mauveOkra

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[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

lmao like actually true though

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait what does 737max have to do with the Titanic

 

Extremely based agitprop cantata/opera. In the anglo establishment it is caricatured as evil and aggressively misinterpreted, possibly because HUAC translated it to smear Brecht and Eisler. (This production does not use the HUAC translation.)

While the Birmingham opera pushes the misinterpretation that it is about sacrificing yoursef for your values, in actuality it is a parable about a young passionate revalutionary whose idealism fatally clouds their judgement. I suspect that the translation makes this less clear, but I do not know the untranslated text.

Bonus points, I can't tell if the production is ironic or not. The cringe framing device feels ironic but the interviewer mentions solidarity with rail strikers at the end, so I can't tell. Either way, some of the audience and choristers interviewed seemed receptive.

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

You're taking away my freedom to experience urban blight, this is basically genocide

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there more context to this? Like this sounds ridiculous even for the USA. I assume then that he was seeding the articles or otherwise widely distributing them? Not that I think that's worth a death penalty...

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

TFW you meet a Latin American student at a US university who only knows 1 word in Spanish "from his nanny".

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

My god, do you have the clip of that 😂

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Your repression in Xinjiang rivals the Soviet gulags.

lmao

Even better:

Your zero-Covid policy has, at times, transformed China’s great metropolises into vast and unlivable prison colonies.

and, pray tell, where exactly is China's "truculence" you speak of?

I hate that all the NYT is considered the cream of the crop and all the uni educated libs around me imbibe this crap uncritically.

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know, I'm worried about this narrative. Youtube suggested some video claiming to expose secret Chinese police stations in countries around the world, and if this gets pushed in the mainstream then we could get the Chinese Exclusion act 2.0 or something. A few years ago the US already gutted university chinese programs by kicking out all the confucius institutes for baseless accusations of espionage.

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just saw someone with a Polish and a Ukrainian flag, I wonder if that'll change lol

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Ok, even without the femur switcheroo, how would one NOT realize it was a massive self own??? Eating a human femur to own the ~~libs~~ Russians, tell me who is the one that has to eat a human femur...

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have you checked out Carl Zha's silk and steel podcast? I've only listened to his episodes with Xiangyu on Taiwan and an interview about US black radical's relationship with China, but he has a lot more on Patreon I think. Only issue is that his audio quality is bad. I don't know what his political views are but he usually defends China, and Xiangyu is ML.

There's also the War Nerd podcast which isn't ML but has interviewed Carl Zha about the Tang dynasty invading three kingdoms Korea (if I remember correctly), China's involvement in WWII, and the rise of the Mongol Empire in addition to many other good interviews. I have that link somewhere if you're interested.

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I'm taking a 20th century music history course right now, and the professor is a strongly anticommunist progressive. Before he even started he claimed Stalin was unequivocally the worst person of the 20th century, if not all time. One of the most suspicious parts was when he told us about Prokofiev's statement against the capitalist world made upon his return to the USSR in 1936. He claimed that this was clearly forced out of him, despite having just told us how he had squandered 20 years trying and failing to find work abroad (one of the only things he did was a commission by a fruit company for a fruit-opera?). Additionally my teacher conceded that there is no record of Prokofiev's personal views from this time.

Then the is the whole Soviet Realism/Formalism thing. My teacher said these terms were intentionally ill-defined so that musicians/artists could be censored, imprisoned, or killed at the whim of Stalin. Again, I feel skeptical about how cartoonishly evil this description is.

So what is the history of music and art in the Soviet Union minus the Western propaganda? Is there a book or other resource I could use to learn about this?

[–] mauveOkra@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 years ago

This is amazing. I keep seeing an ad for an entire TV show hosted by Oprah which largely consists of telling people that they're racist and solving racism by "talking about it."

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