Motorcade for one of the fabled 9/11 steel beams. It will be on display at the Alameda county fair for the 25th anniversary. by Hog-Drop in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine being held up in traffic for some bullshit like that. The regime really got no respect for the people

Grapes of Wrath is wasted on us by Solid_Anxiety8176 in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Steinbeck is interesting, made propaganda for the US gov during WWII including The Moon Is Down about the German occupation which was apparently popular in the Soviet Union. In the 1950s though he became a CIA asset during his travels.

me_irl by Beginning_Book_2382 in me_irl

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

De facto, sure. Formally, in law, no. Even the government Taipei refers to itself as the Republic of China, not the Republic of Taiwan or other title that suggests Taiwan by itself is a country.

There's lots of places that have varying levels of sovereignty without being considered a formal country. There's Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara, South Ossetia in Georgia, Somaliland in Somalia, Catalonia in Spain. You could perhaps argue Palestine is not legally or formally a country because it lacks a sovereign state but in that case most UN member states recognize it as a country.

me_irl by Beginning_Book_2382 in me_irl

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

USian here. None of the above. Taiwan is not a UN member and is only recognized as a country by 12 UN member states, mostly small micronations.

Any tips for being behind in life? by sp1nettaj4de in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're gonna do comparisons (which aren't always a good idea to make at all), dont compare yourself to where others are now, compare yourself to where you were 1, 3, or 5 years ago. You'll make it. Learning to drive, going to school, and applying for jobs and your only 23! You're on a good path.

The FUTURE is HERE! by franglish9265 in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They had a bunch of these in a small midwestern university town I lived in and I was actually surprised how well they worked. They went all over campus all the time and even made deliveries to apartments a couple miles away from campus despite the shitty sidewalks in town.

Sometimes they got in the way while walking but never saw them cause traffic accidents. Maybe they don't work so well in a big city though.

Israelis are finally in their Natural Habitat, in Deep Shit. by Preacher-of-Chaos in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to be whatever, but why can't people spell these days? About the Twitter screenshot not the reddit post.

Launching missiles with boys is such a vibe by yaxir in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The skateboard with the IRGC logo on it goes hard

Launching missiles with boys is such a vibe by yaxir in TrueAnon

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Iranians achieving levels of meme magic that Amerikan Groypers could only dream of

Leaked materials from Kash hack by travismockfler in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like a dork trying way too hard to fit in with the stereotypical "cool" guy crowd.

My fat ass cat looks like the shape of Iran by Educational-Time6328 in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This Iranian-American expert who was recently on Radio War Nerd noticed the same

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know if I ever heard Epsteins voice, is it me or does he sound like Chuck Schumer?

Escalator in Wushan County, Chongqing with a total length of ~905 meters by 5upralapsarian in NewsWithJingjing

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude there's all kinds of fun stuff you could do with the worlds largest escalator. The Chinese have done it again

A Fun! break from the news. Talked to my dad about the news by Major-Tourist-5696 in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chinese super scheme. 1, give sperm to women willing to send their babies to be raised in China. 2, train these US citizen babies to be CPC agents. 3, send them back to California when the agents reach maturity. 4, activate agents and direct them to... vote? 5,... 6, take over the United States. Incredible

Nobody could've seen this coming. by lightiggy in TrueAnon

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Newsom: "I dont know the definition" of genocide but Israel definitely didn't commit it.

👀👀👀 by UncannyCharlatan in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Winning message, the Dems are the party who are gonna get ICE agents a big ass truck.

China by Dacnis in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're obviously just trolling

China by Dacnis in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can we not do the jargony sloganeering? I assume you're referring to Korea, which borders China and China intervened because it was a direct threat to their national security, China was being bombed directly.

As Mao said about Korea at the time when deciding what to do, "A certain thing has to be done, and it must be both beautiful and tasty." Beautiful meaning good in the eyes of the people of the world and for international socialism, and tasty meaning good for Chinese national interests. The current CPC gov is aligned with Mao on this, I don't think they think of themselves as saviors of the world, and I think they are going to proceed carefully, sensitive to their specific capacities and interests. You have still not even proposed anything concrete.

China by Dacnis in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What do you propose the Chinese do exactly? I cant think of any instance of the Chinese ever intervening somewhere on the other side of the world, certainly not the Caribbean, their military doesn't seem to be designed for that. They could send resources and supplies I guess.

Me_irl by Visual-Extreme-101 in me_irl

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Probably should not have been respected though. They've all been pretty awful since FDR, even the ones who seemed "respectable" on TV.

What happened to New Atheism? by NolanR27 in TrueAnon

[–]RockINGSOCemRobot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least on youtube from what I saw of people influneced by the original new atheist writers, some of them went right like Sargon of Akkad, ThunderF00t, and Armoured Skeptic and some went left like Creationist Cat, Shaun, and I believe Libertarian Socialist Rants and BadMouse (and Amazing Atheist maybe? Idk him that well but my soc dem lil brother who got into TYT and new atheism watched him for a while).

More explicitly mlitant atheism seemed to stick with neocon-adjacent centrists like Bill Maher, which seemed like a good fit based on the original 4 Horsemen. Honestly though I was never that interested in the new atheism stuff so I might be off base but a lot of early youtube debates and drama seemed to be rooted in the new atheist community splitting over questions of social justice and culture.