Ehh, whether one believes that Reform and Opening Up lead to capitalist restoration in China, or not, is kind of immaterial here.

The Sino-Soviet Split, which is what Chinese support for the Khmer Rouge against Vietnam was an expression of, is far more pertinent, and predates the Reform period by a couple of decades.

All apart of a balanced diet

Ethan seems genuinely unwell, holy fucking shit

Andor is a secondarily a Star Wars show, which is to say that it’s not concerned with its own lore and self-referential circle jerking like most other Star Wars media is at this point.

It is, first and foremost, a political thriller, and the story of one man’s political radicalization into doing commie space terrorism.

My man is emulating Thomas Sankara, not only in public policy, but in having some wild ass drip

I mean, it would be one thing if we learned that the FNAF creator was a bigot recently. But this has been known for years.

“3 years ago”

Is it a slow content day Hexbear?

“only dogmatically reads theory, and never touches grass” is definitely a genre of guy. But yeah, maybe a little theory maximalism as a treat will ultimately be helpful in organizing.

That fucking sucks. I feel like a proper remake, like what happened with System Shock, could be really neat. But I guess not :/

Is this new game even connected at all to the original Marathon?

I’m pretty certain they just held hands, because having gay people in a children’s cartoon was still considered icky

Dalaithony Lamatano here, the Internet’s busiest music nerd

They didn’t even kiss though

Wild that the Young Patriots Organization used the Confederate Flag in their imagery and propaganda, desdespite being a communist org.

What were actual Chinese tariffs on US imports like, prior to this?

Because Trump’s little chart said they were almost 70%. A number that feels spiritually true, given how China is actively developing its domestic industrial capacity, but is probably false because they apparently made that chart with an AI slop machine.

Did she have a take about indigenous genocide that I’m not aware of?

Oh, 1,000% ever since this Ghibli AI thing, I’ve been seeing tons of bizarre attempts to smear Miyazaki.

Would anyone be able to add a Worst of All Possible Worlds feed?

I love this poster, because it features:

• A white man punching a black man
• A man sexually assaulting a woman
• a cop(?) aprehending an elderly man

Things that happen under capitalism all the fucking time

I’ve, once or twice, MLs over-correct and try to deny the personality cult that has organically arisen around the Kim family in the DPRK.

But that’s such an utterly meaningless thing to care about, when the worlds richest man feels comfortable enough to go mask off, and do a Nazi salute on live television, and when the new administration is attacking Trans people so aggressively.

Like, for a supposedly queer friendly instance, those are some fucked up priorities.