I think this was the video I watched on it, I’m not sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUHdzyjjrD0

And if you think that’s bad, wait until you hear about the history of sexual abuse and grooming built into Hollywood stretching back to its early days in the 1920s!

Gives me Sia and Maddie Ziegler vibes tbh. And if you don’t know about that, you’re in for an even wilder ride.

By pure luck I can answer some of that, basically he had a 14yo bandmate that he said was his ‘muse’ and stuff like that, he used to give her music lessons then they formed a ‘band’ and he wanted to run away with her I think? It’s just a very weird situation. Last I heard she left the band, I think this was before he started making tiktoks, don’t know if they’re still in contact.

Tbh rathbone is wrong about a lot of stuff all the time and he’s a patsoc.

I follow some actual OSINT accounts (that have experience) on Twitter and I can recommend them.

@ArmchairW

@SuppressedNws

@RoyalIntel_

@AryJeay

Be aware I’m not saying these are communists by any stretch (if you’re looking specifically for communists). But they’re generally trustworthy and not too reactionary, not like some of those accounts lol. ArmchairW used to be a major in either Brit or US army if I’m not mistaken, so he knows what he’s looking at when he sees something. Also very good takes on Ukraine tbh. RoyalIntel I started following not long ago, they seem good. Ary is Iranian and generally reliable when reporting on Iran if sometimes a bit fanatic.

From my friends in Iran it seems very little damage was made. They did report 4 servicemen died. There’s some satellite pictures of an airbase and/or a refinery and ‘possible’ damage but you know, OSbros were also the ones that reported on the Uyghur “concentration camps” so I don’t give them much credence. They see a little black spot on the imagery and say wow their industry got killed overnight.

Ary reported that the chemical plant that manufactured missile components was moved to another location almost immediately and started back up.

By all accounts the attack was aborted after they failed to hit the first targets. The loud explosions people heard in Tehran came from anti-air defenses. IOF was

History began in February of 2022, so I don’t see how any of this is relevant.

Undone by implacable liberal logic 😰

We need to look at things in their entirety. Protests are easy to get in to for the average person, and this plants the seed for further actions on their part. The problem with protests is when the organizers start imposing counter-productive rules (such as no party flags at the protest) or don’t use that time to educate. I’ve had major success reaching out to individuals after protests. We need to deprogram them from the thinking that “one-time march = my job is done”, but I also don’t think we can ask people to go from 0 to sabotaging an elbit factory without intermediate steps and victories in-between. They build solidarity and community in that they show us that we’re far from alone.

Pro-Palestine protests in Europe have been much more repressed than in the US, when it’s usually the other way around. Everything moves dialectically and – we owe this to Clausewitz – so does conflict expand dialectically. If a protest was not bothering the establishment, then they would ignore it and eventually the protestors would go home. They would not spend resources to stop it or repress it. This is actually what happened to the Maidan protests in 2014 Ukraine, they were about to end and the false flag sniper attack had to be engineered to give the coup attempt some new momentum.

From being attacked, we know that this bothers the establishment somehow. “To be attacked by the enemy is a good thing”, because it shows that you are annoying them and making enough noise that they have to pay attention to you. Maybe they’re wrong to think marches should bother them; I wrote once that our oppressors are not infallible, they sometimes make mistakes too and we should exploit those mistakes, but above all not think that everything they use to repress us is being allocated efficiently.

There was a debate not long ago, I don’t remember on which platform specifically, about legal vs. illegal protests. The consensus seemed to be (or at least I wanted it to be) that illegal protests are great, but should be made clear to the participants so that they know what they’re getting themselves into if they choose to show up.

I was debating using another thumbnail but then I thought you know it illustrates the point well! I might change it later lol

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Thanks for reading!

Thanks for reading! They mentioned it in my high school history classes as part of the Cold War, but we basically spent maybe two classes on it and then moved on as “nothing major happened”. The Battle at Chosin Reservoir wasn’t “minor” though. It’s still called the Forgotten War nowadays in the West because our involvement didn’t last very long compared to WW2 and Vietnam and it gets kinda sandwiched between the two. I doubt that for Koreans it was as silent as it is for us.

Also he’s getting old and inshallah he will not see many more birthdays

The limits of comedy talk shows tbh. It’s just one step removed from being Vaush; even with an entire team writing your jokes and scripts beforehand, you still end up having to put comedy first. He’s a good speaker, he has cadence, timing and inflexion. And good speakers often are able to create a following with that.

He’s part of an older disappearing breed I think of the “overly snarky commentator”. People are moving away from that, it’s just not trendy anymore.

I think it’s more than passive. When I saw the video going around I only read the subtitles of the first few seconds and thought “oh cool the boomer has another take”, but once I sat down and went through all of it, he brings up the usual hasbara points. I haven’t looked into his backers and sponsors but I wouldn’t doubt he’s on AIPAC or similar.

Thanks for reading! The original theme maker basically mastered the header, as they should since they made the theme. For example, you could always press the / key to bring up the search menu on any page with this theme, it’s just that it wasn’t advertised. Hence, like them, we put the shortcut in the new search bar.

I’m not 100% sold on the pillbox and I’m looking at ways to think of it differently; it works well on their wiki for various reasons, but I feel it’s a bit out of place on our wiki and there’s an information overload. Still, it allows us to compactly (as you pointed out) direct visitors to areas that we want them to look at, like our marxism portal, or areas of the website that we know they are often looking for. I notice now I didn’t really talk about the pillbox in the article, I might go back in and edit that.

Hahaha the game is a scam but the wiki is a work of art, though I find them to be better on visuals than coding, there’s very little documentation for the theme and they rely heavily on css variables in a way that makes them very difficult to understand and modify.

I love it when the government gets to decide what I’m allowed to wear outside the house

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I don’t know, I just find it funny that you care so much about this. It’s just lemmy.

What’s the difference between an opinion section and what you deem “speculative conspiracy theories”?

As a matter of fact what’s the difference between their front page news and the NYT directly quoting Bush making the case to go to war with Iraq? Weren’t they also passing off speculative (Saddam was responsible for 9/11) conspiracy theories (Iraq had WMDs) as News?

Or is the problem that they are more famous than me thus their opinion is worth more than mine?