During one of the news cycles, I accidentally clicked to view a pic and it was of a lady slumped over in her car with a gunshot wound in her head and was like "nope, I'm good. Absolutely fuck all of this and everyone who supports it."
I can't fucking imagine that but 20000 times.
Nepal's communist parties join forces to form a new coalition government
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) β Nepalβs two largest communist parties joined forces to form a new coalition government on Monday that will also include smaller parties as partners.
Maoist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal will remain prime minister a year after he was elected to the office.
Dahal has ended his partnership with the Nepali Congress party, the largest group in parliament, and is now joining forces with the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), the second-biggest party led by Khadga Prasad Oli.
Dahal appointed three new ministers on Monday who were sworn in to office by President Ram Chandra Poudel in Kathmandu. The Cabinet is expected to be expanded through negotiations between the new partners in the coalition government.
Dahalβs party is the only third-largest group in the 275-seat House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament.
However, he was chosen as prime minister last year after the general election with the support of the largest political party. That partnership lasted for a year.
In the previous election in 2017, Dahal and Oli had combined their parties and won the election. Oli became the prime minister, but halfway through the five-year tenure, their partnership ended.
Political stability has remained elusive for Nepal, which has had 13 different governments since 2008, when the centuries-old monarchy was abolished and the Himalayan nation turned into a republic.
mfers too lazy to google marxists.org for a copypasta
I can assure you they still do.
The USSR absolutely had trashy beach towns.
Actually, they absolutely should fork lemmy.
Has seen what happens to lemmy/mastodon forks
Short answer: Yes
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The first man to ever openly have a crush on me was a convicted pedophile a couple decades older than me.
This may have been answered before, but I'm genuinely curious: how is it that US gasoline is so dang cheap even though the rest of the economy is on-course to shitting itself?
I recall reading that it has to do the the govt authorizing use of reserves but are they still actually burning through it? During 2+ wars???
So I was reading through @[email protected] 's comment about Estonian demographic history and felt intrigued by some of the claims, so I did a teeny tiny bit of digging to see what I could find. So here goes:
The Estonian population expanded rapidly during the industrial revolution right up to the 1910s.
World War 1 and the Great Depression manage to suppress population growth for the next decade.
Nazi occupation of Estonia (marked RKO) coincides with WW2. The vast majority of ethnic Jews flee to the USSR, and those whl stayed behind were exterminated. The nazis and their Estonian collaborators built concentration camps. This coincides with a dip in the graph.
After WW2, Estonia is back under the USSR. The first Estonian SSR was established in 1940-1941 when nazi occupation started. After some lag, the population begins climbing on the same curve it did before. The population of the country peaks in 1989.
20000 people were deported to Russia very early in the existence of the SSR
The nazis aimed to remove 50% of the population on paper but only had 4yrs to do so. This means using concentration camps on ethnic Estonians for germans to take their homes/land as in palestine today.
20k is not the same as sunaurus's 20% claim, not even close. 20% does however match the proportion of modern estonians who are russian. The obvious conclusion one can gather from this comparison is that this is not dissimilar to Great Replacement propaganda. The assumption here is that ethnic Russians are taking up Estonian space, because the evidence points to massive population growth under the ussr rather than a contraction like the one that occurred with German occupation.
Immigration was highest during that huge growth period, so I'm curious where all those excess deaths and gulags occurred to have not slowed or stopped said growth. It sounds to me like this person is just intimidated by people they consider foreign.
A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, includingdesign (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and all information is applied to three distinct tropical regions: humid areas, temporate areas, and desert climates. Hundreds of explanatory drawings by van Lengen allow even novice builders to get started."
Link to where I got the synopsis
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California "leftists" are libs and texas conservatives are libs so I guess that scans. People in this thread forget that liberalism and conservatism ARE just ideological arguments about how to run a bourgeois state and have absolutely nothing to do with a proletarian state.
That said, it's really stupid from a mapbrain perspective because the two states would be economic competitors separated by desert increasingly unable to support human infrastructure.