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nasezero [comrade/them]

@ nasezero @hexbear.net

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  • Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time

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  • They didn't get nearly enough shit for filming a "gulag" in a literal former Nazi prison camp. And then they tried renting it out as a Stranger Things-themed Airbnb. Fucking ghouls.

    It's no surprise that the kid who plays Will grew up into a gross zionist. I'm extremely sus of that whole production and everyone involved.

    Edit: How could I forget this asshole (cw: extremely cringe zionist). Someone needs to check what they're putting in the water on this show's set

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from June 16th to June 22nd, 2025 - Iran, Harden Your Heart

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  • Really feels like we're in a situation where, given these assumptions:

    • Iran commits to their stated war goal of punishing Israel until they dare to never strike Iran ever again.
    • Iran has sufficient capabilities and internal popular support to do such. (And every analysis I've seen suggests they likely do on both counts.)

    Then one of these two outcomes must occur:

    • Either, the US enters the war, and Iran's retaliatory strikes on oil infrastructure and trade routes absolutely fuck the world economy, and have a serious possibility of triggering WW3.
    • Or, the US doesn't enter the war with Iran, and Israel likely loses an attrition war against Iran. I dont really see how this doesn't eventually lead to the collapse of Israel.

    That second option comes with the scary question of "will Israel resort to using its nukes?" So I guess that's another route to WW3.

    Idk, I'm no expert and I'm open to hearing other likely ways for this to play out, but this is where my head is at given all the information I've been absorbing so far.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from June 16th to June 22nd, 2025 - Iran, Harden Your Heart

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  • I had to "break up" with my long-time circle of friends over this kind of behavior. We had known each other for over 10 years, but the last few years of our "friendship" I had been increasingly flaked on, until I had started to develop anxiety any time I even thought of trying to make plans, because I knew how it'd feel like pulling teeth. Once I started identifying patterns like, I suggest plans on x date > they counter with x date + 1 month > 1 month later comes, everyone is "too busy" (but not too busy to have made plans amongst themselves during the same time) as well as several other obvious and embarrassing signs of being excluded, I just stopped trying and effectively "quiet quit" the friend group.

    One particularly egregious example, the last event of theirs I was invited to, a small condo housewarming party of ~10 people, I quickly took notice of how they'd systematically move the group away from me, one or two individuals at a time, to a new spot any time I joined the conversation, until I was left alone, and this process repeated a few times until I gave up and scrolled on my phone alone on the couch, until my friend's girlfriend apparently took pity on me enough to strike up a short convo (which was genuinely kind of her), but aside from that brief gesture I left a short while later feeling pretty dejected and quietly humiliated. Why invite someone to a gathering if you have no intention of talking to them? Why treat someone like that and then also still try to maintain any kind of friendship??

    A whole six months of radio silence after the "quiet quitting," one of them finally texts me asking if I wanted to "catch up" over lunch. I turned him down and (admittedly not so kindly) explained why, which was met by him pulling in 2 other "friends" to dogpile and gaslight me over how they were just "really busy" all the time, and how I should have tried talking to them about it because they had "no idea." When I offered multiple examples of how they had systematically ignored and excluded me, they'd just circle back to the "we were soooo busy" and "had no idea" excuses, like broken records. Except for one of the friends, who just gave sort of a meek "I hear you, if you don't want to talk to us anymore I will respect that," which felt more like an admission that he didn't care enough to keep me around than anything else. After a while of

    , I just blocked the two that kept arguing in circles. The rest of the "core" group (all people I had known for years btw) just simply never talked to me again.

    Months later from that, I happened to reconnect with a couple of friends (both of whom I wouldn't be surprised if they were also on the spectrum) that were mutuals with the above mentioned friend group (but also never super close to them), and they shared similar experiences of being excluded and feeling gaslit by the same individuals. So, at least I got some closure that it wasn't "just me." But, goddamn, it felt really shitty to learn that some otherwise apparently-well-adjusted neurotypicals like to keep us around just to be set pieces for their larger gatherings or some shit.

    Suffice to say, I have lots of problems trusting and forming any kind of bonds with most neurotypicals, and tend to keep my distance from them nowadays. I still don't fully understand why they behave the way they do around me, but at least I've come to realize and accept that it's something wrong with them, not me.

  • There is now a non-zero chance that Elon Musk will be getting his Afrikaner ass deported.

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  • Bulletins and News Discussion from June 2nd to June 8th, 2025 - Geopolitics and the Gate of Grief - COTW: Eritrea

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  • DC Shooter's 71 year old neighbor interviewed by the press, says the US president needs to tell Israel to get the heck out of Gaza

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  • I can't tell if either there's too much of a critical mass of disgust against Israel that it broke the consent manufacturing machine (doubtful

    ), or if they haven't really spun it up for whatever reason.

    I mean, I didn't even see it on r/all of

    today, like they didn't even bother turning on the hasbara botnet for this??

  • FIVE members of SCOTUS recused themselves from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case. 4 of them have book deals with a publisher involved. And Alito might own a related stock. [More inside]

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  • Even worse (but funnier), said doofuses are rapidly being replaced with AI on both ends of the slop pipe, so it will soon be, if it's not already, AI models spitting out reviews for books written by AI models.

    Imagine, an entire industry worth millions (billions?) of dollars in political bribes being laundered behind a thin facade of AI slop regurgitating itself over and over

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    Malcolm X "If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again" - New General Megathread for the 19th-21th of May 2025

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  • Another day, another feckless loser launching their ActBlue spam campaign of asking me for $10 (a bold step up from their usual ask of $5) to "send a message that Democrats will not tolerate authoritarian behavior."

    I've been getting texted pretty much every 1-2 days, each day a new campaign, for the past month, so it must be a profitable grift, probably lots of donations flying in from liberals scared away from brunch at the moment. It's unfortunate that I can't even take any pleasure in cussing them out, because I know no real human is behind the mountains of text they've been spewing out.

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    God forbid a woman do anything 🙄 CW: Description of Violence

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  • Talk shit, get lit

  • Treat machine is turned off.

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  • Sold down the river by who?

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    Vladimir I Lenin "So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state" - New General Megathread for the 21st-24th of April 2025

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  • FWIW, stuff I ordered from aliexpress these past couple of weeks has shipped and cleared customs from China without any problem.

  • Mafio Calzone

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  • Hadar Sayar (pronounced "hah dar say er")

  • How overloaded would the Tankie Tube server(s?) get if a popular content creator like Rathbone migrated to us instead?

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  • Rathbone recently went on InfoWars and then him and his partner started a gross mud-slinging campaign against a few other content creators that rightfully called him out for it. Him, his partner (comradebaddie), and any creator friends still in his circle (buddyhead) are not comrades and we should not be making space for them.

    Also, the fact that this went down so suddenly (although I didn't follow him much, so I idk if there were more signs) is a good lesson in why we should be much more critical of content creators, especially when they are not explicitly and demonstrably principled Marxist/dialectical materialists and are growing to a size where they are strongly financially incentivized to pivot to reactionary politics.

  • China will dominate the world of tech, Web Summit’s Cosgrave says

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  • Gonna be real funny when China inevitably leapfrogs western GPUs and CPUs, but such hardware will be unobtainable for western consumers due to protectionist sanctions.

    Will popular consensus be to just deny the reality of superior Chinese tech and continue in their rabid sinophobia, or will g*mers turn on western politicians gatekeeping them from higher frame rates?

    Historians may mark the date of the true beginning of the end of western civilization as the upload date of a Gamers Nexus review of a Chinese gaming PC running Cyberpunk 2077 @ native 8k 240fps with raytracing enabled.