XiaCobolt [she/her, she/her]

Anthony Elbow-Greasy

Dutton lost his seat like Polivier in Canada which is hilarious.

This is dialectics

It was not lost on me

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I think it’s disputed that Mao actually said

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy

Like the Lenin weeks-decades thing. But I always think that quote is wrong. Communism is love. From Che Guevara

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality

And boy is that love a hammer we use to crush the enemy.

From the meeting between both in 1960

Guevara: A point in Chairman Mao’s works is found by Fidel [Castro] to be very important, which I failed to notice at the beginning. That is to treat war prisoners generously: to cure their wounds and send them back. [We] realized this point which helped very much [in our struggle].

Mao: This is the way to disintegrate enemy troops.

From the article

The following is one such example which illustrates how difficult the Fushun project was for the Chinese people to carry out. A young prison guard was shocked when he discovered that a Japanese detainee who had killed his father was among those he was in charge of. After weeks of agony, he told the prison director that he wanted to be transferred. The director said: ‘I know perfectly how you feel… But if you give up on these detainees now and walk out, they will pick up guns and invade China again. This means that there will be many more deaths like your father’s. We must stop these Japanese men from becoming aggressors again. Don’t you think that this is what your father wants most in heaven as well as how you can fulfil your duty as a good son?’ The director’s words made this prison guard realise how important the task of re-educating the Japanese prisoners was for the future of China. Not only did he continue to work at the prison but also worked even harder. One day, his “enemy” suffered an acute appendicitis attack in the middle of the night. The guard carried the sick man on his back to the medical room to save his life

The location was here and some of my details are corroborated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fushun_War_Criminals_Management_Centre

I’m trying to find it because it was very interesting and moving but searching for “china” “prison” “war crimes” obviously gets you different western propaganda stuff.

Edit: this is a really good article and talks about the anti war organisation

https://sttpml.org/miracle-at-fushun-the-transformation-of-japanese-war-criminals-from-devils-into-humans/

I think now I might have read the account in a physical book so I’ll think about where it might have been.

Beyond even Puyi. I read an account (which I’m trying to source again fucking internet no longer working) from an Japanese soldier who had unashamedly admitted to various war crimes, the communists housed him and his fellow soldiers in clean and comfortable, if spartan and small accommodation, they fed them despite post WW2 shortages and at one point they even gave him limited penicillin for an abscess in his spine.

There was no torture, they just had group discussion or wrote essays about their war crimes. Sometimes survivors of massacres they participated in were brought to them to talk about their experience. The worst punishment he received was early on when they thought he was flippant about his war crimes, they made him spend a night in the cell that prisoners awaiting execution by the Japanese would use, on the walls were signed names and last testaments, often written in blood and there was basically no space.

They did this for months and years, until he and all his fellow soldiers knew to their core what they had done was wrong. They did bring in other political teachers to try and educate them about communism and he was like “buddy I don’t care about economics”. But eventually after a few years they just sent them all back to Japan. Guys who by all rights should have been hanged at the Hague. And nearly all of them because staunch anti-Japanese imperialism/militarism activists until the day they died.

And I’m not religious anymore but that struck me as one of the most selfless and moral responses to pure evil. While also so pragmatic they made their worse enemy into their weapon. And I think if they could do it with them, an American Treatlerite could be fixed.

I refer you to the traditional rhyme:

If your Naomi be Klein

You’re doing just fine

If your Naomi be Wolf

Oh buddy, big oof

It was a sad kid being forced to draw the trans symbol on a whiteboard and she/her and he/him were crossed out with they/them beneath. Honestly it ruled how stupid it was.

I got a AI generated pamphlet in my mailbox saying that the greens and labor were planning on making everyone trans and I was like ”inshallah”

A MiG jet can carry a kinzhal supersonic missile with a nuclear warhead. So I don’t know why a big ol’ ship can’t.

Twisting a lock of my hair coquettishly

“…and you say you want to kill him, that’s so interesting”

I guess it’s a new Holy Roman Empire, because otherwise Snoop Dogg needs to get the votes of the Prince Electors to be King of the Romans, then the Pope can crown him Holy Roman Emperor.

Yeah I’ve worrying that.

yes

He was hiding his power levels during the election…they were much lower.

Apparently he might be a Yang Guy because all would be US assassins these days have incomprehensible centrist politics.

Shapiro is a real ghoul, former IDF, super pro-Israel etc

But also given he’s a Jewish Governor in a swing state that went Red for Trump, I’m thinking the bomb throwers were probably Nazis so that’s not great either.

Weirdly true. Source is dog shit (Radio Free Europe), but a combination of the non-aligned movement and loving basketball made Serbs pretty chill with most other people except those also from the Balkans.

All the other former Yugoslav nations scoring well too except North Macedonia.