Notices by smoking 𒋆𒄣𒌦𒈾𒁍 with 'ilu (jake2@kolektiva.social)

Calling the Cheka a "terrorist police force" is an interesting choice of words. I'm obviously no fan of the Cheka but what is it about them that's singularly "terrorist"? Usually that kind of wording is reserved for non-state actors

Great-Russian chauvinism replacing korenizatsiia under Stalin was probably the biggest mistake the Soviets made in the long run

I don't think I could disagree more with this! IMO the biggest failure of the USSR was forcing a nationalist Russification over its borders, rather than acting as a true Union of multiple Republics

More from my crappy history prof:

Like yeah 100% a horrific tragedy but do you have to keep saying "Islamist" with such emphasis when you talk about it

Torn between being pleasantly surprised that he's recognizing the Armenian genocide at all, and suspecting that he's only doing it to further his trend of demonizing the Ottoman Empire for Islamophobia purposes

oh fuck off. im not sorry you didn't get your theocratic ethnostate, and you shouldn't be whining about it in an intro history course. get over yourself.

Suggesting now that Jewish eyewitnesses to the Ukrainian famine are more important because they "cannot be accused of Ukrainian bias"... that strikes me as a little fucked up. It's a bit adjacent to dual-loyalty stuff, isn't it? Kind of arguing that Jewish Ukrainians weren't real Ukrainians? I don't think you should talk about them like that man.

In the name of every Irishman go fuck yourself lol

Low bar but glad that he's accurately saying that the British and French dividing up the former Ottoman Empire arbitrarily is a primary source of a lot of the present-day violence in the Middle East. I was honestly a little worried he would blame most of it on Islam

he wants to blame the fags for the decline of Christian society so bad. you can feel it bursting at the seams

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

oh shut the fuck up you know full well colonization was explicitly supported by the Catholic church. can't even let people decolonize themselves with giving all the credit to colonialists. fuck sakes

it's so funny that he's talking about like, extremely basic progressive politics from 50 years ago by calling it "awkward" and "shocking" compared to (implicitly better) Christian values. like dude this is just kind of the foundation of modern liberal ideology. this is the default for most of your students. even the centrist lib students would read this and think you sound like a 1950s reactionary.

@georgetakei the Fantastic Four aren't ready

@theleftfist i know he's already a corporatist fascist but he's really looking the part recently. That mustache just makes him look like he's a tycoon from the 1930s about to donate a million dollars to the President to "keep us neutral on that business in Europe"

@darlingofinana @allison he spoke about Russia in that sense? I thought his (shameful) Asiatic mode of production theory was more based on his misunderstandings of Indian and East Asian cultures

@allison @darlingofinana baghdad house of wisdom, on the other hand

@darlingofinana @allison these are the kind of guys who think they can draw an ideological throughline from Sparta through Rome to Catholic Europe, they aren't the brightest bulbs

@theleftfist honestly, it was probably better for the average performer back in the carnie days before mcmahon started to monopolize the industry. You'd be able to bargain much more directly and with proportionally more of the labour force behind you, and if you did get fired there would always be another promo the next town over