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Apr 18, 2021 17:56
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KaptainKrunk posted:if you want your standard, academic left-libbish take, can't go wrong with Oxford's A History of Russia (2018) or Cambridge's 3 volume History of Russia or the shorter Concise History of Russia. Just as always have to grain of salt things especially when it comes to the Soviet era and the Cold War Thanks! Would you recommend Trotsky's account of the Revolution? I've heard it's very well written
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Apr 18, 2021 18:01
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iirc one of the advantages of buying a minsk tractor is that unlike john deer if you try to repair it yourself, they wont send assassins to kill you
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Apr 18, 2021 18:13
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THS posted:iirc one of the advantages of buying a minsk tractor is that unlike john deer if you try to repair it yourself, they wont send assassins to kill you a killswitch that disables the combine if it detects monsanto crops
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Apr 18, 2021 18:19
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ToxicAcne posted:Anyone have a good overview of Russian History? This could be more than one book. here's some soviet books * https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryussrpart1 (covers the history of Soviet territory from antiquity to 1917) * https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryussrpart2 (continuation of the above, covering Soviet history from 1917 to the first half of the 1960s) * https://archive.org/details/HistoryUSSREraSocialism (covers Soviet history from 1917-1980) * https://archive.org/details/TheUSSRAShortHistory (covers Soviet history from 1917-1975)
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Apr 18, 2021 18:59
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Apr 18, 2021 19:05
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ToxicAcne posted:Thanks! Would you recommend Trotsky's account of the Revolution? I've heard it's very well written Yes but just keep in mind he does have an axe to grind with, well, everyone involved.
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Apr 18, 2021 19:28
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ToxicAcne posted:Thanks! Would you recommend Trotsky's account of the Revolution? I've heard it's very well written It’s self aggrandizing and hysterical, so I consider it the opposite, but it is a unique primary account.
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Apr 18, 2021 19:32
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Just keep in mind it's a primary source, and remember to lol at Trotsky for being a ridiculous little lord Fauntleroy who wanted to pull a Bonapartist coup but got beaten to the punch and you're good.
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Apr 18, 2021 19:34
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Apr 18, 2021 23:04
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Greg12 posted:Is Belarus still the one former SSR that never the Larry Summers gang in to cart everything of value away? As I understand it, Lukashenko was elected on a platform of "what if we stop selling off all the state assets" and as a result Belarus has GPD per capita and Human Development Index than Ukraine. Lukashenko's big propaganda win during the big upsurge in protests was telling people to read the opposition candidate's policy page, which included a bunch delusional neoliberal economic policy.
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Apr 18, 2021 23:55
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https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1383807181229740035
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Apr 19, 2021 00:15
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Atrocious Joe posted:As I understand it, Lukashenko was elected on a platform of "what if we stop selling off all the state assets" and as a result Belarus has GPD per capita and Human Development Index than Ukraine. You could just tell after that site was discovered that the protests seriously started to wane. Up until that point it was ambiguous enough that it was difficult to tell then the mask accidentally dropped off.
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Apr 19, 2021 00:49
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What's stopping a left wing opposition from arising instead of a neolib one in opposition to Lukashenko, PiS, Orban etc. Is that just not possible in eastern europe these days
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Apr 19, 2021 03:13
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isn’t Lukashenko economically leftist to the extent that he’s a Soviet relic?
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Apr 19, 2021 03:17
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Maximo Roboto posted:isn’t Lukashenko economically leftist to the extent that he’s a Soviet relic? That was the impression I got from Moderate Rebels's take on the protests
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Apr 19, 2021 03:18
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Maximo Roboto posted:isn’t Lukashenko economically leftist to the extent that he’s a Soviet relic? I think only in comparison to the shitshows in the rest of the post soviet states, he's kept some state owned assets unprivatized, provides pensions to olds that comprise his support base, etc.
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Apr 19, 2021 03:21
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quote:During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lukashenko stated that concerns about the pandemic were a "frenzy and a psychosis" and that working the tractors, drinking vodka and going to saunas could prevent people from infection from the virus. "People are working in tractors. No one is talking about the virus", Lukashenko said on 16 March 2020. "There, the tractor will heal everyone. The fields heal everyone". He also said: "I don’t drink, but recently I’ve been saying that people should not only wash their hands with vodka, but also poison the virus with it. You should drink the equivalent of 40–50 milliliters of rectified spirit daily", but he advised against doing so while at work.[177][178] By early May, Belarus was reported to have 15,000 diagnosed cases, one of the highest per capita rates of infection in Eastern Europe.[179] this guy loving rules
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Apr 19, 2021 03:26
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zardoz voice: the tractor is good!
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Apr 19, 2021 04:48
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I mean I imagine working in a tractor would be pretty safe? Pretty sure that's not where the transmission was happening. I don't know much about Belarus but I suspect it's not all tractors all the time.
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Apr 19, 2021 04:52
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Mantis42 posted:this guy loving rules Is any of this wrong?
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Apr 19, 2021 04:56
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the reason belarus is better than russia is because steven seagal went to russia to do promotions and pig out like an old clown, whereas dolph lundgren -- who was always way better than steven seagal -- went to belarus to drive world war II tanks around for the world of tanks game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myc5Puci2aE BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 05:14 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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Apr 19, 2021 04:59
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https://twitter.com/XisMoments/status/1383601179888955392?s=20
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Apr 19, 2021 05:03
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:the reason belarus is better than russia is because steven seagal went to russia to do promotions and pig out like an old clown, whereas dolph lundgren -- who was always way better than steven seagal -- went to belarus to drive world war II tanks around for the world of tanks game let's not get too far ahead of ourselves 
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Apr 19, 2021 05:20
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i say swears online posted:let's not get too far ahead of ourselves
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Apr 19, 2021 05:31
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i say swears online posted:let's not get too far ahead of ourselves batka 
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Apr 19, 2021 05:32
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https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1379982393671442433?s=19
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Apr 19, 2021 08:14
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If it's anything like the first two hashtags, they will say it but never actually do anything about it. Who am I kidding, there's money in this one.
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Apr 19, 2021 08:16
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https://twitter.com/MilkTeaAlliance/status/1253276905106636801?s=19
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Apr 19, 2021 08:19
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Lol what the gently caress is this astroturfed poo poo.
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Apr 19, 2021 08:21
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paperwind posted:Lol what the gently caress is this astroturfed poo poo. Companies and probably CIA-funded groups trying to strongarm China because their GDP is too close to ours.
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Apr 19, 2021 08:25
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"Milk Tea Alliance" has also been described as "boba liberalism", as originating from the Hong Kong protests being largely depicted as a pro-Western youth movement, and therefore kids drinking milk tea it's turned into an "alliance" because they've been trying to link the Thailand protests and the Myanmar protests to it it's akin to calling it "The Asian Spring", except even cringier that Twitter is boosting it definitely means it's backed by the Deep State though
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Apr 19, 2021 08:29
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gradenko_2000 posted:"Milk Tea Alliance" has also been described as "boba liberalism", as originating from the Hong Kong protests being largely depicted as a pro-Western youth movement, and therefore kids drinking milk tea Strife in Asia is a hot iron to strike for America to grandstand about western democracy whether or not they directly support a country in this so-called alliance.
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Apr 19, 2021 08:37
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good news everyone https://twitter.com/AlexSaundersAU/status/1384026506993704964 chinas refusal to ban btc is actually part of a fourth dimensional chess move that will eventually manifest as their commitment to socialism
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Apr 19, 2021 09:23
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from the same articlequote:About 65 per cent of all bitcoin mining in April 2020 happened in China, according to figures from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. chinas gone high tech with their genocide angle working all the ughyurs to death in bitcoin mines
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Apr 19, 2021 09:23
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That's an incredible way to stretch Chinese bitcoin mining as being related to the Xinjiang allegations
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Apr 19, 2021 09:31
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The re-education camps are actually mines.
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Apr 19, 2021 09:45
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dying for xis bitcoin profits
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Apr 19, 2021 10:36
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Bitcoin as safety valve to prevent the bourgeoisie from getting too overtly hostile? One that can coincidentally gently caress a small but significant segment of the US financial sector (and Nvidia and AMD?) when it's shut down.
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Apr 19, 2021 10:54
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