Omniraptor [they/them]

I wouldn’t mind if we had ru or ukr language communities on here either.

Various propagandists have already blamed Ukraine, before the cops even cleared the building and did a body count nevermind apprehending any suspects. Sickening stuff tbh

https://t.me/rabkor/15781

It’s a meme (in Russian ‘leftist’ social media) quote from a speech by Putin in Feb 22 right before he invaded. About how Ukraine is a fake country created by the foolish utopian Bolsheviks who used declarations of self determination as empty slogans to gain initial support. And then Stalin built a normal centralized state but didn’t bother changing the utopian “confederative” wording.

So now Putin is forced to fix Stalin’s mistake, put Ukraine through decommunisation and go back (presumably to how it was in the Russian empire) before all this communist nonsense.

Here’s the full speech if you’re interested https://web.archive.org/web/20220224052445/http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828

Вы хотели декоммунизации? Штош нас это вполне устраивает

Judging from how some people talk about ai idk if most people even leftists would like to live in the culture. But yeah, the books turned me into a transgender communist so I’d recommend them based on that

Stalin and giving a shit about the plight of oppressed ethnic minorities, name a more iconic duo

seriously tho he was more than willing to throw them under the bus when it served a purpose, I don’t buy that he was simply overcome by pity or smth. We had working relationships with the various regional nationalists and (half assedly) supported them all the way up to 1947

Nah the about face was a complete shot in the foot, massively hurt the Soviets’ relations with other communist parties in the region- iirc the party line had been support for arab resistance even since the Balfour declaration. Lenin and Trotsky were both strongly anti Zionist and condemned it for the ethno nationalism that it is.

But Stalin reversed course on it and I honestly don’t understand why. The dude was supposedly smart/good at geopolitics how did he not see that it was an imperial project from the start.

It’s the medium not the article. You can post your articles on GitHub gists or something just don’t use that website

did she have a position on poly relationships?

Yeah this would be much cooler than just rejecting the request

Yeah iirc it’s been confirmed that the brainwashing/muzzling don’t extend as much to other languages. It’s a bit easier to get it to talk about spicy topics in Russian in my experience

Well, first one then the other. The IPO is the inflection point

I wrote the comment thinking of the Iranian revolution which afaict ended with the clerics taking power and imprisoning/murdering all the atheist leftists they could find. But it’s a very different situation from Palestine desperately struggling to form any kind of state at all. My bad and thank you for responding patiently.

It was just weird seeing praise in the op and some comments (in a leftist/Marxist community) for the use of religion as an organizing principle, as smth good in itself instead of a necessary/temporary evil. Like, even our anthem has a line for “Ni dieu, ni césar, ni tribun!”

I feel like I’m either deluded or turning into a plain old Western atheist chauvinist scrolling through these comments.

But everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that Hamas was specifically propped up by the Israelis (multiple quotes from Israeli leadership attesting this) in their struggle against the secular PLO because the PLO was a bigger threat to Israeli plans for domination. Except in the past decade they’ve gone off the chain so to speak. Kind of like the mujahideen sponsored by the United States in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet friendly government, which also went off the chain and started attacking the US.

Israel wants palestine divided with a militant Hamas in the west that they can crush/conquer with impunity, and a weakened/coopted PLO in the east that cannot resist creeping colonization. But as far as I can tell the high point of hopes for a palestinian state were back in the 90s when there was a broad secular coalition under Arafat and a strong PLO.

sources on what specifically?

Yeah sorry for not being clear it was specifically the phrase “Alexander… implemented orthodox Christianity” that had me rolling. It happened a bit earlier than that.

And the actual criminalization happened under Nicholas I in 1835, specifically as a reaction to secular revolutionary movements in France (which decriminalized homosexuality). Also to align with Prussia and Austria which had punitive laws. The idea was to strengthen the church as a bulwark against uprisings.

I’m russian and this fact comes as a surprise to me to put it mildly, could you give a source please

I’m russian and this is exactly the attitude I see from people there too. Not even cynicism, but abject despair dressing itself up as cynicism. Idk what to do… best I can think of is you gotta find crumbs of positivity from somewhere to not become a doomer

I don’t think the pseudopupils are a feature of the eye distinct from any other part, it’s just what the individual facets look like viewed at a shallow angle.

edit: not that there aren’t bugs with different colored regions of their eyes. I’m not sure about the functionality of those tho, is it for vision or camouflage or looking good for the ladies or what. Will google

That’s because email and fax machines aren’t businesses either. However commercially run email providers def go through this process.