What do you guys think about Idi Amin, leader of Uganda from 1971 to 1979?
Was he a brutal dictator, or was he (somehow) not?
Was he a brutal dictator, or was he (somehow) not?
Anti-communist writers Jung Chang and Jon Halliday assert in their highly controversial 2006 book Mao: The Unknown Story that the Nationalist general Zhang Zhizhong was a Soviet agent who, following the Marco Polo Bridge incident in July 1937, had been tasked by Stalin with escalating the already tense situation with Japan into a full-scale, all-out war. ... read full post
The movie, as is obvious to anyone who has even read it's Wikipedia page, seems to be a pretty obvious critique of capitalism. The problem is the solution the movie finds for the problems of capitalism. It wants the head, the ruling class, and the hands, the working class, to be mediated and united by the heart. If you've brushed on the history of fascist movements in the early 20th century this should be incredibly familiar to you. It promotes a "resolution of class conflict" not that dissimilar to the corporatism that was espoused by Mussolini or the many petty dictatorships of the Americas and eastern Europe. ... read full post

Edit: if you only have the clip, please upload it to tankie.tube and share it with me
The criminal court system in the US seems incredibly unjust and results in the criminalization of many activities which ought to be basic rights. It railroads innocent and completely functioning people into the morally bankrupt prison system where they are put into dehumanizing circumstances and extreme scrutiny that gives prison authorities more excuses to add charges and prison time, continuing the cycle further. ... read full post
I heard rumors of them wanting to declare war on each other


I am watching Portuguese news right now and there is a very angry debate going on between Luís Montenegro and André Ventura. ... read full post

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29024092
Edit: Found it
Sticking to your stereotype = treated like a doormat
Breaking your stereotype = whites get threatened and lash you
What's the winning move? To not play at all and just go back to China?

In my view,among American socdems,he is the best.
