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  • let's struggle: 'recommended work orders' for newcomers to a continuity are nonsensical.

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  • I always recommend Guards! Guards! first because it introduces characters that reoccur throughout most of the other books and is itself the start the Vimes mini-series within the series.

  • let's struggle: 'recommended work orders' for newcomers to a continuity are nonsensical.

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  • Now try this for Terry Prachett books lol

  • Anyone else get survivor's guilt when you think about all the users and posts that have been banned and removed?

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  • Lol no. The only questionable decision I have really seen was when there was that brief stint where TC69 was brought back as a moderator.

    Otherwise, respect the mods, they literally don't get paid enough for this.

  • China purging officials who send their spouse and children to live abroad so Western gov can't use them as leverage

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  • That is common tripe from people who can't cut it.

    The issue is that you have to actually read and know things. Like, memorization is a huge part of the Chinese curriculum. To Westerners, this means that there is a lack of 'critical thinking', but what that really means is that you can't just vibes-based bullshit your way through something by paraphrasing it.

    Now, does that mean that sometimes you might have a valid disagreement in interpretation of a reading and then be marked as incorrect despite having presented a solid case? Sure, that happens. But that is because unique research and interpretation is meant to be something that you do later, the point of the education is that you understand and can explain how it is interpreted right now.

    For example, I would struggle under a Chinese teaching method of a Western interpretation of Marxist ethics, as I think most of what these western scholars have to say on Marxist ethics is complete bullshit not based in actual readings of Marxist texts. However, if those Western scholars had to adhere to Chinese standards of memorization and citation of Marxist texts, we probably wouldn't have that issue to begin with.

  • it's actually racist to point out what the CIA does

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  • Ah yes, the liberal 'agency' turnabout, that somehow also denies that the U.S. routinely hampers the agency of these people through sanctions.

    It was this kind of stuff that made me want to bash my fellow liberal arts students over the head with the textbook.

  • See Any Radicalization Lately?

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  • My parents finally admitted that violent revolution is the only real option for real change and that all other things are stalling tactics at best.

    Getting them to actualize that reality in their day-to-day life will probably never happen, but the fact that they have not only admitted that I was and have been correct about this stuff, but also that they are now arguing it with their liberal siblings is very funny to watch.

    There has been a real shift in thinking, now is the time to use that to begin the long and tedious process of actually building a revolutionary cadre in this country. My only hope is that we will not be too late.

  • The Ice King - In the mid-19th century you could find ice clinking in glasses from India to the Caribbean...

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  • You wouldn't be drinking it in water, but usually some kind of alcohol.

    It's wouldn't surprise me if there were cases of it happening.

  • The reason why liberal white women have a hard time finding a boyfriend that is not a Trump supporter

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  • They don't even have to hate minorities, often they fetishize them and mistake that festishization as understanding and respect (like trans chasers).

    The key thing is selfishness, and it will come out in their behaviors, usually in not taking criticism that expands outside the immediate effects of their behavior, like buying lots of cloths, wearing them once and then returning all or most of them, or speaking disparagingly about fast food workers.

    It comes out slowly though, over time.

  • Poll reveals 85% of Greenlanders do not want to become US citizens

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  • Respectfully, where do you think you are? And their point still stands, it's not as if there haven't been multiple genocides that the U.S. government has directly overseen.

    Wake up and smell the rot.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 5th to January 11th, 2026 - The New Old Colonialism (And Long Live Chavismo) - COTW: Venezuela

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  • I'm going to politely ask you to stop posting on this matter, or at least stop pretending that you care about 'cope' or whatever. You, within hours and with extremely little information, had already decided that it was an internal coup, and it is you who are 'coping' grasping at whatever little information you have as evidence that you were always correct.

    It is and remains completely reactionary thinking, not based in evidence. Again, there is nothing here that indicates that this was internal in the slightest. Time and actual historical investigation will reveal what happened in time.

    Maduro had publicly been advocating for peace and a restoration of normal international relations that leaves the structures created by the Bolivarian Revolution intact. There are now 6 million colectivo members who are armed and ready to defend the movement, regardless of the actions of the central government. And the central government are now continuing these negotiations.

    We are not coping, overreacting to every little thing and speculating wildly, you are projecting your own feelings onto us.

  • "I love telling on myself!"

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  • Too esoteric and requires you to talk to people lol

  • Boil the Empanada

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  • My view is that America is bad and in the wrong on every issue, unless extremely good and convincing evidence is presented that America is correct on an issue. The issue is that people who think America is good normally have very little actual evidence that America is good, they just have been told their entire life that is the case and believe it.

  • just start a business bro

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  • I always have a little story to tell people when they come to me asking for economic advice, specifically starting a business (which happens pretty frequently because somehow I know what I am talking about, for reasons that I do not disclose to them).

    I have a friend who works for a high level accounting firm. Not the Big Four, as they just use and abuse people, but one of the ten biggest firms in the world. Their clients, for the most part, are the private finances of multi-millionaires and billionaires. Now, being one of their star employees, my friend has had access to all kinds of fun records and accounts, though due to professional discretion he will never actually share the names of these individuals with me, which I understand.

    Most of these individuals have fail-sons and daughters that are also 'independent business-owners' that the firm also does the finances for as a favor to the large clients. These are people who run businesses at losses of over a hundred thousand dollars a year, essentially indefinitely, always promising that next year they will turn a profit, often of course they are unknowingly actually loss leaders to reduce the taxes for their parents, as their parents continue to funnel money into those 'ventures'.These range from restaurants to clothing stores to gyms etc, all occupying prime real estate in major cities.

    If you've ever seen like a Gucci store in a metropolitan area that never seems to have any customers but still is in business, it is those kinds of businesses.

    If you are starting a business from scratch, that is what you have to compete against. And not only that, but these people have teams of lawyers, so if you somehow do manage to be successful, if your product even somewhat resembles theirs but executed completely, they will sue you to the ground. They don't even have to win, they just have to stall until you run out of money and credit.

    It's a rigged game, but sometimes you can hit a jackpot I guess.

  • "guys I can't belive you thought/think the usa is an empire"

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  • I do love it when people just refuse to read things in the context they are written and then the actions that are subsequently taken.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 29th 2025 to January 4th 2026 - A Bold Step Forward For The AES

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  • This is Iraq but as farce. They will never actually invest that much money, the US is already an oil producing country, who would we sell to? China? This whole thing is incredibly short-sighted. Real empire in decline things, almost smacks of internal political intrigue to destabilize Trump more than anything else.

    We will see how things progress, but there are a lot of theories floating around they are plausible, none of which are that this was a well thought out and good idea.

  • NATO bots account for 90% of the bot posts on the Ukraine war

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  • Yeah, I had a buddy who wanted to do that. I immediately flicked him in the head and was like "You are now a red mist. Wasn't that a fun adventure?"

  • NATO bots account for 90% of the bot posts on the Ukraine war

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  • I hate that just having a basic understanding of global geopolitics makes this incredibly easy to predict.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 29th 2025 to January 4th 2026 - A Bold Step Forward For The AES

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  • It doesn't indicate that they are working with them. All it indicates that they want to work with them. Time and historical investigation will tell if they did sell out Maduro and Chavismo, or what the actual events that occured are.

    You are jumping to conclusions based on very little, and mostly speculative, evidence. This is not materialist analysis, but quite literally reactionary thinking, comrade. There is nothing to freak out over, what is done is done.

  • Kim Jong-Il was a Genius

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  • It's really fun to have to try to separate people's actual expertise and good advice from their dogshit and racist opinions in everyday life. And people think it is weird why I want to know how they know things.