glimmer_twin

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’m Don Draper in the elevator with that guy, the guy is 196 and I’m saying “I don’t think about you at all”

I literally don’t know what 196 is tbh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don’t know who this is :chad:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This guy are sick

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“First they came for the Twitter shitlibs, and I did not speak out, because I hated those assholes”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Eastern front of WWII was pretty scary for the fash :wholesome:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Imagine tweeting “i I have no empathy” and taking 46 words to do it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I really wish this game was better. Got very repetitive and shallow very quickly and the RPG elements weren’t amazing. I really like that they went so openly anti-capitalist, even that’s presented in a pretty low-hanging-fruit “every single capitalist operator is extremely blatantly evil” kind of a way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Honestly impressive when artists can do that. I saw the cure three or four years ago, Robert Smith sounds exactly like he did in the 80s. Meanwhile I saw Oasis like fifteen years ago and Liam Gallagher already sounded like shit lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Tbf she’s like 1,000 years old I’m surprised she can muster up the energy to verbalise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I assumed the title implied 5am to 9pm lmao

 

It couldn’t be more on the nose about the decline in fortunes of the working class in the last forty years. Also lmao that people think Dolly is some kind of working class hero when she takes money from SquareSpace to shit out this abomination

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

There is a lot of controversy around “Lenin’s last testament” which you mention. Besides, as much as I enjoy Lenin why should he get to arbitrarily pick his successor in between having strokes lol.

Their ideological differences aside, by all accounts Trotsky was and always had been a huge asshole with a superiority complex (not to say he wasn’t actually a very intelligent guy, but y’know how some people are assholes about it?), and Stalin was just better at schmoozing people. So when it came down to it, he was better at politicking his way into power, while Trotsky would alienate people.

Now, after Trotsky was no longer involved in running the USSR, my personal thought are that he basically just became dogmatically against whatever was happening in Russia under Stalin, because of personal grievance. And keep in mind that it’s much easier to sit on the sidelines, criticising everything, than to be involved in the actual running of a nation trying to establish socialism for the first time.

There’s also a materialist argument to be made that if the power struggle had gone the other way, and Stalin got exiled, things in the USSR would have gone pretty similarly under Trotsky - or that someone else would have taken over earlier than 1953, because, again, everyone personally thought Trotsky was an asshole who was annoying to work with, lol.

This isn’t to say everything Trotsky ever did is poison, and that he should be completely disregarded. He has some good writings, and we’re talking about a guy who led the Petrograd Soviet and then the Red Army during the civil war. He was definitely smart and a true revolutionary. But I think after his ousting from power he became very embittered (perhaps understandably), and became the kind of socialist we criticise today, sitting on the sidelines in a capitalist country and constantly attacking AES.

TROTSKYISTS on the other hand are pretty insufferable lmao, because you can pretty much discard the first half of my previous paragraph, and just apply the second half to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

It’s an infantile disorder tbf

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