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muad_dibber
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Killed 90k Russian soldiers in the last 3 months
Doubt
They were one of the main front lines of the cold war anyway.
Judge me not by my friends, but by my enemies.
I didn't watch that video, but I can say it's working for me. I've tried to do classroom learning (grammar exercises, vocab memorization), and flash card method, and it's not as fast or enjoyabe as this. I can actually stand in a group of spanish speakers and understand most of what's being said, which wasn't something I could do for years of study in other ways.
Also if some random youtuber is blanket demonizing CI, that's entirely anecdotal, because there have been many studies comparing its performance to other learning methods.
I'm also learning mandarin (and spanish). The comprehensible input method I've found is really the best and simplest way. You can read about it and why it works from the ppl over at dreamingspanish.
For Mandarin I highly recommend https://www.vidioma.com/ . Videos are categorized by difficulty, and it keeps track of what ones you've already watched.
For Spanish, dreamingspanish.com . They do a phenomenal job and have hundreds of entertaining videos on so many topics and difficulties.
If a current or former imperial troop turns a traitor to the empire, then that is an undeniable win. There have been many cases in US history of its troops turning against and betraying their masters, and joining the anti-war movement, and helping other troops do so also. Every single troop that does so, means less innocent people harmed. This should be encouraged and applauded.
We should see people less as static entities and identities, and more as capable of change. All communist countries (PRC, USSR, Vietnam, Cuba) during their civil wars welcomed traitors who saw the wrongness of the other side to their cause with open arms.
I also doubt the claim that many of these former troops would want you to feel sorry for them. If they didn't think they did anything wrong, then they wouldn't have joined the anti-war movements in the first place.
Sweet dreams
Side point but I'm like 80% sure PSL has nothing to do with that documentary.
It's a great documentary tho. Members / adjacent members of PSL have made their own really good short and long-form documentaries too, like gaza fights for freedom, how palestine became colonized, several great ones on venezuela.
You're likely just encountering the standard "communism and communist parties = bad" in a lot of english-speaking spaces.
PSL has been around a long time and it'd be insulting if anarchist and other ultraleft groups didn't accuse it of everything under the sun (that they usually accuse each other of also). But because it practices demcent, and isn't some trotskyite or anarchist sex cult, It's not been shown that national or even any branch supports abuse.
Currently I got:
- Bhikkhu Bodhi - The buddha's teaching as it is.
- I'm getting back into Buddhism more, and this is probably the most comprehensive intro to therevada buddhism.
- Wendy S Painting - Aberration in the heartland of the real
- About Timothy Mcveigh and the oklahoma city bombing. Suggested by a comrade on here a few days ago, its really entertaining so far. Don't wanna ruin too much but essentially its similar to the JFK assassination. It was a failed sting operation, and a lot of people involved in the bombing were touts / fed informants, and the FBI sold a "lone wolf" story to the public to protect their informants and cover up their fuckup.
- Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
- Love me some gothic horror, and this is the best one of all time.
From the wiki on Gloria estefan.
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From Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley (great book btw).
Side point, but one of the main ppl on this project was another state department trot: Ithia sole de Pool.
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Thx, appears to have sped up the site a lot.