Senior Israeli officer killed during fighting in northern Gaza
  • Awoo Awoo 11m ago 100%

    Meanwhile, Israeli settlers held a conference near the border with Gaza, with the Israeli army allowing them to set up tents for the Jewish festival of Sukkot.

    Haaretz reported that the "Preparing to resettle Gaza" conference, organised by the Nachala Settlement Movement which establishes illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, set up 50 sukkah tents and were set to sleep in them on Sunday night.

    The tents were erected in a closed military area near Kibbutz Be'eri.

    Nachala said last week that the conference was "planned not only as a theoretical conference, but as a practical exercise and practical preparation for resettlement in Gaza."

    "The return to settlement in Gaza is no longer an idea, but a move that is currently in an advanced stage with the support of the government and the public," it added.

    Hope they get blown to pieces.

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  • it's over
  • Awoo Awoo 30m ago 100%

    I really don't understand why people do this.

    1. People believing it are less inclined to bother voting, demotivating your base.
    2. It embarrases you later.
    3. It motivates your opposition.

    You can not manifest the presidency and doing so is actively detrimental.

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  • We've graduated from age gap discourse to height gap discourse
  • Awoo Awoo 8h ago 100%

    It's a thirst subreddit for people into tall so that actually makes sense. It's the most likely way to get thirst upvotes.

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  • I'm sorry? Rammstein says punch nazis?
  • Awoo Awoo 9h ago 100%

    after more than 30 years of fascist organizing and downright settlement policies, and tons of leftist or just not-fascist people moving away from dying towns ravaged by neoliberal shock treatment, there aren't many of these places left.

    I have never considered how this might be the case. Is there anything written about it? Sounds like an interesting rabbit hole if there's ever been a deliberate effort and any similarities to like west bank shit or whatever.

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  • Bernie Sanders condemns Hamas and says that Israel has the right to defend itself. “We need to make sure that Israel has the means to defend itself."
  • Awoo Awoo 9h ago 100%

    Comparisons of Bernie Sanders to Jeremy Corbyn continue to be absolutely dogshit.

    Bernie's a shit. Jez is a giant. long-corbyn

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  • My "if they're anti-furry, they're sus" rule continues to bear fruit
  • Awoo Awoo 9h ago 100%

    Anti-furry is just the same as hating people with blue hair.

    Views on someone's personal taste in hobbies or aesthetics don't matter. They're harmless. Anyone upset about any group based on appearances is sus.

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  • Our Big Fry Boy [Livestream link in body]
  • Awoo Awoo 9h ago 100%

    trump-anguish Macca Republicans

    (This is probably only a British word for McDonalds) mccrucified

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  • Yes
  • Awoo Awoo 1d ago 85%

    smuglord "Ironically, you are the dangerous driver"

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  • Caption this
  • Awoo Awoo 1d ago 100%

    Inspection on the Death Star

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  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 14th to October 20th, 2024 - Paper Tigers
  • Awoo Awoo 1d ago 100%

    "Haha let's give the military the power to be used against civilians right before the person we've been calling literal-hitler wins against our dud candidate."

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  • WE ARE SO BACK
  • Awoo Awoo 1d ago 100%

    the stink of covid

    I'm confused. Trump sincerely handled Covid better though didn't he? Aside from being late to act which was a feature of most western govs. Dude actually gave people money and supported lockdowns and shit. He still takes Ls with his audience for not being a denier or anti-vax. On the other hand Dems rushed to end it and sweep evidence that it's still around under the rug by ending all testing.

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  • Bulletins and News Discussion from October 14th to October 20th, 2024 - Paper Tigers
  • Awoo Awoo 2d ago 100%

    This article is written from the perspective that the US is not actively planning to start a war with China in 2027.

    When you put that in the equation you can't possibly make statements like "balance its relationships with both Russia and the West". China is not doing that, they are not so naive.

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  • Awoo Awoo 2d ago 100%

    NIS (ROK intel agency) says DPRK has deployed 12,000 to Ukraine.

    Obviously they lie like shit but we will see eventually if they have.

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  • Awoo Awoo 2d ago 100%

    Interesting take here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1847318553495470362.html

    He reckons Britain has fully dropped involvement in Ukraine after the operation to expand the war failed.

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  • Awoo Awoo 3d ago 100%

    I've posted elsewhere a few times that I think geographically the best way to attack China is by causing another Korean war. The strategy would look similar to Ukraine, Nato supplying infinite weapons to ROK.

    I think DPRK is reacting to that and preparing to either make a decisive first strike with the goal being liberation of the peninsula or to fortify and defend themselves.

    The US looked at doing this with Taiwan but came to the same conclusion I did that it wouldn't work, Taiwan can easily be blockaded and you can't supply weapons to that, they would suffocate. You can't have an infinite war if you can't have infinite supply.

    The only other option is the Phillipines but that's not as good as Korea.


    If this does kick off I strongly believe we should frame it as anti-palestine efforts. DPRK has supplied weapons to the resistance and is an ally, with the ongoing Gaza genocide this angle is the most likely to garner sympathy. If some of the people I know can become Iran supporters then some people can become DPRK supporters by seeing any hot engagement as a threat to Palestine.

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  • Awoo Awoo 3d ago 100%

    Update with information from the fedshit I posted before. Might be iffy info tbh but the rumour mill is churning and this is the closest to possibly-correct information I've found on what might be happening out there.

    🇰🇷❌🇰🇵❗️ — South Korean forces on Yeonpyeong Island have been placed on alert as unusual movements have been detected at North Korean coastal artillery positions.

    ➡️ There has also been a sudden withdrawal of Chinese fishing boats from the waters near the island.

    ➡️ Days ago, South Korean media reported that, exactly as reported by North Korean State Media KCNA, as of 8:00 PM on the 13th, it had switched eight artillery brigades in forward areas to a “fire standby” posture.

    ➡️ These eight artillery brigades were ordered to be fully armed, and it is known that over 700 170mm long-range artillery pieces, 240mm multiple rocket launchers, 300mm multiple rocket launchers, and the North Korean version of the KTSSM (tactical surface-to-surface guided weapon) “Hwasong-11Ra” are deployed.

    ➡️ This means that 700 long-range artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers are armed and aimed at our military and key facilities, and can be used immediately if necessary.

    ➡️ On this day, North Korea’s coastal artillery was also captured in the open in the West Sea border area.

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  • Awoo Awoo 3d ago 100%

    Opsec looking more important in the UK lately

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearAR
    art Awoo 1mo ago 100%
    Hicaru Tanaka - Outlaw Star's end credits artist (images in the post)
    https://youtu.be/H6ojLNsoi0w

    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:** > > > ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F9a4a62cb-8ba1-4542-b29c-22efc8e85cb0.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fb33cdb0b-a224-45e2-a1c9-5894025f851c.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F950bb379-c3c5-477c-8ae4-7104244aa6cb.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F063811b2-9c6a-4519-9e06-69a9d7cfee89.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Ff8bf1425-d15a-404e-a24a-2b40bf930194.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fa605e450-e96b-4f97-99ce-8eb322e64fd0.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F4e45d61d-8e04-43df-9866-9bd17220c26f.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F6d63f295-e56d-4c60-b2ee-c5af91fde220.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fdc5759f2-f274-4bff-99bc-b57b91244052.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F01196691-8f78-44d8-abe4-99b3e3ffceeb.jpeg) > > *** > > 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 > > ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F752446da-6de8-4578-a4f6-bac24d68a93c.png) > > *** > > 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 > > ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F0d881c80-51dc-40ed-85e6-ba47cca51be6.jpeg) > > In case that page disappears at some point in the future (very likely), here is a screenshot of it: ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F1f2b54e8-8dc5-4393-98e0-5ddfa755887b.png) > > 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 ![awooga](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F12dc28f7-b63c-4d62-a1ff-6e3cd6e73c28.png "emoji awooga") 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". > > ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F88bd7cd8-7268-4e6a-b7fb-7582e6737772.webp) > ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fb43c3e7d-ec0e-47f6-ab7e-92b9c307af1e.jpeg) > ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F68fe1dc8-ac6c-4004-a5c5-f2eead173b3e.jpeg)

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    memes
    memes Awoo 1mo ago 100%
    On a mission

    https://xcancel.com/lowgradef/status/1833535916700537193

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    https://youtu.be/H6ojLNsoi0w

    *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:** ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F9a4a62cb-8ba1-4542-b29c-22efc8e85cb0.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fb33cdb0b-a224-45e2-a1c9-5894025f851c.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F950bb379-c3c5-477c-8ae4-7104244aa6cb.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F063811b2-9c6a-4519-9e06-69a9d7cfee89.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Ff8bf1425-d15a-404e-a24a-2b40bf930194.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fa605e450-e96b-4f97-99ce-8eb322e64fd0.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F4e45d61d-8e04-43df-9866-9bd17220c26f.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F6d63f295-e56d-4c60-b2ee-c5af91fde220.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fdc5759f2-f274-4bff-99bc-b57b91244052.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F01196691-8f78-44d8-abe4-99b3e3ffceeb.jpeg) *** 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 ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F752446da-6de8-4578-a4f6-bac24d68a93c.png) *** 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 ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F0d881c80-51dc-40ed-85e6-ba47cca51be6.jpeg) In case that page disappears at some point in the future (very likely), here is a screenshot of it: ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F1f2b54e8-8dc5-4393-98e0-5ddfa755887b.png) 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 ![awooga](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F12dc28f7-b63c-4d62-a1ff-6e3cd6e73c28.png "emoji awooga") 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". ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F88bd7cd8-7268-4e6a-b7fb-7582e6737772.webp) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fb43c3e7d-ec0e-47f6-ab7e-92b9c307af1e.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F68fe1dc8-ac6c-4004-a5c5-f2eead173b3e.jpeg)

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    **World** * [MintPress News](https://www.mintpressnews.com/) * [The Grayzone](https://thegrayzone.com/) * [Geopolitical Economy Report](https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/) * [World Socialist Website](https://www.wsws.org/) * [Al Mayadeen](https://english.almayadeen.net/) * [Monthly Review](https://monthlyreview.org/) * [ZNetwork](https://znetwork.org/) * [Uncaptured Media](https://www.uncaptured.media/) * [Marxist Left Review](https://marxistleftreview.org/) * [Pearls and Irritations](https://johnmenadue.com/) * [In Defense of Communism](https://www.idcommunism.com/) * [teleSUR English](https://www.telesurenglish.net/) * [ProleWiki](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Main_page) * [Consortium News](https://consortiumnews.com/) * [Caitlin Johnstone](https://caitlinjohnstone.com/) * [The Tricontinental](https://thetricontinental.org/) * [CovertAction Magazine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/) * [People's World](https://www.peoplesworld.org/) * [Working Class History](https://workingclasshistory.com/) * [History is a Weapon](https://www.historyisaweapon.com/) **US** * [Jacobin](https://jacobin.com/) * [The Intercept](https://theintercept.com/) * [Liberation News](https://www.liberationnews.org/) * [Democracy Now!](https://www.democracynow.org/) * [Accuracy.org](https://accuracy.org/) * [Seymour Hersh](https://seymourhersh.substack.com/) **UK** England * [Declassified UK](https://www.declassifieduk.org/) * [Novara Media](https://novaramedia.com/) * [Morning Star](https://morningstaronline.co.uk/) Wales * [Nation.Cymru](https://nation.cymru/) **Palestine** * [Electronic Intifada](https://electronicintifada.net/) * [Palestine Chronicle](https://www.palestinechronicle.com/) * [Mondoweiss](https://mondoweiss.net/) * [Oct 7 Factcheck](https://www.oct7factcheck.com/) * [+972 Mag](https://www.972mag.com/) ​**Canada** * [The Maple](https://www.readthemaple.com/) * [Breach Media](https://breachmedia.ca/) * [PressProgress](https://pressprogress.ca/) * [The Canada Files](https://www.thecanadafiles.com/) * [Canadian Dimension](https://canadiandimension.com/) * [Ricochet](https://ricochet.media/) * [The Tyee](https://thetyee.ca/) * [Canadian Anti-Hate Network](https://www.antihate.ca/) * [People's Voice](https://pvonline.ca/) * [Communist Party of Canada](https://communist-party.ca/) * [New Democratic Party](https://www.ndp.ca/) * [Policy Options](https://policyoptions.irpp.org/) * [Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada](https://cpcml.ca/) **Haiti** * [Haiti Liberté](https://haitiliberte.com/) **Australia** * [Red Flag](https://redflag.org.au/) * [Independent Australia](https://independentaustralia.net/) * [The Guardian](https://cpa.org.au/the-guardian-archive/) * [Green Left](https://www.greenleft.org.au/) * [Solidarity Online](https://solidarity.net.au/) * [Australian Communist Party](https://www.auscp.org.au/)

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    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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    https://archive.is/3Ef2X

    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. ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F5d2506ce-25bb-4391-a5ac-4e54fd448d8e.webp) 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. ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F0f2483a3-1204-460f-b737-2738d039aa4b.avif) 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. ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F012726ba-20b3-4cc3-888b-2f963bc0978c.avif) (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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    I was asked for a source on this today. I couldn't find this on hexbear anywhere and other places that do have it have been slowly disappearing or becoming harder to find over time. So I thought I'd preserve it here. EDIT: Alaskaball has also made a series of comments with excellent book quotes referencing some of these attempts: https://hexbear.net/comment/5288072 *** **May 1924, 23-31** (*Marxist Internet Archive*, "The Trotskyist Opposition Before and Now") ( [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1927/10/23.htm#1](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1927/10/23.htm#1)) >It is said that in that "will" \[Lenin's Testament - ZB\] Comrade Lenin suggested to the congress that in view of Stalin's "rudeness" it should consider the question of putting another comrade in Stalin's place as General Secretary. That is quite true. Yes, comrades, I am rude to those who grossly and perfidiously wreck and split the Party. I have never concealed this and do not conceal it now. Perhaps some mildness is needed in the treatment of splitters, but I am a bad hand at that. At the very first meeting of the plenum of the Central Committee after the Thirteenth Congress \[Undefined date of this attempt, however, within the Thirteenth Congress and thus anywhere within the 23rd to the 31st - ZB\] I asked the plenum of the Central Committee to release me from my duties as General Secretary. The congress itself discussed this question. It was discussed by each delegation separately, and all the delegations unanimously, including Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev, *obliged* Stalin to remain at his post. > >What could I do? Desert my post? That is not in my nature; I have never deserted any post, and I have no right to do so, for that would be desertion. As I have already said before, I am not a free agent, and when the Party imposes an obligation upon me, I must obey. > >A year later I again put in a request to the plenum to release me, but I was again obliged to remain at my post. > >What else could I do? *** **August 19, 1924** (Grover Furr, *Khrushchev Lied*, p. 244): >To the Plenum of the CC \[Central Committee\] RCP \[Russian Communist Party\] > >One and a half years of working in the Politburo with comrades Zinoviev and Kamanev after the retirement and then the death of Lenin have made perfectly clear to me the impossibility of honest, sincere political work with these comrades within the framework of one small collective. In view of which, I request to be considered as having resigned from the Pol\[itcal\] Buro of the CC. > >I request a medical leave for about two months. > >At the expiration of this period I request to be sent to Turukhansk region or to the Iakutsk oblast', or to somewhere abroad in any kind of work that will attract little attention. > >I would ask the Plenum to decide all these questions in my absence and without explanations from my side, because I consider it harmful for our work to give explanations aside from those remarks that I have already made in the first paragraph of this letter. > >I would ask comrade Kuibyshev to distribute copies of this letter to the members of the CC. > >With com\[munist\] greet\[ings\], J. Stalin. *** **December 27, 1926** (Grover Furr, *Khrushchev Lied,* p. 244): >To the Plenum of the CC \[Central Committee\] (to comrade Rykov). I ask that I be relieved of the post of GenSec \[General Secretary\] of the CC. I declare that I can work no longer in this position, I do not have the strength to work any more in this position. J. Stalin. *** **December 19, 1927** (Grover Furr, *Khrushchev Lied,* p. 245) ([https://livrozilla.com/doc/796199/pelo-socialismo](https://livrozilla.com/doc/796199/pelo-socialismo)): >Stalin: Comrades! For three years \[Suggesting there could be more resignation attempts unbeknownst to me - ZB\] I have been asking the CC \[Central Committee\] to free me from the obligations of General Secretary of the CC. Each time the Plenum has refused me. I admit that until recently conditions did not exist such that the Party had need of me in this post as a person more or less severe, one who acted as a certain kind of antidote to the dangers posed by the Opposition. I admit that this necessity existed, despite comrade Lenin's well-known letter \[Lenin's Testament - ZB\], to keep me at the post of General Secretary. But these conditions exist no longer. They have vanished, since the Opposition is now smashed. It seems that the Opposition has never before suffered such a defeat since they have not only been smashed, but have been expelled from the Party. It follows that now no bases exist any longer that could be considered correct when the Plenum refused to honor my request and free me of the duties of General Secretary. Meanwhile you have comrade Lenin's directive which we are obliged to consider and which, in my opinion, it is necessary to put into effect. I admit that the Party was compelled to disregard this directive until recently, compelled by well-known conditions of inter-Party development. But I repeat that these conditions have now vanished and it is time, in my view, to take comrade Lenin's directive to the leadership. Therefore I request the Plenum to free me of the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee. I assure you, comrades, that the Party can only gain from doing this. > >Dogadov: Vote without discussion. > >Vorshilov: I propose we reject the announcement we just heard. > >Rykov: We will vote without discsussion...We vote now on Stalin's proposal that he be freed from the General Secretaryship. Who is for this proposal? Who is against? Who abstains? One. > >The proposal of comrade Stalin is rejected with one abstention. > >Stalin: Then I introduce another proposal. Perhaps the CC \[Central Committee\] will consider it expedient to abolish the position of General Secretary. In our Party's history there have been times when no such post existed. > >Voroshilov: We had Lenin with us then. > >Stalin: We had no post of General Secretary before the 10th Congress. > >Voice: Until the 11th Congress. > >Stalin: Yes, it seems that until the 11th Congress we did not have this position. That was before Lenin stopped working. If Lenin concluded that it was necessary to put forward the question of founding the position of General Secretary, then I assume he was prompted by the special circumstances that appeared with us before the 10th Congress, when a more or less strong, well-organized Opposition within the Party was founded. But now we proceed to the abolition of this position. Many people associate a conception of some kind of special rights of the General Secretary with this position. I must say from my experience, and comrades will confirm this, that there ought not to be any special rights distinguishing the General Secretary from the rights of other members of the Secretariat. > >Voice: And the duties? > >Stalin: And there are no more duties than other members of the Secretariat have. I see it this way; There's the Politburo, the highest organ of the CC; there's the Secretariat, the executive organ consisting of five persons, and all these five members of the Secretariat are equal. That's the way the work has been carried out in practice, and the General Secretary has not had any special rights or obligations. The result, therefore, is that the position of General Secretary, in the sense of special rights, has never existed with us in practice, there has been only a collegium called the Secretariat of the CC. I do not know why we need to keep this dead position any longer. I don't even mention the fact that this position, called General Secretary, has occasioned in some places a series of distortions. At the same time that at the top no special rights or duties are associated with the position of General Secretary, in some places there have been some distortions, and in all the oblasts there is now a struggle over that position among comrades who call themselves secretaries, for example, in the national CCs. Quite a few General Secretaries have developed, and with them in the localities special rights have been associated. Why is this necessary? > >Shmidt: We can dismiss them in the localities. > >Stalin: I think the Party would benefit if we did away with the post of General Secretary, and that would give me the chance to be free from this post. This would be all the easier to do since according to the Party's constitution there is no post of General Secretary. > >Rykov: I propose not to give comrade Stalin the possibility of being free from this position. As concerns the General Secretaries in the oblast and local organs, that should be changed, but without changing the situation in the CC. The position of General Secretary was created by the proposal of Vladimir Il'ich. In all the time since, during Vladimir Il'ich's life and since, this position has justified itself politically and completely in both the organizational and political sense. In the creation of this organ and in naming comrade Stalin to the post of General Secretary the whole Opposition also took part, all those whom we have now expelled from the Party. That is how completely without doubt it was for everyone in the Party (whether the position of General Secretary was needed and who should be the General Secretary). By which has been exhausted, in my opinion, both the question of the "testament" (for that point has been decided) and exhausted by the Opposition at the same time just as it has been decided by us as well. The whole Party knows this. What has changed now after the 15th Congress and why is it necessary to set aside the position of General Secretary. > >Stalin: The Opposition has been smashed. > >(A long discussion followed, after which:) > >Voices: Correct! Vote! > >Rykov: There is a proposal to vote. > >Voices: Yes, yes! > >Rykov: We are voting. Who is for comrade Stalin's proposal to abolish the post of General Secretary? Who is opposed? Who abstains? Noone. *** **October 16, 1952** ([http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1954-2/succession-to-stalin/succession-to-stalin-texts/stalin-on-enlarging-the-central-committee/](http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1954-2/succession-to-stalin/succession-to-stalin-texts/stalin-on-enlarging-the-central-committee/)): >*This article was taken from the Russian newspaper Glasnost devoted to the 120th Anniversary of Stalin’s birth, was the last speech at the CC* \[Central Committee\] *CPSU* \[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\] *before Stalin died. The text was being published for the very first time in the Soviet Union...* > >...MOLOTOV – \[Glasnost -\] coming to the speaker’s tribune completely admits his mistakes before the CC, but he stated that he is and will always be a faithful disciple of Stalin. > >STALIN – (interrupting Molotov) This is nonsense. I have no students at all. We are all students of the great Lenin. > >\[Glasnost -\] Stalin suggested that they continue the agenda point by point and elect comrades into different committees of state. > >With no Politburo, there is now elected a Presidium of the CC CPSU in the enlarged CC and in the Secretariat of the CC CPSU altogether 36 members. > >In the new list of those elected are all members of the old Politbiuro – except that of comrade A. A. Andreev who, as everyone knows now is unfortunately completely deaf and thus can not function. > >VOICE FROM THE FLOOR – We need to elect comrade Stalin as the General Secretary of the CC CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. > >STALIN – No! I am asking that you relieve me of the two posts! > >MALENKOV – coming to the tribune: Comrades! We should all unanimously ask comrade Stalin, our leader and our teacher, to be again the General Secretary of the CC CPSU. *** **Same attempt** (A. I. Mgeladze, *Stalin*. *Kakim ia ego znal. Strannitsy nedavnogo poshlogo.* p. 118): >At the first Plenum of the CC \[Central Committee\] of the CPSU \[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\] called after the XIX Congress of the Party (I had been elected member of the CC and took part in the work of this Plenum), Stalin really did present the question of General Secretary of the CC CPSU, or of the post of Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. He referred to his age, overwork, said that other cadres had cropped up and there were people to replace him, for example, N.I. Bulganin could be appointed as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, but the CC members did not grant his request, all insisted that comrade Stalin remain at both positions.

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    I've heard this but can't really search for verification. Supposedly this law forces all Chinese videogames to be set in fantasy settings. Nothing in the real world. If this law exists I argue it should be removed. It's holding their industry back from making any culturally relevant content because nothing can be set in our world, about real lives, people or places. You'll never get a Death Stranding or Metal Gear out of China while it exists. They should untether their industry so it can produce more of cultural relevance. Can anyone verify?

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    These have been posted on the site before but the search feature on Lemmy at the moment is dogshit. Searching for ira returns everything for "piracy" and "iraq" and so on. I would be able to find it if the search feature worked as it should but alas. I'm specifically looking for stuff detailing organisation, practices, and overall function. But everything is fair game please.

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    It's a shooter-moba. I have access and can invite. If anyone wants access, I will need to friend you on steam. You can post friendcode in comment or PM it, I don't mind. I will add people then send invite, they're not instant they get sent in waves. I have very mixed opinions on it. Edit: I need your friend code. NOT SteamID. Easy mistake to make. Editedit: If I missed you, poke me. Sometimes notifications are weird here. Editeditedit: Looks like some of these have started to go through!

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