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spicybrain81

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hellboys

MURRAY BARTLETT & NICK OFFERMAN as Frank and Bill in The Last of Us (2023-)

madeleineengland

*gnamm gnamm

beardedmrbean

Really wish this dude actually was a colour commentator for sporting events

weavemama

muffintop-malachite-deactivated

Jesus

okayladykiller-deactivated-deac

Nooo not the red one

forest-of-grace

With a sword?

Which power rangers?

slytherho-deactivated20171229

Power rangers wild force

violaslayvis

Power ranger: *murders someone with a sword*

Yall: “Which power rangers?”

snaacks-deactivated20200913

the important questions

beardedmrbean

I think I remember reading that when the archives were opened for study it was proven that it was a systematic attempt by the soviets to destroy the Ukrainian people.

Communism doesn't leave room for individual or even localized cultural anything.

We are communists, you will be assimilated or you will die.

For proof, search Marx on the Jewish Question.

winterphile

Even if there wasn't written reports by the Soviet government saying it was directly their policy, it leaves 2 options; they did it deliberately or central planning and control caused it.

s-a-blotsky

Well some tankies are now pushing the idea that the "kulaks" in Ukraine destroyed their own crops and farming equipment in order to stop their property from being forcibly socialized (i.e. stolen.) Even if that were true, it would mean the Soviet government stood by and did nothing to alleviate the starvation.

leviathan-supersystem

i think you made a minor typo, because instead of writing "some tankies" i think what you might have meant to write is "every single historian in existence, including the anti-communist ones. it is trivially easy to find examples of anti-communist sources acknowledging this as fact, usually framing it as a heroic struggle against the soviets:

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this sources is, of course, filled with the usual anti-communist lies and distortions, and yet nonetheless even the most brazenly biased anti-communist sources acknowledge that the destruction of crops and livestock is an indisputable historical fact. but once again acknowledging any indisputable historical facts makes me a tankie lol.

also the funny part about claiming "the Soviet government stood by and did nothing to alleviate the starvation" is that putting the crops and livestock in the hands of regular farm workers instead of wealthy farm owners is, in fact, doing something to alleviate the starvation. literally trying to ensure that a small group of wealthy people don't hold the food supply for ransom and then when the wealthy farm owners destroy it so the poors can't get it, anti-communists jump in to frame the people who destroyed food during a famine as brave heroes. what a joke.

beardedmrbean "thinks he remembers" soviet documents showing that the famine was a genocide, but he thinks wrong, because no such documents exist, which is why he didn't link it. there are, however, documents showing that the USSR sent hundreds of tons of grain, food, and seed to Ukraine for famine relief, as mentioned in this response by Mark Tauger to Applebaum's shoddy scholarship:

Repeatedly she purports to know what people were thinking, with no evidence. During 1931-1932 she asserts “everyone understood at some level that collectivization was the source of the new shortages” (165). Yet she admits that in 1931 there were “bouts of drought,” which is an understatement; even Stalin publicly stated that drought “considerably” reduced the 1931 harvest.14 Russia and Ukraine had a long history of droughts and famines, which she admits (283); how can she know that no one, even peasants, saw the drought as a cause of shortages? In discussing the regime’s decision in spring 1932 to stop the procurements and provide food and seed for the villages to produce a new harvest, she asserts that officials “knew” that “food aid to Ukraine was a tacit admission of Stalin’s failure,” but also “knew” that “catastrophe would follow” if Ukraine did not get aid (173). Yet her sources include the published decree of 16 February 1932 that allotted 870,000 tons of seed and food to Ukraine and several eastern provinces, which she does not mention.15 The fact that this decree was publicized implies that leaders did not see it as an admission of failure. Applebaum does admit that in April the Politburo allotted Ukraine some aid, but she then asserts that Stalin suddenly “withdrew the food aid he sent to Ukraine” (174). There is no evidence for this action in her footnotes, nor in her other sources, not even a single telegram or letter; this claim appears to be false. Applebaum does not mention the Politburo decree from 15 May 1932, in her sources, that allotted Ukraine 6.5 million puds (106,000 tons) of grain for food relief, and more in the next weeks.16

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it's funny that those who admonish others to read Marx's "On the Jewish Question" have so clearly never done so themselves, and certainly have never done research into the context in which it was written- namely, that Marx was writing the text in response to Bruno Bauer, an antisemite who had argued that jewish people must abandon their faith before they could be granted political emancipation, while Marx- who, remember, was jewish himself- argued that jewish people must be granted political emancipation immediately without any such precondition. it's responding to and arguing against antisemitic arguments by turning them on their head, and anyone who has actually researched this at all knows this.

apas-95

love that the communist side of the argument is citations and references and the anti-communist side is 'i think i remember that there's evidence that proves me right, and even if there isn't, the lack of evidence would still be proof'

queerism1969

dontmean2bepoliticalbut

bae-guevara

mutual aid request:

my fellow comrades and generally decent people, i don't share much personal info on social media, bc ya know... social media... but i need y'alls help.

i am a squatter temporarily living in the Netherlands in a compound with fellow comrades. we sqatted this large piece of land where we build our solar powered tiny houses.

on that same land, we grow fruits & vegetables and distribute those to ppl in need at our local food pantry.

neighbours and local shop-owners donate leftovers and toiletries which we hand out to the homeless, and each week we prepare 500 hot meals for the homeless and ppl who can't afford a hot meal every day.

four months ago we opened a communal kitchen and shower, so everyone without access to one is able to cook their own meal or clean themselves.

once a month we organize a kids clothing market where the neighborhood children can get some high quality, new looking, second hand clothes. just outside our gate we built a library and school supply unit from reclaimed microwaves.

this is very fulfilling work, but it's also a lot of work that takes an entire community.

we are sharing our modus operandi with communities around the world bc mutual aid=💜. unfortunately this process isn't free and me and my comrades could use all the help we can get.

so here's my link to p*yp*l.me/ECarrus

all donations are used to help in my community: free food, free clothing, free books, and free school supplies

radicalgraff

Pasteup in San Diego, California in honor of comrade Tort, a 26-year-old Atlanta Forest defender who was shot and killed by cops on Wednesday.

Tort died opposing the Atlanta city council's plans to clear the forest to build a massive police training facility dubbed "Cop City".

anarchist-art

workersolidarity

A fantastic thread with bountiful useful info and great responses to anti-communist talking points.

marxistbarbie-deactivated202109

ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

battlships

Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.

wommy-mami

“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole

marxistbarbie-deactivated202109

i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that:

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap:

A lot of American generals were against using the bomb as they felt it served an empty purpose.

Those who agreed with its usage completely disagreed with dropping them on cities.

Truman went ahead and had them detonated in two highly populated civilian cities anyway. Two cities that had remained mostly untouched by regular bombings throughout the war precisely bc of their lack of value to the Japanese war effort.

Draw your own conclusions.