#and the regime WILL collapse

[voidify333]

for anyone who this message will help rn, especially trans people trapped in the USA:

KEEP EXISTING. don’t let that geriatric power-hungry felon and all his cronies outlive you; none of them deserve to outlive you. When the fascists want you dead, keep existing out of SPITE.

There will still be people on the planet when this regime collapses. I hope you’ll be one of them.

[ef-1]

i am seriously puzzled over this internal rbr battle and especially max siding with marko??? like all of this father-son anologies over horner was for nothing???

I have so many thoughts and feelings about this.

1. If you followed f1 in 2018 you know. By the 7th round Daniel was at 84 points to Max's 50. That was at the acme of negotiations. Daniel was tied with Lewis and Seb at 2 wins each. Famously during negotiations, Helmut told Daniel if the car is genuinely a contending car, then they'll let him have the championship this year but from then onwards Max would be the focus of the team. Even more famously is that apparently this set Christian off who tried to get him to shut up and like pinched him to stop talking or something lol. Christian reaffirmed that Red Bulls ethos was the fastest man wins and he told Daniel that Helmut was talking out of his ass but the damage was done.

^that is to say, Helmut has always been on Max's side and so in turn it's obvious Max and his camp will choose Helmut everyday of the week, there seems to be mutual fidelity there. This is not even going into the involvement Helmut had in Max's development.

^^ this also gives you a perspective of how long Christian has been cleaning up after Helmut

^^^In any case the car was not a contender and the nightmare had only began (Daniel's 7 in race mechanical failures and like 12 session problems which included qualis/practice/and grid drops)

2. I think if that fidelity is unconditional as reports are making it seem, it will unravel into a colossal shit show. Let's be honest, the old fossil is about to expire, Christian has been running the show for a while and what's left of Helmuts power is symbolic, Christian doesn't even want him to have that lol.

3. Max clearly has considerable sway in Red Bull so I get that he's throwing his weight around to protect his interests and loyalties but I genuinely don't see a universe where Helmut comes out of this on top. Christian IS Red Bull.

[bijoumikhawal]

"Biden is the best choice and he's actually really empathetic and reasonable but also you can't wait for a candidate that won't do genocide and war crimes because to become a presidential candidate you have to be willing to do that" see what you fundamentally don't understand is I'm not waiting for a candidate that won't do war crimes, because I know that. I cannot morally stomach this system, it's a joke to claim its democratic, and AMERICA DELENDA EST. this country is a plague on this Earth

[anarkhebringer]

I woke up to this and am really thinking about this

[mobiues]

i have so many things to say about the confrontational pie scene but to surmise: while i may somewhat understand s1lvie's frustration over mobius' overall seemingly flippant attitude, i do not actually think mobius deserves to be framed as though he did not care abt the state of things simply because he chose not to seek how his life was like on the timeline. mobius' interest to not see how his life was like is well within his right, something he gave viable reason not to pursue, and, most importantly, will not have swayed him either way to fight for the life he has now and/or what the tva could stand for when the multiverse war is on its way. s1lvie's undermining his efforts was not okay when mobius opened season two with him wanting to safely monitor and defend new branches against strong, unsure voices like dox

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

€2.1 Billion Meltdown of BMW: Free Ice Cream Causes Racist Chaos in China | Stop Hating Foreigner!

China Observer

BMW's recent incident in China has sparked an unprecedented public relations crisis for the German automaker. The controversy began at the Shanghai Auto Show on April 19th, where two female staff members at the BMW MINI booth refused to give free ice cream to a Chinese visitor, claiming it had all been distributed. Later, a foreigner was given ice cream without any issues. The video of the incident went viral on Weibo, leading to a wave of boycotts and causing BMW's stock price to drop by 3.62% on April 20, wiping out 2.16 billion euros of its market value. The incident may have deeper implications, as the Chinese Communist Party may be using it to divert attention away from a major fire incident and to stimulate nationalistic sentiments, putting pressure on Germany. This is due to unfavorable comments made by the German Foreign Minister during a recent visit to China(..)

P.S. Well, what kind of useful and greedy fool still wants to invest In China's Communist Party controlled economy??? Advise for Latvians: It is time to move  money and supply chains out from communist China!  Xi Jinping steers China towards a dictatorship and sooner or later there will be a war caused by him in the Far East...  China will NOT have a HAPPY and PROSPEROUS FUTURE under the control of the communist regime

[nationnow]

Vladimir Putin humiliated as Russian troops are forced to flee Syria

Russia has initiated a military evacuation involving a second airfieldKamyshlywhere an Il-76MD transport plane was spotted organizing various military hardware, from T-90 tanks to KAMAZ trucks for extraction. On a Syrian highway, a Russian soldier driving a pickup in a lengthy convoy of military vehicles was questioned about his destination, to which he simply said: “To Russia.” Specifically,…

[thoughtlessarse]

The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, said that currently 'the conditions are not met for safe, voluntary, dignified returns to Syria.' Austria's government has said it is offering Syrian refugees in the country a 'return bonus' of €1,000 euros to go back to Syria following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The move comes as several countries across Europe have already begun deliberating what to do with their Syrian refugee populations. "Austria will support Syrians who wish to return to their home country with a return bonus of 1,000 euros. The country now needs its citizens in order to be rebuilt," Conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer said in a statement posted in English and German on X. Nehammer said on the day al-Assad was ousted that the security situation in Syria would be reassessed to determine whether deportations could go ahead. Deporting people against their will is not possible until the situation in Syria has been deemed safe, so the government, led by the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) has said it will focus on voluntary deportations. Austria has also stopped processing asylum applications filed by Syrians, in line with several other European countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Czech Republic. But all of those countries agree it is too early to consider returning refugees to Syria. The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, said that currently "the conditions are not met for safe, voluntary, dignified returns to Syria."

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[hussyknee]

It's about shooting the messenger. They hate the scenario you're positing and panicked about the truth of it, so they treat you as the one who wants to cause it so they have an outlet for their anxiety. Liberals hate believing the systems that support them become untenable when they exclude more and more people, and prefer to keep a death grip on and sink with them while screaming and blaming everyone else all the way down.

Not mad just perplexed. "It is possible for this thing to happen that would be very bad for many people so we need to prepare so we can help people if that happens" I say. "But if that happened, it would be bad and people would die!" everyone says. "Yes so we need to prepare" I say. "But the current system is so sensitive to minor upsets, it would be so much worse with a larger disruption!" they say. "Yes, so we will need to make a way that we don't have to rely exclusively on the current system to survive." I say. "But many individuals wouldn't survive a disruption because the system has problems in these ways!" they say. I don't know what to say because I don't know if it would be perceived as agreeing or disagreeing, or how they would feel about either.

[truthwars]

Rebels Overthrow Assad in Syrian Civil War: A Turning Point

The Syrian civil war reached a critical milestone as rebels overthrew Assad's government. Key cities like Damascus, Hama, and Homs fell with little resistance, signaling a collapse in Assad’s military morale. #Syria #Assad #Rebels

The Syrian civil war reached a pivotal moment as rebels overthrow Assad and his government. They quickly captured key cities like Hama, Homs, and Damascus. The minimal resistance from Assad’s forces points to a major morale collapse within his troops. On X, one user posted, “Assad and his family have fled the country,” signaling the end of a regime that once held Syria under strict control. Why…

[narrative-theory]

HTS and the Fall of Assad's Regime

[myberndpulch]

✌The Last Hour: The Death of Hitler and Eva Braun

The bunker was a tomb, its cold, oppressive walls echoing the distant rumblings of artillery. Inside, Adolf Hitler paced, his mind unraveling as the Soviet forces closed in on Berlin. Eva Braun, silent and pale, sat in the corner, clutching her trembling hands. As the final hours of the Third Reich ticked away, Hitler knew his time had come. His once grand empire lay in ruins, and the dreams of…

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

China's Nightmare Is Coming! Foreign Business Flee, 23 Trillion Fiscal Deficit & Birth Rate Collapse

China Observer

Foreign capital is accelerating its withdrawal, a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises are closing down, the unemployment rate of young people is high, the real estate bubble has burst, and the local government's finances are on the brink of collapse... This series of problems, like a nightmare, envelops the land of China. Although there are factors of global economic downturn, the main reason for all of this is the Chinese Communist Party's three-year strict execution of its zero-COVID policy, which has caused serious damage to the economy and all aspects of society. Now, the CCP is not reflecting on the lessons learned, but instead, busy rewriting history, avoiding mention of its zero-COVID policy, and even claiming that this disastrous policy has achieved significant success. In the face of social, economical, and political crises, they turn a blind eye and still paint a rosy picture of the situation. Recently, Chinese financial blogger Laoman summarized the cost of the CCP's three-year zero-COVID policy and answered the question of why the CCP suddenly abandoned it without any transition period in December 2022, after unwaveringly insistence for three years. His summary is very meaningful, and we can draw on its content, as well as our findings in this presentation. We also encourage everyone to participate in the discussion in the comments. The first cost of the three-year zero-COVID policy is that the government's fiscal deficit has sharply increased, with the fiscal burden increasing by 60%.

P.S. Communist dictatorship is not fun...! Reality is completely different from communist and socialist propaganda: In real life dictatorships provide mass political repressions, war, censorship, poverty and boringly miserable life conditions for masses of people...  

[adventuringalchemy]

I JUST SAW AN NSFW MEME OF IVOR BEING INTO RIGGING AND I HAVE NOT BEEN IN SUCH VISCERAL DISAGREEMENT IN MY ENTIRE FUCKING 25 YEARS OF LIFE

[tanadrin]

The supposed efficiency and effectiveness of fascism was always propaganda: in reality, fascist regimes were deeply inefficient, hobbled by interpersonal rivalry, had institutions weakened or totally subverted by the personalist nature of leadership, and were deeply corrupt and lawless.

So it really, really bugs me how so much speculative fiction and even casual discourse since has taken WW2 era propaganda about fascism at face value, and depicted authoritarianism generally and fascism in particular as an intrinsic tradeoff between the chaos and disorder of liberty and the order of repression. Fascism is not orderly! That was always a lie. There is a reason right-wing authoritarian regimes have mid performance at best and at worst collapse due to infighting and military defeat—they suck at running states!

Democracy is the ideology of order and stability. Democracy provides for stable succession and can sustain rule of law in ways personalist rule cannot. Democracy can create avenues of accountability to reduce corruption that authoritarian (or even one-party rule) could never contemplate. “Democracy is chaos” is a lie invented by fascists to try to discredit liberal principles, and the apparent “chaos” of interwar democracies was often caused by the fascists themselves because they did not believe in liberalism.

I think of this most often in the context of video games about politics where it is assumed that authoritarian governance gives you efficiency bonuses at some cost to happiness or freedom—but I think these mechanics are backward. Fascism and authoritarianism are good for the narrow ruling clique at the top, the people they personally enrich, but they make for brittle and weak states, and they often fuck over even the narrow ethnic group or core citizenry whose will they are supposed to be channeling. Starting World War II was very bad for almost all Germans and Italians!

By contrast political scientists debate if a consolidated liberal democracy has ever deconsolidated, and the biggest challenges to democratic systems of government have tended to come when those systems are illiberal (as before the American Civil War), or being sabotaged by most participants (as Weimar Germany, where neither the left nor the right were really interested in democracy).

[caffeinewitchcraft]

They Didn't

Once there was a town far removed from the capitol. Its citizens lived according to the seasons and held that all things would fall as they should. So when the regime came under fire, they were not alarmed. They did not lock their doors nor did they send their strong ones to go fight. They knew there were good people out there who held their interests and fought for their country in their stead.

And, of course, they were right. The Monarch fell and a new Monarch bloomed in their place. Not a scrap of the war came to the town's doorstep. Of course their crops were less than they should be - seed trade had screeched to a halt two years ago - but they were alive and still citizens of their country which had always looked out for their interests before.

So when the new Monarch sent a representative to their village, they were curious. They had neither rebelled nor contributed. What could the Monarch have to say to them?

"Resources are scarce after two years of war," the representative said. "We have come to see what is needed."

The citizens nodded for this was to be expected. The war had hollowed out their winter stores and delayed major repairs to roads and roofs. They needed much.

They were glad for the representative's arrival, but there was much work to do. They set up their stalls for market and did not pay him much mind. There was not much fare to lay out on their tables. They spent their time arranging each vegetable to hide its bruising and to showcase the best side of handicrafts made with amateur hands.

"By show of hands," he said, "who needs new tools to work their fields?"

Such a silly question! The representative had to have seen their fields while riding into town. He knew the barren state of them.

(They did not see he rode in a covered carriage, so sick by the motion of the wheels that he could not open his eyes.)

Seeing no hands, the representative moved on. "Who needs grain to see them through winter?"

Again so silly! Their storage gaped open and empty at the other end of the square. Surely he knew they needed grain.

(The representative thought it charming to have an empty barn as a communal gathering place and made a note to bring the idea to his own hometown.)

"Very good," the representative praised. Not a single hand! He had been to 40 towns already. What a relief to have one not on the verge of collapse! "And your roads? Your bridge?"

At this, some of the villagers rolled their eyes. The last storm had wiped away their bridge. The representative had to take the long way to come into their town square because of it.

(The representative asked to take the long way into town as his report claimed the village had a rope bridge which would make him even more violently motion sick.)

"And shelter?" the representative asked, checking No on every box. He would have said they needed new roads, but what did he know? Not a single one raised their hand. They must be used to traversing such pitted and rutted roads. "Do you have adequate shelter for the long winter ahead?"

Villagers chuckled for they did not have adequate shelter now. The autumn leaves blew through their eaves and their thatched roofs were gray with age. They had no materials to repair them, nor talent. Did the representative not see that their carpenter's booth at the market sat empty?

(Next year, the representative will do a survey of the town himself. He will count the artisans and craftsmen for his census. He will sleep under their roof to judge their condition for himself. He will eat their food to judge its quality. This year...well. Too many needs in too many places.)

"Thank you for an easy visit," he said. He turned back to his carriage. "See you in the summer."

The villagers watched him go in shock. To think he would leave so quickly! Well, it was fine. He had seen their roads and roofs, their storage and fields, their empty market stalls and slim market fare. They didn't need to worry.

They didn't.

The representative hummed to himself as a distraction while the carriage dipped and rolled away from the town. He thought that it was very good that they needed no craftsmen or grain or tools. This village lay in a valley that would become impossible to traverse in the winter months. He would have to act very quickly if they needed help.

But good! They didn't.