I switched to Linux when Windows 7 support ended and honestly Linux with the Windows-like KDE Plasma desktop felt to me more like the unobtrusiveness and level of control I had become accustomed to with Windows XP and Windows 7 than Windows 10 was capable of delivering. If you’re not relying on something like Adobe suite that just can’t be made to run on Linux at all, it might be worth looking into sometime. I’ve never regretted switching.

I still cringe slightly at Linux updates because I’m on a distro with enough cutting-edge unstable stuff that every few months something gets a little broken for a few days. But nobody forces updates on me so I usually just let my system lag behind in non-security updates and let other people test the waters first.

I personally think GDP is a measure of extremely limited value anyway because I’ve lived in the USA my whole life and that static rate of growth has apparently resulted in the quality of life of me and everyone I know getting slightly worse every year. Where all that wealth is going matters as much if not more than how much wealth there is when trying to gauge how successful a nation is.

For sure. NAFO types especially don’t seem to understand that military hardware is created to be destroyed. Whether it’s a battleship or a bullet, nobody just makes one and expects it to last forever. It’s a tool to be expended in pursuit of a goal. Battleships get blown up and bullets get fired, what matters is how quickly those losses can be replaced, and for how long those losses can be sustained.

The six pointed metal star decorations on the wall are a funny unintentional touch.

Lambda male is when you have a valve with a red knob in place of an eye.

There’s gamma males now too? Oh no I’m falling behind on the latest Greek alphabet male developments.

100 billion dead gamers

Bomb, but at what cost? 🇨🇳

I don’t see why they’d have any reason to let him visit. What benefit could come from parading around a has-been NATO puppet in khaki pajamas that’s losing his war? His celebrity status is long gone and now he’s a just a loser, and nobody wants to hang out with a loser.

As much as I personally enjoy fictional post-apocalyptic wastelands (Mad Max, Fallout, etc.), I do find the whole genre a bit problematic because it often seems to function to reinforce the idea that humans are inherently violent, greedy, and incapable of non-opportunistic cooperation. I’ve even seen Lemmygrad posters speak as if Mad Max represents a realistic vision of a potential future for humanity.

“Gotta catch 'em all!” - Lenin, probably

What the hell is this image? Is this an AI upscale of a badly compressed low-res image? Since when did Morpheus have a scraggly beard?

That’s a good piece. Based on the definition of fascism used in that essay then it does certainly seem quite apparent that the USA is fascist. The Prolekult essay I referred to uses a different definition, based more on economics than ideology. In that sense maybe it wouldn’t be too far off to say that the USA is ideologically fascist, but not (yet) economically fascist? I don’t know.

Prolekult has a video on fascism I watched just a few days ago that I thought made a fairly good case that the USA is not actually fascist. Fascistic in some ways certainly, and with the possibility to become fascist, but still very much just a liberal “democracy”. But don’t underestimate the amount and intensity of violence and horror that can be perpetrated by liberal democracies.

Of course this was more of a historical materialist analysis. For the purpose of memeing and shitting on libs for whom “thing I don’t like = fascism”, it’s close enough to correct.

Yeah so apparently the co-founder of the LGBT center is a fellow with the NED which is immediately extremely suspicious so…yeah probably shut down for being another front for US government funded “regime change” operations.

Oh that’s fantastic, thank you! I’m not sure why that didn’t turn up on my reddit search of r/sino, oh well.

Yeah, I’m not sure if I fully agree with the author here on all of it but he definitely raises a lot of good points, and I think his “strategic consequences” section is worth consideration. At the very least, I think the strategy he lays out is more likely to be productive than castigating liberals for being wrong. Not that castigating liberals isn’t fun and not that it doesn’t have its uses but it’s not likely to change the mind of the target, but I’ve also seen strong arguments made that investing significant effort in attempting to win over what the author refers to as the “bourgeois proletariat” is a fool’s errand anyway.