historicly.substack.com Tibet, China, and the violent reaction of a wealthy elite
Too many westerners supplant their fantasy instead of dealing with reality in Tibet
I like the usage examples my dictionary gives...
Echo of Truth is back with another channel
Her previous one was blocked by YouTube. If you're not familiar: she lives in Pyongyang and she posts videos about daily life in DPRK as well as special occasions. It's very interesting, and I encourage you to subscribe to her new channel.
The DPRK is like having adblock in real life
Thread by Comrade Natalie with some lovely pictures
"I was born after the dissolution of the USSR, and I spent most of my life in America. Let me explain to you how terrible life under communism was."
Based.
(Shameless self-promotion: I created that channel. But I won't update it regularly or often.)
Someone who actually lived in DPRK:
Source: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=1OZMe0W0wW8 (You should watch the entire video, it's not long and very informative.)
Look how the girl is arranging the bricks. That's authoritarian! She's infringing on the bricks' freedom! She must be an anarcho-tankie secretly!
Recommendations for getting started with Mastodon?
I've been considering creating a Mastodon account. Any recommendations about what instance would be good for signing up? And suggestions which accounts to "subscribe"/"follow" (how is it called on Mastodon?)?
"Good" answer "except" for the "excessive" amount of "quotation" marks.
Good point about our imagination being limited by living under capitalism. I honestly just never considered that... As far as I know, under socialism, people still have a specialized profession. But you're correct, communism may well be different. Having a more generalist lifestyle is an interesting thought... Could anyone here share any sources to read more about it?
Why does a communist society imply working both on the fields, as engineer and as administration for a few hours each day? (Not like I'd be too opposed to that, I just don't see why it would be like that under communism.
They look so happy
They must be paid actors, there's no way anyone can be happy under a repressive communist system, am I right fellow liberals? /s
Seriously, I just liked the picture, and thought I'd share it here. Picture source: twitter.com/VofCommunism
HKers celebrate the arrest of CIA funded HK rioters
"Stolen" from /r/Sino of Reddit, but I can't not post this good video here. :grinning face:
(The direct link apparently doesn't include the audio, but at least you don't have to deal with the basically unusable Reddit UI this way.)
Sorry for being so clueless, but what is "cancel culture"?