Choosing where to stop providing historical context is a deliberate and political choice. Why stop at 1950 and not at 1948-49 South Korea’s extremely violent repression of South Korean socialists? How about we go five years back to when Korea was colonised by Imperial Japan and liberated by Soviet troops, making locals very prone to being socialist but not being allowed in the south thanks to US support?
Wanna go a bit further back? How about South Korea having grassroots socialist uprisings and murdering tens of thousands of socialists between 1948 and 1950? Look up “Jeju uprising”.
Korea, a predominantly agrarian country with very poor conditions, was ripe for a communist revolution after seeing the success of the People’s Liberation Army in China and the Soviet Union in freeing them from Japanese colonialism.
As an EU citizen, thats laughable. German police was very recently beating up women in a pro-palestine protest, and there are plenty of jailed journalists.
Really committed to the bit, I see
The Hungarian Revolution didn’t need to be fascist to justify the use of tanks, but yes, the fact that Hungary suffered a US-supported coup is worthy of tanks. The horrors lived in Eastern Europe as a consequence of the dismantling of socialism in the name of “freedom” are unspeakable. Millions of lives lost to unemployment, alcoholism, lack of healthcare, suicide and a myriad more of reasons. Those don’t matter I guess, since they’re victims of capitalism.
“America bad” by itself almost justifies the use of tanks. Joining the Western World in imperialism, unequal exchange and ultimately genocide, is a crime against humanity, and history books of the future will reflect this. History won’t be kind to those who exploited the billions of people of the global south for the selfish gain of a few capitalist overlord.
Doesn’t mean you should suck dictators’ dicks
Why the homophobic comment though
pejorative term for people who supported Kruschev’s use of tanks
Funnily enough, didn’t it come out two weeks ago from JFK papers that the leader of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters of the Hungarian Revolution was on CIA bankroll? Wow, tankies have been vindicated etymologically? Who woulda thunk
Fuck tankies and fuck commies
…said the citizen whose decaying world is governed by the sworn enemies of communism: fascists.
A few kinda solved it, namely Soviet Union and Cuba. And libs will never forgive them for it.
Maybe the problem is the existence of big companies then. IP didn’t exist as an idea until the 19th century, and humanity made plenty of progress between that and hunting-gathering.
There is no such thing as toxic masculinity
I beg to differ. I’ve been self-repressed for many years from speaking about my problems with my close ones because of toxic aspects of the social understanding of masculinity that I absorbed.
Embargos, particularly those aimed at economically vulnerable nations like Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea, serve no useful purpose
That depends on your point of view. The point of view of US lawmakers is that, by forcing people into “hunger and desperation” (quoting them) through imposed economic violence, they’ll bring about a change of regime. Of course, that’s absolutely disgusting, but it does serve a purpose, which in many instances worked (deposition of Mosaddeq in Iran, sanctions to Chile’s Allende…). I just disagree with the methodology and the purpose because I’m not Satan, unlike US policymakers.
Thank you, I was thinking “dark souls male character sounds”
The woman who had to endure constant misogyny during her scientific career. You’re placing the responsibility on her instead of the people oppressing her
in an equal world, grants aimed specifically at either sex should not be necessary
Not quite, I’m afraid. Her point was essentially “I had very good grades, so I would have been hired anyway, but instead of hiring me normally, they hired me through this grant for women, which is a form of discrimination”. She’s not explicitly saying “kick the ladder when I’m up top”, but it’s essentially the conclusion. She mentions it on the “what’s wrong with academia” thingy video.
Victim blaming, classic
Love the part on the video where essentially she says “I was given my first research position thanks to a grant for women. Also, there should be no research grants for women”. Piece of shit.
Nah, I’m not doing a whataboutism, I’m saying that your white ass doesn’t have a remote understanding on what “homogenisation” means. Go to a history museum in China, and in most exhibits they’ll have some remarks of the history in different places of modern China, and to the different ethnicities of the country, to the point that it would be categorised as PC-inclusivism in the west. And they don’t have a far right party fighting to destroy that :)
Not really. Genocide implies an intent to eliminate a given culture or ethnicity, most wars haven’t had that intention, e.g. most civil wars.