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Don’t be fooled by the Far Right’s claims that they do what they do out of “love for their people.” They have nothing but contempt for all but a tiny subsection of the White population: those whose are as racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, ableist, antisemitic, and reactionary as they are. They’re motivated by hate. To be more specific, they are motivated by an intense fear of The Other. And rather than get to know their gay neighbors, their immigrant co-workers, or their Jewish son-in-laws, they turn to fear, to hate, and to an ideology that allows them to justify their closed mind.
...know however, that their story is crucial to understanding the rise of #Putin."
The need to radically reform the economy was unavoidable. The reasons for this, however, were the #OctoberRevolution and the subsequent decades of an economic system that cannot work, #communism.
Russian President
"#Yeltsin turned to the #Russian economists Yegor #Gaidar and Anatoly #Chubais, who, with the aid of Western..."
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history
The tragedy here is that I would "flip burgers" for free. I love cooking! I'd be like a machine in a post-revolution community kitchen! Under capitalism, you either cook in the scraps of time left after a full work day, or you work as a cook, pulling insane hours under horrific conditions for less than a living wage. For this reason, my love of cooking only benefits a small number of people. Ironically, #capitalism disincentivizes important labor. #anarchism#communism
“The police cannot be the builder of new life.” — Peter Kroptkin
“If in order to win it were necessary to erect the gallows in the public square, then I would prefer to lose.” — Errico Malatesta
“”When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick.'” — Mikhail Bakunin
#Abolition#Communism is the idea that the abolition of classes takes as a prerequisite the abolition of police and prisons and other carceral institutions because carcerality reinforces class.
Tragically, amid monsoon season in my part of the world, 21 (inc. 5 children) dead so far from a #landslide, 30m high, at a #BatangKali campsite—near #GentingHighlands, a resort area home to #Malaysia's only casino.
While #BatangKali is in the news, perhaps it's not a bad time to bring to everyone's attention another #tragedy from decades ago, for which the victim's families are still fighting for some measure of #justice.
It's been ten years since I wrote a series of court dispatches on the Batang Kali #Massacre, perpetrated by #British forces during the battle against #communism in #Malaysia. It's been described as "Britain's My Lai".
I'm Jacky Alciné, a software developer by trade and interest. When I'm not doing that, I'm usually ranting, reading or writing about what I'm learning and understanding about #Racism, #Communism across the world and the fight against constant Anglo/European imperialism, #USPoliticalHistory or something about #FLOSS.
I like the idea and prospect of an open Web so I'm an adamant supporter of things like the #IndieWeb, #Fediverse and the offline Web (hey SSB!).
Hi, I'm Jordan, and this is my #introduction. I'm a #xennial computer scientist and a PhD program dropout. I specialize in low-level #Linux distribution and packaging stuff and in assembling complex software contraptions out of pieces that other people wrote. I've been #programming since connecting to the internet involved making an robot scream and I've worked lots of places, but the one you've probably heard of is #GitHub.
I live just north of #Chicago with my wife and my kid, and I try really hard to be a good #parent and keep the #DadJokes coming. When I am not in dadmode or touching computers for money, I am often touching computers for fun; I'm big on #SelfHosting and spend lots of time tinkering with #HomeAutomation. I don't make a lot of time to play video games anymore, but when I do my taste tends to run on the #RetroGaming side of things, mostly because the last era in which I did make a lot of time to play video games is now considered retro. I was an #arcade rat as a kid and I like the Fediverse because it reminds me much more of hanging out on a #BBS than any of the other modern "social media" abominations.
I mostly read #scifi and a bit of #fantasy. My current recent favorites are the #Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, the #Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, and the #ImperialRadch series by Ann Leckie. I am a big #Dune nerd and make a lot of stupid Dune memes for a stupid Dune meme group on Facebook.
I am also into #comics, although like video games, you'll find that I have encyclopedic knowledge up to some point in the mid-to-late 90's and only spotty awareness of what's happened since then. My tastes in physical books are pretty mainstream; I mostly read Marvel and DC stuff, and only the occasional indie.On the web, I'm a big fan of #GunnerkriggCourt and #Oglaf.
Subculturally, I'm somewhere between #goth and #stoner, although I kind of serially collect other subcultures and try them on. I'm not a practicing #furry but I definitely went through a phase as a teenager; if you know who I was then we should be friends.
As far as music goes, I'm all over the map, but have a tendency towards #metal, #industrial, and #electronica. #GWAR is the greatest band of all time; #100gecs is who I most want to see on tour next.
I identify as #nonbinary and #queer, but due to my current relationship status and hair situation I mostly pass as a cishet dude; I'm self-conscious about that, which makes me reluctant to claim those labels in any way that might diminish folks that don't have the option of operating in stealth mode. My relationship is very firmly monogamous and I don't want to flirt with you or join your polycule, although I'm sure your polycule is awesome and I support you finding an arrangement that works for you.
Politically, I lean pretty far to the left, and have been dogged by accusations of #communism since childhood, which I can neither confirm nor deny. I definitely have some #anarchist tendencies but mostly I am too tired from parenting and living through a slow-motion apocalypse to think political thoughts much deeper than "please stop killing people and the planet."