• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    Reading that Luigi Mangione spend years in pain without help from his insurance but got a reply within an hour after he posed as an investor is wild

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    Is it okay to like the songs farewell to nova Scotia and northwest passage? I like folk music on general but I’m afraid they can come off as colonial, especially northwest passage

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      It was a good book, but I was disappointed when I read it.

      FYI, I wanted to read it since around 2008. I remember looking on Amazon books pages for books to read about history and I saw that book and the blurb entranced me and lighted a fury in me (in a good way) I had always had about white people in general.

      However, when I read it for the first time (years later), I was disappointed because it was stuff that I knew about, stuff that even the teachers in my high school and college talked about, and the conclusion of the book was stuff I had already seen or read about before.

      Tbf though, the book was written in 1979 and published around 1982, afaik, so it was probably a big deal for those that grew up with it.

      I love how MAGA coms and ACP folks hate it though lol

      At the end of the day, it is just one book out of many and you can find plenty that discusses the subject matter in more detail and more angles nowadays; i kinda just see it as a litmus test to check if someone is an ACP dumbass or not, idk lol

      but yeah, I hated white people growing up

      looking back, i disagree with the book more now because the organizations it criticized are ones that I now respect a lot more now, given what I know now, especially since I was on the inside

      but eh, it’s a good introduction to big subject matter for some people, if nothing else; not everyone knows the subject and not every high school or college professor will always go into, say, the war in the Philippines during the turn into the twentieth century.

    • demeritum@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      Overrated and lowkey the only theory a lot of leftslopers read. Just start with marx or even lenin ffs.

    • Che's Motorcycle@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      Never read it, but I can definitely recommend An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

      ETA: it’s really good at laying out how systematic and deliberately cruel the settlers were.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    This is from a Cuban Telegram that I follow. I really like how they define a revolution. Hope you like it:

    • “Revolution is a sense of the historic moment;
    • it is changing everything that must be changed;
    • it is full equality and freedom;
    • it is being treated and treating others as human beings;
    • it is emancipating ourselves by our own efforts;
    • it is challenging powerful dominant forces within and outside the social and national spheres;
    • it is defending the values in which one believes at the cost of any sacrifice;
    • it is modesty, selflessness, altruism, solidarity, and heroism; it is fighting with boldness, intelligence, and realism;
    • it is never lying or violating ethical principles;
    • it is a deep conviction that no force in the world is capable of crushing the power of truth and ideas.
    • Revolution is unity;
    • it is independence;
    • it is fighting for our dreams of justice for Cuba and for the world, which is the foundation of our patriotism, our socialism, and our internationalism.”

    Original:

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    «Revolución es sentido del momento histórico; es cambiar todo lo que debe ser cambiado; es igualdad y libertad plenas; es ser tratado y tratar a los demás como seres humanos; es emanciparnos por nosotros mismos y con nuestros propios esfuerzos; es desafiar poderosas fuerzas dominantes dentro y fuera del ámbito social y nacional; es defender valores en los que se cree al precio de cualquier sacrificio; es modestia, desinterés, altruismo, solidaridad y heroísmo; es luchar con audacia, inteligencia y realismo; es no mentir jamás ni violar principios éticos; es convicción profunda de que no existe fuerza en el mundo capaz de aplastar la fuerza de la verdad y las ideas. Revolución es unidad, es independencia, es luchar por nuestros sueños de justicia para Cuba y para el mundo, que es la base de nuestro patriotismo, nuestro socialismo y nuestro internacionalismo».

  • ConfusedPuppy@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    /s I love Mormons. I love that they can be openly transphobic and anti-disabled people to my face and face no consequences.

    I’m tired.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    A farmer was on the news. He was showing his onion harvest. It was half of his entire warehouse which is usually full. He voiced his support for the farmers protests today. He said there is no problem and that nature has been better than ever. Seconds later he was complaining about drought.

    My guy, look around. Please. Wake up.

  • Fruitbat [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    It bothers me when serial killers are treated as an “anomaly” when like they really aren’t? They’re the result of the material conditions. But to go to the united states, how can someone tell me a serial killer an anomaly considering like the entire genocidal history of the united states? Somehow a serial killer an anomaly but not u.s soldiers or u.s settlers who committed massacres and genocide? Somehow a serial killers are an anomaly but not the society that enslaved people? Somehow serial killers are an anomaly but not the ceo that kills millions?

    Yet somehow serial killers remain this anomalous category? I feel like when people try to pathologize serial killers, it also a cop out to ignore the history and material conditions. If anything, serial killers are “normal”. There’s nothing anomalous about them. And then it becomes odd to say when a serial killer “blended” in that they must of “manipulated” people. Like maybe they’re not good at “manipulating”, rather they’re just good at what society demands of people and fulfills that role well?

    Like I dunno, it just again, odd, how serial killers get treated as this different category when like again, you have plenty of normal people who have done heinous things.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      There’s nothing anomalous about them. And then it becomes odd to say when a serial killer “blended” in that they must of “manipulated” people. Like maybe they’re not good at “manipulating”, rather they’re just good at what society demands of people and fulfills that role well?

      I agree. The manipulation capability of serial killers gets dramatically overrated/mythologized. It’s more that they take advantage of obvious vulnerabilities and power imbalances in a pathologically anti-social system that barely deserves to be called a society. And their lack of empathy combined with murderous desires (which is far more easily formed/nurtured within such a violent system) makes it relatively easy for them to decide that taking advantage of these things is a good plan. Some of them are the ones in uniform.

      Hell, I recall a story of one serial killer case that a journalist managed to solve like decades(? not certain of the timeline offhand) later and it turned out they had been a cop.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      A lot of the things you mentioned serve as a way to keep the status quo in place, hence why they are not frowned upon. This extends to animal abuse as well. We abuse and kill trillions of animals on a yearly basis for our palate pleasure, often in horrific ways. But put a thousand pigs with the cognitive ability of a 4 year old in a gas chamber and nobody cares. Put a dog in a gas chamber and you’ll be killed yourself by an angry mob. It’s the hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance to serve the status quo. Animal abuse is highly normal in this society even though we say it is not.

      You can also see this in serial killers as well. Serial killers who kill pretty, young white women are highlighted. Serial killers who kill black or trans or gay people or sex workers are often ignored for a very long time or mever found at all. Because this society deems it normal not to care about these victims.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      I think the fascination with serial killers in american culture is probably a coping mechanism. The people who are most obsessed with serial killers are probably scratching the itch in their mind screaming “the entire society is built on murder” but they just can’t quite bring it together.

    • Mels@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      It’s simply the lower classes’ attempt to mimick the dominant structures (i.e. family, ideas) that are natural in class society. Obviously… this fails in regards to some things because they do not have the material or relations needed. So you get fucking serial killers, rapists, corruption, etc. Let alone the conditions too.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    has to be some sort of insane lib gymnastics to be celebrating a literal ISIS buffoon sentencing Assad and his family to death in Syria 😅