You’re right, these are not that expensive for split keyboards. Too bad that they are not sold in my country, so I would need to consider additional transport costs.

I wonder if macro keys would be recognized by Linux? The configuration software would be unnecessary if I could use basic configuration files for my window manager and define behavior by providing key codes.

Holy shit, they seriously use word “tankie” in a fucking research paper?

You can’t make this shit up. I mean, they made this up, but… 😆

If you disagree with this you can get prosecuted by The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation which should be named something like The institute of making up history and fighting communism or something.

Right? Funding media is one thing and using state/academic authority to alter history is a whole another level of crime. I borrowed the book from my sister to transcribe the chapter about USSR, I might share it as a curiosity later this week.

There are few fragments straight from the official history textbook for secondary school in Poland:

After Lenin’s death and against his will, [Stalin] became General Secretary of the party. During his reign he eliminated all his political opponents and implemented in the country industrialization and collectivization. These measures, together with widespread terror policy caused millions victims in the USSR. In 1939 Stalin collaborated with Hitler’s Germany, which resulted in assault on Poland and division of it’s terrotiry.

(I bolded selected text by myself)

"Even so Stalin continuosly tried to rebuild close relations with [nazi] Germany, because both countries still had the same political interests. Soviet dictator was impressed by panache and efficiency of Nazi regime. Special impression supposedly made on him “Night of the Long Knives”, when Hitler murdered his opposition inside the party […]. Even during bitter competition, both totalitarian powers tried to create a common border, but main obstacle was existence of independent Poland.

Later on they write that both countries finally got to an agreement and launched a common assault on Poland, but Hitler supposedly betrayed Stalin and the alliance ended in 1941.

In Polish high schools they seriously teach that Soviets were in the alliance with III Reich and that Stalin supposedly admired Hitler (if I recall correctly skimming through my sister’s book).

It goes deeper - they basically accuse the USSR of co-starting the World War II and other disgusting lies making communists look as bad or even worse than Nazis. It is formally approved as a school material and many if not most people unironically believe that the USSR was genocidal red-fascists empire.

Since propagating communism is illegal here, bookstores don’t print almost any good literature that would counter the state propaganda and the country exists in a capitalist fantasy bubble.

I was lucky enough to never trust educational system, but people who did are basically brain damaged now.

Sorry for chaotic style but I’m sleep deprived and I wanted to share this atrocity while I remember, I may share some more information tomorrow.

What else could they do other than voting harder? 😆

Let’s bow down to the king, but history shows that kings needed to sleep with one eye open.

Who is a poe?

There is no nostalgia for 50s and 80s in public discourse in my country, which basically confirms your point - it were socialist times, which the current rulling class hates. Media screetch thay we “defeated communism and won our freedom”, many young people think that whatever happens is million times better than horrible 50s and 80s. But I can imagine what you mean.

Sure, people sometimes look at the past from the perspective of privileged classes. Ancient Rome or Middle Ages were anything but glorious for poor folks. We should stop romanticizing them.

Did anyone tried to call the number? How much does it cost? Can we make a crowdfunding campaign or something?

I met few Polish fascists and I struggle to understand what happened in their lives that pushed them to follow that path.

I asked one of them, who claimed to be a “classical fascicst”: “What was wrong with Hitler?” He said: “People say he killed too many people or something.” I asked him: “What is communism?” He could not even answer the question. Like, zero understanding of politics. A case of total brainworms. Heavily addicted to drugs, very sad person. The other one just talked total nonsense, about how communists want to count other people’s money, sniff coke in gulags and make races mix with each others. It was borderline terrifying to listen to him, total insanity.

I agree, it would be funny. I wonder if the website calculates “boosts” based solely on cookies or if it requires voting from different IP addresses to actually count them.

No no, you don’t understand. Marx is outdated and he wasn’t right about x, and I didn’t understand y, so I assume he was incorrect about that either, thus everything he said should be ignored. Additionally, his philosophy always leads to dictatorships of moustachioed men and millions of dead people. The end of history is only temporarily postponed, but it will happen soon, I promise.

Yes, this is it.

I think that Parenti got it right in his lecture about the US war on Yugoslavia. He said that the US does not do traditional diplomacy, but issues a set of demands instead and uses violence when the other side does not obey. Then they claim that it is their fault that violence happened.

This is arrogant barbarism tolerated only because of their economic and military dominance over the world. If any other nation acted that way, they would most likely be ridiculed and put in their place.

This circus would be hilarious if the clowns did not have nukes and the biggest military in the world following their commands.

Personally I’d want to deal with this kind of people only if they directly interfere with Marxist movement and I wouldn’t mind not interacting with them at all. This idealist ideology has very little revelance outside of it’s inner circles and I see no reason to care about it, at least for the sake of our mental health. I’m just glad they are not here and don’t have the opportunity to posion this community with their infantile hostility towards Marxists-Leninists.