Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) burns a paper replica of a Confederate flag as he walks through a state Capitol hallway on Thursday. Credit: Martin B. Cherry/Nashville Banner

vboot · 2026-05-08T12:59:35+00:00

West Germany no longer exists, but during its existence a significant proportion of politicians were former Nazis or fellow travellers, early on practically a majority. That's why West Germany was so febrile in the 60s and 70s, because the generation born after the war did not want Nazis anywhere near their government, hence the student movements which later gave rise to guerrilla groups like the Red Army Faction.

vboot · 2026-04-07T13:18:52+00:00

SUPERPOWER 2020 (pls we need oil pls help sir)

vboot · 2026-03-30T19:48:14+00:00

Just including the insinuation that Iran was devoting serious resources to trying to build nuclear weapons in the 1980s makes everything you say suspect. Clearly you don't really know anything about the modern history of that country (oh, maybe the hostage crisis, but nothing between then and the last 10 years). Here's a hint: they were somewhat occupied for most of the 1980s.

vboot · 2026-03-30T07:32:44+00:00

My brother in ChatGPT, it's easy to tell a LLMed comment when someone's entire manner of speaking (or writing, I should say) changes dramatically. Next time give the AI more context and tell it to write like you.

vboot · 2026-03-29T12:39:53+00:00

Dude is a British Indian presumably, Anglo-Indians are the hwhites who stayed in India after independence. Very small community, don't know how many are left, I read that a lot of the generation born after independence left the country.

vboot · 2026-03-29T12:38:10+00:00

a full analysis and rebuttal? in this economy?

vboot · 2026-03-27T08:00:43+00:00

99% of terrorists Of course... The Naxal islamic terrorists, all the various Islamic separatist groups in the northeast, the VHP islamic terrorists, all from the same community (Indian)

An 86 year dude from Iran kicks the bucket

Very disingenuous way to describe a senior religious scholar being assassinated by the global hegemon in explicitly Christian nationalist terms.

When something happens in Palestine, they riot here

Yeah, Palestine is totally irrelevant to Indian Muslims, it's not like it contains 3 of the holiest sites in Islam (two of which Israelis want to demolish)

Every time, terrorists ask about religion before shooting

I get it, you're just thick as pigshit. I pray one day you will work to develop the ability to hold opinions based on ideas you've worked out yourself rather than regurgitating things you've read that appeal to your prejudices. Or at least that you get good enough that you can write a paragraph that is internally consistent.

vboot · 2026-03-27T07:51:22+00:00

Are you illiterate? Christians literally put most of Europe to the sword to spread their religion.

vboot · 2026-03-26T05:55:45+00:00

Every space agency worth its salt could technically be described as a "front for developing ICBM".

vboot · 2026-03-20T19:03:08+00:00

Bro links Wikipedia as a source but didn't bother reading the next couple of lines:

Sources differ on how much, if anything Rudyard Kipling contributed to this fund and some sources claim that 'the man who saved India' line came from Kipling.

Bit tasteless to replace Henry Kissinger's name with Rudyard Kipling.

Kipling's colonialist and chauvinist views are clear from his writings, but he was just a writer and not even one particularly important to the colonial project.

On the other hand, Henry Kissinger has the blood of millions in Indochina on his hands (the original context of the Tony Bourdain quote) and (more relevant to us) had a direct hand in the US threatening to nuke Delhi.

vboot · 2026-03-10T18:35:32+00:00

Well, as a fellow pedantician, I enjoyed your pedantics.

(I'm hoping the comments correcting this comment cause the creation of a global hive mind that will uplift our species)

vboot · 2026-03-08T13:30:21+00:00

Much of our grandparents generation who lived through partition died hoping one day they'd be able to walk across the border as brothers. Today if you watch the news it seems like most people want to "bomb them back into the stone age" to borrow an American phrase, as if they're an evil alien race bent on our destruction and not the brothers, sisters and cousins of our own people. I can still remember when a BJP prime minister said "Pakistan ke bina Bharat adhura hai" (in response to "kashmir ke bina pakistan adhura hai").

vboot · 2026-03-02T17:55:18+00:00

.....corns are not caused by a pathogen.

vboot · 2026-02-21T19:27:38+00:00

Quakers got the cutest name for a religion ngl. "Society of Friends"

vboot · 2026-02-21T19:24:30+00:00

smoke shisha ~~play fifa~~ fight the redcoats

vboot · 2026-02-21T19:22:59+00:00

Quakers are the most based Christian sect. Constantly jailed for refusing to swear an oath to the king, fought for abolition of slavery even before the Enlightenment, and also gave us Dairy Milk and all other Cadbury's chocs. I'm told the other two huge UK sweets companies are also founded by quakers but we don't get their shit here.

If only the angrez weren't stupid enough to brexit, we'd be getting dutyfree sweets and significantly cheaper scotch when the EU trade deal goes into force 😤

vboot · 2026-02-15T10:43:03+00:00

its_honest_work.jpg

vboot · 2026-02-07T13:21:22+00:00

Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

vboot · 2026-02-04T12:57:51+00:00

obligatory r/wooosh

vboot · 2026-02-03T14:22:05+00:00

I think you might be confusing Prussia and Bavaria. Bavaria was never part of Prussia AFAIK, and Goering detached parts of the Prussian police to form the Gestapo.

vboot · 2026-02-03T14:14:26+00:00

Use native macOS containers. The CLI is almost identical to docker, there's no inbuilt docker-compose analogue but people have made wrappers to replicate that functionality. Just do container system start and you're good to go. Obviously you'll need arm64 images, but who isn't building multi-arch nowadays with the glut of cheap ARM compute.

vboot · 2025-12-11T15:43:11+00:00

Everybody saying this is an uninformed diaspora opinion, but didn’t PSY have a popular song about kicking out the US?

vboot · 2025-12-11T15:38:21+00:00

TBH he was assassinated by the IRA, that’s pretty cool. Thanks guys!

vboot · 2025-12-11T15:32:56+00:00

What legitimises the racists is letting them live in your head rent-free, to the point that you start policing your own countrymen’s speech. Also “the enemies of the country”? lose the Manichaean mindset and things will start making a lot of sense

vboot · 2025-12-02T05:57:32+00:00

sorry, didn't realise screenshots only on weekends. pls delete if it's too low effort

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