Speaking of, I kinda miss when Pokémon spin off games could literally just be anything. There was so much creativity, and the franchise just doesn’t have that kind of ethos anymore

“Do NOT f*ck with forklift operators born in Idaho in August 1987 who own German Shepherds and drive a cardinal red 2005 Dodge Neon”

Ok, but if we ever get official Hexbear t-shirts, I want one that says this

To be fair, being in my Highschool’s Model UN made me very stupid.

I was once in a historical simulation about Revolutionary China, and I slipped into a resolution a provision about killing all landlords via hammer and sickle lobotomy

Ok, yeah this makes sense. This footnote is backing up the “suez crisis formed the basis for a growing US-Israel Alliance” claim, by pointing to a separate historian who’s making the same claim (Since of multiple people came to the same conclusion then you can argue that the evidence points to that interpretation of the facts of the case).

And the explanation given by the other author gives two reasons:

• Ihe US didn’t want to invade, in order to paint itself as more restrained than the Soviets, re: the Invasion of Hungary.

• Israel could serve as an imperial outpost, and thus a check on Arab leftists, like Nasser, in lieu of an invasion.

Explain like I’m a dipshit, what are 3 of their important contributions?

This is a pretty standard summary of the Suez crisis tbh. Geopolitics is weird, and sometimes leftists make major L’s, like the USSR supporting the creation of Isreal, based on a misapplication of the national question. The world isn’t a simple “good guy/bad guy” Marvel movie-ass binary.

If you want a really fucked up example, look at the Biafra War

Given that this is just general background on the Suez crisis, that kind of “general knowledge” typically don’t require citations, but making the claim “The suez crisis formed the basis for a growing US-Isreal Alliance” is a claim that needs backed up. Hence why that’s the sentence that gets a footnote.

So, if I’m writing a book about the world system of the late 18th century, and I say “In 1776, The American colonists declared independence” give some background information, and then proceed to make a claim about the impact that independence had on, global trade. Then I need to back up the claim about global trade.

The background on The american war of independence is just that, background, and doesn’t require citations. Because there’s a presumed general knowledge that if you’re reading this book, you won’t need that explained to you.

Out of curiosity, what’s the footnote in question? What does it say?

Can someone explain the joke to someone who has always been shit at math?

I don’t disagree. There’s something to be said for regime stability, institutional memory, etc. That’s all fine.

But that’s not the same thing as a personality cult. A personality cult is what allowed Ceausescu to get a goofy-ass scepter, as a silly example, and they can undermine the process of Democratic Centralism.

OK, but when liberals screech about personality cults under Socialism, I always like to bring up President For Life, FDR.

Obviously that shit can be bad, and we should avoid that kind of dogmatism, as it can lead to a litany of errors. But also, these kinds of things Happen organically all the time, Because people like it when you make their lives better.

Ok, but this comic isn’t an example of that. It’s very obviously about how cultural experiences are so ungodly expensive, and aren’t accessible up the average person.

There’s a whole “Red/Anarchist Black Metal” scene that’s been coalescing for a handful of years now.

Feminazgul and Iskra, are some favorite RABM bands of mine.

Realm and Ritual, on bandcamp, is a cool RABM/Dungeon Synth tape label that’s putting out cool shit all the time.

As someone who loves hiking. Parks and such perpetuate this obnoxious settler notion that “nature” is a place separate from us, and that we are simply "visitors"to it. Rather than a part of a vast, dialectical, web of interconnected relationships.

It’s fucking stupid, and I hate it.

Small Child Men?

Cease.

Rev Left Radio being called “Misleading” is so fucking bonkers to me.

Breht is such a thoughtful and genuine guy. And the show has so many guests on with differing perspectives. Like, yeah ok, some of those guests might say things one disagrees with, are debated within a given field, or are otherwise occasionally incorrect. But the ethos of that show is about getting the listener to know how to think, and thoughtfully approach things, from a broad left perspective. It’s not just feeding you normative claims and calling it a day.

Anyway, go listen to RevLeft, Breht is such a gift

Hiking is so wonderful and if I don’t get out on a regular enough basis My mental heath fucking plummets.

Cool, can he stop being a transphobic shitbag while he’s at it? Fuck Dave Chapelle

I seem to recall that the YPG/SDF even said that they felt the global left, and the western left in particular, failed them. And that failure of international support and solidarity is what forced them into a position of having to work with the US to fight ISIS.

So now they’re in a situation where NATO is actively fucking them over. Turkey has parked itself on the border, and regularly lobs bombs at civilian targets, and the US looks the other way, while it swallows up Syrian oil. They don’t want the US there, and openly state as much. But their presence is the only thing keeping Turkey, a fellow NATO power, from invading even more.

And what’s the Western Left’s response to this obvious imperial plunder? For people who do nothing but post on the bear website, to complain about a lack of ideological purity from a global south leftist movement that’s been forced to choose between being plundered by the US, genocided by ISIS, or invaded and occupied by Turkey.

I’ve even seen people (more on Reddit then here, tbf) smugly saying that civilian deaths are ok, because “that’s what they get for siding with the US”, as though that justifies NATO war crimes, or that the people of the region even wanted that in the first place.

It’s almost like the world is more complicated than a Marvel movie.

Tbh the main reason it’s so bad is because everyone picks the most shocking card in their hand, even if it doesn’t make a coherent thought, or match well with what’s being asked.

Like, holy shit, it’s just edgy apples to apples, y’all!