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pablo

1 year

I've prepared the first English translation of Pedro Lemebel's poem / manifesto 'Hablo por mi diferencia', which was the Chilean queer icon's protest against the chauvinism and homophobia rampant among Chile's revolutionary movements in the 1980s.

'Manifesto (I Speak For My Difference)' by Pedro Lemebel

Manifiesto (Hablo por mi diferencia) por Pedro Lemebel

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pablo

@paulderokha

7 months

thought they were giving non-binary slay but it was actually just a priest

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@paulderokha

9 months

people say shit like this and then the thoughts they have are like "how do you know your red is the same as my red 🤯"

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9 months

my sister told me that she doesn't read philosophy bc she creates her own theories and thoughts, many of us could learn from this

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@paulderokha

4 years

stop saying Das Kapital just be normal and say El capital by Carlos Marx

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@paulderokha

2 years

if there’s a recurring phenomenon of people finding themselves in unhappy relationships due to gendered dynamics & expectations do you really think the problem here is poor individual decisions. do you think maybe something else is going on or are you fundamentally incurious

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@paulderokha

9 months

this might come off as snobbish but i think the inverse is true (no offence to said sister): thought is a communal & historical dialogue and if you limit yourself to what bubbles up into your mind during walks and showers you'll never progress beyond philosophy 101

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@paulderokha

3 years

reading the beginning of every article / book / review published on Marx or Marxism in the past 13 years

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@paulderokha

2 years

the progression of film bro from meaning “man in college who predictably likes Pulp Fiction” to “anyone who takes likes art house” to “anyone who watches 90+ minute non-English language films” is interesting and probably tracks with (almost) every critic becoming a philistine

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@paulderokha

8 months

a lot of "yearners" on here talk about their ideal partners not as individuals or persons but as archetypes, as if they were missing puzzle pieces that should slot into their pre-existing lives. they dont understand the roughness of love and that's why they're perpetually alone

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@paulderokha

9 months

I love playing chess because its an important reminder that a series of seemingly inconsequential thoughtless mistakes can lead to a state of affairs where loss and failure are inevitable

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pablo

@paulderokha

9 months

original post was obv slightly tongue in cheek but probably over half of STEM students who take a philosophy course think like this lol

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@paulderokha

5 years

@turing_police to avoid this I microdose sewer water every morning and almost constantly have diarrhoea, like a snake handler building up immunity to venom

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@paulderokha

10 months

English language edition Bolaño covers v. Spanish language edition Bolaño covers

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@paulderokha

2 years

these posts are getting so corny, most if not all of German immigration to South America occurred in the 19th century, this city was founded in 1861 by Pomeranian settlers. im sure they all love Bolsonaro but they’re not the descendants of escaped Nazis

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whose gonna tell her

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@paulderokha

2 years

you dont really see men who look like bob dylan anymore. on the other hand, lesbians have got that shit locked down

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@paulderokha

2 years

there are an infinite ways of categorising love but i think that one i've grown fond of recently is: it is akin to living your whole life under the impression that you are the sole possessor of a private language, only to discover a stranger who speaks it as well as you

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@paulderokha

2 years

poets will write anything. “April is the cruellest month.” No it isn’t. That isn’t true.

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@paulderokha

6 months

this came to me in a nightmare

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@paulderokha

4 years

the fundamental problem with breadtube (left Youtube) is that it’s made up on individuals trying to build a brand, the topics discussed are just a means to that end. if you wanna explain a concept you wouldn’t make it all about yourself and your production design

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@paulderokha

1 year

@NoLuckLopez @exwiferespecter this is so embarrassing

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@paulderokha

2 years

FKA Twigs, 'Cellophane' // Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

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@paulderokha

1 year

understanding that there’s a global system of violence and exploitation underpinning ordinary aspects of everyday life isn’t a precondition for being a communist or a Marxist, it’s just a precondition for having a basic grasp of how the world works lol

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@paulderokha

3 years

listening to your family back home explain politics and economics

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@paulderokha

2 years

@freshhel literally… people tweet like they wouldn’t die of cholera within a day of being teleported back to the 1600s

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@paulderokha

8 months

I remember 'America is the Great Satan' being bandied about in my childhood as a demonstration of the ridiculousness and savagery of America's enemies but now I see it as probably an understatement. disorientatingly evil country

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@paulderokha

1 year

im tired of pretending Mary Oliver is good. she's Rupi Kaur for people with a BA in english lit

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@paulderokha

2 years

when gen z / younger millennials act like they’re the first generation to have existential anxiety about the world ending it really impresses on you how easily four decades of constant fear about nuclear armageddon were forgotten or fell out of the public’s imagination

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@paulderokha

9 months

probably the dumbest responses i've ever had to a tweet before well done everyone

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@paulderokha

1 year

Jane Greer

@NorthDakotaJane

1 year

IMO, “erasure poetry” is not poetry in any way. And to destroy someone else’s writing—or, God forbid, poem—and then call the leftover words a new “poem” is pure philistinism. Fight me.

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@paulderokha

7 months

@usuallycringe it's an El Greco at the National Portrait Gallery

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@paulderokha

3 years

the way in which parts of gen z really identify with being a "minor" - a legal term and not a real identity - is bizarre. when i was a 'minor' all i wanted to be was an adult

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@paulderokha

1 year

as a white person all of your tattoos should be like this

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@paulderokha

4 years

they are not “bad” or “low” moods, call them what they are: acts of psychic warfare from your interdimensional enemies

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@paulderokha

2 years

also dating people you actually like is really hard

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@paulderokha

4 years

very suspicious of people who go on about “indigenous beliefs” and “indigenous peoples” without ever specifying or talking about actual indigenous beliefs and people

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@paulderokha

1 year

@tamars you don’t believe that children are being amputated without sedation?

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@paulderokha

1 year

incredible vid of Mapuche militants fighting on horseback against the Chilean military occupation of Wallmapu

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@paulderokha

2 years

also notable that (like in the US) a significant amount of immigrants from places like Germany and Italy were workers who helped found and/or develop anarchist and communist movements in Latin America

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@paulderokha

2 years

the cambridge companion to your mom

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@paulderokha

11 months

let me just read up on this Rehavam Ze'evi guy real quick

Khaliifah Abd al-Salam ☪️🪷 💛 🐝 الله أكبر

@llamalaikum

11 months

The red keffiyeh is the symbol of the Abu Ali Mustafa militant wing of the PFLP, responsible for the assassination of Rehavam Ze’evi. At your protests, look for these. If it has fringes, it's probably an Amazon purchase. If it doesn't, get as far away from them as you can.

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@paulderokha

2 years

my enemies don’t even have the decency to be wrong in an interesting or at least instructive way

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@paulderokha

4 years

am i doing the meme right

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@paulderokha

11 months

women now hold up more than half the sky

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Gen Z women are turning left, while men are veering right, the Editorial Board writes. Can American marriage be saved?

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@paulderokha

1 year

@lilmissagitated

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@paulderokha

2 years

@dash_eats is it upsetting to think that you’ll never produce something someone will find worth tarnishing in protest

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@paulderokha

3 years

in the Voltaire room absolutely no ones here so I’m eating an entire rotisserie chicken with my hands getting grease all over the old books

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@paulderokha

1 year

Fredric Jameson is our Adorno, relegating him to merely being a ‘literary theorist’ is a huge disservice

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@PanAmComintern

1 year

What Marxist take will have you like this?

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@paulderokha

4 years

I might be wrong about this but I think landlords are the landlords of our generation

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@paulderokha

1 year

avg Hemingway (supposed posterboy of literary male chauvinism) character: i love getting cuckolded by my wife... what if i could be a woman? avg Kafka (tenderqueer icon) character: yoooo just fucked this crazy bitch on the way to the courthouse 😝🤘 shit was cash

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@paulderokha

1 year

me and my friends would've killed the soft animal of your body with hammers i can tell you that much

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@paulderokha

1 year

@tamars You don’t know what you’re talking about. Partial foot amputations are a thing. Amputating a limb lowers the risk of infections even if proper aftercare isn’t available.

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@paulderokha

2 years

the last thing I'll say is that its worth thinking about the disproportionate role Nazis in LatAm have in 'leftist' discourse online compared to the post-war recruitment and rehabilitation of Nazis by the United States, NATO, and West Germany

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@paulderokha

3 years

grotesque moment in which Moufawad-Paul compares the 1983 Lucanamarca massacre to the killing of white slavers in Haiti (in effort to justify it?), neglecting to mention the fact that those murdered in Lucanamarca were peasants, the oppressed, rather than oppressors

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@paulderokha

3 years

@tropicalcamatte there's a divide between socdems in the West who exclusively see Allende as a martyr to be venerated, a tragic figure of history, and Chilean + LatAm communists who have a divided yet mostly critical view towards him due to his mistakes and failures

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@paulderokha

3 years

there is annotating books and then there is being so insane you correct the title of a book by citing the original Greek

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@paulderokha

4 years

this also results in obscenely long videos. none of them merit being an hour long, but these vultures gotta bleed everything dry

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@paulderokha

9 months

haters on Ulysses: an impossibly dense read that alienates all but the most erudite readers with its quixotic quest for stylistic innovation Ulysses: yummy wide hips nice enough to launch a thousand ships — big buttocks bouncing beautifully in bright ballsbreaking sunlight !

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@paulderokha

2 years

im probably a bit late to do this but: a lot of ppl joked that Godard and Anna Karina were the archetypical 'mid balding bf beautiful gf' trope. I'd like to take a stand and say that, actually, Godard was beautiful

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@paulderokha

1 year

damn. he didn’t even try to be happy

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Photo of Wittgenstein as a child.

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@paulderokha

3 years

*guy who has developed a severe anxiety disorder* man this summer is gonna be crazy for real

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@paulderokha

2 years

@jardinsecret888 even if that were true, which it isn’t, what does it have to do with you being unkind lol

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@paulderokha

4 years

impossible...

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@paulderokha

1 year

the question of whether there will be bananas under communism is a moot one. the real question is whether capitalism itself will be able to continue providing a year-long global supply of cheap bananas as the climate breakdown progresses (the answer is a resounding no)

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@paulderokha

4 years

a ‘socialist streamer’ found my mild criticism of breadtube and now my mentions are full of people who are mad and stupid lol

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@paulderokha

4 years

one of the most obnoxious online trends is zoomers claiming the marketing stunts of male pop stars like Harry Styles "just ENDED the gender binary!" bc they wore a skirt as if Prince, Bowie, and Brian Eno didn't do it better and more sincerely

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@paulderokha

4 years

me after learning that Huey P. Newton memorised the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock to impress girls

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@paulderokha

4 years

i’d say 95% of “left-wing” philosophers are unable to disentangle themselves from liberalism and are too invested in contemporary forms of philosophy to do so. goes without saying i am able to do this and am part of the 5%

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@paulderokha

3 years

I've made a translation of Victor Jara's 'Chile Stadium', the poem he wrote hours before his death, after being tortured in Chile's national stadium for several days as a result of the military coup of 1973

'Chile Stadium' by Víctor Jara

or 'Estadio Chile'

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@paulderokha

2 years

not really sure what ‘trauma’ means here. do you think trauma only results from malicious people who didn’t try hard enough? part of the tragedy of human life is that good intentions and lots of effort aren’t enough to prevent you from causing significant amounts of harm

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@paulderokha

2 years

I have been known to enjoy fascist art sometimes: Ezra Pound, Yukio Mishima, Wes Anderson, etc.

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@paulderokha

1 year

this is disingenuous for various reasons, but it is contradicted most straightforwardly by IDF soldiers themselves, who are all over social media & love posting about how giddy they are at the prospect of killing Palestinians — overwhelmingly they’re not unwilling conscripts

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@paulderokha

10 months

the licensing budget for covert art at Anagrama is five euros and a stick of gum

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@paulderokha

2 years

I've translated an essay of Raúl Zurita's, where he uses the Iliad and his experience of being tortured during the 1973 military coup to articulate his conception of poetry as 'residue': a tragic yet liberating response to traumatic violence. Please share!

"The Bleak Stars" by Raúl Zurita

Raúl Zurita (1950–) is a Chilean poet and artist.

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@paulderokha

2 years

Shrine to St. Francis of Assisi where people leave thanks for the health and well-being of their pets

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@paulderokha

4 years

for reasons unrelated to the PSL I am thinking about Badiou and his claim that communists need discipline, but that it’s fatal to conceive of discipline in only military forms as it’s largely been done up until now

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@paulderokha

5 years

I thought this guy was doing a bit but every clip is from minute long videos he posts on Instagram. His name’s Martin Cabello III and his @ is ti_me_to_mass_so_i_exist - he talks about psyops, military intelligence and quantum physics a lot

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1 year

me: mom can we stop at Lunch Poems mom: no we have Frank O'Hara at home the Frank O'Hara at home:

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1 year

we need to reach Cultural Revolution heights, go further, and only maybe then will someone be justified in claiming that things are too political

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@paulderokha

9 months

a central tenet of contemporary liberalism is the denial that actions can be determined by their ends: all actions are good or bad in themselves independently of what they're done for, claiming otherwise leads to a slippery slope where the right end justifies any means, etc.

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@paulderokha

1 year

social demokkkrats getting ready to post Allende's final speech today and then never care about Chile or its people for the rest of the year

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@paulderokha

2 years

when I was younger, around 17, I used to spend a lot of time on /lit/. I read a lot of discussions about literature. bc of this, I could discuss in-depth books I’d never read, simply from imbibing those convos. when people talk about ChatGPT ‘knowing’ things, I think about this

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@paulderokha

1 year

last year I deleted twitter off my phone but still had a horrid urge to tweet so I’d just type shit like this into my notes app lol

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@paulderokha

5 years

Once you understand that MacIntyre's call at the end of After Virtue for "another - doubtless very different - St Benedict" is not a call for retreat, but rather a call for new sets of social forms, then it becomes clear that its misappropriation by reactionaries is wrong

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@paulderokha

1 year

can you imagine if instead of referring to the US invasion of Afghanistan we had to talk about the 'US-Taliban war'? calling it the 'Israel-Hamas war' is already an ideological act that obfuscates what's really going on: a genocidal campaign by a state against a stateless people

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@paulderokha

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@chazofthedead learn how to read numbnuts: "it presents an impressive-seeming demonstration of the power of language to shape our perception of the world. But on closer inspection, the evidence seems to melt away, and the impressive experience seems to be... completely invented."

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@paulderokha

1 year

im so offended that they’d think I was a fan of Ottessa Moshfegh

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it’s always sad when I tell someone my family is from Chile and they get this glimmer in their eye and say something like “wow I bet the food is delicious!”, only for me to have to explain that we have quite literally one of the world’s worst cuisines

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@paulderokha

2 years

there was a settlement in LatAm that was founded by escaped Nazis post-1945: Colonia Dignidad. it was a pedophilic cult that later on tortured and murdered dissidents for Pinochet’s regime

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2 years

I’m losing my mind I’ve never seen a sunset so lilac

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@paulderokha

2 years

Roberto Bolaño once claimed that, although they only corresponded, Enrique Lihn saved his life and was the greatest of Chilean poets. I've translated an example of Lihn's momentous, reflexive, and lyrical anti-poetry

'The Old Man's Monologue With Death' by Enrique Lihn

‘La poesía chilena, dijo Bibiano aquella noche, va a cambiar el día que leamos correctamente a Enrique Lihn, no antes.’

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@paulderokha

5 years

This is not some generous interpretation of mine btw, here is a transcription of his response to a question on the Benedict Option from a couple years ago.

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@paulderokha

4 years

@ComradeDennis23 Si.

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@paulderokha

1 year

mutiny and non-compliance were common during Vietnam. In 1969-1971, there were ~600 reported cases of ‘fragging’: the attempted murder by soldiers of higher-ups. do we know of similar forms of resistance by IDF soldiers? is there an Israeli Jane Fonda?

Monthly Review | Vietnam and the Soldiers’ Revolt

[wcm_nonmember] This article will be published on June 20th. [/wcm_nonmember] It has been nearly fifty years since the height of the Vietnam War—or, as it is known in Vietnam, the American War—and...

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2 years

on a sentimental level these are gonna stick with me

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@paulderokha

4 years

western catholic leftists need to stop using South America as a gotcha for when people talk about the ‘religious left’, it’s not the mid 20th century anymore. in Chile ppl on the left are more likely to think of the church as a cabal of corrupt child rapists than anything else

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@ettingermentum there was a group of them at the protests in London today

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2 years

I mean it very seriously when I say it’s this or nothing …

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10 months

i hate to give amerikkkans credit but they are exponentially better at resisting conscription for imperialist war than israelis are

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people who live in the US and have never had to face mandatory conscription will be like “lol do more” at an 18 year old child choosing to go to jail rather than serve the IDF

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