I wouldn’t expect much from a television show created by Jeff Bezos.

Be fair, that’s still absolutely massive, the same respective area you put it over in Africa has thousands unique cultural identities, languages, traditions, etc.

Size absolutely does play a part, but its not enough to excuse the sheer amount of ignorance. Russia and China are massive as well, China is around the same landmass with almost 4 times the population, and the average Chinese isn’t as stupid.

Communism is a classless, stateless society. The above countries are socialist nations which are striving to achieve communism through class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Each of them have their own methods of governance that best reflects their material conditions and the goals they need to achieve for their respective conditions. If you are really interested there are some very good reading lists available on lemmygrad.

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You can make anything look lifeless and corporate if you just take your pictures in the winter, or in the middle of a fog, lmao. all these buildings wood look just fine on a sunny summer day where theres actually some life outside.

Not always, back in the beginning it was a little better on those things, Ho Chi Minh was a founding member after all.

Doesn’t matter what he says after that point, he’s already completely wrong the moment he says Israel has a right to defend itself, there is no such fucking right protecting Israel from Palestinian resistance, and that’s according to UN resolution 2625.

Leave NATO? This is Turkey, there is a higher chance of them getting admitted into the EU than them actually leaving NATO, it’s the one place they get to flex their muscles and force the rest of Europe to give them concessions.

I agree, this is going to hopefully change over time, in the past 10 years these sorts of hobbies have begun to take off in the global south as well, and particularly in places like China, but naturally here on the English speaking side of the internet we won’t see their views represented nearly as much as the average chud crackerite redditor who also have the same interests.

This along with videogames and many other digital media become cheaper over time, not to mention piracy almost being the norm in places like Brazil, Russia and India, should hopefully make the sub-culture less reactionary in the future.

I think you have to start by understanding that “gaming” or “geek” culture seeming like it leads to reactionary views or pipelines has a lot more to do with who “gamers” actually are, not what their hobby happens to be.

In most cases, videogames, table top RPGs, Warhammer 40k, pretty much any of the stuff you’d typically associate with the subculture, all of these things have been nearly entirely out of the reach of the vast majority of poorer working class kids in the past 30 odd years. As tough as it might be to hear, these have always been expensive and toys, hobbies and privileges to take part in, with maybe the exception of comic books, nearly everything else has a fairly steep entry fee, needing to buy computers, several books, figurines, videogames, merchandise etc.

It’s really no wonder then, that the majority of people who are actually able to keep up with these costs will disproportionately be cis white men from the imperial core, as the group that happens to be at the top of the social structure of the world with the most amount of disposable income. And I think this is where the problem really stems from.

It’s not that geeks and gamers just happen to be more likely to become reactionary, it’s actually somewhat the opposite. Reactionaries, through their inherent privileged position in the world, are simply more able to get into this lifestyle in the first place. Geek culture and fascist/reactionary views might seem correlated, but they’re both just part of a path of least resistance for a certain type of person.

So far I can’t see any support from anyone for the coup, even members of the former coup government don’t seem to approve of it. This looks like pure opportunism from military high brass. At least so far, wouldn’t put it past the CIA if they were involved.

Nothing like a good purge, but ofc when the “good guys” do it the media don’t go around accusing him of having a personality cult, curious.

Not exclusively, it’s been used for a very long time to target socialists and indigenous people in the Americas as well, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile’s dictatorships used it as a dog-whistle against their indigenous people, and perhaps even more so against their socialist movements.

During the cold war the “Judeo Christian” thing started to gain traction with reactionaries in the west as a way of distancing themselves from the “Judeo Bolsheviks” in the socialist bloc, how their values where better because they combined Judaism with Christianity, rather than Marxism, which was inherently meaningless because neither had anything to do with Judaism, and western liberalism has arguably little to do with Christian values either.

Serbia, most based option.

I do not think that’s true

I suppose it depends on how good your public transport is. I wasn’t quite so lucky when I had long commutes a few years back. 15 minute bus, 10 minute walk, 30 minute train, 15 minute walk, and the same thing in reverse getting home. Usually in the mornings without any space to actually sit at any point in the trip. Sure did wish I had a car at the time, lmao.

DPRK has actually done quite well historically in the world cup right? Correct me if I’m wrong but both Koreas have actually made it all the way to the quarter finals at some point if I remember correctly.

This is an excuse that people have made for the deprogram guys for over 2 years now. I know because I myself was under the same impression. But this is proven to be completely bullshit and irrelevant for quite a while now. The whole “they are appealing to libs and want to take a centrist approach to sensitive topics” crap completely went out the window the moment they decided to comment in support of Gaza in the wake of the genocide since last October. All their channels got blacklisted from advertisers and they decided to throw caution to the wind and drop any pretense in their revolutionary messaging, since they have nothing to lose anymore. Just look at any of JT’s videos since October, and this is most evident.

If the goal was to cultivate a following of liberals and western moderates then start to slowly get them radicalized, it has failed or rather the plan has been long derailed. They ended up attracting a load of ultras and weirdos, which they’ll never convince of anything regardless. I think even they know this at some level because their messaging has shifted.

If they’re ready to tell the truth about Gaza, then they should do the same for Ukraine, simple as that. From here on, any milquetoast or weak spirited commentary should be rightfully called out, we should expect better from them.

What’s especially fucked up is that there is an actual real life version of events like this that did happen in a “Western” “country”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie

Rachel Corrie was protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes by the Zionist forces in Rafah, and stood in front of a bulldozer that was attempting to flatten a house. The driver didn’t stop, and drove over her, crushing and killing her.

Yet we don’t see the internet commemorating her death every year and condemning the people who actually did it. Shameful.

It’s a common theory because he was blocking tanks from EXITING the area, which only really makes sense if he wants them to turn around and “do their job”, however he would perceive that.