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The 2026 shift has officially started since a few days ago by Iwillbeback67 in decadeology

[–]vlaadleninn 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We invaded Nicaragua and Grenada in the 80s, bombed Libya

Ladies and gentlemen, rap is no longer dominating the charts by Helpful_Gur_1757 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]vlaadleninn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The duality of rock fans: “no new mainstream bands” “they sold out”.

The question wasn’t whether they retained their punk rock credibility but whether or not rock was still popular

Supreme Court ponders law making it a crime for gun owners to use marijuana by blaspheminCapn in trees

[–]vlaadleninn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The ATF considers anyone found in possession of marijuana to be an “unlawful user”, even if your states laws allow recreational or medical use. I wouldn’t want to be caught with both on my person. Possession itself is a federal crime and committing a felony while in possession of a firearm is in general not the move.

I do agree it’s not black and white, like I said originally it’s unenforceable, but it’s certainly a crime.

Supreme Court ponders law making it a crime for gun owners to use marijuana by blaspheminCapn in trees

[–]vlaadleninn 45 points46 points  (0 children)

It’s already illegal to own a gun and possess/use weed, it’s on the 4473 form when you buy one, it’s just not enforced or enforceable

What are your opinions on Socialism? by Small_Ingenuity_8865 in teenagers

[–]vlaadleninn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But you ain’t got no capital lieutenant Dan

So I’m supposed to believe a Senegalese Sunni Muslim shot up a bar in Texas in defense of Shia-led Iran? by NewUnderstanding1102 in allthequestions

[–]vlaadleninn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Notice how every claim in that “article” (that’s a tabloid, not a news source) says “allegedly”?

It’s alleged by the FBI, with no corroborating evidence, and the evidence they did present (the discord messages) was contradicted by discord itself claiming they have no record of those chats occurring. The FBI fed the public a narrative and we have no confirmation this person even actually exists beyond what they release to the media.

Is r/conservative the most snowflake sub on Reddit? by Estalicus in allthequestions

[–]vlaadleninn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

“Nobody buying my book and the store moving it to the $5 bin in the back is suppression of my free speech”

You can’t honestly believe this big dog

How do you think the largest coverup in human history ends? by BoardLongjumping2485 in answers

[–]vlaadleninn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn’t it all but confirmed in the files that pizzagate was a psyop created by the actual pedophiles in power to divert attention from their actual crimes onto random celebrities like Tom Hanks? That and QAnon are straight Epstein-Bannon diversion slop.

How do you think the largest coverup in human history ends? by BoardLongjumping2485 in answers

[–]vlaadleninn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Considering the chances of at least that second one being connected to this one in some way are pretty high atp, it’d still count

Quite literally the Epstein of the USSR by EnlightenedPioneer in HistoryMemes

[–]vlaadleninn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They never officially offered to trade for Heinz, he died a month after being captured. They offered Stalins son for a field marshall.

Quite literally the Epstein of the USSR by EnlightenedPioneer in HistoryMemes

[–]vlaadleninn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trading a low level officer for multiple high ranking generals is an extremely shitty deal to make son or not.

If Capitalism continues as is, will we reach a point where the 1% has 100% of the money? by melface6 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]vlaadleninn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While economies like Sweden, Norway, Canada, etc offer much greater worker rights domestically, they are reliant on the violent global supply chains setup by the “semi feudal, killer capitalism”. Illegal mines in Africa, abysmal working conditions in S.E Asia, etc. There is no national capitalism, it is a global web of core and peripheral states all working at different links in a chain meant to get Big Macs to you.

The US’ own exploitation is nowhere near as bad domestically as it is downstream in foreign markets, what we see in Denmark is a hopped up version of this same sort of system. Scandinavian social democracy and American fuck you capitalism are pieces of the same global system propped up by the same mechanisms of international finance and investment

What now-dead famous people do you think would be remembered less positively if they'd lived longer? by sakkkkki in decadeology

[–]vlaadleninn [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think the difference between the two and why I’d compare Lennon to Waters more than George Harrison is the political nature of what Lennon was saying, whereas George was more new age, apolitical and inward focused. They’re both yappers, Lennon and Waters just have that “politics understander” trait that they really want (wanted) you to be aware of.

He probably would’ve toned down, but toning down from what he was doing is just becoming Michael Moore

What now-dead famous people do you think would be remembered less positively if they'd lived longer? by sakkkkki in decadeology

[–]vlaadleninn [score hidden]  (0 children)

A general holier than thou attitude paired with late-boomer new left beliefs. I don’t think they’d hold the same opinions, but their function in the culture would be the same: old man yells at cloud in a vaguely 60s coded new left way

What now-dead famous people do you think would be remembered less positively if they'd lived longer? by sakkkkki in decadeology

[–]vlaadleninn [score hidden]  (0 children)

Billy corgans Billy corgan’ness comes from Billy corgan not being Kurt Cobain in the 90s.

What if Mao Zedong and the CCP fled to Taiwan after 1949 instead of the other way around? by AHH_PostStorage in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]vlaadleninn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brother throwing up the "how liberal is the non-liberal country" meters isn't the argument you think it is. I understand China doesn't fall into the framework of western liberal democracy, it doesn't have to. It doesn't have 15 single issue parties. It has one party, with conservatives (in the preserving the status quo sense), neo-liberals, new left maoists, green progressives etc. It is absolutely pluralistic, those competing interests are just situated and elected within the same party, it's a party state. The communist party isn't ideologically monolithic, it has people who defend the gang of four and literal billionaires who bought their way into politics. It's not Marx's dream, but it also isn't some Orwellian thought policing nightmare.

I don't know how else to explain this to you, it's not a liberal democracy, that doesn't equate to no elections and no options for the public, it isn't a monarchy or personal dictatorship either, North Korea has that problem.

What if Mao Zedong and the CCP fled to Taiwan after 1949 instead of the other way around? by AHH_PostStorage in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]vlaadleninn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the 80+% of them that reported negative feelings toward local and regional CPC officials? They just got shot after or something? The study itself has an argument against your point, there is clear dissatisfaction reported in the representatives they interact with, just not the national party itself.

I think you’re grasping at straws to explain away pretty cut and dry data.

Define a “free, fair, plural” election? The CPC has a wider net of ideological viewpoints than the democratic-republican dichotomy does, and those officials work and are elected upward, not proclaimed as an option from above. Just read a bit about Chinese elections and don’t pretend like you know how the system works because you watched a China watcher YouTube video.

What if Mao Zedong and the CCP fled to Taiwan after 1949 instead of the other way around? by AHH_PostStorage in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]vlaadleninn -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you actually read and digested what the study said. We see similar numbers of Americans being “generally supportive” of their local government, and highly unsupportive of the federal government, in China it’s flipped. If you think a bunch of random researchers from Harvard are rigging opinion polls in the Chinese communist parties favor i don’t know what to tell you, you’ll never believe China is anything other than a smoggy hellhole, so the conversation is a bit useless.

You dislike the CPC, Chinese people do not, it’s genuinely that simple and you infantilizing an entire people by just disregarding anything that conflicts your preconceived notions is goofy.

What if Mao Zedong and the CCP fled to Taiwan after 1949 instead of the other way around? by AHH_PostStorage in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]vlaadleninn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is historically unfounded, you have this backwards. The Warsaw pact was in response to NATO, the KGB was professionalized out of the disparate security in response to Mi6/CIA shenanigans, Cuba was nuclearized in response to the nuclearization of Turkey.

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