Tachanka

joined 2 years ago
[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know what it's called but I compare it to Octavio Ocampo and Giussepe Arcimboldo.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

https://huggingface.co/spaces/AP123/IllusionDiffusion

I'm using this one, I'm uploading a simple black/white hammer and sickle, pattern, and I'm using prompts like "a proletarian parade in a future city"

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

i tend to view the USSR, imperfect as it was, in light of the following:

  • in contrast with what came before it, i.e. antisemitic reactionary patriarchal semi-feudal tsarist autocracy, to which it was superior in every way
  • in the light of it being the 1st country to have a successful proletarian revolution that lasted longer than a year (1871's Paris Commune did not last a year)
  • in the light of it happening against the backdrop of WW1
  • in the light of it being born out of a brutal civil war that immediately followed WW1
  • in the light of it happening in a country that was mostly peasant, and not proletarian
  • in the light of it happening in a country that had not yet even fully industrialized, and a country where much of means of production were destroyed in the two largest wars in human history
  • in the light of it being attacked by the international bourgeoisie for the entirety of its existence, from the coalition of 14 nations that invaded it immediately after the october revolution, to the attempted genocide against the soviet peoples carried out by the Nazi fascists in operation barbarossa (with the nudging and winking of the bourgeoisie in what would later become NATO countries), to the arms race that claimed much of their GDP during the cold war years, to the couping of their allies in the global south, to the arming training and funding of reactionaries against their allies in bordering nations (like operation cyclone) to the massive support of the Yeltsinite reactionary privatizations carried out immediately after it was illegally dissolved in a bourgeois coup in 1991

Marxism is, among other things, the ruthless criticism of all that exists, so I welcome constructive criticism of the USSR, but I also defend it as ultimately a positive thing. It made the bourgeoisie of the world seethe for a reason, and they plotted every single day for its undermining or eventual destruction between 1917 and 1991, including when they were ostensibly allies against Hitler.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He also reads so fuckin fast because he doesn't have to wait for the voice

Yes, this shows how important neurodiversity is to human kind. People who are seeing this as a disability are missing the upsides.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

for those spellbound by the bourgeoisie (libs and conservatives) communism is anything they don't like!

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

if you want to check the pulse on the worst of the worst fash, you have to go wading into cesspits like /pol/. Their take is typically that any time hegemonic liberalism embraces fascism it's some kind of ruse to make them feel accepted and put them back to sleep. We say the same stuff about when the liberal establishment makes overtures to us in the form of social democracy (or, more commonly, mere lip service to social democracy), but the important difference is that we're correct when we say that concessions are merely meant to lull us back to sleep, while they are not, and are underestimating precisely how much the bourgeoisie supports them.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

why are they calling us the Great Satan? We merely...

checks notes

...showed up to their country and opened up a giant burning pit in the earth...

Well, when you put it that way! macron

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

his voice is so smooth, you're lucky

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Q&A with a person with no inner monologue

  • when reading it's more like they're sorting through a file cabinet of ideas than hearing an audiobook in their heads.
  • it helps to read out loud
  • they can't play music they've heard before in their heads
  • they're not plagued by constantly reliving the past (I think this is actually a very strong positive of not having an inner monologue)
  • they can't imagine future conversations before they have them.

I think it's important for socialists to keep in mind how people process information, sine it can massively change our political strategy of spreading our ideas.

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