cinnaa42

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just saw a screening of Starship Troopers at my local cinema. nearly passed out from irony when they played an army recruitment ad before the movie in c/movies@hexbear.net
[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

seen the film a few times but something I didn't notice before was that the ship they pilot is called the Rodger Young

Born in the small town of Tiffin, Ohio, in 1932, Young suffered a sports injury in high school that led to his becoming nearly deaf and blind. Despite this, he was able to pass the exams necessary to enter the Ohio National Guard. Soon after the United States entered World War II, Young's company was activated as part of the U.S. Army. Soon after his activation, in 1943, Young was killed on the island of New Georgia in Solomon Islands while helping his platoon withdraw from a Japanese ambush. For his actions, he was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.

so much of the movie is about the death drive

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just saw a screening of Starship Troopers at my local cinema. nearly passed out from irony when they played an army recruitment ad before the movie (hexbear.net)
 

satire: not only dead, but dug back up and killed again for good measure

Settlers 2 is where it all began for me in c/games@hexbear.net
[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i had a port of this on my nintendo DS when i was young and played through the campaign up until a bugged map which i couldn't beat :(

Venezuela: Economy Grows Over 9% in 2025 First Quarter in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

oh yeah that sounds lib then

Why Aren't There Locust Plagues Anymore? in c/videos@hexbear.net
[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

didnt they huge locust swarms in the horn of africa in 2020

Venezuela: Economy Grows Over 9% in 2025 First Quarter in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

i think it's perfectly reasonable to criticise a govt that's continually going after the Communist Party which previously supported Chavez, tbh. they should rightfully be criticised for breaking the unity of the anti-imperialist camp in Venezuela by punching left. i don't listen to that podcast so maybe they're doing so in a lib, pro-imperialist way, though.

China is simultaneously building over 30 nuclear power units, with 10 more having been approved in c/sino@hexbear.net
[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

they reached that point when they upgraded all their railways to level 5 a decade ago

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if you're a politically homeless trans communist in the UK, consider joining rs21 - they organised the trans rights demo in London today and are really solid (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by cinnaa42@hexbear.net to c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net
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i hope there's no rule against this sort of thing - the CPB's vile reactionary line has been on the frontpage, and the comments had a bunch of people bemoaning the lack of a decent left org in the UK, so i thought it'd be worth mentioning that there is a worthwhile org out there (doubtless there are others too, but IMHO rs21 seem the best of the bunch IMHO!)

"rs21" stands for Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century. they're not a party per se, but several of their members have contributed to the "Party Question" series of articles published by Prometheus Mag in recent months, which is worth looking at if you don't follow Prometheus already.

https://revsoc21.uk/

[CW: Transphobia] Look at my communists dawg in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

the CPGB-PC (provisional committee) is actually pretty good theoretically although they are really small and don't do much. the CPB and CPGB-ML are the shitty ones.

also RS21 warrants a positive mention, they've been picking up steam gradually and have some really solid ideas, they're also the organisation who organised the central London trans rights demo today

UK Supreme Court rules transwomen not women under UK law - UK law's definition of a woman is based on biological sex in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

nothing more than playing around with legislation to try and reverse the progress that has been made over recent decades. it will fail just as all other attempts have, even the Nazi regime could not manage it. we can't go back to a time when trans people didn't exist. there never has been one.