all the news about the sky high levels of grift associated with the world cup has been very interesting from a yankkk commie POV. its very entertaining watching leftlib euros learn first hand just how depraved and rotten the US is, in a “if i don’t laugh i’ll cry” kind of way

example r*ddit thread

Just finished Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out of My Head, short BBC documentary series from 2021 about political social manipulation and the psyche, subconsciousness etc. Anyone else check out his stuff?

The production style itself is interesting, there are decent points within, but it rehashes all the same western BBC-aligned narrative tropes, at this point just so tired out. It seems like an alright view into the perspective of the somewhat more ‘progressive’ Western centrist though.

some people said the el camino is just an Australian ute which got me excited because hey theyre probably not tariffing Australia at 100% maybe i could get one but then i googled Australian ute and the first thing I saw was UGLY like an Old Man’s sedan with half the trunk space i expected

The thing is the el camino looked cool

alright that panpsychism thread in the philosophy comm devolved pretty badly. now i know that many/most hexbears don’t really fw philosophy (but do fw science), which is fine and i guess just another limitation of this space. i think sometimes i assume w/o realizing it that if someone thinks like me and is knowledgeable in one area (socialist theory and history), that will extend to others but that is very much not the case.

hehehe kitty

Wtf australia lake

I think that when they remove a name from one of those Victims of Communism monuments because it turns out the person was the bad kind of nazi, they should be forced to put that name on another monument across the street. Maybe call it something like “Gotta Hand It To You On This One of Communism” monument

CW: genocide

Studying the history/archaeology of the Americas is so depressing and infuriating. It’s just picking through the remains of a continent spanning genocide and trying to recover what you can.

I’m reading a paper on mobility and the use of travois and some of the major sources they use come from accounts given by American troops after they’ve finished murdering indigenous villages and watching the survivors trying to escape.

Another article mentioned various artforms that are no longer practiced due to the “interruption of the tradition” when they were forced from their homelands and onto reserves.

It’s just all so fucking bleak. America (and Canada let’s not let them off easy) really is just Nazi Germany if they succeeded in their goals

Man, I’m considering unsubscribing from Trashfuture. They’ve really lost their magic lately.

The Boney Island series really cemented just how awful they’ve become. Literally half of the first episode is just the hosts casually talking about what they had for breakfast. I thought it was a bit, but no, they really thought wasting most of the episode by being completely off topic and not even trying to entertain was a good idea. The rest is just as unlistenable and boring. Who even remembers the old-ass tv show Bones? It had zero cultural impact and no one i know has ever even heard of it.

The main show has also lost its magic. Why are they so obsessed with former new York mayor Eric Adams? He’s not even relevant anymore. It’s also hard to even care about some yank politician from a different continent.

Maybe I’ll try subbing to scroungers instead. TF has lost their touch.

The entire British establishment supported Nazism.

When anticommunists whine about Soviets signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact they ignore that the British spent the entire 1930s claiming that Britain and Nazi Germany will be a bulwark against communism and signed three pacts with Hitler which were all directly against the Soviet Union: the Four Powers Pact meant to exclude and isolate the Soviets, the Naval Agreement meant Germany could have a navy up 35% of the British navy meaning it wouldn’t threaten British empire but every country on the Baltic sea… i.e. the Soviet Union, and finally the Munich Betrayal which was understood to be a gesture of a “free hand” (British diplomat’s words not mine) for Hitler to go east.

In spite of these difficulties he (Lord Halifax) and other members of the British Government were fully aware that the Fuhrer had not only achieved a great deal inside Germany herself, but that, by destroying Communism in his country, he had barred its road to Western Europe, and that Germany therefore could rightly be regarded as a bulwark of the West against Bolshevism

and

In spite of these difficulties he (Lord Halifax) recognised that the Chancellor had not only performed great services in Germany, but also, as he would no doubt feel, had been able by preventing the entry of Communism into his own country, to bar Its passage further West. The Prime Minister held the view that it should be possible to find a solution of out differences by an open exchange of views

Documents And Materials Relating To The Eve Of The Second World War Vol. 1

When the Soviets liberated Germany they were able to get a huge cache of British diplomatic documents. The Soviets released the above book and Documents And Materials Relating To The Eve Of The Second World War Vol. 2 full to the brim of diplomats praising Nazi Germany as a twin pillar alongside Britain stopping communism.

Lenin pointed this out in Imperialism: The Highest Stage Of Capitalism and dug a quote out from Cecil Rhodes (a disgusting colonial piece of shit) who said:

I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism… My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists.

The imperialists have understood for a long time to prevent socialist revolution they must by all means have new lands, new markets, new pools of cheap labour to rinse to placate the workers in imperialist nations.

The only real difference between someone like Churchill and Hitler was Hitler waged this violence against Europeans for his Lebensraum.

credit to u/JoeysStainlessSteel

luv me party ( ) but goddam we r staying real busy right up til the christmas slump

good problem to have methinks, but looking forward to the holiday break so i can cozy-maxx for a bit

Hot take: Trotskyites are people that enjoyed animal farm and considered snowball their personal hero.