I believe there have been 10 000 DPRK troops sent to Russia. Of course, that's an order of magnitude less than the headline.

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/north-korea-ukraine-troops-china

I can't tell if this is adventurism

After reading the article, I don't think I have any sympathy for the lawyer. He sounds like he had a "fuck you, got mine" attitude.

After being forced out of bootlicking, he got a new job representing civil-rights cases against the city.

He was finally realizing his original ambitions of using the law to help others. “It just took a long, long time — a long, circuitous route to get here,” he says.

A "long, long time" when he could have left much earlier. :matt-jokerfied:

I listened to an East German friend complain of poor services and inferior products; the system did not work, he concluded. But what of the numerous social benefits so lacking in much of the world, I asked, aren't these to be valued? His response was revealing: "Oh, nobody ever talks about that." People took for granted what they had in the way of human services and entitlements while hungering for the consumer goods dangling in their imaginations.

The human capacity for discontent should not be underestimated. People cannot live on the social wage alone. Once our needs are satisfied, then our wants tend to escalate, and our wants become our needs. A rise in living standards often incites a still greater rise in expectations. As people are treated better, they want more of the good things and are not necessarily grateful for what they already have. Leading professionals who had attained relatively good living standards wanted to dress better, travel abroad, and enjoy the more abundant life styles [sic] available to people of means in the capitalist world.

:parenti: Blackshirts and Reds

You're totally right. I was judging by what you see on the front page, but we have a lot of good resources in all comms.

Are you looking for this? :gui-better:

We mostly shitpost here, but we'll usually have more sincere discussions in the comments. Also, we have the occasional news or effortpost. Welcome!

It's the pose. The covers have the characters' arm stretched out as they transform.

Do you have other sources for the 2014 coup claim? Strategic Culture Foundation is a Russian think tank, and I'd hope we have a better source to show people.

You've gotta have a better argument than "sure but no".

A "policy expert" works for an organization that's headed by a bunch of US intelligence people. What's unsound about that link?

I'd say it depends. First-gen immigrants are probably conservative, but their children are more of a mixed bag.

Isn't wikipedia crawling with feds? I'm not surprised that this would happen too.

Ah yes, slavery can be okay because we had *checks notes* classical proto-facists that freed "good slaves".

Those books are pretty lib from what I've heard. That said, godspeed.

:parenti:

yes please

You also have to beat CHIMPS mode without exiting to the main menu, which means you can't reroll RNG.

Well done.

Non-AMP link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-it/201006/how-walmart-intimidates-people-not-buy-plan-b

I always sort by new + all so :shrug-outta-hecks:

welp

This reads like satire