“The death of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second”
Proceeds to drop the beat so fucking hard it shattered the UK.
My favorite comment
"Give nuclear weapons to Ukraine. I'm saying that as a leftist." -Slavoj "The Jester of the Empire" Zizek
Everything in the West is a psyop. Or maybe not. But in reality you can't ever know for sure.
I refuse to believe the europeans are so stupid to go to war with Russia. By their own admission the armed forces of basically all of NATO countries are in such a bad state that it will take decades to recover. No european NATO country has the military industrial capacity to compete with Russia, let alone win. And what little they have in stock already has been transfered to Ukraine. Specially in the case of Germany and the UK. What are they going to do? Fight Russia with the old Soviet and Warsaw pact equipment, run out of it the first week and then buy sone more from Russia? Chauvinism is no replacement for armor and ammo. Why would they think they can fight? Just because the gringos are cheering on them?! I do believe Europe has an enormous debt to the global south, but not to the point of continetal suicide and global catastrophe.
I don't know what I hate more: Orwell or the cult around him.
F16s are notorious for needing very special conditions in the airfields to operate. They have neither the time nor the resources to make and maintain the airfields domestically in Ukraine. But the NATO countries have the budget assigned and the places far behind the front lines to be able to do it. If they try to do so inside Ukraine, they risk being targeted by Russian missiles and air force, specially now that the Ukrainian air defence is basically depleted. Using NATO bases is not just an adventure, it is necessary given the conditions to which the AFU has been degraded after two years of war. Two years ago, that was maybe realistic, but Russia made sure to strike airports and hangas non stop at the start of the war. There's a reason we have seen less and less Ukrainian planes as time passes, and more and more Russian ones.
Header translation: "There is no concession." The golf course exploited by Salinas Pliego will become a Conservation Area, AMLO announces.
Salinas Pliego is one of the top oligarchs here in Mexico and until august 2022 the government conceded the use of a golf course and a beach in Huatulco, Oaxaca. The local government has accused this bourgeois mf of illegally extracting around 350 thousand liters of water daily from the nearby conservation areas to water the grass in the golf course. Apparently, the federal government gave Salinas Pliego the opportunity to purchase the terrain with the condition that he would have to pay for the maintenance (because of course, the maintenance was paid by the Fonatur, the National Fund for the Promotion of Turism). Since he didn't answer, the president has moved to nationalize it and declare the area a Conservation Area and merge both the golf course and the beach with the surrounding Conservation Areas to make a national park "for public enjoyment", along with the regularization of the land which is inhabited by around 2500 families so that they can't have it taken away in the future by private business.
No wonder the US is attempting to meddle in the coming elections in Mexico.
War for territory is the western idea of the war in Ukraine, but it is clearly and explicitly contradictory to what the russian government has stated as official goals and strategy. Small territorial gains? Yes, but the russian objective is "demilitarization" and the only way to demilitarize a state that is unwilling to do it is to destroy their army and their ability to fight. Even the 3rd assault brigade, what's left of the infamous Azov Battalion, refused their orders to counter attack on the flanks of Avdeevka and there are reports and rumors that Zelensky might move /legally/politically against them. If even the most fanatical of their forces refuse to fight, then the rest of the army might stop following orders soon enough. That is a recipe for disaster in Ukraine, and at the least expected moment it all can get out of control for the government in Kiev. Not to mention that Zelensky's term is about to end, and who knows what will happen after that, since the country is really in no position to hold elections.
Will Russia have it in a few years?
Lmao, Avdeevka was a full on route, soldiers were abandonig their positions contrary to their orders. This could end in a few months, and at this rate could even be a few weeks (tho I doubt so but you never know)
Just got a new COVID shot, and they say the Sputnik vaccine doesn't have any sever side effects, but after it entered my body I started to feel like restoring the Soviet Union.
Today on The Internet™ I saw someone critizicing China for the zero COVID policy because it "harms the working class" and then someone critizicing China for lifting the zero COVID policy because it "harms the working class." So, China bad I guess 🤷
I now believe in the horseshoe theory. Ultras and anti-communists are not that different from each other.
I'm dismayed seeing how many western leftists and so called communists are immediately against Venezuela and their rightful defense against the long burning issue of Esequibo. They are drunk on showing how righteous and oppossed to captialism and colonialism they are but as soon as things heat up in actual anti-imperialist and anti-colonial projects they immediately fall in line with the US State Department interests. I have no faith in any of that. ¡Chavez vive, la lucha sigue!
Product of the split becoming a meme there are some other Batyushka bands that claim to be the "true" one, funnily enough including one supposedly from Russia that is extremely pro SMO in their albums, portraying Putin as some medieval orthodox prince/hero.
We are going to see another 'Gulf of Tonkin" incident, are we?
I just finished working on a big project on the server. The guardian farm houses a Lenin pixelart and is the center of production of all the prismarine we could ever need. Whenever you can, give it a visit, and feel free to take any materials from farm.
Not to put pressure on Edward, he's done great work. Just wanted to know if there's any news about it since it always looks online but kicks me as soon as I try to join.
Just finished a shulker farm so the storage doesn't become a problem in the near future.
The farm is located at around x: 1960 z: 440 (it used to be a city...). If you go through the end gateway with the sandstone stairs you come out in a gateway that is in a straight line to the west of the farm, just keep going east and you'll find it. It is easier with an elytra, but in the future I'll be building a rail line to get there easily.
I'm not sure about the rates, but it should produce a good amount of shells. You are welcomed to take any shells you need and/or afk here to produce some more.
And I thought Reddit was bad...
I want to preface with this: 1. I'm not western. I don't think anyone in this world would consider my country part of the west or the imperial core. I'm from the global south and working class. 2. I'm young and only a couple of years ago started engaging with marxist theory and as a consequence the online western left. And 3. Everything here is my opinion and some details escape me due to the fact that I don't follow the discussion on the internet 100%. While I spend a lot of time online, most of that time is not wasted on Twitter or Reddit or what not. That being said, this is an insomnia induced rant aimed mainly to my american comrades, but anyone else in the western/anglo sphere also can take something useful from here. I don't know.
I started following western/internet leftists on twitter recently as a consequence of me making a twitter account. I've come to the conclusion that the western/western adjacent left (ie. All the anglosphere) is completely useless staying on the internet in any capacity. American and european communists debate the dumbest possible shit and reach no useful results. Motherfuckers agree on 99% of things and start attacking each other like rabid dogs for the stupid 1% in which they disagree. I wouldn't even call it infighting because that would compare it with the debates and disagreements of the historic left like the Bolsheviks. But the Bolsheviks were debating and discussing actually important thing while actually doing something, while going to the people and organizing. Imbeciles do jackshit and pretend that by attacking someone else on twitter they are achieving something valuable or reaching to the people and making a change. Their "propaganda" is garbage. While the people that actually do something to bring about the revolution aren't concerned by their idiocy. The example of this are the "discussions" that a lot of "leftists" have had with Ben Norton recently and that is what compeled me to write this rant.
In my opinion Ben is the best journalist out there. Both with the ideological conviction and the actual ability to do the job of journalism with integrity and courage to denounce the capitalist rulers, and his work clearly shows it. Similar to the people at The Grayzone but actually a communist. And by the way, it is clear that that is the line along which he "broke" with Blumenthal.
Ben, having seen with his own eyes the hell brought to Latin America by the United States (living in Nicaragua), naturally empathizes with the struggle and the outlook of the people towards the US. But people on twitter still attacks him or disagree with him on completely delusional matters.
One example: Noah from Midwestern Marx. I love Modwestern Marx. Carlos and Eddy are some of the best propagandists you americans have right now. But twitter really damages any possibility of reaching the masses significantly. his disagreement with Ben is about the US flag. Ben is on the opinion (rightly so), thay the US flag represents terror, war, imperialism, death, to the people's of the world. And that US communists should NOT use a symbol like that to rally the people. Noah disagrees and says that using that symbol has been democratically elected by the people (?). Not only that, he states (without a grain of evidency and clearly not even listening or reading what Ben actually says) that Ben is "reading too much Sakai and not enough Lenin"... WHAT THE FUCK?! And then he doubles down and defends the use of that flag by some indigenous people in the US. Needless to say, but I'm saying it anyways, colonized people holding their colonizer's flag doesn't make it a good flag.
Some others, like Xiangyu of all people, post stupid shit like "Oppose the Nortons" (mf you are not Mao) or call Ben a radlib, and being rude in general. Straight up infantile shit. And oh, while also self righteously calling people that disagree with him "degenerates" all while saying he laments Dugin's daughter assassination (a whole other can of worms).
I hate that that is the state of the left in the US and adjacent. And I hate that I saw that shit willingly. If you american communists don't get to work and do a revolution soon, the rest of the world will, with or without your support, and things will get ugly, like, really ugly. For us, but specially for you.
I post this all not because I think the details matter, they don't. But to illustrate the point that as long as you keep falling to the trap of social media like twitter (it makes you angry by design), you won't achieve anything. And the people that will do something will be the worst elements of the western society, either on the right or pretending to be left (coff coff Maupin). The west, and specially the US, have a way of shaping your mind that I have seen too many times, both online and offline. Shake that shit out of you. It is making you inhumane and ineffective, and the bourgeoisie is winning thanks to that.
