Ho Chi Minh, real name Nguyen Tat Thanh (1890-1969), Vietnamese Communist leader and the principal force behind the Vietnamese struggle against French colonial rule.
Ho was born on May 19, 1890, in the village of Kimlien, Annam (central Vietnam), the son of an official who had resigned in protest against French domination of his country. Ho attended school in Hue and then briefly taught at a private school in Phan Thiet.
In 1911 he was employed as a cook on a French steamship liner and thereafter worked in London and Paris. After World War I, using the pseudonym Nguyen Ai Quoc (Nguyen the Patriot), Ho engaged in radical activities and was in the founding group of the French Communist party. He was summoned to Moscow for training and, in late 1924, he was sent to Canton, China, where he organized a revolutionary movement among Vietnamese exiles.
He was forced to leave China when local authorities cracked down on Communist activities, but he returned in 1930 to found the Indochinese Communist party (ICP). He stayed in Hong Kong as representative of the Communist International. In June 1931 Ho was arrested there by British police and remained in prison until his release in 1933.
He then made his way back to the Soviet Union, where he reportedly spent several years recovering from tuberculosis. In 1938 he returned to China and served as an adviser with Chinese Communist armed forces. When Japan occupied Vietnam in 1941, he resumed contact with ICP leaders and helped to found a new Communist-dominated independence movement, popularly known as the Vietminh, that fought the Japanese.
In August 1945, when Japan surrendered, the Vietminh seized power and proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh, now known by his final and best-known pseudonym (which means the “Enlightener”), became president.
The French were unwilling to grant independence to their colonial subjects, and in late 1946 war broke out. For eight years Vietminh guerrillas fought French troops in the mountains and rice paddies of Vietnam, finally defeating them in the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Ho, however, was deprived of his victory. Subsequent negotiations at Geneva divided the country, with only the North assigned to the Vietminh.
The DRV, with Ho still president, now devoted its efforts to constructing a Communist society in North Vietnam. In the early 1960s, however, conflict resumed in the South, where Communist-led guerrillas mounted an insurgency against the U.S.-supported regime in Saigon.
Ho, now in poor health, was reduced to a largely ceremonial role, while policy was shaped by others. On September 3, 1969, he died in Hanoi of heart failure. In his honor, after the Communist conquest of the South in 1975, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh was not only the founder of Vietnamese communism, he was the very soul of the revolution and of Vietnam's struggle for independence. His personal qualities of simplicity, integrity, and determination were widely admired, not only within Vietnam but elsewhere as well.
-- Interviewing President Ho Chi Minh (English subtitle), June 1964
-- The Path Which Led Me To Leninism
-- Bài Ca Hồ Chí Minh! Ballad of Ho Chi Minh!
-- Basic Introduction of Ho Chi Minh ideology
-- Think Like a Vietnamese Commie
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On the Dutch LGBT subreddit, a queer person made a post about their experience living in the Netherlands, and how much they regret migrating to the country from the Middle East. Before they migrated, they heard all these stories about how progressive and tolerant Dutch people were, but their experience so far after living here for an entire year has shown them that Dutch people like to pretend they're very accepting, but that in reality they're two-faced liars. It's why it doesn't surprise them that the far-right managed to win the elections. If they knew this beforehand, they would've migrated to another country or stayed in the Middle East, because at least there they know what they're up against. Anyway, as expected from a subreddit filled with useless liberals, almost all of the replies they got were being dismissive of their criticism and experience, because how dare they question Dutch tolerance! And the mere idea that they would've preferred staying in the Middle East, got those smug chauvinistic liberals frothing at the mouth. Of course they also got massively downvoted when they pointed out the uselessness of major lib queer rights groups. Liberalism is a special kind of brainrot.
A guy I know is mad at me for saying that Cyberpunk 2077 is a soulless corporate mass market entertainment product which is only part of the cyberpunk genre in that a lifeless simulacra of a cyberpunk story being sold to nostalgic Xer's by a post-Soviet megacorp lead by a near billionaire CEO is like the most cyberpunk thing possible.
Well, he can be mad all he wants, the company has a valuation of 3.6 billion dollars.
I think a lot of people... uh... don't agree with my view that entertainment media is primarily political and instructive. Play isn't something you do just because it's fun. Play is how predators learn to kill.
just finished season 4 of blowback, this was my favorite biden moment
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Everything I've heard about him suggests that he's an utterly useless and completely out of touch asshole and his "job" shouldn't exist, but apart from that, I have to admit that I find it a little charming that Charles is so goddamn weird. His official royal portrait makes him look like the Blood Emperor of Decay and he's just like "cool." And he's right- it is cool. It goes pretty hard.
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I that portrait goes hard, setting all politics and principles aside, that’s a cool painting. Shame he’s a pedo freak.
Are there any allegations against him? I know about Andrew, but I hadn't heard about any against him.
There has never been any allegations AFAIK. His brother, his god-father (Mount Batton) and friend (Jimmy Saville) all accused or confirmed paedophiles. So that’s some of the company he has kept. But it seems like his only scandalous stuff was the affairs (with the woman he actually wanted to be with and I think someone else decades ago).
Monarchy sucks etc. but it does rock. If it was from a movie or game I’d want a poster.
It’s like that Theresa May painting that is like something out of Dishonered with a dash of Disco Elysiym. For such a shit politician and person. But it whips.
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Definitely the resemblence but the style gives Dishonoured 2 Sokolov vibes
Elizabeth was the polite respectable grandmother, and Chuck is the mildly uncle who you wouldn't be surprised to have a hydroponics setup in the basement, or keeping tarantulas, or something else benign-but-sovially-awkward.
I had sort of hoped he would use his public presence to focus on environmental causes, but it's not really as prominent as it could be.
I do think he has committed an unforgivable sin: so he signed off on a new coin series with flora-and-fauna themes and large numbers to make the denominations easily understandable. Then puts two bees on the £1 coin. The only one with two prominent objects on there, exactly engineered to confuse the illiterate/innumerate/foreigners. Did nobody focus group this?
Put the bees on the £2 instead, and the weird mutant plant that grows four national symbols on the £1, like several types before it.
Then puts two bees on the £1 coin.
Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
The portrait is great because it implies the British monarchy are bloodstained eldritch monsters (which is pretty close to true)
Squatters moved into house for sale next door to my sibling's in a bougie neighborhood. Cops got called like 11 times and the entire street is acting like lockdown during a manhunt.
Yes the squatters are black
Update: Looks like they're victims of a rent scam. It's an older woman and her grandson. They're gonna cooperate and move out. I hope they have somewhere to go.
Friend recommends me a darknet communist blog, calls it very good and says he's hesitant to share it because its content is so subversive
I check it out
First article I see is "A leftist defense of the American project"
Trans people should never have to be humble about anything ever.
Can't tell if my roommate is masturbating or my neighbours are having sex. Either way I'm gonna go for a walk
the idea of financially stable parents making their child pay them rent as soon as they turn 18 is so gross to me but it’s so common. it’s one thing for a working class family living check to check to need help from their child to pay the bills once they’re able to work, but it’s almost always well off families i see this happen in
Time to start preparing a bootstraps speech for when meemaw and peepaw can't live independently anymore.
I like the one where they put the money in a savings account for the kid or something like that. Helps form good habits and sets them up with a cushion when they move out
Its a gentle reminder that the parents want you out of the house. Yes, my mother did want me to pay rent after i graduated college lol. And yes, i will never ever ask my child to pay rent
it really depends. A decent parent wouldn't charge anything the kid couldn't easily afford, and many put the money aside to give the kid a deposit or down payment on their future housing, not just take the money and spend it. But its still a very american thing to do, rather than like, talking to your kid.
They could offer to help with the rent you'll have to pay on an apartment or like, chip in on the damage deposit or do something other than stop you from saving money to actually move out.
Tbf, parents wanting you out of the house is pretty modern. I did want to leave though
In my parents' case they acted like they were doing us a favor. Like by forcing this need to work they were nudging us out of the nest instead of tyou know parasitizing their children
yeah there’s a fine line imo. i think it’d be a better move to have your kid set aside money for savings rather than charging them for existing
So glad my parents aren't fools and have notices that I've been systematically fucked into the position I'm in and that they got in at the last good time and came out incredibly well all things considered. I'm sure they'd like me to have found a career that makes me rich, but they didn't do anything I didn't and came out fine, so they're quite aware how fucked it is now and are also mad about it. Throw my tips in and I make just short of 2.6 grand a month, which seems okay until you factor in the fact a one bedroom apartment is $1700 and grocery prices have close to fucking doubled in the last 5 years, they get it and help out. They've talked with their pals around the same age how fucked it is that me and the kids of their pals, some of those kids who have what should be better paying jobs, will probably only own a home once our parents die.
Sucks when your buddy is going through a breakup and you can tell it's gonna be a
type thingRewatching Breaking Bad and I'm realising how cool Skylar was, and I didn't pick up on that the first time. She will happily let someone think she's stupid or crazy to manipulate them, like when she puts on the bimbo accountant act to get Ted out of tax trouble or pretends she's a hysterical mother when she needs to get into Walt's apartment. She is actually as good at manipulating people as Walt wants to be.
Apparently it's an increasingly popular opinion among the German bourgeoisie that the country needs to decouple from the US. Which I agree with, but the reasons I was given have reminded me that the bourgeois are morons.
Isn't it bad enough that this old woman has to deal with dying from cancer? Surely she shouldn't also have to deal with the stress of managing paying all these bills that we all know she can't afford. Perhaps if there was some sort of social structure in place, to help when people who've contributed to society their whole lives fall seriously ill, it could all simply be taken care o-
Oh what's that? There are children who need vaporized halfway across the world? Alright understandable, that's a WAY more valid avenue for our resources!
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