[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks, comrade =)

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ya I get that. I'll probably be doing that with enough time, maybe even later today. But right now I'm just feeling black pilled and emotional, I guess. I'm just like.... Fuck... What do?

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago

I agree, but am I only the one distraught af about this? What are people in America going to do? The first thing fascism always does is eliminate the Communists and Socialists. Not like the US has done so far, make fun of them in the press and isolate them through media consent manufacturing, I mean really make sure that political philosophy is entirely extinct. They're going to shut down these forums, arrest anyone to the left of Biden, ignore paramilitary death squads killing people in the streets, before moving on to the natural fascism scapegoats: shoot kids in Palestinian protests and call them terrorists, arrest LGBTQ people for being groomers, set black and women rights back to the 1600's, shit like that. I know that happens a lot now but there are pockets where people can feel safe in this country. They're going to use national power to override cities and states and eliminate those pockets.

Fuck, this feels hopeless now. Even trading out Biden will not work anymore with that photo. I'd rather stay here where my support network is, but I feel like I'm going to have renew my passport and chance it in another country that I hope the US won't invade, or buy a gun, and I really, really don't want to have to fight a bunch of CHUDs. I want to relax in my apartment, hang out with friends, play games, and just live my life.

The other thing I'm worried about is a fascist America stomping out communism around the world even more than it does. Cuba will get fucked by a full fascist America off its shores and China hasn't been as internationally helpful as the USSR.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

OK haha it's totally something they would do, though, so you can't blame me for doing a double-take

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Are you serious? What do they change?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't they fire the star of Scream for less than this? I hope her career survives the possible backlash from this. She seems cool.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Haven't heard of it. What's it about?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I played the original for the first time recently, like a year or two ago, and I loved how fun it was and short. I ended up replaying it as evil after doing a good, stealth run. I almost completely forgot I still have to play the sequel.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I up voted them because I loved that game, but admittedly I haven't played it since it's first come out.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A lot of the comments in the modlog look pretty tame, though. If there's clear racism, sure, but it's mostly just random normal comments you'd hear anywhere in there. Banning those people won't help them learn. It's repeatedly getting exposed to differing opinions in Lemmy that got me here in this instance in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Woah. What a story. That's incredible. I had no idea of the history of Yemen or why it was being bombed by Saudi Arabia. Makes them sound like the US or Tsarist Russia of the Middle-East, going around trying to stomp out leftist revolutions.

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I have been listening to Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast for awhile and have been loving it. So far, the Haitian season might be my favorite but the Mexican one has been pretty good, too. I'd highly recommend it to everyone interested in history so far. Although hearing about all the failed leftist revolutions from 1848 has been very depressing lol.

Anyway, I'm about to finish the Mexican Revolution season and am wondering, for people who have listened to this podcast who are communists, socialists, and/or anarchists, what do you think of the rest of the podcast - which looks to be all the Russian Revolution?

So far, the podcast has been surprisingly radicalizing, but I heard that Mike himself is more of a centrist and is personally critical of communism and Lenin.

He's earned enough goodwill from me up to now for me to listen to it anyway, it's not like I need all my media to be communist propaganda (or I could never watch anything). Plus, I'm sure they did make a ton of mistakes back then. But, I'm mostly just wondering what I'm about to get into here exactly.

Even handed critiques of the revolutionaries but also with appropriate context, like the Haiti or French Revolution season? A bit of emotional bias but with mostly accurate facts? Missing context and reframing of Cold War red scare propaganda? Or he's been radicalized more than I thought and he turns into a communist this season? How good is it, and how does it rank with other seasons?

Should I ask the same thing in Lemmygrad, too? Looking for leftist history nerd opinions, because I haven't seen them on the other site on this season specifically. Also, any supplemental reading or stuff to watch to better understand this final, giant section of the podcast, especially if it explores facts or perspectives he isn't already going to get into? Let me know!

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