Because they aren’t the same, you can be a jew and not a zionist as well as being a zionist and not a jew.

CEOs, presidents, sports figures or celebrities giving commencement speeches in 2026 is just next level distopian at this point. Even more so that a CEO goes on the podium, tells students to “deal with it” and that they have a responsibility to fix the issues THAT THEY THEMSELVES have made is just… fucked.

I’ve been hearing more and more “two things can be bad/wrong at the same time”, I honestly don’t have the will to talk to people anymore lol

Instagram is the only one I use regularly and will probably do a month without it in june just to see how it affects me and if I’m truly addicted.

This morning I read On Practice. I didn’t expect this to be such a motivational text since it’s relatively short. It got me to think about all of my approaches to things and how I aquire knowledge and experience. Mao is based.

What a piece of shit

Whats the context?

I almost never laugh at this type of news because it’s indeed serious, but fuck me this is hilarious.

In my experience, none whatsoever.

Both pairs of my grandparents lived under socialism, all 4 of them were in support of communism, primarily because of their children and grand children. They knew what the modern world looked like and hates it just as much as we do. You don’t get that kind of empathy from conservative grand parents tbh.

They do. Because they are uneducated or brainwashed and never stop to consider if their interpretation of a certain thing is actually correct.

People around me are getting married and having kids left and right. I’m 30 and it’s just a natural thing to happen to people around my age, but man you start to put imaginary pressure on yourself.

Okay then this must’ve been some liberal nonsense or something because I have seen writing where it said that they didn’t see eye to eye at the end of Lenin’s life. If this is just about the wife criticism situation that is it.

What would be a good ML answer/response to the statement that Mao and Stalin ran bureucratic totalitarian regimes instead of just saying "you aren’t educated enough on the topic. I’m asking because this comes up a lot in my conversations.

Thanks for this, been looking for a replacement for Jerboa.

I was in Japan last year. We went to a very secluded but still pretty well known village and stayed at a guest house. On our last day 2 American couples came, the silence which was present and the calm and relaxing environment immediately disappeared. They were loud, invasive and frankly just dumb. One of them started talking to me and when I said I was from a former Yugoslavian country he IMMEDIATELY said “oh from the dictatorship land, glad we freed you guys, your welcome” I’m dead serious.

I know not all Americans are like this, but 9/10 times my experience is just plain bad.

Fantastic article and writing in general. This will probably be the defacto source I send to people now.

Kind of wish I had this level of knowledge when talking to people. Do you have sources for much of the stuff you talk about here? Also incredible answer, confirmed a lot of my assumptions and was very educational, thank you.

“the best and strongest military in the world” isn’t what’s relevant – it’s whether their aims are worth supporting.

I’ve had this argument (and similar ones before), however I most of the time get accussed of talking about irrelevant things, which, I honestly don’t know if it’s gaslighting or deflecting or whatever. I guess I shouldn’t assume people view events and things with the same analytical lense.

Should’ve proded a bit more what their main source of info is, but that’s another can of worms because then I’d need to explain to them why Western sources aren’t the best.