Weeks where decades happen

Even when you die there is payment

That was a great decision, I’d also like to see a lot of distance be made between Putin and Trump. Maybe proximity to China is helping that.

All those western leaders look like they absolutely hate each other lol (they do)

Do you have a preferred translation of the book? I’d like to get the audiobook with the matching physical text.

I honestly do not think she would read this, but I definitely will and talk to her about it if it comes up. Thank you for the recommendation!

I did know about this event, I will make sure to mention it in a nice way the next time she talks about it. Thank you for the reminder!

Yeah, you have a point. As a parent and a woman she feels like Nicholas could have been killed while sparing his wife and children. Although it is still frustrating for me, but I will try my best to meet her where she’s at. I have done so before so I should be able to do it again. If she cares about the Tsar’s family then she would probably care about the families of the Bolsheviks too. But it is hard considering the movies and shows she watches give more focus to the royals, and thus they can be empathized with more than a faceless mass of starving, abused people.

It is so interesting how our mothers reflect the same values. Thank you for you comment, it helped give me some clarity.

My family is Portuguese, not Russian and my mother is not inclined towards Tsarism, and she is also not an anti-communist as she is supportive of me, my values, and the idea of communism as a whole in her own understanding of it. She’s even called herself a communist because of equality. She has not and probably never will read theory but she listens to me. I honestly do talk about practical issues a lot, but when it comes to the topic of history, which is what I am studying in school, she brings up her fascination with the royals and her sympathies with what happened to the Tsar and his family.

While my conversation with my mom was incredibly light in tone, I am quick to go on the defensive with others even if it is just internally so I will take your advice. I will instead “attack” in the best way possible for whatever situation I am put in. The matter-of-fact way you put the tsar’s fate in is probably how I will say it to my mom the next time it comes up. I will also add in that the conditions at the time dictated what needed to be done and there’s no changing it. The information about China’s last emperor is also very useful as it was something I thought about.

Thank you for the detailed reply, it is very helpful.

I love Artsy Marxist, their paintings are so beautiful

Scare the veterans but what about my dogs 😔

She’s been doing advertisements that have really catered to incels but her most recent one was talking about “good genes” in an American eagle ad campaign. A lot of people have been talking about its eugenic undertones (overtones?).

I was able to finally get a hold of the provincial disability program and they gave me the run down on how to go about the whole process and to contact my MLA (member of the legislative assembly) to hopefully get the provincial government to roll back this decision to steal our $200. The call was recorded and I made sure to state that I felt it was important for our government officials to hear it from me that this was a hostage situation and thus incredibly unethical and evil.

I have looked for groups and I can honestly only find one, I will contact them to see if they can lead me in the right direction. I know this particular group was heavily involved in getting the federal disability act to the table in the first place although they advocated for much more than a mere $200 top-up.

Thanks for the help, comrade. I appreciate it.

New Russian skills just dropped: Chronomancy and whale-whispering I guess

Thank you, comrade!

It was a good day, really chill with some strawberry cake

I did have a nice birthday and I appreciate the well wishes so much

Thank you, it feels good to get here

Thank you! And I did have some cake!

I was actually curious if Russia had diplomatic relations with Laos, I hope it get stronger in a good way, alongside China of course.