Adamant retweeted
ad for a 1917 masquerade ball for the NYC anarchist red cross's bail fund in yiddish and english
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I think people find it corny bc they’re looking for the meaningful critique but a realistic recreation of social media in the 2020s always feels like it’s mocking us bc let’s be honest we are very obnoxious and embarrassing
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was just reminded i think the only direct communication between them was when trotsky declared makhno, still in the red army, an outlaw to shoot on sight and makhno risked his life to send him a telegram about quitting his job bc of the unacceptable working conditions
we don’t know what would have happened if they’d ever been in the same room together. some kind of nuclear incident
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trotsky really said “we are going to kill you but we are understaffed at the moment can you clock in for one more shift”
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this is a broader observation than just people defending colonialist imagery but when it comes to soviet posters westerners act as if they’ve never seen a kitschy cute psa. if you live in a country you call an evil capitalist empire it is also full of harmless ordinary things
there’s a ton of soviet posters that are like hang in there kitten don’t forget to wash your hands after wiping your ass and people will be like “this is so normal, I can’t imagine a country that made posters this cute had mass death events and population displacement”
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it *was* fucking mordor for some people. just like the usa is fucking mordor for some people
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the usa and ussr both have/had decent social programs that improved people’s lives, people wasting away in systems of brutal prison slavery, and cute little tchotchkes. the spectrum of humanity is all found within
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drives me INSANE people who don’t want to admit siberian gulags and siberian exile were grandfathered in methods of *settler colonialism* created by the tsarist empire and not just the ussr being evil or justifiably mean to its enemies
ask yourself if north asia being used just as it was in tsarist times as a dumping ground for prisoner-settlers to establish control
over its resources is being done for the benefit of native peoples and is the only way for them to get access to good natal care
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nobody is engaging w this point: settler colonialism has always involved subjecting communities including children to harsh environments they are ill suited for, generally far worse conditions than indigenous societies that are often relied upon for knowledge and assistance
what if we point out that the settler populations that established political control over whole continents and determined where the “center” of power would be, raised their children on the frontier. that was part of the settling process
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the assumption that living on the tundra is for stupid people who don’t know any better if they’re one group but for intrepid explorers if they’re another is what’s so absurd
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