We've been together three years and we're alright, but it doesn't make much sense to continue because we have so much to live for and we would imprison ourselves if we stood. I know I'll miss her, but what I won't miss is the constant threat of hearing the worst take imaginable when I was at her family dinners!

We kinda lack info on how to defect here. I'm often thinking about that stuff... What would I do if the fascists ascent to power where I live? If it happens, it probably will be before anyone is ready to fight back. Fleeing looks sometimes necessary especially if you're unable to resist.

Does anyone know where to look to? Any historical or current examples of how people defect? What countries could be open to communist defectors from the West?

I regularly see comments use "Unlimited" in this particular way. I thought it was meming something like "Unlimited repression on the kulaks" or something like that. Maybe I totally over extrapolated...?

So I've stumbled across this thing called Shpilkin method, a statistical model that pretends to quantity electoral fraud. I haven't found the precise model because all I get is media talking about it, there isn't even a Wikipedia article for this. Upon primary investigation I found multiple sketchy things.

• It seems that the model is based on analysing voter turnout variation, however turnout is known to be affected by other factors such as people only caring about the biggest election
• I haven't seen the model applied an compared to any other country than Russia, what if it would detect similar voter fraud in the "democratic west"?
• The media covering this is really bad, the top results are radio free europe and some neolib pro nato french news outlet.
• Mr Shpilkin apparently got rewards from some irrelevant "Liberal Front" and also got put on the list of foreign interference personalities by Russia

All I know about statistics is that you can make numbers say whatever you want.

From what I saw he's a "Orwell is a great socialist author" and "the USSR was fascist" kind of terminally white bourgeois British dude. Did he, like, watched a Hakim or JT video before accepting?? I hope it's because he's having a redemption arc or something

Oh yeah the source of that claim is a LA Times article that doesn't mention this blatant contradiction at all

I had this reflection when discussing the subject of trans people participating in mass media beauty contest, with in mind the Miss Universe contest. This question is your typical imperial core opinion divider : a useless debate between two tendencies of the bourgeoisie.

The truth is, there is no question whether or not trans women would be allowed to run because in fact this contest goes against everything the feminist and LGBT+ liberation movement is for.

Historically, beauty competition were used at the height of society to match the most desirable women (matching body standards, pretty, but also witty and talented, but always docile, just like in the Misses contest) with the most powerful men. There would be "seasons" organised with dances and other events for the young men and women to socialise. When a men desired a young woman he would ask her father if his rank was high enough for him, and if the father thought his daughter might get better he could refuse. The life of the d

An entire institution is rarely justified by simply setting up an illusion for the average person to fall for. The US duopoly is a good example for this.

There is a very material incentive for the bourgeoisie to have precisely two parties alternating, that is, the importance of donors.

If the blue team were to lose only a small amount of donors, they would inevitably lose to the red team, and vice versa. If there were more major parties, losing donors could be a calculated decision to not alienate a part of the electorate, because the donations would go to one of the major parties. But in a duopoly situation, the donor's money go straight to the other party, doubling the relative loss. On the contrary, a monopoly situation is not ideal because the importance of donors is diminished since the campaign is less important therefore money matters less.

This system therefore ensures maximum control over political parties by the bourgeoisie, because it optimises the bargain that donors ha

Just a stupid thought I had

The imperial core has some strong color revolution fantasies, but at the same time it is hard to dismiss something that isn't just "freedumb and democracy". The whole thing around Iranian women specifically, looks like a hijacking of a legitimate struggle. Has anyone produced an informed analysis of the situation?

Romani people are a generally nomad ethnic minority Europe, against whom it is deemed perfectly acceptable to be racist for most whites. It must be noted that Romani people were victims of the Holocaust, though that point is rarely brought up in any discussion to defend them.

No less than two hundred people assaulted and destroyed the belongings of already impoverished and marginalized people, while being led by an elected representative. This is a very clear sign that fascism is alive and growing in France. It is only fair to say that participants of the heinous act are fascists and should at least be jailed. However I doubt any of this will happen as the judiciary system will never be on the side of Romani people.

Meanwhile no armed anti-fascist force has the power to shut down fascism in this rotted country. This time the Soviets won't save the day, I'm afraid. As usual I only hope to be proven wrong.

I've seen a street interview from Asian Boss (a channel that aims to avoid global conflict by creating a bridge between westerners and asians) about birthrates in different Asian countries including China.

It was obvious that Chinese young people were less in a doomer mindset than the people in Japan and in the occupied part of Korea. However they still didn't want to have kids and cited unemployment. This is something I have heard a lot, that unemployment was high among the youth and that higher education was expensive.

One biais the channel is accused of is that they almost only interview people in Shanghai, rarely Beijing, never another city. As we know Shanghai is a special economic zone and has a liberal local government.

So my question is, how true is that and what is happening at the state level on that subject?

Need to vent caus dying from cringe is definitely a possibility. Can't disclose too many details but basically they are big time anti-China propaganda propagators, literally fingers on the left hand of imperialism. I really don't want to dunk on them because they're sweet, humanly, so I'm just gonna not say much... but literally hiding isn't really an option since I already did defend our boi against them

It's still hard for me to believe they just say stuff without anything to back it up

No spoilers

The villains are obviously based on the US/colonialists/capitalists, like in the previous one. The little difference is that the movie strongly establishes them as pieces of shit, so it can take a more sadistic attitude towards them during action scenes. Like, there are a lot of more grusome deaths against basic soldiers than usual, and I was really like "AHAH DIE COLONIZER". Very cathartic, and great spectacle overall.

I've read a lot of comments on our communities pointing the fact that western powers have refused the Soviet proposal to unite against Germany and that they all signed diverse pacts before the, now overplayed, German-Soviet pact. Although those comments never had a source to back that claim, and obviously search engines would never find this for me. Anyone know where I can find about all of this?

Most based stuff I've heard in a long time, absolute must watch

Hey people if you have based takes for me to read that's the moment I wanna read your based takes (I love lemmygrad thank you for being based)

Damn he finally remembered that he wrote a book about this