Yeah, definitely not. "Tankie" isn't some mostly meaningless word like "woke", it's a very specific belief in authoritarian self-declared, so-called "communist" states (USSR, China, North Korea, et al).
They claim to be for revolution and then turn around and give 100% blind obedience to the newly installed leaders. Pointing out their immense power or bad actions gets you called brainwashed, a reactionary, or counter-revolutionary. They win gold in mental gymnastics in regards to how the new ruling class totally doesn't count as a ruling class, how the state doesn't count as a state, how the money doesn't count as money, and how it's still communism even though not a single one of those prerequisites has ever been met.
They don't take down systems of oppression, they replace them and refuse to believe it isn't the greatest idea anyone's ever had. Here's a hint: if your "revolutionary" party demands absolute loyalty, they probably aren't as great as they say.
It's pretty common for places to be sister cities with far away places. Even small towns on the West Coast of the US are sister cities with places in Scotland, South Korea, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Ethiopia, Poland, Nigeria, etc.
Don’t use the war, where people are literally dying every single day, as a thinly-veiled cover for spamming your YouTube channel of 7 subscribers under the pretext of sharing news. You also blatantly stole most of your thumbnail from Reporting from Ukraine’s August 12th video. You can even see the edge of where you cropped out Zaluzhnyi. The fact that you’d leave a comment that is only an ellipsis on your own post proves that you really have no interest in anything other than artificially inflating the engagement of your own post. Pretty shitty all around, if you ask me.
It’s really not as big of a deal as it seems, especially with swift medical care, which it sounds like they got. Even the US has several cases of bubonic plague every year basically without fail.
No, this timeline started with “Shit, our calculations show that we might ruin the world in just a few decades at this rate. Oh, well. Probably best not to mention this to anyone.”
At least some of these names have to be knockoffs of actual athletes, right? For example, he’s no “Sleve McDichael”, but Steve McMichael was a player for the Greenbay Packers football team when this game came out.
Exact same plot in an episode of Suite Life of Zach and Cody, too, complete with birth certificate footprints to confirm their identities. Although, the episode ends with the mom simply recalling off the top of her head which one belonged to who instead of making any direct comparisons, which always bothered me in an episode about the mom having confused the two in the first place.
There's an ongoing medical study I've been participating in for the last several years. Each year, the questionnaire asks all kinds of crazy questions like if I've ever died or ever been shot in the head, among others. If one is actually unsure, perhaps the answer is actually "yes" lol
Robocop is fantastic sci-fi, but this comparison to reality kind of falls apart right at the beginning with the part of corporations helping rioters. Has that ever actually happened? Is there any real evidence of that at all? Corporations have a long history of crushing riots, strikes, and protests with private security forces, such as the Pinkertons. Large corporations are also frequent donors to police departments and police projects. They’d much rather just buy buildings in the part of town that already has low property values and jack-up the prices to a tenant without any recourse but to move out or pay up, even if that means many apartments will sit empty for long stretches at a time.
I think that's actually mostly Kalcifer and his alts. While I'm glad he's doing some work for us, it's because he said he wants to incorporate the paint streak into the flag (i.e. have the snake outlined over top the paint), but I'm not satisfied with this, personally. I don't feel the flag belongs there in the first place, respectful of surrounding art or not.
All titles here are supposed to be just "PIC", even the year is context in a place meant to have none whatsoever. It's literally the only thing the sidebar requests of users here.
You don't have to, it's just that everyone copies everyone else doing it. All that's asked of users is to post when visiting.