We just can’t overcome human nature

What human nature? Humans evolve and change just like every other animal.

for some reason I read the comment chain wrong and thought this picture was being asked about

on Trump? Looks like a bowtie to me.

French one (season 3) has 54 episodes according to the libsyn archives while Russia (season 10) has 103 episodes.

the same way they were coping 3 years ago when I sent them videos of forced conscription: by saying russia does whatever ukraine does, but worse.

Mike Duncan of the Revolutions podcast

Very worth listening to btw. Especially the season on the Haitian revolution, which is ignored too much.

The longest and most in depth season though is the Russian one, which is season 10, and has over 100 episodes if I recall, or abut 50 hours…

Luthen makes me think of Nechayev more than Lenin. Especially his speech to Lonny (idk how to spell it) in the elevator about sacrificing everything including your humanity for revolution. It reminds me of Nechayev’s catechism

As for Andor himself, he doesn’t really strike me as Stalin-like. Andor dies young. Stalin died old. Andor never held any kind of political power in a government, Stalin did. The politics of the rebels in Star Wars strike me as more like bourgeois liberalism than Communism. They’re trying to restore a Republic (that confusingly has a princess and an order of quasi-religious knights, which sounds more feudal) that has “decayed” into an empire. But really a Republic can be an empire anyway. See America.

There’s clearly some Communist influence in the writing and Nemik’s hat looks very much like a budenovka, but the parallels to the October revolution are few and far between I think.

i want to be pedantic for some reason

the tsar abdicated, and went into house arrest while still under the february 1917 revolution, which was not really communist. the communists overthrew the liberal provisional government in october 1917. america for example was OK with the february revolution, but not the october, because the communists of the october revolution wanted to pull out of WW1 against the germans, but the february revolution did not.

what’s the bidet situation like?

all my piss gone

I feel like her getting the Nobel Peace Prize led to Trump being briefed about her, which led him to approving regime change in Venezuela

Trump tried regime change in Venezuela during his first term. These lab-grown neolib compradors like Guaido and Machado are usually in touch with the CIA for years before these things kick off. Regime change in Venezuela has been on the imperial agenda since Chavez.

Here is a photo from the failed coup attempt circa 2019

Yeah that’s the overwhelming feeling I get from a lot of AI slop in general. Like they’ve figured out accidentally how to simulate what the human brain does when it’s sleeping (not very useful), while marketing it as they’ve figured out how to simulate what the human brain does when it’s awake (useful labor).

people have been digging on his reddit. he was also at abu ghraib in 2005

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also knew about azov battalion in 2019 and admired them but supposedly didn’t know what a totenkopf was before getting one tattooed on his body

EDIT: It won’t let me post that one for some reason. Must be getting rate limited after posting too many images

It makes me think about the liberal take on how “no one believes themselves to be the villain” or “everyone’s the hero in their own view” that’s just such wide eyed idealist nonsense in practice.

I always have found it interesting how a lot of people try apply literary criticism to real life. If they see a cartoonishly evil villain in a TV show or a movie they say “wow this writing isn’t very subtle. Boo.” meanwhile when people in real life are over-the-top and cartoonishly evil, are self aware a bout being over-the-top and cartoonishly evil, and don’t see themselves as secretly good, people say “well there must be some perspective I’m missing, after all, surely they see themselves as the hero, there’s no way real life is more unsubtle than a well written TV show.” But it is. Like you said they’re giving too much credit to the idea that everyone sees themselves as good. It’s wide-eyed and naive.

I look piratical, like a [slur for Romani] fortune teller

didn’t make it through your cancer announcement without saying a slur award

Even on a moral standpoint. All violence is acceptable so long as it’s “not intentional”.

Engels commented on this in 1845

pagan wheel

It’s not even pagan. if you’re talking about the Sonnerad, it was put on the floor of the castle Wewelsburg by the SS, after Himmler of the SS acquired it. The symbol originates with the nazis and is not “pagan” in origin, and even the sig runes are from the Armanen Futharkh, which were invented by an Austrian mysticist in… 1902. The pagan aspect of the nazi symbolism was always a LARP.

CW: Nazi shit

when the american bourgeoisie say “political violence” they of course mean violence directed at the bourgeoisie. What about violence directed at the working class, the marginalized, the homeless? These forms of violence are “apolitical” in their opinion. The system is on autopilot and functioning as intended. Politics is only political when it ceases to do what they want.

what is happening

some bored ghostwriter using chatgpt probably “wrote” it