Maybe, but look at that territory, it’s perfectly positioned to unlock more agriculutural land northward as the world further south burns. I bet the Russian ruling class is eagerly awaiting this scenario that would put them towards the top of the pile in world powers. They may end up in a position to pick and choose from waves of immigrants.

As someone who’s done cloud infrastructure professionally, this is the right way to make a project for setting up self-hosted applications. Not writing a bunch of bash scripts and putting them behind some web UI. We have well established infrastructure/config-as-code systems that are the gold standard which runs most clouds out there. Ansible is one of them. That’s the right tool for this job and a ton of professionals understand it and therefore can easily contribute improvements for the ones who don’t to use. I’m unfortunatrly invested in SaltStack but I wouldn’t feel worried to deploy a (well reviewed) project built on Ansible. Then slap a web UI on it if you like but that should be another project that hooks uses this one.

I read somewhere that a large amount of the refining capacity in America is geared towards dilbit like the one that used to come from Venezuela and now from Canada. Perhaps Venezuelan fishermen’s oil is still cheaper in the end and therefore more desirable.

daily temps are between 35-45°C

Not in Russia. :D

This is much needed.

Penis hazard

Savage

The fact that he chose to forgo a superficial display for a more humanistic approach speaks to his character.

More than that, I think it’s a pretty shrewd political maneuvre.

Looking at your post history, you’re def ultra mega super commie by US standards. Joke aside, the left-right spectrum is a bit of a sham. I like to think of it as up-down in terms of class. Once mfker sees things in terms of class and that most of us are working class even if we don’t make min wage, eyes get wide open. Most of the ideas for how to help our class get more of what we produce historically come from figures who have been somewhere on the left side of the left-right spectrum. However people from different parts of the spectrum have picked and chosen from those ideas, and the spectrum itself is a moving target. Then you have people who make caricatures of the spectrum in order to slander others… But that’s much more difficult to do with class, because class isn’t based on ideas. It just is the material reality and all we need to figure it out is to look at it.

The reverance of veterans needs to stop

Yes.

and people need to ridicule it.

I don’t think this is gonna happen for a myriad of reasons. This society isn’t anywhere remotely close to the permissibility of ridiculing vets. Doing so anyway just looks ridiculous and discredits the person doing it even though they may be coming from an otherwise informed position.

The real victims of American imperialism are not the veteran bastards who partook in it but the people who had their countries invaded and families murdered by them. These aren’t WW2 veterans anymore, it’s the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

Again, you’re making an ethical argument. I agree with it in the abstract. However the material conditions go against individuals in the system agreeing or doing anything about it. Placing the blame on them when all they did is what they were told and pressed to do by the system is doing exactly what works best for the system - misdirecting blame away from it. So I just think ridiculing vets today is just anti-materialist and counterproductive towards the goal of stopping imperialism. I think there are better ways and one of those is what Mamdani is doing. Show the harm to people that Americans actually care about and change the material conditions pushing people into the military machine - by reduce cost of living in his case.

Feel free to disagree. I’m not changing my opinion on this today so there’s no point being spending more time on it. I don’t think I’ll change yours today either. 🤗

I don’t think you’re crazy. I don’t think calling me a mass murderer for what I said, even jokingly has a positive effect on me or most people reading it in regards to dismantling imperialism. I don’t think Mamdani feeding vets is honoring imperialism. I understand how you can see it this way. But it can also be seen as him helping some victims of the imperialist machine. And showing that the imperialist machine produces victims at home, building solidarity with them helps manufacture consent for removing resources from it and directing them towards these victims. Here: “We spend so much on our military, wraps ourselves in flags, only to have it spit our family members and neighbours homeless and sick. We have to feed, clothe, house and care for American vets instead of creating more destitute people.”

Does it look like that’s the attitude of the left? This was posted in a community where very leftist content is posted and it’s got a score of -25. Plenty of this community content is posted by OP themselves BTW but this take of theirs isn’t well received. So not only this opinion doesn’t seem to be prevalent among us, it also doesn’t even say much about OP’s other leftist takes.

Of course it’s not good. There are numerous industries employing workers that produce a lot of innocent deaths domestically and abroad. The vast majority of people working for them are forced to do so by the capitalist system. Most workers in capitalism don’t have the luxury of turning down jobs on ethical basis because often the alternative is destitution. Assigning moral blame to workers in such industries plays into the capitalist individualist myth that workers have the freedom to work any job, to refuse the jobs they don’t like. And that’s anti-materialist, and I think not a productive thing to do. I’d build solidarity and class consciousness instead since that’s the only way to stop the gears of the people-crushing machine from turning.

Calling American vets mass murderers is just not gonna fly. Not only because of the cultural context, but also because they’re workers who had to do wage labour and therefore they’re us.

The joint company was formed to redevelop the site of the Serbian armed forces headquarters in Belgrade, which was bombed by Nato in 1999. The plan provoked protests in the city centre.

Serbian national pride has entered the chat.

People are lead to believe that the FA extends to all facets of their lives. I think that’s one of the reasons why they let corporations get away with so much deregulation. People often don’t realize how much less responsibility corporations have than them for the same actions. I still get shocked pikachu faces when I tell people what limited liability is and they ask how is this shit legal.

Corporations aren’t people and they don’t act in ethical manner you might expect. Any corporate action that isn’t furthering its profits one way or another should be considered a coincidence or a mistake. Very few firms, typically smaller, private, and or with special ideological predisposition fall outside.

He is already elected.