And I have thrown myself headfirst into this European life, with its endless academic freedom, a presidential palace within walking distance, the possibility of joining the army without bloodying one’s conscience
Lmao
the possibility of joining the army without bloodying one’s conscience
:shocked-pikachu: Zizek! What's the scouter say about this ideology level?!
:zizek-preference: Mein Gott! Itsh over nine thoushandsh and sho on and sho on and sho on and sho on...
A presidential palace within walking distance being some signifier of european life is so unimaginably fucking stupid, too. Apparently the citizens of pyongyang are closer to the european life than, say, those of Munich.
If an animated movie whose central premise was "Princess Anastasia didn't die and is an amnesiac (and Rasputin is magical)" managed to convince you that communism was bad, I don't think you needed that much convincing tbh
Did that movie even have any Communism in it? All I remember was the talking bat and, like, a dramatic scene with a train crash.
Yes. We see Rasputin get cast out by Nicholas (Who is a hunky Disney dad), and in response Rasputin casts a spell that makes the communists storm the palace. We also hear people complain about how life isn't as fun as it was under the tsar, and we have the communists checking the train.
Yeah, some of that is pretty bad.
But, like, a bunch of con-artists talking about how much better life was under aristocracy...
Reading a book called "The International Jew" and getting a completely different outlook on my New York friends and relatives.
I learned to march in formation before knowing how to write, and maybe even count. Every morning at school started with a flag ceremony and obligatory salutes to Mao Zedong. Textbooks were illustrated with watercolour Lenins and Stalins, drawn to look much more handsome than they actually were.
Damn, I'm glad that I was only forced to pledge allegiance to the flag and was allowed to wait until high school before joining JROTC and learning how to march and being inundated with militaristic propaganda. I'm so relieved that I didn't have to grow up in evil communist China!
drawn to look much more handsome than they actually were
:lookism:
As we know evil persons are ugly and good persons are beautiful like :baby-matt:
Tbf if this person is getting their politics from children's cartoons, they probably actually believe this.
$10 says "march in formation" means "walk in an orderly line to and from recess"
I scrolled to the bottom to avoid reading the drivel and see if there were any comments (no) and I saw
Aynur Rahmanova is a doctoral student at Tallinn University, Estonia
Pack it up comrades, it's over with
All the former soviet republics; nay, the entire former Warsaw Pact and Yugoslavia, is chock-full of the worst kind of pure reactionary garbage borne out of the desire to intergrate with the west at the expense of the well-being of their citizens. They thought they could have capitalism while tempering its worst excesses - a grand case of wanting to have their cake and fuck it too, and the result is this.
Out of all of the people who died in the Russian Revolution people are absolutely obsessed with the Romanovs. : p
Learning that the Romanov children were killed by the Bolsheviks made me realize that Mao (whose party famously did not kill Emperor Puyi) was bad
Sorry, I understood what you meant! My reaction was to the person in the article ignoring that little detail.
And they only really care about her as some kind of puppet empress replacement to the throne. Like, nobody gives a shit about her kid brother with hemophilia (an affliction created through generations of incest) simply because they wrote him off as dead.
Show them the North Korean cartoon about the cute animals who fight American wolves
Way back when I first saw this cartoon I remember thinking that the weasels seemed like stand-ins for the South Koreans, being sniveling little lackeys for the wolf bad guys
Theres an english (done by an italian studio?) dub for this cartoon, it's called Brave Soldiers.
I clashed with the teachers almost immediately. These semiliterate relics from the Cultural Revolution couldn’t comprehend that times had changed enough for my parents to leave by legal means.
lol you're writing a column on how a kids movie was enough to overturn your entire worldview
maybe lay off on insulting the intelligence of others
maybe don’t call people illiterate when you’re basing your world views on a knock-off disney movie.
Yes, the movie with the talking bat and and the evil warlock is real history.
And I'm sure the people were so happy living as peasants under a Romanov dictatorship.
God I hate princess worship.
The kind Vladimir Ilyich would’ve shot everybody here
Sally Acorn was too much of a comrade for Sega to ever put her into any of the Sonic games that I know of. :angery:
Her, Bunny Rabbot, and Rotor all make cameos in Sonic Spinball.
...but yeah SEGA is too cowardly to make a game that takes place in the comics universe.
I heard that Sally appeared in Sonic Spinball but I couldn't confirm that easily so I edited out.
I know some of it is legal fuckery because of a fight between Sega and the Archie Comics guy.
It was a lawsuit between them and Ken Penders, who ran the Archie Sonic comics for a couple decades and is no joke one of the most influential furry artists of all time as a result. He launched a couple lawsuits claiming that his IP was being used in both the ongoing comics and in some games without him getting paid royalties.
He won that lawsuit, or at least he won one of the lawsuits, and Sega responded by completely purging every single character and story element he ever contributed in a series reset.
Honestly the comic today is a lot better than it was under Penders, but I've got a lot of nostalgia for that era since it was when I read it. Penders has a book coming out focusing on his own IP, which is supposed to wrap up the stories of the characters of his that got deleted from the main continuity, and it looks amazing I can't wait to read this dumpster fire holy shit.
That's going to be amazing enough to earn some emojis on Hexbear, for sure.
Yeah for the folks who have enough money to live a cosmopolitan lifestyle liberalism has a lot to offer. Unfortunately that lifestyle is paved with the blood and bones of working people, but if you don't care then you'll find it quite wonderful! Until one day comes, of course :mao-shining:
I meet a lot of people who refuse to read Marx under the assumption his books have an evil power to corrupt and brainwash people with only a few pages. I'm starting to see why they believe that if a children's movie with a Burger King toy can alter your fundamental values.
Hmmm, maybe the reason people become Marxists after reading him is that he's right?
Nope, thinking anything or anyone is or was right is always bad and lacking in nuance. Everyone is a little bit wrong cause that's enligutened
These are the same people who claim to believe that unrestricted free speech is good because if all the ideas are put out there then the right ones will inevitably prevail
Sure, you COULD view them that way, by eating from the trash can of capitalist ideology without any awareness whatsoever. :zizek:
There's lots of stupid and destructive things you COULD do, especially if you are unaware of the harm being done.
If that's the movie I think it is, then it's kind of fucked that "I felt lied to!" came from a movie that suggested Imperial Russia was great and happy and everyone was fine in it until an evil magician started fucking around.
is this the movie where Rasputin has a green dildo that holds his dark power, and a cute talking bat familiar?
edit: hell yeah bartok is my homie
