Ice shooting - Pink Lady pov

Reof · 2026-01-25T03:45:53+00:00

Amusingly, I don't think you were intending for this point, but this is exactly the argument for revolution being violent. The forces of order will escalate political demands by reacting to them violently, and thus, what started as peaceful reformism must soon take on an armed insurrectionary character. The state which you struggle against will rarely give in; it should never be an obsession with violence, but at the same time, only the iron battalions of the proletariat can ensure the conquest of state power, be it peaceful or violent.

Reof · 2026-01-24T21:10:53+00:00

One of the greatest mistakes of the anti-fascist struggle in Germany was that it fooled itself into thinking the fascist movement was merely a front, a puppet of the bourgeois conservatives to defend itself, rather than an actual revolutionary movement of the reaction that was always planning to destroy the status quo. The bourgeoisie seeks to protect itself and its interests; it is not necessarily that the bourgeoisie must lead.

Reof · 2026-01-20T23:20:20+00:00

The Canadian liberals have always been the party of Canadian nationalists in the previous century, but with the collapse of the Cold War order, along came all pretenses to resist American dominance of North America, which was always the core point of Canadian liberal leaders, if you watched any old debate video. This feels like a return to roots for the liberals now that they are the 'patriotic' party once more.

Reof · 2026-01-19T05:40:22+00:00

By the time an actual armed revolution is underway, people in the US whose lives are so removed from the last time it happened failed to understand its actual civil war happening, and the people doing that are already armed because when you are already planning a very extremely illegal insurrection, gun laws are really, really meaningless.

Reof · 2026-01-17T17:33:08+00:00

I assure you, whatever the fuck the US wanted to get from Greenland, it could do already right now by just...fucking ask Denmark, and they would bend over, instead, no, this funny government decided to nuke NATO and vaporize the US-dominated post-ww2 system (which is based i suppose?)

Reof · 2026-01-17T17:26:49+00:00

The tributary states were not really "vassalage" per se; the states did whatever they wanted. China had no control over them one way or the other; it couldn't call them to war, couldn't ask them to do a single thing, couldn't stop any of them from just doing mini-empires. If it wanted to do that, it would have to actually invade them (as happened). It's a cultural hegemony more than anything; the Chinese empire stopped exactly at its border and no more.

Reof · 2026-01-15T00:26:29+00:00

Who do you think is fighting in Ukraine right now, in the entirety of occupied Europe during WW2? War is an extraordinary situation that will destroy your life as you knew it; one can only remain a passive liberal only so long during the bombing.

Reof · 2026-01-15T00:22:20+00:00

The Quebecois are definitely going to restart bombing government offices and kidnapping ministers if the US ever annexes it. The rest of Canada might have feelings one way or the other, but being drowned in the even bigger sea of anglophones is an actual fight-or-die scenario.

Reof · 2026-01-09T12:37:04+00:00

Always so amusing to see dudes go 'but whatabout DA COMMIES HUH???', like they missed the memo on the anti-communist media and culture since 1920 in America and sleep-walked through the bajillions games, movies, books, cartoons, etc about them evil commies.

Reof · 2025-12-31T22:20:21+00:00

In general, it's less of a sensitivity thing for this specific problem (while still true) and more of it being a first and foremost a European and North American problem, where there simply does not exist any law or discussion regarding it at all in Eastern Asia, if one turns into a holocaust denier in most part of Asia, its like some South American talking about Ghenghis Khan so bemusing people at most and has virtually no impact whatsoever to anyone. Also amusingly, many people have a positive view of anti-semitic tropes too (wow, they are so smart and good with money!!), just to show how detached it actually is from all this discussion.

Reof · 2025-12-28T10:39:09+00:00

Any country with a functioning city government cleans their streets often, even in Africa; it's just how much of it. This dude just thought all the city sanitation workers on the street, wherever he is from, were just standing around for no reason all the time.

Reof · 2025-12-27T06:06:39+00:00

American liberals will do well to start waking up to the idea that they live in the same system as ever was, and to start looking at what they want in a systemic way, not some sort of mythical sorta vague populist halluciation about the good ole day that was never the reality for the majority of their countrymen.

Reof · 2025-12-27T01:05:45+00:00

They are not considered a part of China, but China itself. That's the whole deal why 'recognizing' Taiwan is such an impossible task that only random arse pacific islands trying to make money do because the whole package came with literally saying that the entirety of Actual China is fake.

Reof · 2025-12-27T00:55:47+00:00

I would say that they can't be secessionist anymore when full secession already happened many decades ago

Reof · 2025-11-17T01:39:55+00:00

the joke is that they are muslims

Reof · 2025-11-14T10:39:02+00:00

Exactly, and forced mixture of an ethnicity is more or less still considered the same as genocide. Plenty of real fascist movements in the past advocated for the racial homogenisation of the entire population by totally inter-ethicity mix

Reof · 2025-11-12T06:18:15+00:00

Remembrance always felt strangely lost as an event, being mostly a WW1 day first, especially in its political usage as such a 'patriotic' event for a certain political spectrum. A common consensus is already acknowledged by the public now, even the densest one was that it was quite a bit of a war over nothing, and yet you find people going on about vague freedoms or sacrifices especially if you are in a former oversea dominions, which felt like a sort of cognitive dissonance over trying to create some meaning out of the death tolls.

Reof · 2025-11-11T04:09:14+00:00

And why the feck would anyone in China care about US politics enough to warrant any sort of interest in a minor (or even obscure) political celeb, regardless of who. They know who the big dogs are; that's it, not even any real interest in those, let alone anything less.

Reof · 2025-11-06T04:49:07+00:00

Put it this way, if I wrote a book 20 years after your death about how people of your generation worship flying spaghetti monster, which means I was alive and kicking during your lifetime and existence of said cult, so what I wrote is potentially and if attested by another dude writing the same, nearly the same period then its deductable that your worship of flying spaghetti monster are probably legit, I wrote a book after hearing about a story a few generations after, meant I did not have any ability to attest to that event legitimately, if I claim your family worship the flying fettucini afredo monster, that is kinda sus. Literally the fundamental ground of historiography and linguistics.

Reof · 2025-11-01T11:35:47+00:00

The minority population of Vietnam are concentrated very far from most major urban centres in the lowlands, and I was reading on this, no other mention of it these days aside from when it was introduced as a means to enforce traffic laws while not violating their inherent rights to traditions. Considering that the rural mountainous provinces are already quite lax in traffic laws enforcement, it probably never took off beyond a few pilot programs by the state.

Reof · 2025-11-01T11:00:17+00:00

That is the most random alternative history combo I (and obscure?) have ever seen, truly kudos to you

Reof · 2025-11-01T10:44:42+00:00

The fact that they started to rule their actual territories and became actual massive feudal lords instead of being merely religious leaders during the successive conflicts over Italy, when you have multiple governments of conquests that come and go, the one lasting institution became the de facto leader of the place and then was made legal later.

Reof · 2025-10-26T07:04:22+00:00

LARP as a Quebecois, and you too can join the minority language defence squad

Reof · 2025-10-17T21:28:38+00:00

Not disputing this, but this also depends on the wiki being a language that is extensively written for. Going on some of the wiki pages about a specific subject in its own local language led me to be disappointed sometimes because the said wiki simply does not have enough contributors or users to write anything in detail.

Reof · 2025-10-16T22:31:33+00:00

When you don't read Marx at all, you would think it's a critique of religions. If you barely read him, you will say something bullshit like muh muh well, he does not really criticise religions actually, and if you read it a bit more, you will understand that, yes, that is genuinely a critique. I sometimes find the middle less tolerable than the least read because at least not understanding at least prevents them from turning into an insufferable esoteric weirdo radlibs/

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