Valbrandur

joined 2 years ago
[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I didn't catch that (in my language he's just called the name of the animal, translated). I am unsure if that was intentional or not, however.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

You were warned.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do not Google "Jordan Peterson grandmother dream". Worst mistake of my life.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Top: Socialists

Bottom: "Socialists"

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It did, as a light-hearted joke comparing Xi and Obama walking side by side with a resembling image of Tiger and Pooh. Of course, westerners then proceeded to take it and turn it into their own distortion and elaborate some story about how China is banning Winnie the Pooh and that is why painting a chinese man yellow with photoshop is a sign of resistance against a government on the other side of the globe and totally not racist.

It resembles a lot the same thing that happened with that image that floated the internet around a few years ago of Putin photoshoped as a stereotypically and comically flamboyant homosexual man, which is totally not homophobic even if the punchline is "he's gay" because you can always make it up that the image is banned somewhere and thus is a sign of resistance and contains no reactionary sentiment behind.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 2 years ago

The Chinese Police goes around hitting random people on the street with these.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Red Orchestra 2 is about killing americans I believe.

Red Orchestra 2 is about the Great Patriotic War, where you can play as the Red Army against the Wehrmacht. You are probably thinking about Rising Storm 2, from the same publisher, where you can play as North Vietnam against the US invaders.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There are only two things in this world:

  • The truth: also known as my perspective, obtained through reading the free press of our glorious West.
  • Propaganda: also known as anything different than my perspective, obtained by other people through psychic powers through which the Russians and the Chinese get into their brains.
[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 years ago

If they were so effective, how come they lost?

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, best may be a bit of a stretch (nothing can compete against Das Kapital in that regard imho) but it is still a pretty good read, especially to understand the extent of superexploitation and how far back in history it goes.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I am currently reading Galeano's The Open Veins of Latin America which, even if it doesn't seem to deal much with settlement as much as economic exploitation (for now), it is still a pretty sobering telling on the scale in which Native Americans were decimated. I knew it was terrible, but not that it was "From 70 million to 3'5 million" terrible.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Gregory and the Hawk - Moenie and Kitchi

 

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