Portuguese (my family) people do lol

I believe they got hate before but it really exploded when they exposed that the Democrats were paying TikTok creators to spread good PR without disclosing that they were, in fact, being paid to do so. This made many people come out to attack them and it just never stopped. Now that they know Madeline exists they attack everything she says. The most recent discourse has been about Madeline’s defence of the DPRK.

She called out a leftist creator because he was supporting state department propaganda about the DPRK and now everybody is running around claiming that Madeline said that this guy was directly killing North Koreans when what she was actually saying is that he was contributing to USA state lies that harm the North. This shit will never stop and thankfully Madeline has thick skin.

I’m so glad you said this because i have had this thought for so long. Just read the comments on Canadian social media, I swear it’s more fascistic than USAmericans. It’s really bad up here.

Snowed like crazy and it was cold as hell but I slayed at the party games. My niece and nephew loved their gifts but they did get into a few toddler fist fights which I had to break up. The food was also fantastic and I brought home a large casserole dish full of leftovers.

Some of my family were annoying but that’s normal coming from those specific individuals, I just had to do my best to ignore them. It wasn’t even political, just them arguing and also poking fun at me because it’s easy.

I feel like this would’ve been good information to know in class but a lot of shit tends to be left out

Thank you, glad to be back! Things do spiral more and more from here so I look forward to everyone’s responses to the audacity.

Oh, I follow Yellow Parenti on twitter! Nice to see a crossover

Thank you, it was awful but at least it’s over lol

I hated every second of it and am still mad lol but the propranolol helped keep me from stuttering and shaking.

Presentation today 😔

Edit: too many people asked me questions and it was quite humiliating. Do not write presentations the night before you have to do them.

Reminds me how in class today, we were talking about the origins of the war, a student said that Putin is like a cornered animal, he’s scared and dangerous.

Thanks Star! I am surprised by how tough this semester has been and I am only taking three courses (next semester I am taking a full five because I want to get this shit over with lol). I can’t wait for it to be over so I can take a break and start properly looking into the one and only masters program I can apply to. Posts will be back after December 19th!

Thank you, comrade! I am almost done with this semester and only have two left for undergrad. Once finals are over mid December I will get back to posting.

In my paper I argued that traditional values in Russia were actually quite different compared to what they’re portrayed as by the government, because there was a lot of… homoeroticism going on. Other aspects of my paper talked about how this particular brand of Russian homophobia evolved through multiple factors such as proximity to the west and as a scapegoat during times of crisis.

I think for my masters thesis I will mention pussy riot and delve into that whole issue because I just didn’t have the time to talk about it in my paper. I did briefly try to find sources but al of them were vey western and very positive, which in a way is good because it shows the impact of pussy riot on the west and how it had to opposite effect in Russia. But I already had too much to add to my paper so I omitted it, I had notes about gay pornography and had to scrap it when writing because it was just too much lol. I submitted it last night and the thing was over 3000 words long, the paper was supposed to be, at most, 2500.

Anyone who talks about this but doesn’t mention the fact that the West and its intelligence services (CIA, MI6, etc.) are known to have fostered and fed pro-Nazi, anti-Soviet movements in the Baltics and Ukraine is lying by omission.

This class is very hit or miss when it comes to talking about western interference or not. It is sad that none of this was mentioned.

The nationalist tensions were fueled and inflamed by the West and turned into armed conflicts throughout the Soviet Republics in the exact same way that they did to Yugoslavia.

Again, western involvement was not talked about at all, except when it comes to Yugoslavia which will be covered in a future class.

There were more people who supported the Supreme Soviet than supported the armed forces sent in by Yeltsin to crush the attempt to save the USSR.

The photos and footage she showed made it seem like the pro-collapse crowd was a lot larger than what you are stating here.

It’s like every time I make a post about this class I am given whiplash, because I feel so defeated in class but then you and other comrades will come in and say that it’s wrong. I was initially very sad to see how many people were okay with overthrowing the Supreme Soviet, but then I am brought back to a more neutral attitude because clearly I need to read more about this.

My midterm post wont be uploaded for a while, but I will give you a brief spoiler: one of the essay questions was about the collapse of the Soviet Union and I answered that “while some people (my professor) argue that the national question was the reason for the collapse, I argue that there were other factors that exacerbated national issues instead.” That’s where I was able to use all of the information you and other comrades provided on what contributed to the fall (like the effects of WWII, global isolation, etc.)

The CIS was barely mentioned in class so I am surprised that it still exists. I wonder why she didn’t mention this, although maybe she just didn’t know.

Thank you for giving the proper names. Pridenstrovie was written in the lecture slides once but the word Artsakh was never uttered. I wish it was because it would’ve been way easier to remember for my midterm but “Nagorno” sufficed.

Okay so I am glad that my suspicions of the whole “Cult of Personality” thing is not just me being crazy. I don’t think my professors have ever mentioned a “cult of personality” surrounding leaders like Hitler or Mussolini, only anyone who is socialist.

Loyal citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul is on my watch list and I will try to get on it as soon as possible. I have seen clips of it and know it’s an important documentary.

Gross is the perfect word to describe the feeling. Because it’s bad enough to hear these sentiments from other people (classmates, colleagues, random podcasters, etc.) but to hear come from people you’re related too? There’s just an extra layer of grosses added on.

I also, weirdly enough, have a DJT supporter in my family but I’ve also successfully pivoted conversations with them to avoid politics since last time that happened we got into a screaming match where I was forced to apologize.

Sometimes people know better and are just spoiling for a fight.

Again, this is the perfect explanation. I know that they know I’m right but they just want to fight. They hate to admit that they’re wrong so they’ll keep pushing until they have nothing else left to argue, and then just stop without admitting their faults. It’s very annoying and exhausting.

It was one of the most painful things I had to sit through and this happens at almost every single family gathering. This is the first time communism has ever been uttered, but at every other event there’s complaints about immigrants and/or trans people. There is also weird glazing over Portugal and apologia for slavery. So it is something I go through very often but never get used to.

I have one year left of undergrad and then will have a few months off before I can start my masters. It’ll be so nice once I can finally stand on my own, preferably in a different country too. Thank you for the well wishes comrade, it means a lot!

It was a very intellectually painful discussion that I was unable to participate in. I wanted to so badly say that communism is the reason why Cuba has been able to survive the embargo, had it been a capitalist country it would’ve been fucked. But alas.