1462 points 3 years ago
reddit will delete this comment cuz they're controlled by China but fuck the CCP!!!
same energy
honeynut
joined 2 years ago
The Divide by Jason Hickel is a good short read on global inequality.
The Making of Global Capitalism by Panitch and Gindin goes into historical detail on the emergence of the modern financial/trade system, but it's fairly academic and not super exciting.
Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis is an account of the famines and mass social murder overseen by colonial governance in the 19th century.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States is self explanatory.
For books on America's commitment to defending democracy around the world, pick any one of:
- Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad
- The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- Killing Hope by William Blum
It seems similar to the last time an office building caught fire like this in China. The building was fairly fire resistant except for the facade which was made of materials that burn up really fast.
Post-Structural Hauntological Bordigism
don't ask me what any of those words mean
Kid Fash
lemmitors are just mass downvoting negative articles about Ukraine in their news comms, even if it comes from mainstream sources like Wapo or ft. Someone in the comments just has to accuse the OP of being a tankie or having a pro-Russian agenda and then engagement with the post just craters so it doesn't show up in feeds anymore.
Ha, I knew it! I knew the OP was a Kremlin asset and it wasn't just me grasping for reasons to not engage with an article from a credible mainstream source because it presents an inconvenient reality.
You should clarify that you mean Nazi collaborators
When they were just on Reddit, 196 seeming to be a community of mostly children at times being encouraged to be horny and fetishize trans folk was at least a bit yikes which is why I never engaged with them.
HB jokes about the volcel vanguard a lot, but there's a kernel of truth for how much less horny this instance is which is good for discouraging chaser behavior.
This is the thing about people that aren't used to engaging with hexbear - they aren't used to holding minority viewpoints. They liked that on other platforms (and IRL) they could just throw around the weight of institutional orthodoxy and "common sense" and be validated by crowd affirmation without having to really explain themselves, so when they're made to show their work, their argumentation really pales in comparison to users on hexbear who have spent years arguing in favor of some the most suppressed political ideologies in the West.
I get your gripes. For the longest time The Devil and Karl Marx was one of only a handful of Communist related books in my local library system (and by far the most checked out). The city council and board of trustees even made successful efforts to censor Black History and Pride Month events and displays this past year.
That being said, we do have allies and even comrades working within the system as librarians and aides. The ones in my city managed to help me get Blackshirts and Reds and The Jakarta Method onto the shelves.
Libraries being one of the last remaining third spaces of public life will definitely be a zone of struggle as market interests seek to hollow out and privatize the ever diminishing Commons, but there's solidarity to be found despite how bleak the situation seems.
Tchaikovsky's The Nutremoved