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Probably because the only reason anyone could still be a Sonic fan in 2026 is a childish inability to let go of nostalgia.

China is a corporate fascist and hyper capitalist economy.

I still have fond memories of “Thrift Shop” tbh. I have no standards when it comes to music though.

I remember talking to a comrade on Twitter about how most post-cold-war weapons are over-designed shite. According to Cockburn, who I quoted in a different comment on this post, these types of weapons systems are the most profitable for the MIC, regardless of how they actually perform on the battlefield (not very well). You can tell NATO inherited a lot of its doctrine from the Hitlerites who initially staffed it with the way they expect their awesome hi-tech Wunderwaffen to win impossible wars for them.

Nah, what’s now the J-35 (almost makes you wonder if the numbering was intentional shade) has been in development for over a decade at this point, and the west is terrified of it.

That’s how controlled hangouts work!

Andrew Cockburn talks about this POS in The Spoils of War:

There is little public appreciation of the extent of the disaster. The F-35 first saw combat last year [2020], seventeen years after the program began. The Marines sent just six of them on their first deployment to the Middle East, and over several months only managed to fly, on average, one combat sortie per plane every three days. According to the Pentagon’s former chief testing official, had there been opposition, these “fighters” could not have survived without protection from other planes. The most expensive weapons program in history at a projected lifetime cost of $1.5 trillion, the F-35 initially carried a radar whose frequent freezing required the pilot to regularly switch it on and off.

I like it here. It’s like if Reddit had kept evolving in a positive direction instead of the enshittified slop mill it’s become.

It’s worldnews, are you shocked?

Very cool, I love getting to see red poetry from around the world in English.

No, they are using the trope of modern communists being horny-brained and only capable of thinking about sex while making everything sexual. The sign is a double entendre of the person being horny for someone “coming” to/for them

Wait, I thought it was supposed to be misogynistic? I thought that was a bit of a stretch but you can’t be serious - I don’t understand how you could draw the conclusion that the figure is portrayed as being “horny”. You’re reading into depth that this MS Paint stick figure cartoon simply does not have.

I can’t tell from looking at it whether it’s supposed to be eyeliner or smile lines around the eyes. Given that the rest of the stick figures are pretty gender-neutral and there’s nothing else that could be considered “feminine” about this one, I would assume the latter.

No problem, sorry to rag on you for being young.

You must be pretty young - “Axis of Resistance” was a response to GW Bush referring to Iran and DPR Korea and other anti-zionist forces as an “Axis of Evil” in his infamous speech. So it literally is American propaganda flipped on its head. Also, the term “Axis” in reference to the losing side of WWII is itself kind of a misnomer. Those powers referred to themselves as the “Anti-Comintern Pact”.

IIRC a book I read by Holocaust historian Donald Bloxham, most Americans had neutral, positive, or no views at all of the nazis for most of the 50s and 60s. It seems a lot of people hadn’t even heard the term used until the schmaltzy TV drama “Holocaust” aired in 1978.