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La Dame d'Azur

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Marxist Proletarian, Transsexual Lesbian, Radical Feminist, Gnostic, Fiction Writer

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    "wiki loves Ramadan"

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  • They seem to do this with just about every non-Western religion, including often Christian sects that aren't Protestant or Catholic. Overwhelmingly relying on white bougie scholars from Imperial Core countries. It makes trying to learn about non-Western religions through Wikipedia probably the worst way to do so; better to just read what actual scholars from these religions have wrote on the topic.

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 9

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  • nothing beats the death of a dictator

    So when you gonna kill your own?

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    'Freedom to the Iranian people' — Kyiv voices support for US-led strikes on Iran

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  • Freedom to the Ukrainian people. Death to the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv.

  • For a 2nd time, national poll finds more Americans sympathetic with Palestinians than the settlers

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  • We'd still be pretty awful tbh but not nearly to the same degree.

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    (MEGATHREAD) In a joint attack, the US and Israel attacked Iran! Updates in comments!

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  • Reminds me of a certain Austrian with a goofy mustache who did the exact same 80 years or so ago.

    Last I recall it didn't work out for him!

  • What are the few things that Orwell DID get right?

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  • The fascist state doesn't need culture but a human society does.

    Nevertheless I see your point and I do partially agree, I just think Orwell exaggerates how much of human identity is annihilated by a fascist system. The bourgeoisie - even a fascist bourgeoisie - still want to preserve some kind of art and history even if it is heavily sanitized and revised to fit their absurd narratives. They are still humans themselves, even if they seem to hate everything good about humanity, and so still need a culture to enjoy for all the same reasons the common prole does. Something beyond just mindless entertainment, which is what Orwell gets wrong: fascism is high class, not low class. There is no poverty cult; there is an opulence cult. This is because it is a capitalist system. But Orwell was an idiot who believed Stalin and Hitler were the same thing with different names with no experience with either system or what they actually looked like beyond anti-communist propaganda. Looking at the content of his "critique" of the USSR it reads almost identical to Trotsky's, indicating exactly where he got his absurd ideas about Stalin from.

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  • To be fair so were the Nazis and their leadership is about as competent & sane as current US leadership.

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    (MEGATHREAD) In a joint attack, the US and Israel attacked Iran! Updates in comments!

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  • MARG BAR AMRIKA

    MARG BAR ESRAEIL

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    Washington Post admits that China is not imperialist and mocks them for not using force like the US to coerce countries

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  • They were so busy bragging about being the #1 enemy of world peace that they forgot their own narrative.

  • The Nazi Kiev regime is now forcibly mobilizing ethnic minorities at gunpoint. Those who resist are beaten and murdered.

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  • Some of us aren't keeping up with the war and don't have much of a social media presence to boot, comrade.

    I avoid following Ukraine and Gaza as much as possible. The sheer volume of death and destruction is just too depressing for an extremely empathetic person like me. For my own mental health I don't go looking for the horror and would rather just let it filter through periodically.

  • The Nazi Kiev regime is now forcibly mobilizing ethnic minorities at gunpoint. Those who resist are beaten and murdered.

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  • I trust you, comrade, but please provide a source.

  • These are the terrorists who attacked Cuba in a speedboat and armed to the teeth, but the Western media, including the supposedly progressive media, call them "civilians".

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  • PATRIA O MUERTE, VENCEREMOS

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    Redditor experiences mental breakdown when confronted in-person with reality that contradicts their anti-China indoctrination

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  • Liberals, who claim to love science, when presented with scientific evidence that directly contradicts what they've been told:

  • What are the few things that Orwell DID get right?

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  • The issue is that Oceania isn't replacing anything.

    Actual fascists do try to erase history & culture to rewrite/reshape the national identity but they also try to replace it with a new national identity. Orwell's Oceania hasn't done this. It's destroying its own society without replacing it with a new one.

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  • I'm not talking about the world outside Britain but rather Britain itself. There's no culture or history. There's barely any politics or economics. I understand the government is supposed to be rewriting history, changing the language, etc. but even Nazi Germany wasn't as stale and lifeless as Oceania. The whole society is illogical and devoid of human character. Nothing feels real; everything is empty and dull.

    Which is the point since Orwell is perpetuating the "poverty cult" myth of the early USSR but if you know literally anything about human civilization or socialization you know intuitively that Oceania is impossible as a society. It literally could not exist.

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    Washington Post admits that China is not imperialist and mocks them for not using force like the US to coerce countries

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  • Saying the quiet part out loud just because they're too arrogant & condescending to realize.

  • What are the few things that Orwell DID get right?

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  • Purely from the perspective of literary criticism I think 1984 actually sucks tbh.

    The prose & storytelling are fine but the characters are dull, the setting nonsensical, there's basically no worldbuilding to speak of which makes the world feel tiny, the plot makes no sense, etc.

    Even the "predictions" are pretty lame since a lot of that existed in Orwell's own time (newspeak, doublethink, etc.) and others - like TVs with cameras in every home - aren't all that far-fetched to begin with even in the 50s.

    It's honestly an overrated book even by entertainment standards.

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  • Someone forgot about Juche Necromancy...

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 9

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  • Reading about how newspapers manufactured consent for the Spanish-American War was what convinced me, even as a lib, to be skeptical about the reliability of media.

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    put in my 2 weeks notice

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    FIRST BLOOD Was America Lying to Itself

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    Why have British Socialists been so impotent?

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    "BEEF" ROMAN'S ROMAN BEEF (FROM ROMANIA!)

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    Pacifism as Social Control & Manifested Privilege

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    My Name Is John Langley And I Am Not A Fed

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    Is the auto industry gaslighting us?

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    MADURO - PEACE FOREVER (Official Metal Video)

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    Why were communists killing each other in Angola?

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    Falling Down was PROPAGANDA

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    What's the deal with Ba'athism?

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    How can we avoid a repeat of the USSR's dissolution?

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    Question about Operation Barbarossa

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    Why did the USSR (re-)criminalize homosexuality?

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    TÄRA - Bella Ciao Palestinian Version (Rooftop acoustic live session)

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    What's it like being LGBTQ+ in China?

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    What's it like being LGBTQ+ in China?

  • Film, TV, and Media @lemmygrad.ml
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    The Strange Conservatism of Forrest Gump

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    Marvel: Defenders of The Status Quo

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    Theory: Acquired