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General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 34

Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Today's picture depicts astronauts on the Tiangong space station, guaranteed 100% free of Nazis. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!

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Never forget what was taken from you.
This is a Soviet self-propelled atomic power station. In the format of a tracked heavy truck. From the 1960's.
- That's really cool, but how often do you need to move a power station?
  
  I think the point is to be able to construct it in an industrial facility and then move it to a remote area where it can provide energy for both industrial and civilian use
- I want one.
- https://www.researchgate.net/figure/View-of-the-self-propelled-vehicles-with-a-control-panel-and-a-turbogenerator-The-tracks_fig2_361599813
  That’s pretty cool. I was looking into nuclear powered cars, and the issue was with miniaturization. Tons of aerospace and defence companies are making something similar currently.
  FYI, the Soviet union’s space program cost a tenth of the US’s
- Did this really work? I didn't realize it was possible to safely perform nuclear fission in such a (relatively) tiny space
  
  It did work. The technology was lost alongside the USSR (yes, it is possible to lose technology). Rosatom is currently fiddling with floating reactors, in the format of a cargo boat
  
  If u read the link it says the whole plant takes up 4 separate platforms like the one in the picture. So not that tiny.
- This would be great to power small villages and outposts in Siberia.
  
  Not just there. Think about every town and city in the global south suffering from water shortages, electricity shortages. You could power water desalination plants with these. Heck, if you have a small, modular reactor (small enough to be put onto a tracked chassis), you could just make them stationary and have a lot of them. The potential is immense
- That is a horrible idea but i love it so much
  
  Why do you think it's a horrible idea?
Perks of working at the Union is that I apparently get to watch the documentaries they make as they launch. In a few weeks I will watch a documentary about Colombian syndicalism and violence against activists. I will see if I can link the doc to here somehow.
- Which Union?
The BRICS summit meeting begins tomorrow.
- Do they have a streaming page?
  
  Xi is going live in Twitch I heard
I like how Republicans completely stopped giving a shit about Hawaii once they found out that it's a blue state. I guess outrage over poor responses are only for other people in the tribe.
- As I remember something similar happened during the winter storm in Texas in '21. Turns out politicians suck.
I hope you all have a nice week
- I hope you have a fantastic week
me irl after going through a federated post and updooting all hexbear commenters
I went out drinking with my friends a few nights ago and some of them said Meloni was based 💀
- maybe they were just mispronouncing the fruit
  
  I wish that was the case. It was in the context of Italy's government, and other governments. Apparently Marine LePen is too extreme, and Macron is too left wing, but Meloni is just right.
- Meloni in a few years be like: 🙃
British Tabloids might be even Worse than other Western MSM, Theyre like RFA/RFE Levels of Rhetoric
You too, Oppo
- preemptive youtooing
- What if I didn't do it
  
  I'd cry probably
Frans Timmermans, EU figurehead, has decided to lead the Dutch left Green/Labour coalition in order to get Dutch left back on track.
He has already announced that he wants a mandatory 2% NATO budget... So far for Dutch left, I guess.
- Left-ish coalition and choosing the right side of the party for leadership is a tradition in Liberalism. He also will do nothing to push for any real changes for the environment globally, just maybe some very Dutch specific regulations that have almost no impact. Not a doom-post, though, because we can work to radicalize more people to the left from ir
  
  The only positive thing that can come out of this is slightly left of center policies for a while and a small hope for an actual marxist movement to rise.
  But looking at the state of the Dutch left right now you'd think we will soon have the Dutch Soviet Union under Timmermans. And any criticism is regarded as 'helping the right'. Because you just have to vote for an outspoken anti communist otherwise it's your fault!!!! Fuck leftist values.
I loved the scene at the end of season 3 of For All Mankind, ::: spoiler spoiler where they find out that North Korea actually beat everyone to Mars :::
So a Russian moon probe crashed and two days later, India lands a rover.
I hate it here, comrades. It hurts to know what we have been and never will be again
- The american emotions are wild in this regard as well. There is a reason the place where it started will always be an important part of history
Shit sucks. Just want @neera_tanden@hexbear.net back
HN seething about brics expansion lmao
- "falling stars"
  Lol okay
- club of shitty dictatorial fake democracies
  But NATO already exists
I am so unbelievably sick of reading about Saudi Arabia in regards to European football and the wildly eurocentric and xenophobic “enlightened thinkpieces” that there have been a true glut of recently.
Modern KSA is obviously not an ideal setup, but good lord nothing gets Englishmen foaming at the mouth like a brown person having more money than them. It’s not an issue at all if Americans buy up the league and spend a billion pounds in a year on players, but as soon as it’s an Arab or Chinese it is just a bridge too far for them.
Football is my cognitive dissonance zone, the top level game just cannot be enjoyed if you don’t approach it with a healthy level of dissonance. The corruption and exploitation is rampant all across the sport, please just let me ignore it in peace lol. Can’t even go to r/soccer for news now without getting myself wound up.
- I just hate all billionaire owned clubs. Fan owned clubs ftw.
  
  Agreed, I wish my club were fan owned but it will never be possible at this point unless something drastic happens. Can’t stop supporting them though
Upcoming fanfic stuff:
Duncan's duel with Peko (must read!),
Celeste does some spy shit (wild!)
(UDT)Ibuki sings "It's a Good Day to Die" for a room full of Reserves(woah, that's insane!)
I want to read/listen to some theory. The only stuff I've read is 'Principles of Communism', 'Wage Labour and Capital', 'Value, Price and Profit' and I'm halfway through 'The State and Revolution'. What else would you recommend I read?
- In this order: Imperialism (Lenin), Wretched of the Earth (Fanon), Neo-colonialism (Nkruma). If you prefer audiobook with context, all three of those are featured in the Marx Madness podcast as well and all are great reads.
  
  Seconding listening to Marx Madness even if you are going to read the stuff yourself, especially if you don't have a reading group of your own. They were the inspiration for the book club in the r/TheDeprogram server and we have now read over 16 different books (not counting the fact we read Blackshirts and Reds twice!)
- I would recommend On Practice and On contradiction by Mao.
- Professor Richard Wolff has some great lectures on his YouTube channel about Marxian economics
- In addition to what others said "Socialism scientific and utopian" and "On historical materialism" by Engels. Both very short but very informative.
This week I discovered a very good korean song. It is called "Millions of miles following the leader, following the party", and I love it.
- Post it on Tankie Tunes
  
  I'll do that
I'm suddenly seeing an increase of BRIC country slander on Reddit. I'm sure it has got nothing to do with the recent summit.
- what about South Africa
  
  As a Dutch person I can't speak about it
It's just a spellcheck error but it makes me laugh.
Trump's co-defendant, Māori Meadows...
how’s victoria 3 and what is it about?
Burgum will participate in debate despite Achilles injury
Fox News morons pronounce it "EH-kil-eez"
You know what I can say here without consequences?
Amber.

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