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Portrait of Vel Saties wearing a toga picta (left) and Arnza holding a bird (right). From the François Tomb, Vulci; 4th c BC; fresco. 

#me and who

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Happy disembowelment day 🥰 Cato the younger has been dead for 2069 indefatigable, constant, carping, loud, remorselessly monstrous years

#rest in piss nasty old conservative BITCH

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#yeah

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Btw Israel let Palestinians celebrate not one (1) holiday in peace. They didn’t grant Christian Palestinians access to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, they actively attacked families who were already starving at Iftar during Ramadan, and now there are several reports of families being killed on Eid al-Fitr—a sacred multi-day holiday practiced by lots of Arabs. It breaks my heart imagining the Palestinian families in Gaza right now, most of whom are spending Eid mourning loved ones who were taken by Israeli strikes. Most of us will never understand the sheer magnitude of that pain.

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the impersonality of drone-striking civilians for sport is one thing but there are many, many idf soldiers walking the earth who know what it's like to run over human beings with a tank and a bulldozer, to crush them dead and alive. there's a lot less distance between a tank and a human body than there is between a drone operator and a human body. but we know from breaking the silence in 2014 that they don't feel anything in the bulldozers even if they run over an empty car, so i'm sure all those people they crushed did not feel like anything. and yet just like the drone operators, even if they feel nothing physically, they do it for the excitement of it, for the joy, for the stories they will tell their eager listeners, for the same reason they make souvenirs of dead people's possessions. in my opinion these people, who have experienced the intimacy of murdering and torturing palestinians as power, cannot be rehabilitated. unlike the resistance who leave their homes with the acceptance that they will not return and the understanding that they (and their entire families) will answer for it, idf soldiers enter gaza and commit unthinkable crimes because they look forward to their return. they return to their families with a trophy of palestinian suffering and a belief that they will never answer for it.

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hotd tiktokers when you tell them sometimes writers make changes based off what will make a more interesting show and not because they’re being personally paid off by fictional character otto hightower

#DOG GEORGE GAVE US SUETONIUS AND THE HOTD WRITERS ARE MAKING IT INTO AN ACTUAL STORY #YOU CANT GET MAD AT THIS AND YET PEOPLE DO #asoiaf

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seeing people having to write thinkpieces in defence of elia martell is crazy. yeahh guys i think the woman whos arranged marriage cheated on her and ran away causing a war which led to an invasion of the castle in which her infant children were killed in front of her before she was raped and murdered might not have been the villain in that situation. targaryen fan brain parasites

#targ fan psychology genuinely demented stuff #asoiaf

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april will be a good month [staring into the sink mirror eyebags prominent the most upset person youve ever seen]

#defending and working on two papers has me like. nrother.

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madness is such a hard thing to define, which makes it such an easy label to affix to one’s enemies. once it had been applied to thomas, once our relationship had been exposed, defiled, scandalized… everything ended. there were times that i was persuaded to sue for peace since then, but that was the day that on some level i knew that england was broken, and that sooner or later a good man must resist it.

#in awe of flint every day #black sails

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why do you support china

TL;DR,

As the daughter of a family of peasants on both sides, I would simply not exist if it was not for Mao Zedong and the communist party. My grandfather on my mom's side was the only person in his village to attend high school. My maternal grandparents became PLA medics then full on doctors. My grandfather on my dad's side was illiterate until the 50s, after which time, he became a local librarian. Every single senior citizen in the PRC has stories of the horror, war, death, starvation, poverty that Chinese people suffered for centuries, amplified by the century of humiliation. There's not a single farmer left in my family. They are artists. Teachers. Engineers. Physicists. Musicians. Doctors. Programmers. The oldest pictures in my family's collection are a set of prints from the 60's, after cameras came to the peasantry. In my very own lifetime, I saw Pudong, on the east bank of the Huangpu river which splits Shanghai in two, go from just the Oriental Pearl and a collection of buildings to the skyscraper metropolis it is today. When I was born, there was not a single kilometer of true HSR. In 22 years, they have built 45,000 kilometers of HSR, a number which is still growing. In 2021, the PRC completed the historical task of eliminating extreme poverty in the entire country. There are millions of families like mine living in the PRC, from Urumqi to Harbin.

In 1991, the Soviet Union was illegally and forcefully dismantled, a process which culminated in the constitutional crisis of 1993. Similar processes of primitive accumulation occurred in former Eastern Block countries, from East Germany to Bulgaria. State assets were stolen for cents on the dollar. Quality of life, especially average lifespan, dropped significantly and so dramatically that it took former Soviet countries 3 decades or more just to recover to pre-dissolution numbers; some still haven't. Pensioners lost their pensions and were forced to sell scrap and empty bottles just to survive. Those who had state jobs were laid off. Social welfare programs were cut back or eliminated entirely. Children were forced into prostitution or trafficked. Now the constituent republics which made up the USSR engage in petty regional wars to the detriment of all of their citizens. The Soviet Union was a country just shy of 300 million people. Over 1.4 BILLION people live in the PRC right now. Economic shock therapy of which the former USSR went through would be an unmitigated humanitarian disaster on a scale perhaps never seen on the planet.

The Communist Party of China has brought about unimaginable good to Chinese people. It took a backwaters, "sick man of Asia" and turned it into the 2nd strongest nation currently on the planet all within a single lifespan. The PRC is the most successful socialist project still around and should be a magnificent source of lessons to learn from, both the good and the bad. However, this is not to say the the PRC should be emulated or copied. Rather, communists should analyze their own material conditions and class make up and apply the lessons of the PRC as they see fit for their own countries.

#i also want to add that China under communism discovered a new antimalarial that has saved hundreds of millions of lives #and in addition china is the biggest country to become malaria-free (which happened in the last few years) and it was thanks to significant #state efforts to prioritize a disease that mainly killed the poor #the same can be said of schistosomiasis which mao et al wanted to eradicate or at least control and made significant progress on #a project that would not have been undertaken had communism not come to china #because schistosomiasis mainly affects 'the poorest of the poor'

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het is ok if it's femdom

#sacred text

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I like that when Americans decide they don't care about foreigners anymore they call it deradicalization "yeah I used to believe the people we work to death for pennies an hour and blow apart from drones and helicopters overseas deserved to live in peace but then I got a well paying job and decided my comfort was more important, now im a rational moderate"

#if i fucking speak

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it is wild to me as the comments on last reblog indicate that ppl try to say the french revolution was bad or went too far or whatever. bc like. youre really gonna get up every day and have that opinion and voice it as if mark twain didnt own ur ass 150 years ago. lmao

#be so for real

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the fact that there are scores of tumblr users who will write entire essays on why the french revolution went too far and actually shouldnt be seen as a good thing is insane dawg get over it you lost

#its crazy how many people just want a fucking king or are so easy to convince to sympathize w/ monarchs LOL #vimes moment “Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees”

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do you think mocking catholicism is funny

yes. next question