Lemme quickly get banned from this community.
Love to see people like these coming here with this type of quotes as if they are going to be crucified and become martyrs under the shining light of true and righteousness for speaking THE TRUTH.
No, dude. You are just going to be laughed at.
Prostitution and Ways of Fighting It is one you can never fail with.
In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
- Michael Parenti
I am completely sure that China is indeed spending god knows how many millions in building more solar farms in a year than the US has built in their entire history so people like Jake from Minnesota can be convinced that China is actually a pretty cool place.
Do you people ever listen to yourselves?
They were attempting to regain lost territory.
Ah sure, the brave and noble Finnish warriors would have never taken anything else other than what was theirs in 1939. The very righteous cause of Finland can be seen over the fact that they never engaged in any acts such as assisting in the slaughter of one million Soviet citizens or putting and starving Russians living in land that had always been Russian, most of them elderly and children, in concentration camps.
bourgeois dictatorship
democracy with universal suffrage
What lack of knowledge on marxist concepts and terminology does to a mfer
Ah, Simo Häyhä. The Ghost of Kyiv of snipers, and that is not a compliment.
I cannot believe that I was born in the right time to see the incredibly rare and mythical Danish W.
My own theory on this, after having read a litle about cultural marxists on wikipedia and it’s sources is that just like woke culture is not being controlled by second wave feminists, but by a group of transsexuals, so did the German jews to second wave feminists. The german jews were either forgotten or they moved to California where instead of taking over the feminist movement, they were taken in by the Californian second wave feminist movement.
Please turn off your computer and never turn it back on.
HIV [...] will cause severe damage even if the person uses all options that medicine has
Most of what you have said is true, but this one part isn't. An HIV infection carries an increase in the risk of suffering a set of diseases (although this risk will in general decrease with proper ART), but overall it is deemed that HIV+ patients under adequate ART have the same life expectancy than non-HIV+ people, which is a very different reality from the one you imply in which it WILL cause severe damage despite proper treatment.
Agreed. It is one of the reasons why I find Hazbin Hotel to be considerably superior in quality in comparison to Helluva Boss.
I was already wondering how long it would take for the local Hazbin Hotel connoisseur to grace my post with his presence.
Should people disclose their HIV status if asked? [...] To disclose this is a highly personal thing.
Yes and no. I do not know how it is in other countries, but in mine it is punished by law to expose a person to a situation of risk such as it is the possibility of transmitting an STD if they are unaware of such risk, due to the fact that they cannot consent to it if they are not aware of such. In fact, one of the very few cases in which doctors are allowed (and moreover, mandated) to break professional secret is if a VIH+ patient is consciously putting a sexual partner at risk without their knowledge.
Right to intimacy is extremely important, but it also carries responsibilities. If this is relevant to you, I encourage you to read about the laws on the matter where you live.
There is also this one:
“During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. […] What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.” – Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds
It is disappointing however that we have none from the great comrade Wisconson as we used to.
"I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Charlie."
Blue no matter who.
Oooh he said it! He said the meme words!
Mike please let me talk with Gus please I promise I will deliver the newspapers please just let me talk with him I promise there will be no more problems Mike I swear
and if you live with conditions where you can only have enough to drink any drop of water after that will be split on cleaning yourself and your clothes and you can’t do only of those or you’ll still smell bad anyway.
Shower with your clothes on. Bonus points if you piss in the shower too. It saves water! #SaveTheTurtles #Kony2012
Just sharing something silly that I decided to put together. Try to see how many of them you can recognize. Optional video essay background music to go along the post.
Tier 1: The big three. On top of the iceberg due to the enormous impact that they have had in the world's history and popular culture, being known by even the most politically illiterate. It is very likely you have been told more than once to move here by angry people during political discussions.
Tier 2: Smaller socialist states that stand out more than the rest in their respective regions. Still well known and recognized, but most people have a weaker grasp on them than on the ones listed on the tier above.
Tier 3: More unlikely to pop up in debates about communism, this likelihood increases drastically if the person you are talking with had a grandmother whose castle, servants and favourite pony were taken away by one of these states.
Tier 4: This tier marks a barrier: an average Jane and Joe is most likely not able to recognize these. However, they do not suppose a very deep level of knowledge for a ML, who should already know about their existence and point one or two facts about them at the very least.
Tier 5: Many people are unable to even point on a map where these countries are located, and much less to even know that they were once socialist states. If you know in depth about them, it is very likely that you put a desproportionately large focus on anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism in your theory journey. It is also equally as likely that you haven't seen the sun in years.
Tier 6: The bottom of the iceberg. These states are almost never mentioned even by the people who are well read on the states on the tier above, despite the very unique and interesting challenges that they had to face as socialist projects. Venturing into these shows a willingness to search for knowledge further away than anything that you will ever need in practice.
Tier 7: The dark depths of socialist history. Some are states that lasted for several years flying under the radar of even the most dedicated MLs, but most of these are ephemeral projects, having lasted as much as the elements at the bottom of the periodic table, or what is the same, about two or three times longer than the average anarchist project. If you know about these, you either live in the place where they existed or you most likely learnt about them not in the pursue of anything practical, but searching for knowledge purely for the sake of it.
Tier 8: Have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you'd you would you could you'd do you wi you wants you you could do so you you'd do you could you you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything?