Comrade Birb

  Hello! I’ve been MIA, and I apologize for it. The past couple of months have presented some health challenges, including gastrointestinal issues, extra depression, PTSD episodes, and my usual collection of chronic ails giving me grief. I’ve been struggling. But I’m back! I’ve been trying to teach myself Adobe After Effects so that I…

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And The Soviets Knew It. Check out these pieces of Soviet Anti-American propaganda from 1953, 1964, 1981. It’s almost as though those wacky Marxist-Leninists (I am one) had identified all of the things that were wrong here decades ago. Centuries, practically. The arrogance of US anti-Communist propaganda is that it is mostly comprised bold-faced lies…

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I’ve been thinking about all of the conspiracy theories, like 5G, Qanon, etc. These kinds of conspiracy theories are not new. With the advent of anything new causing social anxiety, new ones spring up. They are not wrong that we have been lied to about a lot, but instead of discovering the actual lies, they…

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Capitalism relies upon pseudoscience in order to function. This means, in part, encouraging scientific illiteracy among the masses. Sowing doubts about the veracity of science itself among the Proletariat is another strategy that they employ. It has been very effective in getting a lot of people to blind themselves to the climate crisis we face….

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Earlier this afternoon, I had a flashback to when I first started working at a B2B magazine publisher’s headquarters in Detroit back in 2000. At that time we were at the location on Woodbridge, near the Renaissance Center, and I worked in technology services in the basement. Also in the basement was the break room,…

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Starting this week with a new project. We’ll be reviewing the book Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Of The United States on a weekly chapter by chapter basis, highlighting historic people and events that have impact on our lives today, but that have been suppressed and whitewashed out of our school history textbooks. This has…

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I’m writing this not simply for the purposes of others reading it, but also, to record where I am at in my understanding on the matter of China and Socialism. I live in the US, as I have my entire my life, and while as a white woman, I have spent a good part of…

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