[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

This seems to have been a Eugene_V_Dabs thingy: https://tankie.tube/w/uD7oHtMCu733hrb9eofLzp

There are more videos from Eugene here, they can be quite funny: https://tankie.tube/c/the_eugene_v._dabs_criterion_collection/videos

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 4 months ago

Even the cis on hexbear aren't cis.

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We have two communities that seemingly serve the same purpose. TankieTunes is more active and Socialist music only has a single mod that hasn't posted in 4 years.

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submitted 5 months ago by ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml to c/main@hexbear.net

410bdf didn't post yesterday, this was once too many times, so I decided to take down Hexbear in anger.

(This post is testing federation, I seemingly cannot comment)

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 6 months ago

I remember this bozo. Still incredible to see.

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 7 months ago

This is where someone paints Biden (or Blinken) and German+British+Fr*nch+others PM sitting at a table eating the third world.

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 72 points 7 months ago

"We are going to eat you". They are stating it out loud.

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 7 months ago

It's actually very easy:
The soviets were bad for raping everybody they came across.
The soviets were bad for murdering anybody caught raping.

I think "Insert :parenti: here" fits?

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submitted 8 months ago by ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@hexbear.net

Hi Hexbear!

Over at !minecraft@lemmygrad.ml we have a survival minecraft server at mc.encryptionin.space running 1.20.4 (there is whitelist on, see below). We recently started fresh and want to increase the playerbase. So, if you want to play some minecraft with other leftists, join the matrix room to talk with others. And either message me here on lemmy or tell me in the matrix room to get whitelisted.

Have a nice day.

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Heya! if anybody actually reads this.

I checked the logs, and it seemed as if people rarely played, and when someone did login, it was for a short time‒a few minutes.

I've wiped the worlds. Well, I have moved the worlds to a different location on the server, so it generates a new one. I've also taken this opportunity to update the server to 1.20.4, and update some of the plugins. Also to get a feel, now that things are changing, should they change more? Should we do something else than vanilla survival?

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Packet asked me in the monthly thread if the server should get wiped and start anew, with a push for publicity on here and hexbear.

So I wanted to make this post to gauge interest in this. If people are against it, I won't do it. But if people think it might be a good idea, I'll work on it.

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In Anna Louise Strongs wikipedia article, they write:

In 1936, she returned once again to the United States. Quietly and privately distressed with developments in the USSR (The "Great Purges"), she continued to write for leading periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Nation and Asia

This has three footnotes, 4, 9, and 24.

4 is a link to Peoples World, it writes:

In 1936 she returned home to the U.S., quietly and privately distressed with political developments in the USSR after Joseph Stalin launched the Great Purge

Sounds like Wikipedia copied them doesn't it? One may be inclined to try and figure out where Peoples World got this from, that's the point of checking out the sources in the first place. Unfortunately PW doesn't footnote it, but maybe they write at the bottom where they got it from... Let's check it out!

Adapted from Wikipedia.

LMAO! Wikipedia cites Wikipedia as a source.


24 Is about the trials of the "Zinoviev-Trotskist Center", but nothing in it (at least to me) seems to back up their claim of being distressed with the developments. Rather, it seems to me like she writes in the opposite direction, in favor of the trials.

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[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

   Another prisoner, who had been in Sin Sing, San Quentin, as well as in jails of England, Spain and Germany, before he was picked up by the Soviets for grand larceny, had been reclaimed by the Baltic-White Sea Canal. He had done a bit of engineering in his youth, and was promptly given a chance to work at this specialty. He won a medal, pursued his studies further, and was doing brilliant work on the Moscow-Volga Canal when Dr. Callcott met him. To her query about his reformation he replied:
   “In the other countries they treated me like a prisoner, clapped me in jail and taught me my place. Here they clapped me on the back and said 'What can we do to make you into a useful citizen?'”

   [...] Bolshevo Commune, the most famous “cure” for criminals can be entered only by application approved by the general meeting of members. Its waiting list is so long that it accepts only the most hardened cases, priding itself on being able to make over persons who cannot become cured in any other institution. Its strength lies in its large membership of intelligent former criminals, who apply to new entrants their intimate knowledge of the criminal mind.

Anna L. Strong, This Soviet World, Chapter XIV

(Emphasis mine, because of "2)" in OP image)

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

I would have just added a comment under the current weeks general thread. If it weren't for the fact that I really like the book and REALLY think you should read it.

Strong writes in a way that is easy to read. And, as she has done before, she writes about the successes of the Soviet Union and Socialism. My liberal brain-worms were writhing, chapter by chapter they could not accept what was written, too good to be true, propaganda! Though I must have gotten very happy reading about these success, because I at one point got teary-eyed.

quote from where it boiled over.

When a winter childbirth in a distant Arctic station developed complications, the neighbors got the Dixon Island surgeon on the radio and for more than three hours he directed over the air every detail while the whole of a much-worried Arctic listened in. When the child and mother were safe, congratulations poured in from thousands of miles of icebound waterfront.

 

Please read it, not because I made an epub (although yea, also that), but because I think it's a great book.

Download my EPUB version: https://comlib.encryptionin.space (or https://archive.org/details/this-soviet-world-anna-louise-strong)

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml to c/books@lemmygrad.ml

I have made what I believe to be the first reflowable version of "This Soviet World" by Anna Louise Strong.

This book is incredibly fucking good. READ IT. (please)

Download my EPUB version: https://comlib.encryptionin.space (or https://archive.org/details/this-soviet-world-anna-louise-strong)

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submitted 10 months ago by ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml to c/quotes@lemmygrad.ml

The heads of government in America are not the real rulers. I have talked with many of them from the President down. Some of them would really like to use power for the people. They feel baffled by their inability to do so; they blame other branches of government, legislatures, courts. But they haven’t analyzed the real reason. The difficulty is that they haven’t power to use. Neither the President nor Congress nor the common people, under any form of organization whatever, can legally dispose of the oil of Rockefeller or the gold in the vaults of Morgan. If they try, they will be checked by other branches of government, which was designed as a system of checks and balances precisely to prevent such “usurpation of power.” Private capitalists own the means of production and thus rule the lives of millions. Government, however chosen, is limited to the function of making regulations which will help capitalism run more easily by adjusting relations between property and protecting it against the “lawless” demands of non-owners. This constitutes what Marxists call the dictatorship of property. “The talk about pure democracy is but a bourgeois screen,” says Stalin, “to conceal the fact that equality between exploiters and exploited is impossible. . . . It was invented to hide the sores of capitalism . . . and lend it moral strength.” [Stalin, Leninism, I, 46]

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[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great idea! Hey USA, one HSR and Universal Healthcare? Instead of all that police and genocide plz thanks.

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 1 year ago

Thank you. As you said, even if the person you responded to didn't read it, there are us comrades that will learn from it.

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isn't the security council, or anywhere else, where the U.S. has veto rights. This (the Third Committee) seems to run on "majority yes" voting (i.e. if enough vote yes, it is adopted).

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

^From^ ^Voting^ ^records^ ^of^ ^the^ ^Third^ ^Committee^^:^

Recorded vote on draft resolution A/C.3/77/L.5, as orally revised and as amended - Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

Recorded vote on draft amendment A/C.3/77/L.52 - Amendment to draft resolution A/C.3/77/L.5

US and Ukraine voted no, on L.5. And yes on the L.52 amendment.


For reference:

The Committee then took up draft amendment “L.52”, which inserts a new operative paragraph, reading: “Notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.”

^(^^press.un.org;^ ^GA/SHC/4365^^)^

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