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Photos show North Korean serial numbers. The red band also indicates Korean production.

Thought this was very cool and wanted to share

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A new video.

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"There is a certain cadence to decline, a rhythm of arrogance and desperation, of miscalculation and delusion. The late-stage empire, unmoored from reality yet clinging to myths of its own indispensability, lashes out at perceived threats not because they are real, but because it cannot conceive of a world in which it is no longer the gravitational centre of history. In this way, Russophobia and Sinophobia function not merely as ideological constructs, but as symptoms of systemic decay, the fever dreams of a civilisation struggling to process its own obsolescence.

These anxieties do not operate in a vacuum. They are not simple diplomatic tensions, nor rational assessments of adversaries’ intentions and capabilities. They are deeply embedded neuroses, structurally necessary to the way the West now justifies its policies, allocates its resources, and maintains domestic political cohesion. They serve as both distraction and unifying principle, externalising internal dysfunction and rallying increasingly fractured populations around a common enemy. Yet in doing so, they actively manufacture the conditions for conflict, distorting perception, curtailing diplomacy, and ensuring that even modest disputes are framed as existential showdowns.

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This is the crucial link between Russophobia and Sinophobia: neither is truly about Russia or China as they exist, but about the West’s reaction to a world in which it can no longer dictate terms unchallenged. This explains the almost theological certainty with which these fears are held. The assumption that Russia and China must be threats precedes any specific evidence or policy decision; all new developments are then interpreted through this pre-existing framework. If Russia strengthens its military, it is preparing for war; if China builds infrastructure abroad, it is economic imperialism. The absence of hostile intent is never considered a possibility.

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This cycle is not sustainable. The West has placed itself in a position where it must either escalate indefinitely or admit it has fundamentally misread the situation. But to change course would require an admission that the assumptions underpinning decades of policy were flawed, that the intelligence agencies, think-tanks, and media institutions that promoted these fears were complicit in their own deception. And so the hysteria must continue, not because it serves any rational strategic purpose, but because the alternative — an honest reckoning with the reality of a multipolar world — is simply too psychologically and institutionally difficult to contemplate.

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Russophobia and Sinophobia are not the causes of Western decline; they are its symptoms. And like all symptoms, they can be ignored, treated symptomatically, or cured at the root. The choice remains open, but not indefinitely. The empires of the past did not fall because they were defeated by external enemies; they fell because they mistook their own pathologies for the laws of history. The West now stands at the precipice of the same mistake. The question is whether it will recognise it before the fall becomes irreversible."

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7180575

I'm thinking of using a med to treat C-PTSD.

I have daily traumatic flashbacks.

How do I get rid of this?

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So much Luigism. It's beautiful. (Haven't watched the full video, but Adam is sort of a trade unionist socdem)

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Hello comrades, I've listened to Yanis Varoufakis's analysis on the recent tariffs and I'm listening to this at work as well. I think minute 0-15 covers it but the TLDR is they believe Trump's tariffs are to ensure that Europe and Canada have an overarching goal of getting the world ready for war on China. What are your thoughts / analysis you have read or listened to. I am having trouble drawing a conclusion myself.

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Born from war and shaped by conflict, the Lebanese resistance has endured decades of battles, invasions, and geopolitical shifts. This documentary traces its rise, its defining moments, and the sacrifices that kept it standing. But with the region in turmoil and Syria fallen and one question remains—how much longer can the resistance hold its ground?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26777465

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7163188

Anyone else listened to this? Nice collab.

What do you think?

Trying to find other songs by Shaddix and The HU.

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or just anything about design. if youre working on something etc

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The "we tortured ourselves" gimmick is just self-admitted clickbait and the video itself is pretty informative. Lots of sources in the description.

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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.

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And yet, China is using AI.

...I... don't know what to think about that.

...I really don't.

Because it seems that AI is just a scam.

It may "exist" but what it can do is a scam.

Maybe China thinks we have to use it just to "keep up" with the Western powers, but I dunno.

Anyway, interesting discussion with Adam Conover and Ed Zitron. It's long, but you can listen to it while doing other things. And the comments are interesting too, but then again, there are also trolls in the comments as well (AI supporters here and there).

Frankly, though? I oppose AI. I'm anti-AI. I'm anti-AI in China and anti-AI in America and anti-AI in the whole damn planet.

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These are the same European and American liberals who not only couldn't bring themselves to express an ounce of solidarity with defenceless Palestinians as America's colony state went on an 18 month genocidal slaughter spree but who, in many cases, enthusiastically armed and funded this slaughter spree.

But now, in headline after headline, statement after statement, these fucking liberals, who’ve displayed biblical levels of satanic death-eating depravity, who said the square route of fuck all about the gravest act that a state can ever inflict on a people, they’re desperate for us to feel sorry for a rich man sitting in the White House because Trump said some hurty words?

FUCK OFF.

And let me tell you what you won’t hear from the media obsessing and whining over bullied little Zelensky. You won’t hear that at almost the exact moment Zelensky was walking out of the White House the Trump administration signed off on an emergency package of ‘military aid’ for Israel.

$3.01 billion in arms & equipment. On top of the $7 something billion from a few weeks ago. More than $10 billion in a few weeks.

They’ll say nothing about this. Nothing about this at all. Because they are murderous, racist, irredeemable scum who apply a selective morality to advance political and geopolitical agendas.

They’ll condemn Trump when he doesn’t play along with their imperial games but lose their tongues and their keyboards when he does.

Trump is an obscene and hideous character, but I blame liberals for all of it. All of it. Everything that’s happening.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7131235

Look at this chud video here.

It's just complaining about DEI, but why now? Apparently, Firefox has a "license" to all your data now. How much is that true? Is he just cherry-picking here, in this case? Librewolf or whatever it's called might be a better option. There's also Zen browser.

I got this in my YouTube feed and didn't know it was more anti-DEI slop and now I'm not sure what to believe. Wish they didn't have to make it so political like they accuse others of doing. Ah well. But what is this I hear about Firefox having a "license" to all your data?

I guess that's like a lot of browsers, tbh, but I suppose Firefox has higher standards, or did...

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Once the Dalai Lama fled to India, the Central Government of China eliminated the practice of slavery and serfdom in Tibet.

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I think Altman has the most correct evaluation of what changes with Trump right now regarding the imperialist system being dismantled back into a camp. I'll try to translate some of his recent writings later, but this interview is worthwhile.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26567894

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A while back, I was trying to read "understanding the French revolution" by Albert Soboul. However, I never finished it, not because it was necessarily bad but because

A.Was swamped with work and classes

B.Pre-capitalist class relations have always kinda alluded me

I've also read origin of the family, private, property and the state, but I dont remember it talking about that in too much detail (although it was very good [and maybe I just can't remember {I have a really bad memory}]).

I know theres the soviet textbook on political economy from the 50s, but I would prefer something I can obtain physically, since I have difficulty reading on computers.

Thanks in advance

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