[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The war started because ukraine could be allowed into nato. That's not a way to de-escalate. These kinds of articles are so incoherent.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago

They might lose the election over this, or the American electorate might continue its unbroken streak of not letting foreign policy impact the election unless it directly affects them (see the draft for Vietnam)

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

The frightening thing is that it may work amerikkka

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

More amerikkka-clap private amerikkka-clap public amerikkka-clap partnerships!

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/why-does-the-west-hate-russia-so-much.html

Nakedcapitalism.com on British plutocrats' preference of fascism over communism in the lead up to WW2 with many quotes from contemporary European diplomats. A lot of similar themes from blackshirts and reds.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 75 points 3 days ago

High speed rail in Canada between Toronto and Montreal estimated to cost $100b plus, or about $150m per kilometre, or about 10x the cost of similar projects in China

https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/2024-10-30/tgv-quebec-toronto/la-facture-sera-plus-salee-que-prevu.php

This will never happen

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Zelenskiy

the media changes spellings of this guy's last name more frequently than the way chuds imagine zoomers change pronouns

as a real response to the article, no shit. that $60b aid package included a bunch of actual gear but also a huge amount of it was US congress printing funbux vouchers that could be used to order new weapon systems for later delivery

In the Ukraine bill, of the $60.7bn, a total of about $23bn would be used by the US to replenish its military stockpiles, opening the door to future US military transfers to Ukraine. Another $14bn would go to the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, in which the Pentagon buys advanced new weapon systems for the Ukrainian military directly from US defense contractors.

There is also more than $11bn to fund current US military operations in the region, enhancing the capabilities of the Ukrainian military and fostering intelligence collaboration between Kyiv and Washington, and about $8bn in non-military assistance, such as helping Ukraine’s government continue basic operations, including the payment of salaries and pensions.

The $23b tranche is for replenishing military stockpiles, meaning that $ is for the US government to buy new shit from defence contractors, put it in the stockpile pile, and then potentially draw on it via 'presidential drawdown authority', which is the primary mechanism that the US has used to send materiel to ukraine.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

do you think every inch of the golf course countries international-community-1 international-community-2 count as the imperial core? deprivation is not hard to find.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

I think the only way the left can truly combat leftist meme syndrome is by branding it ableism against people who have less than perfect vision

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We know that when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us.”

Thomas Sankara sankara-shining

just take a break for now instead of stopping agitation altogether. when you pick back up again, try convincing different people or using different means. libs are maximally libbed up right now because of the US presidential election but that won't last. this time next week there will be more fertile ground, one way or the other. take heart comrade

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

To be among the masses and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or speak at meetings or conduct investigations and inquiries among them, and instead to be indifferent to them and show no concern for their well-being, forgetting that one is a Communist and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Communist. This is a seventh type.

Combat Liberalism, Mao mao-shining

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

The latest radio war nerd episode talks about AWOL in the AFU and the various exemption bribe systems. The guest estimated that it was more like 200k mobilized people that have refused to fight and bailed.

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or is it just bean counters optimizing enshittification and monetization of a previously free product? oh its certainly the former bazinga

Unproven hypothesis seeks to explain ChatGPT's seemingly new reluctance to do hard work.

In late November, some ChatGPT users began to notice that ChatGPT-4 was becoming more "lazy," reportedly refusing to do some tasks or returning simplified results. Since then, OpenAI has admitted that it's an issue, but the company isn't sure why. The answer may be what some are calling "winter break hypothesis." While unproven, the fact that AI researchers are taking it seriously shows how weird the world of AI language models has become.

On Monday, a developer named Rob Lynch announced on X that he had tested GPT-4 Turbo through the API over the weekend and found shorter completions when the model is fed a December date (4,086 characters) than when fed a May date (4,298 characters). Lynch claimed the results were statistically significant.

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I'm part of leadership of a small community group for our part of town. I am seeking advice on how to smuggle gold-communist principles into a group that is not explicitly communist or anticapitalist but nevertheless is receptive to the concepts.

So far the group is focused on community resiliency in the face of climate change, sustainability, food/skill sharing, social inclusivity (i.e. age, class, LGBT, ethnicity, nationality), and is generally meant to be an alternative to the chud heavy block watch groups on Facebook that just fear monger about teens after dark and property values. The group's politics are not explicitly leftist/anticapitalist but the most active members think naomi klein is great. If it was 2016 I would bet on the group being Bernard brothers. This is a heavily propagandized part of the west so actual political theory is thin on the ground. The membership of the group is likely to grow significantly over time so it is not realistic to put up a hammer and sickle, but nevertheless I want to lay foundational principles that align with anticapitalist/communist values.

For municipal politics reasons, we will open this group up to members from the neighborhood catchment to stake our claim as official reps of this part of town. We are writing our constitution and bylaws now and I want to bake in some antichud deterrents into these documents so it isn't appealing for chuds. In addition I want to frame all our future events and projects with left language, falling short of dictatorship of the proletariat or mao-aggro-shining.

Help me chapo you're my only hope

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My child wanted to watch an animated green lantern series recently so we checked it out. Of course the main character who is the human green lantern is a fighter pilot who does a bunch of sweet fighter pilot flight maneuvers in the opening sequence. I told my child that shows like this often show the military being cool and doing cool stuff, but that in real life what fighter pilots actually do is drop bombs on children. I'm only human, I also enjoy (some) military action movies, but I know it's cotton candy brain poison too.

I hate how many children's shows have pro military pro cop propaganda. How do others talk to their kids about it to inoculate them against brainworms? I usually describe the military and the cops as being like a gang of bullies - they do things to make themselves look cool but really they just exist to hurt people and take their shit.

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