“Thank you for so readily categorizing yourself as a terrorist organization and saving us the trouble.”

“Especially Americans”??? Like, who the fuck cares what Americans think? I thought the issue was the people who “suffered” under communism?

I know overseas shipping is rough, but I’ve been a China shill for about 4 years. Either China really is capitalist and they’re outright stealing my wages, or my check’s still en route. Regardless, I’m pretty pissed off. All this PRCposting and I haven’t seen a single fucking yuan.

refusing to even acknowledge real estate developers exist is so real of him wtf

“If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made… And they won’t even admit the knife is there.”

– Malcolm X, 1964

I would not say without a fight. The Finnish Whites massacred the Finnish Reds (…and by extension anyone at all thought to be sympathetic to workers).

https://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/1930/year-one-sa/finland2.html

The victors massacred the vanquished. Since ancient times class wars have always been the most frightful. There are no more bloody and atrocious victories than the victories of reactionary classes. Since the blood-bath inflicted on the Paris Commune by the French bourgeoisie, the work had not seen anything comparable to the horrors of Finland. From the first shot of the civil war, “belonging to a workers’ organization in White territory meant arrest; to have been an official in such organization meant execution. The massacre of socialists reached such proportions that it ended by interesting no one.” At Kummen, where 43 Red Guards fell in battle, nearly five hundred persons were executed! There were “hundreds” executed at Kotka, a town of thirteen thousand inhabitants. “They didn’t even ask their names; they just led them away in groups.” At Raumo, according to a bourgeois newspaper, “five hundred prisoners captured on May 15 got the punishment they deserved the same day.” “April 14 in Toeloe, a suburb of Helsingfors, two hundred Red Guards were killed with machine guns … The Reds were hunted from house to house. Many women perished.” At Sveaborg the public executions were set for Trinity Sunday. In the neighborhood of Lakhtis, where the Whites took thousands of prisoners, “the machine guns worked several hours a day.” “On one day alone two hundred women were killed with dumdum bullets; pieces of flesh flew in every direction.”

wuhboudism

I most certainly will. Thanks for the recommendation.

Precisely how I and practically everyone I know live(s). We are all so tired.

let’s goooo me toooo

Strange that the breakaway republic formed by right-wing Nationalist terrorists has wound up doing racist shit

Does… does it work? Like, is the info sticking better you think?

I’m a little terrified of the answer.

Read William Blum. Read William Blum. Read William Blum.

Maybe went to therapy and realized their political interest was consistently leading them down utterly depressing ideological rabbit holes. 🐇 🕳

Sounds like they’re still working on the part where they keep that shit to themselves, though. “Anti-political” lol. At least “nonpolitical” is a rather neutral term. How does one fight “politics”? Death to anyone with political inclinations of any kind? Re-education centers where they teach the politicals to grill?

69/hr actually comes to ~140k a year

edit: I’m dumb it’s 20 hrs a week lol

“John Steinbeck is a fucking liar” has me fucking cackling

Remember what they took from us.

It’s unwise to assume truth regarding breaking news, especially when it’s continents away. We mustn’t so quickly forget the “Russian bombing” of Poland that wound up being a Ukrainian misfire. Panic damn near caused WW3.

Tried to tbh but posted to !worldnews@lemmy.world on accident. There are three worldnews communities that show up, with no differentiating text indicating which is where. Annoying tbh.

I am grateful to have work, as I have been without it. In spite of the fact that they underpay and overwork me.

I am grateful to have an apartment the size of a prison cell that I can still barely manage to afford, as I have been without shelter. I am grateful to have a landlord who allowed me some leeway with payment. In spite of him still charging me a violent price to merely inhabit his space.

I am grateful to have food, even if it is overpriced, uberprocessed garbage, as I have been without.

Point being… I think being grateful is a necessity at times merely to survive. I’m grateful because I have to be. It’s most certainly a defense mechanism against capitalism when one lives under a capitalist system however, and you are onto something with the religious connections. This is the opium of the masses presenting us one reason for its namesake.

It is ok to not feel grateful, of course. We must never stop demanding what we are owed and some of us are owed far, far more than others.