utopologist

There's this quote from Gerald Ford after meeting with Mao and the Chinese leadership from when he was telling Congress about how it went.

There is a very strong anti-Soviet attitude. It is almost unbelievable. The Chinese urged us to prevent Soviet expansion anywhere, but especially in the Middle East, the Pacific, and in Africa.

tfw you're so opposed to "social imperialism" that you encourage regular imperialism from the Fourth Reich 😩

I think the idea isn't that they would just be randomly dying, it would be a warning to the rest of them

Afghanistan

The new Sino-Soviet split

I use AntennaPod currently, still works great

We need to resist the hegemony of the wizards, these guys clearly have no business making decisions for the rest of Middle-earth

I think she's also just genuinely very stupid. Have you read the river houseboat story?

Incredible book and should be essential reading. It's not a biography, as I heard it described a few years ago, but an unrelentingly thorough historical analysis of Joseph Stalin, his role in the USSR, and the various criticisms of him that have entered common discourse to the point where people who don't know anything about history know that "Hitler and Stalin" are history's greatest monsters. Losurdo looks at how this came to be and deconstructs anti-communist narratives using sources that even the most ardent anti-communist can't deny are valid (capitalist historians, Stalin's enemies, etc). It's an incredible piece of scholarship that, by the end, demonstrates just how deeply our understanding of historical events and figures have been shaped by the specific ideology of capitalist power

You should learn sign language. Not for her sake but it's just generally a good skill to have