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the fact it's mainstream imperial core narrative is inhumane. it's confirmed that MILLIONS of soviets DIED because of hawkish capitalist policies which were implemented after ussr fall. gorbachev should be remembered as complicit party in this, i will not be afraid to say, genocide.

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Seriously if anyone wants to learn actual stuff about the DPRK (North Korea) that isn’t just the racist and scandalously inaccurate caricatures you see in western media check out books by A.B Abrams: Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences (about multiple countries but the DPRK is featured in two chapters), Immovable Object, and Surviving The Unipolar Era.

As a taste. Here are some screenshots from chapter 7 pages 425-426 of Atrocity Fabrication. (In addition to the citations at the end of the chapter the author used for these paragraphs)

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what is your response to global poverty declining?

It's not. The capitalist institutions making this claim have routinely massaged the numbers and moved the goalposts to cover up the fact that global poverty is stagnating at best. And by any metric, once you take China out of the picture, global poverty is worsening.

This paper by anthropologist and economist Jason Hickel thoroughly breaks down and exposes the fraudulent nature of this claim:

The true extent of global poverty and hunger: Questioning the good news narrative of the Millennium Development Goals - Jason Hickel

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Hey friends, baby Marxist here! I’m starting to feel like technology corrupts the pure soul of man. Has anyone tried turning back the wheel of history so that we can return to a state of perfect innocence?

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I can't afford to pay my bills or consistently put food on the table. I think I'll travel to the US and bomb a school or a hospital or something. Maybe shoot some civilians in the street. It's okay though, I'm poor.

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was Castro or Che the bottom?

it was dialectical

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open calls for genocide of the kashmiris began yesterday. indians are so so so similar to israelis.

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I’m sorry the US has the same way of saying ‘well there’s not actually Christian supremacy here, it’s complicated’ as India does with Hindu supremacy. It’s the same nonsense, I know this song and dance too well, I even have the bias: I thought it was insane last time I was in Chennai seeing a Saraswati painting as I got off the plane. You need to understand seeing the cross everywhere and the Ten Commandments posted everywhere is exactly the same thing

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Shitty flat color character line up for a campaign I'm in

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there is nothing that makes art inherently revolutionary actually in many occasions art is specifically done to be counter-revolutionary, reactionary, protect the status-quo, push racist or bigoted ideas, etc sometimes with the specific intent of promoting that ideology and sometimes simply because the artists themselves have those politics and that bleeds into the work

art can be a vessel for a message sure but it is a vessel and nothing more, it has no subversive quality by itself, artists are not more special for having a skill or have better politics because they know color theory ALSO people just highly overestimate the impact art has on real life

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actually, if you don't know shit about india just don't comment! the use of english as a common language in india is vastly less fraught than privileging one or the other ethnic groups' mother tongue. learning english is seen by many dalit communities as empowering especially since learning sanskrit has long been weaponised. it is a language that ritually and structurally disenfranchises them. the modern hindi register was politically constructed to be separate from urdu by excising persian, ie muslim influence from hindustani and adding more sanskritisation. if a pakistani urdu speaker and an indian hindi speaker actually speak to each other, barring vocabulary choices, they're mostly intelligible to each other. hindi is a language politically constructed to be the face of hindu nationalism. savarkar literally had a hindu hindi hindustan formulation.

english is the language to access an outside world beyond caste. indian english is recognised as its own thing even by most software services, it has its own patterns and rhythms. stop carrying water for hindu fascists by buying into cheap propaganda. they are currently imposing hindi language education on all students. the last time they did this there was rioting. nobody from the usa or britain actually forces us to learn english, and to hold water for local fascisms for the sake of a fake anti imperialism you don't even understand is annoying af.

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Got bored, found a broken CRT monitor, had a con coming up, decided to make Milton from the Talos Principle despite the fact that only me and three other people on the internet would get it :'(

Photos of it worn and the process below

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Nah, I think the funniest outcome is if she realizes she's trans post-Gethen after the whole "I can't explain women to you!" outburst

#1 transfem Genly truther‼️💯 Le Guin told me via divine revelation, actually

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whatever go my ferrymech