Walter Ostanek

I didn't know Frank Skinner was in Orbital?

didn't we just go through that with masks for covid unless medical play is what gets you going, in which case...

fuck tiktok

Chocolate yeah you gotta spread butthole slowly

part of me hoped that this would be Clark remixes of the Total Annihilation game score tbh

How long before people watch a deepfake version on their shitty goggles of an actual event that's happening in front of them, and believe the goggles over their own eyes?

One of my rellies is convinced that israel pursues a 20x death toll whenever anything kicks off, e.g. if 50 israelis get killed, the IDF will go schizo until 1,000 palestinians are lying in the rubble, then get bored of the brutality and go home. The 2021 strikes on Gaza backed it up quite creepily. So if true, they're nearing that milestone this time round.

OMD / black eyed peas collab when

acid rifle

27 cycle, Super Capacity Plus

Never met anyone who was there, have you? (know how I can tell?). Also, what makes you assume that anti-Maidan people want to be annexed by russia? Ever spoken to any of them? (clearly not). I love how these people think Ukrainians are some kind of magical abstract that they can baselessly wank out any old shit about, rather than actual humans who are refugees in your town right now who you can talk to and learn from (and help!) My Palestinian wife and her family think that they're basically the same situation (incidentally, perhaps that fact explains why I didn't post for a few months). Land/resource grab under the guise of the usual supremacist/imperialist gobshite. Anyone who's not a shoe-size-IQ geopolitical hack can see that. How does the war ending relate to continuing occupation, in your books? (for extra marks please cross-reference this to the Palestinian situation) Zakarchenko was boasting online about launching raids into Mariupol at the same time as the Minsk talks were going on, and yet according to you everything's Ukraine's fault. You don't know who Zakarchenko was, do you. I can hear you googling him now! In a similar vein to before, how many people from the "DNR/LNR" do you know? What do you think of the material conditions in the Donbas industrial hubs before and after Girkin's little pogrom adventure, where the capital was flowing and who benefited (and who tortured who in which basements, in order to protect those benefits), etc? And more generally, what do you think about the other reasons that Putin offered up before the 2022 invasion? As a supposed self-proclaimed leftist, what do you think of Putin throwing Lenin under the bus? And all the stuff about Kievan Rus and the orthodox church - do they seem like sound reasons to invade another country?

no, not that ORB! these days I put my kid to sleep with music from this long forgotten strategy game

was there ever an explanation for the two obelisks?

Guess I was unwittingly on a "cli fi" binge lately: The Lost Cause, Corey Doctorow. Essentially, an extrapolation of political trends pertaining to climate change ~50 years into the future. Weird to read a politically-charged story where I agree with the main character's thrusts but also find him seriously bloody annoying Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson. Neat exploration of the tech bro solution to climate change, and what its ramifications would look like. Also a prescient look at deepfakes and their political potential. Unfortunately as usual, you can tell towards the end that he doesn't really know how to end the story

fascists gonna fascist. Superficially you'd think it nuts that self-proclaimed leftists would end up copypastaing extreme nationalist, imperialist talking points. But, turns out that Churchill was surprisingly cognizant of dialectics when he said that tomorrow's fascists will call themselves antifascists

almost forgot that they were still going

I'm no expert on the domestic Israeli media scene but it seems like they are finally paying attention to how Hamas was Bibi's plaything for decades. Desperately hoping they can Netty sharpish and, with him, perhaps this stupid war and maybe even some of his apartheid bullshit

FIFY, and yes I do (though it often wasn't done from the top, but rather by boyars in the security apparatus) Since the refugees started arriving in march last year I've got to know plenty of people from those areas, their stories of those 8 years when they were supposedly being genocided by ukronazis are pretty revealing - how many have you spoken to I wonder?

Sean Is Gonna Nut

Principles, but only when America (or proxy) do bad thing. When Russia (or proxy) do bad thing... well it didn't happen and they deserved it anyway I learnt a while ago to always be very wary of honky "allies" of Palestinians. I support their cause wholesale but it was very telling how many other self-proclaimed Palestinian allies suddenly went silent when, for once, it wasn't the IDF bulldozing Palestinian refugee camps but Assad barrel-bombing them.

Copying Putin's playbook a la Mariupol (etc) and Assad's (and Putin's again) in Aleppo (also etc)

how has this not been done yet