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Macunaíma

@BadgerParana

11 months

To anyone: it's ok to have a bad take once in a while :)

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Macunaíma

@BadgerParana

2 months

The worst tic of nationalism is when map-makers ignore the fact that ancient kingdoms were usually complex patchworks of power, allegiance and vassaldom, and assume pledges of vassalage mean direct control from the center.

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Imagine how many chanting mentats the Harkonnens would have to link up together to run Doom

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No communists? No racial element? What the fuck is this? Why are Texas and California separating, is this a fucking 19th century Latin American civil war or something? There are no stakes in this, what the fuck are they fighting for?

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In this land, anything is possible. Welcome to Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR. In theaters and @IMAX April 26.

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What were these guys cooking

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@ansdor Cartão roxo: ambos os times serão liberados pra partir pro soco e briga pelos próximos 5 minutos sem punição

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Come on bro just one more frontier for capital to ensnare bro just one more frontier bro then it's all gonna be sustainable bro we're totes gonna abandon mining on earth bro this won't cause any serious societal issues bro

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The mining industry is responsible for harming biodiversity, workers and locals. What if we could replace it with a clean process that can’t harm anyone? Well, we can. Watch "Unlimited Resources From Space – Asteroid Mining" now in Spanish:

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@MNateShyamalan Why does he write "advanced AI bot swarms" like he's in a literal war

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1 year

How and why the fuck did they include a map of the South China Sea in the fucking Barbie movie

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🚨 THE MINISTRY OF BURGERS HAS SCRAPPED PRICE CONTROLS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PREMIER'S "PERESTROIKA" CAMPAIGN

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Wendy’s planning Uber-style ‘surge pricing’ where burger prices fluctuate based on demand

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>no calls for a generalized mutiny >no calls for a general strike >no appeal to working-class demands >no mention of communist dissident history in Russia >no mention of the possibilities that seizing the means of production would entail

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An organization calling themselves "Freedom of Russia Legion" published a video on their Telegram channel. "The time has come to put an end to the Kremlin dictatorship! Be brave and have no fear because we are coming home! Russia will be free!" They said after criticizing

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It's a phenomenon that seems to grip several countries in the Eurasian continent. To an Indian nationalist or whatever, Maurya control over Afghanistan on a map supposedly fives them right to "reconquer" that land, or at least gives them comfort in being spiteful towards Afghans.

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Am i the only one who finds it weird that Korea once looked like this

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@BadgerParana

3 months

@nise_yoshimi I lost another 400.000 men when i was at grandma's last night, sorry guys

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Writers tend to be extremely uncreatuve about fictional US civil wars, i hate it. The most they'll go to is minor separatist movements that will never leave minor ballot proposals. Civil wars tend to be bloody, they tend to be furious, and nowadays they always involve utterly...

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Take, further, this map of Portuguese Brazil in the year 1750, as negotiated by the Treaty of Madrid. This surely means everyone inside these borders is "Brazilian" and the lands are fully occupied and controlled by the central government, right? Well... no. Brazil's interior...

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...shocking ammounts of ethnic, partisan, and violent polarization. It absolutely sucks that movie production companies in the US are so thoroughly in the lap of the military propaganda apparatus, so the only thing allowed to be funded is slop like this

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...saw itself settled and "occupied" in successive waves, and in the midst of these, conflicts spurred between native peoples, incoming Europeans, and occasionally the Spanish and the republics that succeeded them. Most of the land in that map was wilderness. Not empty of...

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A REAL civil war film must involve the following: army disobedience and desertion, working class uprisings being gunned down by mercenary white army gangs, the formation of a communist red army, the open involvement of outside powers, the ever-present threat of death to anyone...

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@givinguponman The Dune Encyclopedia IIRC plays with this notion a bit. In the indexes about knowledge of past human history to the Empire's inhabitants, WW2 is described as a dispute between "House Washington" and "House Nippon" for control over Pacific trade routes

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...people and culture, just populated by peoples who spoke a diversity of languages, traded and fought with one another, and often considered the arrival of European power to be a loss compared to what they had before, as they saw their fauna and flora irreparably transformed.

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@BadgerParana

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So apparently Mao Zedong died on this date. Good opportunity to point out that he wanted to be cremated, but his successors ignored that request and made his body into a tourist attraction instead

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While not an exact parallel, we can easily assume similar processes were at play in the Old World, where the rise of the nation-state and of the concept of nationhood and ethnicity trampled over the old systems. Maps lie. I know i'm not the first to say this. I just found the...

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@BadgerParana

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...by gruesome means, ethnic minorities being scapegoated and marched off to camps, the unrestrained use of new and utterly cruel weaponry, the dubious relief of victory, coups within coups, politicians losing their minds, and *actual existential stakes* for all of humanity.

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@nise_yoshimi The trick is to only call it a continuation of the Roman Empire in the time period between 538 and 550 and then between 553 and 756 which is when they held the city. And then at no other point in time

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In short, if Garland isn't making Come and See mixed with Battleship Potemkin set in a climate-ravaged ghetto of Houston, TX after a defeat in a major war with China then i think i'll pass

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2 months

...first map by chance, and felt i had to get something out of my chest.

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@BadgerParana

8 months

But of course, any proposal to film this will most likely be shot down by the financing department of any studio for being "too divisive". Fox News has its work cut out for it before it even happens, it never has to deal with *real* agitprop

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@IanPogorelov "24k farmers who fed millions of people" Part of why the word "farmer" should be phased out and broken into its constituent meanings of "landowner", "tenant", "peasant" and "farmhand" lol. For men who claim to hate "urbanites" they seem to know very little about the countryside

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@BadgerParana

10 months

Communist latino here. Latinx is funny. I hereby declare that my gringo friends are allowed to use it, *especially* when it annoys a Mexican with a Holy See flag in his bio who thinks he's the Malcolm X of white people. Have fun.

🌻 SamⒶntha 🌻 🏳️‍⚧️

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Leftist latina here. Just don't say "Latinx" unless someone says they identify as such. Many of us just don't recognize the term due to it coming to us FROM White Americans. A good alternative to use for gender neutral latino is "Latine" with an "e".

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@beanmaster79 Read this all in the voice of the guy who says "(_) hours later" with a cunty French accent

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@soonrightaway Dunebots, spice out

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Mao Zedong quotes be like "to be wrong is bad and one should try not to be that"

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6 months

If you're a leftist, you need to be gambling 4-5 days a week and learning blackjack, along with organizing with likeminded pro-grindset communities & in your local cassinos. There's no excuse not to do something to strengthen your odds of becoming a millionaire daily.

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@AndromedaPip Creepy dot org

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@PinstripeBungle "Oh man wouldn't it be REEEALLY bad if China just launched an invasion on us, like, right now? That'd be so dangerous please don't make it happen"

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@BadgerParana

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@SwampCommunist "Discipline" means many different things. I'd much rather take an army that can coordinate a timely artillery barrage and has decent supplies and determination than a group of men that can goose-step. And that's why the African rebels won lol

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Brazilians after finding out it's ok to depopulate Paraguay in a six year war and turn it into a cash crop colony because we're not in the Imperial Core:

Commie Bitch ☭🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇨🇺☭

@57RatsInCoat

11 months

Allow me to clarify. I was mainly referring to chauvinistic nationalism, especially in the Imperial core.

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@PunishedFredda Man who never even googled anything about the Philippines:

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Just accept there will be trillionaires bro all the ecosystems will be gone and earth will be left a near barren wasteland but at least we're gonna put robots on asteroids bro how cool is that

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No wonder the UAF has chosen to support these guys, they are so painfully mid

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@RussianCivilWar Brazil in reverse

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@2Bogan2Lastard Well, not entirely. That notion partly applies to every pre-modern empire that existed. But maps are still useful when seen with a grain of salt - for instance, no one can agree on where exactly laid the borders of Cappadocia, but we all know *roughly* where it was.

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@Calibaneur Plot twist: her shot is also a blank. You live

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@slobodanchudjak Wasn't the dam, like, built with the prospect of an explosion in mind? It's a gravity dam, the concrat would fall onto itself and any attacking force would need several attempts to take it down

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Great Britain fell to civil war, France saw revolution, countless wars gripped the planet, the Spanish Empire collapsed, European armies trampled over the world and then left, two world wars, countless advances in technology, developments in culture, art, literature and...

Nature is Amazing ☘️

@AMAZlNGNATURE

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A 392 year old Greenland Shark in the Arctic Ocean, wandering the ocean since 1627.

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@AbbeFaria Just dudes foolin around

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@Tarhuwa Does anyone know the name of thag one polynesian country politician who didn't let wikipedia use any pics of his face so his profile photo was like a dark sideshot of him at a weird angle

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All that the left consensus can do today is desperately try to keep the nazi alive as a sentimentalist propaganda crutch whereas militarism now is thoroughly liberal and democratic in its narrative and recruitment propaganda.

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The soviet union was too kind to Germany

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@AndromedaPip "Hero: none" "Heroine: too many to name one" A real ally...

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>look up guys from a relatively obscure band you really love that disbanded 20 years ago >one of them posts this

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3mericanj0hnson after posting another pic of a fictional character clawing their eyes out or standing in shock in reaction to a text discussing a German/Italian/Russian guy who tried to synthesize communism and feudalism in 1915 before vanishing from the historical record:

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"Man, i love the history of Paraguay!" Paraguay:

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Dune

regan | Olya Orlova #1 Fan

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fantasy series where the protagonists are historically progressive centralizing bureaucrats and absolute monarchists fighting against an entrenched bloc of reactionary local aristocrats

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This meme is so bad. No, the Aztec Empire did not exist in 458 AD. The Aztec people hadn't even migrated from Aztlan. No, they did not have shamans, but a state-sponsored priesthood following formalized rituals. Get your facts straight ffs

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@ettingermentum He said it's "not the first time" the Red Sea parted because it will happen again in 2057. He has foreseen it. Kwisatz Haderudy

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@PunishedGramsci "On track to elect fascism" sir you're already there and have been for decades

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@ProductOfLabor They're a police op, it's become extremely obvious now

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Salvador Allende was a sort of mirror image of Alexander Kerensky: faced with his own Kornilov, he stared down the abyss of another possible Bolshevism and in turn refused to arm the proletarian formations to resist them. In doing so, he has aided the recovery of reformism in...

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The point about faked historical documents is so confusing, because... humans have already done them? By hand? Like, several times in history?

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Tiktok is cool sometimes Fuck AI

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@neko_girl92 >Buddha pfp >unable to control his anger at something he could just ignore

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Just IN:— Pakistan and Iran decide to resume diplomatic relations, two days after both fired missiles at each other.

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@Dacios69 Tbh Brazil fought two civil wars over the price of beef jerky

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This tweet thread reminds me of the vices that gripped the "New Left" in the 1970's after the failure of the mass protest movement of the prior decade. Instead of carefully reflecting on the factors that led to it and preparing for the next outburst, what they did was form...

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@osamabishounen One also can't forget the internal opposition to the Apartheid regime, much of which mobilized a large part of the working class. Sadly this element seems very absent in Israel

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@Lj_str @3mericanj0hnson Maoist Centre. He's the Prime Minister

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@UncolaMD I'm not going to chill, people who watch movies have been way too complacent, if you're gonna make a movie about a second US civil war then it has to be controversial, there's no way around it

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@slobodanchudjak A lot of this bravado also depends on the notion that the newly embittered enemy won't simply retaliate in equal proportion with the tools at its own disposal

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@AndromedaPip Bro has been #Cominterned

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@AndromedaPip This sounds like something my brain would come up with in a dream, it doesn't sound real at all

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@Fireintheandes objective reality: me and your mom have sex three times every weekend

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I'm so used to Korea just being a vertical peninsula, "West South Korea" does not sound like a logical idea for a country

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@2Bogan2Lastard The Byzantine Empire, through most of the Middle Ages and with one brief exception in the 1200s, was a comparably very centralized entity - to a fault. Inside the Empire, power radiated outward and tribute radiated inward from a single, very strategic nexus: Constantinople.

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I know this quote is most likely fake and intended as slander against Lenin, but honestly? If he did say this, then he was a bit right.

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@RedSpectre5 Cult of the Supreme Being: Ukraine Edition soon

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"Finance capital" never rules by itself. Fascism is a form of emergency government of the bourgeoisie, utilizing the petty-bourgeois and backwards strata of the classes below the capitalists as expendable shock troops against the organized, revolutionary proletariat, while...

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"NO! PLEASE DON'T TURN ME INTO A BATTILOCCHIO!" "We're sorry, ultra, but we must put your body on display in a 24/7 mausoleum for tourist bucks. Socialist construction demands it!" *muffled screaming*

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I did not expect seeing voteoids quoting Paul Mattick as an own to be part of my day when i woke up

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@SovinformMedia

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@kantianbongrip 1380's mfs be like

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My brother in christ you're a guy on twitter

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A Communist is not someone who simply believes in communism, it is someone who fights and lays down their life for it. You are a spotty 20 yr old who got halfway thru capital, realised it wasn’t in line with Stalin then decided …

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Zombie apocalypse fiction always felt oddly petty bourgeois to me. The idea of a breakdown in society, the disintegration of the crowds into either mindless beasts to be mercilessly slaughtered or islands of self-sufficiency and displays of warrior-prowess seems like a staple of/

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Necessary addendum to the Noam Chomsky case: he's not dead. Nor is he alive. Being in Brazil causes someone to be transubstantiated into a liminal state where their vitality cannot be ascertained. I know this because i live there.

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@LegoRacers2 The funniest detail of this whole thing is that the Latin Empire was basically a looter state. Its main economic activity was plundering the Byzantine realm out of any icons and relics they could find and selling them to Italian merchants.

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(Before someone i don't know comes at me and screams for this, i don't mean this as any insult towards Armenians.)

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@socialaskan Read this aloud to Edward Said's grave

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They should turn all these countries into one country

sorry im in a hurry i need to email my wife

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They should turn all these countries into one country

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@N3weis Bro. This reminds me of myself when i was about 12 in my brief anti-communist phase, when i imagined myself writing a diss book against Marx and marxism titled "Das Social"

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The People after passing by this staircase in Leningrad, Florida:

Radical Graffiti

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Riot spotted in St Petersburg, Florida

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