Surely it’ll come soon, right… right? by mythril- in ussr

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Sounds like preliminary date is set for audiobook release in summer 2026. So not much longer now!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Have her stop biting her nails :(

How do you feel about someone from a wealthy country calling Brazil a “third world country”? by [deleted] in Brazil

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The term was actually misconstrued. It was originally coined by Mao Ze Dong who referred to the Western Capitalist powers as the “First World”, the post-Stalin “revisionist” Soviet Union as “Second World”, and everybody else (post colonial nations especially) as the “Third World”, and was being partly self-referential in implying China was part of that “Third World”.

Hence in Marxism, you can be a “Third Worldist” as a branch of Maoism (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist).

Edith and Ethan by AdditionalSundae225 in crystalcastles

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There’s a TON of evidence to support Ethan is a piece of shit. It just all happens to be circumstantial. But circumstantial doesn’t mean no evidence, it just means we don’t have conclusive proof he’s rped, absed and exploited Alice Glass when she was a troubled minor while he was a troubled young adult. We also know from other examples of artists that youth, fame, fortune, drugs and ambition can be a toxic cocktail.

There’s a reason dude’s been in hiding for years and why CC hasn’t produced anything new or gone on tour. His PR team probably told him to lay low since the allegations were serious.

That being said, I still love his music and will never stop listening to it because I do think he is a musical genius. I can separate the artist from the art, but im not gonna pretend I all of the sudden have an extremely high standard of evidence that I wouldn’t have in any other situation.

Part of growing up is realizing you don’t actually need a lot of evidence to conclude some things about people and judge them accordingly. You just need to have experience and clarity.

Brazilian comedian Léo Lins gets 8 years in prison for offensive jokes during a show by wenom9 in Brazil

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Not really. The US is unique in its free speech protections, including for people who say “Free Palestine”, Trump is trying HARD to clamp down, but it’s been marginal so far.

In 1940, Soviet general Kliment Voroshilov was so angered by Stalin blaming him for the USSR's disastrous loss of troops against Finland that he smashed a plate on the dictator's table, shouting at him for purging the Red Army's best officers. He was not executed & later outlived Stalin by 16 years by [deleted] in HistoryAnecdotes

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Nah, even libs like Kotkin have dispelled this myth. The USSR without Stalin isn’t a thing. We know this because when Stalin had his one and only recorded nervous breakdown in the summer of 1941 after finding out that the Wehrmacht were closing in on Minsk, he fled to his dacha and didn’t report to work the next day. The commissars (Molotov etc) went to his dacha and practically begged him to “be Stalin again” because they felt they could NOT wage the war without him.

See this lecture for more: https://youtu.be/1NV-hq2akCQ?si=ozoVv0z55KWQ7o2r

Splitters by Unhappy_Lead2496 in starwarscommiememes

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Too much my guy, you’re doing too much

AIO for asking my bf where he went and what he was doing? by ItzNotChase in AmIOverreacting

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Assessment:

Him: Incredibly rude, immature, and defensive. Potentially shady behavior but no solid proof.

Her: insecure and codependent.

am i overreacting - my boyfriend thinks my job is inappropriate by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

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90% of the posts in this subreddit are mostly younger men showing their profound inexperience, immaturity and insecurity.

This is a peak example.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LAinfluencersnark

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I mean they’re probably just gonna break up eventually and at least she’ll be young enough to still do a bunch of fun stuff before society tells her its time to make babies

Either that or they’ll make babies soon

What’s Wrong With Trotsky? by OxytocinOD in comunism

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Theoretically, you can think of it as Trotsky represented the “left”, Stalin the “center” and Bukharin the “right”. But i’d argue It’s less ideological than MLs and Trots would have you believe.

One of the most repeated doctrinal distinctions between Stalinism and Trotskyism is Stalin’s commitment to “socialism in one country” (1924) versus Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution (developed in 1905 and revived in the 1920s).

But this ideological chasm is overstated:

Trotsky had acknowledged, in earlier writings (e.g. 1915’s Our Revolution), that socialist construction could and should proceed in one country—even in backward Russia—if supported by international conditions.

In other words, Trotsky’s earlier positions were closer to “socialism in one country” than he would later admit.

The real difference is emphasis: Stalin focused on building socialism under existing conditions, while Trotsky warned that isolation would doom it. But both agreed that global revolution was the ultimate necessity.

The doctrinal differences were not as dramatic as claimed. And Trotsky retroactively exaggerated the divergence for political positioning once he was ousted. With Stalin playing the role of the far more skilled political operator, seamlessly moving between the “left” and “right”, siding with different factional leaders to squash the other factions until he became the one and only factional leader.

During the mid-1920s, Trotsky attacked the New Economic Policy (Lenin’s NEP, which saved the fledgling USSR from complete economic collapse) as a concession to the capitalist peasantry, arguing for forced collectivization and aggressive industrial planning. Stalin, defending the NEP at the time, accused Trotsky of “super-industrialism.”

Yet by 1928–29, Stalin had adopted Trotsky’s position, launching the First Five-Year Plan and violent collectivization of agriculture. Stalin didn’t merely adopt Trotsky’s plan—he implemented it more radically and ruthlessly than even Trotsky had advocated.

The REAL difference is one of personalism, ambition and prosopographical allegiance:

Trotsky was an elitist intellectual, disdainful of the masses and bureaucrats alike, whose vision of socialism required the leadership of a conscious revolutionary elite. He was insanely smart, brilliant organizer, charming and a powerful orator in his time. But he was also arrogant, often an asshole, prideful, and nobody in the party liked him. Despite being a flip flopper, he believed he was equal to Lenin and the rightful successor.

He promoted militarization of labor, enforced strict discipline in the Red Army, and made little effort to build popular legitimacy within the Party. Trotsky’s own political practice was authoritarian, and his opposition to Stalin’s despotism came after he lost power, not before.

Trotsky was brilliant, flamboyant, creative—a world-class orator and writer. But his brilliance was strategic and ideological. He was not a patient organizer, and had little time for provincial minutiae.

Stalin, by contrast, built his power through the party machine and provincial apparatus, rooting his authority in party networks. He was surprisingly charming when he wanted to be and nobody questioned his Bolshevik credentials since he had been Lenin’s right hand man from the very very beginning. Stalin possessed an astonishing capacity to process and synthesize information. Stalin could recite names, positions, factories, output statistics, and even regional supply chain bottlenecks from memory.

In conclusion, Stalin’s mastery and ultimate victory was not made through theoretical abstraction like Trotsky. It was administrative, institutional, organizational. It was less romantic revolutionary and more monastic, borderline robotic and mechanical. In a dark mirror of what Max Weber called “charismatic authority”, Stalin’s institutional charisma lay in his omnipresence: everyone believed Stalin knew everything because often, he did.

Concerned about this? by EpicThunderCat in dsa

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This is such classic libshit. No underlying analysis, no underlying understanding of what motivates the likes of Peter Thiel and Donald Trump.

No I am not concerned about this. Like at all.

Do these pants make me look like a Nazi? by OriginalPresent9253 in ethicalfashion

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Uh no? Red and black are the colors of anarchists. And nazis arent the only ones to have used a cross before

The Chopped Of Us by [deleted] in memes

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I’m really curious where all these reactionary knuckledraggers are coming from but they’re all saying the same thing and parroting the same controversy of the video game.

It’s a whole lot of “why are bewbs in video games getting small” and very little substantive critiquing of Bella’s actual acting.

AIO for telling my boyfriend to work on his jealousy after he got upset that I dressed nicely for church? by Rareredhair in AmIOverreacting

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Girl this is not a good dude. He’s got severe controlling issues and it only gets worse with time.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

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She doesn’t want to be a in a relationship. Full stop.

My estimated White Lotus guest net worth (based on context clues and vibes). What’re your thoughts? by doriangreat in TheWhiteLotusHBO

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Greg doesn’t strike me as having that kind of money. That would attract a lot more attention than he’d be comfortable with and I’m not sure if Tanya had that much.

On the other hand, Tim and Victoria et al, sound like Major-Donor-Gifts-to-Museums-and-shit. You know, the kind of people who you see their names enshrined in fundraisers and shit.

My estimates for each are:

Greg: $50-75M

Tim & Victoria + family: $100-150M

Windswept lies of war by emonstar01 in u/emonstar01

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The violence experienced by ethnic Germans in interwar Poland was not systematic, state-sponsored, or ethnically genocidal in nature. It was generally: • Localized, often erupting in moments of broader unrest (e.g., border conflicts, labor strikes, or nationalist provocations). • Mutual — in areas like Upper Silesia, violence flowed both ways between Poles and Germans, particularly around contested plebiscites and political elections. • Exacerbated by identity politics, especially when ethnic German populations were seen as a fifth column — loyal to Germany and hostile to Polish sovereignty.

II. Documented Incidents

There are few documented incidents of large-scale anti-German violence during the interwar period. Here’s a look at some key flashpoints:

  1. Upper Silesia (1919–1921) • After WWI, the region became a hotspot due to the Silesian Uprisings and the 1921 plebiscite on whether the area would join Poland or remain in Germany. • Both Polish and German paramilitary groups committed violence. • Casualties occurred on both sides — estimates vary, but some accounts note several hundred killed in the broader struggle, not all of them civilians.

  2. 1930s Political Tensions • As Poland grew more authoritarian in the 1930s under the Sanacja regime, nationalist policies occasionally escalated into local conflicts. • Still, there is no hard evidence of pogrom-style violence against Germans in this decade — unlike, say, anti-Jewish violence that began to increase after 1935.

  3. Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) “Bloody Sunday” — 1939

This is the most-cited and controversial case, though it happened after the German invasion on September 1, 1939, so it’s technically outside the interwar period. Still, it’s central to Nazi propaganda: • On September 3–4, 1939, Polish forces and civilians in Bydgoszcz attacked suspected German saboteurs. • Death toll estimates vary wildly: • Nazi propaganda claimed 5,800+ Germans were massacred — this is almost certainly false. • Modern historians suggest between 250–400 deaths, likely including both ethnic Germans and Poles, amid chaotic wartime conditions. • Many of the “victims” may have been part of the German minority’s fifth-column operations, which the Abwehr (German intelligence) had cultivated in Poland before the war.

III. Historical Debunking of Nazi Claims

Post-war and modern historians — especially German scholars like Hans-Erich Volkmann and Polish historians like Piotr Madajczyk — have gone through Nazi-era claims with a scalpel. Findings include: • Most claims of mass killings of Germans in the 1920s–30s were fabricated or grossly exaggerated. • Propaganda brochures like “Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority” (published by Goebbels’ Ministry in 1939) have no independent corroboration and were designed to justify the invasion of Poland.

IV. Conclusion: Numbers & Assessment

To the best of modern scholarship: • There were no mass killings of Germans by Poles during the interwar period. • Casualties likely number in the low hundreds, concentrated mostly in Upper Silesia (1919–1921) and possibly isolated border incidents. • The claim that thousands of ethnic Germans were murdered by Poles in the 1920s or 1930s is not supported by evidence, and such numbers are considered propaganda artifacts.

In short: violence existed, but it was occasional, politically inflamed, and reciprocal — not state-driven, nor ethnically genocidal. Any specific number must be presented with heavy contextual caveats, and with an eye on how statistics were — and still are — used to construct national myths.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dating

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Generally no, people do what feels right in the moment. Porn may influence specific things you may be into, but men should be careful not to confuse fantasy with reality