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  • What is happening in Moldova?

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  • As a Russian speaker, this is some outright fascist shit and I'm disappointed to see it here. The content warning does not quite cover how deeply misogynistic this peace is and I mean the seething hatred of women you'd be surprised to see in print anywhere. Just balls to the wall mask off pure bigotry.

    To be honest, reading the Russian text makes me think she's probably alright if that's the best thing they can come up with against her. Do better.

    Disclaimer - happy to provide a more accurate translation than this toned down, sanitized, palatable crap. Just ask.

    I mean holy fuck this shit is vile. Just... Wow, I did not need this.

  • China bans its biggest tech companies from acquiring Nvidia chips, says report — Beijing claims its homegrown AI processors now match H20 and RTX Pro 6000D

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  • Your Party membership is now open

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  • He's not smoking the pipe. By claiming Westerners generate value while buying cheap goods produced elsewhere and feeding algorythms in the process, he's concealing imperialist exploitation of real living Global South labour that sustains all our digital bullshit. He knows exactly what he's doing, too.

  • Your Party membership is now open

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  • Is Melenchon the second one?

  • Dialectics

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  • It's hilarious to me because it's exactly the kind of "political" joke you would hear in the Soviet Union, where ideological proclamations of party leaders are put in absurd or sexual contexts.

    Probably the most famous one:

    Dzerzhinsky and Trotsky are arguing: which is better, a wife or a mistress?

    Dzerzhinsky says: “A mistress.”

    Trotsky says: “A wife.”

    They can’t agree, so they ask Lenin.

    Lenin replies:

    “Both! Tell your wife you’re with your mistress, tell your mistress you’re with your wife… and meanwhile, go up to the attic and study, study, and study again.”

    ("Study, study, and study again" was the most famous Lenin quote in the USSR, the placard with those words would hang in every single classroom of every school).

  • I'm doing my part!

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  • It's those guys:

    Feel old yet?

  • Very based subtle symbolism

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  • Aren't they celebrating 80 year anniversary of victory over fascism? I absolutely do not think they are willing to forgive the fascists. Which is a good thing. If anything it's a symbol of willingness to do it again should it come to that.

  • Why revolution hasn’t happened yet?

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  • Love this tiny bit of theory from an old Soviet film about the revolution, between Tanya the nurse and the political comissar Ignatyich:

    Tanya: Listen, Ignatyich... Why isn’t there Soviet power abroad? Are they stupid?

    Ignatyich: Go to sleep.

    Tanya: But how come, Ignatyich?

    Ignatyich: Seems they don’t have the strength for it. And they live better than we do. They're not desperate enough, haven’t ripened for it yet.

    It's a great film, shame there doesn't seem to be a version with English subtitles on YT.

  • The Marxist Alignment Chart

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  • That's not fair to Leon

  • British regime arrests a man in a terrifying dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action.

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  • Most hated bridge in the world award

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  • When Russia took over Crimea, Ukraine cut water supply to the peninsula, depriving civilian population of water for drinking and agriculture (which is a human rights violation) and causing a humanitarian crisis.

    So Russia built the longest bridge in Europe to provide water and other essential supplies.

    On the first day of the invasion Russian forces reopened the water flow into Crimea, but on the third day of the Ukrainian counteroffensive the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed, causing massive flood in Kherson region and again water shortage and agriculture crisis in Crimea, so the bridge remains vital infrastructure.

    Since the beginning of the war Ukraine is trying to blow it up, when they do, Western outlets report it with absolute fucking glee:

    Pressure on Putin grows as his ‘jewel in the crown’ bridge to Crimea is blown up

    Long threatened, the hated $4bn Russian symbol of Moscow’s occupation of Crimea – one that Russia had boasted was impossible to attack – had been blown up.

    The symbolism of the moment – a day after Russian president Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday and just over a week after he announced the illegal annexation of four more Ukrainian territories amid huge pomp in Moscow – was lost on nobody.

    But it is not simply the fact this is Putin’s bridge that underlines the symbolism. The blast has real-term consequences too for Putin’s war, coming hard on the heels of a series of humiliating defeats on the eastern and southern fronts that has seen large-scale Russian retreats.

  • Harassing religious minorities is investigative journalism now

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  • Thank you! Yes, I'll try talking to them.

    It is a weird feeling: my family escaped Ukraine after the USSR collapsed because the situation was desperate, and from that moment on I've been a rusky to everyone around me. Now suddenly Westerners learned Ukrainians are not Russians and the moment they hear I'm from Ukraine they feel obliged to share their russophobia with me, like they don't understand that's what I've been dealing with my whole life.

  • Yulia Tymoshenko: How Ukraine was betrayed by West’s fatal mistake

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  • There are some statements here that are very refreshing to read in a major Western paper coming from a mainstream Ukrainian politician, cherry-picked below:

    “Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, western countries — under the threat of withholding loans — have imposed unacceptable control over Ukraine’s state institutions, state-owned banks, and monopolies, undermining the country’s sovereignty. This is cruel and unjust toward a nation at war.”

    Tymoshenko’s argument that Kyiv’s sovereignty is in danger is based mainly on the presence of western experts in advisory groups that select candidates for appointment to Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, High Council of Justice, State Customs Service, State Bureau of Investigation and its Accounting Chamber, as well as anti-corruption agencies.

    The westerners, who include a senior official at the UK’s National Audit Office, are able to vote together to veto potential appointees and their votes carry more weight than the Ukrainian experts in the event of a tie.

    Tymoshenko hailed [clampdown on the western-backed Nabu and Sapo anti-corruption agencies] as a long overdue step towards curbing western control over vital state institutions that she said was rapidly turning Ukraine into a “disenfranchised colony”.

    “Do not tell us that Ukrainians can die for peace in Europe, but are somehow unfit to govern their own country,” she said. “Our western friends had no right to expect that, at one of the most difficult moments in our nation’s history, Ukraine should repay aid or loans with its sovereignty.”

    Her critics say that such comments are almost identical to those made by Putin, who has cited international vetting of Ukraine’s state institutions as “evidence” that the country is a western puppet state that poses an existential threat to Moscow.

    Tymoshenko shrugged away suggestions that her rhetoric was playing into Russia’s hands, saying instead that Kremlin propaganda was being fuelled by western actions. “Our western friends should not give Putin grounds to say this.”

  • say "i pay too much taxes" again...

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  • The capitalist class controls the productive forces, what gives it political power is their command of the industry and finance, which would not diminish if they were taxed.

    Also the bourgeois state is entirely built by the capitalist class and serves as their tool, and the taxes they pay would go primarily towards maintaining the capitalist system and suppressing liberation movements at home and abroad.

    Of course, capitalists don't want to pay for that out of their pocket and much prefer for the working class to foot the bill, but if the push comes to shove I'm pretty sure they'd find ways to get their dollars worth from the taxes they pay.

    Taxing billionaires is good, especially if it's done to put reigns on austerity, but it does not challenge the way capitalists are entrenched in the liberal government.

  • say "i pay too much taxes" again...

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  • Exactly. If pressured, govt might use that money for welfare although likely most of it will go into military industrial complex anyway. But taxes are not a way of reducing the political power of the capitalist class.

    Edit: I'm not arguing against taxation. Better to tax them then not to. But their political influence will not diminish with taxation, if anything they will have more pull by threats of moving elsewhere. Again, definitely do tax them, and the more of it goes to workers the better, but this does not challenge the political system.

  • say "i pay too much taxes" again...

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  • Tax money, like employment they provide, becomes another political leverage. It does not reduce the power the capitalist class can exert on the political system.

  • say "i pay too much taxes" again...

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  • please explain how taxation reduces political power of the capitalist class

  • US intelligence uses Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities to attack Chinese military-industrial enterprise's email servers

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  • We also noted that the US used its allies in Europe and in China's neighboring region to launch the cyberattacks.

    The EU is the culprit.

  • Took Them Long Enough

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  • So... If Israel commits to a two-state solution then UK won't recognise the state of Palestine in effect giving Israel free hand not to commit to a two-state solution... Am I reading this right or do I just lack reading comprehension?