Ever wondered why ‘pacifists’ like Gandhi have been venerated in the west and revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh who called for violent armed resistance to British colonialism vilified?
They have always wanted us to just die quietly so they can do their colonizing with the least problems, and in order to achieve that they had to convince the native that the native must prove they are not the ‘barbarians’ the ‘civilized’ coloniser claim them to be.
And the only way that can be proven is if the native appeals to the colonizer’s ‘inherent’ humanity by exercising the native’s right to ‘peaceful’ protest that the coloniser so benevolently has allowed.
The glorification/exploitation of non-violent resistance to colonial violence is rooted in orientalism.
Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity andhappiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.
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He bought the platform claiming to defend free speech. Lenin wrote about this more than a century ago:
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake public opinion for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”
— Vladimir Lenin
If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?
Indian workers are being paid to train AI to replace them
Workers wear headcams while cooking, washing dishes and doing factory tasks — footage then teaches robots how to perform the same jobs
Some are paid 250 rupees per hour, which is about $2.60
So basically now we have America accusing China of using slaves to pick cotton, Japanese saying China is populist and militarist, Canadians saying China oppresses indigenous people, and Indians saying China has a caste system.
So basically China is a mirror.
They turned the world into one giant altar and you’re unconsciously participating in their ritual. We have satanic singers performing alongside Masonic athletes in massive modern arenas. Nothing has really changed, the ancient temples where humans were sacrificed to false gods have simply evolved into today’s stadiums. The sacrifices are now metaphorical but they are just as real. The mascots you adore are the same ancient demons, rebranded to look cute and harmless and every time you cheer, consume, and obsess over them, you re willingly let them possess you. From country to country, the trending culture is the same cult with different masks. The only real truth lies outside the system. Deprogram yourself, watch my Series https://t.co/VvDf4qP8aJ
Tabshour ('Chalk') the donkey goes viral in Lebanon after braying with joy upon seeing his human best friend for the first time since they were separated by war
'Damn this war that separated us'
A beekeeper got stung on the arm and did the hardest thing possible: he held completely still. The bee slowly screwed its own stinger back out of his skin and flew off. Most honeybees never get that chance. They sting once, tear their own guts out pulling away, and die.
A honeybee's stinger is not a smooth needle. It is two tiny blades lined with backward-facing barbs, like a pair of fishhooks. They take turns digging in, twisting the stinger deeper like a screw. Once those barbs catch in your skin, the bee cannot pull the stinger straight back out. So when it panics and yanks away, the stinger stays put and rips out a piece of the bee with it: the venom pouch, some muscle, a few nerves, and part of its gut.
The torn-off stinger does not stop there. It keeps pumping venom on its own. Most of it goes into you in the first 20 seconds, and the last of it within about a minute, long after the bee has gone. That is why a doctor tells you to scrape a stinger out fast. The bee itself is already finished. It cannot live with a hole where its insides used to be.
None of this is built to kill the bee. When a honeybee stings another insect, it pulls the stinger straight back out and flies off fine, because a hard insect shell does not trap the barbs. Our soft, stretchy skin does. Out of more than 20,000 kinds of bees, the honeybee is just about the only one that dies when it stings. Wasps and hornets have smooth stingers and can sting you again and again.
A bee can escape human skin too, but only one way. It has to turn its whole body in slow circles and unscrew the stinger, backing it out the same way it drilled in. It only works if the sting was shallow and nobody panics and swats it. When a sting sinks in deep, the bee usually cannot pull free at all, which is why this video split people right down the middle. The biologist Richard Dawkins once described watching a bee slowly unscrew its stinger out of his own hand and fly away unharmed.
The beekeeper in the clip kept his arm still in a quiet spot, and the bee worked the stinger loose, turn by turn, and flew off with it still attached. A swat is what usually tears a bee apart. This one got to do the rare thing: slowly back its stinger out of a trap its own body is built to lock shut.
Reporters, frustrated by the repeated ceasefire violations carried out by the United States in #Iran and the Israeli regime in #Lebanon and #Gaza, are pressing #Trump to define what a ceasefire actually means.
Trump responds: "That's a different part of the world. In that part of the world, a ceasefire means you're shooting in a more moderate manner."
Beyond the blatant racism and insult embedded in Trump's remarks toward the people of West Asia, his words inadvertently reveal a brutal truth. From the perspective of terrorist entities like the U.S. and Israeli regimes, commitments carry no weight. A ceasefire, in their lexicon, is merely an expectation for the other side to stop fighting—while they reserve the right to continue their aggression.
⚠️Iran is going to treat them with their own medicine until they are forced to return to the true meaning of ceasefire.
Imperialists keep having to invent socialist massacres to deflect from the reality that capitalism is one continuous, world-spanning genocide.
We often hear about the 140 people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over a period spanning 28 years. But we never hear about the 9,900 people who die every single day because they lack access to healthcare — a direct outcome of imperialism's denial of sovereignty to the global periphery.
We often hear about some number of people who supposedly died at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a highly-contested narrative. But we do not hear about the 1,545 people who die every single day because of Western sanctions — 38 million people in total over a fifty year period.
Given the sheer barbarism of the imperialist world system, we should marvel at how mild the actions of socialist and revolutionary projects are by the standards of the systemic and unrelenting violence they are forced to confront. And there is certainly no need for progressive forces to be apologetic or ashamed about these measures.