I think this short essay was the first thing that appeared in monthly review

lol

The destruction of Twitter would be the biggest defeat of nazism since WW2

Few years later we will be seeing Mélenchon crown himself as an emperor

I think what's more fitting for her is an account that promotes uyghur genocide news, as in the show she protests in favor of "Free TIbet". But she would definitely be a very annoying lib too. In one episode she literally becomes a Hillary-like female president to show how PROGRESSIVE murica has become

Tbh what I hate in Simpsons is that Lisa is shown as a very progressive person, while she is just a chauvinistic liberal lol

Happy new year

Losurdo is peak - that's the book that actually got me into reading more about Stalin. Malcolm X is probably very good too, but I don't really know about John Reed.

Nice, you interested in numismatics?

Tbh to me the most common "western socialists" beliefs are:

• recognize Cuba is a socialist state, doesn't do the same for DPRK, Vietnam and China
• Marx, Engels, Lenin (sometimes), Che Guevara good, Stalin and Mao bad
• "not true socialism"
• idealizes failed revolutions like german revolution
• against "totalitarianism" and "authoritarianism"

Lots of things you described are similar in my country, my parents at least have a bit of decency and don't talk about their politics all the time. I'm still very sorry for your situation and I hope it will get better

One question, do Romanians actually recognize their own participation in the holocaust?

I am very sorry for your dad. My parents praised Uganda's and Russia's policies towards LGBT people, so I kinda relate

When I talked to my dad about Palestine he just said that "arabs and jews are natural enemies" and "they will always fight". When I watched a play on TV about polish antisemitic campaign in 1968 they got annoyed and said the jews "deserved it" (literally). Unfortunately I don't see a way to change my parents' views on things like that

Yeah my parents are cooked when it comes to their political views. They got extremely conservative when I got older and right now it got to a point where my mum started to doubt vacinnes' efficency. My parents also believe in a fuckton of conspiracy theories, think that liberals in my country are "communists" and are generally racist and prejudiced in every way imaginable.

The only good think I can think of when it comes to their political views is that they oppose Israel, but they don't oppose Israel because they feel bad for Palestine and are actually anti-imperialist. They just oppose zionists because they don't like jews

The butcher of Indonesia

I haven't really thought about it this way. thanks for the advice

I kinda think that I still have to grasp that christmas is about friends we made along the way socializing, not gifts and presents. I'm a person that's not really that into buying anything for myself and others and that's what I focused on the most before

I spent most of my christmas on playing games with my friend. Can't say I regret it

For me it was only the two last christmas that had been this way. Rest of them were alright ig, maybe it's just a natural part of growing up

Why even annex a part of Sicily? Is there even anything they could get from it?