Rod_Blagojevic

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[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

And spending a lot of time shitting.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Nightmare blunt rotation: your mom

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Freedom" in the US discourse is an unfathomable, mystical idea. It doesn't mean your freedom to actually do any particular thing...like go to a doctor without facing bankruptcy.

Try explaining the difference between positive and negative freedoms to the wrong person and you risk being burned at the stake.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago
[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago

good-morning "Putin is gay and woke up one day and decided he would conquer Ukraine. There's really nothing else to know about this situation."

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

Is democracy a process for collectively deciding how we're going to use the resources available to our society? No, it's about voting for Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney for no discernable reason.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

I can't be the only person who doesn't have a constant, uninterrupted cell signal and constant access to a wall outlet. The idea that everything for everyone can always be done on a cell phone always seems like unexamined, tech utopianism.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

whywhywhywhywhy The parliamentarian says you have to die in poverty. It's against the rules for us to raise the minimum wage, Jack.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A giant pane of glass that was custom made to protect a giant wooden conference table. The glass wasn't heavy, but it really sucked turning a corner with it in a tight stairwell, flexing it too much, and then having to clean up a million pieces of broken glass.

I've also moved a lot of logs. It sux.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I heard from multiple liberals with no knowledge of Russia that Putin is trying to recreate the Russian Empire.

From what period? Who knows? Will the pale of settlement be recreated, but maybe this time replacing Ukraine with an autonomous Jewish republic (interesting possibility that should've been done in the 30s, but I don't blame Soviet leadership for not wanting to be the ones that incite the holocaust)?

Is this an empire that will include Siberia and the far east? What about the former Beasarabia region? Will it go to Russia or the Ottomans?

Why, and why suddenly now? Who knows?

Do liberals have any idea what they're talking about? We'll never know.

Most importantly, do liberals have a massive amount of unexamined racism when it comes to Russians?

It's amazing to witness. Over 100 years of US public policy, foreign and domestic, is entirely based on weakening Russia so it can be pillaged by the richest Westerners. We literally don't have health-care because we need the money for munitions used to threaten Russia. Countless US citizens die so we can menace Russia. Our domestic police state exists to suppress left wing movements that consciously or not take inspiration from Lenin and Russian worker organizing. Social conventions have developed that will lead to you being unemployed and ostracized if you too vigorously insist that maybe Russia = Bad fails to really explain anything.

This is all made possible with deliberately cultivated racism, completely uncommented on by libs. Absolute idealism. No intellectual rigor at all. Just pure smugness.

 

Song about an American pilot shot down over Vietnam by a Soviet pilot.

 

This post was inspired by a combination of my ignorance regarding the geopolitical implications of currency exchange, a desire to understand what BRICS is and how it works, and comments in this post making fun of Paul Krugman. (https://hexbear.net/post/1040996)

In the comments to the linked post, comrades @emizeko@hexbear.net and @quarrk@hexbear.net discuss an article with an embedded video where economist Michael Hudson rips into some of Krugman's work. (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/05/ny-times-is-wrong-on-dedollarization-economist-michael-hudson-debunks-paul-krugmans-dollar-defense.html)

It's funny, but what I'm really interested in is an idea that Hudson presented. If I understand him correctly he states the following:

If countries conduct trade using American dollars, they have to first acquire these dollars by providing the US treasury with their own currency. This also requires establishing an American bank account. The US then uses that foreign currency to finance military bases/activities in places that require that currency.

The implications, as I understand them, are that you now have an American bank account holding at least some of your assets, and it's vulnerable to being seized by the US government. It also means that a byproduct of using dollars is that the US acquires the means to pay leases, bribes, contractors, etc. to facilitate military dominance all over the globe. Thus, many nations desire to increase their security by moving away from the dollar.

Comrades, help me out. Is this correct? What other basic things are there to know? Is this really why dollar dominance is so important?

 

I'm a federal employee being required to work during the shutdown (if it happens). I have a critical public safety related job. I'll probably get paid when it's all over. However, I have a lot of coworkers that are really getting fucked

Because I hate hearing about bourgeois bullshit I haven't been paying attention to congressional news. Well, now they got my attention. What the hell is going on over there?

 

John Bachtell, former national committee chairperson of CPUSA, continues the party's decades long tradition of making shit up to discredit the left's greatest accomplishments. Liberals hate that Stalin and the greater communist movement destroyed the independence of Ukraine's ruling class and brought an end to the centuries of antisemitic violence they used to preserve their power.

SMDH my dickhead.

Check this shit out @Alaskaball@hexbear.net

 

Netflix has a new series called "How to Become a Tyrant." Based on the first 2 seconds of the preview (as far as I got) it looks unbearable. Yet, I am intensely curious. If any of you are brave enough/sufficiently reckless with your mental health, I'd love to hear what bullshit is being streamed into millions of homes.

There has to be opportunities for spectacular dunks. Please entertain me.

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