@blonded @Scratchin_Bandit

I remember conversing with you two in the life section in some thread related to this. Might be of interest.

Th-thanks

Standing back and standing by sir 🫡

I'll never forget when dutch police did a campaign for mfs to hand in their knives over 808 slides fr

Classic frfr @elvis @thankmelater @FlyHiii @Hefstan

Never heard of this

This s*** looks like a klokhuis episode

Lmao was toch iets van get a life lever in dat knife of zoiets doms

whenever i get a good amount of money, i just end up buying a bunch of books

i dont read fast enough though

that was me a few months ago then i started taking out books from my uni library

looked up census records after my father told me a weird story about my extended ancestry on his side of the family i had to verify, and turns out that my great aunt lied to my great uncle about her race and was actually black i'm not directly related to them so it doesn't affect me but that's nuts i have removed family members who are black somewhere and probably don't even know that because their great grandmother lied for at least half a century

“i no black i dominicano” moment

yea i would but my local library’s selection kinda sucks in terms of the stuff im interested in, going by the online catalog

maybe i should check locations out in person

She said she was Native American which is even more egregious

Most libraries, even really small ones let you request something called a “inter literary loan” where they find a library that has the book you’re looking for, have them ship it to your library, and you just bring it back like you normally would. Can get a lot of great stuff that way, that’s what I did as a kid a lot cuz my library’s selection was extremely limited

this goin viral on tiktok

i am definitely not a fan of pop-punk

Ancestry just happens like that. S***s crazy like that. I have Mormons in my family arguing that my grandma isn’t mexican just cuz they love their white supremacy and clean blood line

some of my family is like this too. they'll completely deny that although were Arab our family is Haratin in origin like be real we all are black as hell don't pretend like were pure blooded Arabs

Should I be the one to author the QINC Manifesto @krishna_bound @americana

look what yall did

I first met Lenin in December 1905 at the Bolshevik conference in Tammerfors (Finland). I was hoping to see the mountain eagle of our Party, the great man, great not only politically, but, if you will, physically, because in my imagination I had pictured Lenin as a giant, stately and imposing. What, then, was my disappointment to see a most ordinary-looking man, below average height, in no way, literally in no way, distinguishable from ordinary mortals.

It is accepted as the usual thing for a “great man” to come late to meetings so that the assembly may await, his appearance with bated breath; and then, just before the “great man” enters, the warning whisper goes up: “Hush! . . . Silence! . . . he’s coming.” This ritual did not seem to me superfluous, because it creates an impression, inspires respect. What, then, was my disappointment to learn that Lenin had arrived at the conference before the delegates, had settled himself somewhere in a corner, and was unassumingly carrying on a conversation, a most ordinary conversation with the most ordinary delegates at the conference. I will not conceal from you that at that time this seemed to me to be something of a violation of certain essential rules.

Only later did I realise that this simplicity and modesty, this striving to remain unobserved, or, at least, not to make himself conspicuous and not to emphasise his high position, this feature was one of Lenin’s strongest points as the new leader of the new masses, of the simple and ordinary masses of the “rank and file” of humanity.

marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/01/28.htm