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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://www.villagevoice.com/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/

Originally published: January 12, 1988

“But there is plenty of blame to go around,” as Sovietologist John Arch Getty recently noted in The London Re­view of Books. “It must be shared by the tens of thousands of activists and offi­cials who carried out the policy and by the peasants who chose to slaughter ani­mals, burn fields, and boycott cultivation in protest.”

Such a balanced analysis, however, has never satisfied Ukrainian nationalists in the United States and Canada, for whom the “terror-famine” is an article of faith and communal rallying point. For decades after the fact, their obsession was con­fined to émigré journals.

After 50 years on the fringes, the Ukraine famine debate is finally front and center. While one-note faminologists may teach us little real history, they re­veal how our sense of history is pulled by political fashion until it hardens into the taffy of conventional wisdom. And how you can fool most of the people most of the time — especially when you tell them what they want to hear.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The United States is just a nation of America. America is two whole continents of peoples. That is the whole point the end of the performance was making. USians aren't the only "Americans".

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

https://youtu.be/GK87AKIPyZY

I would also recommend this other video that is also really good: https://youtu.be/Zl_GlPquElI

And he did some tracks with Bad Bunny years ago.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Leftism starts at anti-capitalism. Liberalism is pro-capitalism. Simple as.

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Bad Bunny's halftime show at the Superbowl ended with him listing all the nations of America (South to North order).

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

I'm willing to bet money that a thing that never happened would have happened...

wtf even are you doing?

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Those who do not learn from history something something, nvm probably not important to anything happening today.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

when the Imperialist Boomerang is used by a global nuclear hegemony, this is some quality meme making

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/8/gaza-toll-could-exceed-186000-lancet-study-says

July 2024:

After applying a “conservative estimate” of four indirect deaths per one direct death, “it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable” to the Gaza war, the study found.

 
[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Scratch a liberal

And they say a fascist bleeds

Parenti spoke truth

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's the classic Microsoft "triple E" strategy that has been used against libre historically:

  • Embrace (interoperable)

  • Extend (new features)

  • Extinguish (fork the protocols to break interoperability)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish

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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

ICE is recruiting the same itchy trigger finger demographic as Trayvon's killer with the promise of no consequences and large paychecks. They are killing indiscriminately already. There's billions of dollars dedicated to continuing this project. Organize for community defense asap.

 
 
[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The phrase "money is speech" refers to the Supreme Court's interpretation that spending money in political campaigns is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment. This concept was notably established in the 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on political advocacy.

This is what liberalism does. Wealth inequality inevitably unbalances any sense of liberty in material reality over time. It is the ideology of capitalism that is destroying community, humanity and the biosphere and climate.

 
 
 

the remaining differences are mostly about aesthetics and not about the use of violence to maintain hegemony

 
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take a bike ride around the city, maybe do some errands you've been planning, get that sense of accomplishment and feel the breeze on your concealed face, that's what I call a chill vibe alright

 
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