Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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RIP comrade Nguyễn Phú Trọng
I wish Oppo wishes everyone a nice week!
Yay.
Oho
I read a Murakami novel while on holiday and even though I sort of like his story telling the guy cannot write female characters if his life depended on it. In this one the main character goes out on a few dates with a woman and she manages to always eat a DESSERT while staying THIN y’all. Fuck me what a woman that must be. She EATS and REMAINS CONFORMING TO THE PATRIARCHAL BEAUTY STANDARD OF THE TIME!!! Also, she chose the boring, passive main character and orgasms every single time they make love! What a catch!
proletarian women (me) eat dessert and remain thin because labouring for capitalists is excellent exercise! lolol jk
Wang Yi and Indian FM met in Laos (to begin new phase of cooperation)
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/202407/t20240726_11460692.html
Modi had a state visit to Russia this month.
Watching the Olympic opening ceremony and the Israeli delegation is on a boat together with Iceland and Italy. Imagine being an athlete for one of these two countries and you have to share a boat with Israel. Sucks that they didn’t request an own boat
it’s pretty ironic how they won’t let Russian or Belarusian athletes represent their countries but the olympics committee is totally fine with the “isreal” even tho it’s currently committing a genocide…
You too oppo.
Tonight I had a dream involving Alduin from Skyrim
I was dreaming of Stannis Baratheon from A Song of Ice and Fire.
Who’s that?
That must mean that you’re gritting your teeth in your sleep
Grits teeth even further.
Grrrrr
bro is a great salesman, i’ll give him that.
authoritarian
so tired of this meaningless word. functional only as a marker for liberal politics
Is hexbear down again??? God I hate that it does that every 3 days.
Smh
We should petition to call the site “502 gateway error” instead of hexbear
Gatebear
AZOV will hold a meeting in Rotterdam for some reason and Dutch libs are having an aneurysm trying to defend literal Nazis
Dutch van der Linde > the actual Dutch
Due to controversy the meeting is cancelled 👍
Wtf I love SJWs
The cancel culture SJWs strike again
The cancel ninjas are on the case! 🥷
The left laser interview “I can not guarantee there there won’t be soldiers with Nazi tattoos”
Absolutely insane
You’d have to be crazy to believe Azov!
Crazy as a fox!
/s
“They’re just the reserves! Nothing to see here~!”
At the same time:
Netanyahu gives a speech to the US Congress declaring that his genocide must be seen through to the end. He gets ovational applause.
Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi, brokers unity between the political factions of Palestine and begins new peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
I have never been so free of doubt about my political alignment.
Hola.
teehee
arguing with a liberal and he just told me China is not secular because Marxism is a religion
ironically, liberalism actually is very similar to organized religion
What about conservatism?
that’s just a subset of liberalism
how to talk with libs who keeps talking about ukraine war and posting obvious bot memes saying “NATO expansion triggered this and US imperialism” and discrediting you because you make bot talk g points
They keep calling me a bot so idk
It sounds silly, but have you tried sharing your story? Like so many of us, myself included, you were probably once a lib. What were some of the key events that got you from there to here? It’s not guaranteed to work, especially not online, but it can help humanize you in the eyes of anyone reading. And that can make them more receptive to other things you have to say.
well, my upbringing mostly. the places where I grew up were mostly left leaning or communist controlled areas. but i was apolitical for most of my adult life and maybe was even a lib but the event that triggered me is ukraine war really? i started researching about zelensky and why everyone is dick-riding him at the beginning of the conflict. and soon i started to reading Vijay Prasad etc.
This is good. If you start with the fact that you weren’t really political, then only became so because of what you found at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, it’s a more compelling story than “listen to me! I’m right!” (it took me longer than I care to admit that many of my arguments used to sound more like the latter than the former).
You can’t, just continue arguing and bringing points, someone observing might get the idea, or just block them and touch grass
Mali played against Israel in Olympic football, they tied 1-1 sadly, although they played better.