Anyone else constantly forget that Luis Suarez played for Atletico Madrid or just me

Sadly all 4 quadrants are just regular liberals if not worse from my experience

Any time I’m in a sales meeting at work this is basically all that’s going through my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VhlSmPNsDA

I feel like Messi is just objectively the best professional football player of all time. CR7 is up there for sure but the shit Messi did is not normal, I don’t think its disputable that he is the best of all time, at least in the past 30 years. Cristiano Ronaldo is probably second honestly but Messi is just clearly out in front of everyone else.

Garnacho couldn’t even make the squad for the Manchester derby yesterday apparently so his opinion is irrelevant imo.

It is referencing the Juche calendar which beings with Juche 1 in 1912, Juche being essentially Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics, an application of Marxism specific to the Korean condition from my understanding but maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in I’m not well versed there.

It’s a tradition to refer to the date in the Juche calendar from the old reddit r/GenZedong weekly discussion sticky that carried over to here as far as I am aware

Just about finished up playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage, was waiting for it to come out on Steam. Have definitely enjoyed it a lot, was nice to play a new AC game thats closer to the originals in style, as I like the stealth gameplay. They did a super good job recreating 8th century Baghdad, clearly a lot of care went into it. I love little details how like if you go to the market area you can hear foreign traders speaking their own languages. The attention to detail in the city is really good and the place feels very alive. It makes me really want to see them do another game in this style focused on maybe 2nd century Rome, as I still have yet to see a game properly tackle recreating Rome at the height of its wealth and power. If anyone can do that justice its this team as they nailed Baghdad.

As much as I enjoyed the game it also made me realize that I kind of like the more sprawling RPG direction games like Odyssey and Valhalla took. It makes me excited for the new Japan AC next year. Ubisoft gets shit on a lot for good reason but I really like the open world games they make, I have a lot of fun with them.

I didnt watch The Game Awards but I saw some of the announcements, definitely interested in the new Turok and Okami games. Nothing else really stuck out for me, Witcher 4 looks cool of course but for whatever reason I’ve always bounced off of the Witcher games, tried all 3 at various points and have never been able to enjoy them. Maybe this one will be different who knows.

2024 I actually played a lot of games, probably more than I should have. None of them were games released recently really but I had an absolute blast replaying Fable Anniversary and Zelda Wind Waker HD this year. Also played through Dark Souls remastered for the first time this year, extremely good remaster of a great game. I also played 2 and 3 again this year but after playing them all in quick succession I think DS1 is my favorite. Such tight level design and atmosphere, and the game suits my preferred playstyle of hiding behind a shield and smacking people with a mace.

Second for totalsportek and papahdlive. I wish I could unstream that Arsenal v Everton match though rough watch

I feel like this was coming with the media angles taken past while. Hate this country so much

Totally fine, comrade @[email protected] does a really good job moderating and sharing content there. Easy to avoid if you don’t want to see that sort of thing, no need to change I would say.

I am also limited in my understanding but I think there is a lot of animosity towards Assad government in Syria and also other places such as Lebanon and Gaza due to his perceived and verifiable inaction assisting the resistance. Other specific reasons for animosity I’m not knowledgeable enough to speak on but I’m aware they exist so it isn’t unsurprising to hear that some or many Syrian people are happy that he is gone.

I think, and really I am trying to grapple with stuff and learn about things as well so I’m not too sure, but I think biggest issue with Assad gov being toppled is that firstly and most importantly it will once again bring great instability and surely violence to the Syrian people, but will also greatly reduce the capacity for Hezbollah to be resupplied who I understand are in a pretty critical state after hot war with the Zionists. In addition to that you have factors such as Russian footholds in the region being compromised which I’m sure will be abused by US/zionist forces in ways I have not yet thought of.

It remains to be seen what HTS does and how things play out with the other factions but I do not see any way that this is a good thing. I find it hard to believe that HTS are not aligned with the americans/zionists, but hopefully at least they are reasonable with the Syrian people and as few suffer as possible.

On top of that now you have the subway being slowed down significantly over certain sections of track i guess due to overwhelming backlog of maintenance required. A city like Toronto should have a dozen subway lines and they are now only building the Ontario Line because materially they have no choice but to build it, and it still could be another 7-10 years until its open. Meanwhile when I was living in Guangzhou they built a whole extension to my relatively remote suburb in seemingly months only.

In Toronto there is more ongoing and proposed construction than any other city in the world outside of China. I’m a native Torontonian who moved away a long time ago now and every time I visit the city feels almost completely different, its a level of growth in the past decade thats not comparable to any other western city I don’t think. Just makes me sad that anarchy of capitalism and lack of central planning is hamstringing such an awesome place.

A city the size, stature and wealth of toronto having the metro system it does is such a grave embarrassment. It is also the reason the city has some of the worst traffic in North America comparable probably only to LA. Hell will freeze over before the Eglington LRT is open.

There was a meme going around in several Toronto facebook groups earlier this year that showed comparison between Chengdu and Toronto metro in 2010 and then 2023 or whenever, and in that time Chengdu went from not having a metro to having like 13 lines, and in that same time Toronto lost the Scarborough LRT line and built nothing else really other than extension to Vaughn. Just sad, such a beautiful, diverse and fun city needs more metro and less traffic.

Be well comrade

Ate an extremely large gyro late last night and suffering the consequences of it today

Completely agree with what you have said, I guess my fear is that the compradors will influence economic policy in these countries to a degree that will undermine the dedollarization initiative at least in the short term. I’m totally with you in thinking that long term its against the material interests of BRICS nations to do this but I guess I have been taken off guard by some recent developments in this area and it has made me doubtful. Perhaps also the bad news this week in Syria and such has just put in a pessimistic mood.

I like to think that your analysis of the situation is the case but I’m becoming increasingly doubtful about the commitment of BRICS nations to overthrow the special privilege of the US Dollar. From my perspective too many of the parties involved rely on USD trade for their wealth and status. It seems to me like too many players in this alliance are economically bound by USD and are not interested at least right now in trading off short term material gains for potential bigger gains in the future by subverting USD trade.

It appears to me that the gains in multipolar non USD trade have been offset by the US Fed play to raise interest rates to suck dollars into treasury assets and then flood them back out into periphery economies since 2022 or so. I still have much to learn about MMT and economics in general but I’m certainly not as optimistic now about dedollarization now as I was 2-3 years ago.

That being said I think the overall trend of periphery economies orienting around China is right, and I think it will come down to that nations economic policy as the driving factor of whether or not BRICS can succeed in their stated objectives and tear down the USD dominated global economy.

theres not a single thing I feel comfortable putting in writing about this sick nazi woman, nothing that she deserves is legal for me to suggest in this country

Rich white suburban liberals who had their uni paid for and got to live at home until they could buy a house confused how the bulk of us who’ve got no support network and experienced almost no wage growth in the past decade struggle to eat and pay our bills/rent, what else is new.

So incredibly sick of the american suburban cracker existence being the assumed default life experience of everyone else. Experiencing life that way is not normal or typical for most people.

Really good analysis here, I have more to say about this but just based off of your analysis I sadly think that the third option is the most likely. To me deployment of NATO troops seems like a way for the west to freeze the conflict as is and come back to it in a few years. As it stands Russia is making consistent gains in the Ukraine and I think your assessment of their unwillingness to directly strike NATO assets is correct, so to me the deployment of “peace keepers” seems like NATOs best bet to halt things at the current line of engagement. This seems possible to me considering the rhetoric this week especially from Zelinsky himself about possibly negotiating on the basis of Russia controlling territories that have had referendums with a plan to retake them in the future.

Winter has finally showed up here, alarmingly late really, but god damn do I hate it. Doesn’t matter how many years I’ve lived in this city winter is always worse than I remember. Already dying for it to be summer again.