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hi! just some notes about me & this blog:
18+ so my blog is too
Marxist-Leninist
support socialist states, oppose America and its imperialism
transfeminist
百合 enthusiast
learning Chinese
very new so lots of things might change!
I have a sideblog at @lenin-quotes!
background art from Fan Wennan on Artstation/范文南 on 小红书, profile art from here
when someone asks me what interests i have idek what to say. math and soviet history...?? do i even have any other interests. i'm kind of an npc i don't really have interests or personality traits
中二病 is such a wonderful concept
I do appreciate all the support on my post about Marlow Trottie, but yall need to do that kind of thing for Black trans women while they're still alive too. That's actually more important in a lot of ways.
What you will see if you go to Chongqing in Southwestern China
Winter in the DPRK
Of course no heuristic is universally true, but I think if you're an american who considers themselves "progressive" this is a rule of thumb you should probably be considering more often: If the conversation you're currently participating in is only able to happen because someone is going out of their way to speak *your* language, that's probably not the person who's most in need of informing themselves about the other's country in this conversation.
It's just such a common pattern, how when you disagree with an american about something like e.g. the idea that it's unfair to hate members of the US military, the american will always walk into the conversation with the unshakable assumption that the only reason why you could possibly disagree with them is because *you* are not informed enough about *their* country, that you obviously are not aware of how bad veterans have it once they return home, or of the conditions of poverty and systemic inequality that might drive someone to see the military as their only chance for upward mobility, or of how aggressively military recruiters campaign, or how much propaganda they make, or how they take advantage of systemic inequality to recruit from disadvantaged populations, or a million other things which they will inherently assume you lack an understanding of and proceed to condescendingly explain to you.
All the while they refuse to entertain even for one second the possibility that it might be *them* who has something to learn about *your* country, that they might not be informed enough about the violence and terror the US military enacted upon your people, that *they* might lack some awareness or understanding of the cruelty and suffering that those poor, propagandized, systemically disenfranchised kids lied to by recruiters gladly participated in enacting which might drive even people who are fully aware of their conditions to still harbor resentment towards them. The possibility that the other person might have a better understanding of the conditions in their country than viceversa and still disagree with them will never even cross their mind.
More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"
I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.
I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).
By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.
Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.
i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.
the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.
in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!
Whenever I accuse Western scholars of being “racist,” they always become defensive, insisting that they are merely criticising “systems” and “governments,” as though racism ends with crude prejudice against the intrinsic traits of other peoples. This is not how racism functions in the 21st century. Even historically, racism was fundamentally about the maintenance of structures of hierarchy. While it was once more fashionable to attribute deceitfulness, cowardice, and other supposedly inherent defects to “Asiatic races,” contemporary discourses of “democracy” and “authoritarianism” have become à la mode instead: a narrower, more elegant means of maintaining normative hierarchies and portraying other civilisations as defective and in need of domination, sorry, “democratisation.”
I believe i have found the strangest ethnonationalist separatist movement of all time.
They're inventing new ways to balkanise china every year.
Doing landback but for conflicts from antiquity. Chinese zionism.
"the War on Terror being a humane and effective means of removing the threat of global terrorism while China's Xinjiang Anti-Terrorism campaign being a literal genocide".
Nothing in that sentence is correct on any level
the accursed Auntology 阿姨学...Liu has an entire bizarre philosophy about how China, an unworthy prison of nations, will be cleansed by an apocalyptic calamity. there's more separatism where this one came from too but "Basuria" is the only one with a major presence afaik
LMFAO
this is literally just "let's go back to the warring states"
also bashu was one of the first states conquered by qin, famously. the nation of chu has something to say...
besides, the warring states still live on in license plates (first character of the license plate is one character representing the province which for most of them is the name of the state from the warring states era that roughly lines up with the province)
the socially anxious little girl would like to silently observe your discord server
if she is feeling particularly brave she might emote react to one of the messages
if you're having trouble sleeping the best you can do is put a bright object close to your face and look at it for at least 30 minutes. if that doesn't work you can close your eyes but make sure to think really hard about a bunch of bullshit
I think the biggest problem with Tumblr discourse around "propaganda" is that Tumblr crackers internally define "propaganda" as "nonwhites (yes including Russians) engaging in political speech that I disagree with" and nothing else
Material factors, too, play a great part in the revolutionary movement. But the existence of material conditions does not give rise to the revolution automatically. How to make use of these material conditions depends on people’s conscious activity. Whether these material conditions are prepared quickly or not depends on man’s activity. The revolution can be pushed forward only by the active struggle of the revolutionaries and the popular masses. Fundamentally speaking, a revolution does not always break out when all the necessary conditions exist, nor is it carried out always in favourable circumstances.
Waiting with folded arms for all conditions to ripen is tantamount to refusing to make a revolution.
-Kim Jong Il, On The Juche Idea
