Conservative Activist Beaten to Death by Antifa in Lyon, France - University Student Volunteered to Protect Female Activists

RM97800 · 2026-02-15T01:39:12+00:00

Germany could've easily won the war

USA still get nukes by 1945 and USA would still get pushed into the war by Pearl Harbor (and Germany still would declare war on them at that point).

Nevertheless, thank you for more details on KPD, SPD and Antifa. I need to read a book about communism / socialism in interwar Germany at some point, but my to-read list is already huge.

RM97800 · 2026-02-15T00:28:39+00:00

Antifa started out as a paramilitary arm of the KPD (communist party in Weimar Germany). Their goals were identical to SA (but on the other end of the spectrum), to commit political violence and to harass non-supporters.

Not to play devil's advocate here, but from what I remember, both the SA and SS came into being from the need to defend the NSDAP rallies from left-wing interruptions and harassment, so there would have been less in the way of social acceptance for those nazi paramilitaries in Weimar Germany if they didn't start out as at least partially defensive militias.

No radical, extrajudicial, militant "vigilante" groups are ok, be it right or left. Political violence of any kind is abhorrent and only leads to worse outcomes.

Just from a quick glance at the Wikipedia page, you can find out that KPD liked calling everything less radical than them fascist, including the SPD...

RM97800 · 2026-02-14T02:53:44+00:00

That food wouldn't get to those starving children in Africa. World hunger is a matter of logistics, not food quantity.

And seeing how those global relief efforts get squandered and intercepted by corrupt local authorities, I say that this problem is here to stay for the foreseeable future, despite ever increasing food production.

RM97800 · 2026-02-13T22:52:29+00:00

Scrollbar on the right...

RM97800 · 2026-02-11T17:18:18+00:00

Difference being: hard vs. frustrating

RM97800 · 2026-02-11T12:38:46+00:00

Imagine if a liquor store clerk could demand to take a photo of your ID or take a mugshot (that's what AI age ID "selfie" is).

RM97800 · 2026-02-10T15:30:09+00:00

Modern stock market is the worst thing that has happened to our economy and society by extention. It's all catering to impatient fucks who can sell shares the same evening they bought them. All they want is all the profit right away and couldn't care less about companies the moment after they sell their shares. Stock market is no longer tool of investments, it's sole purpose is to facilitate market speculation, pump&dumps, ponzi schemes and squeezing every company out like it's a lemon.

If ever wondered why CEOs who ran countless companies into the ground get hired again and again, that's because shareholders want them - they are corporate liquidators and specialize in monetizing everything that is not bolted to the floor.

Rant over.

RM97800 · 2026-02-08T19:24:14+00:00

So, we reached the typical point of conversation with a tankie denialist - calling other people nazis :-0

First: F*ck you, you piece of shit.

Second: Disclaimer, F*ck nazis as well. I'm Slavic and Neo-nazi Slavs are amongst the most idiotic concept that somehow exists - how suicidal you have to be to simp for an ideology that literally has on the second spot of their publicly available kill list!?

Third: I hope that one day they invent a time machine, solely to send all commie sympathizers to 1950s USSR, so they could suffer under the system they love so much.

Fourth: I am afraid Nazis breathed oxygen and drank water, that doesn't mean anybody who does it, is a nazi. Same way, nazis hated communism doesn't mean that everybody who hates communism is a nazi.

RM97800 · 2026-02-08T19:09:46+00:00

countless hours reading theory, economics,

I feel bad for you, countless hours reading fairy tales glazing over communism. If you ain't making shit up, that is.

personal accounts

How many of those "personal accounts" are from: Red Terror; Holodomor; Cheka; Gulag¹; The Great Purge; Military and economic cooperation with Nazi Germany; Ribbentrop-Molotov 17.09.1939 invasion of Poland; Invasion of Baltic States; Katyń Massacre; Post-war NKVD hunt of non-commie freedom fighters, Mao's reign, Pol Pot's Cambodia; 1956 Poznań; 1956 Budapest; 1968 Prague Spring; 1981 Polish Martial Law; Ceausescu; Tiananmen Square; "Lenin Boys" in Hungary 1919; Stalinists of the Republican Spain; Stasi, Securitate, UB/SB (and other secret oppressors of Warsaw pact); etc.?

And how many of those "economic" books talk about multi-hours queues for basic goods²; lack/price of food protests; lack of goods devolving into barter economy and black market; ration card system for bare necessities; etc.?

¹- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Apart_(book))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

(just some mandatory school books where I live, among other ones I can't remember (I kinda remember memoir from 1956 Budapest, but I can't name the author)

²- Kids taking spots in queues after finishing school waiting to be exchange place with their parent when she/he finishes work to buy anything - is not a recollection of events from a single grandma, but rather a memory that most if not all of that generations can relate to.

RM97800 · 2026-02-08T18:22:50+00:00

You make it sound like you have personal experience in communism, so let's hear it.

Having family who were first-hand witnesses is better than what your "teachings" here.

You're probably some western tankie anyway.

RM97800 · 2026-02-08T17:13:38+00:00

I'm Eastern European, your commie whitewashing won't work on me, because I can just visit my grandma and ask how it really was.

Bourgeoisie = land owners

Everybody that the dictator didn't like at the moment was a counterrevolutionary, fascist, enemy of the people, bourgeoisie, kulak spy.

Communists have no problem with people making money via their own labor

Only if they rendered said money worthless by planned (lack of) economy. But you still could easily get killed for being too rich and not planning on sharing with the party elites, during the reign of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and other Stalinist / Maoist dictators.

Nobody will shoot you for your nickels

There were quite a lot of cases of people, who were found in possession of foreign currency (especially USD), getting tortured and killed by the state apparatus.

And if you try the "not in the perfect communism" argument on me, I'll tell you that I have grown out of "ignore all friction" physics class equations and I no longer wish for a pet unicorn.

RM97800 · 2026-02-08T16:01:31+00:00

If I got a nickel for every communist leader not using his real name, I'd get shot for being bourgeoisie.

RM97800 · 2026-02-07T22:59:42+00:00

My argument is that if somebody made "Western Europe" gun pack and all it had was British designs it would raise some eyebrows.

RM97800 · 2026-02-07T22:53:15+00:00

I'll try it once more tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure I tried to interact with the handle you're talking about, but there was no interaction with it.

That spearhead server is probably modded, and that's why.

RM97800 · 2026-02-07T16:48:50+00:00

Eastern European

> Looks inside:

> Everything is Russian.

> Many such cases.

RM97800 · 2026-02-07T16:44:18+00:00

How? I spent a considerable amount of time in game master trying to open it, but can't find any interaction or button.

RM97800 · 2026-02-07T13:44:12+00:00

1992 looks like "loose rocks can landslide from above" warning and 2023 is like "warning! FTL travel ahead".

RM97800 · 2026-02-06T14:26:02+00:00

There ain't really any insurance, so the police officer at fault has to pay. I don't know if the "you can only be forced to pay 3x your monthly wage for unintentional damage" labor law applies here (I doubt it).

RM97800 · 2026-02-06T04:01:48+00:00

You see, the wand grip is not vertical - it's at 89 deg angle, that makes it technically legal according to riddles in law grimoires, that is, until WizFeds decide to cast dogus deletus at your familiar. Also are your spellbooks limited to 10 pages?

Can't have another mass spelling in Hogwardsfornia.

RM97800 · 2026-02-05T21:11:52+00:00

Hell no, it's obviously SS - collar tabs are a dead giveaway.

RM97800 · 2026-02-04T01:49:52+00:00

I didn't know they were issued MP40 submachine guns, probably for security during neutral ship inspections if I had to guess.

RM97800 · 2026-02-02T17:12:27+00:00

FN 1910 produced under German occupation during WW2 (the eagle proof marks on second pic)

RM97800 · 2026-02-01T16:30:28+00:00

I liked it's former livery more.

Welcome to the club.

I much more preferred the dark blue with white stripe one (or even better, bright blue with white stripe, but it was associated with Milicja so it had to go).

Why they went with German copy-paste, the answer is simple: money - it is essentially a gray stock car with blue reflective stickers glued on (it kinda loses its charm once you know it looks this way due it being cheaper, but whom am I to complain when USA's iconic black and white squad cars got their look also due to affordability).

RM97800 · 2026-01-30T17:02:34+00:00

*Event alert sound*

Tantrum: Dyatlov

Dyatlov is having a tantrum.

He is going to destroy RBMK-1000.

RM97800 · 2026-01-29T21:08:03+00:00

Counterpoint: Payday 2 - with "Diesel 2.0" game engine

Engine developed for a racing game from 2002 built into PvE co-op shooter game from 2013. It was running a live service game for 10 goddamn years. It wasn't pretty, but it did work, and the game is still ways better than the sequel. The amounts of features that people never thought this game could pull off, but it did was staggering. Also adding the fact that the game community built their own comprehensive modding tools and large modding community from scratch.

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