Omniraptor [they/them]

I have Warhammer brain so i thought of the golden throne but this works too

reposting this here https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

I don’t agree with all of them, but some are rly bad and seem intractable to me, especially for larger servers.

This is a good rundown on some of the issues

https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07

haven’t actually read what zizek said abt it yet, but i have a hard time seeing how a basic phenomenon such as trans people can be “inherently revolutionary”, any more than any other human characteristic.

I mean isn’t that how all militaries work, unless they rely on a draft? Even on the Russian side a very large portion of the expeditionary force is contract troops and PMCs (at least before the Wagner kerfuffle), not conscripts .

I hear there’s another neat website called google that lets you find the doi of a paper by its title

I hear sci hub is a pretty cool website that lets you find a paper by its doi number

yes, someone should make a list of modern roguelikes without meta progression

I dislike how nowadays slay the spire and its ilk is what people assume for the term deck builder instead of multiplayer (usually offline) games like ascension or puzzle strike or dominion

I wouldn’t mind if we had ru or ukr language communities on here either.

answer the question please I’m genuinely curious

well Russian politics sucks what can I say. In the late oughts to early teens I think he really had a chance to ~do the funny~ but kinda chickened out. After 2011 he toned the nationalist rhetoric way down, tried to run for local office, failed miserably and the rest is history.

Regardless he was still the most prominent/broadly unifying figure for anti Putin opposition of all stripes. Idk anyone who is more recognizable, maybe nemtsov but he was shot in 2014.

and yeah I’m a mostly former lib, but as I mentioned in another comment, Communism has a really bad reputation inside Russia due to ongoing propaganda efforts from the government (who love blaming every possible internal problem on the Soviet legacy) and the ongoing ineffectiveness and hypocrisy of the CPRF.

he didn’t have one, that’s one of the reasons he ultimately ate shit even in local elections

The fuck have zyuganov and his ilk ever done except run interference for the government for all the Soviet-nostalgic boomers and help suppress any independent leftist organzing? It is no coincidence they were the only ones allowed to participate in elections after the 1993 coup.

he is literally me

We (they) just had our first ever female perpetrated school shooting a couple months ago actually

we’ve already been through this with leftists splitting over whether to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion despite them having nazis in their military.

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It’s a meme (in Russian ‘leftist’ social media) quote from a speech by Putin in Feb 22 right before he invaded. About how Ukraine is a fake country created by the foolish utopian Bolsheviks who used declarations of self determination as empty slogans to gain initial support. And then Stalin built a normal centralized state but didn’t bother changing the utopian “confederative” wording.

So now Putin is forced to fix Stalin’s mistake, put Ukraine through decommunisation and go back (presumably to how it was in the Russian empire) before all this communist nonsense.

Here’s the full speech if you’re interested https://web.archive.org/web/20220224052445/http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828

I’m Russian myself and in the winter of '22 I was posting how Putin is never going to invade because it would be stupid and against his objective interests (which is still true imo lol) and that all those troops buildups and exercises were intimidation tactics for negotiations. Then he goes and does it, proving right all the American natsec ghouls and ukrainian nazis who were screaming the whole time that he’s insane/can’t be trusted in negotiations and will invade.