Aru

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[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 7 months ago

It's as stupid as expecting SS officers to be leftist revolutionaires post WWII, no mf

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

1932, that's older than Joe Biden Also it's ignoring an important part, most U.S. army members aren't from poor families anymore, most can afford not killing kids for a job.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

okay, so just because of 1 good soldier that means the rest aren't bad? are you goig to cry next about "fallen troops" in the next U.S. imperialist war because they could've been a comrade?

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 67 points 7 months ago (14 children)

chuds in the US military will never do something good, there's a whole thing about homeless "veterans", never saw them revolt

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 7 months ago

"You fucking right wing extremists" - wants to send Palestinians into the Congo

"You fucking left wing radicals" - wants to kill all Palestinians

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

the soviet tanks they sold ?

Gave to Ukraine, Slava ukraini

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They have around 400, and around 900 stored in the balls

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 7 months ago

my super power is turning people into hating the monarchy

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago

the guy just hated me 😔

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

this is in Haifa occupied Palestine, also I got perma-banned and cancelled from a discord server for posting this image.

 
 
 

A digital footprint – sometimes called a digital shadow or an electronic footprint – refers to the trail of data you leave when using the internet. It includes websites you visit, emails you send, and information you submit online. A digital footprint can be used to track a person's online activities and devices.

Example: memes, videos, tweets...etc, too trackable, some struggle getting hired because of it, more will for less.

After all this, are capitalists these lazy at naming? It uses the same name as carbon footprint which also directs blame on the individual and makes a person get shamed by peers for not their fault.

 

The temblor struck late Friday with the epicentre 75km west of Marrakesh, Morocco’s fourth-largest city.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has hit Morocco killing at least 820 people, injuring more than 670, damaging ancient buildings, and sending terrified residents fleeing their homes into the streets for safety.

Morocco’s state television reported the death toll on Saturday, citing the Ministry of Interior. Of those injured, 205 were in a critical condition.

 

Not talking about thanking others, but like a way of thinking that I find often especially with religious people, the whole "oh you're sad you can't afford good food? Be thankful you have legs" etc... I don't like it and I don't feel comfortable about it, is there like research to back it up or deny it, do you have any personal experience with it?

 
 
 

When I first joined Lemmygrad, I had the peace of knowing that everyone here is participating in good faith, unlike on reddit, which is full of liberals who will comment on everything just to get a reaction or a chauvinistic boner. The good faith here was a very welcoming thing, that even when I made a mistake users corrected me and gave me a second chance to rethink what I said, because they knew I wasn't here to troll and perhaps I was misguided or uneducated on a subject.

After the reddit refugee thing, you'd usually see them on communities that used to be popular on reddit that exist on Lemmygrad's instance (latestagecapitalism) or posts that got too popular, but now they shove themselves on every community here, even if its name was "LENINFANGIRLSCLUB1917" and had a picture of Lenin on every inch of it.

But now, since there's so many clueless liberals that came from reddit and don't know how to act, devaluate constructive discussions on for example if a theocratic force like Hamas should be supported against the Zionist entity or not, into arguments about whether the Zionist entity is a colony or not. nowadays if someone comments some shit like "communism doesn't work because of human nature." I legit wouldn't know if it's sarcastic or actual believers of that.

I feel this has a major negative impact on us and the community, it is harder for anyone old or new to participate here without being downvoted (idgaf about downvotes) or argue on whether Jeff Bezos eats children or not, and any new participants is instantly greeted with a death stare if they can't recite Das Kapital backwards in Hausi.

Anyhow, that was my rant, I personally believe that what we're seeing right now is just a wave caused by reddit, and liberals will either learn how to use Lemmy properly, or leave the site all together because they can't give comments gold awards. With all that I've said, I'm looking forward to the Hexbear federation horizon where we'll hopefully be dunking on losers together. <3

 

Starbucks will now be available in all American military camps

 

thingYou might consider it useless or a waste of time and energy, I don't care, let's just do this stuff, no need for academic level research or analyzing a whole show, just do it ig. And yes this is post an excuse for me to rant about Ben 10.

Ben 10 omniverse/introductionEveryone knows this show probably, cartoon network show about a kid who basically has an alien WMD that turns him into Aliens. I used to love the show as a kid and I started thinking about it more these days.

Show obviously falls into the power fantasy trope that other super hero shows have, but it changes depending on the writer of the episode, sometimes he's Jesus christ sometimes he's just a kid that turns into Aliens that beat other Aliens. There was a few "what if" episodes where Ben used his means who turning into a big fish for fascism or money or fame, classic superhero stuff.

Ben 10 has some political episode, there was one called "prisoner 775" which was basically an allegory for Guantanamo bay. I'll focus on Ben 10 omniverse because I'm writing this smh.

Omniverse talks about racism, immigration and Colonialism. It represents immigrants as literal Aliens who live in an underground city, they're painted as similar to humans but not equal in rights or opportunities, they've been shown to go outside and chill but there's a beauty/human lookalike privilege. There's a character in the show who's basically a right wing news anchor who's racist towards Aliens, creating hatred because he's funded by a right wing human supramacist group (the forever knights), then later in the show this racist news anchor turns into an Alien (I don't like that with the racism allegory). Then there's a few episodes on colonialism and a colonialist Alien race called the incursions or something, colonialist frogs who colonized I think three planets, Earth which was saved by Ben coming back and a revolution thing happening then the princess betraying her father to become a leader and going away with her army, The "upchuck" thingie planet which ended by them just eating the planet to make the colonizers seeth (Literally), then the third one is for later.

There was another episode where Aliens who come from a very hot planet have an extremist group who want to melt planet earth because they need it to be hotter (allegory for Sharia law prolly).

I obviously expect the show to have liberal points of view no shit but some stuff is still surprising.

The PlumbersIn the show, the Plumbers is an organisation that plays the role of intergalactic police/counter space terrorism, Ben 10 isn't a member but to connect him with them in the show are two main characters, his grandfather and his partner Rook, an extremely professional plumber... Who was shown getting information off a criminal through releasing toxic gas on an entire bar in the second episode of the show, which he gets nothing out of and the criminal gets away anyhow. Rook doesn't get punished for torture which could mean that torture is allowed or even encouraged by the plumbers because he's not supposed to be a "corrupt bad apple" he was top in his academy and a literal law nerd.

The types of criminals the organization deals with does range from a buff chicken stealing eggs to build up muscles, to basically squid Alien Adolf Hitler, the plumber prison system is clearly shown to be for punishment rather rehabilitation, as often times prisoners who do their sentence end up causing more chaos, which I guess is fine for a very small number of cases, as there's no way to rehabilitate a character who was basically Squid Alien Adolf Hitler's best buddy... BUT WHY THE FUCK MUST THEIR JAILS LOOK LIKE THIS

Another point about the plumbers is their similarity to the United States or what it pretends to be, The plumbers are protectors of worlds, saviors and bringers of peace who can do no evil, there's some characters that are shown to dislike them, but they don't show any reason to dislike other than doing illegal stuff (duck dude and the Aliens calling them redspots). The plumbers are an ethnically diverse group of pigs with all types of representation, from white people to useless Alien fellas. You might think that I'm insane and there's no way plumbers are an allegory for the writers view of the USA, but both canonically (and I wish I was making this up) were founded by George Washington, so yes the intergalactic hero police were founded by a slave owner.

The plumbers utilize complicated and resource hungry space ships, vehicles, weapons and builds military bases in planets as means of maintaining space law and order, which raises the question of funding and gaining material, could be from a space confederation thing that pays for it to maintain peace. What raises questions is why do multiple planets refuse this service for example Revoggandah and a system populated by creepy Aliens, in the show the reason painted for the creepy Aliens is that they're racist to outsiders... This leads me to believe that the plumbers probably use materials from the planets they build bases in.

RevoggandahThis is the third planet that got colonized in Omniverse, I've kept it for itself because I feel there is much to unpack. The people of this planet are shown to be simple farmers who lack advanced technology and live off the only plant that grows in their planet which can be used for food, clothes, building and most importantly as a fuel source. This planet is clearly supposed to represent a third world country rich in natural resources.

In an episode of the show the planet gets colonized, the people are turned into slave workers using a brain controlling device (which if you want to make it an allegory for propaganda then it is) and the natural resources of the planet are being depleted at an extreme rate. Ben 10 then comes and saves the day destroys the mind control thingie and helps the people defeat colonialism hooray.

The colonialism in the episode is painted as a bad thing which is good, because classic colonialism is bad. But another issue is that Rook (the plumber torturer guy from earlier) is a native to this planet, which makes him seen as a traitor to his planet by the elders and an idol by his younger siblings who want to become plumbers.

Now the thing is that it's completely fine for the people of the planet to basically not want to become a space NATO base and possibly have their resources be depleted by them, but the show represents the dislike towards plumbers using an elder of the planet who is seen as outdated and too much in the old ways of tradition. This is basically straw manning resistance of neocolonialism as old people not wanting the world to change.

conclusionAlthough ben 10 omniverse does a good job at representing the struggles of immigrants in a new country and facing racism and oppression, It has a false perfect view of the USA which is expected ig.

noteI've probably made some mistakes in this or have too fangirlish idk.

 

I got a letter that I'm registered for military service, it's 12 months, I will be accepted in the medical exams and there's no way to avoid it, I don't fear dying in a war since what our military basically does is training and planting trees. I can choose the age that I serve in between 19 and 25.

Service will obviously make it impossible to affirm? or how it's called, yk uniforms and military codes, not really something that i find myself in.

So, I am wondering if anyone here has a similar experience and can provide with some tips or anything.

Also, would it be better to do it early or late? If I do it early I'll be worked like a donkey, but I'll be given more freedom earlier. Or should I do it late which will give me a higher rank instantly (it's based on the college degree not age) and I'll just sit in an office for 12 months, but I'll finish it late and I have the risk of dropping out in college and being dragged into service earlier and possibly falling into a depression mental state with a fully loaded Chinese AK..

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