They’re associating them with the cultural revolution. It also says “Do you Comply?”, like they’re going to implement revolutionary terror lol

I liked Zero Parades because I got to play a scrunkly gay woman, who was also communist

They’re a master of not understanding context or history. Surely, this shift in policy with Russia is because he’s a deep cover agent. All those years of opposing Russia through the proxy war were just to blend in. The fact that there is an impending fuel crisis is unrelated.

RussiaGate forever!

I dream of a left wing party, one that exists without the liberal wing of DSA and without the sex pests of upper PSL.

I don’t exactly trust the upper CIA echelons to be fair arbiters of this. They have a vested political interest in maintaining a certain vision and message.

They have multiple.

There is the obvious split, Israeli and Palestinian.

Then, there are the Druze awkwardly shoved in the middle as the “acceptable” racial minority that they leverage against the Palestinians.

There is deep white supremacist strains, where black Jewish people are treated as lesser, including even sterilization.

One of the biggest internal splits, and the one perhaps most dangerous to the State, is the Haredi groups, which are a flavor of ultra-orthodox Judaism. They have an exemption from serving in the IDF, which they very much take, “studying the Torah” instead. They are the main driver of population growth in Israel, generally aren’t super wealthy, and are opposed to serving in the military, albeit for selfish reasons rather than moral. Collectively, this is a very big issue for the Israeli project that’s silently growing in the background. They’re also incredibly regressive in regards to stuff like women, which isn’t a surprise.

They aren’t the only strain of reactionary though of course. There are soooo many different fucked up groups in Israel trying to enact their great future vision. There’s a reason why Netanyahu is “the Moderate” by those who get Israeli society. It gets so much more insane. Some of these groups are more secular, many are religious, but all of them are tearing into the base foundation of the society. They are also all conditioned to commit horrific violence by the nature of the Israeli state.

This is all of course surrounded by an increasingly strained and isolated Israeli economy leading to worsened living conditions, worse employment and so on. It’s an incredibly unstable powder keg. It’s only a matter of time until the knives start turning inward, in a very bloody way.

Israel is a deeply unstable country internally. Not over issues like the genocide, as that’s pretty broadly popular, but there are so many internal contradictions. Fascism, especially in its mature state, is not a stable governing structure. It’s like a Ponzi scheme, but as a government.

Cool, thanks for the update. I don’t follow German politics as well as I should, so it’s very appreciated.

Aren’t they mostly socdems? Don’t get me wrong, it’s better than AFD. Just, the best we can hope for with them is slowing the rise of the AFD, unless they turn further left.

He fried the brains of so many people in the media this week, by (rightly) calling the US a larger terrorist threat to the world than Al-Qaeda. I like to think it made a few people think at least. Real people I mean, not the liberal braintrust.

There’s a second one that’s also very good. It’s a collaboration with some Palestinian artists.

Hinds Hall 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2gkPGcGkLs

He came out with this song of all things in 2005 lol. It kind of got buried and went unnoticed in his career blow up, but there were signs even then.

X link - Hormuz Letter

BREAKING: Yemen’s Houthis appear to have directly struck the YASREF oil refinery in Yanbu on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast this morning, the 400,000 barrel per day Aramco-Sinopec joint venture and one of the Red Sea’s largest diesel exporters. Footage shows a large fire, with heavy black smoke from a flare stack, thick black smoke rising at ground level across the site and workers evacuated.

NASA FIRMS shows two heat anomalies inside the refinery, one at high confidence, with fire radiative power above normal for the site. Yanbu is the terminus of the East-West pipeline and the port holding the week of crude stocks Saudi Arabia has left for export.

There’s a video of the burning refinery in the tweet. Things are going to get crazy soon.

He’s clearly stroked the fuck out. Like, look at him lol.

It’s questionable how much he’s actually there.

I think people have a right to know if an org harbors sexual assaulters.

If the party is shutting down internal discussion and democracy, it’s no longer democratic centralism. The only alternative is to discuss outside of internal channels.

Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be one of the best things to happen in decades. Iran has been pushing back the imperialist machine in every way, and getting a nuke would solidify their position in a way nothing else can.

Well, assuming you are thinking about Hearts of Iron, I think you’ve got the wrong image of this game. Each Paradox game has entirely different teams, with different people and different visions. Victoria 3 isn’t a Nazi larp simulator. While you can get to a fascist government, and simulate the rise of Nazism, it’s grounded in a material analysis of things. You can tangibly see how the fascist movement is a reaction to people wanting better things, a repressive movement to keep the status quo maintained in a time of turbulence.

It’s not kind of thing that appeals to the average chud HoI4 gamer. That’s not to say there aren’t any fascists lingering around, but Vicky3 tends significantly more left wing in the player base, from what I’ve seen. Like, you’re basically playing economic development and imperialism simulator for most of the game, and not in a jingoistic larp sense, but in a materialist, “the game shows many of the incentives that lead to these things”, and the forces and movements that arise from them.

Getting good at the game requires you to learn more about the world we live, and the economic realities much of it. While liberals and fascists can and do still play this game, with varying degrees of cognitive dissonance, it’s fundamentally different in so many ways than Hearts of Iron.

Also it, explicitly really, shows that the best society is a communist one, with equal rights and open to all. It has the highest standard of living possible, and it’s a great move in terms of economic development as well.

It’s generally been getting better and better! There was some recent issues with the recent naval rework, but the devs at least are experimenting and trying new things to improve the game over time.

If you haven’t played since the trade rework for example, it’s like a whole new (better) game.

Huh? Are you talking about Hearts of Iron?