfully the world has now caught up and will leave the barbarian hordes (not all whites, but the “international community” and specifically those who have such imperialist mentalities) in the dustbin of history, where the western imperialists will have to decide if they want to rejoin the rest of humanity.

(offers jugular)

Y’know, I could understand if this was about “eeeliteees” and the “satanic liberal cabals” or whatever. I wouldn’t agree with it, but I could at least understand (so long as it didn’t stray into antisemitism), considering the blatant wickedness of the system- its not like it would make the western elites any worse if they ate a few of their millions of victims here and there, everyone knows they’re genocidal baby killers and worse (even if people may disagree on the specifics of who and what is victimized).

But no, apparently it’s blood libel against Haitians again. At first I thought it was incredibly racist but coming out of nowhere/utterly ridiculous (still is), but if this “baby/flesh eating” nonsense is going to be a running thing, that’s gone far past “cats and dogs” (already racist and blood libel-adjacent imo, as an Asian) and well into the territory of “inciting pogroms/lynchings.”

IMO it can always get worse. You can look to Ukraine and the Philippines as examples of just how bad it can get; at least for now they (Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova, Georgia, etc) are ostensibly independent countries with some sort of self-interest and self-preservation.

It’s one thing to have a Franco or Salazar in power, and another to have a Horthy or Quisling. And there are all sorts of creative things the west can use a fully compromised Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, etc. for (alongside the fact it would strengthen the western unified fascist front in the likely upcoming WW3), as can be seen with the Kenyan military police in Haiti, or the US’/western EU’s attempts to expand NATO activities to the entire globe (in Asia and west Africa in particular).

and yet the only thing the government is actually concerned with was civil unrest.

It makes sense, if you think about it. All our country’s problems are self-inflicted; the system is acting exactly as intended.

The individual culprits’ intents may not be exactly to revert the country back to feudalism (or to mask-off fascism), but collectively and effectively, it is what it is, and none of them are willing to change course (because it would eat into their bottom line). All the various rentiers that truly constitute the government and institutions of this country (the cartels/oligopolies, landlords, etc) are moving this country exactly in that direction.

Please, prepare the nukes, President Putin… My people long for freedom…

Seriously though, if it all comes down on our heads it may be more of a relief than anything else. Still better if it doesn’t get to that point of course, but whatever happens will be entirely the west’s fault and the result of the rest of humanity’s hands being forced into action, something that is even rather overdue.

Maybe she should piss her money and connections away (for research purposes) and then see how sound her economic evaluations are, then.

Well, that’s enough western… western-ism for today. I hope Hollywood crashes and burns, quite literally. If only I could excise the *nglish language from my mind like the tumor it is.

They’re really trying to make people miss bloody Boris, are they? Though honestly (granted, as a non-Brit) I wish Boris on TERF island. Let it all burn.

Pretty much. And those who aren’t high on their own supply are no better- all of them, they’re rotten to the core, and will do anything to cling to power and empire. That’s how they got to where they are, after all.

Honestly, in some ways I’m glad. They cannot and will not change, and they will bring down the justice and consequences of 500 years of barbarism upon their heads for it.

I just hope they don’t take the rest of humanity down with them, and that in time even the masses of the west will dispose of the trash before it’s too late.

Cheers. Now hopefully things get to the point they start killing each other over it all. Frankly even if this ends with the settlements irradiated wastelands and the straggling survivors resorting to cannibalism I will have no sympathy.

It’s not like the word of a terrorist regime like the USA could ever be trusted anyways, but good.

Personally I suspected it was something along those lines (of either #1 or #2). But the concept of #1 in particular is a certain kind of terroristic horror (that is exactly in character for the Isntrealis and the west in general) that would be concerning to learn of, if they have developed such a method. Both possibilities are horrifying, that said.

Whatever it is, admittedly- I hope that the end result is that the resistance (and the world at large) works to address these vulnerabilities, and that the process is reverse engineered or replicated in turn.

The hacking isn’t exactly surprising- but what the hell is up with the explosions? Honestly that is the real head-scratcher for me.