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  • Thank you for this write-up, I honestly mostly refrain from trying to understand what is happening in Bosnia since everyone, including Bosnians, just rightfully assume it's a shitshow not worth wasting your braincells over. There is certainly no love for any politicians here, not either from the conservative of liberal camps, although you will see plenty of boomers falling for the endless fearmongering of new wars with old combatants. But it's not too difficult to convince most people of the west's failing in every aspect.

    What is very difficult is to get them to a proper materialist understanding of the world, since plenty of people here love to be "autochauvinists" as we call them and just assume the reason why all of our countries are shitty is because of some great intellectual and/or moral failing compared to the west. That the west is apparently not subservient to the laws of the same system as we, and that this generalized mass of people is just shitty because we are lazy, stupid, capricious, jealous or all of those things at once.

    Or there are people on the other side who just give up and say that it's all some western "globohomo" conspiracy that aims to destroy the cradle of an ancient balkan civilization lmao. Some of these people do realize the general system of imperialism, but are often caught up in these moronic reactionary conspiracy theories that instead divert them from the real cause of the problem.

    For example, as I said in another comment, lithium is a very important critical resource that we posses, and so as a natural monopoly can be exploited to our benefit to give us some breathing room in terms of our status of servitude with the likes of Germany. But discourse around here has either devolved into a minuscule group around Vucic who support Rio Tinto digging that shit up, or the majority of people that oppose the digging not only because it's a private company doing it, but on the principle as a whole. So if you actually want to exploit it, you are basically as good as a Vucic supporter. Nevermind you could use the profits to maybe alleviate some of the consequences of pollution in Belgrade, where smog is a regular visitor. Or fix the filtration system in that same city as to not just fucking dump shit in the Danube. Or invest into solar panels, nuclear power plants and other green tech from China. As if all of that wouldn't benefit the environment of this country tenfold as compared to saving a little land of a village inhabited by like 10 people.

  • Yup, which is why I don't understand people here that post some of the shit he says, guy is literally the biggest opportunist alive. In the west, he sucks off Trump and Charlie Kirk (he even had his supporters wave a flag with his fucking face recently and paint a mural of him), whereas on the east he always stresses the "brotherly" relations with Russia and our historic friendship. Literally don't take anything from him at face value, the guy says anything that appeals to whoever he's talking to. The best you can do is take account of the material conditions on the ground, which indicate that Vucic has simply continued the policies of further integration with Europe from the previous government, even though you would swear based off what he says that they are sworn enemies, considering he likes to evoke them any time there is anything unpopular that he has to do.

  • Yeah, It's a huge problem here in Serbia, since everything from real estate to wages is listed in euros. People just don't have faith in the domestic economy, not after the sanction triggered hyperinflation of the 90's, not the mention the Jezda and Dafiment bank scams during the times of Milosevic. Even saw an article yesterday that our fixed exchange rate with the euro, where the national bank is overall selling off their euro reserves to shore up the dinar, is actually great because it's "popular" (god forbid the country has any kind of industrial strategy). People don't have trust in the dinar, and with the way Vucic has been handling the economic front, where foreign direct investment is not only a tool, but the end goal in itself, since he's not competent enough to run these enterprises into anything other than being the state apparatus for blackmailing people that work in there to vote for him every election cycle. It's much easier for him to just skirt a little off their profit via income tax and VAT, whilst privatizing literally every single previously state-owned industry, which is especially troublesome when it comes to critical resources. Rio Tinto in particular being a western company with a colorful history of environmental devastation, now mining the critical lithium resource used in manufacturing batteries. Now, Vucic could actually have a state company made to mine these resources, which could in relation to Germany actually give us some leverage, especially if the US forces the EU to cut it's dependence from China on that front. But of course, being the puppet that he is, that is simply not going to happen, and they even introduced a law recently where any public space can apparently be privatized, that being the cherry on top of his neoliberal shitcake.

    Montenegro just accepted the reality of the situation with the euro being the only currency, despite them not being in the EU. They didn't even pretend to make a move for any kind of monetary sovereignty, although with the kind of mountainous terrain there, they don't have much prospects for developing into anything other than a tourist resort independently.

  • You said it yourself, the war didn't alter anything, but It did at least the give the Afghan people a chance not to be in that cycle if the Soviet Union won. I'm not making the argument that every single thing that happened during the intervention was right, the same way I don't argue that everything that Stalin did was 100% correct. But I don't have to argue that to say I support Stalin, nor do I have to argue it to say that the intervention itself wasn't a bad thing, especially when your argument equates Soviet and American interventionism, which is just wrong.

    When it comes to the collapse, again, Stalin didn't do everything correctly, and the situation after the end of his leadership proves that. Then came revision, which led to the Sino-Soviet split, but also the failure of the Soviet leadership to adapt to new material conditions, which is especially stupid since the philosophy of Dialectical Materialism which they nominally espoused is literally based on changing material conditions.

  • It's because you are using liberal idealist universal principles and not seeing that war, intervention and violence in general is simply a tool for the advancement of class interests. I don't think anyone can say that the Soviet intervention and counterattack on Poland that aimed to conquer it would be a bad thing, especially in retrospect where that border with Germany could be used to intervene on the side of the communists, altering the future of humanity where Germany becomes Red instead of Nazi. Materialism doesn't recognize these arguments outside of their material background. The Soviets invading Afghanistan was in support of a progressive regime, the american one is purely out of the class interest of the bourgeoisie.

  • Metro: Last Light

    I'll definitely have to check this one out. I already slogged through Exodus on the shittiest settings some time ago, so I'm expecting tighter gameplay on this one considering it's linear. As for all the others, I'm not sure I jive with their settings, or I'm already spoiled (Spec Ops) or I played it like Black Flag, although I'm not sure I'd replay black flag just because I know it would now bore me to death with the non-pirate gameplay. I literally tried playing AC2 not too long ago and deleted out of pure boredom and the fact that they literally don't have any kind of significant stealth system in a fucking game called Assassin's Creed and you wouldn't even be able to crouch until Unity. Truly incredible design by ubisoft.

  • Athanasy, a really cool biopunk VN. I just love the setting, and the story and writing is also great. Definitely worth a try.

    I tried getting into MGSV, but couldn't really bear the silly story which is supposed to be in this realistic setting, taking out basically all immersion from it IMO. Also, having to sabotage and potentially kill Soviet soldiers just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, despite it all being virtual.

    Also tried getting into Shadows of Mordor, but Idk about the whole medieval high fantasy setting honestly, don't think I'm really in the mood. I also found the nemesis system to be rather annoying, even though it is a neat concept. I mean it's pretty good up until you run into the same guy for the millionth time, who can also pursue you whilst you're on a mission.

    Is there any triple A or at least double A game from like 2012-2017 someone can recommend? I wanna play something that's solid in terms of gameplay, but also something that looks pretty good for the time, since my graphics card can really only run games from that period on a high setting. Been thinking something list Splinter Cell: Blacklist, I'll see if I can find an appropriate

    version for linux.

  • I mean, I'd say social-democratic ideas in america are more hurtful than anything, since it inherently doesn't address the contradiction of the working classes of the global south and the west. Even if they do push the envelope, what success is that when they still inherently work against the interests of the working classes of the world at large? All you're getting with those ideas is a v*ush worldview.

  • If you've played Deus Ex (and live in the west):

    "The luminous path is closed to gwailos"

  • Looks like they didn't shit gold after all

  • Yeah, that as well. Although I was thinking mostly of how frameworks of thought were built around it, and also the fact that it has been used mostly for the advance of material interests, like Zionists use Judaism and brand Palestinians as Amalekites or the conquistadors during the colonization of South America.

  • Of course, but I was talking about the tendency for people in the past to build a framework of the world, which was indeed mostly based off religion. Although yeah, I guess as a social activity it does have it's merits, although in my country the people loudest about their religion go to their place of worship the least.

  • remove the religion specific comms.

    Based

    If you're religious, you fundamentally cannot be a materialist. Pretty much the whole philosophy revolves around the non-existence of some spiritual being who pulled matter out of their ass, or exists outside of the material world and it's laws (although I guess you could theoretically believe god is an alien lmao, which I actually don't have qualms with, however they would obviously stop being a "god"). Still, you don't have to believe in that to think that what Jesus said and did was an overall good thing. Or any other flavor of deity for that matter. God was simply an instrument of man to explain the unexplainable. Now, we have science and experimentation to fill that void, therefore religion, even as a social movement of some kind has become superfluous.

  • Yeah, I was on db0 before I moved to hexbear. Aside from actually just coming to conclusions that conform to historical materialism in regards to the position of the USSR, one of the reasons was that muh "tankies" weren't actually that bad to hang around with on Hexbear when I lurked there. Also, it was ironic that Hexbear was the only instance where there was actual voting about issues pertaining to the site, whereas the other "anarchist" instances basically just boiled down to whatever the mods felt like.

  • Something I will truly never understand with burgerlanders. It's never former president, always president obama, bush, clinton etc. That, and colonel being said the same as kernel.

  • I seriously need to stop looking at comments on the local

    . Good thing I deleted my account, otherwise I would be debating each and every one of these idealist morons who base their view of the world on the western narrative of "democracy vs autocracy". I just end up getting frustrated that these morons think this is the fucking peloponnesian war or some shit.

  • XQC should do a word by word analysis on himself first.