This is seriously the best news all year. No shame at all in taking it of course, the US forces you to confess your sins medieval-style before they’ll stop the torture.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/25/julian-assange-is-free-wikileaks-founder-freed-in-deal-with-us

Oh my god please be real, are there any articles on this yet?

In his speech, PM Chinh, on behalf of the Party and State, expressed endless gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh, General Vo Nguyen Giap – the direct commander of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign, predecessors, soldiers, Heroic Vietnamese Mothers, the heroes of the people’s armed forces, pioneering youths, frontline workers, war invalids, martyrs’ families, along with the entire armed forces and people nationwide for their utmost dedications, bravery, and sacrifice to create the historic Dien Bien Phu Victory that “resounded across the five continents and shook the globe”.

He also appreciated the precious and wholehearted assistance from China, the countries of the former Soviet Union, socialist nations, international friends, progressive and peace-loving forces worldwide, especially Laos and Cambodia in the combatant alliance of the three Indochinese countries, for the Dien Bien Phu Campaign as well as the Vietnamese people’s struggle for national liberation.

Looking back on the resistance war full of hardships but also bravery and unyieldingness against the French colonialists, he said the Dien Bien Phu Campaign secured a resounding triumph, beating France’s final effort in its invasion of Vietnam.

The PM described this triumph as the peak victory of the resistance war and the essence of Vietnam’s strength in the Ho Chi Minh era, noting that it forced the French colonialists to sign the Geneva Accords on the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam on July 21, 1954, paving the way for the liberation and construction of the North that entered a transitional period towards socialism and forming a solid foundation for the fight to liberate the South and reunify the country.

The historic victory was not only significant to the Vietnamese revolution but also became a source of support for national liberation movements and marked the start of the collapse of the old colonialism around the world, he remarked.

Vietnam gave a much deserved L to France on that day, and the US the next. When they write the history of the 20th century, the struggle and victory of the Vietnamese people to save not only their own country, but the the whole wolrld from western colonialism, will be one of its high points. 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

Devs, fight!

Why is the biden regime cracking down on students protesting biden’s massive funding of palestinian genocide?

Someone please post this on lemmy.world, I want to see their reaction.

props to @EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net

This app is legit too: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.whobird/

I could see him being more metal than his entire family.

This, but maybe slackware with the hannah montana ui.

Which one do you recommend?

Japanese teas are my jam lately: oolong, hojicha, genmaicha, matcha.

Only before you collaborate with anyone else. After that, don’t ever use rebase, or they’ll get an error, and will have to overwrite their local history with the one you’ve rewritten.

Elections in bourgeois democracy are nothing but political theatre, because ultimately capitalists stand above and control the political system to suit their interests. There is no don’t commit genocide, bomb countries, or exploit the global south option in any imperial core country, and if there is, they don’t last for long because of the hundreds of impediments to democracy (which the greeks properly saw as rule by the poor, not this sham popularity)

The ancient greeks knew this, and considered representative/election-based governments as nothing but sham popularity contests that serve the oligarchy. Aristotle even defined democracy as “rule by the poor”, and wouldn’t consider our liberal “democracies” as being democratic at all.

Communists have known this since the 1800s, but even modern liberal studies like the princeton one show, that voting has no effect on policy, and only dollar / wealthy interest groups matter.

If you try to pull someone else’s rebased / history rewritten branch, your git will tell you that it’s rejected. You can completely avoid this by merging instead of rewriting history.

You try to pull someone’s changes, but whoops, they used rebase and rewrote history! Delete the branch and start over.

Many liberal countries have these alternative voting systems, and it means nothing. Australia and Japan for example use alternate voting systems, and yet are still far-right countries who are killing indigenous movements and have extremely unpopular governments.

The root problem is that in liberal countries, capitalists stand above the political system, and control it for their own purposes. No people’s democracy can emerge from within it, regardless of any system of “checks and balances” or voting systems.

She has yet to actually vote no against any Israel funding bill. The bullying hasn’t worked yet.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aoc-iron-dome-criticism-failed-attempt-defending-vote

After AOC voted present rather than no on a 1B USD funding bill for Israel’s iron dome:

According to the congresswoman, “In the macro of national impact, I probably should have gone with my values - which would be to vote ‘No’ - but in the micro, I do believe this created a window in our community to bring all folks to the table.”