Wow who couldve predicted this. It’s so unprecedented

They said solar panels were congruent with democratic ways of life. So I guess just putting solar panels in everyone’s houses _-~-_/

Recently had to read a textbook for my ethics class where it said that one of the concerns with technological advancement was that certain technologies promote “authoritarian power structures.” What technologies did they use as examples? Railroads and nuclear power plants.

I hate this class

It’s also a little hard since he died before the USSR actually collapsed (age 28, 1990). Maybe he would’ve matured, maybe not. But it’s not like he was an explicit hardcore reactionary. For instance, some of his album covers were based on the early soviet Avant-garde.

The communist band Silenzium strings has done some covers of his songs though, including one of his most fanous songs, Pereman [translated as “change” which is a common Easter Europe protest song nowadays]

👍

Personally i started by reading “The Crippled Tree” which is the first in her autobiographical/chinese history series. But for someone else it depends on what you want. So if you’re looking for historical overview and her own personal story (which is really interesting) id say start there.

However she also has two biographies on Mao Zedong [one covering 1890s to 1949, and the other covering 1949-76] and a biography on Zhou Enlai. So if you’re more interested in them than anything else I definitely reccomend them.

She also wrote a lot of romance books. I haven’t read them [yet] so I’d say probably start with “A Many Splendored Thing” since thats her most well known one. But she also has a sapphic book [which shocked the hell out of me] called “winter love.”

So if you just want to get into reading her books in general, then id start with her autobiographical series, since it has a little of everything (theres this really beautiful bit where she describes how her parents fell in love. I wont spoil anything but really like it). But there’s enough that you can pick and choose. [She also has at least two smaller books on the Malayan Emergency and Tibet, titled “The Rain in my Drink” and “Lhasa the Open City” respectively].

That’s fine, like I said I don’t really care about the rankings or whatever. I’ve just had this conversation before and wanted to reiterate my opinion on that

Beyond like the occasional liberal or ultra that comes on here, yeah this one is pretty negative.

I don’t particularly care about any of this but…not everything has to be agitprop? If I wanna crack a joke or talk about something with a few friends I don’t need to do it in pamphlets or while doing mutal aid or whatever. I can make a funny meme that doesn’t actually mean anything

I…do I have to specify capital L and lowercase l liberal everytime I post?

My point is that they’re fine with genuine anti-semetic fascists while also acting like anyone against Israel just hates jews (also for some extra points, how many liberals talk about how anti semetic Stalin was, supposedly)

I’m not disagreeing?

“You’re reading too much into it”-Very intelligent people [definitely super intelligent I promise]

*and aiding in shooting down missiles

I’m more like this but I’m glad some people aren’t as depressed as I am

Well there’s not a lot of options, since most of the screen has a black background.

I love statistics.

Also thx for the explanation

Where’s this coming from? (I’m probably just blind, sorry)

But muh north korean peasants executed by anti aircraft gun for listening to .1 seconds of kpop