I love how Constantine, Michigan, is roughly where Istanbul is.

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It comes from Order No. 227 issued by Stalin in July 1942. The line 'Not a step back!' (Ни шагу назад!, Ni shagu nazad!) became a huge slogan for the war effort around that time.

The Order itself is kind of where the west gets the asiatic hordes, 'Enemy at the Gates'-esque portrayal of the Eastern Front, because the order established penal battalions and blocking detachments to hold the line against the Nazis.

It's a real proposal. It's not really the name of the proposed bi-national state, but the name of the proposal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isratin

The first proposal for it actually came from Gaddafi, and the state was to be called the "Federal Republic of the Holy Land"

The US already tried this shit in the 90s. The OICW - Objective Infantry Combat Weapon was a 20mm programmable smart grenade launcher. The thing was stupid as all hell and was scrapped after 8 years of testing. They couldn't make the thing practical. Look at the controls :agony-consuming:

I love the absolute hubris of this

"Oh yeah I huff sage fumes every so often I can KILL GOD"

Mike Duncan is fairly left-leaning, though not an outright Marxist yet, but his Revolutions podcast has absolutely been pushing him in the right direction.

His series on the Haitian Revolution is amazing because you can see him radicalize in real time.

His most recent series is on the Russian Revolution, and has like a dozen episodes at the beginning going over basic theory as well as the history of socialism in Russia.

I can't recommend it enough.

I'm not a great cook, but I've got some great family recipes from my grandparents who were Goan, so I'd have to say Goan food.

I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to do in a truck so long as you had a way to rotate pots because a lot of the recipes really emphasize fresh spices with time to let them get fragrant before making sauce.

The Fasces was a symbol of the Roman Republic, meant to signify a single stick, or citizen, being weak, but when put together they form an unbreakable bundle.

It was dredged up by the enlightenment-era nerds who ended up creating the US (as well as France), and was later co-opted by Mussolini and his movement.

Just lost my 16 year old curmudgeon the other day. Cherish your kitty and give her lots of love please.

This is a Bonapartist psyop

Electric cars also bad

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't astroturfing but simply every economics major in the western hemisphere participating.

I think that this community is much better with a diversity of leftist thought, and we would be losing something if the MLs/MLMs/Dengists/whoever chased everyone off with their condescension and derision of everything not that.

I'm not the most active poster on this site, but I do chime in when I feel like I have something to contribute. I feel like you have lots you can contribute too. A diversity of opinions and thought - not in a libby 'marketplace of ideas' type deal - a broad collection of leftist thought from all walks, well help us find the way forward.

I think that your opinion, and the opinion of people like you, is important, and I would invite people on this site to be far less condescending and derisive of different leftist thought. This isn't randoms on Reddit that you are arguing with. We should be far more willing to accept that criticism or opposing opinions come from a place of good faith here.

The Soviet Union did perpetuate the Settler-Colonial legacy of the state it was succeeding too. Consciousness for Settler-Colonialism and trying to explicitly avoid it and dismantle it wasn't exactly mainstream in European academic societies at the time - even among socialists in the USSR. At that point, trying to sway Israel into the socialist bloc was far more pressing to the Soviets.

I really don't understand these weirdos placing fascism in the top middle.

Don't forget Gay Street

Be cooler if they didn't do the first bit

They weren't entirely subsumed! Two modern nations that are Britonnic in origin are Wales and Brittany.

The Bretons are descended from refugee populations fleeing the instability and violence in Britain, settling in what is now northwestern France. Their language is Celtic, but an Insular (from the British Isles) language rather than a Continental language like the Gauls that preceded Roman control of the region.

The Welsh are descendants of the Britons. The name Wales is actually Germanic in origin - Wealh, or Wēalas in Old English, and was a term used to describe Romans. This same word is where we get the names for Wallonia (region in Belgium), and Wallachia (region in Romania).

Interestingly, English actually has very little influence from Celtic languages, in large part because of the stigma against Celts in Anglo-Saxon society. Because of that, the vast majority of Celtic words in English are place names, though some words, such as bucket, gob, noggin, truant, and gaol (or jail) do come from celtic origin.

Britons, specifically celtic-speaking Britons, do have a history in what is now England much later than people realize. Records talk of Briton slaves being commonplace in Anglo-Saxon England. In the Domesday Book, a sort of census taken by the Normans in 1088, roughly 10% of England's population were slaves, many of them Britons, as Saxons frowned upon taking fellow Saxons as slaves.

The person I was discussing this with went on to say,

Ultimately everything comes down to geography

Also that's the crux or Jared Diamond's book that the start of this thread was complaining about, and that person is complaining about it because it is so prevalent in some circles.