It's disappointing. As more and more moments of truth come out, as WW3 breaks our and/or the empire is in obvious terminal declin,e there'll be western leftists (even here sadly) who will make some heel turn and support the empire. It'll be justified by who knows what, about the tough choice of needing to save what little "democracy" America represents even if they don't "fully support it". The same predictable cycle on higher and higher levels.

If that happens to me then please hunt me down and shoot me

The more noticeable cause of the sky looking different for the ancient Greeks would be due to precession instead of Earth's orbit around the Galaxy. Precession is Earth's "wobble", the "rotation" of Earth's own axis of rotation. Like how a top wobbles around as it spins. It takes about 26,000 years for the Earth's axis of rotation to make "wobble around" in one cycle. So this is the larger cause of the night sky, and the pole star, looking different for the ancient greeks. But this impacts the apparent position of all stars in the sky. So Ancient Greeks could see certain constellations that are currently too far below the horizon for their contemporaries. The positions of these constellations have changed.

Earth's or the solar system's orbit around the galaxy takes about 230 million years, so this would have less of an impact.

But there would be some differences.

The stars are moving though as they orbit around the Milky way. Some stars move much fast than others and their individual positions could definitely change over thousands of years. From Universe Today

When a star is moving sideways across the sky, astronomers call this “proper motion”. The speed a star moves is typically about 0.1 arc second per year. This is almost imperceptible, but over the course of 2000 years, for example, a typical star would have moved across the sky by about half a degree, or the width of the Moon in the sky.

I saw that today, and I felt so crushed (though I should have expected it)

Anytime American workers get me excited they gotta go do this shit

I get it about people, there's the ambient background hitlerion particle exposure of Western life, and it get's concentrated at places like work for me. Stay safe, and you got to take antidotes when you can find them.

As for some resistance new, the following comes from a comment by @Al_Sham@hexbear.net. I'm very much in debt to her for these links.

The following is simply a reformatted version of her comment I linked above:

Legitimate news sources affiliated with the Axis of Resistance. Some of them are official state/resistance media and others are not. I have only linked the English sites.

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Iran:

• https://en.isna.ir/
• https://en.irna.ir/
• https://www.ilna.ir/en
• https://en.mehrnews.com/
• https://www.tasnimnews.com/en
• https://www.presstv.ir/
• https://farsnews.ir/
  Official Khamenei telegram:
• https://t.me/Khamenei_en

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Lebanon:

• https://english.almanar.com.lb/
• https://english.almayadeen.net/
• https://english.alahednews.com.lb/
  Official Hezbollah Telegram:
• https://t.me/mmirlb

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Palestine:

• https://shehabnews.com/en/
• https://english.palinfo.com/
• https://english.wafa.ps/ (I avoid Quds News Network because I'm pretty sure it's funded by Turkey)
  Official Hamas telegram:
• https://t.me/HamasOnline

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Yemen:

• https://english.almasirah.net.ye/
• https://www.saba.ye/en
• https://en.althawranews.net/
  Official Yahya Saree telegram:
• https://t.me/army21ye (statements are in english and Arabic)

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Syria:

• https://sana.sy/en/
• http://syriatimes.sy/en/

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The Cradle is good for up to date information but I didn't list it because it's >not affiliated with any resistance axis.

• https://thecradle.co/

There's also the (the Electronic Intifada)[https://electronicintifada.net/]

Islamic World News is another great outlet but I also have no idea their >financing situation. They have maps though.

• https://english.iswnews.com/

Others may have others to add, and I'd definitely welcome it. I've found Al_Sham's list to be very useful and I really want to thank her for it.

I don't think you meant too much harm, but as others have said here there is a time and place and even form for all criticism to be effective. Even if an analysis is correct, and does come at the right time, if lacks tack then it isn't effective. It can come across as callous when said too soon. This isn't meant to say that the criticisms people share here are also criticisms of you, but they should be seen as criticism of the form the message you made take. Essentially even an analysis must have tack. It can't ignore the human element. And that human element is very strong here.

You said that you didn't realize that this is a funeral for Nasrallah, you have to be empathetic and note that for many people this isn't just an armchair interest, but this is something that is actually impacting their day to day life. For these comrades, the martyrdom of Nasrallah has an impact in their day to day lives greater than what that Westerner comrades (and I am one) can fully relate to, even if we are supporters in all our good faith. So in ways, yes, it is a funeral. And your message came across as callous just like it would during a funeral. It isn't to say you can't convey criticisms, but they have to take an appropriate form to have any positive impact. The emotional dimension is every bit as real as any other, and ignoring it weakens criticism.

Also, you mentioned comparing socialist revolutionaries to non-socialist revolutionaries. I don't think that is a useful distinction here whatsoever. Imperialism is the principal contradiction, and just like we have the term Actually Existing Socialism, I think we should have the term Actually Existing Anti-Imperialism. And Hamas and Hezbollah are actual real movements of people that are fighting imperialism. They are no less valuable than explicit socialist movements (and God knows there are a lot of useless orgs here in the West calling themselves socialist)

The worse case scenario is hell on Earth and my mind doesn't even want to go there.

I've been wanting to find a reading list on why the USSR caved and contrast it to contemporary China to ease my fears - thankfully signs point to China being in such a different and better suited place. I know Hakim has videos on the topic, and one book I know of is Socialism Betrayed, though I haven't read it. Curious if others have good suggestions. And I also don't see the West backing down unfortunately.

Hey! I'm on chapter two of this book, glad to see it mentioned. Growing up in the country I'm like "damn, I know these people" when reading it. It really hits hard too when it feels likes it's describing your family and people you grew up with. I need to finish it, but glad to see it discussed

Agree, that's why I enjoy droplet's comments. They remind me of the difficulty of the struggle whenever I'm feeling too, hmmm, idk, "optimistic"? Or for when I'm happily dancing on the corpse that hasn't yet died.

I appreciate them though. Whenever I'm feeling too giddy about the downfall of the West I look for their warnings to temper my excitement and consider if it ain't over yet

Shows what I know about economics!

It annoys me that decades (?) from now, people will look back at Obama as being the last "good" president. They'll think of him as the Marcus Aurelius of our times lol. But libs gotta lib.