• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    17 days ago

    A 62 year old man attacked a hijab wearing girl in my city today. Her brother and friends tracked the dude down to his house and attacked him for it. The brother got stabbed.

    Somehow Reddit dudes find a way to blame the woman for all this.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    16 days ago

    Quoting Jeffrey Veidlinger’s In the Midst of Civilized Europe, pages 53–54:

    Following the economic and military failures of the summer, popular support for the provisional government collapsed. The Bolsheviks gained a majority in the Petrograd Soviet, and on the morning of November 7, Lenin issued a manifesto announcing the overthrow of the provisional government and the transfer of power to the Petrograd Soviet.

    […]

    With victory in his hands, Lenin promised a “democratic peace to all nations and an immediate armistice on all fronts” and proclaimed “the right of self-determination” for “all nationalities inhabiting Russia.” Elections to the Constituent Assembly, he continued, would proceed as planned in January.

    The Bolsheviks had succeeded in securing power in the Russian capital and immediately set about exporting their revolution to the rest of the former Russian Empire. This meant, first, encouraging workers, peasants, and soldiers to establish soviets and assume power in their own regions; and second, raising a Red Army to conquer by force those territories that resisted.

    In Kyiv, the Central Rada refused to recognize the undemocratic Bolshevik coup

    (Emphasis added.)

    How does an otherwise competent writer manage to contradict hisself within the span of only two pages? Either he deliberately lied to appease a publisher, his hamsterlike brain decided that it was time to say something anticommunist, this was a clumsy attempt to represent somebody else’s point of view, or his definition of democracy is utterly fucked.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    19 days ago

    The Dutch government has collapsed. At this point I don’t see it as something positive. The next cabinet will probably be just as shitty

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    14 days ago

    A Ukrainian woman and her daughter were killed here yesterday and online I saw a lot of people falling over themselves to ‘save the son’ who survived. Like, all of a sudden people felt the need to express solidarity. And the killer should be caught asap!

    Anyway turns out the son killed them. He confessed today.

  • Felhfeltetel ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    20 days ago

    Have a good start to the week comrades! Stay safe in the heat if you live in Europe.

    Today is my birthday, and I have never felt lonelier in my life, make sure to reach out to people around you if you think it’s needed!

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    17 days ago

    Watched Adolescence on Netflix today. Very interesting and very sad to watch really. Could it be clearer and could it go deeper into toxic masculinity? Sure. But I feel like it was a very real and disturbing display of how a typical suburban guy can become what the show portrays. It’s scary how I could even see things about my own life in there even though I became a well adjusted adult.

    Though I see criticism from women online and I can really see the points they try to bring across. Makes me wonder who the series aims at as a target audience. I think, as a man watching it, it can be a good reflection for other men to show the danger of toxic masculinity. Though I must say it does so without any deeper dive into what that is exactly.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      15 days ago

      My main criticism of it is that it seems rather superficial. It tries to show the how but does not attempt to go into the why. It offers no deeper (systemic rather than individualistic) explanations or solutions and leaves too much open for the audience to interpret according to their own ideological framework. I find that fairly cowardly as it absolves the writers of the show of having to actually take an ideological position. In that regard is a quintessentially liberal piece of media.