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ann@omically· 27d

thinking about him

screenshot of article from 2012-ish. headline: "Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Police"
sub header: "Man with unusual name has a history of legal problems"

ann@omically· Jul 9

Louis Legrand - The Apache's Supper - circa 1901

ann@omically· Jun 29

the answer to your first question is... sort of? there's a lot to it. but it's not a revision. Marx touched on it and Lenin talked about it quite a lot in "Imperialism" www.marxists.org/archive/leni...

The receipt of high monopoly profits by the capitalists in one of the numerous branches of industry, in one of the numerous countries, etc., makes it economically possible for them to bribe certain sections of the workers, and for a time a fairly considerable minority of them, and win them to the side of the bourgeoisie of a given industry or given nation against all the others. The intensification of antagonisms between imperialist nations for the division of the world increases this urge. And so there is created that bond between imperialism and opportunism, which revealed itself first and most clearly in Great Britain, owing to the fact that certain features of imperialist development were observable there much earlier than in other countries. Some writers, L. Martov, for example, are prone to wave aside the connection between imperialism and opportunism in the working-class movement—a particularly glaring fact at the present time—by resorting to "official optimism" (à la Kautsky and Huysmans) like the following: the cause of the opponents of capitalism would be hopeless if it were progressive capitalism that led to the increase of opportunism, or, if it were the best-paid workers who were inclined towards opportunism, etc. We must have no illusions about "optimism" of this kind. It is optimism in respect of opportunism; it is optimism which serves to conceal opportunism. As a matter of fact the extraordinary rapidity and the particularly revolting character of the development of opportunism is by no means a guarantee that its victory will be durable: the rapid growth of a painful abscess on a healthy body can only cause it to burst more quickly and thus relieve the body of it. The most dangerous of all in this respect are those who do not wish to understand that the fight against imperialism is a sham and humbug unless it is inseparably bound up with the fight against opportunism.

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from Losurdo's "Liberalism: A Counter History"

ann@omically· Mar 15

new project: articulate the sacred and the profane in a single breakfast

ann@omically· Feb 17

Pop up text from Civ 6. it says:
Religious Emergency
(9/11) Defend Islam

ann@omically· Jan 2

the woman cited here, Josephine Fellows Gomon, worked for Henry Ford, meaning she has an extremely apparent conflict of interest. (screenshots here from the same section)

ann@omically· Jan 2

Henry Ford's wikipedia page is interesting. it goes into decent detail about his ties to the nazis but still minimizes them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F... (screenshots are from the "Antisemitism and the Dearborn Independent" section) why include the highlighted bit in the first screenshot?

highlighted text: "History records that... Adolf Hitler was an ardent Anti Semite before he ever read Ford's "The International Jew""

ann@omically· Dec 31

looks (and seems to behave) quite a bit like Otis here. we think he's part Maine Coon

ann@omically· Dec 17

this screenshot has been floating around. I've had some trouble finding the page because, well, it's in russian

ann@omically· Dec 2

cat!

ann@omically· Dec 1

old cheddar, turkey breast, montreal smoked meat, cucumber salad, pickled carrots, spinach, kewpie mayo, deli mustard. a damn fine sandwich

ann@omically· Oct 16

cat got her head stuck in a tissue box!!

ann@omically· Sep 11

happy birthday to this sweet little lady! to celebrate we are setting up two big jenga towers and letting her crash through them!

a small grey cat sitting on a windowsill

ann@omically· Sep 11

I'm going to bump this every once in a while with screenshots of posts on here that illustrate what I mean

ann@omically· Jul 15

Mohji the beast tamer from One Piece is just a sexy labubu

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ann@omically· May 9

the thing is that the state does all of this already. the article touches on this too; saying it's just "the latest" in a series of environmental harms to the area.

ann@omically· Apr 3

specifically it's Hound of the Baskervilles. client enters, immediately wants to measure sherlock's skull. client works for south african gold baron. this is how he describes their conversations. content warning for "race science" and racial slurs (which to my knowledge are no longer in common use)

"He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot."

ann@omically· Jan 20

lotta people selling neil gaiman books on facebook marketplace

ann@omically· Jan 14

in order to "enact meaningful change", it is necessary to have a clear picture of the world in its current state. this is one excerpt from the book.

European workers have paid a great price for the few material benefits which accrued to them as crumbs from the colonial table. The class in power controls the dissemination of information. The capitalists misinformed and miseducated workers in the metropoles to the point where they became allies in colonial exploitation. In accepting to be led like sheep, European workers were perpetuating their own enslavement to the capitalists. They ceased to seek political power and contented themselves with bargaining for small wage increases, which were usually counter-balanced by increased costs of living. They ceased to be creative and allowed bourgeois cultural decadence to overtake them all. They failed to exercise any independent judgment on the great issues of war and peace, and therefore ended up by slaughtering not only colonial peoples but also themselves.

From Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"

ann@omically· Dec 23

I've been reading Engels' "Origin of the Family." I've never read Engels before, but it's really good. will definitely read more of his stuff in the near future

ann@omically· Nov 16

Abba's "Waterloo" is an abridged adaptation of Karl Marx's "18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." The line "The history book on the shelf/Is always repeating itself" refers to the pictured text, in which Marx compares Bonaparte unfavourably to his uncle Napoleon.

Quoted text from Karl Marx's "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." It reads:
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the Montagne of 1848 to 1851 for the Montagne of 1793 to 1795, the nephew for the uncle. And the same caricature occurs in the circumstances of the second edition of the Eighteenth Brumaire."

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