I mean who gives a fuck, no one is ever going to NOT have porn

What kind of support or services would you like or should be expected for diagnosed adults?

They're mostly just making finding roms more inconvenient, I remember when every other rom site had literally every game for all the old consoles available for download, nowadays I get a lot of "your government blocked this website" or the site doesn't have all the consoles

The more I learn, and get invested, about Cuba the worse I feel, because it genuinely feels like that is the AES state most committed to international socialism but it's also going through a very hard time right now. Let's hope multipolarity results in some unembargoable (new word I invented) trade block that Cuba can join.

It's why they view the USSR as irredeemable and illegitimate because of the blood cost of collectivization but the United Kingdom gets away mostly scot free for what they did to India

Anyone here know the history of Afghanistan/Taliban-Palestinian relations? I know ISIS hated Palestine, and literally every other arab state, but how does Afghanistan and the Taliban which is geographically more distant relate to Palestinians, is it any different than the other central asian muslim republics?

Definitively don't vote labour

Despite making calls that have enraged the right-wing press — such as allowing Left Alliance MPs a free vote in Parliament on whether Finland should join NATO.

In said vote half their MPs voted in favour of Finland joining Nato, with the conditions that its membership "remain defensive, with no permanent NATO military bases or nuclear weapons within the country"

I legit don't understand paying a monthly tax to watch my shows

Wait until he says tankie

I have hard time criticizing people for their funko pops and stuff because I spent more than I should to get a 2023 Cuba WBC baseball cap.

I spend money on cuban stuff all the time (mainly rum) but I'll never forfeit my right to shit on funko pops when nendoroids are so much better

The only phase I'd take out or rephrase is the "far right drives economy off a cliff", like, I'm pretty sure you can't say meloni is any more of a neoliberal than draghi before her, and she's just continuing to carry out his and the EU's economic plan anyways, and regarding Poland from what I understand the period where PiS was in power was noticeably better economically than the centrist liberals before them just because they weren't as committed to neoliberalism, to the point that a lot of poles reluctance to vote the liberals back despite PiS's rollback of LGBT rights and, in EU-speak, "democratic backsliding" was that the liberals would take away a subsidy system that PiS implemented that helped a lot of people.

I guess if he doesn't pair that with "israel and the IDF should also be forcibly disarmed" I agree that it's problematic.

In Portugal the turnout for the eu elections was 40%, the 2 centrist ruling parties tied with the center left being slightly ahead which everyone is making a lot of hay about since the center right is governing right now and the former center-left absolute majority government seems to have been couped by the judicial branch, the far right and market radical liberals got 9% each, which is a big decrease from the far right and increase for the liberals (who have a lot of youth vote) compared to the national election a few months ago. The communist party and left block each lost 1 MEP and elected 1 MEP, the pro-war eurocuck green party missed electing anyone by a few thousand votes (which is good because they would've taken the communist's seat), this was after a ton of articles came out reposting a POLITICO hit piece which named the 2 portuguese communist former MEPs as among the "largest friends of Putin" for not voting along with the rest of the EU parliament on several russia-ukraine war related measures and anti-china stuff, and obviously a deluge of bashing from national media.

For people thinking taking a principled anti-war stance is already electorally beneficial I'd say not yet, at least not here in portugal, but we take it because we shouldn't feed the NATO machine.

individual EU countries will do whatever they want anyway

Well france, germany and hungary will do whatever they want, but let me tell you that the national elites and peoples of most eu countries view not being in lockstep with the agenda set by the eu as a liability in accessing eu investment funds so they're likely to follow von der leyen into whatever ditch she throws the continent in

Ok, I think you're overblowing it then, this is a pretty milquetoast "I don't like guns and war" take

God I fucking hate von der leyen

More of a german/french phenomenon than broadly european (though maybe france and germany are the only countries that really matter honestly), in most EU countries the further right wing parties are also pro-war, and here in portugal where the communist party has been consistently anti-war, moreso than dem soc Left Block, including opposing arms shipments to ukraine even, we just get consistently attacked and mischaracterized in the media and I can't say we've made electoral gains from taking a principled anti-nato position, maybe we will in the long run but not yet, it has definitely cost us votes.

Public opinion on the war hasn't soured that much here (fucking portuguese provincialism wanting to be "close to europe"), and even where it has a lot of people are still unwilling to go along with us when we call for something like a political solution.

You made the type of statement that is easy to dunk on

In the 2019 EU elections the turnout was 30% here in Portugal, they're really desperate to get people out