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  • Stick to Your Guns is explicitly ML. Torture is slam, but they're anti-U$ military at least. .

    I've been digging into hardcore more - it's a bit more politically palatable than death metal or death core.

  • Who can better experience racism than a white man with a blackface
  • "Real House of Hate" is apparently a beatdown band from Medellin.

  • Hit one year since graduation. Still unemployed. Still super fuckin bummed about it, still super worried about the future.
  • I have no direct experience here, but contract or freelance might work here too.

  • Is Eve Fartlow OK?
  • Hollywood Undead

  • Russian support could give China's army "a decisive advantage in a potential conflict with the United States."
  • No real arguments against that here! I'd like it if no one got nuked, but it's definitely going to take a lot of time and effort to unwind the empire.

  • Russian support could give China's army "a decisive advantage in a potential conflict with the United States."
  • I have a sci-fi fantasy of the U$ launching a nuclear first strike, and China safely downing all the missiles with advanced tech before they get close.

    It would be a profound statement of the dawning of a new age.

  • Shit has gotten so crazy at my job about Palestine
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    I just watched this little documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin. I never heard of her before this. Does the community have one or two books they recommend?
  • I very much enjoyed the Earthsea series, and very greatly disliked The Dispossessed. I can understand why other people like it, but it's very much not for me.

    I remember thinking The Left Hand of Darkness was an enjoyable read, but kind of tough to get through. That was maybe 10 years ago, though.

    I'd maybe start with the first Earthsea book since they're a bit more digestible. She's worth a read if you're curious!

  • What instruments can y'all play and which are your favorite songs to perform?
  • I play a bit of guitar. I like Iron and Wine's Resurrection Fern.

  • Sweden formally joins Nato military alliance
    www.bbc.com Sweden formally joins Nato military alliance

    Sweden joins Nato, becoming the military alliance's second new member since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

    Sweden formally joins Nato military alliance
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    Would you share the Chronicles of Narnia books with your kids?

    I have fond memories of reading them when I was younger, but as I think about introducing them to kids I have some thoughts and issues:

    • The clear colonial bias - Narnia needing white British rulers to thrive.
    • Colorism/Xenophobia/Racism in the Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle.

    Do the benefits of a neat magical fantasy world outweigh the issues? How would you approach it?

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    The unrealized potential of Palestinian oil and gas reserves
    unctad.org The unrealized potential of Palestinian oil and gas reserves

    Geologists and resources economists have confirmed that the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the West Bank and the Mediterranean coast off the Gaza Strip, according to a recent UNCTAD study.

    An old article, but context I didn't know.

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    Ceremony held in DPRK to commemorate CPV's participation in War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea
    news.cgtn.com Ceremony held in DPRK to commemorate CPV's participation in War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea

    A ceremony to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) entering the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to fight in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea was held on Wednesday in Pyongyang at the Friendship Tower.

    Ceremony held in DPRK to commemorate CPV's participation in War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea
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    (speculation) Is there any way a state-level actor can fight a nuclear armed state-level actor without risking being nuked? How?

    There's clearly something about to happen in Western Asia, this is meant to be a question related to the situation, but mostly a place for speculation.

    Is there a way that Iran can aid Hamas without a risk of being nuked? Is it easier for Hezbollah as they aren't exactly a country in their own right?

    Is the only way to engage a nuclear-armed state guerilla war waged by internal dissidents?

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    A 2018 Counterpunch article, with some specifics on why Gaza was fenced in the way it is

    >The demographer Arnon Sofer of Haifa University is the architect of the current isolation of Gaza. In 2004, he advised the government of Ariel Sharon to withdraw Israeli forces from within Gaza, seal the territory off from the outside world, and simply shoot anyone who tries to break out. “When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe,” Sofer told an interviewer in the Jerusalem Post (11 November 2004); “Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.” He added that “the only thing that concerns me is how to ensure that the boys and men who are going to have to do the killing will be able to return home to their families and be normal human beings.”

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    Excerpts from Wretched of the Earth: Preface

    "Europeans, open this book, look inside. After taking a short walk in the night you will see strangers gathered around a fire, get closer and listen. They are discussing the fate reserved for your trading posts and for the mercenaries defending them. They might see you, but they will go on talking among themselves without even lowering their voices. Their indifference strikes home: their fathers, creatures living in the shadows, your creatures, were dead souls; you afforded them light, you were their sole interlocutor, you did not take the trouble to answer the zombies. The sons ignore you. The fire that warms and enlightens them is not yours. You, standing at a respectful distance, you now feel eclipsed, nocturnal, and numbed. It's your turn now. In the darkness that will dawn into another day, you have turned into the zombie."

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    The cowards finally defederated
    lemmy.world Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml - Lemmy.world

    Hello World, Today, after careful consideration and evaluation of recent events, we have decided to defederate from Lemmygrad [https://lemmygrad.ml]. Regrettably, we have observed a significant increase in hate speech and calls to violence originating from the Lemmygrad instance. Due to the severity...

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    We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. Accordingly, we also hold that a real struggle must be waged against real enemies

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