Expected. Tusk’s shift to the right and normalization of racism/xenophobia in polish political discourse “normalized” people like Braun and Mentzen

But the story is fundamentally anticommunist. Animal Farm is the typical “well after the revolution it was worse so revolutions are bad and evil”. If you denounce state power then you are an anticommunist, simple

Those who know, know

Not watching anything, but finished reading the first volume of Classroom of the Elite. My friend recommended it to me and I was positively surprised. The first 100 pages were pretty cringe, but for the most part I kinda liked it. I’m also thinking about buying steins;gate. I watched the anime 2 years ago and thought about playing the original LN for the first time

If someone even tries to discuss communism with you in good faith, then it means you already have a better starting point than 90% of communists. I discussed the Soviet Union with an American and it was just painful, typical Stalin killed millions of people etc. Also thought that every historian (American btw!) that said something good about USSR was a russian propagandist.

But getting back to the topic, I think the most important part of discussing AES is not knowing the history of the said country per say (although it is very important), but understanding how to talk about the contradictions it faced. When you tell an average person that Stalin didn’t kill 8 million people in the terror, but 700 k it doesn’t really make it look all that better does it? However, when you put in the context of the conflict between regional leaders and Stalin and say that the USSR really had a very real existential threat, then it directly challenges the cartoonish version of Stalin and the USSR.

I think the issue is that you make it seem like you want to overcompensate for real tragedies that happened under AES. What I always want to explain when talking about AES is the role of state power in class societies. Most of libs will dismiss socialist states for killing people, but we know that state power is universally used by all states in the history of the world. The Soviet Union didn’t succeed in spite of using a highly repressive aparatus, it usually succeeded becaause of it.

I don’t know if that was a response you wanted, but that’s my perspective. Just remember that you don’t have to force yourself to persuade everyone.

I’ve started reading “Wild Faith” lately. Still baffled how Americans can believe dumb shit like QAnon

I mean, even conservapedia considers USSR to be the first woke country on earth

Do AmeriKKKans actually care about Vietnam from a “principled” perspective? Or do they just think that Vietnam war was bad because the US lost very badly?

My friend worked for human rights group or some other organization as volunteer. He had to hand out leaflets (I think?) and got fired pretty fast. Hopefully your experience will be much different

Yeah I mean, I liked rdr2, but I also remember that this game was made with the labour of people who worked over 100 hour per week

Congrats

Looks like AI

waiter! waiter! more proxy wars please!!

He died, but his particles will live forever

Tbh I would like Lego more if it wasn’t for the prices. Some of my friends still like Lego. Great mech btw

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There goes the argument that Ukraine is not a puppet of the USA

US is so cooked, people there think that DEI is super radical communism, while in reality it’s nothing more than some liberal program

I think this short essay was the first thing that appeared in monthly review

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