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Researching biodiversity. I like frogs, communism and ending animal ag. He/him
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cosmicktrigger.bsky.social
I've had these "Comrade Ariana Grande" memes for years now. I don't even know who started the trend or why
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I will always tell leftists to read the Jakarta method and killing hope and really process what we will be up against and what that means for the movements we build
The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren't paying close attention to what happened in Gua-temala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world's largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious con-sequences. This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolu-tion; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: "Who was right?" In Guatemala, was it Arbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more dis-ciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party? Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit's unarmed party didn't survive. Allende's democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington.
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Capital has not been threatened seriously in many decades in this country. As a socialist movement grows - even a soc dem / dem soc one - their claws will come out. They have trillions to blow on crushing it
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social
The @sentientism.bsky.social Worldview, like other worldviews, answers the deepest questions - what's real & who matters.
#Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings". Five year olds understand it - I know because I run worldviews workshops with them.

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September 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM