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Concept Art of Star Wars: The Bad Batch's first three episodes

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katchwreck · 2 years

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Red Guards having a rest around a campfire on the street in October, 1917.

Photographer: Iakov Vladimirovich Steinberg

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New Rule: A Woke Revolution | Real Time with Bill Maher

And finally. New Rule: If you're part of today's Woke Revolution, you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control because the revolutionaries get so drunk on their own purifying elixir, they imagine they can reinvent the very nature of human beings.

Communists thought selfishness - selfishness - could be cast out of human nature. Russian revolutionaries spoke of the New Soviet Man who wasn't motivated by self-interest, but instead wanted to be part of a collective. No, turns out he wanted to be on a yacht in a Gucci tracksuit holding a vodka and a prostitute. Not standing in line all day for a potato.

The problem with Communism, and with some very recent ideologies here at home, is that they think you can change reality by screaming at it. That you can bend human nature by holding your breath. But that's the difference between reality and your mommy.

Lincoln once said that you can "repeal all past history, but you still cannot repeal human nature." But he's canceled now, so fuck him.

Yesterday I asked ChatGPT, are there any similarities between today's Woke Revolution and Chairman Mao's cultural revolution of the 1960s, and it wrote back, how long do you have?

Because again, in China, we saw how a revolutionary thought he could do a page one rewrite of humans. Mao ordered his citizens to throw off "the four olds": old thinking, old culture, old customs, and old habits. So um, your whole life went in the garbage overnight, no biggie.

And those who resisted were attacked by an army of purifiers called the "Red Guard" who went around the country putting dunce caps on people - yeah - who didn't take to being a new kind of mortal being. A lot of pointing and shaming went on. Oh, and about a million dead. And the only way to survive was to plead insanity for the crime of being insufficiently radical, then apologize and thank the state for the chance to see what a piece of shit you are. And of course, submit to re-education. Or, as we call it here in America, freshman orientation.

Listen to this story. There's a law professor at the University of Illinois Chicago named Jason Kilbourne whose crime was that on one of his exams, he used a hypothetical case where a black female worker sued her employer for race and gender discrimination, alleging that managers had called her two slur words. The type of real world case these students might one day confront, and knowing the extreme sensitivity of today's students, he didn't write the two taboo words on the test, just the first letter of each. He was teaching his students how to fight racism in the place where it matters most, the criminal justice system.

But because he merely alluded to those words - again in the service of a good cause - he was banned from campus, placed on indefinite leave, and made to wear the dunce cap. No, not really the dunce cap part. But our American version of that: eight weeks of sensitivity training. Weekly 90-minute sessions with a diversity trainer, and having to write five "self-reflection" papers. A grown ass man. A liberal law professor.

If you can't see the similarities between that and this, the person who needs re-education is you.

Yes, we do have our own Red Guard here but they do their rampaging on Twitter.

Here's a cute example from a couple of years ago. The banjo player from Mumford and Sons tweeted that he liked a book. A book that apparently had not been approved by the revolution. So of course, he had to delete the Tweet then take time away from the band - oh my God you mean this could have affected Mumford and Sons - and then the cringing apology: "I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed." Pain? From a book? Unless he hit the drummer over the head with it? What happened to “I can read whatever the fuck I want”? Don't worry, I'm a musician, it won't happen again.

There was once a very different musician named John Lennon who wrote a song called "Revolution," and people who didn't really listen to it thought it was a rah-rah call for revolution. No, it was the opposite. The lyrics are:

“You say you want a revolution. Well, you know, we all want to change the world. But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain't gonna make it with anybody anyhow."

There's a guy who understood how good intentions can turn into the insane arrogance of thinking your Revolution is so awesome, and your generation is so mind-bendingly improved that you have bequeathed the world with a new kind of human. You're welcome.

With Communists, that human was no longer selfish. In America today, that human is no longer born male or female. And obesity is not something that affects health. You can be healthy at any size. Really, we voted on it.

A formerly serious magazine last year published with a straight face, an article called "Separating Sports by Sex Doesn't Make Sense." Yes it does. Because again, we haven't reinvented homo sapiens since Crystal Pepsi came out.

I've spent three decades on TV mocking Republicans who said climate change was just a theory, and now I got to deal with people who say, you know what else is just a theory? Biology.

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The mistake is thinking this isn’t by design.

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Hello! Do you have any reference images for the Red Guard's mask?

I doooooo

The design would look similarly intricate to the top two images, but with small roots and vines instead. The texture would look like the bottom two, the bark clearly visible even under the layers of red paint.

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foraredfuture · 2 years

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Chinese people studying Mao's Little Red Book during the Cultural Revolution, around 1971.

In bourgeois ideology and specifically bourgeois historiography it is usually said that the Little Red Book was nothing but a tool to brainwash the Chinese people. On the face of it this is an idealist conception, since it imagines it is sufficient to just lie to people and they will believe it, irrespective of their actual conditions. In other words, even if this were true it would imply that the Maoists were actually successful in improving the living conditions of the great majority of the Chinese people, laying the objective basis for the effectiveness of their "brainwashing".

However, the irony of the situation is that the Little Red Book was quite the opoosite of a abrainwashing tool. During the Cultural Revolution it gave the Chinese masses a means to hold party cadre accountable, as it outlines very strict ethical and political guidelines every communist has to abide by. The Chinese masses used it in precisely that way, ousting capitalists from the party and taking up the the leadership over their own affairs or bringing in actual communists who would be able to abide by the communist worldview and be in service of the people.

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jonberry555 · 6 months

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The Emperor's Red Guards by Gloria Chao BOOK REVIEW -- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi From a Certain Point of View

#fromacertainointofview #starwars #returnofthejedi The Emperor's Red Guards by Gloria Chao REVIEW

My Review of 'The Emperor's Red Guards' by Gloria Chao the thirty-second story from From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi.

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playitagin · 11 months

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1966-Red Guards organized

Students from China's Tsinghua University Affiliated Middle School formed the first Red Guards .

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Scrappy 14 year old kid tries to intimidate two outlaws and fails miserably!! He doesn’t even have shoes on

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2015 Gao Falin: Not Old Bad but Red Guards Getting Old

Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era Student Reader — Elementary School lower grades I am often intrigued by how Chinese Communist Party General Secretary in subtle and less subtle ways rhymes with Mao Zedong. Another now purged leader of Xi’s generation, former Chongqing Municipality Party Secretary Bo Xilai, was similar in some ways. In Chongqing Bo Xilai…

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ndcgalitzine · 5 months

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it's about the softness

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maddie-w-draws · 7 months

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in his shadow the hedgehog era ❤️

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psitrend · 2 years

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15+ Rare Images of The Fall of Liu Shaoqi & the "capitalist roaders" during the Cultural Revolution

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15+ Rare Images of The Fall of Liu Shaoqi & the "capitalist roaders" during the Cultural Revolution

During the Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi, an eminent Chinese revolutionary, politician, and theorist, was expelled, imprisoned, and tortured to death

The Cultural Revolution was a sociopolitical movement in China launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his death in 1976 to preserve Chinese communism by removing remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society and re-establishing Mao Zedong Thought as the dominant ideology in the People’s Republic of China.

The Revolution signified Mao’s return to the central position of power as Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC) after a period of less radical leadership to recover from the failings of the Great Leap Forward, which caused the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961). However, the Revolution failed to fulfill its primary objectives. Mao, who launched the movement with the support of the Cultural Revolution Group in May 1966, claimed that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society with the intention of restoring capitalism.

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In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi also brought Red Guard armbands to meet the Red Guards. The picture shows Liu Shaoqi with Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping

Mao urged young people to “bombard the headquarters” and said that “rebellion is acceptable.” The country’s youth responded by organizing Red Guards and “rebel organizations.” The Little Red Book, which became a hallowed scripture for Mao’s personality cult, was constructed from a selection of Mao’s sayings. They periodically organized “denunciation rallies” against revisionists, seizing control from local governments and CPC sections until creating revolutionary committees in 1967.

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Liu Shaoqi and Jiang Qing, 1966 the Tiananmen Gate. JIang Qing was the wife of Mao and member of the Gang of Four

Mao Zedong and Lin Biao meet the Red Guards

Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Lin Biao, JiangQing among the Red Guards

The committees frequently broke into competing factions and engaged in armed confrontations known as “violent struggles,” to which the army was dispatched to restore order. Mao declared the Revolution completed in 1969, although the active phase would remain until at least 1971 when Lin Biao escaped and perished in an aircraft accident, suspected of a bungled coup against Mao. The Gang of Four took control in 1972, and the Cultural Revolution lasted until Mao’s death and the arrest of the members of the group in 1976.

The Cultural Revolution was marked by bloodshed and anarchy. Death toll claims range greatly, with estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of people killed during the Revolution. Beginning with the Red August in Beijing, massacres happened across the country, including the Guangxi Massacre, which included extensive cannibalism; the Inner Mongolia incident; the Guangdong Massacre; the Yunnan Massacres; and the Hunan Massacres.

Related article: the destruction of a Confucian temple triggers the Cultural Revolution

The Red Guards damaged historical treasures and ransacked cultural and religious places. The Cultural Revolution coincided with the breakdown of the Banqiao Dam in 1975, one of the world’s largest technical disasters. Meanwhile, tens of millions of people were persecuted: senior officials, most notably Chinese President Liu Shaoqi, along with Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, and He Long, were purged or exiled; millions were accused of belonging to the Five Black Categories and were subjected to public humiliation, imprisonment, torture, hard labor, property seizure, and, in extreme cases, execution or harassment into suicide.

Propaganda poster criticizing Liu Shaoqi during the Cultural Revolution

Liu Shaoqi (24 November 1898 – 12 November 1969) was a revolutionary, politician, and thinker. From 1954 to 1959, he served as the NPC Standing Committee Chairman. From 1956 to 1966, he served as the Chinese Communist Party’s First Vice Chairman. From 1959 to 1968, he served as the de facto head of state and enacted policies for China’s economic rebuilding.

Liu had prominent posts in the Chinese government for 15 years, ranking third only to Premier Zhou Enlai and Chairman Mao Zedong. Liu, who was once viewed as Mao’s heir, displeased him in the early 1960s before the Cultural Revolution. From 1966 forward, Mao reprimanded Liu before having him expelled. As the “commander of China’s bourgeoisie headquarters,” China’s leading “capitalist-roader,” and a traitor to the revolution, Liu vanished from the public eye in 1968.

uring the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Mao launched a political campaign to liquidate Liu Shaoqi: “Down with China’s Khrushchev”

Approval document issued by Mao’s order (No. 155 of 1968). The photocopies of the documents are taken from the collections of the East Asian Libraries of the famous American universities.

During the Cultural Revolution, he was expelled, imprisoned, and tortured to death, but Deng Xiaoping’s administration restored his reputation after his passing in 1980 and gave him a national memorial service.

Even Song Renqiong, a general in the People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and one of the Eight Elders of the Chinese Communist Party, was persecuted and severely criticized during the Cultural Revolution. He was the father of Song Binbin, also known as Song Yaowu, a senior leader in the Chinese Red Guards.

Intellectuals were dubbed the “Stinking Old Ninth” and were extensively persecuted—notable professors and scientists like as Lao She, Fu Lei, Yao Tongbin, and Zhao Jiuzhang were assassinated or committed suicide. Schools and universities were closed, and college entrance tests were postponed. The Down to the Countryside Movement transported almost 10 million urban smart adolescents to the countryside. In December 1978, Deng Xiaoping took over as China’s new paramount leader, succeeding Chairman Hua Guofeng, and launched the “Boluan Fanzheng” program, which progressively destroyed the Maoist policies associated with the Cultural Revolution and restored order to the country. Deng and his supporters then initiated the momentous Reforms and Opening-Up program, ushering in a new era in Chinese history. The CCP admitted in 1981 that the Cultural Revolution was incorrect and was “responsible for the most severe setback and heaviest losses experienced by the people, the country, and the party since the establishment of the People’s Republic.”

All images have been augmented and partially cleaned up or restored. However, the quality of some of the original pictures was very poor. We couldn’t find any better-resolution images.

Full body photo of Liu Shaoqi after his death in Kaifeng

Topics: Liu Shaoqi death, liu shaoqi cultural revolution, cultural revolution purges

Source: wikipedia, Chinese web

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katchwreck · 2 years

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Mongolian Red Army border guards on dromedaries with a dog.

Unknown year, but probably early 1940s.

#dromedary #red guards #red army #border guard #1920s #mongolian #old pictures #mongolia

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 month

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This is what Cancel Culture looks like without the internet.

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