ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

They really are very pretty, I’d like to see the forests

Do you think that someone invoking the highly mythologized spectre of their millennium-dead predecessors amounts to anything but an embarassing admission that they themselves have accomplished little of note?

Jesus christ, I thought not shutting up about your “viking blood” was just a white American thing

I think Russia is western Europe’s One That Got Away. They never got to totally subjugate it’s resources and they never got to carve up it’s land, and now that they’re weaker they’re worried, like all empires in decline, that those they tried to fuck over are gonna fuck them over. Obviously there’s a ton of material historical entanglements in play, but I think just in terms of like, mass psychology, projection plays a role.

Why yes, members of the US military would never agree to particupate in many, many illegal wars since 1945

just now realizing that I missed this comm actually

I can tell things are going great over there by how every piece of news is something like this

America’s response

I think most county medical authorities accept “hamster” as a cause of death actually

“I can speak to what’s obviously right in front of me, and so can anybody with eyes in their fucking head.”

What is it with liberals and an absolute fetish for collective punishment of women and kids?

Lewis Black

Heh

Liberals looking at the genocide they wholeheartedly supported

libertarian as in capitalist?

In 1959, Anna Louise Strong visited an exhibition of torture equipment that had been used by the Tibetan overlords. There were handcuffs of all sizes, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, breaking off hands, and hamstringing legs. There were hot brands, whips, and special implements for disemboweling. The exhibition presented photographs and testimonies of victims who had been blinded or crippled or suffered amputations for thievery. There was the shepherd whose master owed him a reimbursement in yuan and wheat but refused to pay. So he took one of the master’s cows; for this he had his hands severed. Another herdsman, who opposed having his wife taken from him by his lord, had his hands broken off. There were pictures of Communist activists with noses and upper lips cut off, and a woman who wasremovedd and then had her nose sliced away.23

Earlier visitors to Tibet commented on the theocratic despotism. In 1895, an Englishman, Dr. A. L. Waddell, wrote that the populace was under the “intolerable tyranny of monks” and the devil superstitions they had fashioned to terrorize the people. In 1904 Perceval Landon described the Dalai Lama’s rule as “an engine of oppression.” At about that time, another English traveler, Captain W.F.T. O’Connor, observed that “the great landowners and the priests… exercise each in their own dominion a despotic power from which there is no appeal,”

Liberating people from inhumanly cruel and merciless theocratic overlords is good actually, and I hope we can cultivate more of that energy here in the US.

Exerpts are from “Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth” by Micheal Parenti. The whole essay is quite good and not very long. https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=88773

What’s a non-authoritarian state?

The slack in what?