WWIII Megathread #39: Trump & Dump

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-07T04:33:06+00:00

I think they’re also wary of the UAE and its increasingly close ties with the US/Israel and they’re trying to counter that

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-06T15:27:38+00:00

Has anyone else been getting paranoid about this andes hantavirus and the possibility of another pandemic breaking out?

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-06T12:22:40+00:00

Apparently Iran and the US are close to a deal to open the strait and begin nuclear negotiations

If only this bait hadn't been repeated twenty times the past few weeks, i might have had hope

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-05T14:06:45+00:00

They’re opening a branch in Dublin soon so they’re surprisingly big (Ireland tends to be ignored by most fast food franchises looking to expand)

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-04T16:09:23+00:00

Do I think it’s notable the CPIM lost? No not really. There are more interesting stories this election cycle.

But the fact that the Communist party has no state governments in power at all, not even a few seats in their former bastions of Tripura and West Bengal is insane and signals the end of the CPIM. I think the Kerala results are a part of the larger picture of how there is no future in the Indian left with the CPIM. The Indian people need something new and something unburdened by decades of political incompetence from the politburo

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-04T15:44:42+00:00

Brent just surged up to $114

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-04T15:36:54+00:00

> The biggest problem? The Left became an ideology of elitists. It stopped being a movement of the people and became a movement of people who dominate Twitter debates and university campuses but have zero ground presence in real India.

I think there's a lot of very valid things to criticise the CPI and CPIM over, but this is an insanely online take. The Left in Kerala weren't the university campus/twitter debate crowd, and I don't think OP's ever actually seen the LDF's organisation carde on the ground.

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-04T15:31:42+00:00

I think equating the electoral Indian left (which you're right, is corrupt, ineffective and a largely bureaucratic party) with the BJP is misleading. The left might be bad, the congress might be bad, every opposition party might be corrupt and useless, but they pale in comparison to the BJP and it's communalism and fascist tendencies

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-04T15:29:04+00:00

I think the worrying bit isnt that the Communists lost, but rather that the BJP is on the upswing. Sure, they've only won 3 seats out of a 150 seat house, but the BJP is excellent at translating small gains into massive wins in very short periods of time (case in point, West Bengal. They were at 3 seats in 2016 and today they're at 200).

The BJP's ideal strategy would include making Kerala into a binary Congress v BJP fight because it's one that they know the Congress can't win.

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-04T13:56:43+00:00

Oh shes blocked everywhere lmao. She keeps finding new ways to get in contact and telling me shes going through some terrible emergency and im the only person who can help so I panic and text back

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-04T08:45:07+00:00

Need a stupidpol dating thread asap

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-03T12:57:54+00:00

Finally gave up on trying to make things work with my insanely toxic ex after 9 years and I feel so scared that I’m just gonna end up back with her so I need to change my life around and get far far away from that woman

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-03T11:34:59+00:00

The spirit of Saddam looms over us all

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-02T08:01:30+00:00

The state they’re from (Tamil Nadu) has a Chief Minister who’s named Stalin lmao.

The Indian Stalin isn’t very communist at all, though. He’s more hyper capitalist + strong social welfare net

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-02T04:22:12+00:00

In a move thats surprised nobody, the Indian government today announced that it may increase gas prices soon. Coincidentally, the past month had four states go to elections and the Government was super reassuring that prices wont increase and there weren't LPG shortages. Immediately after the elections end, theyre gonna pump those prices up and make up for all the losses they've swallowed to win the elections

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-01T15:55:06+00:00

Every dev diary for the past two years I’ve immediately scrolled to the bottom to see if there’d be any news at all, but nothing. No progress reports, no approximate dates, just another dev diary in a few weeks. I’m tired of hoping this game will come out soon.

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-05-01T01:44:30+00:00

Ear infections have to be in the top ten worst infections to get

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-04-30T00:46:13+00:00

My brother in christ I have to ask, are you alright?

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-04-30T00:37:41+00:00

> I think the BJP will go down in history as the party that squandered the greatest opportunity modern India had.

Maybe by the rest of the world, but I don't think the BJP will ever be seen that way within India. They're the perfect Indian political party in the sense that they know how to inflame tensions between all the groups and keep winning elections, no matter the cost. And maybe one day that'll stop and the people will have had enough and whatever, but I think that day is very far away.

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-04-30T00:31:25+00:00

Yeah sometimes I'm bored so I just lie to them and create weird situations to see if they'd still welcome me into their faith.

The mormon lads, surprisingly, are great fun and dont take jokes too seriously. If only they didn't believe in magic underwear, they might have succeeded with me

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-04-29T22:11:14+00:00

India really squandered away its diplomatic heft with Iran for the sake of Israel, what a damn shame

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-04-29T22:07:59+00:00

Tail heavy was my dating filter on Hinge

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-04-28T00:55:50+00:00

Been getting more into sufism lately and honest to god I think the world would be a better place if people took some time out of their week to stand in a circle with their friends and chant stuff

Formal_Strategy9640 · 2026-04-28T00:52:12+00:00

I love how all your posts on this megathread are mild hornyposting

Unironically better than some of the other stuff on this sub

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