#post communist country

[blankaandcryptids]

How am I supposed to go cryptid hunting when I live in the eastern block and I really don't want to run into the baba yaga?

(the movie in the pic is called Морозко)

[mysimplethoughtsputonpaper]

Balkan childhood (part 1)

[peninsulaisms]

after the communist revolution anyone who posts pictures of tilba tilba, new south wales, australia, with the caption/hashtag “southern gothic” will be summarily executed

[cigarette-room]

Noticed your communist thing. Have to ask, have you ever experienced communism? Or perhaps a family member? I am telling you as earnestly and seriously as possible, that it is good on paper, and only so. Capitalism is oppressive, true, but communism is hardly great. Decided to put that out there. Coming from someone whose family has lived in communism. It isn't as edgy and #screwcapitalism as people might think.

Dude imma be honest with you you sound so stupid i didn't even wanna grace this tirade with an answer but

Boo! Equal opportunity and resources for everyone! No hoarding wealth for yourself! Does it scare you? Good. It should. Ur so mad about communism being a thing i can't wait for u to never be able to look away from it being everywhere

[hussyknee]

Kind of insane how much y'all hate queer, disabled, mentally ill adults. Especially Black and brown ones.

All this "adults who like X are creepy/ gross/disgusting" is just an excuse to hurt the most systemically vulnerable people and shame them into compliance. Shaming doesn't work on comfortable white people with stable jobs and social lives and the money to buy luxury items– they can just log off and go to a fondue party. So you just go for the people with the least socio-economic protection who depend on online communities and congratulate yourselves on your "activism" and social conscience. Even when your collateral includes people from the same minorities you're "defending".

Western leftism operates on conditional humanity and respectability politics. "We'll give a fuck about you...as long as you behave only in ways we find palatable." When we point out that punitive forms of social control always take us out first and in larger numbers, we're given to understand in no uncertain terms that we are in fact acceptable collateral in your personal social justice hero quests to "punch Nazis", "fuck the US government" and "eat the rich". All just a bunch of hyperindividualistic neoliberals resentful of being robbed of white privilege rooting around the social justice closet for cudgels that suit you.

[recreationaldivorce]

i really don't think you should be promoting organisations from other countries on social media unless you have direct ties to them. like people unfamiliar with the context will just end up sharing stuff that's pretty contentious with the local left and they just have no idea. for some stuff e.g. the swp in britain, yes some quick online searching will bring you up to speed, but for some other stuff the issues w various orgs mostly just spread by word of mouth. and while im happy to say that eg a certain org is known for being transphobic, some of the issues we have with orgs can't just be shared on our public social media on a website that doesn't respect privacy like tumblr, bc to explain them means to reveal (& therefore reveal to the state if we're posting on tumblr) our involvement/past involvement with them as political organisers.

[happyvalkyrieofdoom]

tankies on here will act like they’re the most oppressed group on earth but the moment someone says that hey, maybe we shouldn’t worship stalin/lenin/mao etc. they literally start sending death threats to people istg

[chicago-geniza]

Poland 🤝 post-Soviet prostranstvo

Won't give you citizenship if any of your relatives have ever been stateless when their regimes periodically made huge groups of people stateless on purpose and destroyed their documents throughout the 20th century, or were subject to regimes that destroyed such documents en masse

[m87gallium]

A little Scooby Doo “fanart” thing heavily based off the following pic of Alaska y los pegamoides (a New Wave group from the early 80’s in Spain 😁😁😁). Retrospectively the staring at the camera reminded me of the intro shot in the original scooby doo where Velma is reading a book and is at the centre. :-)

[bijoumikhawal]

*sees a long post from an American comparing Cardassia to the USSR/China* *rolls eyes and keeps scrolling*

[culmaer]

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[sillyfudgemonkeys]

About a month ago my new coworker told me he didn't like LoK (that's fine). When I asked why he said it reminded him too much of The Last of Us 2. And I was like ??????? HuH???? So I asked him to elaborate, and due to time constraints (and maybe him just....refusing to really elaborate????) the most I could get out of him was "Korra/Ellie choosing not to kill Kuvira/Abby at the end" and that was "bad."

AND THAT'S IT! Nothing else, no expansion. So I have to tell y'all, my ass hasn't been ok since. It's keeping me up at night. I'm trying to figure out what he means. Cause the math ain't mathing lemme tell you. I think it's all bullshit TT0TT Like this man had a vision, but god does he need some fucking glasses.

I haven't been this inside my own head since I was debating with air about P5. TT0TT

[r3dblccd]

Not gonna lie, I'm pretty scared for the future now that those in power in my country have passed an anti-LGBT "propaganda" bill in schools and our president supported it

[rotzaprachim]

chamudi it would blow some of your pretty little tankie noggins what the political affiliations of many of the soldiers who carried out the nakba and established the modern state of Israel actually were

[samaspic31]

Ppl (and sometimes whole history TEACHERS) will just say « communism failed and can never work and is inherently authoritarian » as if that’s wasn’t an highly ideological unnuanced take on the history of the 20th century and blatantly western centered

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

considering leaving the pro-palestine activism movement altogether. I really, DEEPLY hope that the massive and dangerous issues I'm seeing within the movement are isolated to my local (physical/irl) area and community. it would be a new level of hopelessness if the movement overall has changed this way.

I feel like we're losing sight of why we're doing this. I fear that its being co-opted by outside movements and agendas, and by people with strong charisma and ulterior motives.

I want to make it clear that NONE of the "dangerous developments" I'm seeing are actually related to Palestine, Islam, the Middle East or even to how Jewish identity plays into all this

and that's why these developments are dangerous. I feel like the movement is being sidetracked, co-opted, and its paranoid but I even wonder if right-wing infiltration is happening because I'm hearing/seeing things that seem both so deeply destructive AND so deeply off-topic.

when I joined the movement last fall, it was primarily about Palestine, the US Military-Industrial complex, and imperialism... but the top goal was to FREE PALESTINE. There was also a lot of rhetoric about how "this is NOT a trend, it is NOT a short struggle, we will ALL be free, we must BUILD A STRONG BASIS and BUILD COMMUNITY because we are in this for the LONG HAUL"

now what I see is a movement, and a leadership, that treats Palestine as a justification for other agendas, and that is spiraling quickly and horrifically towards right-wing ideological niches, infighting, factionalism, and self-destruction with in the next few months if something doesn't shift FAST and shift NOW.

what happened to the long haul? what happened to a unified message? what was wrong with "free Palestine"? why do we americans ALWAYS HAVE TO MAKE IT ABOUT OURSELVES

what is HAPPENING?