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[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago

Watched this news feature on a Somali woman smuggled past Sudan Into Libya to arrive by dingy to some European coast. The people smugglers had another idea, kidnap her and demand a ransom from her mother. The last her mother sees is her daughter getting beat by sticks on a video. She doesn’t know if her daughter is alive or dead.

Immediately thought of Hilldog saying about Gaddafi “we came, we saw, he died”. Cackling like a witch. Or more importantly the need for nations to develop their own independent and strong socialist economies after years of USAID dependence.

When somebody criticises the USSR, PROC etc on some exaggerated death toll. Remember just how brutal and unfair life gets outside the imperial core.

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago

and they'll never be forgiven for it

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

stalin-bummed

"y'all live in the worst possible timeline lmao how'd you fuck this up so bad?" - josef stalin

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

A flimsy little tape, hastily put together, that nevertheless held on for decades while being slightly teared apart until it snapped off. And then the lights went out. We live in darkness now

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

Just feel like shit. Want them back.

(Too young, barely, to be alive while they were here and I still miss them.)

gorby-sad{speech-rubi-l|  PIZZA TIME!  }

phoenix-objection-2*boop*

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago