• 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    Was Leo Tolstoy anti-semitic?

    There was this paragraph in Hadji Murad that didn’t quite sit well with me. It was about a russian officer that got a huge debt through gambling and i kid you not, Leo wrote “He settled his debt through a Jew who loaned him the amount with a very high interest.”

    On a vacuum it’s a weird statement, however Leo normally references the ethnicities of it’s characters, a cossack there, that tatar, the chechen, etc … So i am not entirely sure. Still it’s a weird thing to write about.

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      7 months ago

      Jews were specifically restricted from working in many professions so many were forced into money lending to support themselves. If the money lender charged him high interest it has nothing to do with him being Jewish and everything to do with the high risk lending to the Russian officer.

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        7 months ago

        Christians were, as I just learned, heavily forbidden from engaging in “Usury”, which is defined as Interests on Loans. Leaving Jews to instead fill that gap that became heavily necessary in the coming Capitalism in Europe.

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    7 months ago

    executive dysfunction is so fucking humiliating. i knew it was wrong, i had it looming in my head for a month, and then i fucked up anyway. stupid innit

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    7 months ago

    I think I’m gonna graduate (and take chinese classes) and get a masters from somewhere like Peking University. Obviously I’ll need good grades but after talking with a professor friend I think it’ll be a good idea for me, and meets most of my goals

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    7 months ago

    Planning a 2200 km pilgrimage takes quite some effort, it turns out. Nonetheless exciting times ahead.

    Political wise it’s quite, I guess? Next week there is a general strike in Belgium and a huge turnout is expected. And we have the 8th of march, of course. Though that’s a Sunday, which lessens its publicity.

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      7 months ago

      Also looking forward to get out of this job. I’ve seen a lot of weird things happen and everytime you think: well this has to be the most weird thing to happen, only for a guy to piss through our mailbox today. People really can be animals.

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    7 months ago

    Gonna post it here cuz it’s not confirmed but apparently the accidental downing of 3 american F15 jets in Kuwait was done by a single Kuwait pilot lmao.

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    7 months ago

    I feel like the standard of evidence has lowered, I see so many posts from mainstream western news sources. We shouldn’t be so fast to react to that sort of stuff

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      7 months ago

      I agree. I think on Lemmygrad this is being handled pretty well, the comrades here are being careful with what they share and appropriately skeptical over untrustworthy sources, but over on the other Newsmega i constantly see commenters far too often take rumors or news that just broke in the MSM at face value until someone explicitly debunks it - our modus operandi should be the opposite of that.

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    7 months ago

    Well, my landleech decided to break off my rental agreement 7 fucking months early so his gf can move in and they can “have the place to themselves” and we share a kitchen which means I basically have no rights. Guess I’ll just have to do what I can and hope I can find a place in this housing desert in 60 days or I’m fucked.

    I don’t even know what to say anymore man. You know what’s hilarious? This fucker works at a homeless shelter even though he’s part of the problem. What a joke. FUCK Ontario.

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      Did he pay a cancellation fee or something? You can’t just stop honoring a contract midway through it like that, generally. I’m not licensed in Canada, this isn’t legal advice, but I’d recommend you look into that.

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      no it’s not. it is propaganda. there was an interview with some israel official where he ignores when that question is asked.

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      Remember when they bombed Al-Shifa hospital? For a week they said “it was a Hamas rocket failure” and then after a while they stopped caring about the lie and bragged about blowing up hospitals? Yeah this is that.

      Also if they say “there was an IRGC compound nearby that was being targeted” tell them that the IRGC “compound” was a civilian medical clinic that the IRGC run. The sanctions against Iran have made it so the IRGC has had to cover things like medical services and road works. The IRGC is the main provider of public works so there are “IRGC compounds” all over the place.

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      No, the Iranian missile that lobotomized monarchists are claiming caused it was going in the opposite direction of the school.

      It’s complete bullshit made up by diaspora lunatics who’ve lost touch with reality. You know the Parenti anti-communism quote? Replace communist with Islamic Republic and anticommunist with anti-regime, a d you basically get the average diaspora view of Iran.

      Fuck it I’ll do it right now:

      During the cold war war on terror, the anticommunist anti-regime ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist Iranian society into hostile evidence. If the Soviets Islamic Republic refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches mosques in the USSR Islamic Republic were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed dying; but if the churches mosques were full, this meant the people were rejecting being forced to accept the regime’s atheistic ideology theocratic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist Iranian system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists Iranians in the United States West Asia played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others indigenous resistance groups, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

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    7 months ago

    hello everyone. tankiethedeprogram ACP mod drama is actually so insane. on a minor level considering everything but like, what’s going on… if this is seriously some sort of psyop (which i dont like to accuse liberally bc it takes away from honestly evaluating how many ppl organically come into shitty beliefs, absolutely not saying that psyops do not happen on a far broader scale than most people imagine) that’s like. fucking crazy

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      mod in question was on r/asksocialists agreeing with post that said transgender people on left were degenerates oh woah it might be over

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    7 months ago

    I always feel really wierd, class wise…

    Like…I’m not super poor. Obviously I have internet, a house, electronics, and I don’t have to work part time to afford college (with scholarships)

    But…sometimes I feel really poor too. But I can never tell what poor I am. Like, I have a friend who is transferring and he was talking about how his parents will be paying A TON more in tuition than i am.

    And ive talked about it before where last year I felt really, really ashamed about my mom not having an important job like everyone else in the class (She works as a laborer while everyone else had parents who worked as lawyers or dentists or upper managers, etc.) And like…logically I shouldn’t, i know that. I don’t think anyone else cared either, but for some reason having to say that just made me feel really ashamed for some reason.

    I think I just feel like I don’t fit in either world. I’m too “artsy” (for lack of a better term) and effeminate and privileged to really feel working class, but too limited and stressed to feel super privileged either.

    I’m not asking for a ton of sympathy, i just wanted to get these thoughts out, because my emotions are involuntary so i wanna know why I have them

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      7 months ago

      I feel this too sometimes but it’s important to remember that the idea of working class being exclusively manual, blue collar workers is a very intentionally created image created by people who are not working class

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    7 months ago

    I’m so looking forward to March Madness…this silly, ridiculous basketball tournament makes me feel like a kid in the best ways. Watching these intense finishes and upsets with my friends, driving to the games in college, watching these 20 year olds have this sudden and fleeting moment of fame.

    It’s extremely exploitative, especially before NIL. And the whole thing rakes in millions of gambling dollars every year… but it reminds me of childhoods greatest moments

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    7 months ago

    I wonder how many teachers/professors have interacted with me and gone “wow theyre such a good student” without knowing I enter flight, flight, freeze or fawn mode whenever they enter the room