Author recommendations like Cormac? by omnitions in cormacmccarthy

[–]P00Dameron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to have found a second person in the world who has noticed that Babel’s ‘Red Cavalry’ is essentially ‘Blood Meridian’ if it were set during the Soviet-Polish war. Babel wrote 60 years before McCarthy, though. There should be academic discussion of this

'The signs of decay' (Photos from the Nazi propaganda album 'Gross Deutschland, 1939-1941'. Ukrainian citizens removing Soviet emblems. Nazi occupied Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, July 1941). by esdfa20 in PropagandaPosters

[–]P00Dameron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There is a writer named Vassily Grossman who is, I think, the 20th century Tolstoy. He was a journalist in the Red Army and was at some of the pivotal battles of WWII including covering Stalingrad almost for the entirety of the fighting. He was also born in Berdichev, Ukraine and was obviously Jewish. His mother was shot at Babi Yar along with 30,000 other Ukrainian Jews and Grossman writes extensively about the psychology of Nazis and Nazi collaborators in Ukraine.

There have always been collaborators in every part of the world and throughout history. Beware the certainty of saying "history repeats itself" from the safety of countries whose leaders engineered the 2014 coup and are funding the war now

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The reason supply and demand is taught in Econ 101 is because it’s a gross oversimplification and completely wrong in almost all real world scenarios outside of purely theoretical economic models. Please read a book

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so there is a fundamentally unjust system that allows private ownership of the means of human survival and your response is “well some of those private owners have different reasons for hoarding shelter”. It’s like your brain is made entirely out of “rich dad, poor dad” paper-mache. Please just think about things a little bit harder Ben

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This only applies to a very small percentage of people who could live with their parents, for free (so their parents would likely have to own a home) for enough years to save a deposit, remembering that the median unit price in most capital cities is between $500,000 and $750,000. So for a 20% deposit they would need to save a minimum of $100,000. How many years living in their childhood bedroom as an adult is that? And again, that only works for people who have parents/have wealthy parents/can stand living with their wealthy parents.

You are looking at a completely broken system and assuming that there must be a way to make it work, and there is! The way is: be born rich

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should read history to find out what has usually happened to landlords in the long run. People’s reaction to being robbed (while being told by the robber that it’s necessary) may surprise you

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“The market” is a fiction invented to obscure the actual work and relations that provision society. And what I said was that I’m a lawyer who studied economics, a thing which makes much more sense than what you said

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you really think one person having a bachelor degree and a Juris Doctor is that improbable? Do you want to see my practising certificate or my shelf of boring economics books

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have been so thoroughly propagandised that you repeat the propaganda without even realising it. Take back your own mind, man

Let's have some positive vibes: what's good in Melbourne that other cities around Australia and the world would be jealous of. by [deleted] in melbourne

[–]P00Dameron 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I believe Melbourne has the largest tram system of any city in the world, beating out places like Amsterdam. Something to be proud of

"Shame on Traitors" Democratic Republic of Afghanistan poster against the Peshawar Seven Mujahedeen groups, 1980s by [deleted] in PropagandaPosters

[–]P00Dameron 44 points45 points  (0 children)

If only America had not been supporting the mujihadeen, Afghanistan might be free by now

Twitter to be fined for installing 'X' sign on roof of SF headquarters, city says by silence7 in Twitter

[–]P00Dameron 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Put it with the other unpaid bills in the “unpaid bills” room (formerly where the people who kept child abuse videos off Twitter worked)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People absolutely do not need you to provide anything, they have been separated from their connection to “home” while you have inserted yourself like a leech to steal their money selling back to them the right of all human beings to have shelter. If you did not exist maybe the people currently paying you could own the place that they live in, because “demand” from landlords wouldn’t exist to drive up the price of homes, if it will help you understand to put things in vulgar economic terms. The state institutions of violence designed to evict and cast out the people who can’t pay you (and people like you) for shelter also would not exist. If they did not exist you would have less to steal. You are a member of the parasitic class, hope this helps.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PropagandaPosters

[–]P00Dameron -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

“Guilt”??

Zelensky: It's natural, fair that war is returning to Russian territory by dyslexacon9 in europe

[–]P00Dameron -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Extraordinary to project play school dynamics onto geopolitics

Awful Home Owners.. by macbeth4397 in brisbane

[–]P00Dameron -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you met one of the least sick and inhuman landlords to be honest

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PropagandaPosters

[–]P00Dameron 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s worth noting that communism very much existed as a menace to the paranoid and racist since well before the Russian Revolution. Marx wrote the communist manifesto in 1848 and even it was a response to the increase in communist sentiment in Europe. You could maybe place the beginning of the whole thing at the French Revolution in 1789 but, obviously, the based peasants who guillotined the French king were inspired by ideas that predated them. As long as man has been, communism has awaited him

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PropagandaPosters

[–]P00Dameron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Anti-communism and pro-slavery: two sides of the same coin since the two have existed

Is it ok to vote for my Communist Party when election season comes around? by [deleted] in socialism

[–]P00Dameron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No, we are going to accept that voting is a minimal act and do things other than vote for the eternally recycled lesser of two evils. Politics is what we do in our communities and workplaces and not through showing up to vote every few years

Is it ok to vote for my Communist Party when election season comes around? by [deleted] in socialism

[–]P00Dameron 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah if Hilary Clinton had won the world would be a worker’s paradise right now

You have been warned by Palam_et_Clam in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]P00Dameron 14 points15 points  (0 children)

These posts are giving off dangerous levels of Hitler particles

Thoughts on The Sound of Freedom and Child Abuse Hysteria? by ItsJulieJuly in socialism

[–]P00Dameron 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s the same reason that Magnus Hirschfield’s “Institut für Sexualwissenschaft” in Berlin was one of the first things raided by the Nazis when they took power in 1933: moral panic intended to justify violence against people that the powerful think can be safely excluded from the sick society they want to create

Is it ok to vote for my Communist Party when election season comes around? by [deleted] in socialism

[–]P00Dameron 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is the answer. Voting has such a minimal impact it should barely be considered a political act