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My dad was talking about this story this morning and I responded “but North Korea literally praised squid game as an accurate representation of South Korea” if anything they would punish people for not watching it” and he just ended the conversation. Propaganda is getting more and more far fetched and people will still believe that shit

not even gonna click on it. anything with ducks and “slug control method” involved is the best video on youtube 

Treating corporations the same as countries gives legitimacy to the blatantly immoral and most times insanely illegal tactics they use to string arm small businesses into shutting down or selling their company to them and become a massive monopoly. We can’t give corporations the same power or recognition as literal NATIONS.

Marxists be like “listen to the people!” until the people criticize Marxism

this is my one political post of the year, take your bread tickets and line up for my sludge

I’m saying this as a socialist, socialists will do everything except just step outside and help people “we need to build class consciousness” exactly! So go volunteer at a charity or organise a food drive, when people know you as the person who donated to fix their broken roof or have them enough food to get through the month when they lost their job they’ll listen to what you have to say. Now there are plenty of people doing exactly that but not enough people. The average person doesn’t give a shit about 98% of what you have to say let’s be honest, they want stable income and they want food how about we fix that issue (even if on a small scale or temporarily) then we can talk about organising large scale change

history classes when going over the holocaust: -goes over how horrible it was-

history classes when going over what happened what happened to people who lived under communism in the Soviet Union: uhhhhhhhmmm the US had a space race with the Soviet Union hahaha

I can easily say the U.S. EduSystem has failed me miserably. History side of tumblr, please, I implore you, explain.

I’m not an expert, but Stalin killed basically as many people as Hitler did. He also specifically managed the logistics of food to starve parts of the country that weren’t sufficiently cooperative with the goals of the USSR, like Ukraine. He just hid it while Hitler did it much more openly, so the world didn’t understand just how terrible the things he was doing were.

"Managed the logistics of food to starve parts of the country"

That makes it sound like he just didn't send extra food to Ukraine, which is not what happened. He TOOK food from Ukraine, the most fertile bread basket of Europe to the point the peasants had nothing left WHILE exporting grain to the UK in exchange for funds for his gigantic infrastructure projects.

People were shot if they dared to "hoard" a bag of grain to survive the winter.

People devolved into eating dogs, killing their children and cannibalism because there was NOTHING to eat.

And he did it knowingly because Ukraine is a volatile region that never wanted to be part of USSR or Russia and was the biggest hub of resistance to Bolshevism during the Civil War.

Also most stats gloss over Stalin using GULAG prisoners, mostly over political or petty crimes, to build his massive factories, roads to nowhere and the famous Moscow metro. They died en-masse but he didn't give a shit.

All this, and people nowadays STILL simp for communism and the USSR's "glory" days... Like for real...

They say it's fake Western Imperialist propaganda and that Holodomor was "just a famine, bro" and that GULAGs weren't "all that bad" and people inside deserved it.

I've seen multiple instances of people saying the holodomor was just due to "bad weather." I dunno what they were smoking.

Ah yes, just bad weather in the most fertile region in Europe at the age where famines were largely eradicated in the developed world.

Clearly.

This whole conversation, is incredibly important, BUT, to say stalin and Hitler are equal is incredibly stupid, the lowest, the very lowest estimates of the holocausts death toll, is 16 MILLION, the highest is 20 million, likely it is somewhere in the middle, two entire ethnic groups (Jews and Romani) were meant to be completely exterminated, stalin was horrible and his actions are beyond unforgivable, but he does not represent the left, just like Hitler he died a paranoid insane man, the USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship, communism is a stateless moneyless classless society, the USSR is the complete opposite of communism. Fuck Stalin, but he is not near as purely evil as Hitler

Welp, they found the Good Cop. And now he's behind bars.

You can’t reform this shit. You just can’t.

There are only 3 types of cops, bad cops, quiet cops, and former cops

I did a little research and it turns out some people are STILL emo nowadays 

Tragic

Oh I hope they get him

pls support trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things

no seriously please reblog this ive seen so many posts saying to support trans boys and trans men who like traditionally feminine things and those posts are good!! i love them!!

but i have never in my life seen a post saying to support masculine trans girls and trans women or trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things and its really important to understand that showing support for trans women in any form is just as important as showing support for trans men so please, please reblog this.

support trans women and trans girls. support trans women and trans girls who like traditionally masculine things. trans women and trans girls who like traditionally masculine things are not any less valid than trans women and trans girls who don’t!!

Reblogging

Living often over 2 decades pretending to be a guy means you’re likely going to pick up interests that are mostly considered masculine.

That's actually a fair translation of the original comic, let's be real.

The rich don't see us as people and deserving of a fair share. Paying us a less than living wage is a gift, as far as they're concerned, and we should feel lucky they treat us so well.

The only difference is dogs don’t work a full time job that benefits their owner financially

Pig vs pigs

Fuck rubix cubes these bitches are impossible 

Fr the colours are all in the wrong places

I’m still so confused as to what “let’s go Brandon” means

People will spend an entire month drawing over anime characters to make them black and then freak the fuck out when people lighten the skin of a fictional tan/black/brown character.

Be consistent or shut the fuck up.

Situations are different tbh

Not really.

You can try and dress it up however you want, both cases are changing a character’s canon skin color.

If one is racist/problematic, so is the other.  If one is fine, the other is fine.  Trying to clutch desperately at straws to justify why one is okay and one isn’t is just trying to justify hypocrisy. 

I see your point and understand where you’re coming from but it is atleast in my eyes different. When Tim burron only casts white actors that’s bad. But when a director only casts Black people it’s not. Because poc already have less representation. People finding comfort in changing their Favorite characters skin colour to a darker shade is ok because they often don’t have the representation they are creating. Whereas white washing characters is unnecessary there is already so much white representation. White skin is seen as the default in media. Many times a character is white for no other reason than they didn’t think about the skin colour. Whereas POC characters are often specifically crafted around their skin colour.

This is just how I view it though I understand why you would disagree

So this is Christmas

I'm thinking about history

Climate change is scary and the consequences are real but those effects are in the way of "our descendants will have to live in the world this creates."

The chances that climate change will cause human extinction are near negligible and it's disheartening to see people believing that humanity will not survive another hundred years on this planet.

I'm begging y'all to remember that similarly apocalyptic events have happened within written human history.

The Colombian exchange was the fucking apocalypse. NINETY PERCENT of the population of TWO CONTINENTS DIED. Have y'all read the stuff that early Spanish accounts of the Americas described? These guys were boggled out of their minds by the fantastically wealthy cities they visited all over the place. They and those that came after did their best to destroy it all for literally 500 years. And yet Native American people are still hanging onto their cultures and still trying to fight back because that's what you gotta do.

To go back a little farther: the city of Merv. Should need no introduction. Largest city on the planet. "Merv the Great." "Mother of the World." Buildings visible from a day's journey away. Ten gigantic libraries. Right? No??

Merv was, in the 12th and 13th centuries, the largest city in the world, with at least half a million, probably a million people. It was the epicenter of learning and culture for the whole Islamic world. So why is this potentially your first time hearing about it?

Because in 1221, the Mongols sacked it.

And they killed everyone.

I read some contemporary sources on this in class and these people didn't just think the world was ending, their world WAS ending. Think about how much 9/11 shook Americans to their cores. Now imagine if one morning you hear on the news that literal Aliens From Outer Space have invaded New York City and razed it to the ground, and practically everyone in the city is dead. Every building and iconic monument is rubble. Every person that lived there is dead.

Also imagine that no photographs exist of what New York City looked like. No photographs exist of the people that lived there. Furthermore, many of the world's most prominent scientists and poets lived there.

Are you imagining it? Good. Now imagine that some of the world's greatest libraries are also there, and the printing press doesn't exist, so books have to be copied by hand.

Yeah. And you might be learning for the first time that this even happened.

Let's go to the 17th century. Do you remember anything about the Thirty Years War? Probably not. It's a boring footnote in history.

It was also one of the deadliest conflicts in European history, with civilian deaths estimated to be as high as 6.5 million. Disease and famine wiped out some areas of (what would be) Germany so completely that more than 65% of the population died. Soldiers terrorized the civilian populations. People were straight up cannibalizing each other all over the place. If you were fifteen years old in 1618, you would be forty-five by the end of the war.

Same deal. People 100% thought the apocalypse was happening. The need to make sense of it all triggered, among other things, a series of witch trials with very high death tolls.

Back to impending climate crisis: If we do nothing, we're looking at the displacement of very large quantities of people, natural disasters, many extinct species, and ultimately a lot of death, but we are not literally all going to die. AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO NOTHING. We are going to have descendants that will live in the world after we are gone. If not biological descendants, then spiritual heirs to the world we create.

By what mechanism is every individual person on Earth going to be wiped out? Do y'all know how hard it would be to do that?

"This is the end of the world" is something humans go back to over and over again throughout history. Don't let the apocalyptic thinking paralyze you.

Thank you for writing this post. For whatever reason hearing about fucking massacres from throughout history is pretty calming

People will spend an entire month drawing over anime characters to make them black and then freak the fuck out when people lighten the skin of a fictional tan/black/brown character.

Be consistent or shut the fuck up.

Situations are different tbh

They treat Wendy’s like a goddamn charity oh my god

I could write a whole essay about him.

HE WAS TRYING HIS BEST AND YES EVEYYHING WITH TYE VESSELS WAS BAD BUT YE REGGRETTED IT AND TREATED THE HOLLOW KNIGHT LIKE A SON HE JUST WANTED TO MAKE A GOOD KINGDOM

Why would anyone pay that insane price for fucking elbow salt on a steak