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Mmmm. Tasty snow ❄️🐖

Have a nice week!

Happy International Women's Day!

Women hold up half the sky

• Mao Zedong

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Is this based on the assumption that reunification happened shortly after the end of WWII? I'm not trying to argue with you and sorry if its coming off that way. My knowledge of the FRG/GDR situation is very surface level. I only posted the essay because I found it interesting and it seemed relevant to the discussion.

This is the ideology that would have been absorbed into the GDR had things gone the other way. It seems like the seeds had been sown for any attempt at reunification to result in the dismantlement of the GDR.

The roots of neo-fascism in East Germany - People's Dispatch

I'm not so much against phone calls, although they do make me anxious, but the fact that someone can contact me without providing any form of identification is a bit absurd.

Well that's a new one. 🤔😆

It's been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster ride, but it does feel good to be making progress. Thank you for the support comrade 🫡🤗🥰

I've been trying to get in touch with my father. I haven't seen him since I was very young, about 7 or 8 years old. I think I found an old Facebook account of his. It's not active, but I've been reaching out to some connections. Only a couple have responded and I gave one of them my phone number.

I think he might be trying to call me, but I pretty much never answer my phone. It's always on vibrate and I usually only receive spam calls anyway. I hesitated the first time. I picked up the second, but no one replied. I probably should have stayed on the line longer, but I panicked a bit. I finally got the courage to call the number back today, but it went directly to voicemail, which isn't activated.

Maybe it's spam. It's a local number, but it could be spoofed. What an archaic and frustrating way to contact people.

Have a nice week! (Trying to not jinx the whole decade-weeks thing)

How could DeepSeek do this!?!? 😫😫

Have a nice decade, Oppo! ☭

Thanks. When I watched the interview, that part felt a bit suss to me however, I wasn't familiar with EFF. I'm happy to see that it looks like a good movement. Especially because of how based it was to include Sudan in this act of protest. You never hear about Sudan in the mainstream media.

What did you think about him referring to himself as a "financial freedom fighter"?

the intelligence agencies are known for planting dirt on people, creating infighting and discrediting people who pose a threat to the imperialist state.

I just want to add that Jeremy Corbyn is a good example of this. He stepped outside the bounds of the compatible left. Then the media and the rest of the political class decided he was antisemetic and that the rest of the UK ought to know about it.

Bloody fighting between depleted militaries will continue to barely move the frozen front lines. Russian missile and drone raids will still pummel Ukrainian cities and terrorize their citizens. Gutsy, covert Ukrainian strikes will hit deep behind the Russian border.

Most unbiased pro-west journalist.

But a new, and likely final, chapter in the nearly three-year conflict began today with a confluence of clear signals from the United States that it will no longer back Kyiv’s goals in the war, all but ensuring that Ukraine will not regain its sovereign territory or achieve its most sought-after security guarantees.

Ukraine lost its sovereignty long before Russia launched its SMO. Security guarantees were made with Minsk, Minsk II, and could have been made again through negotiations early on. It wasn't Russia who violated these agreements or refused to negotiate.

Ukrainians have warily watched Donald Trump reclaim power, knowing his longtime deference toward Russian President Vladimir Putin

Liberal cope.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared, in an appearance at NATO headquarters, that achieving Ukraine’s main objective in the war—to restore its borders as they were before 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea—was “unrealistic.” “Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering,” Hegseth said in Brussels.

He's right. I can't believe I'm agreeing with Hegseth, but it goes to show how incredibly hawkish the Biden admin was.

Trump aides have said the president sees an opportunity to end a conflict and try to stabilize relations with Moscow. To that end, a prisoner swap was brokered yesterday that returned teacher Marc Fogel to the U.S. after he’d spent three years at a Russian labor camp.

Who is Marc Fogel? Is he a strictly political prisoner?

Fogel was detained in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after flying in from New York with less than an ounce (28.35gm) of cannabis, which his family said was medically prescribed for his chronic back pain.

Russia, which has stringent drug laws, accused him of keeping the cannabis “carefully disguised” in his luggage.

A Moscow court later convicted Fogel of “large-scale drug smuggling” and handed him a 14-year hard labour sentence. He was sent to Rybinsk penal colony four hours away from Moscow to serve his time. Penal colonies are notorious for harsh living conditions and brutality.

The US State Department classified Fogel as “wrongfully detained”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/12/who-is-marc-fogel-the-us-teacher-released-by-russia

Not that I agree with drug criminalization or the decision to sentence him to hard labour, but an ounce is not a small amount of cannabis. This is really a case of fuck around and find out. The hypocrisy of the land of the "war on drugs" calling him "wrongfully accused" would be hilarious if this whole situation wasn't sad.

An invitation to the United States—and potentially the White House—would be rightly perceived as Trump welcoming Putin back to the democratic world’s good graces even after an unjustified invasion of a sovereign neighbor.

Their unjustified invasion, our bringing freedom and democracy.

Yesterday, the Senate confirmed former Representative Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s new director of national intelligence. Gabbard has received scrutiny for her previous comments about Russia and has been accused by Democrats of adopting Kremlin talking points, including when she suggested, shortly after the war started, that Moscow had been provoked into invading Ukraine.

Just like the Hegseth take above, she's correct. Liberals will continue to eat shit over admitting they're wrong.

He then took a few questions, including one about whether he viewed Ukraine as “an equal member of this peace process.”

Trump paused.

“That’s an interesting question,” he finally said. “I think they have to make peace.”

He did not answer further.

Remember when Ukraine's democratically elected government was overthrown in a fascist coup backed by the CIA and US state department? I think it's fair to say that Ukraine(ians) haven't been an equal member in any of the decisions that have been made since.

Overall, this was a fun read. I love that these crypto-facists can't help but out themselves when it comes to the bringing about of a peaceful resolution to a war that they whole heartedly support. I hope that you choke to death on your tears Jonathan Lemire.

The western media is in full support of what's happening here I imagine. They might slander him if this news becomes mainstream, but more likely they will ignore it entirely. I can't recall reading anything in the MSM about Ali Abunimah's arrest.

They are not going to accuse Austria of suppressing free speech by targeting journalists (as they 100% would if this happened in a country like Russia or China), they are not going to call them authoritarian, repressive, dictatorship or totalitarian.

Precisely. The USA is waging a second cold war and the parallels to the first can be easily drawn.

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.