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And that's still a very generous and lenient deal offered by Iran. Justice would be every state that has ever collaborated with the enemy against Iran to pay restitution to Iran and extradite the leaders responsible for the criminal collusion to be put on trial in Iran.

Either racist or cowards. Either way, despicable.

Yep. Already on my wish list.

The ultraconservative and traditionalist Iran had an, allegedly, gay leader before the US.

I'm calling it now, Iran is going to have a female Ayatollah before the US has a woman president.

Once again, i fail to see the problem. They write these headlines as if i'm supposed to think that's a bad thing 🤣

Guys, you don't need to try this hard to make me support Iran even more, my support is already maxed out at 100%.

On the top are Belarussian, Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani peoples, on the bottom are Turkmen, Tajik, Ukrainian and Uzbek peoples.

No Moldova...sadge 😢 No, but these are awesome, thank you for sharing comrade!

That goes hard! Hopefully it survives this conflict without being disfigured or torn down by the Nazi regime like they've done to so many other Soviet era art pieces.

Nice. It's called "Fighting for Peace", created for International Workers' Day in 1950 by a Romanian artist. (I just felt i had to represent socialist Romania; it produced some great art - including film and music - during the socialist period and i sometimes feel like we are a bit under-appreciated among the socialist bloc.)

Response of the Palestinian woman who was thrown under the bus by the coward Mamdani:

https://xcancel.com/susanabulhawa/status/2032945406603121074

(Please go listen to the full video. There is not a single wasted word there and it is better than anything i or anyone who has not experienced what she has experienced could ever express. Below is just a part of the full response.)

"The sniper who shot my friend Jihan's 3 year old daughter Noor, shattering her tiny legs while she was in her mother's arms in Gaza, is a hateful, racist ghoul -- I understand that's one of the things I've been criticized for saying. And I double up on it, frankly. But the rage, the disgust even hatred that Jihan or I feel toward that sniper is not racism. It is not anti-Jewishness. It is not anti semitism. Nor are her feelings toward the tank operator who blew out the back of her son Arhab's head, making her fingers sink into his brains when she tried to pick him up. Our feelings or words in response to 78 years of this barbaric, colonial violence are not 'reprehensible.' They are not antisemitic. And they are not anti Jewish. In fact, despite everything they have done to us -- despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Jews both inside & outside of Israel support this zionist carnage & domination -- we still have the tender human sense to recognize those Jews, however a minority they may be, who do not support Israel. And to embrace the far smaller minority who are anti zionist, in fact."

"I do not have the power to materially change our condition, or even to harm our tormentors. But they do have that power. And they use it daily against us all. In my case, it has ment that I and my family, in addition to being dispossessed, exiled from our homeland, have been fired from our jobs, canceled, marginalized, disinvited, and otherwise curtailed our livelihoods. They've used their power to persuade leading politicians to publicaly disparage me. You are not the first, Mr. Mamdani. Zionist billionaires, South Australia's premiere. One of my own foreign publishers. Journalists. U Penn university president and members of the board of trustees and may other powerful people have preceded you in attacking me for daring to not mince words or self-censor when I speak of the demonic forces who have been wreaking havoc on our bodies, our lives, our children, our very place in the world. But you are the one who has compelled me to respond like this.

"No one has a right to criticize what we say about or how we describe those who've set up sexual torture camps like Sde Teiman where over ten-thousand Palestinians were kidnapped from their homes in Gaza-- are being starved, beaten, raped, mutilated & tortured as I speak. No one can tell me how I should speak about the people who forced my proud grandmother into a bug infested shack so foreign Jews could live in her Jerusalem home. No one will tell me what to say about the Israelis who set our anguish to music, and made TikTok trends from the mangled bodies of our babies."

"So, Mr. Mamdani I was disappointed to hear what you said, but the truth is I'm not mad at you. And I strangely am not taking it personally. I did not have the same visceral reaction that others had to condemn you. My overriding impulse was to correct & educate. In that spirit, and in the time honored tradition of Arab or muslim aunties offering unsolicited adice, i would like to encourae you tod o the following:

"Number one: When you feel pressure of powerful people asking you to condemn someone or something, just pause, and gather information, so you can construct a full picture from which you can then make a moral decision -- not a politically expedient or convenient decision -- but a moral & ethical one. Because ultimately, that is what New Yorkers saw in you when they elected you against all odds to lead them.

"Number 2: In making such a decision always be aware of the power dynamics & try to never condemn those without power, or with lesser power, as a reaction to pressure from those with tremendous power -- those with access to wealth, media influence, political positions, & so on.

"I offer these words in the spirit of this holy month coming to a close now. And I offer it from a personal & collective Palestinian wound that opens wider with every new assault, every moment of violence, denial, marginalization, demonization, denigration, diminishment, humiliation, theft, dismemberment, trauma and dispossession poured on us every day of every year in one way or another."

"Lastly, & separately, I want to congratulate you on the work you have done, and continue to do, for the working families in NY. I have watched with admiration how you centered municipal workers as the heroes in every snowstorm. How you imagined childcare as a right for every working family, & as a social responsibility for everyone. These are things worthy of respect & admiration. But in this instance you have erred. You succumbed to forces that seek to pick away at you -- at your talented, beautiful wife, and at your work --clawing harder with each apology or concession you make. If you're not careful, they will siphon your soul before you even realize it."

From: https://xcancel.com/briebriejoy/status/2032962762918252588

The West is going to do unhinged shit no matter what. I am certain that Chinese strategic planning takes that into account.

It might work if they had more time to indoctrinate the younger generations with NGO propaganda in schools, but the DPP hasn't been in power for that long and have not yet managed to overwrite the cultural and historical memory of the population.

Sometimes it works though, if you have enough time and resources dedicated to rewriting the historical narrative to get people to identify with their colonizers over their liberators. Ukraine is the case study for what happens to a country when that self-hating brainwashing succeeds.

The problem that the DPP and its NGO-industrial complex are facing is that China rose too quickly and the US declined too fast. They needed a few more decades time, now they're in desperation mode and so they have to escalate the rhetoric to extremes that the population is not primed for.

It's good but not my favorite. Of course i can appreciate the ideological symbolism there, but stylistically i prefer something that is a bit different from the classical western European aesthetic style, a style which you can very clearly see in the Родина-мать statue, whereas i feel like other Soviet works of art tried to develop a distinct socialist style.

I think the counter-argument to that is that the longer China waits the stronger they become relative to the US and the more obvious it becomes to the population in Taiwan that peaceful re-unification is in their best interest, with economic ties to China as well as China's soft power strengthening every year and ties to the US weakening as the US will have very little to offer apart from chaos and destruction.

China is betting on the long game. And of course we can't know for sure if that's the correct bet, but China has bet on the long game before even when many leftists were very skeptical of their strategy, and it has paid off for them. That's why i think the Chinese leadership are confident that patience will pay off here too. I think they view reunification as an inevitability on their current trajectory.

The idea is that Taiwan has no choice but to become more and more integrated with China's economy, and then political integration will happen gradually and organically given the shared cultural, historical and linguistic ties. I think there is some evidence that this process has already started and we are already seeing people in Taiwan who used to be pro-separatist but have now become "reunification realists", seeing which way the trajectory of China is going.

The point is that DPP is losing organic support and has to be increasingly being propped up by NGOs and imperialist funded media as the people in Taiwan turn against them, which leads to it increasingly becoming more extremist in its views and more comprador as time goes on.

Police told the media the robot was returned to its operator nearby, a local man in his 50s, who was reminded to exercise caution.

The centre’s person in charge told the media the robot was being guided by mixed programming and remote supervision at the time.

Autonomous or semi-autonomous, it still has a handler. Someone who is responsible for deploying it and can be held liable.

Bottom line: the public use of any piece of machinery that is heavy enough to cause property damage and injuries has to be regulated.

Say "I want to balkanize China and hand over control of its regions to terrorist groups", not "I care about minorities in China".

At some point it will become necessary to introduce a "driver's licence" requirement to be allowed to operate robots in public areas. Too many people will do too many stupid things with them otherwise.

Right now it seems like a bit of a wild west situation where people just do what they want until the legislation catches up.

I also really like how the socialist realism style looks in murals, mosaics and reliefs.

Just a few random examples, not necessarily my favorites

As for poster art, there's just too much to choose from, but here are a few i found recently:

I like the internationalism in this one

This one just encapsulates optimism for the future

And i appreciate how this one highlights industry and agriculture

And really we should also not forget to mention music as another form of socialist art, but again, way too much to choose from there, best left to a separate post.

Statues count as art, right?