pinguinu

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Discovered Lemmy through looking at the Fediverse wikipedia page and just came across a Lemmygrad post(er) and thought the name was based. By then I had been in a radlib discord server but I knew something was off because they were very pro-ukraine (I'd watched the Boy Boy video about it and felt pretty convinced) and were skeptical of JT, calling him a tankie. Everything in my worldview was vibes-based. I stuck around and lurked this place and Hexbear for like 8 months until I made an account.

Basically everything about communism I know I came to know thanks to the users here and in Hexbear, so I'm eternally grateful for y'all 🫑

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I dunno, I made myself used to it tbh. It's the only portable reader I have. Before reading books I read mangas and it was a real pain, still I had read a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That sentence might as well describe me lol

The worst part is that the only books I have are PDFs so I only read on my phone. Thankfully I don't have many distractions, just the Lemmy app

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I would've had a Xiaomi if they weren't so hostile about unlocking the bootloader (you have to sign up and wait a whole month)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Surely many Palestinians have suffered similar (and worse) ends, but they don't get national media attention like a white active duty soldier does with an act like this.

Even while successfully attracting media attention, the subjacent cause is actively downplayed, or completely silenced in some cases. You can never get the bourgeois media to accurately present reality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Hope this all collapses soon

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Surely this electoral campaign will be a success for Biden 😌
/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Isn't this problem an old one? I remember seeing a graph of water reserves in aquifers through time and it looked very scary

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even Trump said loud and clear that it's because of the oil. Propagandists can fuck off

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I also interpreted that on first reading. But I'm guessing it was a figure of speech, like what a typical westerner would say

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Damn, imperialist Catalonia taking Valencian Community and Balearic Islands but not Aragon

 
 
 

"If I was a Nazi, I regret it": who is Rodolfo Barra, Javier Milei's Treasury prosecutor

The former Minister of Justice and former judge of the automatic majority Court will be in charge of the State Attorney's Office. His Nazi past kept him away from the flashes at the end of the 90's: he had to resign after PΓ‘gina|12 revealed that he had participated in the attack to a synagogue.

"If I was a Nazi, I regret it". The phrase belongs to former Minister of Justice Rodolfo Barra and was pronounced as a defense, cornered after PΓ‘gina|12 revealed his Nazi past, which included the attack to a synagogue during his youth. It was the middle of the 90's and Barra, an untouchable of Carlos Menem, had to step aside. Almost three decades later, Barra will return to the bowels of power: Javier Milei appointed him Treasury Attorney, one of the key positions in the government's administration that will take office on December 10.

Barra's appointment was confirmed by the Office of the President Elect, through the social network X (formerly Twitter). He is not a newcomer to politics, far from it, but has a very long career in right-wing Peronism, public offices and political power, everything that Milei called the "caste": he was a judge of the Supreme Court of the automatic majority at the beginning of the 90's and then Minister of Justice under Menem.

Barra's career is long and full of ephemeris and curious facts. To begin with, he was one of the hard men of the Menemist decade. He was part of the famous "automatic majority" of the Supreme Court between 1989 and 1993, where he landed after a brief stint as Deputy Minister of the Interior and after serving as Deputy Minister of Public Works and Services as Roberto Dromi's right-hand man, the famous "father of privatizations".

view more: next β€Ί