Iran’s soft power is only as good as its word.

Everyone in Europe killing each other every generation predates capitalism. Capitalism did increase the scale though; after the fall of the western roman empire, we didn’t see armies of that size until Napoleon managed to draft a million men in a country of 30 million.

What subjects are you talking about that people assume views you don’t have? Politics?

People don’t commit murder because they’re making a careful decision and figure the penalty of life in prison is worth the risk, but death might not be.

IMO the death penalty is only useful for social murder. The CEO who signs off on the reduction of safety protocols at a baby formula plant, resulting in numerous infant deaths or the pharma exec who raises prices of a lifesaving drug on the other hand is likely to weigh risk vs reward.

The rule against using firearms in the octagon.

China is so salty that karate can’t survive the age of the Internet they are blackballing it’s critics.

Karate is Japanese.

Did you mean Wushu?

It’s closer to Pro Wrestling than a form of self-defense, like they often have storylines and everything.

Whoever told you that Chinese people are mad over a performance art is literally just making shit up.

A thousand people can take guesses, but only a skilled player can say “Oh yeah, that foliage looks like San Juan or some other mountainous region of Argentina”, or “That black electrical tape is a Nigeria thing”

People who live in those places aren’t likely to notice how their electrical poles are different.

Honestly, that sounds exactly like what the CIA will produce when they need people to support censorship or just discourage people from listening to counter-narratives, the same way they supported the production of Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland when they wanted to support torture and unaccountability.

Now that she’s over here, she tells outlandish stories about America to overly credulous libs, such as the time she was robbed and beaten by a black woman in Chicago, and then everyone gathered around her and called her “racist nazi” for calling the police.

It’s Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea and now makes money telling outlandish stories to overly credulous libs.

Such as that North Koreans have to pull trains from town to town, and that she saw children eating rats and rats eating children.

Is a free pdf available?

DocToPdf Disrespect was quietly banned from twitch, and then responded to allegations that he was sexting minors with “age of consent varies between states, what I did wasn’t even illegal and what even is sexting? This is just haters trying to ruin my day”

If you’re not stealing from work, you’re stealing from your family.

Kamala Harris running a damn near flawless campaign, with just a month 1/2 of campaigning.

There’s a few major flaws:

Trying to out-flank republicans on the right with immigration and crime; instead of counter-messaging that republican claims of migrant crime are false and migrants commit less crime than average, and crime as a whole is declining, her campaign promotes how tough she is on crime. This is essentially campaigning for the republicans. The people who are terrified of immigrants and criminals are voting republican.

Trying to out-flank republicans on the right in foreign policy. Harris can promise rivers of Muslim, North Korean, and Russian blood, and the people who want that will still vote republican. Talking about how lethal the US military will be and how hostile the US will be to other countries decreases turnout. War is not popular. Trump’s campaign is already hitting Harris on supporting the genocide in Palestine.

Joe Biden dosent use drones anymore

Huh. Wonder what that US reaper drone was doing over Yemen.

Having the group sneak up on a baby Hydra, that’s actually a dragorgon swimming in the water.

it’s actively hiding an instance as if it doesn’t exist

For the purpose of directing new users, who tend to just pick the largest instance, sure. But if you and they are both federated, there’s no difference in the content.

So what do they do when the next instance gets “too big” for their liking? Hide it, along side LW? And the next?

Correct, because this increases the reliability of the average lemmy user’s experience as one point of failure affects fewer users.

alienating 41% of their active user base

Why would distributing users to smaller instances alienate Lemmy.world users?

If anything, distributing the load results in a better user experience, since the last Reddit exodus was taking down .world every few hours.

Diamond rings are basically worth fuckall for resale. Most pawn shops won’t even take them

The irritation caused by heartburn increases heartburn. So during your proton-pump inhibitor cycle, you still get heartburn, treat it with baking soda dissolved in warm for instant relief

Someone that actually cares about left-wing politics cares a lot more about the outcomes

Yes, that’s why I recommended The Jakarta Method, it details exactly what the outcome looks like when the left doesn’t repress the right and instead lets the sabotage and organize. It’s really an important book because you can see echos of the methods in South Korea under the dictatorship, Taiwan during the white terror, Pinochet’s Chile, Uruguay even before the '73 coup, etc.

they proved they were no better than the capitalists they despise so much.

If you believe this, you do not know the scale and details of capitalist repression.

utopia

Literally no Marxist would call any AES project Utopian, except as a pejorative.

Here’s a pamphlet differentiating Utopian and Scientific Socialism It’s not an easy read due to being from 1880.