• Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Quoting Jeffrey Veidlinger’s In the Midst of Civilized Europe, pages 53–54:

    Following the economic and military failures of the summer, popular support for the provisional government collapsed. The Bolsheviks gained a majority in the Petrograd Soviet, and on the morning of November 7, Lenin issued a manifesto announcing the overthrow of the provisional government and the transfer of power to the Petrograd Soviet.

    […]

    With victory in his hands, Lenin promised a “democratic peace to all nations and an immediate armistice on all fronts” and proclaimed “the right of self-determination” for “all nationalities inhabiting Russia.” Elections to the Constituent Assembly, he continued, would proceed as planned in January.

    The Bolsheviks had succeeded in securing power in the Russian capital and immediately set about exporting their revolution to the rest of the former Russian Empire. This meant, first, encouraging workers, peasants, and soldiers to establish soviets and assume power in their own regions; and second, raising a Red Army to conquer by force those territories that resisted.

    In Kyiv, the Central Rada refused to recognize the undemocratic Bolshevik coup

    (Emphasis added.)

    How does an otherwise competent writer manage to contradict hisself within the span of only two pages? Either he deliberately lied to appease a publisher, his hamsterlike brain decided that it was time to say something anticommunist, this was a clumsy attempt to represent somebody else’s point of view, or his definition of democracy is utterly fucked.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    1 day ago

    Great day to be a vegan when a lot of coworkers are talking about how they are going to slid the throat of an innocent animal today

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 days ago

    A 62 year old man attacked a hijab wearing girl in my city today. Her brother and friends tracked the dude down to his house and attacked him for it. The brother got stabbed.

    Somehow Reddit dudes find a way to blame the woman for all this.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    Watched Adolescence on Netflix today. Very interesting and very sad to watch really. Could it be clearer and could it go deeper into toxic masculinity? Sure. But I feel like it was a very real and disturbing display of how a typical suburban guy can become what the show portrays. It’s scary how I could even see things about my own life in there even though I became a well adjusted adult.

    Though I see criticism from women online and I can really see the points they try to bring across. Makes me wonder who the series aims at as a target audience. I think, as a man watching it, it can be a good reflection for other men to show the danger of toxic masculinity. Though I must say it does so without any deeper dive into what that is exactly.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      12 hours ago

      My main criticism of it is that it seems rather superficial. It tries to show the how but does not attempt to go into the why. It offers no deeper (systemic rather than individualistic) explanations or solutions and leaves too much open for the audience to interpret according to their own ideological framework. I find that fairly cowardly as it absolves the writers of the show of having to actually take an ideological position. In that regard is a quintessentially liberal piece of media.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    you can tell the degree of subservience of a nation to the US by how popular baseball is there.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      Tempting thought, considering how baseball is possibly the worst team sport (maybe except polo), but not standing. Total EU bootlicker shitholes with otherwise largely americanised cultures still don’t have almost any baseball*, but Cuba have a lot of it (like wtf Cuba, i guess it is the reminder that no one can be based 100% of time).

      *There was a moment of seeming hope for baseball in Poland, while in 90’s tons of football hooligans started to buy baseball accessories. Turned out they just wanted baseball bats. It would be funny to imagine their trainings though, since for each ball and glove sport shops were selling few hundred bats.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          It is remnant of colonialism though and still a negative culture influence since baseball fans inevitably will look up to its country of origin and all the flashy multibillion business baseball is.

        • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          41·
          3 days ago

          Not really since these baseball players dream of going to the US, baseball is like the strongest soft power the US has on Cuba.

          • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
            7·
            3 days ago

            Would you really call Cuba “subservient” just because some cubans dream of going to the us?

            Canada is like 100x more subservient than Cuba and baseball is not even a top 3 sport there.

            Finding a baseball game would be harder than finding gold in Australia and we are so dominated I don’t even consider Australia as its own country.

            Sorry the linkage just ist there.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    4 days ago

    The Dutch government has collapsed. At this point I don’t see it as something positive. The next cabinet will probably be just as shitty

  • Felhfeltetel ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    26·
    5 days ago

    Have a good start to the week comrades! Stay safe in the heat if you live in Europe.

    Today is my birthday, and I have never felt lonelier in my life, make sure to reach out to people around you if you think it’s needed!