Yeah. That's the problem.

Conservaturds: Make America Great AGAIN (implying it was great when there was slavery, or segregation, or sharecropping, or whatever it is in the past that they venerate so much)

Liberals: America Is ALREADY Great! (implying no further progress is needed and that our settler colonial empire is basically an ideal society)

Nobody in power is willing to say America Has Always Been Shit

yeah you're right.

"The first translated publication of Das Kapital was in the Russian Empire in March 1872. It was the first foreign publication and the English edition appeared in 1887. Despite Russian censorship proscribing "the harmful doctrines of Socialism and Communism," the Russian censors considered Das Kapital as "a strictly scientific work" of political economy, the content of which did not apply to monarchic Russia, where "capitalist exploitation" had never occurred and was officially dismissed, given "that very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it."

it was taken around 2011 and hexbear additionally shrinks it to a thumbnail so that you have to right click -> open in new tab if you want to see the full resolution image on a desktop. not sure about mobile.

cult of personality

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The state will sometimes dish out death sentences for people like Roof, but then let them sit on death row for the rest of their life, never calling on them to be executed. Let us wait and see whether Mangione receives the death sentence, and how quickly or slowly it is carried out relative to someone like Roof.

Whenever I need to remind people of the nature of the "justice" system in this nation, I drag out this classic juxtaposition of headlines, which I found to very radicalizing when I first saw it:

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Let's see Paul Allen's prison sentence.

if my chud father in law shot a healthcare CEO tomorrow because of the weird areas of the Venn diagram where we overlap, I would simply declare that he was a "land of contrasts, with many problematic opinons" but that he "died doing what he loved."

John Brown was a deeply religious petit bourgeois man with 20 children who he disciplined sternly. I very much doubt I would have enjoyed growing up in his house, but I honor him for his commitment to abolitionism and self sacrifice.

Karl Marx had unkind and sometimes racist things to say about other people in the 1st International, like Ferdinand Lassalle, but nobody on here upholds Marx because of the problematic things he said, in fact they uphold Marx despite the problematic things he said.

Engels called Mexicans "lazy" and stated in no uncertain terms that he thought the US annexation of Texas was historically progressive (in the accelerationist sense of the word). But that's not why we appreciate Engels, is it?

Lenin wrote a scathing letter to Clara Zetkin for pursuing feminism in conjunction with Marxism. But that's not why we uphold Lenin.

Stalin received a letter from a gay communist in England, asking if homosexuals like himself were acceptable in the Communist movement, and Stalin dismissed the letter with "D*generate. Archive." But that's not why we like Stalin.

Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation and oversaw the defeat of the confederacy, despite declaring during his presidential run that he thought black people and white people could never be equal.

It is very easy to extend this principle to someone like Luigi Mangione. Which btw I don't think it is possible or advisable to build an educated/organized mass movement out of isolated acts of adventurism.

We should avoid "people worship" in general, but also understand why people receive veneration, and use that as a barometer for the social attitudes of our time. Adventurist assassinations like those carried out against Brian Thompson and Shinzo Abe are a sign that people are fed up. Lenin's older brother was hung for trying to assassinate the tsar. Lenin thought of his older brother's attempt on the tsar as misguided and advised against such actions. Society learns lessons from failed strategies. Sometimes they forget those lessons and need to learn them again.

I don't think the health extortion industry can risk making him a literal martyr.

never underestimate the shortsightedness of the reactionaries and the ruling class

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reactionaries in my inbox from forever ago

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thank you, my cherished Beringian Sphere

I think they might be referring to this lady. She wasn't CIA but she was pretty close.

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The way I tell them apart is that Jackson Hinkle (the guy you're talking about) has a last name as his first name. And that last name happens to be the president that oversaw the trail of tears.

are these little guys the new wojaks? they're cute

beautiful soul sent to my womb by God Almighty

potential future chud/scab

playing single player games

playing single player games and only doing side quests

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Chechen warlord

Look, not a Kadyrov fan by any stretch of the imagination, but look at how this headline is dripping with American exceptionalism. I would love to see US presidents referred to as "warlords" from now on.

Seems like both parties are trying desperately to throw the election

New great depression is upon us and neither party desires blame for governing during it

had this happen to me around the same time our kid was born. I actually thought I was gonna get fired. My department got destroyed and we all got scattered to new roles. I got put in something I am frankly not qualified for but I wasn't exactly going to complain because unemployment is bleak. Stress is tremendous. Still, "first world problems." At least I'm not in an asbestos mine 12 hours a day or some shit.