[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 22 hours ago

By "Give", "Lend" is meant, right?

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

Cheesy as fuck American backronym. Probably sounded good on a PowerPoint slide.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Well met traveler. What news do you bring of the outland?

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago

What is your general attitude towards those

I pity them.

Do you get on well with any religious friends and neighbours?

Yes.

Have you ever thought of believing in a religion at some point?

I was quite religious in my youth.

If you do not like the faiths, why?

I believe that they limit human growth and enable the "evil" that they pretend to protest.

I remember the huge fad of atheism that struck a few years back and led to the psychological liberation of a huge number or subjugated people. It was an inevitable eventuality of the rise of internet usage. It seemed to be mainly impacting Americans, but mass outbreaks of enlightenment also struck other western nations such as Ireland (where I'm from), freeing people from a society dominated by patriarchal oppressive and highly abusive social regimes.

Of course there was then a backlash to the backlash and now forces of liberation are ridiculed on the western internet. Liberalism has held sway and the institutions of oppression still maintain power, particularly in the USA. This continues to enable massive human suffering, for example with America's latest genocide, enabled in part by apocalyptic Christian death cults.

I'm not very familiar with the details but I understand that the Christians are in cahoots with the Zionists in destroying some Muslim place of worship to bring about the end times. And there's some cows mentioned in a thousands of years old book that need to have the right colour coat and stuff.

But of course, as usual, they're not true ~~Scotsmen~~ religious people... etc...

tl;dr Religion is a net negative influence in the world. Trying to suppress it is counterproductive and will never work, meanwhile it's going to kill us all.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Nope. Ukraine has not had elections.

In fact, following America's Nazi coup, the Ukrainian Rada voted to reject the illegal ousting of Yanukovic. The US ignored this and put their puppet in power anyway.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago

There would never have been any invasion if it wasn't for genocidal USA's warmongering via NATO, the world's most aggressive and murderous military alliance.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Genocide is a far right thing if anything.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Just get a monarchy.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Could you simp any harder for America?

The Ukrainian people are out there fighting tooth and nail to make money for the American MIC, yet you're in your armchair acting like they should not have peace because western powers don't want them to.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“Putin only talks about peace negotiations in order to continue the war. We will not allow this,” Scholz said.

This makes no sense at all.

Besides, what even is it of any business of his to decide what he will "allow" and what he won't? I thought it wasn't a proxy war?

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 3 days ago

So much chatter lately along these lines. Seems like the west is about to do the Toy Story meme and drop the puppet.

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Been a long while since I was on the high seas and I can't see it in the obvious places. This should be an easy one for yous!

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Coveney says he hasn’t heard any negative feedback from senior decision-makers in business relating to Ireland’s position on Gaza.

This line is unintentionally hilarious!

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He and his right-hand man Ousmane Sonko have an anti-colonial stance and want to pull out of the CFA Franc.

France was recently expelled from Niger, and now there is a new blow coming.

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I was especially taken by Ho Chi Minh's quote from On revolutionary morality and thought it would be great to have a comm for discussion on each of these. It's not something I'd like to run but is anyone else interested?

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One theory I've heard about the accelerating of the worsening conditions of western proletariat is that the USSR used to provide a bulwark against things getting too bad. People would point at the USSR and the illusion that capitalism was better for individual prosperity would collapse in comparison. Then, with the USSR gone things have been deteriorating for the past ~30 years.

If that is true, even somewhat, why haven't we seen a similar effect from China's example? Is the theory simply wrong? Maybe western capitalism is just unable to even offer scraps from the table at this point. Maybe people are unaware of how things are in China? Could we dare to expect that China's example will force a lifting of the boot from our necks?

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A guy in the south of Ireland describes his recording of birdsong.

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