Dread Pirate

So let me say it this way: the Soviet Union maintained the territory conquered by the Russian Empire in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and elsewhere. The Soviet Union continued the forced settlement of nomadic groups, the Russification of minority peoples, and the environmental exploitation of land in conquered areas. They drained the Aral Sea to grow fucking cotton in Uzbekistan. And the USSR engaged in settler colonialism, continuing the displacement of indigenous populations in Siberia and Central Asia that started under the Russian Empire, and continuing the build up of largely ethnically-Russian industrial and population centers in the greater Russian east.

Stalinists took this analysis and transformed it into a set of fixed religious dogmas. Just as bureaucratic state capitalism was built on the wreckage of revolution, Stalinist self-justification was built on the wreckage of revolutionary theory.

Oh, hard to watch, is it? Hard to watch these Black teens retaliate? Hard to watch them do, to an oppressor, exactly what said oppressors have done to Black people for centuries? Hard to watch a cop on the receiving end of a beating for once? I hope that Roman Candle was heavy.

Was it equally hard to watch when, a week ago, an Ohio cop assaulted the 15 year old Kaelynn Reynolds? Threw her to the fucking ground, shoved her against his car, pressed his knee into her, and filed a charge against her spitting at him?!

No, we know what this man's doing. He wants to rally violence against these kids, who have all, no doubt, already been racially abused, profiled, and harassed by the police. Look at his language. "Horrifying." "Severe." "Mob."

I don't know what sparked this, but those teenagers have my full support, and I hope they'll be okay.

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I’ve long made peace with the fact that as western LGBTs you are more than content knowing that the price of the advancement of your rights is silence when the symbols of your movement are used to justify the murder of my people and my neighbours and comrades across the globe.

So let me say it this way: the Soviet Union maintained the territory conquered by the Russian Empire in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and elsewhere. The Soviet Union continued the forced settlement of nomadic groups, the Russification of minority peoples, and the environmental exploitation of land in conquered areas. They drained the Aral Sea to grow fucking cotton in Uzbekistan. And the USSR engaged in settler colonialism, continuing the displacement of indigenous populations in Siberia and Central Asia that started under the Russian Empire, and continuing the build up of largely ethnically-Russian industrial and population centers in the greater Russian east.

Stalinists took this analysis and transformed it into a set of fixed religious dogmas. Just as bureaucratic state capitalism was built on the wreckage of revolution, Stalinist self-justification was built on the wreckage of revolutionary theory.