Yeah, yesterday

Those state mandated gym classes

Great, I’ll try to join soon

Any society is authoritarian, it depends who wields it.

Left anticommunists moment

Dictatorship is when bad country, democratic is when good western country

Capitalism worked under Eastern aggression

Right, the countries that invaded the USSR in its nascent years, constantly tried to assassinate leaders of progressive movements, couped most countries on Earth.

Communist economic sanctions, Communist covert actions

The projection lol

and a propaganda apparatus far more widespread than anything from the West.

As that joke goes, a CIA and KGB officer meet at a bar. The CIA officer says to the KGB officer “You’ve got a good propaganda machine!”, the KGB officer replies “Well, yours is unbeatable.”

The CIA agent responds with “What propaganda? In the West we don’t have propaganda.”

hi lib

what happened to the marketplace of ideas

I wanted to cross-post this to lemmy.ml’s memes community, but you did that already. The libs are coming in, beautiful lmao.

AFAIK it does. But you should be sure and run every picture and document through a program such as mat2 first or Exif Cleaner.

Seems like it. There’s even a “better dead than red” reply, incredible lol

I turn anything i found into an epub and use Calibre. I usually first grab the text and put it into Markdown, then use Calibre to convert it to .epub.

He was. Here, this details many more things about him:

https://redsails.org/on-orwell/

You can also check Hakim’s video, here.

You can check the Spanish community, the pinned post is there detailing LR

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/401145 it’s detailed more here by redtea, and the page of the original author is linked

Pausing my Russian learning, and picking up Spanish. I already know a Romance language, so it should be easier, hopefully. Trying the LR method with the “Las Tinieblas y el Alba” book redtea recommended.

This is the narrative they spun after Hersh’s leaks. They’re quite throwing Ukraine under the bus.

Fair, though the “few dudes in a boat blew up the pipeline” is still quite ridiculous. Peak Western journalism lmao

Doubt that would ever happen, besides Ukraine is a NATO front already