Speaking of the Ocean to Frogs in a Pond

Name is Ithewin. Communist. Linguist & Polyglot. Sewist. Artist. ASOIAF fan. Free Palestine from the river to the sea.

[lilkakow]

Red Army soldiers kiss after the victory over Nazi Germany is declared, 1945

[cavalierzee]

The IDF's "Dog Lines"

IDF soldier confirms ‘dog lines‘: shoot any Gazan who crosses, feed them to dogs

The Economist interviews Israeli troops who served in Gaza. Their testimony is chilling.

All men of military age were deemed legitimate targets. And military age is really open to interpretation: “It could be from 16 to 60 or even younger.”

“Most of the people that my unit killed were not armed. We had cases where we killed a lot of people, and we didn’t check if they had uniforms or weapons.”

Soldiers described the “dog line” – an invisible boundary around their positions. Any Palestinian who crossed was shot. Dogs gathered along the line to eat the corpses.

“Someone on guard duty sees someone, shoots him, kills him – we wouldn’t know what his story was or what he did.”

Ash

[mellodrammattic]

"yes, i know western media lied about iraq, cuba, vietnam, china, palestine, libya, pakistan, yemen, and somalia, but north korea?? no way, impossible!! they would NEVER lie about north korea!! this is the one time they are absolutely accurate and telling the truth!!!"

that's how most of you sound.

[windbeckonsthroughtheleaves]

Fidel Castro in Poland, visiting few cities including Cracow and Warsaw, 1972.

My favourite one is him holding flowers, he looks a little bit shy.

If you would like to see more of these source in the comment.

[filmphotofranz]

source

[anton--rayne]

A random white boy there is indeed historically accurate Chinese Civil War

[occidentalist]

The way the ukrainian government just exhumed the remains of a literal nazi buried in luxembourg and reburied him with state honours in ukraine and the president knelt at his new grave like it’s the hitler Kaaba and we’re all just supposed to pretend that’s normal😭 we’re just supposed to hate russia and the history of communism so much that we’re willing to pretend that that’s normal

[sladeofyaupon]

Ukraine is a neo-nazi state whose government was formed through a coup d'etat.

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[fizzytrashcan]

[sladeofyaupon]

In more sensible religions the gods just destroy creation entirely and start over from scratch. "Hey we made these people out of wood and they suck, burn them. Hey we made these people out of clay and they suck, burn them. Alright these corn people seem to be working out, good work team." You know? Yahweh sent a flood but he didn't even take us all out, so what was the point?

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

Marco Rubio threatened to “Unleash Chang” on Iran today so I feel like this is a good time to remind people that Rubio thinks that 20th century anticommunist general and unelected first president of Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek was an ancient mystical Chinese warrior simply named “Chang”

The Myth of Jeb’s Protégé

If you believe their stories, Bush was a mentor to Rubio. The truth is more complicated.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Ice operations have moved to harassing folk in Memphis

[castformbignaturals]

Huh. I wonder what else is going on in Tennessee (and specifically Memphis) right now?

Oh well, I’m sure it’s a total coincidence.

[quasi-normalcy]

(For those not in the know, @castformbignaturals is alluding to the fact Memphis is a majority Black city that stands to have its congressional representation entirely wiped out by redistricting led by the Republican governor of Tennessee who has, of course, welcomed the ICE occupation with open arms. Again, the project of MAGA is to reintroduce Jim Crow)

[contemptible-scoundrel]

how it feels to decline when the self-checkout kiosk asks to round up fourteen cents to support homeless veterans

[dear-girl-somatosis]

I'll give 14 cents... to making veterans homeless!

[horrorcitos]

Rose

[jareckiworld]

Hideo Tanaka — The Light Within Silence (acrylic on canvas, 2026)

[stalinita-deactivated20260530]

Have you guys seen that letter Stalin wrote because he was embarrassed that Tsaritsyn was being renamed Stalingrad after him it's my favorite thing ever it's so fucking funny

[log6]

my family was rich running our aura farm before castro and the other communists nationalized swag

[kropotkindersurprise]

August, 2016 - Members of the antifascist International Freedom Battalion celebrate the liberation of Manbij in Northern Syria from Daesh/IS. [video]

[angelicbolshevik]

So two of the most common "critiques" (hardly critical enough to earn the name) of the political system of china, is that it lacks elections and has only one party, the words being said here are false but there is a degree of truth to the sentiments delivered, elections and political parties in china do operate differently than the liberal model. In china the system surrounding these two elements is named "Full Process People's Democracy" this is the electoral system in china which also naturally defines the role of political parties, both aspects of this system are taken from historical socialist experiments and have developed over time in china, the terminology of "Full Process People's Democracy" is largely a post-mao one and in many ways exists in opposition to mao's leadership. "Full Process" This is the aspect of the system that defines elections, a foreign analog to the Full Process system is the system of "Soviet Democracy" The guiding principle of the Full Process system is that elections are only effective if the decisions made are well educated as well as popular. To achieve this goal a system of federated congresses is used so that the only "direct" elections are on the local level where every person is most likely to be informed of the pertinent issues. the hierarchy of congresses is as follows >Municipal People's Congresses. (These are directly elected by popular vote within their jurisdiction, depending on locality they may represent a town a village a burough or a large city) >Provincial People's Congresses. (These are elected by the municipal congresses of a province. this congress serves as the central political power of a province and is designed to balance the interests of the entire province as such to make well informed and popular systems it must hold representatives of the local congresses instead of a general election which would overrepresent cities) >National People's Congress. (Elected by provincial congresses*. taking the same principle as the provincial congress, here the interests of the provinces are balanced together by representatives of the provinces. This congress makes most sweeping government matters but only meets once per year) >National People's Congress Standing commitee. (Elected by the NPC to manage the day to day legislative affairs of the government) As you can see this federated system obviously includes many elections, but the elections are small and designed with precision in mind instead of broad sweeping general elections (*technically 335 seats of the 2,873 seat NPC are elected not by the system of people's congresses these seats are representative of the military, national police, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, but this number of seats is small enough to be unimportant.)