If I want to buy Lenin bedsheet sets, do I need to go to a Multi-Lenin Marketer or a Multi-Linen Marketer? Which one has the most authentic socialist sleeping experience?

"What is soulism? Hold on let me do some research." ...

Why did I do the research.

I feel there is an implied "If only Stalin hadn't sent those troops in, my side would have won!" there.

It is, at best, issuing an ultimatum. Which would maybe make more sense if Russia was anywhere close to surrender. Maybe they have drank so much of their own Koolaid that they forgot that isn't actually the case.

I don't think a real peace deal has ever been made without both parties at the negotiating table.

People buy high-karma reddit accounts?

...why?

I too want historical realism in my game about the influence of ancient alien artifacts guiding the entire direction of human civilization since prehistoric eras. If the magical pope that flies through the air shooting energy bolts at me isn't white, my immersion will be absolutely ruined.

Outside of the right-wing nationalists that spend most of their day driving around in unmarked vans, and who the hell cares what they think, nobody here really cares about Yasuke in the game. Yes you can find people throwing fits on Japanese youtube, but our youtube is no better than anywhere else. Talk to anybody in the games industry and nobody cares. If anything, people think it is a cool historical inclusion.

Oh good, surely this means the companies are successful and the quality of life for all employees will increase. It couldn't possibly mean that the execs will get new yachts while the rank and file struggle to pay rent.

Right?

I would say just don't bother with reddit, but Sino is probably the best China subreddit. For the love of all that is holy stay away from /r/China, I am pretty convinced it just consists of sexpats with a sprinkling of diaspora that have never actually been to China. Sino isn't explicitly a communist sub, but that tends to follow it being a relatively pro-China place to begin with.

Genzedong was great, but after the quarantine has largely migrated over here. I think some people still post there.

I was listening to a podcast, and the host was talking about how his son (early middle school age) apparently came home from school singing ad jingles just because of how much they were exposed to it. It's basically the plot of a dystopian novel.

I feel an urge to scream it into the world every single day just how much i despise ads and whoever invented them.

If you are like me and just like reading history for fun, even the history of things like advertising, there is some actual interesting history there. Advertising goods for sale basically goes back as far as recorded history does. We have examples of adverts from the Song dynasty. These tended to be fairly innocous though. Basically just signs advertising a product sold at a shop.

Modern advertising, the more invasive kind that we hate, unsurprisingly got its start in the US. All the advertising execs that basically set out with the goal of exploiting human psychology to sell product are from the early 1900s in the US/UK for the most part. Nielsen and the dedicated advertising agency came a bit later. Thomas Barratt (UK) was one of the worst, he famously bought the rights to a painting and then added a product he was selling to the painting. The artist hated it but couldn't do anything about it.

Look, the poster has played Civ before. He took out multiple tanks by holding a chokepoint one tile wide with horse archers. China doesn't stand a chance.

But their cavalry!

"Understand" is doing heavy lifting in that sentence.

Is this a regular event? Does another mod always reinstate you or something? Or do they just realise they lose half their content when you aren't supplying them with actual news?

Just read the books. If you prefer watching something, there is already the Tencent adaptation that is pretty good. I prefer the books still though.

There is no [good] reason for that Netflix adaptation.

They seemed to do a fine job defeating the Nazis.

Even if that weren't the case, why woud using the weather and the environment not be considered a part of military strategy? Do they still subscribe to "Line up and shoot at each other" military doctrine?

Dear Mr. Blinken, remind me what the law is in the US should a USian ever be charged in the ICC? I am sure full compliance with all the respect due to international law. You absolutely wouldn't have a law on the books justifying an invasion of the Netherlands whenever you want, right?

It's a whole lot of nothing. Technically it is supposed to check for torture, kidnappings, and murder of non-combatants. You know, all things we have evidence of Azov doing. They also passed "Israel" on the vetting.

Supposedly it prevents the US from providing aid to specific units of countries with oppressive regimes, which is the US's favourite pasttime. It doesn't even do that though, because the Secretary of Defense can just bypass it for "special circumstances" (read: anything he wants).

Even if it worked exactly like it was supposed to, it only prevents aid to specific brigades. Which means if the US gives aid to a different brigade and then it was passed to Azov, there are no violations.

They have a very different definition of "particularly effective" than I do. I usually reserve it for military brigades that have successful operations, but maybe that's just me.

That part killed me. Even if she were in the right in the situation (obviously she isn't) if you are planning on getting into a shouting match with protestors, maybe have your [presumably] husband take the pram while you go have your shout. It is totally not okay to bring that poor child into the middle of that, and he just looked absolutely bewildered.

I am impressed at the patience of some of the protestors trying to explain to her why they held the position they did though.