"Oh, beware the Moscow Gold!"
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Yes, it's also the guy who takes advice from the spirit of his dead dog. I'm not kidding.
You know... That's actually not a crazy thought. I'm not a professional Bible scholar but I'm super interested in the topic and read my share of books and research articles on critical biblical studies.
Some of the craziest prophetic writings in the bible are actually super anti-elite, criticizing kings and priestly leaders for extorting the poor and not caring for their people, decrying foreign and domestic opressors, etc, etc.
If you read Amos, Baruch, Ezekiel, Isaiah and so on it's not rare to find stuff like "what is the value the sacrifices in the temple have if you're starving your people?" directed at kings and other elites.
Not all of it, but some of the later stuff (exilic and post-exilic) is surrounded by crazy visions like "... the angel of lord showed me the throne of YHWH and it was awesome and terrifying and full of eyes and wheels within wheels and 200 heads", etc.
So... part of it might be a way of saying "BTW, here's the mothefucking terrifying being that's going to fuck you up if you don't stop oppressing the people...".
Of course, all that was later coopted by an institutional priestly class who couldn't give a fuck about the actual social message. But there was a lot of social preoccupation by some of the original authors.
It's Portuguese :)
The capybara is the national mascot of the Brazilian Revolution.
Hahaha, não sou. Mas curto o camarada.
You can have a taste of DALLE•3 on Bing for free (with some restrictions).
It's not as impressive but it's pretty interesting.
Yeah, unfortunately. But I think it's temporary. The open source models are evolving VERY fast. Eventually they'll catch-up.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 That's DELICIOUS
I know a couple of liberals who L.O.V.E. to cite Du Bois around that would be pretty shocked by this quote.
If liberals knew how fucking "tankie" some of their idols really were they would completely melt.
Dude, I'm going to show you how to get rich with this simple trick:
step 1: find a dependent capitalist country and destabilize its government
step 2: find a way to destroy it's public infrastructure. Just coopt a local comprador class and defund everything, but if all else fails just start a war.
And so on.
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On this date, 50 years ago, we learned what happens when an advanced workers led project reaches power through elections in bourgeois democracy.
We learned how the bourgeoisie takes back control when there is no revolutionary organization ready to fight back.
They will kill us, they will torture us and they will create an economic devastation to make sure we don't try again.
There's no alternative. It's revolution or death, socialism or barbarism.
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TODAY I'LL DRINK TO THAT!