It's late and we needed a mega, so I googled "on this day in history", and am copying and pasting the result. The first result, was, of course, perfect, because communism stays winning. So that was cool.
On April 25, 1983, the Soviet Union releases a letter that Russian leader Yuri Andropov wrote to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader from Manchester, Maine, inviting her to visit his country. Andropov’s letter came in response to a note Smith had sent him in December 1982, asking if the Soviets were planning to start a nuclear war. At the time, the United States and Soviet Union were Cold War enemies.
President Ronald "Asshole" Reagan, a passionate anti-communist, had dubbed the Soviet Union the “evil empire” and called for massive increases in U.S. defense spending to meet the perceived Soviet threat. In his public relations duel with Reagan, known as the “Great Communicator,” Andropov, who had succeeded longtime Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, assumed a folksy, almost grandfatherly approach that was incongruous with the negative image most Americans had of the Soviets.
Andropov’s letter said that Russian people wanted to “live in peace, to trade and cooperate with all our neighbors on the globe, no matter how close or far away they are, and, certainly, with such a great country as the United States of America.” In response to Smith’s question about whether the Soviet Union wished to prevent nuclear war, Andropov declared, “Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are endeavoring and doing everything so that there will be no war between our two countries, so that there will be no war at all on earth.” Andropov also complimented Smith, comparing her to the spunky character Becky Thatcher from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
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Getting fed up with the climate change activists in my county who like, superglue their hand to a starbucks counter or get themselves arrested blocking traffic. Direct action is cool and good, but this is just disconnected action. There is no reason for their actions to influence those who matter. There is an air gap between the protest and the intended target, and that guarantees that nothing will come from it. Supergluing yourself to a counter inconveniences you, the worker, and whoever else wants coffee that day. Supergluing an oil executive to a counter would do way more.
Its like propaganda of the deed but the deed is being a mild nuisance and an asshole, and propaganda of the deed is already at best dubiously effective when it comes to doing actual assassinations and terror deeds.
last time I said this on here about Extinction Rebellion, who o the same stuff, somebody said I hated black lives matter. a lot of people on the left seem to really think these minor disruptions and individual outbursts do anything. the logic is you get seen and get a platform, but the media is just gonna paint you as a melon regardless of how legitimate your points about climate change are, because they control the narrative through how all of this is shown to the public, and the reactionaries can paint you as an out of touch asshole who hates 'regular people' through your actions, while you've not really done anything at all. ofc protest requires disruption, but you gotta think about how, when, why, to what end, if you actually want this to be a way to propagandise, because the point of propaganda is to pander and convince those who do not yet agree with you
I thought ER had sus funding channels.
they have a lot of sus shit about them, including their funding, and telling people to get themselves arrested as a form of protest
Sniping social upheaval before it gains critical mass.
sure would be a great way for the state to get a list of everybody who's a potential political dissident
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the scientist who handcuffed themselves to JP Morgan recently were effective, imo. they got a lot of press out of that and the press repeated their views without editing.