World war 1 was the ultimate conclusion of the capitalist imperialism that emerged in the 19th century, with France and especially Britain as the victors. Germany, a rapidly industrialising, heavily militarized state, presented a threat to the status quo. What Germany wanted was to be in Britain’s place as the chief imperialist in the world.

Capitalist countries must inevitably come into conflict - for a deeper understanding of this, read Imperialism, the Highest Stage if Capitalism by Lenin.

Germany wasn’t doing anything good, but they weren’t really any worse than Britain and France.

People call Britain and France in this time “democracies”, although this is not true. They denied hundreds of millions their right to self-determination in their colonies, and only extended the right to vote to the privileged few in the mother countries.

World war 1 was an utter waste of lives. Millions upon millions of lives were destroyed so that capitalists could protect their empires. The only good that came of it was that it was the catalyst for the October Revolution.

the timeline where biden refused to pull out of the race and utterly ate shit while his brain leaked out of his ears is a much funnier timeline than our

iPhones are such a dogshit product and I genuinely have no fucking clue why there are so many ardent defenders of Apple. Like Apple is so blatant about being a shitty greedy company who make worse products than everyone else and charge more, but somehow people still lick their boots and act like elitists for spending 1000 dollars on something that my 150 buck Chinese phone can do better.

The Johto legendaries are really funny to me. Ho-oh is a majestic phoenix with the ability to bring things back to life, and it created Suicune, Raikou and Entei. Then Lugia just sits in a waterfall and shares custody of the seas with Kyogre

That would actually make sense as well, because that scene raises the question of why don’t pilots just do this all the time. Requiring force sensitivity to properly pull off a kamikaze move gives it a good reason to be near impossible

Biden could legally kill Trump, if he wanted to

TC! Woohoo she returns!

I wanna say thank you for bullying many libs, myself included, and introducing me to Leslie Feinberg. I did not know that reading Beyond Pink and Blue four years ago would set off a line of dominos which ended with me realizing I am agender. And now I feel much happier with my identity than before, and I have you to thank.

Everything I hear about Australia makes it seem like they’re desperately trying to let everyone know how reprehensible the ruling class there is

Yeah it makes sense that Rogan would vote for whoever is physically largest. That’s good criteria for good politics

Gonna be honest, I’m not gonna read the entire thing, but it seems like a purely adventurist, individualist text. “Be cool and special and important, be the main character, be better than everyone else. Be different from the mindless masses”.

This thinking exists to make individuals feel better about themselves. It does not advance any cause or help anyone

She had the same effect that Bernie did for a lot of people, but she turned out a million times cooler than him. I would love to meet her some day and just tell her how much I respect her

I’m the same age as Greta, and she was a massive inspiration to me when she started. I was a communist first but she has done massive amounts of good, getting young people invested in climate change action, and also seeing how useless liberal protest is

this is a professional sketch artist’s rendition of what I saw that night

okay i have a true story to tell

so i was driving home, late at night, after finishing a shift at the bar i worked in, hungry and tired from work. so i dont know what i actually saw.

but while i was driving, something scuttled across the road in front of me. it was really weird, and i couldnt see very well because it was at the edge of my headlights. but it looked to be a meter tall, with two very long skinny legs, like a heron or something, and a small round torso. so, could have been a heron, there are some of those around - but it ran on its legs in a way that birds dont. like, it scittered across the road like a person. birds dont run that fast, and herons certainly dont.

it was probably a dog or something, and i just didnt see right, because, like i said, i was hungry, tired, and irritated from work, and it was dark. but the way it moved was very weird.

maybe it was some kind of homunculus

The friend who radicalized me is now a fascist-adjacent EU liberal.

It’s depressing as fuck and I honestly don’t know why, but at some point it’s like he just decided to become a bad person. He was a communist when he was like 14, got me into it, then when he was like 17 he became a piece of shit. Insanely misogynistic, would only talk to women he wanted to have sex with, and just incredibly rude to people he didn’t know, even when they were nice people.

Now he’s moved to the Netherlands to study EU politics or something, and all I know about him comes from his Instagram posts. He posts ableist shit all the time, he’s in love with the EU and he just posted a Ukrainian fascist badge which he owns.

I remember sitting in a park with him when we had just finished school, telling him that I was going to join an ML org. He snorted and called them larpers, to which I pointed out that he didn’t do any political activity at all, and I’d rather larpers than nothing. He thought because he read Lacan and smoked weed and was cynical that he was above politics.

It’s so depressing. He used to be genuinely empathetic. He was a feminist when every boy his age was sexist, he would always tell people of the evil shit the US does, he genuinely got angry at capitalism. Now he’s just a sack of shit

I mean yeah, they’re right, but as long as capitalist conditions exist, I’ll take Steam over EA or Epic.

lol

death to america, of course

Americans be like “beans in toast is so terrible” and then their spicy exciting food is a burger. Or Mac and cheese. Or pizza. Or potato salad.

And that’s still good food!

the 2 week minecraft phase has returned

When Trump is in power, the president is Dictator King and a threat to democracy.

When Biden is in power, the president is a mostly ceremonial role