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was trying to pull a basic example to be like oh i would dress like this on your cool show with a good aesthetic, kate, and it;s like oh do you want propaganda? do you want lies? do you want an article about soviet women from the fucking ATLANTIC? NO. I DONT.

trying to do fucking basic ass searches for some examples of soviet fashion is so fucking infuriatingly impossible. obviously ideologically but not even just that, it's just a bevy of absolute fucking nonsense that makes searching for this shit impossible

I cold brewed the leftover leaves from about 6-7 sessions of brewing from last night, over night in a bottle of water, and it’s delightful. No astringency and it maintains all the sweet bright cherry notes from the hot brewing. Really nice

Freya will call me a death grips normie for this but I do rotate between exmilitary and bottomless pit as my favorite of their albums

The Carthage Resuscitater has logged on

“Few people can guess how despondent one has to be in order to resuscitate Carthage.“

Something something Walter Benjamin quoting someone else quote

Feel like pure shit just want Carthagenian hegemony over the Mediterranean back

Thinking about when, in my higher level class on Jefferson & “Jeffersonian America,” a class in which I played the role of continual Marxist antagonist, we were looking at examples of Greco Roman inspired architecture & I was railing against it for a dozen dozen reasons & I shit you not o know this’ll sound like a And Everyone Clapped Moment but someone was like yeah but Athens etc was a Democracy & I actually had to point out it was a democracy maintained by slave labor

the Roman Empire was never real it’s nothing but the collective dreamscape fabrication of a dozen dozen tacky fascists and neo fascists and wishful archeologists

Never will even the most overwrought academic jargon ridden pastiche of critical theory be one fifth as insufferable as any one possible example of reddit literalism

I’d say my primarily ideological association could be described as “post-post-leftist marxist” but too many people I love would beat me up for that

I’m not too proud to admit we’ve kinda been owned by the MLs by default for having to give these convoluted monologues but also I can just say Le Communist McDonald’s so it’s all a wash

Every day I explain that Lenin wasn’t talking about the ideology we know as Left Communism when he wrong Left Communism An Infantile Disorder and that it’s possible to be a Marxist and a Leninist and not to be a Marxist-Leninist and that Marxism-Leninism has more to do with transformations in and disagreements on Leninist theory within and without the Soviet Union and Internationale after Lenin’s death and that

With far more weight towards the bottom half of that to be clear

Take away council communism and ”Luxembourgism”(not real) and I’m the entire right side of this bird

On the other hand this is reinforcing just how absolutely excellently they nailed the concept & contours of Moralism in disco elysium absolute masterstroke of design

Communism isn’t Nice please god understand who dictates and shapes the moral landscape please god read an ounce of Marx

Nothing gets under my skin more than scolding posts from social democrats about how The Left should be a little Less Mean and More Nice

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