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I've been reading Vincent Bevin's If We Burn (it's online as a pdf if you search for it), and this song was mentioned in a chapter about Chilean protests in 2019, though they updated the lyrics to make them "more relevant" or some cringe shit, this original song is so beautiful, here's a rough english translation of the lyrics:

The right to live
poet Ho Chi Minh,
who struck from Vietnam
all of humanity.
No cannon will wipe out
the furrow of your rice paddy.
The right to live in peace.

Indochina is the place
beyond the wide sea,
where they ruin the flower
with genocide and napalm.
The moon is an explosion
that blows out all the clamor.
The right to live in peace.

Uncle Ho, our song
is fire of pure love,
it's a dovecote dove,
olive from an olive grove.
It is the universal song
chain that will triumph,
the right to live in peace.

The internet says this music is "Nueva canción" but this song is really tickling my brain with the 1960s psychedelic folk rock vibes. I feel a bit silly sitting here listening music I can't understand the lyrics to, but gosh it's pretty.

Hope you're all well, I am on hiatus, and tied up with irl organising (gosh what a mess).

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[email protected] - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~

😱A ridiculous question. “Tankie” isn’t a term anyone self-identifies with, it’s mostly a term used by liberals to hurl at anyone to the left of them or anyone who agrees with western foreign policy. The survey results will be as meaningless as the term “tankie” itself.

Image description: A5 page, with various pie charts and text, indicating the results of an informal poll from lemmy.ml, full image text in spoiler

full image text

ARE TANKIES TAKING CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML ??

HEXBEAR.NET

DOES THE WORK FOR YOU!!

WE ASKED [email protected] ARE YOU A TANKIE?

First stack of pie charts shows the yes / no split, highlights that the lemmy.ml yes responses made up less than half of the yes votes, hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml only made up a small portion, some hexbear-ians even vote no
second and third pie charts show the yes votes, and no votes by instance respectively
third stacked pie chart shows the yes / no split by instance, overlay-ed with the total yes / no votes

only top level comments were counted
tankies are closer than they appear
Deeply unserious
NDTS

full results / data

COUNTA of yes
@lemmy.ml = 10
@lemmygrad.ml = 5
@lemmy.world = 3
@lemmy.zip = 1
@hexbear.net = 3
@lemmy.sdf.org = 1
@lemmy.one = 1
Grand Total  = 24

COUNTA of no
@lemmy.ml = 2
@lemm.ee = 2
@lemmy.world = 8
@lemmy.blahaj.zone = 1
@reddthat.com = 1
@ttrpg.network = 1
@hexbear.net = 4
@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl = 1
Grand Total = 20

taken from archived post https://archive.md/AAY1L

this was fun, thanks for the polling idea, Kristina (I spent too long on these charts because yours looked so spiffy, I hope you specifically are impressed lol), solidarity cleaning that data up, and general reminder people only half read anything before launching into a diatribe

tl:dr yes, tankies are totally conspiring to make sure you have a bad time on lemmy.ml

specter

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

please clap, those continents back together 😬

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

the paper references a study from earlier this year

Finally, NoFap followers also report becoming suicidal due to the “relapse” component of NoFap treatments (Prause and Binnie Citation2023). Two persons are reported to have died by suicide from NoFap, including one NoFap moderator and a NoFap collaborator (Rhodes Citation2015a; Stebbins Citation2022).

volcel police jokes aside, please look after your mental health comrades, talk to your friends and family, seek out professional mental health care if you can, and for the love of god please masturbate

[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

normies hate it when I tell them they've got a breeding kink lol

[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

here's Billy Joel's actual account, not just what's on Wikipedia

In a Weekly Wire preview of last week's Billy Joel show at KeyArena, Erika Hobart recounted a well-trod story, first reported in The New York Times, of the piano man throwing a total hissy fit onstage in the Soviet Union in 1987, overturning his instrument after bright lights flooded the auditorium, and declaring: "It's my show!" Our write-up implied that Mr. Joel was upset with audience members and had likened them to characters in an oil painting.

Well, Mr. Joel—lounging, apparently, in his hotel suite with a bowl of green-only M&M's and a fresh copy of the Weekly, as per his hospitality rider—called our editorial offices last week to contest that version of events. Seriously, he did. Here is his rejoinder, as transcribed by an awe-struck Mike Seely:

"Remember, this was the Soviet Union in 1987, and they'd never had a major rock concert before. There was a film crew filming a documentary, and they turned very bright lights on the audience. The audience was having a good time—until they turned the lights on. They froze; they turned paranoid. There was a lot of anxiety—why are we being looked at? And whenever they turned the lights on, anyone who was overreacting was being pulled out of the audience by a security guard. I wasn't yelling at the audience—I was yelling at the film crew. So I threw the piano, and that got their attention. Then they stopped lighting the audience, and everybody started rocking out. That was the reason for that action—not because they looked like an oil painting. That was something I said to a reporter after the big shots in the Communist Party, despite our best efforts, sat in the front row at one of the shows. They looked like an oil painting. The regular people in the back were rocking out. Hey, I hate the camera being on me. If you looked like me, you wouldn't want the camera on you either."

https://web.archive.org/web/20080117165213/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-11-14/news/letters-to-the-editor.php?page=full

anyone who believes this was unusual or would only happen in soviet russia, has never been to a certified rock conert

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

so weird anyone expects anything other than entertainment out of a youtube video imo. and people are comparing hbomb to dunky?

sicko-hexbear-woke

I watched the video in two sittings, I enjoyed it, it's drama, its junk, it's trash. anyway comrades, harris made a youtube playlist filled with a bunch of obscure queer youtubers, here's the playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGz5EMig3r2ZDgeGzwUlSz-PzF-L1Xu1

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

writing in Hamas , not that I even get a vote, how unfair is that? I'm letting women down 😭

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

the antinatalist thing was fun as a joke, but some of those nerds are just real keen on eugenics

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

oof, ouch, owie, my bones are hamas

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

this reeks of actually its ephebophilia energy

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

absolutely do not take advice from 4Chan, my boyfriend doesn't keep me warm, i'm warmed by my hatred of the bourgeoisie, and then I keep my boyfriend warm

but seriously I read into so much stuff like this before I started hrt and its all so anecdotal it's bunk

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

its apparently a Moody octopus, they're reversible and have a happy and angry side, to help non verbal people express themselves

it makes the whole thing so much more unsettling

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

here's an article from the Black People's Union relating to the referendum, they backed the no vote

https://www.blackpeoplesunion.org/articles/conning-us-into-recognition

it feels weird being on the same side as racists, but I did support my comrades in BPU by voting no. yes there's a lot of upset and intense emotions around this, but we can't kid ourselves into thinking this performative reformist bullshit would have made any material difference to Indigenous communities.

Indigenous people weren't asking to be recognised by the racist constitution.

dont lose sleep over nothing comrades, get active in your communities where-ever you can and fight for real change.

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This song has suddenly become a lot harder to track down

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