Pics that go hard...successful ambush by Hezbollah on the IOF:

joined bluesky recently (against my better judgment) and spent like 4 hours trolling a guy who was talking out of his ass about how Ukraine will totally licherally win any day now, and I just kept asking the simple question of "how??". They basically just kept saying "muh advanced technology" and I was like... is there some sort of portal technology that the US has been sitting on? What possible "technology" can undo the fact that Russia has already completed several of it's war objectives while UKR has completed exactly none of them. Americans really do believe they're invincible and it's just by good grace that they don't conquer the rest of the world by force.

I was at a party this weekend and I heard someone say: 'Yeah I'm terrified of China becoming a global super power'. I don't drink and I didn't feel like arguing with a drunk guy so I just went to get some food but it was interesting hearing a take like that in the wild.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Today at lunch some colleagues were discussing cancel culture because of some inappropriate old 'funny' song. It went from 'shouldn't cancel it' to 'statues of slavers shouldn't be removed' to 'hitler was bullied by Jews but sure that isn't a reason for genocide'

I just kept shut and ate my lunch lol

We managed to get a seat in the municipality government of the city of Mons and now one of the country's banks refuses to finance city projects lmao

oh no y'all, I'm watching libs pivot from emission reduction to carbon capture, we're so cooked

I apparently had two intense workouts at the gym this week and now my whole body is sore on a monday. Everything for the gains tho.

What will happen this week? No idea. I feel a bit foggy brained like I'm in between things and I don't know what exactly.

On a more positive note: the elections seem to have given us a good amount of new members who want to be active in our local groups ✌🏼

I hope the US Democratic Party finally dies

We're currently looking for volunteers to moderate a few rooms in the GZD Matrix space, especially those in UTC-1 to UTC+8 (roughly Europe, Africa and the western half of Asia). If you've been active in the Matrix space for at least a few months and are interested, DM any of the mods in the space and we'll send some vetting questions and guidelines.

I feel sad seeing all these Gazans on Instragram asking for donations, knowing I can't give them anything since I don't have a credit card

Consistent with the combination of pride and dread that characterized the imaginings of German nationalists, [Carl] Peters maintained that the failure to pursue imperialism would be disastrous, for it would result in the extinction of the Germans as a people.⁵²

(Source.)

I met someone who is a Free Mason. Not like a LARP thing but an actual Free Mason like the Illuminati group thing those conspiracy people on facebook rant about.

Apparently it is a real thing and he said lots of higher up people are part of it in our country. He said if I wanted to join he'd do a good word for me so of course I said yes lmao. Dying to see what it's all about.

Good morning or late/early afternoon everyone

After more than a year of updating /c/capitalismindecay consistently, my computer decided to stop working properly for a few days and I unwillingly broke my tradition of daily updates… I hate neglecting that subcommunity since it is so important to me. I hope that nobody was panicking over my absence.

I haven't really been bothered by the Ukraine war for the past three years but with things seemingly escalating now I am becoming uncomfortable. Honestly no idea what I will do when war breaks out.

how was everyones day? was sick the whole day so shit

My most recent thought on understanding the difference between US liberals and conservatives (posting it here cause kinda random):

Liberals are dinner party fascists/imperialists. "We don't talk about that," "you're upsetting people," "let's just try to be nice forced smile."

Conservatives are schrodinger's douchebag fascists/imperialists. "We should totally do something evil, ha ha, just kidding, unless...", "[insert racist stereotype] just a joke tho, if challenged on it, but is deadly serious," "saying that thing that was threatening to you or a minority group was just a troll, a prank, lolol."

But what they have in common as attitude: Both love to shift blame; it's anyone's fault but their own. Both love to downplay or deny atrocities committed by their 'team', or pin the atrocities on some other group (e.g. "it was ackshully the communists who were so bad, ackshully have you considered what Russia is doing when you say colonialism bad?"). Both think it's never the right time to take an ethical stand, unless their party leader tells them it's time to (and they project, accusing other countries of being leader worshipers) and then it's through a warped lens of colonizer binary good/evil, with their "ethical stand" being "we are the civil against the savage."

Russian ICBM use: 3am disinformation snag abetted by the oomfs? Real?