To be fair, the real radical leaders of BLM who could have taken the protests to the next step were all found dead by suicide in cars that spontaneously combusted.
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Now I'm imagining a show called Workplace Nightmares, where the hosts are a couple IWW representatives.
He infamously stormed out of a university discussion on the book because he felt everyone there was misinterpreting it.
Are we the same person? For me add "Roman and Medieval technology and history" to the list. I watch a lot of youtube videos about castles and swords, and at one point met up with a local HEMA chapter - but I stopped going after a couple months because half the people were fash.
De-Stalinization undertaken by Khruschev was basically the starting point for everything going wrong. Not that mistakes weren't made prior to this, or that the SU wasn't able to accomplish great things after it, but the trend line across Soviet history where Marxism becomes less important as a guiding ideology and the people and the party leaders' desires begin to diverge from each other starts descending there. As Xi Jinpeng puts it:
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces? An important reason is that in the ideological domain, competition is fierce! To completely repudiate the historical experience of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate Stalin was to wreck chaos in Soviet ideology and engage in historical nihilism. It caused Party organizations at all levels to have barely any function whatsoever. It robbed the Party of its leadership of the military. In the end the CPSU—as great a Party as it was—scattered like a flock of frightened beasts! The Soviet Union—as great a country as it was—shattered into a dozen pieces. This is a lesson from the past!
:sartre-pipe: "You know, your socialist paradise would be perfect if you abolished the age of consent."
:fidel-salute: Mary mother of God deliver me from this hell!
a single ruler who can allocate magic to others
Reminds me of Reincarnated as a Slime, where the main character can dish out a portion of their power by giving low-ranking monsters a name. Naturally they go out of their way to give names to everyone they can because why would you horde something so beneficial?
being poor in a fantasy setting
I'm imagining a world where spell components are only affordable to the uber wealthy, and everyone else born with magic either has to get a job as a magic cop/troop or never get to use their powers (and in fact it's illegal to try).
The historian said the nude photos had been taken to document the development of the child's malnourishment in case of problems with social services, as she had been underweight when he and his wife adopted her.
Maybe they do things differently in Russia but in California this sort of thing would be verified by regularly scheduled doctor's checkups (children in the system get MediCal, so it's free to the parent). Even if they didn't you could just log the child's weight on a normal scale to show that they're on track for their height and age.
Grand Theft Auto has a couple games with missions that revolve around breaking into military bases, killing loads of troops, and stealing a tank or a jet.
The whole series is pretty blatantly anti-American. GTAV is basically about how capitalism fucks all of its characters up and makes them terrible people, San Andreas spends a lot of time talking about how the CIA coopts and kneecaps liberation movements on behalf of capital, GTA4's main character fled the rise of capitalism in eastern europe only to find that America was exactly the same but with more cars and guns...
They say they are not but they have created hexbear-communism to try and Make the murderous commie sickos seem palatable to Western people.
Is this the reason we're here? Sounds based but I must not be getting the memos.
They were expecting it to be like the War on Terror, unfortunately for them their enemy had modern Russian weapons not leftover 1980s stuff.