CTHlurker [he/him]

Having the Red Army located in Eastern Germany surely also helped make the prospect of revolution go from specter to reality.

That type of voter is one of the main reasons why Trump won in 2016. They all recognized his name from his TV-show and vaguely remembered having positive feelings at that time, so he must be the right choice.

This is why harder than I thought it would be, mostly because the text-boxes take up a massive chunk of the screen. Particularly the Central African Republic somehow takes up almost the entire middle part of the continent. Any tips on how to move them?

Didn’t Biden litterally say, while President, that being Middle Class was more about a set of values than income-threshhold?

He also got suspended from his university for being too racist to chinese people during the Hong Kong riots in 2019, which is quite a feat in Australia.

I think that’s just a liberal thing tho. My coworker is 2nd generation migrant from Turkey and when Erdogan was reelected last time, she went around saying “what will europe and the europeans think of us, that we’re some kind of backwards inbreds?”. I tried to tell her, that white europeans already think that anyway, and changing a conservative leader for a progressive one isn’t going to change that, but I got kind of shouted down by the other people at our office (who were all white)

You can thank an entire century’s worth of propaganda for that one. Every group in the United States that has asked for a better or more equitable society has been accused of being secretly communist / marxist / socialist / russian / chinese (those are all interchangable for Americans). And since neoliberalism has made the discussion of actual economic policy haram, people are left to only discuss the social policies (also due to the whitewashing that the State has successfully managed to pull off with regards to historical radicals).

Surely the furthest from a McDonalds have to be in either Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, right? Like there’s so many McDonalds’ in America that you’d have to go to a national park to find someplace that didn’t have one.

I am well aware of that fact that Afghanistan doesn’t speak Arabic. However the invasion and occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan required the recruitment of a lot of locals who were able to translate for the occupational authorities. Said translators then had their applications for asylum denied in most of the West, despite being a pretty important cog in the imperial machine, because the west chose to prioritize domestic political concerns over the welfare of the people who had risked their lives to help them. Sorry if my last sentence seems too lib, but the way these people were so easily discarded was an important part of my radicalization and leftward movement.

I genuinely don’t know how to pronounce three consonants like S C W without a vowel inbetween, but thats a me-problem rather than a polish problem. Regarding the use of cyrillic, according to a brief wikipedia-scim, cyrillic was used in poland for a very brief period during the russian empire, but it seems like it was only as a temporary measure until the ruling class got russified enough.

Given how hard the Americans fought against allowing any people from Iraq and Afghanistan to seek refuge in America, I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of Arabic speakers who want to work with the Democrats is a rapidly dwindling number.

After seeing that last-name, I’m starting to wonder if Polish should go back to being written in Cyrillic (also, you can have the little squid letter back if you do, and it looks adorable)

Hence why several prominent Republicans are now going out and distancing themselves and Trump from the “joke” in question. Clearly they also think everyone should lighten up.

I’m kind of surprised that none of the BlueMAGA freaks have mentioned that prior to the War on Terror, there wasn’t really a muslim constituency within the democratic party. Famously George W. Bush won the majority of muslim votes in 2000, because Al Gore had picked Joe Lieberman, and Lieberman was considered a dealbreaker among arabs precisely because he was too much of a zionist, while Bush just kept his mouth shut about that particular place.

Isn’t Philippe Reines the guy who was too much of a woman-hating psycho for the Clinton campaign? I seem to recall a chapo episode that mentioned him by name as one of the “ice-chewing psychos” from the Clinton camp.

the vegan comm has banned a lot of people who regularly post on this site, as they have a strict “non-vegans not allowed” posting policy. Definitely caught me off guard when it happened to me, particularly because I wasn’t arguing with anyone, but instead getting an in-depth explainer on the vegan perspective on work-animals

Yates, Yardley and Thatcher sounds like names a british gammon would give his dogs. Only one missing is Winston, and that might just be because it’s such a stereotype.

It’s extremely funny how in 2019 after Corbyn ate shit and Boris Johnson got awarded the mandate of heaven, there was an article posted on here/the chapo subreddit that postulated that the conservatives in the UK probably could be called the most effective political party in the world, in the sense that they’re REALLY good at getting enough tories elected to form a government. Like, over the UK’s history, an obscene percentage of it has been governed by the tories.

And now 5 years later, the tories have refused to do litterally anything about the problems facing the people of britain, and have allowed themselves to be taken over by the most rabid part of their electoral base, while said base is also moving away from the party and towards the actual existing fascism party.

Wouldn’t a bombing by Israel just make the polish right do what they normally do, and burn down a couple of synagoges in Poland before forgetting everything about it?

Honestly that article should be spread WAY more. It’s litteral agitprop that is readymade by the richest people in the world and it’s unrelentingly mask off and honest.