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Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, credited with 309 kills. She is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time.

I wonder if these people know that Marxism is the way forward, but they are just opportunist, or have a heck of a cognitive dissonance.

Mann, Thomas. Essays: Volume II, 1914-1926. Fischer Verlag, 2002. pp. 311-12.

Transcript: To place communism and Nazi-fascism on the same moral place, in the measure that both are totalitarian, is superficial at best, fascism at worst. Anyone who insists on this comparison could very well be considered a democrat, but deep in their heart a fascist is already there, and naturally they will only fight fascism in a superficial and hypocritical way, while they save all their hatred for communism.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/7/30/exorbitant-privilege-can-the-us-dollar-maintain-its-global-dominance

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/dollar-is-king-trump-defends-its-status-as-worlds-dominant-currency-glbs-2752890-2025-07-09

Original Audio: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=w3VeKnW9cNo

G.I., your government has abandoned you. They have ordered you to die. Don’t trust them.

Defect, G.I.

They lied to you, G.I.s, you know you cannot win this war.

Your rich leaders grow richer while you are dying in a swamp G.I. They will give you a medal G.I. But only after you are dead. Your government lies to you every day, poor soldier. You have lost this war, G.I. Your army will leave you behind. Imperialists made you fight this war, G.I. They do not care about you. G.I, your government has betrayed you. They will not return for you, G.I.

G.I., your airplanes bomb your own men, you are not safe here. The skies are dangerous, G.I., they will napalm you tonight. Your pilots do not care that you are down here, G.I. You cannot dig foxholes to hide in, G.I. Joe, your bombs will find you. G.I., your helicopters fall from the sky, like broken birds. They cannot see you from their airplanes, G.I., they have come to bomb you.

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A long time ago some of my profs said some brilliant things. Of course there is no record of exact wording to speak of. It’s in my old, fallable memory. I wouldn’t likely track down the profs.

If writing an article or book it would be useful to convey the ideas to others in a block quote with proper attribution -- noting as well that the profs may not necessarily want to be named. They may not even still be among us. I’m kind of tempted to give vague attribution that offers repudiation (e.g. “Dr. Doe”, without a first name).

I suppose from a GDPR standpoint (if in the EU), public quotes are fair game. But quotes that have not been made public would presumably either need consent, or be anonymised.

As far as mechanics goes, quote marks (“”) is always for direct quotes, correct? So how do we define the boundaries of a paraphrase?

The APA style seems to just leave it up in the air, with no instruction on boundaries:

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/parenthetical-versus-narrative

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm

I think it was on Twitter where Snowden said something to the effect of: saying you don’t need privacy is one of the most selfish things you can say because other people need it…

Does anyone have the exact quote? Not sure why search engines are failing me, but it probably has something to do with the trend of search engines to ignore the instructions imposed by the query and muddle through with a vague notion of what the user asks for.

This similar quote is certainly well proliferated:

“Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” ― Edward Snowden

But I distinctly recall him taking a stronger stance using the word selfish.

I think I read that from some no name microblogger. But it seems too good to not have attribution. Search engines are such garbage these days. This is all I could find:

Parents often engage in these acts out of love but fail to realize how surveillance is a form of oppression that limits teens' ability to make independent choices. — Danah Boyd

That’s a very specific context. Anyone know of a more likely source in a broader context?

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. -- Helen Keller

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In the system of mythology of the ancient Greeks there was one famous hero, Antaeus, who, as mythology declares, was the son of Poseidon, the God of the Sea, and Gaea, the Goddess or the Earth. He was particularly attached to his mother, who bore him, fed him and brought him up so that there was no hero whom this Antaeus did not vanquish. He was considered to be an invincible hero. Wherein lay his strength? It lay in the fact that every time he was hard-pushed in a struggle with an opponent, he touched the earth, his mother, who had borne him and fed him, and thus regained new strength.

But, nevertheless, he had a weak spot – the danger of being separated, in some way, from the earth. His enemies took account of this weakness of his, and waited for him. And an enemy was found who took advantage of this weakness and vanquished him. This was Hercules. But how did Hercules defeat him? He tore him from the earth, raised him into the air, deprived him of the possibility of touching the earth, and thus throttled him in the air.

I think that Bolsheviks remind us of Antaeus, the hero of Greek mythology. Like Antaeus, they are strong in keeping contact with their mother, with the masses, who bore them, fed them and educated them. And as long as they keep contact with their mother, with the people, they have every chance of remaining invincible.

-- J.V. Stalin, Mastering Bolshevism

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/jul/14.htm

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