I wanted to thank you for this comment. It actually means a lot and made me realize that I wasn’t as bad as I had thought. I do stand by everything I said and how I said because at the end of the day, when you raise your voice I will raise mine back. I do think you give me too much credit, while I have been slightly able to confront my family (I will not being doing it anymore as I’m already the black sheep and this fight has alienated me further) I cannot do the same in other settings like school. I was only able to confront the flag thing because it was in private office hours. I never speak up in class, even when confronted with blatant misinformation, and I never really talk back. I try to do all the arguing in my papers buts that’s about it. This whole family thing was honestly an outlier and recently (today) my grandma lectured me about it, saying I was possessed by the devil and should apologize for how I acted. It sucks but it is what it is. At the end of the day I have to lay low in every aspect of life, school and even in my own home.

Why wasn’t she thrown into prison? Is France weird?

Oh my god I forgot about that. Wasn’t he groomed by her?

A People’s History of The Portuguese Revolution by Raquel Varela is a book about it, I know I used it for the paper I wrote comparing the Carnation Revolution and the Cuban Revolution. Theres also The Revolution before the Revolution: Late authoritarianism and student protest in Portugal by Guya Accornero. If you know anything about the Cuban revolution you’ll actually find quite a bit of similarities with Portugal when it comes to Student protests and Unions playing a big role in carrying out the larger movement, both of course played out differently and the results were also different too. Those two books should be a good start, I’m sure others, especially comrades from Portugal, have better sources for you. The article “External Factors’ Influence on Course of the April 25, 1974 Revolution in Portugal” by D.N. Ermolovich talks about the US meddling in Portugal post-revolution. Although that one is in Russian, hopefully there’s an English translation out there but… yeah. I remember reading about how Mario Soares (leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party post-rev) was affiliated with the CIA so there’s that factor.

hard men

Just admitting that war is their kink

I’m not a Putin simp or anything but it’s funny how the west was crying about how he’s a “madman” and a “psycho” and “insane,” yet they’re the ones who are putting the rest of the world at risk and hungering for more, even worse, violent conflict.

I’m glad he’s gambling with our lives just to elevate his status. Even if troops are never dropped I’m not thrilled with them threatening to do it anyway even though they are well aware the consequences.

That leak is promising at least. Call me crazy, bluff or not, I don’t think I’d ever take the gamble these NATO folks are willing to bet.

Familial connection mostly, and what could’ve been with the Carnation Revolution that was unfortunately sabotaged. It just makes me sad every time.

Also I thought Portugal was in a weird financial spot, like they didn’t have enough in their own country let alone send it to another. Guess I was wrong.

Quora once again proving itself to be a cesspit of pseudo-intellectuals.

Why the fuck is Macron so hellbent on sending troops to Ukraine? Does he really want to start a nuclear war? He’s putting all our lives on the line, and for what? Latvia doesn’t surprise me one fucking bit, Finland and Sweden are annoying as hell, and I am just so disappointed in Portugal…

If NATO does end up dropping troops and getting our countries in big fucking trouble I really hope non-aligned countries are willing to take in those that don’t want to stick around for the consequences.

Every day I keep getting convinced that it’s not worth staying here…

Or at the end of the year if a paper is required they can write a debunking paper/ one that challenges the material if they feel the professor won’t fail them for that.

This is actually exactly what I do. Every time there’s a paper assignment for class I feel safe writing something that goes against the liberal grain. I also try to speak up during office hours rather than class because there’s a least a semblance of privacy (not so much anymore). Papers are weird though, as sometimes topics are assigned or you can come up with your own as long as the professor approves. So far, even with assigned topics I do try to make it related to Marxism even a little bit (most of the time not explicitly saying it but touching on the themes). My most recent paper for political science I had to compare Putin and Xi Jinping when it comes to international relations (how their countries under their leadership behave on the global stage) and I did my best to not fear monger which contradicts the common narrative. For this history class we can choose to write about any topic as long as it’s related to genocide, I chose the Donbas and I’m sticking by that decision.

I know people want me to speak up during class and I get it, I really do, but I just can’t. Maybe in the near future I will be able to but for now I will keep my head down. I’m not as strong as everyone else here.

Apparently it’s okay for Zelenskyy to cancel elections because he’s fighting a war and therefore needs to keep power for national security reasons or whatever. It’s not a good defence but its the one they’re using.

The dichotomy of man

I am so annoyed she’s being allowed to do this shit, as if she’s an authority and expert on the topic. I would love to attend her “talk” but it’s literally happening at the same time as one of my classes, I’d have to skip just to attend that gong show.

I wrote this later before sending: Okay, now that I’m thinking about it I might just skip, I looked at the notes and I believe I can fill them out without the lecture. I’ll just use the textbook. ALRIGHT I will attend the “talk” and share what happens!

I didn’t mean to imply that’s what you meant, it’s where my mind is going. I gave him the benefit of the doubt of being a simple, normal liberal, but this past week has made me suspicious. If he’s not a cryptofascist than someone more higher up definitely is considering how they reacted to my concerns about a neo-Nazi display and Ivan Katchanovski.

Not a damn thing said about that! It’s just the same “the Soviets and Nazis are the same” type lecturing. He just talked about the nonaggression pact and then the “joint” invasion with no context given as to why these things happened. When he uses the word “joint” it implies the Nazis and Soviets were marching through Poland as friends, it’s fucking weird.

No, I don’t think you understand, she’s super smart and a star student! She’s doing great!

He also talked about the division of Poland during our Holocaust weeks but did not talk about why it happened in the first place, he described it as the Soviets and Nazis “agreeing” to invade Poland at the same time. When we learned about the Jedwabne massacre he tried to subtly blame the Soviets for it too. It was… weird. This class is a nightmare and not what I thought it was going to be like at all, I thought it would be a deep dive on what is and isn’t genocide but that isn’t the case at all. It’s very surface level, especially with this famine. Unlike other weeks we were given no external readings, only those websites. So one chapter from the Kiernan Blood and Soil book and two barely anything websites. Cool. I knew right away this week would be bad but I could never predict it would be this bad. Literally making fun of a scholar’s looks, thats a new low.

I’m sorry you are facing similar problems, I wish nobody had to go through it.