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It’s just a province of the US isn’t it?

Yeah siege warfare by western fascists really hurt them, but now that China and Russia don’t give a fuck things are completely different. Meanwhile, what’s your excuse for the hell that is occupied Korea which has had every advantage? https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-wsj-just-confirmed-what-socialists

TLDR:

The US military government in Korea (USAMGIK) from 1945 to 1948 was a textbook military occupation under the Hague Convention of 1907. The US Army landed on September 8, 1945, dissolved the nascent People’s Republic of Korea (PRK), banned the people’s committees that had sprung up across the south, and ruled by decree for three full years. The occupation did not end because the US “willingly” handed over power. It ended because the US unilaterally installed Syngman Rhee as president in 1948 after a UN‑supervised election that was boycotted in the north. And even then, the US did not leave. By Rhee’s inauguration, US forces still numbered 16,000, and they have never withdrawn entirely.

In 1994, South Korea regained peacetime operational control of its own military. But wartime operational control (OPCON) remains with a four‑star US general to this day. Under the current Combined Forces Command structure, if war breaks out tomorrow, every South Korean soldier would automatically answer to an American commander without Seoul’s consent. It continues to be a 70‑year‑old military subordination that the US has repeatedly delayed transferring. As of May 2026, the US insists on “conditions‑based” transfer and opposes a “politically convenient” timeline. South Korea’s president himself is pushing back against this delay. And a foreign general holding final command over a sovereign nation’s military in wartime is, by any definition, continuing military occupation.

You’re not frustrating anybody, you’re just a human slop generator adding noise to threads. If that’s what you choose to dedicate your one life on this planet to being, that’s your choice.

And people perseverating just adds noise to every conversation. People need to learn how to deal with feeling icky like grown adults.

One made up number is no better than another. The point is that generating images doesn’t take any more power than most other things people use a computer for. So, what makes it so special that is needs to be singled out?

There are plenty of ways you can make meme, what makes you the arbiter of what the one true way to do it is?

so brave!

Ok, but you realize people aren’t going to do art commissions for a silly meme right?

Anything can be learned given enough time, but the reality is that people only have so much time in their day. If you have the inclination and time to spend learning how to draw, that’s fantastic and good for you. But doing that is an opportunity cost of learning how to do something else.

This is what happens when you refuse to actually understand how anything works. These kinds of images can now be generated by small models running on your laptop. For example, Z-Image Turbo is just 6b params and will run on even modest hardware.

I just love how the AI slop crowd always comes out of the woodwork as if every meme has to be crafted by an artisan. Just get over yourselves.

couldn’t have put it better myself

That’s fair, there’s still a lot of work to be done there. At least most libs, like the one in this thread, fled Russia now, so the healing process can begin.

Yup, and I think you’re completely right that United Russia is basically propped up by Putin’s personality. Once he’s gone, there will be a power vacuum and KPRF only keeps getting more popular. They’re not without problems, but they’re way further left than anything in the west.

I’m 13 and this is deep.

It also helps that DPRK, China, and Vietnam are some of the main Russian allies now. People used to look up to the west and wanting to become like the Americans and the Europeans. Now, they’ve been cured of that thanks to the war, and they’re increasingly looking at what’s happening in the socialist states they’re allied with and realizing Russia could’ve been developing like that as well if the socialist path wasn’t abandoned.

Some people were so terrified of having apartments that they made up a guy and then got really mad that their made-up guy died.

and yes, it’s a real article https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/ditch-the-40-ounce-water-bottle-youre-probably-hydrated-enough-c62affd9