+1 for borg + hetzner storage box, though externals do give pretty good value for some uses. I have all my movies/tv on a 6tb external and it would have cost so much more to do it any other way

20. Be a stranger to the world’s ways.

one out of 72 isn’t bad

If you can’t see the tankie in the room…

So many tankies in this thread smdh

Yes I agree 100%. There’s no other way to do it.

For ‘pro-business’ read ‘swingeing privatisation’ but yeah the whole thing is a mess, and I’m not sure it’s possible to have ‘free and fair’ (whatever that means) elections under such conditions.

Wrt reasons to doubt the result, electronic vote counting/voting machines are reason enough imho — but that throws a load of other democracies into question 🤷

Not saying that nothing fishy has gone down, but that ‘exit poll’ was conducted by the opposition, and that margin seems ridiculous considering the crowds that Maduro has been drawing

Top-tier endangerment bait lmao

I’d vote for a candidate who only communicates via ouija board over Trump.

Give it a few months

Worth pointing out that ‘they’ here is the Jewish artist Eli Valley. A lot of his work is about subverting the language of antisemitism e.g. he’ll use typical tropes to depict gentiles, and then e.g. the Jewish figure here has a tiny nose. It’s certainly edgy at times, but he’s engaging with the terms of his own oppression as a Jew

Hang on, are Ukrainians European or not? Because I’m losing track over here

With respect, if you describe yourself as liberal, vote for an economically liberal party, and refuse even to accept economic policy as part of the question, I think the “authoritarian leftists” have your number tbh

Yeah agreed, Haiti really opens your eyes to how race and class intersect imo — and the potted history at the end to bring us up to the present is absolutely heartbreaking.

I’m sorry but this is just flat out wrong in the way that only an American can be wrong

There’s a difference between ideology and affect. I’m sure plenty of Nazis are “nice”

Liberals are, to quote Phil Ochs: “ten degrees to the left of center in the good times, ten degrees to the right of center when it affects them personally”

Look rather than dunk on you, I’m going to recommend Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast, because it gives a fair overview of what the liberal revolutions were about, why socialism grew out of that moment, and how there came to be this irreconciliable beef between liberalism and socialism. The whole thing is great, but 1848 is the real crisis point if all you care about is the schism.

Do you know what the word ‘liberal’ actually means

Ok I’m not sure why but I’m pml over here, so well done for that

It’s because the USSR used to outsource a lot of their dirtiest industry to Poland, and now the EU do it