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please im so fucking cooked

Saw a comment on Truanon call it "Funny 9/11", the sheer whimsy of it all was so left field

Feel free to add common myths about the East that you'd like cleared up. Or how you've already cleared it up. It might help me or another reader.

I knew it was doomed from the start, but it was an interesting phenomenon and I want to read an account of what went down, the dynamics between different factions, tactical mistakes, etc.

Mine is (paraphrasing) "We're evil tricksters that will make you contradict the US Department of State" or something like that.

Post your self crits. They can political or personal or perhaps even both.

I hear from women tourists online that they got their ass grabbed 1 or more times on public transport. (Even times where they're with men.) Thats trauma and I wonder if I could one day go to India as a tourist without gaining trauma. I don't want to be scared of going there.

I still want to go one day, but these reviews mentioning SA scare me.

I never seen this mentioned before, but I often have a situation where someone will ask me to create something, what I've noticed is that nowadays people talk to me about the creation like they talk to an AI chatbot, "make this" "make it look more scary" "make it more mysterious" "give it realistic hands" it wastes a lot of time.

what's there to learn beyond just buying existing product?

I'm comfortable tinkering with hardware and software, it would be nice if that meant a drone with fewer backdoors.

My circles tend to be very anti Lenin or anti Stalin, most of them are anarchists or left leaning people who have a pretty strong opposition to MLs. I would like to have a dialogue with them or least give them some tools so that they can have a good background with which to critique ML even if they don't change their mind and become MLs.

Bonus if it includes info about the Bund in relation to Lenin & the Bolsheviks or information about Jews in the Soviet Union or ML Jews in general - most of us are Jewish, and a lot of strong opposition is rooted in the Jewish experience of those eras and strong emotional and ideological affinity to the legacy of the Bund.

These don't quite cover the Jewish experience as much but, some books or articles top of my mind for at least countering anticommunism are:

• Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution
• Blackshirts and Reds

Would love to hear yalls thoughts.

I have never seen Pitbull and Hexbear in the same room ! Isnt this making anyone else suspicious ? I think this whole tariff stuff is just a ploy by Trump to hide the truth. Mr. Worldwide is actually Mr. Hexbear

I remember some time before the internet, and there was so much less knowledge available freely. I assume Shakespeare came from a well to do family, but how did the knowledge of this historical event stay available up for him to hear about it?

When I was little (2000s) the consensus seemed to be that Vietnam was a shitshow. It was sort of not talked about because it was considered an embarrassment for the west.

Lately on Boomer TV I've been seeing a lot of stories about gusano Vietnamese that "escaped" the "eeeevil communist north Vietnam".

Shits weird. It's one thing to paint a country like North Korea as evil because it's easy to make shit up about an isolated country. But people can watch like a billion travel shows that show communist Vietnam is a normal ass country. The idea that people fled from that becomes less harrowing when you see that it's a beautiful place that's just as free as any other country.

So I'm in a kind of position where I teach young adults about events of militantism, and I've not developed yet a bug network of ground news from outside the "International community" and their medias.

So I was wondering if you have any pointers, I sure don't want you to do the work for me, but I just want to show that this day is important in a lot of places.

Thanks comrades !

I just went down to our local lib demonstration. All I could really feel was depressed. All those people waving signs but I wonder how many are willing to do anything more than that? Shit most of them were pretty old, tbh. I approached some people I clocked as comrades but I was very awkward and we didn't have a conversation.

I guess I don't really have a question here. Just feel like everybody has identified (some of) the problems, but have totally misidentified the solutions. Will these protests ever accomplish anything? Can we radicalize the protestors without them having to get beaten by cops? Or is that what it will take?

I feel like I'm pretty much only willing to try something if someone I know and respect recommends it to me. I'm always super unwilling to just randomly pick up a book or a movie or whatever on my own... I feel like ever since being vaguely into Marvel slop, I'm just so much more aware of how finite my time is and I have to know I'm going into something worth seeing and engaging with before I'll commit to even trying something. Does anyone else feel this way more? Is this just the process of me calcifying as I get older, or is it to do with how society is?

Like the title! I want to cultivate some helpful skills but do so gradually, as a hobbyist. Tempted to get into lockpicking, haha.