Who was irl awarded the Order of Lenin

Love that he made this a microcosm of his entire belief system, rejecting material reality to grandstand in a way that just so happens to align with whatever benefits him personally.

typos eh?

Can Bill run as vp for Hillary?

Yeah they cut off MLB scouts in the early 60s, despite Fidel having a dear personal friend who was a major scout who did continue to visit Cuba until his death. I have found the occasional upload of a Cuban games, but they are few and far between.

thx

I really hate how hard it is to enjoy Baseball stuff without anti-Cuba shit shoved down your throat. Playing the Nego Leagues stuff from MLBtheshow 24 and the historian quotes Buck O'Neill the famed black player and later manager saying he played in Cuba "when Havana was Havana" https://twitter.com/nlbmprez/status/1330666485023444993

Like outright longing for the beauty and style of a city that was custom designed to be a offshore gambling haven for Americans and was the only place actually developed in much of Cuba. The US occupied the island only 20 years prior to him being there. It is so annoying how recognizing the Nego Leagues is used as a means to absolve american racism, and reinforce the idea that imperialism upon poorer blacks is worthwhile for African Americans.

Now of course even at its worst, Cuba was better to live in for a black person than the US, but this is longing for what was effectively a casino built on black and brown bodies.

This line from Parenti always stays with me

The economist Ray Brown—when he went to Cuba, before the Revolution—it was in 1958, he was there, about a year or so before—was impressed by how every major road he saw went from a sugar plantation to a refinery to the seaport. While there were whole communities without roads—they couldn't get to doctors, they couldn't have schools, couldn't see a priest—the sugar companies had their roads.

Never heard of Russian Justice, only book that comes up with that exact title doesn't seem pro-communist at first look. Can you link it?

God that is a powerful quote

This. Reading about its creation in my US labor course was heartbreaking and even the pretty radical textbook didn't seem to care about the obvious problem the NLRB serves for workers power

Being right on the cusp of 50K is genuinely huge for American leftism

Yeah it is funny when wikipedia tells on these assholes. Suddenly they don't like it as an aggregate

btw the famous guys who made the prior attempt who died and only a month ago the foot of one of them was found after the other person was discovered in the 90s, they have this whole thing with MAYBE having a camera on them. Because a Chinese expedition reported one of the corpses decades ago and one member who soon died MAY have to a european expedition that he confirmed it was a specific guy and MAYBE he had the camera on his corpse, people really badly want China to have secretly stolen the camera and nothing else and then fucked up the film when recovering it.

All because China had the first expedition that reached the summit from a more difficult path. Every article on it is heresay and "a friend of a friend" followed by "but the removed always lie so if they don't confirm my random thought then it must be true" it is annoying.

Like this reddit thread is all predicated on "well they are Chinese, they cannot have done this thing, they lie as their nature" https://www.reddit.com/r/Mountaineering/comments/11jr5q4/does_anyone_actually_believe_the_chinese/

Wikipedia for once is neutral and thus it must be paid off. Cause how could they dare to only cite actual sources!?!?!?

Every article that seeks to debunk it bring up that it was a point of national pride, while sucking off sir such and such who honored the crown or whatever. Like they cannot deal with anyone else feeling pride, only the white man can.

Good blog post on the reality https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2013/did-chinese-climbers-reach-the-summit-of-everest-in-1960/

I have been listening to this every day since someone posted it the other day

So close your eyes, stop your ears Shut your mouth and never dare And if it happens here, they'll never come for you Because they'll know you really didn't care

Captain Planet?

I read all of his second era of his second Daredevil run, the return to San Francisco stuff and it is really good. Totally breaks from usual Daredevil with him forcing himself to be happy and having no secret identity so he wears a red suit as a lawyer and DD. It digs into the self-immiseration element particularly when Purple Man's kids show up as villains and try to drag out the old Daredevil in him.

Chris Samnee draws the whole run and is just perfect

Both his Daredevil runs are good, and his Flash stuff is fun

But you don't understand, he meant basic goodness towards people

Sao-Tome and Principe's revolutionary past being referenced makes me so happy