Yea. The entire comment section, and guy himself are going through all the DPRK-bad tropes.

Not really related, but I recently re-watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, the animated series. There is so much blatant anti-“communist” propaganda throughout. Like the whole “no war in Ba Sing Se” thing is clearly designed to mimic “communist brainwashing”, Stasi and everything related to bad/lib/western takes on non-western intelligence service(s). The same bad tropes are also repeated in Legend of Korra, with the equality movement, “the great uniter” and so on.

They’re all clearly written to be the bad guys, and everything they believe in is compared to the usual anti-communist propaganda - equality=bad, he’s actually a bad guy (liar) underneath the mask. The great uniter=bad, sends people to concentration camps while promising unity.

Again just reminds me of a classic joke:

“A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink…”

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

Makes sense then :). Not trying to be mean or ableist, it’s just hard for me to keep focus with the AI voices. Hopefully the AI based TTS-voices will get even better in the future!

The content of video itself is great, but I personally dislike the whole AI voice thing. It makes it a bit of a monotonous listening experience.

Rest in peace, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong!

NYTimes is already out there wishing for a “less conservative communist leader”:

Mr. Trong represented a conservative Marxist-Leninist faction within the party, which includes another faction seen as more pragmatic and moderate. His death is likely to raise hopes in the West that a less doctrinaire leader could emerge. Mr. Trong, the only one in the 18-member Politburo who grew up during the Vietnam War, was a generation older than many of his peers.

Thank you comrade! <3

Hey, Danish guy here. It look like it’s advertisement placed on scaffolding. Apparently the ad companies don’t care about the laws/rules on advertisements on scaffolding, so the ad companies abuse that Copenhagen politicians haven’t enforced the rules regarding those ads.

In Copenhagen, the major has very recently commented on it, calling it “The Wild West” (link to article, use DeepL or other tools for translations).

So usually it’s not advertisements placed on a building itself, but on the scaffolds they use, when they’re renovating buildings, or doing roof-work/repairs, etc.

In Denmark the conflict in Russia/Ukraine has resulted in accepting American troops being stationed here, and of course a massive $20 billion investment](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/regeringen-vil-investere-143-milliarder-kroner-i-forsvaret-over-de-naeste-ti-aar) in the military, over the next 10 years. The articles are in Danish, use a translator if you’re interested.

Denmark has for at least 70 years always said no to having American troops stationed in our country, so it’s quite a big move. Very few political parties have been criticizing it this time around, except for the most left-wing ones (obviously including our very-small communist party).

Ja, det var skønt at se så mange mennesker på gaden :)! Der kom mange flere, end hvad Politiet havde forventet 😅 . De var kun mødt 2 eller 3 patruljer op til at starte med.

Currently reading Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media by Parenti :). A great book, but also somewhat depressing. Even though it’s quite old, it definitely still holds up. It kind of seems like nothing has changed.

The first few seasons are great. The 4th season is a bit of a mess. First it was cancelled, and later renewed, if I remember correctly.

When he refers to the Graveyard of Numbers, he’s talking about this. Israel keeps dead bodies in prison, which leaves their families with no corpse to bury :(

That was a very interesting interview. Thanks for posting :)

I did a re-upload here, in case of YouTube taking it down.

You can read something China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, said here.

Basically saying to show restraint, to limit civilian casualties. And that the UN should push for a two-state solution.

Otherwise, you can follow the CPC’s official news paper, People’s Daily, and their “World” publishing here

And in general, Xinhua, the largest media organ in China: here. Also this and this.

Vimeo took the video down, obviously.

I uploaded it to LBRY/Odysee: https://odysee.com/abujamalpflpinterview:c

Vimeo took the video down, obviously.

I uploaded it to LBRY/Odysee: https://odysee.com/abujamalpflpinterview:c

+1 for Sorry to Bother You. Just watched it today, fantastic watch. Didn’t expect anything else from good ol’ Boots Riley :)

I recently watched Tantura. It’s a good documentary! And Farha is pretty good as well.

Yes, but also no. You have to create the entire infrastructure yourself in W&R:SR. In Tropico you just “paint” roads and cars appear by themselves and don’t need fuel, and so on. Stolen from a Steam review: “The game focuses on its realistic economic simulation. The player must manage resources such as coal, iron, and oil to power factories and produce goods. Despite a complete planned economy, a player must still account for the fluctuating prices of the global export market, so the player must carefully balance and diversify exports and imports to ensure economic security. Additionally, the game features a detailed transportation system, including trains, trucks, and ships, which must be managed to transport goods efficiently. While the transport system can initially be a little obtuse, once you learn how to filter the inputs a station is allowed to have you’ll figure it out. Having experience in games with similar transport systems like OpenTTD or IG2 is a great help.”