copeium anyway I saw the hot take mention brave new world in the first sentence and stopped reading on the assumption that it's going to be a high school level take
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# ? May 4, 2021 19:28 |
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me to
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# ? May 4, 2021 19:47 |
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tokin opposition posted:copeium The more access you have to entertainment the less likely you are to do poo poo and so to keep people vigilant against encroachment of their rights they should always be kind of bored. It seems a bit simplistic.
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# ? May 4, 2021 22:45 |
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drat, sure am glad I’m miserably bored all the time at my pointless job instead of getting to be a human being. i might forget to protect my rights if I feel good about anything
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# ? May 4, 2021 23:04 |
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whoops missed the revolution because I was too busy punching a child in Disco Elysium
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# ? May 4, 2021 23:19 |
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christmas boots posted:whoops missed the revolution because I was too busy punching a child in Disco Elysium The gently caress does Cuno care about a revolution
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# ? May 5, 2021 02:51 |
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christmas boots posted:The more access you have to entertainment the less likely you are to do poo poo and so to keep people vigilant against encroachment of their rights they should always be kind of bored. You say that but as soon as CHUDs got bored for a week they started trying to kidnap the governor of Michigan to “protect their rights”
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# ? May 5, 2021 05:12 |
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Lib and let die posted:The gently caress does Cuno care about a revolution cuno doesnt loving care
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# ? May 5, 2021 06:00 |
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Do they think everyone was a Normal Rockwell grey-faced peasant slowly labouring in the fields until tv was invented People played games, sang songs, told jokes and stories, got drunk all the time and amused themselves and each other.
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# ? May 5, 2021 06:42 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Do they think everyone was a Normal Rockwell grey-faced peasant slowly labouring in the fields until tv was invented Yeah, and capitalism won
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# ? May 5, 2021 08:48 |
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https://twitter.com/Krastovden/status/1390952707075289093?s=20
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# ? May 8, 2021 20:15 |
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now THAT'S a spicy meatball!!
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# ? May 8, 2021 20:18 |
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oh for sure bro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_post-Soviet_aliyah
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# ? May 8, 2021 20:22 |
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that is the most upside down take I've read in a long loving time wow
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# ? May 9, 2021 01:18 |
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Flesh Forge posted:that is the most upside down take I've read in a long loving time wow Just think about all of the "well actually black people are the majority in South Africa, so" tweets we missed out on due to twitter not existing in the 80s.
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# ? May 9, 2021 01:35 |
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Now this is impressive
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# ? May 9, 2021 02:50 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:Now this is impressive yea this thread got watered down with generic @NotACopAnarchist tweeting "Actually Marx was a white supremacist and if you ask me to elaborate that's assault" poo poo but boy howdy is that a true nuclear take
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# ? May 9, 2021 02:54 |
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https://twitter.com/MichLKosinski/status/1391021496202670082
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# ? May 9, 2021 18:40 |
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drat that's a solid contender
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# ? May 9, 2021 20:11 |
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I was coming to link that tweet, it is astonishing. Not even to just think those things but to expect that people would go YEAH GO GET EM
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# ? May 9, 2021 20:16 |
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Hi hot takes thread. Question: what is the evidence for Soviet maliciousness causing the Holodormir? What's the evidence that it was caused by kulak fit-throwing and western blockades?
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# ? May 9, 2021 20:22 |
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# ? May 10, 2021 00:28 |
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mycomancy posted:Hi hot takes thread. Literal Ukrainian fascists that fought for nazi Germany said it happened intentionally and now their descendants and Neonazis repeat such as fact. That's all there is to it.
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# ? May 10, 2021 03:27 |
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What do you think about Stalin's directive "Preventing the Mass Exodus of Peasants who are Starvipng"? I couldn't easily find the text but would be very interested to read it.
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# ? May 10, 2021 05:57 |
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there's a fair amount of evidence that the soviets, though a combination of political priorities and simple neglect, condemned the ukrainian countryside to a worse fate than the russian metropole; they also continued their industrialisation programme at a time when they probably could've prioritised feeding people. the idea that it was a deliberate, targeted genocide doesn't hold up, though - parts of central asia were hit worse, proportionally, than ukraine was
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# ? May 10, 2021 06:52 |
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I'll take "What's a reserve army of labour?" for all of your seats.
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# ? May 10, 2021 08:50 |
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change the name to the Labour Aristocracy party
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# ? May 10, 2021 14:29 |
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V. Illych L. posted:there's a fair amount of evidence that the soviets, though a combination of political priorities and simple neglect, condemned the ukrainian countryside to a worse fate than the russian metropole; they also continued their industrialisation programme at a time when they probably could've prioritised feeding people. the idea that it was a deliberate, targeted genocide doesn't hold up, though - parts of central asia were hit worse, proportionally, than ukraine was the problem with this kind of theorizing of saving more lives by reducing the industrialisation programme is that they were preparing for an apocalyptic war with Germany, which ended up coming and being as bad as anyone could have thought, and vastly more people would have likely died if the soviet economy was much weaker and it led to them losing the war against the fascists. basicaly, the more i learn, the more i think that the soviet command apparatus had to make some very hard choices, but since their choices led to the defeat of fascism when it was at its most powerful, basically, stalin was right.
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# ? May 10, 2021 15:13 |
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At the time these choices were made the nazis were still total outsiders though. Though in hindsight yes absolutely, gotta industrialize to kill fascists.
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# ? May 10, 2021 15:15 |
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Orange Devil posted:At the time these choices were made the nazis were still total outsiders though. well, the social democrats killed rosa, so it's not like they were leagues better.
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# ? May 10, 2021 15:48 |
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Orange Devil posted:At the time these choices were made the nazis were still total outsiders though. that still leaves the rest of the capitalist world, who, as one might note, already had invaded the ussr once
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# ? May 10, 2021 15:52 |
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Here's some good reporting on the modern (specifically canadian) propaganda surrounding it https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/1226628034473558017?s=19
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# ? May 10, 2021 16:03 |
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reminds me of the primary sources my one professor showed us of documents of the canadian government okaying the immigration of nazi collaborators specifically to destroy the unions in Timmins, if i remember right. kind of nice of him to crack ping me when my brain could still take it..
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# ? May 10, 2021 16:07 |
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Cerebral Bore posted:the rest of the capitalist world, who, as one might note, already had invaded the ussr once Please help educate an ignorant, can you link to something elaborating on this?
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# ? May 10, 2021 16:08 |
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mycomancy posted:Please help educate an ignorant, can you link to something elaborating on this? britain, france, canada, australia, and the united states all* had military forces of various sizes scattered around russia helping the whites * this is nowhere near a comprehensive list of all the countries trying to gently caress the bolsheviks after wwi
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# ? May 10, 2021 16:17 |
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mycomancy posted:Please help educate an ignorant, can you link to something elaborating on this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War
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# ? May 10, 2021 16:18 |
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mycomancy posted:Please help educate an ignorant, can you link to something elaborating on this? During the Russian Civil War, the Allied powers from WWI invaded various parts of the former Russian Empire for various anti-Bolshevik reasons, first to restore a government that would keep fighting Germany and then, after November 1918, to help the Whites against the Bolsheviks out of their own anticommunism. The interventions were generally small-scale and ineffectual and didn't actually do much fighting, they were more like the organized seizure of Russian ports to facilitate shipping supplies to the Whites and the evacuation of anti-Bolshevik Russians when it was obvious the Whites were going to lose, but nonetheless for the Bolsheviks they were interpreted as proof of the longstanding assumption that the capitalist world would never tolerate the existence of a socialist state, and that the temporary absence of war was not evidence of any kind of lasting peace or modus vivendi. It wasn't until the Khrushchev era that the USSR would stop interpreting almost all foreign affairs through the lens of inevitable war with the capitalist world, and it helps any understanding of Soviet decision-making immensely to remember that this was their principal anxiety for about the first four decades of the existence of the USSR.
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# ? May 10, 2021 16:23 |
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It's Rogan so probably fairly tepid for him lol
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# ? May 10, 2021 17:44 |
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https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1391138498950930434?s=19
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https://twitter.com/throwajoker/status/1391207543683354626?s=20
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