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original posts: #death2america

nepal: #a breath of fresh air, #gateway to divinity

dprk is the only country in the world.

usmilitary vets of all races and sexualities eat shit and die.

We have a lot to work on I feel still but are making so much progress already.

Fred needs to do a lot of work on himself.

Even though Matic scored a goal, I don’t think the rest of the performance was up to standard. I also feel that now we are playing more attacking football - which hopefully persists - that he may not work in this team anymore. 

Pogba ran his fucking heart out and I could tell he was getting tired and HE STILL WENT AND SCORED A BRACE! (Also lmfao at those criticising him for his app IT’S THE 21ST CENTURY GET WITH IT) 

DAVE SAVES

...but when will our clean sheets return from war? 

Mata, what an angel! Feel bad that him and Marcus didn’t get the goals they deserved. 

Marcus sometimes goes down a bit too easy 

I actually thought Luke put in such a solid shift today, super proud of him

Dalot I think is still inexperienced and needs time to adjust despite past performances 

Jones actually did pretty well today too and Lindelof toooo

We almost passed the ball TOO much today which wow, is completely a new concept for this United. We were pretty lost during the first 10-15 minutes of both halves but as usual goals seem to get us moving to be our better selves. 

Jesse lifting up Marcus and slapping him (nearly maybe) on the ass? Grateful. 

I MISSED THE POGBA DANCE BECAUSE I WAS TOO BUSY SHOUTING (but thank u twitter and tumblr for always having my back)

‘Is he dabbing’ no @ my dad that is not a dab

To be honest, the atmosphere was nowhere near as electric as I thought it would be for Ole’s first game back at OT but with it still being the holidays for a lot of season ticket holders I can understand that as well. 

Could you direct me to some resources on colonial and postcolonial exploitation of Nepal? I can see how it works, but have no concrete ideas. Specifically in regards to India-Nepal relations.

Hii, the 13th doctor herself! I know I like to throw this one around a lot but it really is the go-getter resource to even begin to understand the material conditions of Nepal. It is an outdated resource from like 1998 but it is pretty good. It will let you know about the coercive politico-economic agreements between India and Nepal that let India keep Nepal as a captive market, control our resources (most importantly rivers), and such, most of which traces back to the treaties we had signed with East India Company and were handed down to India after independence.

my general point is still that like. even if the label is a colonial imposition, that was ages ago and in today's age many only understand themselves under those terms, bc before that it was caste names for religion which we obviously can't do now, so what are we supposed to do? /gen

Yes, by dominant, I mean Hinduism, as is intrinsically tied to/ continuing the legacy of brahminization and sanskritization in India and Nepal. You can check out this reply by @dominadajarvispokan that explained it in much better detail if you want to know more. As explained, this is a feature that isn't exclusive to Hindu fascism, or 'Hindutva', but one that is still widely practice and this is what needs to be abolished.

I think you're off on your assessment that the project of caste integration is something that's been completed. While it is true that many people today, willingly or unwillingly, understand themselves under caste terms, this is not an attribute to Hinduism's success in stripping indigenous cultures of their identities. Rather this is the manifestation of a coercively-upheld caste-based apartheid which offers very real material benefits to those who fall in favor of the higher caste, who maintain a dominance in political and economic spheres. They are political leaders, bosses, CEOs, billionaires, and elites in every level that hold access to disproportionately higher portions of urban and farm land, and control the means that the lower caste people have to sustain their livelihoods.

Class is how caste is coercively imposed upon people. People understand themselves as a lower caste because that is the material outcome of such a system, not because they view themselves as inherently inferior to the higher castes. Like in any class-based hierarchy, there have been anti-class -- anti-caste -- movements throughout our region that have manifested in ways that people don't even recognize. This ties into the rampant Islamophobia, anti-Buddhist and many other forms of discriminatory sentiments that fascist Hindu leaders are known to take advantage of to enforce caste hierarchy, using hard and soft power channels as necessary.

So, to finally answer your question of what is to be done, I don't see the struggle against Hindu dominance as different from the class struggle in South Asia. While caste hierarchy has been in place for centuries, the growing centrality of class as the primary means of its enforcement is continuously creating conditions for class struggle. Nepal's abolishment of the Hindu monarchy by popular support was a natural consequence of the progress of history, as are the socialist and communist struggles that are ongoing in different parts of India. As the elites resort to increasingly violent means of maintaining their positions, you will find that the situation of challenging Hindu dominance is already much better today than when these regions were dominated by feudalism and industrial capitalism.

Not as far as I know, which is the reason for the username. It follows my last username, maoist landlord, and I think is equally oxymoronic. Everyone that I know who has said that has been either NATO-nazi, liberal who couldn't point Donbass in a map, doesn't know what imperialism is or, most common, all of the above.

Imperialism is the final stage of capitalism, manifests in post-colonial and neo-liberal extraction of wealth, manpower, and resources, not in like your neighbour you share border with rejecting a million proposal for reintegrating Donbass in their territory because they prefer to have a perpetual war that is good propaganda for their nationalist movement and chances of joining NATO.

I hope I don't get called a campist for this but you have to pay attention to the current Ukrainian administration (imp to point out passover from after a coup) allyship with EU, NATO, UN, the US, and WB/IMF(1), all of which are arms of post-colonial and neoliberal expansion, whereas Russia has faced sabotage after sabotage, with their international funds being frozen and used to fund Ukrainian military supply, sanctions that were supposed to absolutely cripple their economy which was only avoided by aligning with other heavily sanctioned countries. If Russia is imperialist, they must only be in name because I don't see imperial benefits anywhere.