I have chosen violence this year. New post on way art from different regions of the world get treated and why that should change. Please share it around
As a reminder Arab Palestinians have never had an independently governed state (literally never)
And the Palestinian flag was first adopted in 1964 (adopted from the flag of the "Arab Revolt" in 1916)
Two inconvenient truths
Israel is not hijacking Judaism or the Holocaust by defending itself against genocidal terrorists. Glazer’s comments at the
#Oscars
are both factually incorrect & morally reprehensible. They minimize the Shoah & excuse terrorism of the most heinous kind.
He defeated nazis and their collaborators, built most prosperous period for South Slavs is what he did. How did they repay him? They destroyed it. But in this house Josip Broz Tito is a hero. End of the story
@souljagoytellem
I remember taking a nap and when I woke up I saw that something is happening and without knowing I tweeted "Maybe Bosnia should send peacekeeping forces"
“Nature is man's inorganic body, that is to say, nature in so far as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature, i.e. nature is his body, and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it if he is not to die" - Karl Marx
The first previews of Kevin Spacey playing Croatian president Franjo Tudjman are out and they’re awful.
Like, besides being filmed and promoted by the far-right, his acting just isn’t good — he neither sounds like Tudjman nor does he do a good job evoking him. Just terrible.
Given how much discussion about Yugoslavia is driven by bad-faith actors and grifters I had to write this so next time you should know better
My latest about stuff Western left gets wrong about Yugoslavia. Check it out and share around with friends
Me, usually: "There are plenty of negatives about Yugoslavia even though at its peak it has provided the best living standard for South Slavs ever"
Me, talking to Slav reactionaries:
I published Irreversible Damage in 2020, to a total media blackout: Not a single book review in the U.S. mainstream press; not even Kirkus or Publishers Weekly would review it.
*Tens of thousands* of kids have transitioned w/out their parents knowing the risks.
Man the Balkans always act like they are the Mecca of Europe for food. Yet they serve trash like Ćevapčići. The over grilled, dry lumps of meat. Served with some of the sour, overhyped keymak. 🚮 with this dish.
The existence of furries as a social phenomenon is a symptom of a broken, declining society. If this view makes me bigoted, then I'm sorry to say reality is bigoted.
Those people who want, angrily and ignorantly, to insist that Caster Semenya, Werkwuha Getachew, Margaret Wambui and Aminatou Seyni are 'cis' women, should do a couple of things:
1) The reading
2) Some reflection
When Socrates was asked which Italian he respected the most, Mazzola or Rivera (football players of Inter and AC Milan, respectively), he responded:
I don't know them. I'm here to read Gramsci in original language and to study the history of the workers' movement
Yugonostalgia - Road Through The Past
New Substack post where I try to talk about numerous ways yugonostalgia manifests itself
Please share this around by retweet. Worked quite hard on this one
Just because you have a piece of paper saying that you’re an American doesn’t mean that you have equal claim to this country as those who can trace their ancestry on this land back to before the government that gave you that paper.