He hated Stalin. Eric Blair (George Orwell) fought in the Spanish Civil War and joined the Trotskyites.

whisper~whisper "Ssshhh.... You're supposed to joke that it already did look like a family get together and by the looks of it, the next one too."

We're about as American as we are African like the South African colonial settlers who tried to appropriate the term African to refer to themselves but failed.

It's got some of my information wrong.

I had no idea I was hosting Vibecon, but I registered regardless.

"You are right to be worried, the Trump administration has no plan in Iran," Warren said

Ah, so it's much better than I thought on one side.
Question is, how much of a plan does Iran have?

To answer Pete Buttigeg:

That's the point! We're not Benjamin Netanyahu who enjoys targeting everyone but soldiers and police officers.

You know those Russian soldiers dropped their weapons during the October revolution.
If American soldoers are wise, they'd do the same.

I have a better solution.
Why not build a long city from Pickup point to Drop Off point,
with two rows of 500 meter tall skyscrapers to shield Iranian drones from entering,
and then have an oil pipeline go through it in the middle?

I call it, 'the line'.

Arch is better because...

• pacman, seriously, I don't hear enough of how great pacman is.
  Being able to search easily for files within a package is a godsend when some app refuses to work giving you an error message "lib_obscure.so.1 cannot be found".
  I haven't had such issues in a long time, but when I do, I don't have to worry about doing a ten hour search, if I'm lucky, for where this obscure library file is supposed to be located and in what package it should be part of.
• rolling release. Non-rolling Ubuntu half-year releases have broken my OS in the past around 33% of the time. And lots of apps in the past had essential updates I needed, but required me to wait 5 months for the OS to catch up.
• AUR. Some apps can't be found anywhere but AUR.
• Their wiki is the best of all Linuxes

The "cult" is mostly gushing over AUR.

Hearing their slogans, which are complaints, a step up from drums and dances,
I can say that the protests in the US are finally getting slightly less milquetoast.

"We demand Peter Thiel to resign as a first step!"
"Murderers!"
"Move! Out of the way! Let us through!"

Would be better though.

Someone should put in a law that if a politician is going to threaten to move somewhere if X happens,
and X happens, then by law s/he is exiled to that place.

Are you being sarcastic?

Because, and anyone correct me if I'm wrong,
most people here know that what happened during the Tianenmen square insurrection was:

1. Soldiers, mostly the army choir, are ordered to come unarmed and clear the square after months of students protesting in favor of Usonian state-backed exploitative economic teachings.
2. 100+ Soldiers killed, mostly the army choir, by insurrectionists at a road adjacent to the square.
3. Remaining army choir soldiers lead the protesters away through song from the square.
4. 20+ Insurrectionists killed, as armed soldiers arrived and a battle broke out, on the same road.
5. 100+ protesters killed, as a chaotic indirect consequence of the earlier insurrectionists' actions, at a train station miles away.
6. Tanks arrive at the square to prevent further escalation.
7. Tanks leave the square as situation deescalated and tank man blocks the tanks for a while, then leaves, on the same road again.

These insurrectionists went a lot further than the Usonian Jan 6th protest mostly known as the "Freedom Plaza massacre" where "peaceful protesters" entered the capitol building in order to "stop election fraud" where "perhaps 10s of thousands civilian lives were killed as US security opened fire at these peaceful protesters", because unlike CIA-backed insurrectionists, these "peaceful protesters" were ordered by their higher ups to leave immediately instead of being encouraged to block the US army from arriving at Capitol Hill or attack the US army for that matter.

This news is a year old.
China very likely surpassed 1,250 GW at this moment.

"USA bad" well extends beyond Lemmy and I don't think Lemmy is "USA bad" enough.

I'm going with @Sandouq_Dyatha here and say that you are not all international elite spies.
And it's not that "countries I don't like manipulate their GDP".
It's more that GDP measurements, including the PPP kind, are fundementally flawed and that's by design.
China is around 2.5 times the economy of the US at this moment by looking how much they are manufacturing
and how much electricity they use, surpassing the EU per person.

Hahaha, don't be silly.
They want to steal Columbia's resources of course.
They've stolen the Panama canal before.

He wasn't considered fat until the later seasons.

But the poor thing is absolutely true.

I have no horse in this race :)

The fascist armed forces do and they have them trample on protesters.

#1
"Hacked" into my "mysteriously completely disappeared except for some occasional calls that nothing was going on and things were alright" girlfriend's facebook account, but only was able to stay there for one minute.
She logged in at that very next second and in that one minute I found out that she was cheating, pregnant and planning to marry that guy behind my back.

#2
Dreamt (1998) that I was in the future (2010), and my street had be turned into a giant bike path and at the end of it there would be a tunnel at the end of my street.
15 years later I was jogging near my old neighborhood and needed to cross a busy road opposite at the end of my street, so in jest I told myself that the tunnel should be finished by now and guessed where the other end would be. Then I jogged through it and marveled at the street I grew up on had indeed turned into a giant bike path.

#3
Wondered how to pick up girls, found a PUA site.
First chapter: How to most easily start an interesting conversation with just one simple question.
Last chapter: How to have a threesome with two girls who are best friends in five easy steps
Step 1. Be sure to bring a can of whip cream!
Step 2. Here's how to convince both of them to play a game of strip poker with you...
Me: "LOL, yeah as if and why whip cream!? This site is a joke, although that first chapter seems fun to try out."
One minute later, running into the first random girl I see:
Me: "So what's your story?"
Random college girl: "Well... I could tell you but you won't believe it."
Me: "I just read something so ridiculous on the internet, I believe anything now."
Random college girl: "You won't believe it."
Me: "Trust me, I will believe it."
Random college girl: "So me and my best friend and my boyfriend were playing strip poker and for whatever reason, he brought a can of whip cream..."

Didn't they also attack Sudan? Somalia? Columbia? Ecuador? Afghanistan?
And threatened to attack Canada, Mexico, Denmark?
Not to mention Russia.
Plus likely instigated coups in Kazachstan, Georgia, Belarus, Pakistan and Hong Kong.

Basically all their enemies, all neutral countries and half of all of their allies on the planet.