palestine Palestine "I think colonialism gets a bad rap"
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 weeks ago 100%

    This is a ridiculous quote but probably only to us. This is the ideology I was taught. We learned all about colonialism and its horrors in school, but the conclusion was never that colonialism was bad. The conclusion the kids reached based off the information provided, the take away the teachers wanted to leave, and of course our governments position boils down to - 'it sucked, but we wouldn't have our great amazing world now without it :^)'

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  • palestine Palestine Euphemisms
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 weeks ago 100%

    Was drawn to this post for the same reason. C&H artists being based? Honestly wouldn't have guessed it.

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    Socialist Music angrytoadnoises 4 weeks ago 98%
    I am now this person, thanks everyone.
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    games games Black Myth: Wukong is already one of the fastest-selling games of all time, moving almost as many units in one week as Elden Ring and Cyberpunk did in their first months
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 weeks ago 94%

    great shit post concept over the top of arks gameplay, which was already a pretty big splash. it's actually such a win considering the developers are a pretty small scale and humble team

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  • us_news US News Speeches at the DNC left no room for doubt that spending billions for war is the Dems top priority
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 weeks ago 100%

    my favourite part about leftism in america and really most of the west is that you're meant to be anti war, but you're meant to just forget that it involves not flooding the world with killing machines

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  • us_news US News Kamala Harris at DNC: "I Will Ensure America Has the Strongest, Most Lethal Fighting Force"
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 weeks ago 92%

    don't worry that was handled before you were even born, fucking hell get out of my country

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  • genzedong GenZedong Campaign poster from another timeline
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 weeks ago 100%

    why are the cons resorting to the comrade harris thing, more than any other democrat I can remember they are leaning on this weird marxist angle where they make shit post tier commie posters of kamala

    this is going to be laughable on the face of it to any center leftie and the further left you go the more you're just creating a subconscious connection between kamala and communism that might even rouse a communist to give a shit just for the sick prop posters alone

    I guess it's just for the cons to share and updoot each other

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  • genzedong GenZedong 90%, of labor driving the world economy are carried out by workers in the global South. Any political theory that neglects to center these workers as key agents of revolutionary change is misguided.
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 weeks ago 94%

    truly comprehending that my way of life is only possible via the labor exploitation of countries I've never seen and are told not to visit did a lot to turn me into an insufferable tankie

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    games angrytoadnoises 4 weeks ago 100%
    'Semi-Idle' Games

    Extremely specific game request thread. I love what I've come to call 'Semi-Idle' games. I work from home and am determined to act my wage so I like to have fun while on the clock. I'm not going to disregard work entirely but I want to play video games. So I leave a game running on my third monitor. Enter my need for a game that doesn't demand all of my attention, but is a little more hands-on than a screen saver with increasing numbers. A game where you are rewarded for letting things run, but it's not the entire point of the game. Some examples of what I consider 'Semi-Idle' with justifications: -**Project Zomboid**: Game incentivizes basically sitting around and passing the time. I like to loot in spurts and then leave my character eating/working out/reading while I work. -**Super WorldBox** Godsim sandbox. I can spend time setting up a world which I then let play out on its own, occasionally jumping in to disturb the peace. -**Fallout 76** Fallout 76 lets you set up a player-made camp where others can visit and buy from your stores. I find it enjoyable to leave it running and see who comes through. -**Sonic Adventure 1/2** I'll play a level or two and then idle in the chao garden, just taking in the vibes and watching my chao do what they do. Clicker games and other idle-genre giants aren't really my thing, but if you know of a clicker/idle game that might fit the description, feel free to recommend those, too.

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    memes Memes Picture of a tankie getting dragged by Bernie and AOC to help Israel commit genocide!
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    it's a weird premise for a political comic because like your average communist is just not going to participate in electoralism, you can figuratively drag them kicking and screaming and they're still not going to vote for you lol

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  • games games Why Capcom WON'T Remake Resident Evil Outbreak
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 1 month ago 100%

    sad and big true

    i played outbreak so much as a kid that I still have the speedrun routes burned into my brain. put me in wild things and mf i'm killing the elephant to force the lions to spawn for an easier escape. i never even had an internet connection for my ps2 so I was straight singleplayering it

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  • news news Putin reaffirms Russia’s ‘long-standing, deep-rooted’ support for Palestine
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 1 month ago 100%

    imagine being a liberal and having to accept that your personal voldemort cares more about Palestine than any leader you can choose from like even just being able to say that is more than so many western leaders

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Chuds at it again.
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 2 months ago 100%

    I don't think corporations have as much of an interest in asserting Yasuke was a samurai as these people seem to believe.

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  • shitreactionariessay Shit Reactionaries Say Vaush Takes a Stand Against Literacy :funny-clown-hammer:
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 2 months ago 100%

    That's sad, man. He is so confident that everyone else shares his innate incuriosity towards one of the most ancient and prevalent forms of art/expression that humanity knows. Because he's so incurious and ambivalent towards reading he geniuenly doesn't understand the unique benefits of sitting down and directly engaging with something in a purely cognitive way. He thinks everyone is like him and, funnily enough, reading a bunch of non-fiction is the best way to get yourself out of that headspace.

    As an aside, and not breaking new ground here: this guy is intolerable to listen to? he has a really arrogant/smug personality that he can't stop from shining through. He has terrible camera presence and I think he's kind of embarrassing to listen to. How does he have a fan base?

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  • games games Was there really a game with a button that made Norman Reedus loudly slurp down a Monster(Tm) at the camera or did I imagine it?
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    Yes! They patched it out of the directors cut, though. Personally I think much of the personality of the game was stripped away when we could no longer make Norman Reedus drink three full heart attack potions between each mission.

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  • games games "As a Eastern European, does this Soviet city builder let me build a historically accurate totalitarian dystopia"
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    Any and all gaming projects, be they full game releases or some dudes personal mod, will be hounded by JAQing off about how communism is actually bad. There's a real smugness to it, too. Like, "whao guys I know you're having fun over here but we're all on the same page that stalin murdered my grandparents with a giant spoon, right??"

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  • chat chat Anyone else feel that their direction in life is more related to being what "they're supposed to do" rather than any conviction or desire to pursue it?
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    we fully atomized now son, don't got no social spaces free of the ever present pressures of modern economic system. can't even sit down to play a game or read a book without wondering if you're wasting valuable money-making time.

    i have been keenly aware of how passionless and directionless i've been since i was a teenager. used to think I was just depressed but it took me a long time to realize the system is letting me down, and i shouldn't be expected to change my very human wants and needs to conform to the soul crushing market-driven system we're cursed in

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  • socialism Socialism The difference of perception of the role of women between communist and capitalist societies.
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    Nothing gets me more 'oh great commie forefathers we have failed you' than seeing old soviet propaganda about uplifting and empowering women. I geniuenly believe we still need that to this day and absolutely loathe the placification of feminism under liberal ideologies

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  • askchapo askchapo Where does fentanyl come from?
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    the fentanyl fairy, but only if you've been a good boy throughout the year

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank "I’m the hacker that brought down North Korea’s Internet For Over A Week. AMA"
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    they're cool hacker guys who exist outside of hegemonic ideology. they're after the big guys, real cyber robin hood types. so anyway that's why they wanted to bully poorer nation :)

    dudes bragging like the DoD are so impressed and 'want to know how he did it,' mf I'm sure if the US wanted to they could bully their internet as well, probably a good reason they didn't want to though

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  • games games The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Announcement Trailer
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    they made zelda woke 😞

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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    literal ghoulish depictions of the image of man dreamed up by the soulless

    i hate thumbnails. i hate search engine optimization. i hate algorithms. i miss feeling like people on the internet were ever at all genuine

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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    anarchism is a handy tool for radicalization. lots of people get attracted to the cool aesthetics of anarchism and that feeling of intellectual superiority you get when you can recite some obscure untested and unfounded political theory

    so it's ineffective outside of the individual's ego but it does position them firmly against capital and modern statehood. if you sit in that long enough you start to build genuine hatred for the status quo. genuine hatred leads to genuine curiosity which leads to actually reading theory and uncovering the utterly absurd idealism of anarchist theory

    this isn't like a codified pipeline and anarchist theory still poisons the well of a lot of western leftist discussion, but most commies I know in real life had personal brushes with anarchism in their past. and if all else fails they're still useful idiots when things get spicy. that whole 'you're alright now, it's after the revolution we'll have problems' meme.

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  • shitreactionariessay Shit Reactionaries Say Such a normal place full of very with-it people
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    yeah tankies have fun with your revolutionary larping LOL you have NO Idea how the world works!!

    anyway don't you guys think russia will split into a dozen different states after a post-putin revolution? maybe even china would get involved hey anyone wanna play HOI4?

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  • games games Cities Skylines had to patch out landlords to make rent manageable lmao
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    is this praxis?

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  • comradeship Comradeship // Freechat I don't know what to do.
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    it's not your fault that sort of crushing labor is poisonous to your soul. we're all a product of our material conditions and yours are different to others.

    i struggled a lot with work myself, feeling useless for most of my life because i couldn't enjoy or even tolerate most types of labor that were available to me. there was no easy solution for me but it's not an impossible situation to escape.

    the support you're going to get from your comrades on grad won't be as helpful as support you can get from your co-workers or other people immediate in your life. when I worked a factory, we had union reps visiting throughout the week. even just talking to those guys made me feel sane, though the trade union situation in my local area meant they weren't effective help, they were firm commies (that just couldn't say so in as many words.)

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  • comradeship Comradeship // Freechat Top 5 most annoying "girls bad" stereotypes
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    i hate the whole 'white women have sex with dogs' meme

    it's disgusting, obviously, but it's so mean-spirited as well. like it's resentful, geniuenly hateful, due to a perceived trend that women have sex with dogs

    of course almost all fetish content with animals is made at the behest of, with the involvement of, or specifically to appeal to, men.

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  • chat chat How do you deal with people who are addicted to pop culture?
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 3 months ago 100%

    i used to be addicted to pop culture and to an extent probably still am

    no one got through to me by curbing my pop culture addiction. i needed the gnawing, numb emptiness inside of me to grow beyond the joy a rebooted IP gave me. only then did i start caring about actually important shit

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  • steam Steam Team Fortress 2 is now at a 15% review score due to the #FixTF2 movement
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    If you join an official public server, there's an extremely high chance you'll join with cheater bots that spawn endless, aimbotting snipers. It's less of a problem on community servers as they're actively moderated by players, but official servers have to rely on vote kicking a fresh cheater bot every few minutes.

    This is all done by some script kiddy group who apparently want to highlight Valve's deprecated support. Basically ruin the game until Valve fixes the game. There's also some measure of farming ingame item drops to sell for money, I think.

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  • steam Steam Team Fortress 2 is now at a 15% review score due to the #FixTF2 movement
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 94%

    Honestly, I don't believe save TF2 will get anywhere. Valve is clearly uninterested in supporting the game, and who could fault them? It's an old game, and games don't need to be supported just because people play them.

    The real problem Valve is playing with is that TF2 is still monetized. They should not be selling microtransactions for a game this broken. If they weren't selling microtransactions, they would be entirely in their right to kill all official support and leave the game to community servers.

    My main concern is that Valve will calculate this over the bad PR they're receiving, and rather than do anything to curb the bot problem, simply kill their support for TF2. I would be okay with this. I think most people wanting to #SaveTF2 won't be.

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank My old universities subreddit is a joke
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    our universities are full of WOKE CULTURAL MARXISTS who want to OVERTHROW AMERICA, and that's why petulant whining about minor protests groups get absolutely raked over the coals at every university you can imagine!

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  • chat chat Build-a-Bear After Dark
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    Haha, that's good stuff. I guess selling horribly overpriced bears to parents isn't a sustainable model, so gag gifts are the next best thing.

    Yes, your Build-a-Bear™ Zaddy© shirt makes me want to change my bear into it's You Turn Me On© shirt.

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  • comradeship Comradeship // Freechat First day working at a factory
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    my time working in a factory was similarly crushing, though, i always believed that if the job had paid well enough and considered me as a person and not a number on the floor, i would prefer manual labor over the mindless white collar shit i'm doing now. but we'll never be in a position where labor workers are compensated entirely for the body and soul crushing work they're expected to do, so i'll never be in a factory again.

    hopefully, anyway.

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  • games games 6 Obscure and Abandoned Mods for Fallout: New Vegas - Mod Battle
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    This is a really neat video idea, actually, and it's throwing me for a loop that a time period I remember very well (post new vegas release, grabbing all the early mods) is now presented as sort of a lost history with enough content someone can produce a video on it.

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  • memes Memes What A Time To Be Alive
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    shit like this reminds me of before i was accepted for a line of credit, when financing a grocery store gift card to pay off over 4 weeks was the best way for me to keep the house supplied

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse [CW: Ableism] Literally a slur yard sign in my neighborhood...
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    This is so good, and if you did it, they'd probably complain about it on the local community facebook page about the hatred they're receiving.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse [CW: Ableism] Literally a slur yard sign in my neighborhood...
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    It's ok, those signs are actually flags for burglars. You can morally break into and rob that house. Cool, huh?

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  • asklemmygrad Ask Lemmygrad Is there any good reason to reproduce?
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    This is the most haunting thing anyone has ever said to me on this website.

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  • asklemmygrad Ask Lemmygrad Is there any good reason to reproduce?
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  • angrytoadnoises angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%

    I think there's something to be said about raising kids in a Marxist environment, though. Even if they grow up and have a fundamental disinterest in that sort of thing, you've normalized Marxist thought and maybe even warded off some brainwashing from capital. That's a powerful thing, making even one to three new people who believe Marxism to be normal and logical in the west.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse New guy idea: Stereotypical redneck in every way, but instead of believing "The South Will Rise Again", believes "The USSR Will Rise Again".
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    this is my prolesona

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  • news news All is not well in Ancapistan (Argentina). The police force of the Misiones province has joined the ongoing teacher’s strike against Milei’s austerity measures. Federal forces called in to keep order
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    ouch boys, you forced police into solidarity with the workers

    don't you know the police were your defense against the workers??

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse George Lucas making Greedo shoot first? Communism. Youtube's lazy moderation algorithms? That's right, those are also communism
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    communist algorithms censoring your ability to use the word kill might be the worst misunderstanding of capital advertising spaces that i've ever seen

    how is it that lefties simultaneously want to put you against the wall for not using preferred pronouns, but also are so afraid of the word kill that they use the algorithms they're definitely in control of to censor it?

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    Left Piracy angrytoadnoises 4 months ago 100%
    Where are we getting audiobooks from?

    Audiobookbay is a great site, and 80% of what I need is on there. Frustratingly, the 20% I'm missing is seemingly nowhere on the net. Any comrades have an alternative I can look into? Or, hell, if anyone has the audio book for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Firestorm, I'd probably shit.

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    Film, TV, and Media angrytoadnoises 5 months ago 100%
    For All Mankind Renewed for Fifth Season, Soviet-Focused Spin Off 'Star City' Announced www.thewrap.com

    I really, really like For All Mankind. It's a good sci-fi show. It's not winning any awards for its depiction of the USSR, but it firmly puts the Russians in the antagonist seat, not necessarily the 'irredeemable evil' seat. FAM getting a spin off entirely focused on the Soviet's perspective during its alternate history is not something I ever expected to see. Considering that the latest season of FAM establishes the USSR outliving its real-life point of collapse, while retaining its communist values, I hope that this 'Star City' spin off is going to be an even more humanizing look at the Soviets.

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    Fundie Father in Law Suggested I Read This

    I've never talked about anything that could even be considered close to Marxism with that side of the family. This MF has a sixth sense or something. His previous book suggestion to me was 'How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization.' I don't have any purpose to sharing this. I just thought it was funny.

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    Squirrel with a Gun - Official Trailer youtu.be

    👀👀

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    Film, TV, and Media angrytoadnoises 1 year ago 100%
    For All Mankind: Accidentally Making Communism Seem Really Cool

    For All Mankind is an AppleTV original that shows an alternate history retelling of the space race. In this AU, the Soviets land on the moon first, which extends the space race into a decades-long conflict. The show currently covers about 30 years of alternate history showing the US and the Soviets establish a moon base, new propulsion systems, and eventually landing on Mars. This show is *really* good. It's excellent hard sci-fi. It really sticks out to me, though, for its depiction of the Soviets. See, in this universe, the Soviet Union doesn't collapse. At least not at the same time it collapsed in our own history. Instead, they stick around and consolidate significant power, winning victories they lost in our own timeline. This means that by the 90s, communism has essentially rooted itself as a dominant ideology in most of the world. Now, don't get me wrong: this show depicts the soviets as evil, with the KGB boogyman following every Russian character. But the show doesn't do a great job at depicting this. Instead, the Soviet Union ends up being an absolute economic powerhouse that consistently keeps up with the US at every turn, only starting to fall behind technologically for unclear reasons in the latest season. Hell, Mexico is communist in the FAM timeline. I think this is telling. If you construct a universe where the Soviets 'don't lose,' they end up winning. Half of the world is communist and it's gotten to the point where it seems internally inconsistent that the US is managing to keep up. I just wanted to post about one of my favorite TV shows. Anyone else watch FAM?

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