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— From “Interview with Female [Donetsk People’s] Militia Member in Ukraine”

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A 30-piece Matryoshka doll made at “Igrushka” wooden toy factory in Semyonov. Photo by V. Izvolensky (1966).

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There was this trend going around of people being like reading is inherently political, in response to a reader saying booktok has become political and she just wants to read her books (one of which was hunger games I think or at least others constantly used that series has an example for political books). I would agree with this take, but it ultimately doesn't matter. You're not going to convince these people who read hunger games and then say 'I don't want to read political books' to suddenly engage with them critically. They simply aren't going to do that, because they don't have to. They are privileged enough to ignore something that doesn't apply to them and reminding them that it happens to others, won't make their empathy grow, they'll just ignore you. So I don't think this is a discussion of booktok creating 'anti-intellecualism' (somehow this is the conclusion people came to) but people actively excluding marginalized people in their spaces and just wanting to life comfortably without reckoning their privileges.

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me if u even care

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Sometimes I forget Letterboxd is a largely american dominated website

This made me remember

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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THE SERVANT (1963) dir. Joseph Losey

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THE SERVANT (1963) dir. Joseph Losey

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- In the army they used to call me Basher Barrett, sir. - Oh really? Why? - I was a very good driller.

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sorry cant go out tonight, im busy obsessing over the staircase as a symbol of sex and power

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Translation:

quicky rebuild the wall, how long where their ancestors imprisoned? Are their parents related? Is that the reason?

2) The wall has to be rebuilt stronger and higher

3) It was a mistake to make them passportgermans

4) Come at 10 of May to Berli, we will rebuild it personally through Hands.

I will bring 5 stones

5) I always write rebuilding the wall. But I have a good plan, all right wing nazis from the west in the east and normal easterners in the west

6) the difference between us and the people from the east is like tiktok and yt shorts

7) the wall again but this time in east germany will live the nazis

8) deport all east germans to Russia

Let me make this clear you're not a leftist if you say shit like that, you're not anti fascist while dehumanizing an already marginalized group and you definitely don't get to fucking ignore all of the marginalized people in the east or pretend you're dear grandparents who probably voted for a goddamn Nazi as Chancellor are better. Like rebuild the wall and make it out of glass so that westerners see how good it is in anti fascist socialist germany, while they reconcile with more and more poverty leading to the rise of fascism.

Nobody understands my resentment and borderline hatred of west germans who know nothing of east germany, who cannot conceptualize anything different from their propaganda. I can't imagine what it is like for my grandparents to watch entire former industrial cities becoming ghost towns through austerity measures, neoliberalism, obscurity and mass emigration of children and women. Like even in my little town there used to be industry, till west germany ruined everything. My heart breaks everytime, I could cry. When I become socialist dictator, I will ban west germans to speak about elections or east german(s)y as a whole

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Nobody understands my resentment and borderline hatred of west germans who know nothing of east germany, who cannot conceptualize anything different from their propaganda. I can't imagine what it is like for my grandparents to watch entire former industrial cities becoming ghost towns through austerity measures, neoliberalism, obscurity and mass emigration of children and women. Like even in my little town there used to be industry, till west germany ruined everything. My heart breaks everytime, I could cry. When I become socialist dictator, I will ban west germans to speak about elections or east german(s)y as a whole

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Why are his tweets such bangers

someone get khamenei a tumblr account

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Q: You knew Stalin very closely. What was he like?

Kaganovich: "Iosif Vissarionovich was a very prudent man. Very. A man who saw very far. Today we should ask ourselves: could we really have fought fascism if we had remained a non-industrialized, non-collectivized country? Could it have, our archaic agricultural village, feed the army and the cities? Who would have the courage to answer yes to this question? We should ask ourselves: why did Tsarism die? Because it had nothing to feed the army with. It had no clothes to dress it. It was a naked, barefoot, and hungry army, that of the Tsar, and it had nothing to shoot. We, on the other hand, in the fight against Nazism, after the retreats we began to increase, increase, increase our military power, and we sent tens of thousands of artillery pieces to the front. When we attacked Berlin, it was an attack never seen before in intensity and power. Where did we get all those tanks and planes? Without Stalin's policy we would never have gotten anywhere, we would all have died. What would have become of the USSR, if we had not made in ten years the progress that normally takes fifty or sixty years? Fascism does not wait, it would not have waited. Our country would have been destroyed. And all these shitty patriots today don't want to understand it, just as many communists don't understand it anymore. We should have taken Bukharin's path, they say, Kondriatev's path... Well, what would have happened if we had followed their path? We would have been crushed, I am deeply convinced of that. We would have been crushed for five hundred years, it would have been much worse than the Tartar yoke. That's what Russia would have ended up like. We gained two years with the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, two years, from '39 to '41, crucial for the development of industry, for the strengthening of transport. But now it's easier to blame Stalin and his era for everything."

Q: Have you never had second thoughts about the arrests of that era, about the violence and the victims of the campaign to collectivize the countryside?

Kaganovich: first point to remember is that collectivization was the continuation of a Leninist line. Were there excesses? Yes. But where and when aren't there? There always are. When you fight a war, it is difficult to know in advance how many bullets you will fire. The enemy occupies one of our cities, we must retake it. But inside the city there are our people, innocents who could be killed in the attack. The army will still shout: to the assault, because that is how it must be, in all types of war. Yes, the result is that even the innocent suffer. There were innocent victims in the collectivization of the land. But there were also rich, influential peasants, linked to the church, who disturbed, obstructed. What was to be done? And in industry there was sabotage. Today many historians deny it, but it was true. Sabotage existed, and, I will say more, it still exists today. Perhaps I have the mentality of an old, overly suspicious fighter: but what are the unshipped goods, the extortion, the development of this mafia that is so much talked about, and of the black market, what are they if not a colossal sabotage against socialism? We should intervene harshly, and explain to the people what is happening, why they are made to suffer in this way. We should open a great debate."

Lazar Kaganovich's response to criticism of Stalin's domestic industrial and agricultural policy in preparation for the Nazi invasion of the USSR

From the archives of La epubblica, interview conducted in 1990 via written questions and answers; KAGANOVICH SPEAKS 'WE ARE NOT MONSTERS'

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Anyway, a small note about how the Zionists and their allies are a bunch of idiot amateurs; you may know that many more liberal-oriented Iranians want to emulate the west and have disdain for Palestinians and the Palestinian cause, and many people seem to think that they are banking on this for some sort of much-vaunted regime change, or turning Iran into a failed state.

Except, do you remember how the Zionist Entity started this war? The Zionists and their allies started this war by attacking nuclear facilities related to Iran's national development and modernization, and effect declared that Iran must abandon its own modernization to appease the west.

The result has been the Exact Opposite of what you would want if you were trying to play on divisions. The attacks being upon energy infrastructure rather than the clerical establishment has completely separated the issue of "War with the Zionists" from "war for the sake of Palestinians" in the mind of the Iranian public, and has caused even secular-minded people to rally around the banner of national dignity as Iranians and refusing to bow down to brute imperialist force. So there's your hyper-competent Zionist operators that were all supposed to cower in fear of for you! Hell of a job there👍

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Honestly I feel it's safe to say now that the Iranians were right to wait and that they've actually played their cards a lot better than they've gotten credit for this past two and a half-years. Theres something to be said about the enormous second-mover advantage we see emerging in peer and near-peer warfare in an era where it's increasingly difficult-to-impossible to wage war on peer states without your own home front taking a beating. It seems like people are surprised by the sudden wave of national unity in Iran following the Zionist attacks, but make no mistake: the social response is only this united because Iran waited to be attacked first. Because now any damage caused to Iran by the Entity is "the result of one-sided foreign aggression" and NOT "the consequences of Khamenei launching a war for the sake of Palestine" the Palestinian cause being a less motivating and unifying cause in Iranian society than national dignity. Likewise on the Zionist side all the devastating damage done to the Entity's infrastructure by Iran, becomes somebody's fault, the fault of the occupation government for underestimating Iran's ability to respond to aggression