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[–] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 14 hours ago

There's an expected threat on a subreddit about criticism of a certain Christian sect. I might start asking everyone out there to give Lemmy a try.

Quoting Jeffrey Veidlinger’s In the Midst of Civilized Europe, pages 53–54:

Following the economic and military failures of the summer, popular support for the provisional government collapsed. The Bolsheviks gained a majority in the Petrograd Soviet, and on the morning of November 7, Lenin issued a manifesto announcing the overthrow of the provisional government and the transfer of power to the Petrograd Soviet.

[…]

With victory in his hands, Lenin promised a “democratic peace to all nations and an immediate armistice on all fronts” and proclaimed “the right of self-determination” for “all nationalities inhabiting Russia.” Elections to the Constituent Assembly, he continued, would proceed as planned in January.

The Bolsheviks had succeeded in securing power in the Russian capital and immediately set about exporting their revolution to the rest of the former Russian Empire. This meant, first, encouraging workers, peasants, and soldiers to establish soviets and assume power in their own regions; and second, raising a Red Army to conquer by force those territories that resisted.

In Kyiv, the Central Rada refused to recognize the undemocratic Bolshevik coup

(Emphasis added.)

How does an otherwise competent writer manage to contradict hisself within the span of only two pages? Either he deliberately lied to appease a publisher, his hamsterlike brain decided that it was time to say something anticommunist, this was a clumsy attempt to represent somebody else’s point of view, or his definition of democracy is utterly fucked.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Wishing our Muslim comrades a fruitful Eid al-Adha this weekend

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A 62 year old man attacked a hijab wearing girl in my city today. Her brother and friends tracked the dude down to his house and attacked him for it. The brother got stabbed.

Somehow Reddit dudes find a way to blame the woman for all this.

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They probably have no idea that the old man was the aggressor and just read about some muslims attacking a white guy

[–] Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

redditoids will always blame opressed minorities

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Great day to be a vegan when a lot of coworkers are talking about how they are going to slid the throat of an innocent animal today

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Shame on them

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Watched Adolescence on Netflix today. Very interesting and very sad to watch really. Could it be clearer and could it go deeper into toxic masculinity? Sure. But I feel like it was a very real and disturbing display of how a typical suburban guy can become what the show portrays. It's scary how I could even see things about my own life in there even though I became a well adjusted adult.

Though I see criticism from women online and I can really see the points they try to bring across. Makes me wonder who the series aims at as a target audience. I think, as a man watching it, it can be a good reflection for other men to show the danger of toxic masculinity. Though I must say it does so without any deeper dive into what that is exactly.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

My main criticism of it is that it seems rather superficial. It tries to show the how but does not attempt to go into the why. It offers no deeper (systemic rather than individualistic) explanations or solutions and leaves too much open for the audience to interpret according to their own ideological framework. I find that fairly cowardly as it absolves the writers of the show of having to actually take an ideological position. In that regard is a quintessentially liberal piece of media.

[–] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Happy Pride Month! Enjoy the rest of the month!

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 days ago

Science and Technology Palace. DPRK

[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago

Losing my password to the old account here actually tanked my mental health. Glad to be back!

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you can tell the degree of subservience of a nation to the US by how popular baseball is there.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Tempting thought, considering how baseball is possibly the worst team sport (maybe except polo), but not standing. Total EU bootlicker shitholes with otherwise largely americanised cultures still don't have almost any baseball*, but Cuba have a lot of it (like wtf Cuba, i guess it is the reminder that no one can be based 100% of time).

*There was a moment of seeming hope for baseball in Poland, while in 90's tons of football hooligans started to buy baseball accessories. Turned out they just wanted baseball bats. It would be funny to imagine their trainings though, since for each ball and glove sport shops were selling few hundred bats.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yep. Cuba disproves this theory.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Venezuela and Nicaragua as well

It is remnant of colonialism though and still a negative culture influence since baseball fans inevitably will look up to its country of origin and all the flashy multibillion business baseball is.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not really since these baseball players dream of going to the US, baseball is like the strongest soft power the US has on Cuba.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Would you really call Cuba "subservient" just because some cubans dream of going to the us?

Canada is like 100x more subservient than Cuba and baseball is not even a top 3 sport there.

Finding a baseball game would be harder than finding gold in Australia and we are so dominated I don't even consider Australia as its own country.

Sorry the linkage just ist there.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems like my club is actually going through on signing an Israeli goalkeeper. Sad.

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Oof, DankZedong

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The Dutch government has collapsed. At this point I don't see it as something positive. The next cabinet will probably be just as shitty

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 days ago

liberal democracies working as intended, they melt in order to give room for the "far-right".

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago

Dumb shit will come out of it but I do enjoy the meltdown on the right

[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 days ago

We might actually get a Wilders 1

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 5 days ago

Champions League final between Paris Saint Germain PSG and Inter Milan.

care

[–] felhfeltetel@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Have a good start to the week comrades! Stay safe in the heat if you live in Europe.

Today is my birthday, and I have never felt lonelier in my life, make sure to reach out to people around you if you think it's needed!

[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago

happy pride month nerds

[–] AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 5 days ago
[–] sunbleachedfly@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Happy Pride, everyone in the world is now gay for one (1) month

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[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 days ago
[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 5 days ago

Finished converting my van, spend a few days in a food forest in the middle of nowhere. Had a nice time.

Back to the real life now though.

[–] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Spanish bombs yo te quiero infinito

Yo te quiero, oh mi corazon...

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 5 days ago

The video of the Marxist Dutch YouTuber LeftLaser about political murderer Volkert van der G is causing some infighting in the online left community and it once again confirms to me that many of these people don't go outside often enough

[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I hope you all have a nice pride month :D

[–] soekarnoenjoyer@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is that time of the year again.

Hehe whatabout deez

Libs are gonna have a field day with this one

[–] Magicicad@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’ve been rereading 1491. It’s got a lot of good information but sometimes just slaps you in the face with liberalism. At one point it said Stalin and Mao would be jealous of the Inka’s mass relocations of conquered populations.

[–] EnPeasant@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not the first, neither the last time it will happen. The Peruvian Marxist-Leninist thinker José Carlos Mariategui used to refer positively about Incan times, where, in his opinion, the natives would practice primitive communism, with a somewhat collective ownership of the means of production until the arrival of the Spanish, who would conquer the natives and implement feudalism in Peru.

edit: at least, its that what i remember from reading his 7 Essays.

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