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As if modern Chess wasn't already built on the shoulders of generations of Soviet citizens
I mean, when you think of a stereotypically commie board game, if you know anything about Soviet life, you're going to think of chess. Continuing to be Annoyingly Communist about it is just one more way Western commies are stuck in the Soviet era, in the best way.
The main game I played with my dad as a kid was chess LOL, and yes, my parents are from the USSR
Please don't fetishize nonwesterners or people with such ancestry like this. I've gotten this type of thing offline and it sucks. Her point about intergenerational trauma is a big one too, you don't know what you're wishing for, and the lack of understanding of the problems that come from it sucks to encounter too
TBH it did feel kinda icky but I didn't take it as an offence really. Thx for putting it in words like this.
As for my fam coming from an AES (if corrupted) country making me being a Marxist any more or less valid, IDK.
Of course I'm happy to have this heritage, the glimpse of culture and society, the vast world, and masterful pieces of art and culture that are opened to me thanks to said heritage and it's language is wonderful. I seriously appreciate it, and me being trilingual (I grew up bilingually obvsly, but I'd developed quite good English I'd say in my preteens), but my childhood was far from nice, in no small part thanks to that heritage...
Though my immediate family had the opportunity to move away before the complete and utter collapse of the 90s, a lot of my relatives, granted most of them were in Moscow and partially academic, so it didn't hit them too hard, but still, it's one of the most traumatic events in the last few decades there.
Imagine your whole life being swept upside down, a caste of betrayer bureaucrats doesn't even begin to describe it. At least China's caste of parasites managed to pull the restoration of capitalism and national (Han in the "P"RCs case) chauvinism off without any such breakups and upheavals (but with the suppression of leftist and actually ML opposition ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
It doesn't make me lucky. Just means my closer family is full of Russian nationalists (read: my grandparents like Putin because of the Soviet nostalgia mumbo jumbo Russian state ideology is partially made of and my father despite of it LOL) and an apolitical mom.
Also I was born and raised in Germany (early 2000s), which materially is privileged, but the political landscape and climate here makes me wanna KMS NGL). Was also raised with OFC watching the victory day parade and Putins new years speeches KEK.
The only good thing my father taught me politically was a fiery and passionate hate of the USA 🫡
+ it doesn't make any of your positions more or less valid
Edit: oh and generational trauma from the GPW 😁 (and of the collapse). My great grandma specifically somehow survived one of the targeted genocides and largest sieges in modern history (Leningrad), she did a good chunk of raising my mom and is the reason why my grandma (mothers side), mom and finally I have shitty dry skin /lh
(At least that's the family theory that she caught something during the siege and then passed that symptom on or smth)
The "generational trauma" thing is very real, I talk with people who grew up where I am and whose parents did too and they don't know shit about what's like coming from a 3rd or 2nd world background. Which is not a condemnation of them, but sometimes it gets gross, like a partner made some comment about wishing their family's history was as cool as mine because it produced a very interesting person (me), and I got kind of upset because it's a history of suffering due to the west's colonial actions, and between intergenerational trauma and firsthand trauma I and my siblings are utter wrecks of humans in ways that we wouldn't have been had we been white westerners. Sure there'd be other problems, but I would trade for those problems.
I was lucky to have the privilige to have no material wants, but the cultural and psychological shocks of Soviet history I did still feel.
Those scars are not cool and quirky, I personally don't know if I would get rid of them, they are part of me, of what defines me.
But I would swap my parents NGL (though a lot of the issues they have are personal, IDK in how large a part due to their history).
It's still hard to fathom that my (technically step-) grandpa was born during the war, played in collapsed ruins as a child and still remembers having had to eat acorns or rather bread made of acorn flour to get by (despite his family being relatively well off for the times); I can't even properly process that...
Edit: I'm also sorry for your personal history having been plagued by colonialism, I can't even imagine what that baggage must be like, sorry... :/
Raw acorn flour or rinsed acorn flour?
Tbh I'm hoping to set up appropriate tech installations to make a whole bunch of the latter, like the rightful stewards of this territory did for millennia.
I don't even k ow what you are talking about ^^'
I'm talking about the agroforestry of Algonquian peoples (and others too).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IsW0icwlnuo&list=PLCeA6DzL9P4seWTabyYosTDrJ5txOJBys
There's a big difference between "eating raw acorns", which will make you sick, and "eating bread from well-rinsed acorn flour", which is one of the best ways to make use of an abundant forest product and which has been done all over the world.
Ah, interesting! I was not told, don't know whether I'll want to ask to clarify tho
You probably don't need to. "Bread from acorn flour" and "relatively well off" probably means they had running water and large jars. A kid eating unrinsed acorn flour will not stomach more than 100 kcal per day of it without getting sick.
Still, no matter what the context, eating acorn foods just sounds badass.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Oh and all relevant communists movements in the RF have been outlawed as in their parties, or broken up from the inside with government help.
The KPRF is an imperialist succdem joke
Also no, one accidental US-prodigy doesn't negate any of that; fuck off Fisher stans ;3
Another thing that's a bit off topic: around two years back I had a discussion with a German acquaintance of mine, where he actually claimed that the Poker world championship was somehow more culturally relevant than the world Chess championship; naturally I just laughed at that.
(And since this year he has been very active on chess.com and hasn't even mentioned Poker once :p)