It just says Palestine right (فلسطين Filasṭīn/Falasṭīn)

I’ve incidentally been working on a whole future fiction project showing the world as it will look by the end of the century. A lot of my predictions feel kinda boring and predictable and maybe a little inappropriate for this comm — stuff about wars and climate change and so forth — but I still have a few more fun or interesting predictions:

1. The first complete human language to develop naturally in the Antarctic will be a sign language native to King George Island.
2. Speaking of sign languages, many popular anime shows and movies will be remade in them.
3. Esperanto will become one of the world’s most widely-spoken languages.
4. The Internet will collapse on itself and be replaced with a “Second Internet”.
5. A bridge over the Bering Strait will be built.
6. A permanent moon base will also be built, under the administration of the UN’s successor.

And I could mention a number of other predictions, particularly about the future language landscape of the world — but at the same time I don’t know to what extent I can call these “calling it now” predictions, anyways.

Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers’ voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.

Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.

This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say “graduate computer science”. To me it reads more like commanding someone to “quit computer science!”, more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, “to complete one’s education in computer science”.

Trump is speedrunning his Tokugawa Shogunate arc, many people are saying this

What would the world be like if even a fraction of the creative energy that Zionist freaks have thus far spent on their constant stream of surreal, nightmarish new ways to destroy, degrade and humiliate the Palestinian people, was instead spent on actually making a better world?

Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French Revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. Thenceforth, a serious political struggle was altogether out of the question. A literary battle alone remained possible. But even in the domain of literature the old cries of the restoration period had become impossible.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate their indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

In this way arose feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half an echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart’s core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.

The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.

One section of the French Legitimists and “Young England” exhibited this spectacle.

In pointing out that their mode of exploitation was different to that of the bourgeoisie, the feudalists forget that they exploited under circumstances and conditions that were quite different and that are now antiquated. In showing that, under their rule, the modern proletariat never existed, they forget that the modern bourgeoisie is the necessary offspring of their own form of society.

For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeois amounts to this, that under the bourgeois régime a class is being developed which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society.

What they upbraid the bourgeoisie with is not so much that it creates a proletariat as that it creates a revolutionary proletariat.

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour, for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. […]

— Manifesto of the Communist Party chapter 3 (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848)

With articles like these berating “Chinese state propaganda” at the same time as Sinclair Broadcast Group with its conservative “must-run” segments holds a monopoly on local news broadcasting in Seppoland, or this article accusing the Chinese state of “constraining and delaying” information on the COVID-19 pandemic when the Western press’ systemic and semi-deliberate fumbling of the pandemic leads most people in this part of the world to not even believe that the pandemic is ongoing, well… It rings of throwing stones in glass houses, doesn’t it? Of pots calling kettles black, of taking a mote out of a brother’s eye without first taking the beam out of one’s own; how many phrases exist to convey the idea of that good word hypocrisy.

Articles like these are the projection of a moribund system’s beneficiaries — in the old days it was feudalism turning into capitalism, and at present it’s capitalism turning into socialism.

As expected from a government that would rather be a minority “left”-center coalition than accept SV’s rAdiCaL environmental policy

The pronunciation in Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin, turns out, can vary significantly depending on dialect, and the ways Ojibwe people themselves say the name in English is just as variable, but I’ll still note for one that the Ojibwe spelling is Nanaboozhoo with four O’s, so the vowel in “boo” is the same as the vowel in “zhoo”; and I’ll also note that the “zh” is said with the J in Jacques rather than the J in John. Otherwise you can pronounce “boozhoo” either like “goo-goo” or like “go-go”, and it seems you can say “nana” either like “banana” or like “mama” or probably in other ways too, although the “banana” pronunciation seems more common. Stress is highly variable: patterns include 2nd+4th, 1st+3rd+4th, and 1st+3rd.

I’ve never gotten an entirely satisfying answer as to what “ending birthright citizenship” actually means in practice.

On the one hand, in the Mother Jones article “The Plot Against Birthright Citizenship”, it says, “The proposed rule would instruct federal agencies to deny passports and Social Security numbers to children born to immigrants, unless one of the parents is a citizen or green card holder.” and it further says, “The fact that Trump referred to a foreign invasion in his campaign video, he [assistant professor of law Evan Bernick] adds, suggests they [the Trump team] might be anticipating litigation and trying to ‘boost as much as possible their very minimal odds.’”

On the other hand, in this article it reads, “Under his policies, Trump said, all [members of mixed families] could be deported, including those who have attained citizenship status.” and in the aforementioned Mother Jones article it further says, “[According to Trump attourney John Eastman] That right [to citizenship] should be contingent on ‘a total and exclusive allegiance’ to the United States”

…Which makes it seem a bit ambiguous as to whose citizenship is being called into question. I would decidedly not be affected by the proposed rule, but I was born outside of the USA to one natural-born citizen and one non-citizen, and I have never personally permanently resided in the USA — and since people already question or deny that I’m a “real American” on the basis of me not being from the USA, I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if this would at some point in the future translate to my US citizenship actually getting revoked outright. So I don’t think people like me are “in the sights” of the “neo-Know-Nothings” at the present moment, but I do sort of worry we will be, given that “total and exclusive allegiance” remark.

…How, though? Is the point just that communists are obnoxious or pushy or something?

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I favor gorilla tactics in conservation the same as I do in many other respects!

My mental MP3 player in response to this image decided to put on “Blumenkranz” from the Kill la Kill soundtrack

On NewPipe I’ve added framatube.org, kolektiva.media, urbanists.video, mla.moe, makertube.net, peertube.1312.media

Adolf Hitler? Socialist.

Franklin Roosevelt? Socialist.

Joseph Stalin? Dare I say, he was a downright pinko!

The entirety of WWII was just leftist infighting over Trotskyist revisionism. Just a big ol’ non-binary fuss over intercontinental ballistic tweets. Wake up, sheeple!

Votes for “keep” far outnumber votes for “delete”. The discussion is mainly about whether to keep the article as-is or to rename it to something like “Yaroslav Hunka affair”, which would include a biography.

Of all the things you can criticize Wikipedia for, this honestly just isn’t one of them.

Can I recommend you a browser extension called Media Bias Fact Check? You can get it on Firefox and Chrome and probably other Chromium browsers too. On Chrome it’s a featured extension while on Firefox it hasn’t been audited by Mozilla’s security team yet.

In any case, with MBFC installed, when you go to a website that it’s rated, it will display a little icon in your toolbar showing that publication’s bias or sometimes other info (such as “pro-science”, “satire”, “pseudoscience & conspiracy”). CounterPunch is rated as having a “left” bias. So evidently, CounterPunch is a major enough publication to be rated by MBFC, and not just some “random blog”. MBFC provides this detailed report.

TL;DR: CounterPunch is a highly credible source, though it is also controversial for several reasons. CounterPunch has never failed a fact check, but has sometimes failed to provide hyperlinked sources and indicate opinion, and has a clear left-wing bias in story choice and language use. It is a 501c3 non-profit which generates revenue through book sales, donations, grants, and advertising.

When you encounter an unfamiliar news source online, it can also be a good idea to see if it’s notable enough to have a Wikipedia article. The Wikipedia article might provide more useful information about the publication as well.

CounterPunch indeed is notable enough to have an English-language Wikipedia article. This article is thoroughly sourced, frequently edited, and has existed since December 21st, 2003 — making “CounterPunch” one of the first 500,000 articles to be published on Wikipedia, when Wikipedia was just under three years old… I feel like that says something about how notable CounterPunch is.

Adolf Heusinger on EN Wikipedia

Hans Speidel on EN Wikipedia

Johannes Steinhoff on EN Wikipedia

Johann von Kielmansegg on EN Wikipedia

Ernst Ferber on DE Wikipedia

Karl Schnell on DE Wikipedia

Franz-Joseph Schulze on EN Wikipedia

Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin on EN Wikipedia

Of course, Wikipedia should only be blindly trusted to the same extent as memes shared by random people. Make sure to check the references, sources, and external links.

My friend, you’re on the fediverse and saying that a single website would be the best way to achieve this. I think that decentralization such as federation or peer-to-peer would be a much better way to achieve a pirate’s utopia, because the decentralized approach guarantees that even if one part falls, the whole will remain.

That aside, if I can talk about “What other features would make the ideal file sharing site?” — for a pirate video streaming site in particular, my number one feature would easily be community-contributed subtitles. In the list of subtitle tracks, each track would have two checkboxes, one for text and the other for TTS (this would be used for audio description and makeshift voice-over dubs). For rarer languages without reliable TTS, users would be encouraged to submit voice recordings, which might be anonymized with AI to sound like the TTS voice.

Subtitling would be done with a danmaku-esque system, so that people can choose to contribute just a few pieces here and there and wait for other contributors or continue later, rather than just one person needing to subtitle everything. Users might be able to rate subtitle tracks based on quality and completeness, too. A system of upvotes and downvotes on individual subtitles, as well as both manual and automated moderation, would prevent abuse.

Not as the USA, naturally, but I’d give it a decade or two for that part of the world to go socialist. I don’t have any sort of complicated analysis for this, just the fact that my cousin used to work in a movie theater in the heart of conservative Montana, and reported that all her coworkers were communists; the fact that the settler libs I know are complaining about all the commies and pinkos around these days; all the record-breaking or otherwise historically significant strikes and protests and so forth in the past decade; the epidemics of this and that in American society; January 6th and the War in Ukraine showing a growing conflict in the world’s ruling class; things like that. The young don’t want to inherit a dying world; marginalized groups want justice; workers want their due; people are losing faith in the government.

I will not say that class consciousness is at the level it should be — for God’s sake, the last time I was in the occupied Dakota homeland, I saw some white guy with a 3%ers “Let’s Go Brandon” shirt at Culver’s. But I don’t think it will take centuries for class consciousness to grow in America. Not in our days of global connectivity. We can absolutely continue to grow the leftist movement in America, into something genuinely powerful, even without “mainstream” (i.e. Anglo) approval.

How many people alive in the early 20th century believed that revolution in Russia was just two decades away? If everyone else is saying it’ll take two hundred years, then I’ll say it will take twenty.