Some Colonialism/Fascism analysis, because euros talking about eurofascism in the 20s is increasingly irrelevant to the situation at hand in North American settler states.
Zetkin is cool and Dimitrov will always be a boss for being his own defense counsel in front of Hermann Fuckin' Goring, but shit's hella different in this neck of the woods.
Do some three way fight reading or do some kind of read of the fascism/colonialism analysis love of god.
this is a 13%/50% dogwhistle if I ever saw one.
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we've flailed around pretending to support the working class for hundreds of years, hundreds!
Lol this is just lobsterdad talk.
Fuck eugenics
New neighbourhoods in outer/suburban districts typically have well separated bike lanes for precisely the reason that mainline road traffic is often 18-wheelers for days.
Was the logical conclusion of capitalism and an industrial society under it.
The idea is that pre-contact/post-contact transition is basically an apocalyptic-scale cataclysm for Indigenous nations and anyone who got shipped over here on a boat for slavery.
Which frankly, it is. A 9/10 depopulation of the continent is like the premise of some bog standard sci-fi apocalypse story for sure.
oh pal, forget even the child predation angle, it's more like every fucking bar has some sketchy expat talking about his MBA trying to sleazeball his way into people's pants.
It's gross, creepy, and rapey as all hell.
The thesis of: if you want to know what the apocalypse looks like, ask Indigenous people and the descendants of chattel slaves.
I'm sorry, would you rather nip it in the bud in Germany, or try to save Czechslovakia and Poland?
I'd hope it's the qualified and not-creepy ones that are staying, is all.
The slow increase of travel controls and general "yo if you don't have a good reason to be here, fuck right off" for foreigners, that's all.
Oh hell yeah. Aside from the regular armed police patrols, nothing was different in the way you were treated if you were a ethnically Han citizen (resident or tourist) or foreign national.
this was years ago before the Chinese government felt sufficiently sorted out and kicked out all the sex pest "english teachers" (my god may those fuckers rot in hell).
make five friends, buckle up.
It's not safe to meet in person right now (except when it is), so regular check ins on a secure-ish platform like Signal with some suggestions:
I was going to extend the "lack of infrastructure and healthcare as a result of systemic racism and colonial genocide program", but but even on the individual human health basis, yeah, that's totally fucked.
I think you need to have a healthy respect for grief and despair before you can get back up again.
I'm not saying people should wallow, but this is literally the apocalypse, and it's been going on for at least half a millennium.
Back when I lived in ACTUALLY EXISTING China, I traveled to Xinjiang once and had a conversation with a Uyghur guy about English language education, in fucking old-town Kashgar of all places. His main critique about government educational changes was precisely how English language education was pushed further along the pipe so that by the time kids got linguistic access to the outside world, they would be predisposed to distrust outside info.
Unless this guy was some kind of East-Turkestani political operative who could sniff out any old chinese-looking tourist as a foreigner, it’s largely inconsistent with contemporary Western alarm bells about the region.
Also, he would have totally fucked up, because, well, I’m not some grizzled western conflict journo, or my travel papers would have been hella denied. I was 1000% a total fuckin’ tourist.
Back when I lived in ACTUALLY EXISTING China, I literally had a conversation with a Uyghur guy, in fucking old-town Kashgar of all places. His main critique about government educational changes was precisely how English language education was pushed further along the pipe so that by the time kids got linguistic access to the outside world, they would be predisposed to distrust outside info.
Unless this guy was some kind of East-Turkestani political operative who could sniff out any old Han-lookin' tourist as a foreigner, it's largely inconsistent with contemporary Western alarm bells about the region.
Also, he would have totally fucked up, because, well, I'm not some grizzled western conflict journo, or my travel papers would have been hella denied. I was 1000% a total fuckin' tourist.
Red-flag colonialism