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thinking about these polaroids taken by HR Giger of his wife, Mia Bonzanigo, and model Judith Morf posing with his sculptures in 1979

“most important part of being a communist is hope”

@ouchowwie the people crave breakfast

i never post on twitter dot com anymore

@Jessethefree Was gonna make a joke but after reading "anti-communist/anti-fascist" I decided you're probably going through enough already

Socialism is the flat earth theory of economics.

@dmoonglampers_ @TheCinesthetic We're just gonna ignore the fact the Nazis got rolled by the USSR

@TheCinesthetic gay fucking euro can shut the fuck up and continue to get periodically rolled over by actual world powers when push comes to shove. it’s great to have these nice ideologies; how did his grandfather and country react when the nazis showed up? oh right, they got totally subjugated

Stellan Skarsgård reflects on his worldview : "My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it" "In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people" (via @vulture)

“Is capitalism natural?” This is a must-watch.

finding love in capitalism

“A place is only a place. And Arrakis is only another place.”

@nonregemesse His Dark Materials series! Starting with the Golden Compass

I have only ever read Tolkien and George R. R. Martin but enjoyed both. What other fantasy is worth reading?

marxism is cool because it gives you the ability to completely accept the world for what it is, to move forward regardless, and more: the techniques for possibly changing it. it's the anti-escapism of philosophy. the "lock-in" of philosophy.

@TheRealJChubby @Lallen341473 Kinda like how everyone was saying Superman was an allegory for Palestine. I think the popular reaction says more about the current zeitgeist than it does for the work's intended analysis

@Lallen341473 I think mostly just the anti-imperialism inherent in the show and the fact that it's an U.S. media product that came out in 2004. It's not a one to one for Iraq by any means but I think in the context of when and where it was released it's hard to disconnect it from Iraq.

I dated a girl briefly who was in to Avatar the Last Airbender, that's cool I can fuck with that. My profile tongue in cheek declared I was a communist, mostly to weed people out because I'm in a very conservative area. I watched the show to talk with her about it and sent her a long essay about how I felt like it was a good allegory for the U.S. invasion of Iraq that I think I got from some article when the show had just come out. She then got all stand offish for a bit and told me "I just don't understand, you seem so nice but I was always taught communism = bad" and even though I went on a few more dates with her it just ruined everything. My friends and I still joke about it from time to time. You should tell them but just be ready for some wild reactions because most Americans aren't ready for that one.

Cats are anti-fascist and anti-zionist.

I often see people claim Denis Villeneuve is shying away from the 'weirdness' of Dune and I think that sentiment misunderstands the first novel. Alia the talking fetus, the Harkonnen spider creature and everything happening on Giedi Prime - a monochrome planet rooted in BDSM culture - Paul's visions - way trippier than in the book - the constant, ominous vibes of the Bene Gesserit and even a baby sandworm. Denis Villeneuve's Dune IS strange and weird and in some ways, I would argue it actually goes beyond Herbert's work in that regard. Dune (1965) is a fairly straightforward work of science-fiction that remains mostly practical and grounded. Herbert was focused on Imperial Politics and Space Imperialism, Religion and Ecology and the concept of power. It wasn't his goal to create a grotesquely strange world and he never really did. Some people simply seem to have warped memories of the first novel due to Jodorowsky and Lynch. The book is not a constantly psychedelic, absurdist story; the drug plays a role, but I feel some people oversimplify the story and claim everyone is constantly and completely high. Dune (1965) isn't filled with the plethora of strange concepts you see in the later books. Shape-shifting Tleilaxu Face-Dancers, Gholas, a human-worm hybrid creature, Chairdogs. It doesn't have a guild navigator show up every two pages. They are mentioned, but neither described nor shown until Messiah so it makes sense we haven't seen them yet. I have complete faith that he will capture the weirder lore aspects and characters of Dune: Messiah brilliantly in Dune: Part Three.

Me doing the Dune chant at my wife until she forgets why she’s mad at me

Here is something American culture cannot process and has spent fifty years refusing to process: Vietnam did not win because of luck. Vietnam did not win because America made mistakes. Vietnam did not win because of Soviet weapons or Chinese support. Vietnam won because Vietnamese people were better at this war than Americans were. Better strategists. Better at understanding the terrain. Better at sustaining morale across decades of unimaginable suffering. Better at building an underground economy of resistance that no bombing campaign could touch. Better at turning every American escalation into a recruitment tool. Better at knowing what they were fighting for and why it was worth dying for. General Võ Nguyên Giáp, who defeated both the French and the Americans, was a history teacher before he was a general. He had no formal military training. He studied the Vietnamese landscape, the Vietnamese people, the psychology of colonial occupiers, and he designed a strategy around all of those things. He understood something American generals, with all their training, all their technology, all their experience, did not understand: This war would be won by whoever could outlast the other side's will to continue. Not firepower. Will. And he was right. He was right about the French. He was right about the Americans. The most powerful military on earth was out-thought by a history teacher from a colonized country. That is not an accident of history. That is not a mistake or a miscalculation. That is what happens when you underestimate people. When you look at a rice farmer and see someone beneath you. When your own arrogance becomes your greatest strategic liability. America's arrogance cost it Vietnam. That arrogance has never been honestly examined. It has never been corrected. Which is why the same pattern keeps repeating in different countries with different names.

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Sometimes being a communist just means you are a little sad all the time cause u are always a little right all the time but no one listens

Wake up Dune nation