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AstroStelar [he/him]

@ AstroStelar @hexbear.net

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22 y/o, autistic, AroAce, Marxist with Mega Man characteristics (also Kirby)

  • The Authoritarian Stack

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  • Friedrich Ebert is the social democrat who ordered the Freikorps to kill Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, so this pairing is very ironic.

  • The Authoritarian Stack

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  • In the credits:

    • Supported by: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
    • Funded by: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Future of Work

    Bruh...

  • Latvia’s parliament votes to quit global treaty protecting women

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  • A day before the vote, around 5,000 people demonstrated outside the parliament, carrying signs reading “Hands off the Istanbul Convention” and “Latvia is not Russia.”

    Tamar Dekanosidze, the Eurasia regional representative for women’s rights NGO Equality Now, said the bill attempted to reframe gender equality initiatives as pushing an “LGBTQ agenda,” adopting a Kremlin-style narrative that allows politicians to portray themselves as defenders of “national values” ahead of elections.

    “This would mean that, in terms of values, legal systems and governance, Latvia would be more aligned with Russia than with the European Union and Western countries,” she said, adding that this “directly serves Russia’s interests in the country.”

    "What are we, a bunch of RUSSIANS?" Very predictable.

  • Statement from Jimbo Wales re: Gaza genocide Wikipedia article

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  • For all the comparisons made, I'm surprised no one brought up how the mere existence/human attributility of climate change was "highly disputed" while "97-99 percente of climate scientists say man-made climate change is real", because businesses and politicians said: "nuh-uh". That kind of discrepancy between political and academic consensus is playing out with Gaza too.

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  • It was Cuba's Foreign Minister who said it, "the UN" granted him a point of order

  • Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order

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  • It cites NRC (the Dutch New York Times) about how the CEO of Nexperia has been repeatedly fined and even jailed for illegal business practices, which somehow Dutch and American regulators missed when screening buyers, which feels like another case of the West not taking China seriously and not doing their proper due diligence, now blaming China by saying they're soft on financial crimes.

    The article is very strange in general in how combative, almost desparate it feels about controlling the narrative: Chinese investors "spewing bile on Xiaohongshu", saying that the CEO is the real pirate in this story! Then this bit at the end:

    This conflict isn't about geopolitics, but about the malpractice of an executive that turned desperate in the face of geopolitics. (own translation)

    The article (in Dutch): https://web.archive.org/web/20251027202754/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/16/nexperia-topman-wing-had-al-jaren-lak-aan-regels-kreeg-boetes-en-kreeg-celstraf-a4909796

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  • Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, called the memo “pointless, vague, unhelpful and confusing.”

    “There is no reason to pit poverty reduction versus climate transformation. Both are utterly feasible, and readily so, if the Big Oil lobby is brought under control,” he wrote in an email.

  • I'm very smart because it was hard for me to pass a cognitive test, some would say that I'm the smartest person ever

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  • "Hippopotamus" literally means "river horse" in Greek

  • Jacobin says stop being mean

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  • This. I'll be honest, I kinda agree with their point about cherry-picking, the "Hasan shocks his dog" saga has shown us you can construe anything by cherry-picking from the massive fingerprints people leave online to build the narrative you want, and that the full picture is often gonna end up messy, because people are messy. Their picture of Platner as a contradictory, "politically incorrect", gun-loving "antifa soldier" isn't far from my perception of him, it explains how people can hold such wildly disparate views of him.

    The article's biggest sin isn't that, it's that it doesn't interrogate his military service AT ALL and why it took Platner almost 20 years since his first deployment to realise that "Imperialist adventures" are bad and to stop "believing in any of the patriotic nonsense that got [him] there in the first place". Hard to take any condemnations of war crimes on Reddit seriously when he kept going back to the war crimes machine or was actively in it.

    Branko Marcetic basically handwaves it away, saying: see, he's changed his mind now, when his poor judgement will just make him "oppose all wars except the current one". Plus, his promise to not vote for "pointless wars" is meaningless anyway when the president can do whatever the fuck he wants.

    I also don't get why Jacobin's addressing this to liberals. Do radlibs even read Jacobin, let alone regular libs?

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  • Oh hey, it's the guy that said vaccine mandates go against the Nuremberg Laws:

    “You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want. It can’t be the government saying that. It’s against the Nuremberg Laws.”

    To be a little fair, there's a similarly named Nuremberg Code about human experimentation, which has its roots in the Nuremberg Trials, but come on...

    “So…we received a phone call from Rob Schneider today where he threatened my staff that he would spend a lot of money against me because of my co-authorship of a bill to increase vaccine rates.,” she wrote. “When I called him back he was actually much nicer to me, but let’s be honest…that is 20 mins of my life I’ll never get back arguing that vaccines don’t cause autism with Deuce Bigalow, male gigolo.”

    • then-California state assemblywoman Larena Gonzales-Fletcher

  • Swiss crypto drone show - The worst thing I've seen today

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  • Switzerland not hosting conferences of the worst people challenge impossible (Davos, First Zionist Conference)

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from October 20th to October 26th, 2025 - The Fall of Boluarte - COTW: Peru

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  • Probably not, it's more likely that the article chooses to disregard place name changes instituted by Ukraine, plus "Lenino" is the Russian spelling, in Ukrainian it would be "Lenine"

  • Delhi Right now

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  • Are all fireworks called "firecrackers" in India?

  • what is your favorite obscure animal

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  • Never look at them straight on:

  • Extremely normal

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  • This sign was in San Diego (I-8 approaching I-5), rounds were fired over Interstate 5 as part of a live demonstration attended by Vance and Hegseth between San Diego and Los Angeles (north of Carlsbad). California had closed that section of freeway, so the sign is supposed to warn you that it's closed and to take a detour, it likely had another screen that said "I-5 North to LA closed" or something like that.

  • What's causing British roads to develop potholes in 3 years?

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  • Vehicles have gotten heavier in my country too, but the roads aren't degrading anywhere near this fast.

    Someone elsewhere suggested road surfacing companies are basically doing planned obsolescence by cheapening out, so the local government gives them more contracts, while also being unable to pay for better work due to austerity.

  • Meet me at the Presidential Lair

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  • tower of babble

  • Meet me at the Presidential Lair

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  • Construction costs are currently at $850 million, more than double of the previous presidential library (

    ). This money is coming from the Obama Foundation (from donations by God knows who), but once finished the City of Chicago will be footing the bill on operating costs, which can get out of hand fast if the center ends up flopping.

    To alleviate that, the Obama Foundation promised a $470 million reserve fund to compensate, but currently there's only $1 million in it and it has remained unchanged for years, possibly because the ballooning construction costs are eating into their budget.

  • As China's decade-long property market boom cools, policymakers are steering the world's second-largest economy toward a more sustainable alternative — revitalizing aging cities.

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  • The part about "public-private partnerships" got me a little worried, but private rents seem to be limited to upkeeping fees and "ancillary facilities" like parking lots, not the housing units themselves, which I find reassuring.

    By contrast, in the West "public-private" housing projects usually mean that the housing gets built by the government and then leased out to private corporations for the first 20 years or whatever. I remember visiting Hamburg's "Hafen-City" development as part of an excursion (I was studying urban planning+traffic engineering at the time), which is developed along this line and finding that weird when I asked the guide about it.