One large Howitzer shell would at least disable it.
Do not fall for the Fourth Reich Wunderwaffe lies. Their military doctrine only works with complete air superiority, mostly killing civilians, small groups of “the enemy” (people defending their country), and destroying infrastructure.
Gulags were just prisons and people regularly escaped from them. The soviets actually dramatically decreased the scale of gulags vs. the tsarist period.
A ‘gulag’ alias should just be a leaky pause or backgrounding or something. rm -rf is forceful denazification.
It’s spurned by liberal admins and mods usually. They can’t actually argue against us so they put their cognitive dissonance into an unhealthy place of self-soothing.
This actually isn’t unique to Lemmy at all it is the default reaction of committed liberals and liberals with thin skin. But when someone feels ownership of a place and like they’re losing legitimacy and control they can lash out.
It’s also important to understand that most people online discussing politics in these forums know basically nothing. They don’t read. They can’t critically engage with media. They don’t question their own biases when presented with people from other cultures. They certainly don’t actually do anything irl that would teach them visceral lessons. Trying to build an organization (not a career in a non-profit), a party, or even just feeding people. They might as well be 10 year olds for all the information contained in their political opinions. But they feel extremely entitled to their positions and wrap it up in their identities. If they are contradicted they feel personally attacked. If they think something despite having never investigated it, they announce it proudly with confidence and bully those who disagree. In short, humility runs counter to their socialization.
Finally, they’re used to punching right, or at least most of them are, and their rhetoric breaks down when they are instead forced to punch left. So they just start namecalling instead, banning, or just trolling, as it allows their egos to escape without much damage.
Luckily, we are looking at an echo chamber of people who automatically self-isolate and can’t organize anything. In the real world conversations are faster and more productive and building things and teaching is much easier, even with an audience that isn’t entirely friendly. Irl people usually can’t get away with acting like such babies.
Tankie is a thought-terminating cliché by liberals that can’t handle losing an argument and don’t know how else to punch left.
Actually I was never this insufferable.
Funny how they all talk like 4chan chuds
Liberals truly believe Great Man Theory
How did they rule out COVID or the flu? Most tests that US doctors use are not very good at ruling out either, just confirming. They can do true positives but are not as good at true negatives. Also, to be blunt, many people are in denial about COVID and fib to themselves and others about it. “They ruled it out” might really mean, “we downplayed some of our symptoms and the doctor said that might mean COVID is unlikely”.
But there are many respiratory illnesses aside from COVID and the flu and ones that cause a scratchy throat aside from strep throat, which is caused by just one type of bacteria.
I recommend masking in shared indoor spaces to protect yourself. This will also make you better able to help them if needed. And wash your hands + avoid touching your face when around them.
If this only happened once it may be a coincidence.
If you did in any way visit another page with this term then it is still possible for Google to embed trackers in pages and use your IP and fingerprinting techniques to gather data and use it for recommendations. Note that using a VPN and cromite does not prevent all means of fingerprinting. But if you did not visit any pages other than the search engine then either that privacy-focused search engine is sharing your searches with Google or it was a coincidence.
Has China ever expressed interest in joining NATO? Was there ever actually a declinature?
This is the flag of the USSR, not China. China has 5 stars.
New Zealand also isn’t part of NATO, does that mean NATO are imperialists AND flightless bird haters?
NATO has always been an anticommunist war machine principally aimed at the USSR and its allies. It was originally staffed with actual Nazis, too.
Or is this another way I’m blinded by western media and China has been begging to get into NATO and they’re just not reporting it in my sheeple network?
I mean you seem to just not know the history or the references being made but are knee-jerk anticommunist anyways, so maybe you should do some self-criticism about humility and politics.
Their brows will be so furrowed
Hey look you did all 3 points again. You even missed the point of this ultra’s meandering and bad faith polemic, which I actually explained at length (you chose to lie about this) to instead grind your own axe (point 2) again.
Are you surprised when nobody takes you seriously?
Let’s see:
To be honest you’re lucky I’m not a mod because I’d ban you for defending the SA garbage.
Anyone taking Kruschev’s Secret Speech particularly seriously is just not themselves a very serious person, even if they’ve had a blog since 2008. This piece is lacking in basic rigor, failing to substantiate or even articulate material criticisms for the first entire third, instead sticking almost exclusively to namecalling and innuendo after providing unnecessary introductions complete with citations to give the impression that he would get an A+ from any high school English teacher.
You may note that the author rarely dsigns to cite their depictions of Losurdo’s work, the one he is criticizing, beginning with the most obvious oversight: despite spending the first third declaring what Western Marxism might have meant at different times to different people, he does not quote Losurdo’s definition or even really attempt to understand why someone like Hannah Arendt might be included. It is simply mentioned as an absurdity that must mean Losurdo is wrong, plus some editorialization. The author tries to claim the common thread is just a lack of consideration for the global south, colonialism, and so on, so this is all it means, implicitly. Of course, Losurdo is not this indirect, or one might say misleading as the author of this blog: the preface to the book itself is titled, “What is Western Marxism?”, and he explains what he means clearly. In his consideration, which is really a reference to another work, Western Marxism is defined through a rejection of “Eastern Marxism”, i.e. the products of successful revolutions. Those in the West who declared the Marxism of the USSR or China to be a separate thing from thst of the West, which by that point was basically all talk. Losurdo’s book intends to describe the origins and tendencies that define this term using the entire text - and a person like Arendt actually fits perfectly into this “intellectual” movement. Of course, the blog author mentions Anderson et al, but neglects to directly address Losurdo’s meaning, sticking to suggested absurdity and not direct critique. In many ways, this is thr author earning the label of “Western Marxist” i.e. the faux-academic chauvinist that relies on obscuring rather than illumination.
Keeping Arendt as an example, we can ask a simple question: does Losurdo call Arendt a Western Marxist? No. Does Losurdo imply she represents, herself, Western Marxism? Still no. Losurdo cites Arendt as a popularizer of pro-imperial apologetics, particularly for the United States and the erasure of its colonial and semi-colonial history, and how she became a major influence for Western Marxists in this regard - specifucally Hardt and Negri, who wrote Empire. These are important figures for Losurdo’s depiction of Western Marxism, of those who declare an alternative interpretation of Marx against “Eastern Marxism”, and end up in the territory of self-soothing navel-gazing.
This long critique of just this one point exemplifies the larger issues in this essay. Laziness, inaccurate depictions, a fear of quoting the text in question, but plenty of dust thrown up as distraction. Look at how many books the author may have read! One must wonder why it takes only 3 minutes of reading the relevant portions of the book-to-be-critiqued to see the obvious errors when so much effort has gone into lining up the right citations for The New Left Review.
The middle third of this article is just a narrative about western Marxist publishing houses and rivalries and stipulating why they did this, that, or the other thing. No engagement about Losurdo or the work allegedly under critique.
The last third revisits Arendt et al and suggests that perhaps they were addressed as influences of Western Marxists rather than Marxists themselves. As if Losurdo hadn’t literally written this himself! This is converted into a critique of Losurdo spending so much time on these non-Marxists, though the notion that anti-Marxists being strong influences of Western Marxists is a relevant thing to expound on never seems to cross the author’s mind. Their criticism here is, in actuality, just their own selective capacity for curiosity and basic fair readings. The author then stipulates that easily understood juxtapositions are non sequiturs (selective curiosity again!) before contradicting themselves to say that actually they do know what point was meant: that those using a political dialectic have more correct ideas of world evolution when embedded in contemporary fact (e.g. stacks of newspapers) and that Western Marxists have a strong tendency to ignore this fact - of contemporary material facts in contradiction of their proclamations, like the obviously wrong Negri et al implying a Pax Americana after the fall of the USSR. Them being objectively wrong is none of the concern of this article’s author: clearly Losurdo is just being silly and saying that no Western Marxists read newspapers.
To be honest I am just getting bored at this point. I could go through the rest but don’t see a point to it. This article is… pitiful. Up its own ass to an extraordinary degree.
Generative LLM and so on is just pattern recognition and generation. It may do this several levels deep, but it doesn’t break free of this fundamental limitation.
You are noticing that it is just doing patterns and noticing them yourself. Lines flow a bit oddly. Real objects have recognizable textures but are missing parts of the coherent whole. Comic panels that would be copy + paste for an artist are actually “redrawn” by the generative algorithms and that feels odd. Context changes oddly - e.g. the backgrounds.
It’s mostly just parlor tricks. Entertaining but rarely actually that useful.
Liberals gladly accepted all of this right up until they were told not to lest they not be slava ukraini.
Bill Gates? The Epstein guy?
The silly appeals to fallacies and then ignoring basically everything I say is super debatebro.
Literally the prison system inherited from the tsar but downsized and with improved conditions.
Go read a book.