incredibly funny to say "*only* surrendering after running out of ammunition." like I'm sorry that your inbred genteel aristocracy were too busy LARPing as Roman senators to master the incredibly complex task of making bullets for a war
people in the Midwest are not "nice," Midwesterners believe in a rigid and doctrinaire set of interpersonal norms that compel them by social force to act in certain ways. their hearts are vast and empty.
yes yes whatever the South had the "best" generals or whatever but sorry you're not going to win a war if you have no factories bullets or trains and your opponents whole thing is making bullets factories and trains
When we imagine a class for itself in the 21st century, we must picture this crab. His old life (mass politics) has been destroyed, yet he still punctures the cellophane of false consciousness and gestures towards his own liberation.
all you have to do is look a the history to understand this. a bunch of Finns and Germans got tricked into moving to the woods, where they found French people already there. it's enough to drive you mad.
one thing that the "you need to be training your body relentlessly for the revolution" people get wrong is that historically many victorious revolutionaries were malnourished chain smokers
I don't understand this argument at all. All countries & nationalities are fundamentally fake, even oppressed ones. The point isn't that Palestine is a "legitimate" nation and Israel isn't, the point is that Israelis murder Palestinians.
Israel did not exist until 73 years ago when they were a settler colony that took over Palestine and have been violently maintaining their position ever since. If you donโt know this history here is a good primer to get you started:
@n_hold
You, a Midwesterner (I believe), believe in your heart that my take is stupid, facile, ignorant! Yet you felt compelled to hide that fact behind a stand-in word, because it would be rude to say "you're dumb" to a mufo. Therefore you have proved my point.
@JRArmes
@_chismosa_
lol wow its almost like theres a difference between a five-year old wanting/desiring to do something and them being forced to do something....huh....children are complex human beings with multiple and contradictory attributes...wow....who could imagine....
QUICK NOTE: these lines are not based on the presence of racism or the presence of "rednecks." if that were the case the whole of the Midwest would be "The South." If you are QTing me with that, you are projecting.
The 1970s had it all: political terrorism, the collapse of the welfare state, national benzo abuse, 10 minute rambling prog rock songs based on Lord of the Rings casually playing in the radio
In the 1930s you could do Abraham Lincoln Communism because every member of the CPUSA dropped out of high school to work as a traveling hat salesman but still read roughly 10-15 history books a year. doesn't work today because we have the exact opposite situation going on.
literally no different than every 90 year old from Coal Creek, WV having a picture of FDR on their wall because the TVA meant they didn't have to poop in a bucket
I spent most of last week on an official tour of poverty alleviation work in a mountainous region of Sichuan. Hard to convey the sheer intensity of the propaganda. Every home visited in every village has a poster of Xi Jinping.
I love when historians write about their "method" because it sounds very pretty and nice but anybody whose actually been around historians knows it's really just a combination of educated guesses, dumb luck, reading a lot, and being a huge archive geek
please President Xi, the Whitmer-Duggan regime has oppressed my people for far too long! the residents of Livernois and McNichols long for freedom, please invade as soon as possible!
the funniest part of this is the implication that hippies were civil rights activists rather than apolitical social dropouts who all became tech executives or died of a heroin overdose in 1977
all I'm saying is that your average Russian or Cuban insurrectionary physically looked a lot more similar to a Gen Z New School student than a Chechen MMA fighter
@Storey43131953
this is actually a product of US expansionism in the 19th century. Its only called the Midwest because when those places became territories we hadn't expanded to the West Coast yet
both Russia and Ukraine are wrong. this invasion is a distraction from the fact that neither state should exist as sovereign polities in the first place. Indeed, the United States must intervene to restore the Golden Horde and reduce both regimes to puppets of The Great Khan
Biden-Xi debate:
Xi: we must industrialize the Philippines such that our interests are protected in the South China Sea statistical region
Biden: listen here buddy, I know I'm not supposed to use the word "oriental" anymore, but how else am I supposed to describe my rug?
It is the year 2087. reactionary forces from the DeVos-ruled Calvinist Imperium have bombed the Mackinac Bridge and turned the island into a charnel house. In St. Ignace, the communists are led by a former member of the Lutheran Keewanaw crime syndicate named Kyle Korhonen
1. It trains you to do unremunerated labor outside of the actual parameters of your "job"
2. Home life may not be conducive to completing it
3. Most homework is just busy work for both teachers and students
there are three types of Star Trek cast member:
- pervert, sex criminal (Shatner)
- unimaginably boring Lib (almost every actor on the show)
- Chad IRA supporter (Colm Meanly)
describing "degrowth" as "a decline in living standards" can only be accurate if you accept the premise that privately owned commodities and living standards are synonymous. socialist degrowth would be a marked gain for most people.
gentrification is driven by real estate corporations/capital not individual white people moving somewhere. it a process, not an action. describing gentrification as "colonization" is true only if you recognize colonialism as a structure, not the action of a particular moral actor
my gf, first time meeting my family and going to Lake Michigan: wow, it's just like the sea!
my family: what the fuck. it's a lake. not a sea. it's a lake. who is this coastal elite saying things like "freshwater sea." it's a fucking lake.
Marx was this, Marx was that. you're all wrong. Marx was a big fat German dude who liked to read, write, get drunk, and mooch off his friends. dont make him lame!
Further afield: in the Iron Mountain Demilitarized Zone, new recruits wait eagerly to unleash revolutionary terror on allied white forces from Green Bay. The Houghton-Hancock Soviet announces the re-opening of the copper mines. Trappist monks have their property confiscated.
right wing poster: China is going to soy boy you! they are preparing for a mass deployment of the sissy ray
The People's Daily: check out this family in rural Hubei who converted their tractors into a novel way of barbecuing various meats
'bell hooks was a landlord' is a tepid take. 'bell hooks claimed to write about pedagogy but never wrote an actionable sentence that teachers could actually use' is much more accurate
be me, a German worker in 1941 getting lung cancer after being forced at gunpoint to work a 15 hour shift in a munitions factory: i love the Volk. this is the ideal lifestyle, too me.
Thanksgiving according to Pilgrims: The local pastor-mayor Job-Lit-With-Gods Light has declared that best way to grow plants is to assure that they are not "taintede with vyle Catholic impurities" by spitting on them, please help me I am so hungry
me, 19, talking to a classmate at The New School: oh my dad is a painter
classmate: that's so cool, has his work been shown at any of the Chelsea galleries?
me: oh no I meant like a construction worker, but with paint
classmate: oh
"teachers are cops" takes are stupid for numerous reasons, maybe the least discussed one is that cops are paid generous overtime, pensions, and benefits while most teachers outside a select few systems are basically expected to pay for the privilege of doing their job
Detroit is the true American culinary experience. Weird, cheap fusion cuisine designed to cater to seemingly no one? โ Regional hot dog and pizza selections? โ low rent regionally specific diners? โ the best regional immigrant cuisine outside of that group's home region? โ
Santa Clause is a classic Latin American caudillo; the "elves" are a North Pole based ethnic group composed of admixture between the conquistador Turks who arrived with Nicholas of Myra and the Sami people, whom Santa has dispossessed and forced to work in his arctic hacienda
just learned that there are 2 different bakers for Girl Scout Cookies, leading to each cookie having 2 slightly different versions. the distribution map looks like someone tried to gerrymander the entire country.
look at my account. just for one second, look at my pfp. my header. my bio. now, do you think i would ever engage with something seriously on this website? do I look like an earnest man? if so, that is on you.
as someone who actually has to use 1619 Project curriculum materials, let me just say: its not that bad. the polemicizing about it? yes, bad. but the actual articles and classroom materials provided are leagues above anything provided in a "typical" history class
there is a direct correlation between the rise of suburban Q-Anon moms and the decline of traveling vacuum salesman/milkmen for those same women to have affairs with
cant help but feel that a lot of American socialist "defense" of China comes from the fact that many young U.S. socialists have lived in the hollowed out corpse of neoliberalism and have no idea what an effective capitalist state looks like
the founding fathers would actually be most stunned by is the wide variety of vegetables and fruits readily available out of season, as well as the idea that you don't have to preserve all meat in 15 pounds of salt
I dont think Stalin was an ideologically committed anti-Semite or anything but the conflation of someone's published writings with the material effect they had is a weird way to do historical materialism
American Catholic Nazi aristocracy training facility, heroin overdoses, the end of third marriages but
the start of a beautiful fourth, Portuguese homophobia, overpriced shellfish, Bulgarian labor trafficking, etc.