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the "CIS" did nothing wrong? i dunno about that

dude absolute superman rocks, holy shit

superman and his family are canonically part of the kryptonian labor class and his S symbol is literally the symbol of the proletariat and this isn't even the coolest thing going on

Using a coconut pistachio wax melt for the first time and oh my god it smells heavenly, I had no idea this was such a good combination

I'm a crackpot now. The academic establishment is wrong. Pluto is a planet and Mike Brown and other astronomers downgraded Pluto purely because they were mad that Pluto being a planet made their discoveries seem less impressive by comparison.

My school used to sometimes play jazz-y O Canada or a cappella O Canada. The NHL should look into that, so much more fun than the vanilla anthem.

I came across a documentary on the German spy ring the Red Orchestra with the synopsis being focused on how they are totally not communists

The Gestapo labeled them as communists and traitors for their efforts to put an end to Hitler’s reign -- a theory that was upheld by allied secret services until recently.

Historians now officially recognize the Red Orchestra as one of the largest and most efficient Nazi resistance groups, with members who held a variety of political and religious beliefs. Forty percent of the members were women.

First of all what the fuck do they mean "officially"? And who are said historians? Are all prior historians not official? But the more egregious thing is the implicit framing here of Communist and traitor being equal. Like this is treated as a proud rehabilitation like oh thank god this resistance was not communist so now we can feel bad they got murdered by Hitler, otherwise Hitler was in the right.

But also, the leadership was full of communists, had intense links to other communist parties, was particularly looked into by the Nazis because of their ties to the French Communist Party which the Nazis feared was being directly aided by the USSR

The Gestapo's purpose in running this particular funkspiel was to discover Soviet links to the French Communist Party, the French Resistance and the Red Three.

Yes the group was more informal, was cell based, and did have members of different political beliefs and religious backgrounds, but that was NEVER disputed by the older view. Here is a West German theologian who got a bunch of shit in germany for this statement

And no matter whether it suits us today or not, we shouldn't hide the fact that there was also such a thing as a 'Red Orchestra': communists who were also involved in this struggle and also fell as victims of Nazism. No matter what their ideological background was and what one might think of their particular motivations and actions: these people didn't want to be part of what the Nazis wanted; they wanted to set a limit to their depraved and ruinous regime, to put an end to it. [...] Had they succeeded, it might have rendered a large amount of further human as well as material sacrifices unnecessary. But they didn't succeed. And this was not just their own fault, but was also because so few in Germany were willing to join and help them with determination, before it became safe to do so, and that they received so little understanding or meaningful assistance from outside

A bunch of modern scholarship does "correct" the idea that they are a Soviet spy ring, something the Soviets and DDR never claimed. The reality is that the idea of a self conscious "Red Orchestra" organization that was centrally led was false, and them being a section of soviet intelligence is not true, but like......their network was almost entirely reliant on other communist parties in occupied countries, and cells did operations directly with the NKVD and red army. Like Hans Coppi who fucked up an exhibition mocking the soviets, and later met with NKVD who parachuted into Germany.

A BUNCH of leaders of those various cells were communists, and the infrastructure of the KPD was instrumental. Of the 400 members it is like a full quarter are Communists openly, more than any other group. Shit like this is why I dislike documentaries, they are narrative driven and sorta require a framing of "new evidence" or interpretation. They rarely add nuance

Made a really good vinegarette tonight

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriah_Magoffin

This guy was the governor of Kentucky at the start of the civil war. His brother was named Ebenezer ffs

Paying someone in the global south 13 cents an hour to copy and paste emails I get into ChatGPT and send me the summaries.

The "vader wouldnt approve this" people are vindicated we live in a parody universe

lol at the company that owns grok being like “we’re all trying to find the guy that did this”. Like gee wonder who’d have access to grok and motive to make it rant about white genocide in South Africa

AKSHUALLY the CIS was bad because it was basically mega-coperations playing both sides (yes officially the trade federation and others split apart so they could have both representation in the senate, while also leading a shadow council) to keep their own fiefdoms. A lot of primarily alien worlds and rim wolds joined the seperatist to gain independence & representation from the very same faction they were led by. Kinda ironic, the writers never really reconnect this contradicition.

one of my former coworkers just posted on facebook about being threatened by a racist cracker with a gun at her job and the cracker just gets a suspended sentence, 24 hours of community service, anger management, and probation for 18 months

we need vigilantes for real god damn

Y'all motherfuckers need post-scarcity luxury space communism.

how's alex jones doing these days?

I don't often like saying I hate someone when it comes to referring to anyone I have an intrapersonal interactions with, but... I'm getting real close.

Having to start commuting again for work has really revived my hatred for smokers.

Awesome that my only option for not getting a fateful of tobacco right after getting off the train is to literally walk into traffic, and even then its a good 40% chance that across the street there's someone lighting up while waiting for the bus.

Logically disprove that the narwhal bacons at midnight or I'm making a Reddit account right now.