Happy 20th birthday to this young child! Good luck blowing out all those candles.
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In this moment, Elon is euphoric. Not because of some phony woke pronouns. But because he has fully self-actualized himself by finally becoming the little fascist he has always wanted to be.
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Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was based. Stood up to the capitalists and the United States. After he declined a second term as president he became Mexico's Secretary of War and led the effort to declare war against the Nazis and Imperial Japan. Mexico then sent a squadron of fighter pilots called the "Aztec Eagles" to liberate The Philippines from Imperial Japan, and in 2004 The Philippines awarded the surviving veterans with the Philippine Legion of Honor.
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Just imagining Kamala asking her aides, "Do you think we can still win the electoral college if gas hits $50 per gallon?"
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Claudia Sheinbaum's chief of staff is going to be Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, the grandson of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, the most left-wing president in the history of Mexico (he was the one who nationalized the Mexican oil industry and created Pemex in 1938). So maybe that's a good sign.
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what she's really famous for - and presumably why she's an anchor on CBS' morning news show - is being Oprah Winfrey's best friend.
Thank you for reminding me of this. It was a huge part of pop culture in the early 00s but I somehow erased it from my memory. There are probably a lot of people who don't know that Oprah also created Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.
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The lesson that West Germany learned from WWII is that, under the "international rules based order," you're not allowed to do genocide to white people.
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the absolute horror of knowing that many people were trapped there by their fucking employer
Congratulations, now you know how the loved ones of the dead peasants felt during the French / Russian Revolutions, the Jacquerie, etc..
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Highly recommend anyone interested in modern middle eastern history to read this. Gives great insight on how the contemporary Shia-anti-USA bloc formed, as opposed to the many Sunni states collaborating with USA interests today.
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Thank you so much for writing these, I read all of them and learned a lot of things not taught in typical western sources. Seriously, it was a great write-up.
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Does Netanyahu not know that Shia Islam has a very strong tradition of venerating martyrs? Surely he understands that killing Nasrallah will cause an enormous wave of hatred that will last or decades. It seems really obvious now that Netanyahu is just going to keep killing people in Lebanon until they are forced to invade, and then he will call them the "aggressors" and force the USA to send boots on the ground to fight a "defensive" war.
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This, but unironically. We need a Summoning Salt for Marxist theorists.
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Wouldn't that just be Shin Megami Tensei?
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Which generation of Pokemon is this from?
I wonder how many corporations have Mechanical Turk campaigns to game the AI system into thinking their products are safe for human consumption when they are not. It's the 21st century version of Philip Morris saying cigarettes are not addictive.
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JD Vance saw what happened to Trump's last VP and decided to do a preemptive strike.
Yes, I am still Astro Boy posting. No, I will not stop until I finish reading the Dark Horse translated compendium. Also, it will be interesting to see if Jimmy Carter outlives Biden.
Context: this guy was an artisan who carved art into grains of rice, but he was put out of business when a machine was invented who could defeat him in carving competitions.
Astro really is a zoomer, exploring his identity to find something that fits.
Don't know why but I found this panel funny.
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner fucking slaps
Hell yes it does. Also I think it inspired the Mariner's Revenge Song by The Decemberists, which also slaps.
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I LOVE LIVING IN DICKENSIAN ENGLAND. I LOVE EBENEZER SCROOGE CATFISHING MY WIFE. 
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Kamala need to propose a mask ban, to appeal to the other side of the aisle. Yes, it will kill millions, but we're also close to turning Texas blue. 
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Also, not that it matters, but a "DNA test" is not how you find out if someone has XX, XY, or XXY chromosomes. The word Rowling is looking for is "Karyotype." But hey, if she knew how gender science worked, she probably would not be a TERF.
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Athlete: "I consent."
Olympics: "I consent."
The dark sorceress of TERF Island: "Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?"
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Reading trough Astro Boy now, I see why it is so foundational. Love Tezuka's sense of humor and poetic justice. And his art is both sharp and playful.
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>BROOKER: This is going to sound so tragic, but right now there’s a game called Balatro. It’s like poker, and it’s possibly the most addictive thing ever created. It’s currently on Nintendo Switch and Steam deck, but it’s going to be released on phones, and at that point I think humankind’s activity is going to drop about 25%. I play that in short bursts when I’m writing to reward myself. I do like Ghost of Tsushima and Dave the Diver too, but there’s loads more. One of us.
Like, what if they made Dune but with snow instead of sand?
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In the finals, he defeated the competitor from Chile. Hold this L, Bolsonaro. His nickname is "The Giant of Herradura." Here is an article from the newspaper of the Central Committe of Cuba's communist party interviewing Lopez: https://en.granma.cu/deportes/2024-08-06/history-repeats-itself-when-the-great-ones-write-it > "My five medals are not mine, they belong to my people, my parents, my family, my friends, my coaches." Damn, it almost seems like the best wrestler in the history of the world understands that he did not just fall out of a coconut tree, but rather he exists in the context of all in which he lives and what came before him.
My favorite part of the song is when they insult Peter Theil for... being an immigrant. Yeah, apparently he was born in Germany and moved to Ohio when he was 1 year old. 
Getting harder and harder to tell who is real and who is AI. Not because the AI are getting smarter. The bar for the Turing Test just gets lower every day like the world's saddest limbo competition...
Stephen King is 76 years old. Mueller, She Wrote died many moons ago. Nearly dead liberals are fighting to the death over whether to support nearly dead liberals. The Democratic Party is less of a political party and more of a collection of the leftover "non political" flotsam and jetsam left over after the hurricane of neoliberalism wrecked American politics in the 1980s and 1990s. Posting on the internet should have a maximum age, beyond which you enter a quarantine zone.
The Buddha: Life is always full of suffering, so you should abandon the pursuit of wealth and enjoy the time you have. Perfidious Albion and the Miserly Dutch: If you do not become wealthy it means that Jesus hates you and will send you to hell. The name of the webcomic is "Webcomic Name," it's pretty good, like a simplified version of Pictures for Sad Childen.
    
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Here is the copy-pata, from a former poster on this site: >Labor Kyle joined Horror Vanguard podcast as a permanent host...not only is God real, but the universe bends towards our growth of consciousness. 😔🙏 Since Matt Christman has been afflicted with Morgellons, Labor Kyle is perhaps now the brightest light of any Christian socialist podcaster. A true hero, I want my based conservative zoomer children to emulate this Florida twink as a role model as they dialectically struggle with the contradictions, confused as they wander our world full of homeless schizos ranting on the streets, a chaotic marketplace not much different than in the satanic empire that lynched Jesus in ancient Jerusalem. The empire never ended. 💀 Side note: I don't know who any of these people are, and at this point I'm afraid to ask... I hope that BMF can somehow post though this and get the help they need... This is what happens to your brain when you spend all day listening to left-adjacent podcasts on 1.75x speed.
>It’s a contagion. We’ve lost the far right to Russia and now we lost the far left to Islamism. Oh what a coincidence they’re both aligned with China which owns Tik Tok where the far left ingests content to become further radicalized. Oh this coincidentally benefits Trump? Who knew 🤷♂️ What a perfect response to the pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University. Who do I blame for this. Is it the apartheid state of Israel? Is it the empire of America which supports it as a militarized proxy state? No, it is the children who are wrong. And who is corrupting the children? **Russia, China, and Donald Trump, who are all in cahoots.** Blue Maga, meet Blue Q-Anon.
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"The Economist is a journal which speaks for British millionaires." - Lenin Here are some quotes from article #1,000 about China being about to collapse. > Last year the country achieved growth of 5%, but but  > Xi Jinping’s response is to double down on an audacious plan to remake China’s economy. Blending techno-utopianism, central planning and an obsession with security techno-utopianism = using science to improve your country. central planning = when the government does stuff. obsession with security = protecting China from the United States' various proxy forces in the region >the mood in China is dour What amazing reporting. "China will collapse because, like, the vibes are fucked."  >consumers are depressed, deflation lurks and many entrepreneurs are disillusioned Yes, unlike in the United States of America. All our consumers love the high price of rent and groceries! No disillusioned people in the USA!  > Relations with America are steadier, as a phone call between Mr Xi and President Joe Biden this week attested. But they remain fragile. WWIII will happen tomorrow, no actually it won't, wait actually I don't really know. Either way, this is bad for China. I am very smart. 
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