One of my favourite paintings. The look on the revolutionary's face,in absolute awe of the luxury the bourgeois and royals indulged in while he and his comrades lived in squalor. absolutely brilliant.
Comradai_Guts
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I mourn the fall of the USSR every single day because of shit like this.
It's a great song but an awful message. like most of the beatles politics when brought up it's literally just is "pacifism good" and nothing much beyond that. There's a real sense of naivety to it, no John, everything isn't "gonna be alright" if we just loved each other. Things actually have to be done about the awful living conditions people are forced into and pacifism is only going to get you so far when dealing with those who impose said conditions.
So, i did a lil bit of digging and found out this channel is linked to China Uncensored, which for those who don't know is one of those "ebil seeseepee" "chyna collapse! 1!1" channels and Is linked to falun gong, those guys who were doing those ShenYun shows.
I think this is a good example of how they use several channels covering popular topics and media in order to spread their ideology to groups that have already been shown to be very susceptible to it (in this case, gamers, which as gamergate showed are the perfect group for instilling and spreading their reactionary views, being mostly younger men from 15 to 35 feeling alone and ostracized from others. With the youngest of the bunch being their big targets.).
This is all notes taken straight out of the classic Alt-Right playbook and has been the method these types have been employing to great success since the early 10's and now we are fully seeing the scale of these efforts with the sheer amount of young, far right reactionaries we are beginning to see pop up and far-right grifters such as shapiro, peterson and tate being big celebrities. They have faced a level of sizable backlash from liberal progressive types but they still continue to influence countless young men into support absolutely awful things and enabling their horrible behaviour, which saddens me.
The takeaway really is always think through, challenge and research what you are being told, ESPECIALLY if it confirms what you already thought. It's as simple as that yet a shocking amount of people i know don't do this. It's okay to be wrong, it's not okay to be ignorant and all that lol.
Personally, nearly all my profile pictures are just fictional character i like + bi flag and/or hammer and sickle in the background so idk much in the way of "professional" pfp's lol but in that scenario I'd probably go with some sort of historical photo of a leftist figure, preferably someone less recognizable to your average lib depending on how "professional" the environment is. As much as i love ol' joe he was absolutely correct in saying a pile of rubbish would be heaped apon his grave. So pick someone deemed more "sensible".
For comrades not in the know. Libgen.is and Libgen.rs which zlibrary mirrored (afaik) are both still around if anyone needs an alternative now.
I'm a lil late to the party on this post, but becoming a socialist really helped me curb my doomerism and allowed me to be way more optimistic than ever before. It's just a liberating feeling being able to recognise and critique both capitalism and our selves and be able to improve and move foward.
AES is also massive hopium and seeing how far they've all come/came is evidence enough a better future is possible.
To be dramatic, frankly. It's proof that we don't have to give in and we absolutely don't need to suffer alone and aimless. We can work things out together and make things better for everyone, one step at a time.
We don't have to accept the homelessness, the hunger, the pain, the quiet desolation nor the crimes committed towards our fellow man in the name of capital.
god i sound cheesy. But then again, i mean it all wholeheartedly.
I wish all my comrades the best, keep fighting the good fight in your own little way.
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IIRC it wasn't the emulator that was the issue but the roms they were selling. Some of the NES roms they were selling on the wii u eshop had come from romsites and were not ripped by nintendo themselves.