Jumping spiders are the tigers of the mm scale. They jump and pounce, they stare at you and stalk their prey, they carefully plan their attack from a strategic vantage point, they are cute, furry and pettable…so long as you are at least twice as large.

Best. Buds. Having a parade together in Brest, 1939. Getting betrayed is what you get for making deals with nazis. #leopardsatemyface

If I understand you correctly, read more history. the nazis invaded Poland together with the USSR on two fronts (as, you know, best buds), hard to botch that.

When the nazis invaded France…it was the French who fucked up…the nazis didn’t.

Yes, starting stupid wars and botching them in front of the whole world makes you vulnerable.

What about moonofalabama, sounds similar.

username checks out :D

Hah, I thought this was the usual r/sino post, but it’s funny that it is right-wing propaganda. “The soviets are beating us to space” was what got the US to invest so heavily in STEM research in the 60s that it lasted until the 2000s. If this were all the propaganda they did, it would actually be healthy.

I wondered where polio had come from if it had been erradicated, I didn’t know a vaccine could regain strength if mismanaged…

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What does this influence look like? Is it like the interference in elections elsewhere? Do they fund politicians like in the Philippines or Hungary or is it more like social media campaigns? What else should we be aware of?

Good, probably fake news then, the rest of the world, including China, was glad to see it, so hopefully it is also shown and seen positively by NK. But nobody knows what happens in NK through official channels, “fake news” from anonymous sources is all we have.

According to Daily NK, a media outlet specializing in North Korean affairs, the North’s delegation returned to Pyongyang on Aug. 15 and is going through what has been described as an ideological evaluation.

This is a standard procedure for North Koreans who have been exposed to non-communist cultures while abroad. The media outlet said that North Korea views staying in a non-communist country as a form of “exposure to contamination.”

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/sports/2024/08/600_381093.html

PS: found the article they cite https://www.dailynk.com/chinese/朝鲜运动员在奥林匹克跟韩国选手嬉笑自拍而/

Precisely for the togetherness that you see in that picture…and NK had to see it as a threat, of course.

Yea, that was tried before and is the origin of Liberia. Not recommended. But now you can’t simply undo it.

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Better than before :) progress

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Who is Israel a colony of? And what would the decolonization you want look like?