i wasn’t born back then, but i remember watching a punky brewster episode rerun when i was a kid that was about it. probably the first time i heard about the challenger disaster.

and there are no illegals on stolen land.

can you please tell me how exactly chinese psyops will destroy the US? 'cause i can’t really see how anything they could would hurt the world.

would the chinese, perhaps, campaign for communism in the US? how could that possibly be bad?

then in a sense the west is the biggest ally the islamic government can have, because they are succeeding in rallying the iranian people, even those who are oppressed, to defend their country. and that despite the ayatollahs: so far just small unrepresentative groups are calling for an uprising against the regime. even the tudeh and the toufan are condemning the israeli intervention, and they have plenty of reasons to hate the regime.

out of these things you said, so far iran is guilty of only requiring women to stay covered and, to a degree, child marriage (it’s not a state policy, but marriage with girls as young as 9 years old is legal). as far as i know women in iran can drive (the last country where women were not allowed to drive was US ally saudi arabia) and are free to move around, work, study and such, notwithstanding the challenges that women face there (legal discrimination and the oppression that they suffer just by living in a capitalist country).

however, the liberation of women in iran won’t come imposed by other nation states, especially the western capitalist ones, and certainly won’t come as a result of a war against israel. they don’t give a damn about the iranian people, be they women, queer, religious or ethnic minorities. the sionist establishment just want anyone that menace their grip over middle east off their necks, and that’s what the iranian bourgeoisie are doing right now.

if you ask me what i think would be better, the working classes of both countries would team up to seize their military apparatuses and turn them against their elites. if that’s not possible, anything that hurts western imperialism gives the world a small victory, regardless of whoever achieves them. we can take care of whoever punches the west later.

brazil mentioned! does itautec still makes pc’s?

someone’s gotta have the brains. too bad that people here in the brazilian government are ditching FOSS after investing in them for so long.

we have a concept for that in brazilian portuguese. it’s called “gambiarra”.

the day some chinese soldier step on your door, start worrying.

i’m concluding an associate level course of system analysis and i’m glad that right now i don’t rely on it to eat and pay the bills, having a regular job on my previous bachelor’s degree. by the end of the course the college was pushing so hard on knowledge we didn’t (and they didn’t passed on properly) had that i and others had to rely on vibe coding. now that i’m about to pick up my diploma, i’m gonna focus on learning real computer science without the pressure of grades and perhaps have a better chance if i have to apply for an IT job.

funny enough he’s hated by both anarchists (because of makhno) and stalinists (because reasons).

missed him on the meme.

is this some falun gong sh*t?

and proselitizing. don’t forget proselitizing. if possible go to squares and city centers, perhaps with a small table or tent, lots of pamphlets and some good will to explain.

to most modern “leftists” olof palme would be a tankie.

Most of them are 3rd world countries because of these movements…

with perhaps the exception of south korea and with some good will taiwan, not a single capitalist country reached the so called “developed” status coming from underdeveloped. all of those who did received a downpour of american taxpayer money.

let’s just forget for a second what he did or not in epstein’s island, being a billionaire is bad wether the person is an asshole or not. it means we live in a socio-economic system that enables someone to concentrate an insane amount of resources and decide solely out of his mind how to direct the spending of those resources. that they are not being used entirely to solve global warming or world hunger or disease issues is problematic and it’s not some token value spent on charity or point-based solutions that is going to change that. the fact that he doesn’t want to break the patents of covid vaccines is pretty much an example that, when pressed hard enough, he will act on the interest of his class, regardless of what he personally thinks.

the fact that he associated with epstein, independently of his reasons, is just the cherry on top of that shit sundae.

did you just noticed that you are literally defending that it’s ok for someone to go to a secret posh brothel which happens to have underage children as sex workers? that this isn’t a character statement on someone?

billionaires shouldn’t exist in the first place. there’s no way such amount of resources is going to efficiently be used by one single person.

that’s the ideology of the dominant class for you. uncle gramsci knew a lot.