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Real good sign your side is winning when you're conscripting a 39yo, especially someone who is arguably way more valuable left helping run your propaganda war on

This issue of the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横) explores the widely debated topic of de-dollarisation. The articles examine the US dollar’s hegemonic status in the international economic order, efforts across the Global South to develop alternatives, and the role of the BRICS in this process.

https://thetricontinental.org/wenhua-zongheng-2024-1-brics-dedollarisation-opportunities-challenges-2/

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2621758

Hey all.

You can start right here through this link.

This is the fifth book of A Song of Ice and Fire.

That is, A Dance with Dragons.

A Game of Thrones is the first book.

What are your thoughts on the chapter?

Your thoughts on the fifth book in general?

It's my favorite book.

Ummmm... uhhhhh... Toasters!

That's right toasters are reactionary! Using energy to make your bread crispy, bourgeoise decadence! Really all forms of baking are counter revolutionary, communists should only eat oatmeal!

Okay, fight about it.

Edit: we'll now that enough people have commented, I want to make a snarky edit bemoaning the fact that anyone here would disagree with me. I'm really let down by this community for not validating ever take I have and will probably stop participating here for like two days before resuming posting as much as ever.

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1794091296849543668

When I watched the skit, I sang and clapped along. I left feeling inspired and motivated to defeat fascism as though a giant weight had been lifted from my body. I've been looking at tankie responses and they don't understand what Skibidi Biden means, or more importantly what it means for democracy. They don't care that it brings hope to millions of people or informs them about current events. Even though Skibidi Biden EXPLICITLY SAYS "Trump is using Hitler's language", it went completely over their heads and didn't seem to scare them at all.

Could it have an unintended side effect of being too intellectually stimulating for tankies? Do they actually hate it or do they just need it explained to them?

Yay!

Show me what you've got cooking in the halls of Nyarlothotep where our frenemy Kamala channels the spirit of the new Cleopatra.

And tradition. Made a fucking comment about how his grandpa used to say *extremely vulgar and classist statement.” You could tell he disagreed with him but the Catholic and puritanical part almost trumped it. So insane to me how people just don’t deconstruct what they’ve been taught

Of course his ancestors have been super comfortable. Holy fuck I am such a communist it hurts

Critics slammed the segment as a low point in "modern American political discourse" while some suggested that The Late Show might have inadvertently cast Biden in a villainous light.

HEAVEN FORBID!

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1794081884047286471

I wish Haz and Hinkle would just go the fuck away

“The police regularly oppresses people by making false reports and false arrests.”

“FUCK BACKGROUND CHECKS. FUCK RED FLAG LAWS. THE GOVERNMENT WILL USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE TO TREAD ON YOUR GOD GIVEN SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS!”

“[Most] non violent offenders shouldn’t have their lives ruined without a chance of rehabilitation.”

“HE PAID HIS DEBT TO SOCIETY! IF YOU CAN’T TRUST AN EX CONVICT WITH A GUN, YOU SHOULDN’T RELEASE HIM!”

“People shouldn’t be locked up for using drugs and not bothering anyone ( sold and used by innocents and criminals)”

“LAW ABIDING CITIZENS SHOULDNT BE LOCKED UP FOR USING SUPPRESSORS! (sold and used by innocents and criminals)”

“The police will kill you with impunity and no good reason.”

“THE ALPHABET BOIS WILL SHOOT YOUR DOGGO!! GET IT? BECAUSE THEY KILL YOU WITH IMPUNITY AND NO GOOD REASON!”

“You shouldn’t have to jump through a hundred hoops just to prove you’re deserving of housing and healthcare.”

“YOU SHOULDNT HAVE TI JUMP THROUGH A HUBDRED HOOPS JUST TO PROVE YOURE DESERVING OF THE GOD GIVEN RIGHT OF PROTECTION!!”

“The courts are not objective. They are political tools and rarely will help you.”

“GOD DAMN COMMIE DA WILL SEND YOU TO GUANTANAMO FOR KILLING A RAPIST MURDERER IN YOUR HOUSE WITH A .45!!”

And that’s the thing. They believe that guns and self defense are rights ordained by god himself, more important than anything else, they think “the government” (rarely do they specifically call out the police) is fundamentally evil for even considering any gun control measure - yet they’re perfectly okay with the same government, same police force, enslaving prisoners or just executing them over flimsy evidence and vibes, that cops are always out to protect you, making it hard to get a job or simply survive.

And it also reveals their true fantasies: when you bring up American soldiers and cops killing innocent people, they’re just “following orders” or “doing their job” from the “incompetent higher ups.” And yet, when you ask who they think will enforce gun control laws, conservatives will proudly declare that they will not comply and cops proudly declare they will not follow their superior orders to confiscate or arrest anyone over gun control. Guns are more important than human life, so much so that they have no problem with massacring families on their officer’s command or watch idly as their partner shoot a cuffed suspect then lie about it; but gun control is such a mortal sin that they will decry it, protest it, and refuse to follow it.

https://x.com/BNOFeed/status/1794134626757136636

BT News is live streaming this week's People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit. I sadly couldn't make it with my comrades who traveled there, but I'm gonna watch as much live as I can.