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Cake day: April 17th, 2019

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  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlA small infographic
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    7 hours ago

    Also the top left barely exists. They have no idea that the US couped Ukraine’s government in 2014, and since then started killing thousands of people in the Donbass, and pushing NATO expansion eastward. There was no peep from the anti-war ppl then about stopping the killings. The rhetoric from them has been dehumanizing slavic peoples, and against any negotiations with Russia to end the war.

    The US has demonstrated that it will fight this war down to the last Ukrainian, and are the “anti-war” are mostly proud as long as its not western european or US blood being shed for NATO expansion.



  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlFYI
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    22 hours ago

    We can have the solace that the US empire cannot last forever, and with all the atrocities it has and continues to commit, in the long term its digging its own grave. The people of the world refuse to be kept in chains, they have risen up and will continue to do so. Class struggle will rear its head until class society is abolished, and the contradictions inherent to it are resolved.




  • Oh and for how easy it is. If you’re coming from a germanic or a romance language, it shares almost no words and roots, which means its going to take overall its going to take longer. But in most ways its much easier and more logical. No verb conjugations, no weird plurals, easier tenses, logical word and character construction. I’d argue its even better constructed even than esperanto, which still kept the weird verb declinations.

    The only extra annoyance is measure words (which english has also, ie a flock of birds, a pile of clothes).





  • Mandarin is the 2nd most spoken language in the world, only behind english. Its also the 2nd most important language for programming, and has the largest open-source community in the world, so that’ll be a plus for my work.

    I’m also learning spanish, and am much further along there than I am in Chinese. I feel like with those 3 languages I’ll never be too far from someone who can understand me.