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  • anyone have any insight into the history UNAM and autonomous universities in Mexico? reading about '68 and i don't quite understand what the constitution of the institutions were like at that time. were they already forbidding police from campuses or was that an innovation springing from police shooting students.

    and like how 'autonomous' is autonomous, it's strange to conceptualize an institution in the federal district being meaningfully independent of the PNR/PRI in 1929







  • When these services are public, they don't hold industry back from booming

    on a national level. they do this is in the imperial core where their firms are based for an important political reason, but in the third world nations are only good for international capital in that they give a name to an army and police force they can use to discipline third world labor. if you own a tin mine there is no interest in providing roads or health care to anyone that isn't directly involved in your enterprise, at worst it's helping your competition and class enemies. privatization is in no sense a rejection of the infrastructure for production and extraction, but the exclusion of everything else from that arithmetic. if the IMF privatizes a country's railroads the people who are going to own that are the foreign capitalists who need it for their business, not some third party waltzing in to extract rent and infringe on their profits


  • i trawled r/askhistorians, i can't account for beria's #1 fan living in a georgian bunker and printing defenses on a far right russian forum but:

    cw:sv

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    Many other people, both associates and victims, gave testimony as well, and the scenario that emerged, as in the Zhemchuzhina case back in 1949, came to focus on his sex life, with lurid allegations of multipleremoveds, forcible abduction of young women from the street, and so on. Although this subsequently entered into Soviet folklore, the story of Beria as a sexual predator seems, though not wholly unfounded, to have been wildly exaggerated. His own account under interrogation of how he conducted his relations with the women he had affairs with, including a young one picked out on the street for him by a subordinate, is basically supported by that of a singer claiming to have been his mistress, after catching his eye during a performance, who described seduction (admittedly under intimidating circumstances) rather thanremoved

    from Sheila Fitzpatrick's On Stalin’s Team, seems to be the most cited and accepted take. he was a cop so it's very easy to believe, and the charges have some credibility from being unneeded to secure the death sentence, but it's also easy to see why exaggeration/fabrication could be in the interest of his detractors.





  • new why didn't rome reunify like china did video on the youtube

    obviously, because there's a sea where the central plain should be

    not-built-for-this actually talks about how inconvenient the european frontier is for steppe empires looking to exploit the mediterre not-built-for-this

    low key dig the steppe argument because the steppe peoples were in fact the goats of premodern political organization, but still seems like the boat fuckers should be involved in the conversation about the unification of a water basin, they ain't as sexy as horse archers--we all know that--but those salty asses and their political organization were the lynchpin in medieterrean business and politics.


  • Yeah probably, it always sounds like you're giving credit to them when you assert it but the reasonable thing to do when you see a massive, dangerous, inhospitable peak is to just not climb it. it isn't like space where we can do experiments and have useful satellites up there and shit. planes and balloons were going higher decades before that MF did that shit. everyone going up that fucker is a tourist doing it for vanitie



  • Dolores [love/loves]tonewsIRAN IS COMING AFTER OUR COPS!!!!
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    i mean you can pump a shitton through a building's ventilation system but i sure hope if Iran has cooked up a version of that, it works better. "bio-weapon" would be a perfectly orwellian description though, right? developing this thing to try to kill less people in hostage situations-->weapons of mass destruction

    e: also you're allowed to use chemical weapons just not against a uniformed legal combatant under the geneva conventions, @ tear gas