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I can't stop thinking about Rojava. The whole situation is fucked. The Turks are rolling in, there will be a shitshow between Erdogan and Assad, ISIS is coming back, and the Yazidis, Assyrians, and Kurds are going to get raped and slaughtered.
All because this giant fucking idiot in the White House.
All because this giant fucking idiot in the White House.
Fucking hell on earth. If I could call micrometeorites down...
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I'm not sure Congress can do anything about it - the president is the commander in chief of the military, so his decisions are final unless they are deemed to be illegal orders, which this isn't. Senator Graham (a neocon Republican) is putting up a bill to put sanctions on Turkey if they invade, but it looks like Turkish troops and allied militias are already on the march and ISIS has already begun carrying out new bombings.
An excellent read, thank you. Frustrating, but nonetheless contains seeds of hope.
it seems turkey started bombing villages
I see the bans are being handed down. Y'all you're gonna get banned outright if you start butting heads with "concerned and logical" individuals. So don't even engage, guys.
The problem I guess, is that they can't keep their political fan-fiction confined to PoliEra.
It's funny now, but it's going to get real nasty a few months in. Some members just don't have the emotional involvement in this and just want to feel smarter than others on the internet. Don't give them that pleasure.
The problem I guess, is that they can't keep their political fan-fiction confined to PoliEra.
It's funny now, but it's going to get real nasty a few months in. Some members just don't have the emotional involvement in this and just want to feel smarter than others on the internet. Don't give them that pleasure.
What thread is this?
I got a warning for calling someone a bootlicker for writing a big sob story about Bush starting the Iraq War.
Did we ever talk about this?
Credit where credit is due, American socialists have been killing it with their endorsements/promotion of Bernie Sanders, and are definitely a huge reason why Bernie's grassroots support is so wide-spread.
The one with Bernie winding down and I guess the Ellen Degeneres, too 🤔
Nobody should be surprised at these developments, the US only cared about the Kurds because I guess they saw it as a way to establish political/economic control over Syria, but now with things stalemating and Assad's regime clearly not going anywhere, they view the Kurds as expendable.
havent you heard they are murderers marxists terrorists....
I'm surprised they haven't just executed the prisoners, I assume that if the Turkish army advances far enough and prison breaks are more likely that they'll start doing that to prevent their escape.
I'm devastated right now. Those people have laid everything on the line to fight terror and facism and we hang them out to dry.
Fuck Trump and the GOP enablers.
just sharing something i noticed, i started playing rise of tomb raider, and the game is very critical of the soviet union (its basically evil), but one thing took my attention its to take down the soviet union flags in the game, that isnt the first game i do something similar this gen, in mafia 3 you have a side quest of taking off communist posters in the streets, with some comments like traitors and etc.
like i get it the critic against the soviet union,cuba etc thats nothing new in the media, and i dont care, but this never got my attention at least in AAA games in the past, this type of red scare of incentivizing the player to take down communist stuff as a side quest in mainstream games,. Weird new thing.
i wonder why
like i get it the critic against the soviet union,cuba etc thats nothing new in the media, and i dont care, but this never got my attention at least in AAA games in the past, this type of red scare of incentivizing the player to take down communist stuff as a side quest in mainstream games,. Weird new thing.
i wonder why
Strangely enough, I feel like some games have quite the socialist message that is not as widely spread as in movies, for instance. But that may be because I like indie games.
After seeing the thread on the Ethiopian Prime Minister winning the Nobel Peace Prize, I looked it up and found this Jacobin article that takes a nuanced look at it from a Socialist material analysis perspective. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/06/ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-meles-zenawi
Literally the biggest fucking mood on this site after the last few days.
The Ellen Degeneres thread was a trip, let me tell you that.
Not totally sure, but this partly reads like its more about the performative aspect, the appearance of happiness. It's absolutely true that trying to be cordial and not showing any emotion besides happiness is detrimental to satisfaction / actual happiness. Note the talk about "workplace positivity", this is about performative happiness, to the exclusion of dealing with negative emotions in the workplace. IMO it's much better for people to get sad/angry and work out their issues than if they try to hide their displeasure / unhappiness and try to solve their disagreements through purely cordial means, pretending to be unfazed and "happy" the whole time.
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The entire article should have focused on the statistics laid out in the third paragraph rather than the bullshit point in the title: "19% of criers sobbed over personal issues, like I did, 45% blamed tears on bosses and coworkers, 16% blamed their workloads, and 13% cited workplace bullying."
When 80+% of tears shed at work are linked to work in one way or another, and nearly half are directly linked to bosses and coworkers, your first reaction shouldn't be "people should cry in plain sight" but "hey, isn't that fucked up?" Maybe there's something wrong about our work culture or, dare I say it, the system that created that work culture. Ya know, capitalism.
Like, there is a point to be made that crying serves a function and people shouldn't be ashamed of crying when they need to (instead of hiding for fear of being perceived as weak), sure. I mean, I should know, I almost never cry even when I should - what can I say, I'm a broken little man -, but on the rare occasions I do, I do feel better afterwards. HOWEVER:
1) crying is a way to cope emotionally, not a way to solve or prevent a shitty situation. It's a symptom, not a cause; what prompted the crying should still be addressed
2) the broader subject of crying is a whole other conversation that shouldn't be explored through the specific lens of the workplace. If you're going to talk about work and crying, talk about what's so fucked up about work that it's the overwhelming reason why people cry at their desks.
[EDIT] emesve : yes, and the article briefly touches upon that when the author quotes Edcar Cabanas and Eva Illouz (whose book is precisely about the instrumentalization of happiness under capitalism)... I don't think the author's intention is to defend capitalism and bosses, etc., but their article and the title are poorly written in such a way that it becomes about how people are, supposedly, entitled and shouldn't be too happy instead.
When 80+% of tears shed at work are linked to work in one way or another, and nearly half are directly linked to bosses and coworkers, your first reaction shouldn't be "people should cry in plain sight" but "hey, isn't that fucked up?" Maybe there's something wrong about our work culture or, dare I say it, the system that created that work culture. Ya know, capitalism.
Like, there is a point to be made that crying serves a function and people shouldn't be ashamed of crying when they need to (instead of hiding for fear of being perceived as weak), sure. I mean, I should know, I almost never cry even when I should - what can I say, I'm a broken little man -, but on the rare occasions I do, I do feel better afterwards. HOWEVER:
1) crying is a way to cope emotionally, not a way to solve or prevent a shitty situation. It's a symptom, not a cause; what prompted the crying should still be addressed
2) the broader subject of crying is a whole other conversation that shouldn't be explored through the specific lens of the workplace. If you're going to talk about work and crying, talk about what's so fucked up about work that it's the overwhelming reason why people cry at their desks.
[EDIT] emesve : yes, and the article briefly touches upon that when the author quotes Edcar Cabanas and Eva Illouz (whose book is precisely about the instrumentalization of happiness under capitalism)... I don't think the author's intention is to defend capitalism and bosses, etc., but their article and the title are poorly written in such a way that it becomes about how people are, supposedly, entitled and shouldn't be too happy instead.
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So here's a question that I'd rather ask here than anywhere else on the forum. We are in an moment where climate change related civil disobedience is on the rise. And next year, the first part of the FF7 remake hits. One of the opening premises of the game, from the first scene (which is why I'm not spoiler tagging this) is the need for violent terrorism to prevent the death of the planet from industry. Whilst this is obviously not what Square were going for at the time, do you think that is gonna resonate more now? Can you see it generating a genuine conversation?
Oh, I don't know; "rational" people are telling me that good video games are and were never political, so I guess either FFVII is a good game, so it's not political, or a political game, so nobody will buy the remake.
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It's far enough removed (future dystopia with magic and robots) to not register as relevant for a lot of people. Seems like an easy thing to get behind in a world ruled by cartoon businessmen and soviet/nazi stand-ins vs. if there were a game about blowing up a coal power plant in rural Georgia.
Harrowing, thanks for posting. I've been reading a lot about the region this month; need to continue reading to find out more.
This is both heartbreaking and inspiring all the same.
We should figure out what we can do on a continuous basis to help the efforts there. Since I suspect this will be a very long struggle.
If you mean "cartoon" as in "exaggerated and over the top," well... it won't seem too exaggerated with Trump in office.
For those who know about military stuff, is there any hope at all that the Kurd's forces will be able to defend themselves? Or is Rojava all but dead at this point?
From the little I've read, they're doing quite well for now.
Main problem is they lack air support compared to Turkey. If they had that I'd be less AFRAID of what happened and more FURIOUS. Lemme be clear, the YPG are hardened, disciplined fighters. They just don't have the war machine Turkey does.
I came to the conclusion long ago, that tankie exist to remind people of what happens when you start supporting supposedly socialist countries with no fucking regards human rights.
I wonder, how do tankies even come to terms with inter-Eastern bloc conflicts? Like the Soviet Union had issues with Yugoslavia, Albania and China. If they were all under good intentions, why would they be fighting and accusing each other of corruption/straying from socialist ideals? I don't know how they justify the conflict between separate states.
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They pick whichever side they believe was the most anti-revisionist. Hence Stalinists, Titoists, Hoxhaists, etc.
It doesn't seem like there was ever a distinct self-identifying -ist nickname for the people who continued to support the USSR all the way through post-Stalin, but I guess that's because they just kept calling themselves Marxist-Leninists (the Stalinists of course referred to them as revisionists, Khruschevites etc.)
Thank you for sharing this post. I'll freely admit that I'm fighting a pretty bad bout of depression in light of the happenings over there, and these words do a lot for my spirit.
