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  • By this logic, the collapse of the USSR should have had the effect you’re describing and indeed it did for many post soviet states.

    The difference with the WPK is that they maintained their independence and were anti-revisionist and took great steps to prevent party takeover by bourgeois and liberal forces. The recent coup in SK did not lead to renewed relations for example even though the SK state now has a liberal govt. in power that wants to cool relations with the north.

    If the DPRK had sanctions lifted it would have the same opinions because those opinions were materialist and revolutionary in nature. Kim Ill Sung started this, back within the USSR era.

    extremely isolated

    Not true anymore (or ever really): the DPRK has relations with numerous global south countries and has mutual diplomatic agreements with the RF.



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    Wasn’t this always the case? The policy of unconditional support to Palestine was started by Kim Ill Sung. Anyway, people who support Palestine but not the DPRK are fraudsters who need TVs and social media to know when to support something (and I just described liberalism smh)

    Anyway this seems fake in that this has always been the position of the DPRK and I can’t seem to have an official source for this other than tabloids.


  • He’s also a russiagate Finnish liberal who loves the United States who has admitted on record that he is against Russia is because he’s Finnish (I wonder what period of history that refers to) (see removing Russian maintainers due to US sanctions threats)

    He also can’t moderate his community for shit and Linux can easily turn into a boys club where innovation is stifled because the oldbeards don’t approve (see rust for Linux)

    No wonder silicon valley idolizes this guy, they all want programmers to be like him, apolitical and focused.



  • Most interesting to me is his kinda Luffy-like reaction to Kaido suggesting they force Harald to do something.

    Rocks did win all of his crew members through Davy Back fights. Everyone on his crew is there because of the pirate code and shared interests. I think Rocks has a red line on forcing people against their will to join him because he’s a worshipper of Davy Jones and would rather win Harald’s heart rather than attack him (which he possibly might not win, Rocks pirates are strong but I don’t think they’re go to war with Elbaf strong).

    TL;DR I think pirates and marines to Rocks are fair game but people outside of that aren’t forced to join him.


  • What I most enjoyed about this chapter is the new characterizations we get of both Roger and Rocks. Roger embodies a lot of the traits that Luffy has but also is his own person (hot blooded youth chasing after women and picking fights for the sake of them). Rocks is similar to Blackbeard but I doubt Blackbeard would have refused Kaido’s proposal to force Harald to work with them.

    The theme of inherited will in One Piece is strong and both Luffy and Blackbeard are inheriting the wills of Roger and Rocks but also still having their own distinct personality.


  • Loki calling Ida a gold digger is probably a learned behavior from living with Estrid’s family for so long (also yeah, being yeeted as a newborn didn’t help)

    I like the Loki, Luffy parallels in how they become enamored by pirates, imagine how different things would be if Rocks took Loki (but I would assume Harald wouldn’t allow it, so Rocks made it easier for Loki by beating the shit out of him).