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The ear looks like a cancerous growth
I messed around and made something bad
Well your solution to that is to have only one party TANKIE.
The new Tory party leader btw:
Winning also won't mean a moment of self-reflection either. They will become the smuggest mother fuckers around, they will take it as justification that they can be unhinged reactionaries.
In fact, exactly the same outcome happens both ways.
reconsider their best interests
The thing I do with people as often as possible is remind them to ask themselves "how will this benefit my life?"
Most people are not acting with thought about themselves in mind, they are simply acting on the will of the information sphere surrounding them. Pushing them to do this can in fact reshape their political decisions.
I try to remind people that they should be doing this as often as possible, about everything. It helps.
Oh I did something similar in London but it wasn't canvassing, we were monitoring air pollution levels and doing it outside every single address, bit by bit. Mapped out air pollution down to a house by house level and proved the link between traffic pollution and health. It contributed to a lot of the traffic calming measures and fees that now affect london traffic.
All the work we did shouldn't have been necessary, the link was obvious, but without making things impossible to deny you can never do anything that might hurt capital.
We probably saved actual lives with that one so I'm pretty proud of contributing.
I'm using we to refer to marxists, collectively, everywhere in the world.
I don't agree that Arce is a marxist when what he's doing is the same as Lula.
Hope that's not true, but either way we need a better plan for this problem. It will happen to our own movements. It arguably has happened in the past to them too. What theory do we have to resolve it? Why haven't we analysed it and built strategy around an inevitable eventuality that has killed the left multiple times?
We're not very good at dealing with the socdem split and I do not know why we haven't thought about how it should be planned around more.
the woman had borrowed a child from her aunt to present to the press in support of the false allegations
Incredible behaviour.
I think the only good ending to this would be if Evo and Arce came to an agreement, like a candidate they could both agree on. But until then, these protests will only make the country more unstable and strengthen the far right. I doubt there will be a coup, since Arce has the open support of Brazil and China, but you never know, especially with the US sending troops to Ecuador and Peru, two countries with extremely weak right-wing governments that are on the verge of collapse. And there always Milei who keeps being a little shit that promotes US imperialism in South America, but at the same time keeps crying and begging Lula, Petro and Xi for money and food.
The issue is that this is not a simple disagreement or egos. Those play a role, but these are two undeniably different ideologies conflicting with one another for power. The path of the usual south america pink social democracy under Arce or the red path under the radicals. Venezuela or Brazil.
They were always going to conflict over direction eventually. This conflict will always play out in every left-revolution. It is inevitable and MLs should keep this in mind and prepare for it more fully.
But you can say, as many leftists have said, that Evo is dividing the left by wanting him and only him to be the presidential candidate, when he knows that this is illegal within the Bolivian
I've stopped calling him a demsoc because of this. It would require a revolution to throw the current constitution out and rewrite whatever it is he wants that allows him to be president again. It's the only way.
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3434343
Right click and view images in their own tab for higher res. The site makes them a bit smaller on page.
The art in Outlaw Star's ED is by Hicaru Tanaka who is something of a mystery on the internet - he barely exists online.
Because of this I did sleuthing and found a few things. I wanted to put it all in one place so the next person that tries to find stuff about this dude has what I've already found.
Who is Hicaru Tanaka? He's an illustrator from Tokyo who has apprently won the Hayakawa Award for science fiction art three times. He's been on the cover of S.F. Magazine (the most popular scifi literature magazine in Japan), and he did the art in the above ED for Outlaw Star.
On top of that he’s also painted box art for Star Trek and Aliens but I've been unable to find these online.
Here is the art from the Outlaw Star ED, it has literally nothing to do with the show itself. There's probably an artist's reason that they're all specific unique colours but I won't pretend to have a clue why:
The following is "Tea Girl" and was used to promote a 2007 convention. It is also on the cover of this magazine: https://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/Nippon%202007/Nippon%20PR%201.pdf
This last one is from an archive of his website, which apparently no longer exists online. The only archived page is here: https://archive.md/i0ywc
In case that page disappears at some point in the future (very likely), here is a screenshot of it:
I like his work, I like the themes he has of combining traditions with scifi. It feels very grounded and human. Ok he's also guilty of
but I don't think any scifi artists aren't guilty of that.
This thread was a pain in the ass to make because of the rate limiting preventing me from uploading more than 6 images in an hour.
EDIT:
There are 3 known book covers here:
The first is Asimov's Pebble in the Sky. The second is called "The 81st Q War". The third is "10,000 Light Years From Home".
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Right click and view images in their own tab for higher res. The site makes them a bit smaller on page.
The art in Outlaw Star's ED is by Hicaru Tanaka who is something of a mystery on the internet - he barely exists online.
Because of this I did sleuthing and found a few things. I wanted to put it all in one place so the next person that tries to find stuff about this dude has what I've already found.
Who is Hicaru Tanaka? He's an illustrator from Tokyo who has apprently won the Hayakawa Award for science fiction art three times. He's been on the cover of S.F. Magazine (the most popular scifi literature magazine in Japan), and he did the art in the above ED for Outlaw Star.
On top of that he’s also painted box art for Star Trek and Aliens but I've been unable to find these online.
Here is the art from the Outlaw Star ED, it has literally nothing to do with the show itself. There's probably an artist's reason that they're all specific unique colours but I won't pretend to have a clue why:
The following is "Tea Girl" and was used to promote a 2007 convention. It is also on the cover of this magazine: https://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/Nippon%202007/Nippon%20PR%201.pdf
This last one is from an archive of his website, which apparently no longer exists online. The only archived page is here: https://archive.md/i0ywc
In case that page disappears at some point in the future (very likely), here is a screenshot of it: 
I like his work, I like the themes he has of combining traditions with scifi. It feels very grounded and human. Ok he's also guilty of but I don't think any scifi artists aren't guilty of that.
This thread was a pain in the ass to make because of the rate limiting preventing me from uploading more than 6 images in an hour.
EDIT:
There are 3 known book covers here:
The first is Asimov's Pebble in the Sky. The second is called "The 81st Q War". The third is "10,000 Light Years From Home".
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Aniwave / 9anime is now gone
(hexbear.net)
Looks like a string of sites have shut down over fears about being unmasked and legal action being taken against fmovies, who were running most of the sites.
https://kaido.to/home is being discussed as an alternative. I am unfamiliar and can't vouch for it at this time though.
https://4anime.gg/ still exists and works too.
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Diaries of Mao's secretary at the center of a legal battle over the history of modern China
(archive.is)
Stanford University is suing the widow of top Chinese official Li Rui for ownership of the diaries, which academics fear would be censored by the Chinese Communist Party.
HONG KONG — The diaries of a top Chinese official and prominent critic of Beijing are at the center of a U.S. legal battle, raising questions about who will write the history of modern China.
Li Rui, who died in 2019 at the age of 101, held a number of important positions within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, including personal secretary to longtime leader Mao Zedong. In detailed handwritten diaries he kept from 1946 to 2018, Li recorded his experiences and observations during seven tumultuous decades of Communist Party rule — a version of events that might conflict with the official party line.
As a high-ranking official, Li was an authoritative witness to parts of history that the party would rather not highlight — from internal disputes and policy missteps to the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown — because they challenge its narrative of uninterrupted prosperity and political unity as China rose from a poor and isolated nation to become the world’s second-largest economy.
A trial that began in California on Monday will decide whether Li’s diaries should remain at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where his daughter donated them, or be returned to his elderly widow, who has been accused of acting as a front for Chinese authorities who would most likely censor them.
“We’ve never had something like this before,” said Joseph Torigian, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
“These are diaries and personal papers that run to dozens and dozens of boxes that talk about everything from the early years of the revolution to Li Rui’s work as a secretary to very powerful individuals, including Chairman Mao.”
Few top Chinese Communist Party officials have kept such detailed diaries, especially after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when they were used as evidence for political persecution.
“It is very hard to study the People’s Republic of China because it is an authoritarian regime that believes that different narratives about its past are very dangerous for regime security, which means that they run a tight ship,” said Torigian, who is also an assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University.
Stanford says Li had directed his daughter, Li Nanyang, to donate the materials to the Hoover Institution, which is known for its large archive of historical materials on modern China, for fear they might otherwise be destroyed by Chinese authorities as part of a crackdown on dissent he saw growing worse under President Xi Jinping.
Li Nanyang, a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party who lives in the United States, carried most of the diaries out of China in 2017. She made the donation to the Hoover Institution official days before her father’s death in 2019, once she felt he was safe from possible reprisal.
Shortly after that, Li’s second wife, Zhang Yuzhen, sued for the return of the original diaries, which she says are rightfully hers. Her lawyers argue that they contain deeply personal information about her relationship with Li, and that the violation of her privacy has caused her emotional distress.
A Beijing court found in favor of Zhang, a ruling Stanford says cannot be enforced because it was denied the opportunity to appear in court and defend itself. The university has sued Zhang in California in return.
Lawyers for both sides say their claims are buttressed by comments Li made in his diaries and in interviews about what he wanted to happen to his writings and who should represent him.
But given that Zhang is now in her 90s, questions have been raised about whether the lawsuit was her idea.
“She will not be capable of making money or contributing money for a lawsuit or to pursue the return of the diary,” said Feng Chongyi, an associate professor of China studies at the University of Technology Sydney, who met regularly with Li.
Only the Chinese Communist Party, he said, has “the resources, the money and the political will to do that.”
Zhang’s lawyers have said that she is acting alone. The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
Feng and others worry that Chinese authorities would severely restrict access to any diaries by Li, a longtime critic of the party’s leaders and policies, whose writings were banned in China in 2006.
Li joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1937 at the age of 20, rising through the ranks as it defeated the existing government in a civil war to gain power in 1949. By 1958, Li had become Mao’s personal secretary.
But he was expelled from the party the following year over his criticism of the Great Leap Forward, an industrialization program championed by Mao that led an estimated 30 million to 40 million people to die of starvation in three years. During his 20 years in exile, Li was imprisoned in a labor camp and spent eight years in solitary confinement.
He was reinstated to the senior party ranks in 1979, three years after Mao died. In the 1980s, Li worked in the party’s powerful Organization Department, which is responsible for the appointment and promotion of high-ranking officials.
Li was also highly critical of the Chinese government’s deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 1989. From the balcony of his apartment in Beijing, he could see soldiers firing on protesters in and around Tiananmen Square in what he described in English as “Black Weekend.”
His diaries, Torigian said, reveal “his thinking as well as a lot of other very senior revolutionary elders during that crisis,” public discussion of which is suppressed in China.
(Li Rui at age 89 in 2006)
In his later years, Li was a leader of a group of pro-reform elder intellectuals in Beijing, “and there are details about his interactions with that circle as well,” Torigian said.
“So the breadth and the detail are really something that are quite unprecedented for the study of politics and the Chinese Communist Party,” he said.
Though the Hoover Institution has scanned copies of the diaries, archivists and historians say it’s important to retain the original materials as well, both for research purposes and to reinforce the authenticity of the scans.
“The Communist Party of China has a history of altering materials in order to fit what it wants the version of history to be,” said Perry Link, a Sinologist and emeritus professor of East Asian studies at Princeton who testified at the trial last week.
If scholars publish research based on the Hoover copies but the originals are in Beijing, “the government in China can say, ‘No, your conclusions are wrong, you worked from the wrong materials. We have the originals, and that’s not what they say,’” said Link, who is also a professor at the University of California, Riverside.
With the originals in their possession, party elites could release them selectively to support their preferred narratives “and might even change what’s in the diaries,” he said. “They’ve done this before.”
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It's exactly the same tory policy as liz truss except with a black woman this time so
"You can't call us racist now"