Read.

Seriously, pick up a book and read it up until you start getting distracted by other things/thoughts. Incorporate that in your daily routine, even if it’s just for a few minutes. After a while, you’ll find out that reading becomes easier and faster for you, and you’ll want to spend more time with a book.

Things that can help:

• don’t set yourself up for failure. You might hear people saying they set a goal for reading 100 books in a year, or some other crazy milestone. You say, great, that’s what I’ll do too, then you realize it’s unachievable and quit. Instead set a goal to read for like 1 hour per week, or get through 1 chapter per day, or read 10 pages a day. You just need to be consistent, you don’t have to go in hard. Also, don’t make yourself reading lists or start with big book series. Just pick up something interesting, and when you are done (whenever that point comes), pick up something else that’s interesting, etc.

• don’t stick with reading a book to the end. If you don’t like a book, put it down and start reading something else. Don’t feel guilty about it, even if everyone else says it’s an amazing book. You can always come back to it some other time when you feel it.

• you can start with reading light and entertaining books, such as fiction, as that is generally easy to get into, particularly if the book is a short novel, or has a flowing and simple writing style. Short story collections can be even more convenient, as you can set yourself the goal of reading one per day, which is easily achievable and doesn’t require much time commitment. Sherlock Holmes compendiums are pretty good for this kind of reading.

• find ways to include books in your routine. Like reading for a few minutes before bed, or taking a book with you in the pooper. You can also listen to audiobooks while commuting to work or doing house chores.

• avoid going straight to the “classics” and instead read things you know you’ll like and be engrossed by.

• reading is like a muscle. It gets better with practice. It gets weaker with neglect. Working it is harder at first, then becomes easier with training.

Don’t forget articles citing each other as sources

I would recommend Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin. It does a very good job in outlining the economic situation of Europe before the war, as well as the economics of colonialism.

A more focused (and easier to read) book is The Crimes of British Imperialism.

Critical question, how much are they into reading history? On a scale from Youtube video to academic essay?

Sometimes uBlock Origin doesn’t block all ad trackers, particularly if they are new and not on its lists yet. Privacy Badger is a good back-up to have running alongside it.

Essentially translates to “little American children”

Reddit Enhancement Suite

Also Privacy Budger for additional tracking prevention.

Cuba can’t retaliate the same way that China can.

Simply put, China has a formidable navy, long-range airforce and most importantly, nukes. Cuba doesn’t.

Merz also has Nazi roots

And Annaleena Baerbock of course, who tried to hide it for years

Communication satellites - soviet invention

Cell phones - soviet invention

Unbreakable glass used in touch screens - east german invention

Yeah… Capitalism made iPhones

In 2021, when Italy was suffering hundreds of deaths per day from Covid, it wasn’t any capitalist nation that helped Italy. It’s EU co-members wanted money and austerity to give even meager support.

No, rather it was tiny socialist Cuba who deployed the doctor brigades in the worst-hit European country, putting themselves at risk selflessly, and helped save thousands of Italian lives, without ever asking anything in return.

Try uploading through a web browser instead of an app. Usually it works better.

Seems like George Orwell got something right at least.

It takes effort to make aliens actually feel alien, and then build a good story around them.

It’s far easier (and possibly more engaging for most people) to make aliens by exaggerating human characteristics, and then have a story about humans facing against their worst or best traits.

There’s been at least 4-5 super-massive country-wide protests in the US, in the last decade. How much have things changed? At least how much have the elite even been shaken and made an effort to minimize squeezing the people? The answer is negative. Every single protest has not just failed to bring about one iota of change. They actually led to opposite effects:

1. Various organizations sheepdogging angry and desperate people back to the old political mechanisms

2. Protests have been highly infiltrated, to the extend where they die out from infighting and disorganization, or provocateurs and saboteurs.

3. Reactionaries becoming more and more inflamed and putting their own politicians in power, who are working precisely against what the protests wanted to achieve in the first place.

4. Reactionaries being used in establishment propaganda as a tool of fear, in order to herd protestors back in line to vote and back up the status quo again.

Literally, what is a protest? A protest is a WARNING AND A THREAT OF VIOLENCE. A protest is a show of force, a flex targeted at the elite and the rulers saying “You see how many of us are here? If we choose to come for you, you can’t stop us. So you better take notice and change course, or next time we are laying down the placards and the flags, and we are coming with fire and pitchforks”.

Every single protest that has ever worked, has either worked because the protest targets got SCARED(see Roosevelt’s reforms in the 30s, Nixon’s reforms in the 70s), or because it transitioned into a full-on VIOLENT REVOLUTION.

So when libs go about organizing their peaceful demonstrations and marches, the action is destined to fail, precisely because it is peaceful. US senators, and US congresspeople, and US presidents, and US billionaires, understand this very well, which is why their answer to protesting is to silently ignore them.

The US is just an example here. This applies all over the world. If peaceful protest worked, then judging by the scale of worldwide protests, by now Israel wouldn’t just have stopped bombing Gaza, it would have given Palestine its independence and then disarm itself.

When libs go on about how violence is bad, and doesn’t solve anything, it’s good to remember that the reason we even have a semblance of democracy worldwide right now, is because hundreds of thousands of French men and women got out in the streets, stormed the guardhouses and the gates, took the aristocrats out of their palaces, beat the crap out of them and then chopped their heads off in plain view. And while the French revolution didn’t go so well afterwards, what ended up happening is that the nobles of Europe got scared shitless that their own serfs would do the same to them, so they granted them constitutions and democratic processes.

It’s also good to remember that the reason we have universal healthcare systems, free public education, subsidized households, retirement funds, unions, worker rights and protections, is because hundreds of thousands of Russian men and women improved upon the example of the French, and not only overthrew the nobles, they also chained up the capitalists and put them to hard labour for all the evils they did upon them. The European capitalists got scared shitless, like their aristocratic cousins a century prior, and decided to ease off on squeezing every single penny out of every single pound, and tried to buy off the European proletariats by emulating some aspects of the Soviet experiment.

Yeah, it’s good to protest. It’s good to also remind ourselves that we are many and can achieve things. But protesting isn’t the end-game. The end-game is overthrowing the system that produces injustice. You can’t fix what is designed to be broken. Protesting is one tool we have, but it’s a middle-of-the-road tool. We should never lay down our capacity for violence, because by declaring our docility, we might as well proclaim our defeat.

Isn’t it curious how once the French were evicted from the area, suddenly all these terrorist groups became incompetent and vulnerable? Very weird!

One would even think that the French were somehow aiding these groups! Inconceivable!

Also, there’s absolutely no vegetation or rocks on the ground. It’s all the same texture and same evenness. There’s no burn or skid marks on the ground. There’s no other debris or wreckage strewn about the area. The afterburner colours look exactly like the first image on a Google search for “F35”. The plane’s surface looks rough and matte, sort of like an F16, whereas F35s have a really slick, almost shiny surface. The fuselage of an F35 is much less cylindrical and more ellipsoid (again reminds me more of an F16 or F15).

Probably some news website made the image to accompany their article. Maybe they even mentioned in the caption that it was AI generated. Then other websites picked up the picture hastily and used it without question.

Look for the user comrade-ki.m1950. They will hook you up

And there seems to be a sort of monopoly trust going on for the past 30 years, with companies agreeing with each other on what game prices will be across the board. They are even openly admitting that they are waiting for a big release like GTA 6, to raise the standard release price of games.

Not just any industrial powerhouse. Germany is an industrial powerhouse. Italy is an industrial powerhouse.

Socialism produces industrial powerhouses that are putting people into space, building nuclear reactors and inventing revolutionary technologies.