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Some Random Tankie Memes i found on twitter
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Such a beautiful aircraft. Western media always tries to portray fictional Soviet machinery as boxy and ugly, but when you look at actual designs it’s all flowing lines and style
I’ve been in one of these. They’re really nice. The interior looks a bit dated but that’s to be expected.
I first saw one in a 70s Soviet movie – can’t remember the name – about a Georgian bush pilot who dreams of flying a Tu-144. After knocking around Moscow for a while with an Armenian friend, he gets his dream, but decides he misses home and so goes back to his old job. Just a good heartwarming movie.
Anyway, it’s an absolutely beautiful aircraft. Seeing it on the ground almost makes you do a double-take, because it looks like something whose native habitat is the air.
Read about China on Reddit is like reading about Jews on stormfront.
So, embarassing confession time: I was kind of holding onto (hope I’m not the only one) an irrational hope that the patsoc crowd would someday get past their rightist nonsense and turn into genuine Marxist-Leninists. With the latest split between Maupin and Haz+Jackson Hinkle, I’ve finally seen what everybody else probably saw a long time ago: not gonna happen.
The thing is, the whole phenomena is just as media and personality-driven as the radlibs they criticize. Maupin is a TV reporter; Haz and Jackson Hinkle are “influencers;” Sameera Khan, who seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, is a model. And they’re all jealous of each other’s media presence. Maupin seems upset that Jackson have a bigger internet presence than he does. Haz and Jackson Hinkle are jealous that Maupin, as an RT reporter, plays in the media “big leagues;” going to Kremlin press conferences, interviewing the president of Iran, etc. Compared to him, they’re small-time operators, and they know it. Hence the attempt to glom onto Andrew Tate – very weird, because whatever Maupin did back in August last year, Tate did, and worse. Just a bunch of weird opportunists who mistake personal drama for advancing the revolution.
They were all grifters from the beginning, I didn’t expect any reform. More alarming is the continued prominence of patsocs that pretend they’re just regular principled MLs and are held up as such (I’m looking at you Midwestern Marx).
For real. I think Haz has been threatening to start his organization (the based and MAGA-pilled version of CPI or something) “next month” since January. So far all he’s done is print a bunch of Infrared Gorilla Gang hats and get in arguments with random Australians about white nationalism.
But if your original strategy was “tweet and get fellow Khmer Rouge fans to infiltrate the CPUSA with the goal of taking it over next election cycle,” it’s hard to see how Plan B could be much of an improvement. (Everybody, including Maupin and Jason Unruhe (!), said this kind of lazy infiltration doesn’t work; if it did, Bernie bros would be in charge of the Democratic Party by now. But what can you do – the real, non-internet world has a way of messing with the plans of would-be materialists).
Hello, how’s everyone?
Went and touched some grass for a month.
If everything goes well the next few weeks, I’ll have a lot of free time the next few months for some effortposts on SEA history and politics.
One I especially wanted to do for a while was comparing South Africa vs Malaysia, specifically comparing the racialised class structure of their economies.
This is because in my preliminary research I found out that the the South African BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) programme (for all it’s faults) were inspired by Malaysia’s NEP (New Economic Policy) that aimed to redistribute wealth among the racialised classes in Malaysia. I wanted to explore more on that and also assess the failures of the aforementioned policies in actually transforming the racialised economic base of both countries (and improve my understanding of their histories as well).
Stay tuned for that.
If anyone has any material relating at all to this, by all means share it with me.
