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4 days agoA few lentils can be used under the valve caps to cause a slow liberation of air from the tires. No property damage, but quite an inconvenience to get refilled.
Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of (four) 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb.
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31·4 days ago“There is no evidence it was intentionally directed against Ukrainians,” said Alexander Dallin of Stanford, the father of modern Sovietology. “That would be totally out of keeping with what we know — it makes no sense.”
“This is crap, rubbish,” said Moshe Lewin of the University of Pennsylvania, whose Russian Peasants and Soviet Power broke new ground in social history. “I am an anti-Stalinist, but I don’t see how this [genocide] campaign adds to our knowledge. It’s adding horrors, adding horrors, until it becomes a pathology.”
“I absolutely reject it,” said Lynne Viola of SUNY-Binghamton, the first U.S. historian to examine Moscow’s Central State Archive on collectivization. “Why in god’s name would this paranoid government consciously produce a famine when they were terrifed of war [with Germany]?”
Then there are those who love to twist, and shout — to use scholarly disinformation for their own, less dignified purposes. In the latest catalogue for The Noontide Press, a Liberty Lobby affiliate run by flamboyant fascist Willis Carto, The Harvest of Sorrow is listed cheek-by-jowl with such revisionist tomes as The Auschwitz Myth and Hitler at My Side. To hype the Conquest book and its terror-famine, the catalogue notes: “The act of genocide against the Ukrainian people has been supressed [sic] until recently, perhaps because a real ‘Holocaust’ might compete with a Holohoax.”
For those unacquainted with Noontide jargon, the “Holohoax” refers to the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews.
This is not ancient history. The Ukrainian émigré groups still contain more than a few former OUN members, and many of their sons and daughters. The nationalists still heroize their wartime past. On occasion their old passions surface as well — as in Why Is One Holocaust Worth More Than Others?, recently published by Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army: “In 1933, the majority of the European and American press controlled by the Jews were silent about the famine.”
From this perspective, the “conspiracy” lives on: “In (February} 1986 the Jewish newspaper Village Voice … published one-and-one-half pages of accusations against a high-standing member of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, Mykola Lebed.”
Just as the Nazis used the OUN for their own ends, so has Reagan exploited the famine, from his purple-prosed commemoration of “this callous act” to his backing of the Mace commission. Faced with failing fascist allies around the world, from Nicaragua to South Africa, the U.S. war lobby needs to boost anti-Communism as never before. Public enthusiasm to fight for the contras will not come easy. But if people could be convinced that Communism is worse than fascism; that Stalin was an insane monster, even worse than Hitler; that the seven million died in more unspeakable agony than the six million …. Well, we just might be set up for the next Gulf of Tonkin. One cannot appease an Evil Empire, after all.
https://www.villagevoice.com/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/
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2·4 days agoIndeed, getting forcibly conscripted into the NATO-managed meat grinder is a terrible fate. Too bad every attempt at peace has been thwarted by the western leadership so far.
Maybe addressing the source of the problem is a better strategy than trying to blame the symptoms?
Liberal zionist hasbara being like “opposition to Epstein Fury is only for tankie anti-west morons”.
tfw your role model for peak masculinity is Ben Shabibo
facing similar challenges
Holy fucking shit.
It’s also been a CIA and NATO supported nationalist project since the start of the Cold War to the present day.
It’s really up to the meme creator’s presence these days, but readability is still important.
It’s an article praising the Israel model being applied to Ukraine by a Zionist. I guess you enjoy drinking that hasbara koolaid.
Memes come from the old internet days, when there were less pixels due to bandwidth. Impact is suited to readability with very few pixels. It’s just become tradition, since most of the meme generators still use it. Just use GIMP, and you can use anything you want if it’s installed on your PC.
Speaking to reporters this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the future he sees for his country in unusual terms: as “a big Israel.”
Gone, he said, are hopes for “an absolutely liberal” state—replaced by the likely reality of armed defense forces patrolling movie theaters and supermarkets. “I’m confident that our security will be the number-one issue over the next ten years,” Zelenskyy added.
April 6, 2022
The Good Cop / Bad Cop routine works so well on a lot of people. They are both cops working to put you in jail (uphold capitalist status quo), they just have different strategies to achieve that outcome, and the game theory logic works in the cops favor.
You have to realize you are a prisoner before you can understand the actual dilemma. If no prisoner cops out, this is true solidarity.
Republicans are libs too, in that they too support the continuation of the child crusher that is capitalist hegemony. Leftism begins with anti-capitalism. The US has two pro-capitalist parties with different branding, much like Pepsi and Coke.
Jasper Nathaniel, a US journalist known for his coverage of Israel’s illegal occupation, settler colonization, and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, posted on X: “The entire bipartisan political establishment has coalesced around a willful misreading of what Hasan Piker said in order to silence criticism of Israel. They’re doing the same thing to Mark Ruffalo in Hollywood. It’s all fucking gaslighting. Don’t give an inch.”
“What Hasan said is completely intuitive. Everyone knows that Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—and the Jewish institutions’ blanket support for it—has created more hostility towards Jews,” he added. “There is no good-faith argument against this.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-attack-hasan-piker
22·16 days agoSpidermanSpider-Man Fighting Fascism ( wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross ) [2026]
Delivery workers should be in there too.
1·18 days agoIt’s a great mechanism for “peer review” especially in the sense that ethics and legality are often entirely different things.
Basically a jury can legally decide to nullify by declaring “not guilty” regardless of the facts or the judge’s instructions, etc. This is why even mentioning jury nullification during a trial can really upset the judge and the prosecution. It is supposed to be something every jury is aware of, but that is usually not actually the case.
Chainsaws could be turned into very effective guillotines. Just saying.