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French Grammar Masterpost

For easier browsing on this blog, here’s a post of all the grammar points posted or reblogged by this Tumblr, for easier access. These usually deal with intermediate/advanced grammar points, pulled from various sources :

C’est Or Il/Elle Est? - Here

Avoir + Agreement of Past Participle - Here

Using ‘Parce que’, ‘Car’, ‘Puisque’ and ‘Comme’ - Here

The Conjunctive Pronoun ‘En’ - Here

Use of Tenses with Depuis, Il y a and Pendant - Here

The Relative Pronouns of Qui and Que - Here

Le Versus Lui in French - Here

Use of ‘De’ Versus ‘Des’ in French - Here

Omission of Plural Indefinite ‘Des’ After ‘De’ - Here

The Different Words for ‘Number’ and How To Use Them - Here

Using ‘Quand-Meme’ in French - Here

French Subjunctive/Indicative - 1, 2

The Construction of Questions in French - Here

‘Then’ in French - Ainsi, Alors, Donc; Apres, Ensuite, Puis - Here

Use of the Definite Article and the Body - Here

Le Passe Compose Avec Y Et En - Here

Imparfait Versus Passe Compose - Here

Using ‘Enfin’ in French - Here

Using Mieux vs Meilleur - Here

Temporal Prepositions - Here

When Verb + De + Infinitive - Here

When Verb + A + Infinitive - Here

Time Based Nouns - Here

Demonstrative Determiners - Here

Proper Nouns in French - Here

Aspirated Hs / Le H Aspire - Here

Abstract Vs. Concrete Nouns - Here

‘Personnes’ Vs. ‘Gens’ in French - Here

Common French Mistakes:

Examples of French Mistakes - 1

French Vocabulary Lists:

50 Advanced French Phrases - 1, 2, 3

French Nationalities & Countries - Here

Marriage & Relationship Vocabulary - Here

Film & Television Vocabulary - Here

French & Italian Comparative: Family Vocab - Here

French & Italian Comparative: Places Vocab - Here

Personal Vocab Lists (Note to Self):

20 French Expressions - 1, 2, 3

Using French Slang:

Using ‘Foutre’ in French - Here

Using ‘Putain’ and ‘Merde’ Adjectively - Here

For all other miscellaneous French posts, the tag can be found: - Here

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Hey! I’m sorry if this is a dumb question but- how did u get into politics? What should I do to get educated on politics besides watching the news? I wanna get educated on politics and history but idk where/how to do that. I know this seems dumb but I feel so stupid and left out and idk what to do or where to start? Thank you!

I got into politics through environmentalism and anti-consumerism, which I was interested in from a really young age. Like I just noticed pollution and waste and hated it. I started researching globalization, corporate crime, and economics, then formed the beliefs I hold today.

I’ll link some resources I find helpful, most available online (some used to be online and were taken down for copyright rip).

Books and films

- The Corporation (documentary)

- The New Rulers of the World (documentary)

- Casino Jack and the United States of Money (documentary) (not available to watch online for free anymore, but rentable for a low price if you look it up)

- The Yes Men Fix the World (documentary, yes it’s comedy mixed in but actually exposes a lot of corporate corruption)

- Capitalism vs. Reality (lecture, very long, begins at 6:47)

Reading Marx’s Capital (lectures) (this may be easier than reading capital alone)

- Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (book)

- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (book) (I can’t find it for free online, sorry, maybe someone else knows a link)

- The Wretched of the Earth (book)

- War Against The Panthers: A Study Of Repression In America (book)

- Blackshirts and Reds (book)

- A People’s History of the United States (book)

Studies, reports, and articles:

- How the World Profits From Africa’s Wealth

- The Moral Egregiousness of Poverty

- A Critique of the World Bank’s Convergence Narrative

- The True Extent of Global Poverty and Hunger: Questioning the Good News Narrative

- A Letter to Steven Pinker and Bill Gates About Global Poverty

- Are Your Tinned Tomatoes Picked By Slave Labour?

- America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker

- Meritocracy’s Miserable Winners

- When Congress Busted Milton Friedman (and Libertarianism Was Created By Big Business Lobbyists)

- Ink Cartridges Are A Scam (this may seem off topic, but the video actually provides an example and in-depth look at how the profit motive effects innovation and production)

My own analysis and resources:

- Corporate crime, capitalism’s legacy: A deeper look

- Global poverty and capitalist lies: An overview

- Resources on the harmful and often deadly impact of sanctions

- No need for state news: How private media companies do the government’s job in the U.S.

- Nestle’s profit-motivated crimes against humanity

- Sweatshops, neocolonialism, and lies

I’m probably missing a lot here even though all of this is already a lot, so I’ll be updating this post as I’ve done two times now.

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POLITICAL RESOURCES

Keep reading

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Italian resources / links list

All the masterposts and resources we came across and reblogged/posted on our blog!

>> If you’re searching for DIALECTS resources or infos, look at the vocabulary masterpost. <<

Masterposts

Only Italian | more Italian resources links | italian resources

Multilingual Resources to study Italian

More italian resources (media, newspapers, apps, grammar, verbs, infos…)

Languages (Italian beginners/intermediate/advanced resources included + MOOC) | More MOOCS (ITA beginners/intermediate/advanced)

Learning a language Resources (Multilingual)

old languages (Latin)

Italian Resources Websites / Apps

Learning Italian Resources Post (Grammar, apps, vocabularies, radios+videos)

LangBlr + Discord + more resources

Italian beginners (websites, langbrl, suggestions, examples + corrections)

Conjugating verbs (Italian-Verbs, Conjugate.in, Coniugazione.it)

Italian resources and stuff (Ultimate Italian Resources List)

Dictionaries (all languages + Italian)

ITALIAN GRAMMAR TEXTBOOKS AND CHILDREN BOOKS

Helpful Books To learn languages

Routledge Grammar PDFs | Helpful Multilingual Books | Free multilingual books pdfs | Grammar books titles suggestions (+ notes) | Free textbooks (multilingual I guess)

Textbooks | two links (to study Italian)

Huge masterpost

Italian Basic | Italian Tumblrs useful links + also here

Italian Resources (grammar books, pdfs, youtube…)

Tumblr blogs italiani

Langblrs | Italian langblrs | studyblr/ langblr | more langblrs

Some Italian langblr and a few Youtubers + suggestions to learners

If you need to follow people who posts in Italian, follow also our personal blogs or search “italiano” or something like that in the search bar.

Italian culture

Some links / Suggestions

About Italian +Wordreference + Italian-Verbs.com + more

Links about subjunctive mood + tests in Italian (after our explanation)

Links about verbs in -isc- (and others conjugations) + tests in Italian (after our explanation)

Italian words lists (starting with letters j,k,w,y,x,h)

Some links about Pronouns + tests (after our explanation)

Verbs + Italian-verbs.com to translate/conjugate them

Pimsleur (pdfs + audios)

Language.ws

Assimil | Hello Talk | Apps for students

Language resources (various)

Thriftbook.com | Sci-Hub

ielanguages.com

Our blog’s audio section/forvo | forvo (listening)

listeningpractice.org

Videos about introducing yourself (YT) | Videos (talking about the weather YT)

Translating/Dictionaries (wordreference)

Multilingual Books (+ websites to buy)

Some audios/chat websites (internet penpals and such)

Italian tests online + resources websites (ItalianOnline, ItalianProficiency, ItalianoMadreLingua)

CEFRs TESTS (multiple languages) | CILS

Select & Speak Extension

Discord | Books club for language learners (Discord)

Italian Words Synonyms and Opposites Websites

Online dictionary for idioms (advanced learners)

Italian Tumblrs music/media recs

Italian language books (BEGINNERS/GRAMMAR) pdfs

Various internet Italian links

Reading

Newspapers, blogs, books, magazines… (websites divided into subjects)

Family values links (curiosity)

Magazines /Riviste (esp. for young people)

lgtb / sci-fi / fantasy (italian books by italian authors)

Libri.me (pdf,epub… also pretty recent international books)

Websites to download literature (not sure if also ITA lang)

The sad unicorn (story for children to explain autism) pdf

Ferragosto + Promemoria + Mago di Natale + Il Gatto + Viva i coriandolidi Carnevale by G. Rodari (kids poem)

Children fairytales | 30 giorni ha novembre…

Poesie brevi | Pirandello

Primo Levi’s books | se questo è un uomo

Listening & Watching

Children songs

Italian to listen (YT, Music, News, audiobooks)

Songs/Lyrics (more languages)

audio books | Audiofables/fairytales

bilingual books + audios

More websites with movies | More movies + TV SERIES | More | Easy movies suggestions

Movies + links | Bake Off ITA | Mine Vaganti + more movies

Radio + TVs | Raiplay | TV shows | Some more

Blogs / Fb Pages

Coco SoundTrack

Podcasts

Videos + Podcasts about Italian language and words (ITA)

Italian Jewish Documentaries (vids)

How to study and why (Studying Tips)

We like to chat

Qs 1 - chat with us!

Tumblr blog chat

BECOME OUR PENPAL! (EMAIL) | Introduce yourself in ITA

-> Take a look also at our Random Facts masterpost HERE

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*capitalism is overthrown in the united states*

*the company “yankee candles” changes its name to “tankie candles” in an attempt to compromise with the proletarian state and remain in business*

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vote in favor of socialism on this anti socialist poll trump put out

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if you think it’s data harvesting you don’t have to do it I personally just don’t care because my data is harvested by the govt everywhere

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Rich people, empathy, and how capitalism has influenced human behavior over time

Do rich people lack empathy? It’s something lots of people wonder after yet another wealthy individual or corporation is caught knowingly doing something harmful to maximize profit, whether it’s destroying the environment, selling dangerous products without proper testing, fraud, or murder. Oh, and you can’t forget the fact that rich people donate a smaller percentage of their income to charity than everyone else, with poor people donating the most.

One of my favorite documentaries, The Corporation, which got great reception, compares the mindset and actions of corporations to those of a psychopath, using the psychopathy checklist, or PCL-R. Surely enough, these corporations do in fact match up. The Corporation no doubt provides a lot of information and history about corporations, their crimes, and manipulation, but this one particular claim–that “if corporations are people, they would be psychopaths”–is wrong, and fails to acknowledge the reason the wealthy actually behave in this way: the society we live in.

THE BASICS: CAPITALISM AND MERITOCRACY

Currently, capitalism primarily dominates the world, and whoever resists it is quickly met with suppression. While capitalist societies around the world are not identical, they all fall back on the same incentive, the profit motive, and the same mindset, that wealth is first and foremost earned through merit. The idea of a “meritocracy” as defined by capitalists states that those who work hard will become wealthy, and thus, financial success is everyone’s dream, and those who do succeed are seen as role models for everyone else. Despite the faults of the wealthy, anything beyond criticism of their morals is met with backlash and accusations of communist ideology: “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist”.

CAPITALISM’S HISTORY OF HATE

The claims I am making here are not simply my own opinion, they are actually the views of economists and philosophers throughout history that influenced modern capitalism. These views ‘softened’ over time, and older statements made by influential advocates of capitalism are rarely uttered today in the mainstream. But that doesn’t mean they’re gone. In mainstream politics, dogwhistle politics became the new norm–defined as “political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different, or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup”. Ronald Reagan’s narrative of the ‘welfare queen’ is an example of a dogwhistle. This allowed Reagan to, without simply uttering racial slurs, attract white supremacists. That’s because his idea of the ‘welfare queen’ used stereotypes about black women. During the 1980s and 1990s, ‘welfare queen’ became a common catchphrase in politics surrounding welfare policy. Anti-welfare advocates would–and still do–base their claims off Reagan’s. They found that the easiest path to free market capitalism in America is racist scapegoating. By picking an already marginalized minority, it was not hard to drive the focus of white Americans away from the wealthy–and, of course, politicians and businessmen like Reagan themselves were racist, carrying on capitalist ideology’s legacy of social darwinism, where it all began. Before Reagan, this social darwinism influenced horrific acts in history, such as violent colonialism and fascist dictatorships.

THE ERA OF “PROGRESSIVE CAPITALISM” AND OUR FUTURE

So, now that I’ve explained how capitalism influences emotions, let’s get into why those who succeed most financially under capitalism show a lack of interest in the feelings of others. Here it’s worth mentioning something else–the classic social darwinian perspective on humanity sometimes moves away from dogwhistles and onto to what many see as progressive politics. Warren Buffet recently said that CEOs of bailed out companies should lose money. I guess everyone forgot Warren Buffet is a slumlord who preys on the poor, manipulates tax policy to his personal benefit, and lobbies for the fossil fuel industry, the industry largely responsible for climate change.

Aside from situations like Buffett’s, there is something much more insidious: typical business and profit maximization disguised as philanthropy. Philanthropy is perhaps the number one reason people point to billionaires and capitalism as being progressive, and any other actions against poverty being an unnecessary waste of money. Even when billionaires do harm, people can always point to Bill Gates as a good example–forgetting his unpopular history, of course. Does anyone even remember how much hate he got for his manipulative and monopolistic business practices in the 1990s? But looking on from the past, “progressive” billionaires such as Bill Gates end up being forgiven…because apparently you’re an amazing person if you wait until you’re old and rich to be decent. Except this decency is not real. Behind the scenes, Bill Gates is spreading myths about global poverty to give himself good publicity, he even has a site dedicated to it! In fact, his ideas about poverty come from the World Bank, that pushes policies and backs economic imperialism, which ends up killing poor workers and actually significantly slows the process of recovery from poverty, or even prevents it at times–“free trade” neoliberalism ending poverty is a myth, the countries seeing improvement are not embracing Gates’ ideas, nor those of the World Bank. So, what’s the incentive for not just Bill Gates, but other billionaires as well, being philanthropic in the first place, then? It’s simple: money. Philanthropy can actually be quite profitable and an easy way to advance controversial business without backlash. This has been referred to as “the philanthropy hustle”. It’s similar to commonly criticized Western businesses’ practices, such as those of Nestle and Coca Cola, but masked as generosity.

“Progressive capitalism” is advancing and embraced by left liberal politicians who rely on it to serve capital while putting on a happy face. It’s a bit obvious why this is happening–with climate change and inequality worsening, increased class conflict is inevitable, even in countries like America where capitalism is particularly strong. Billionaires already know this, and they’re open about preparing for the worst, and if you expected them to help after acknowledging these issues, you’re wrong.

GOING BACK TO THE FIRST TOPIC: DO RICH PEOPLE LACK EMPATHY IF THEY’RE AWARE OF THIS AND DOING NOTHING?

Studies have shown that rich people express less compassion and view the world differently due to their financial status. There is an important distinction between empathy and compassion: people who experience empathy feel the emotions of others and understand them, compassionate people act on those feelings and help those in pain. Compassion is a choice, empathy is not.

According to research, the following results were revealed:

- Rich people rate themselves as being more caring than they are.

- Rich people have a shorter “social gaze”, meaning when in public, they are less likely to look at those around them.

- Suggestions have been made on the reason why this happens: poor people are more reliant on each other, live in a less private environment, and are around others when using public resources such as transportation, in comparison to the rich, who tend to be more private and act independent.

- A “self-made” millionaire considers this lack of external focus a virtue: “The rich go out there and try to make themselves happy. They don’t try to pretend to save the world. If you’re not taking care of you, you’re not in a position to help anyone else. You can’t give what you don’t have.”

These different suggestions actually point to the same observation: the rich tend to be more private, isolated, self-focused and see this as a good reflection of their character. While there is no mention of capitalism in any of the suggestions, it’s clear that this relates directly to the system and ideological views justifying it; hard work means success and those who are successful have been smarter than those who aren’t.

CONCLUSION

History, our current situation, and research on both, reveal that capitalism is a system that isolates people from one another, encourages harmful behavior otherwise seen as sociopathic, and adapts in strategies according to public views while remaining dedicated to its original principles of profit maximization and social darwinian justifications for suffering.

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I’ll link some resources I find helpful, most available online (some used to be online and were taken down for copyright rip). First, here’s a masterlist of resources about communism specifically. Now, here’s some resources on various topics I personally found and liked:

Books and documentaries

- The Corporation (documentary) (annoyingly liberal at times but very good info on consumerism and the history of corporations)

- The New Rulers of the World (documentary)

- Casino Jack and the United States of Money (documentary) (holy fuck, this is on youtube, hope it isn’t taken down)

- The Yes Men Fix the World (documentary, yes it’s comedy mixed in but actually exposes a lot of corporate corruption)

- Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (book)

- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (book) (I can’t find it for free online, sorry, maybe someone else knows a link)

- A People’s History of the United States (book)

Studies, reports, and articles:

- How the World Profits From Africa’s Wealth

- The Moral Egregiousness of Poverty

- A Critique of the World Bank’s Convergence Narrative

- The True Extent of Global Poverty and Hunger: Questioning the Good News Narrative

- A Letter to Steven Pinker and Bill Gates About Global Poverty

- Are Your Tinned Tomatoes Picked By Slave Labour?

- America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker

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@antifasupersoulja here’s resources!

#save

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Migrants are increasingly hard to track down amid a tangled web of private contractors and misinformation.

“There isn’t much to see around the River Correctional Center, a small, privately run jail near the Mississippi River and the tiny town of Ferriday, Louisiana. Farmlands and fields stretch in either direction beyond the jail’s barbed wire fence. In the 19th century, enslaved people worked cotton and sugar cane fields here, enriching white plantation owners with their daily labors. The local economy is still extracting profit from maintaining the captivity of people of color today.”

“ICE prisoners are given a so-called “A-number” to track them within the system, but punch an A-number assigned to asylum seekers held at River Correctional into ICE’s online “detainee locator” database, and the results for “current detention facility” comes back blank:”

ICE disappears people. ICE gives people “A-numbers” that don’t even work sometimes. ICE forces detainees to work for $1 A DAY in their detention camps. What about ICE is okay? How long will we allow this? Never again is now!

heavyweightheart

one of many good reasons to practice more communal child raising is that it would reduce the damaging effects of unstable or abusive parents. having just one safe adult/stable attachment in a child’s life can be highly protective against PTSD, complex trauma, and the many other long-term mental and physical health risks posed by abusive or neglectful parenting. if we lived more communally we’d probably see far fewer abusive parents anyway but even if that weren’t the case, children would be spared the damage caused by isolation in an unsafe home

heavyweightheart

“Research has consistently shown that perceived social support buffers against poor mental health outcomes (Futa et al., 2003; Krause, Kaltman, Goodman, & Dutton, 2008). Social reactions to abuse experiences are related to trauma symptom severity (Ullman, Filipas, Townsend, & Starzynski, 2007). A study by Collishaw et al. (2007) found that those individuals with good relationship experiences across different domains and across childhood, adolescence and adulthood are prone to demonstrate resilience. Social support, both inside and outside the nuclear family can facilitate recovery from trauma (Lauterbach, Koch, & Porter, 2007). The ability to find supportive relationships outside of the family helps overcome the sequelae of abuse (Lauterbach et al., 2007). The availability of emotional support at the time of the abuse strengthens a person’s ability to elicit support in adulthood, engendering resilient functioning. (Collishaw et al., 2007).” [one of many sources on this]

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blackxmansxhaki

Fr? Lemme check this out

ms-demeanor

Here’s the link to all of the free online classes offered by Harvard:

https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx

But TBH I prefer the MIT Open Coursewear approach. Feel like taking a class on the policy and economics of nuclear engineering? MIT’s got you covered:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=nuclearengineering&spec=nuclearsystemspolicyandeconomics

In fact they’ve got you covered with A LOT of their courses, everything from fine arts to immunology.

Have fun :)

pluto-the-demigod

WHERE HAS THIS BEEN THE LAST TWO YEARS

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corsairesix

vam-van

alsedes

All the flavor, none of the bigotry!

Side note: I always knew that chicken tasted vaguely of pickles.

tehjai

Also you can recreate Chick-fil-A sauce, too:

¼ cup mayonnaise

2 tablespoons honey

1 tablespoon yellow mustard

2 teaspoons Dijon mustard (optional)

2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

2 tablespoons BBQ sauce

allthingslinguistic

A classic table of accidental lexical gaps in English, from Language Log.

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I have no idea how liberals can see what’s been done to welfare and think universal basic income is a good idea.

UBI is essentially an emergency plan for billionaires. Here’s an article about that.

It has been backed again and again specifically by billionaires, so it’s worth doing some research…

midwestlaw

IF YOU STUDY FRENCH, LISTEN UP:

Bon Patron will save your life.

What is it?

a free grammar checker that was developed by French professors

not extremely sophisticated and won’t catch all of your errors

but WILL prevent you from making dumb conjugation or agreement mistakes.

MUCH BETTER THAN MICROSOFT WORD

What does it look like?

What’s it do?

it marks what mistakes you made (writes them out and you can also hover over them - I couldn’t screenshot the entire list because it is VERY THOROUGH)

(I feel like I need to mention this is an automatically generated example, I’m bad at french but I’m not that bad)

says what type of mistake it is

and what you can do to fix them.

What do I do with it?

Obviously don’t rely on it 100%, but if you’ve been staring at an essay for five hours it’s so nice to be able to run it through and have it catch the article you misused in the middle of the fourth paragraph.

make sure you check again after correcting the errors because sometimes new ones will be flagged

double check your work, sometimes it suggests corrections that you don’t need to make (since it’s a computer program and you’re a person)

BUT GO FORTH AND IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH GRADES (& share the good news)

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If one adopts popular conceptions of human nature, one would come to believe that we are all an evil, backstabbing, greedy, and cruel lot…

Article by @nobodys-driving .

“In Capitalist society, workers are transformed into commodity-salespeople, their commodity being their labor-power. Having been cast into a market selling a commodity in competition with one another, they are forced to reject cooperation and adopt greed and cruelty to survive. A society which encourages people to combine their efforts and take care of each other in exchange for care given back rather than encouraging them to strive for the comfort of a position of absolute domination wouldn’t see the same behavior.”

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