now i've never used a sickle in my life but every time i see the Chinese hammer & sickle, i think: that's a really impractical handle on that sickle.

every other hamsic has a decent rectangular handle, but the CPC just has a little nub. what gives

From the Mississippi to the Pacific 🤔

i, for one, support the annexation of California into the People's Republic of Nevada

But this was 2019, why did she go quiet on (the website formerly known as) twitter so recently? And what did she mean by getting "wings clipped" in the tweet?

you forgot Place, North Korea: Either paid actors or oooh so spooky literally 1969, there are government spies in the tree, the nort corean gobernment doesnt want us to see this photo and/or this photo was staged by the govornament for propaganda! Basically how they react to China but x10

REST IN PISS

WON'T BE MISSED

you dont own anything under socialism? thats crazy. let me check the list of countries by home ownership rate rq

here's the original publication: meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/

…i'm not sure what you're getting at, maybe i didnt summarize properly. give the article a read and see if it makes sense to ya.

the article very clearly explains that. Give it a read, it's not that long.

…but if you aren't going to read it, the summary is that the way we think ads work, associating brands with positive emotions (termed "emotional inception" in this article), is bollocks. Instead, they rely on "cultural imprinting", i.e. associating the brand with a kind of person or situation. For example, corona is the beer for relaxing on the beach, nike and gatorade are for athletes. So, if you want to relax with some homies, you drink corona. If you value athletic performance, you drink gatorade and wear nike shoes. Major exceptions apply, please just read the article.

i had a long reply that i accidentally deleted but conveniently this book about Stalin just came out that should give you an infinitely more nuanced "history and critique" of Stalin than the average westerner could imagine exists.

TL;DR Stalin is a complicated figure, just like everyone else. The cartoon villain picture of Stalin that western propagandists have been building for almost a full century now isn't real, no one likes the "eastern hitler" caricature that doesn't exist. We like Josif Stalin, the real person who existed, did great things, did bad things. a lot of what you think you know is simply false, and to understand why we "like" Stalin, you have to learn who Stalin really was, and find out what you think you know about him, the Soviet Union, and communism as a whole, that is just plain wrong.

sorry about the downvotes and dunking that are going to come to you, some folks around here have trouble distinguishing genuine questions and bad faith trolls.

why is Russia blank? does no one in Russia edit wikipedia??

i can't find this video on f*x's channel, probably fake but i also didnt search very well bc it's still funny and i dont care.

but if someone does have a link share it here, it look hilarious

take it from a programmer, folks: knowing how to make computer do magic doesnt equate to general intelligence or automatically make one better at unrelated things like politics. computer shit is a skill like any other that just happens to have a (false) connotation of "high intelligence" whatever that means.

sorry fellow nerds, you aint special. read lenin.