https://www.galeriedelalande.fr/marine-sciences/antiquites-de-marine-divers/hache-abordage-19eme-dc1

https://www.runjeetsingh.com/antiques/artworks/multi-tool-katar

This has a leather belt with a gilt-iron buckle, a silver chape, and still holds its four gold-adorned tools: two pairs of tweezers; a short, pointed tool; and a nail cleaner.

One hopes that it won’t come to that… despite the shitwit-in-chief’s desires…

The flower, worker’s cap, and the German MP18 suggest the social democratic and democratic socialist revolutionaries at the end of WW1 rather than Soviet-style Communists. At the time, the hammer-and-sickle was a general leftist symbol, and had not become strongly associated with the Bolshevik system.

It’s always insane the level of accuracy put into these memento mori style skulls.

Explanation: Abraham Lincoln, a leading antislavery advocate and president during the US Civil War, chose a Southern Unionist - a man from the South who had chosen to side with the North during the Civil War - as his VP - one Andrew Johnson. Unfortunately, Andrew Johnson was a cad utterly devoid of redeeming qualities other than the fact that he was the only Southern Congresscritter from a ‘seceded’ state to remain loyal to the Union. Unfortunately, with politics being very tribal, that was not nothing in electoral considerations. Lincoln, during the 1864 election, was uncertain of his popularity, and up to the last metaphorical minutes of the election, was deeply concerned that he would be defeated and the prosecution of the war handed over to incompetents.

It’s hard to read anything other than naked opportunism in choosing Johnson as VP - especially as the official Union Party platform had become even more radical on civil rights than the Republican Party’s previous platform. Fire up the base and simultaneously offer an olive branch to the conservatives. Lincoln won the '64 election pretty comfortably, and it’s likely that he didn’t need to appoint Johnson as VP - who would have been a nonentity, except that Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the Civil War ended, putting Johnson into power during one of the most important eras of American history.

Fuck Johnson and his whole Southern bootlicking white supremacist ideology.

https://www.galeriedelalande.fr/curiosites-naturelles-wunderkammer/gourde-noix-coco-baganrd-19ee-siecle-dgm4

https://www.mohtashemi.art/artworkDetail/868234/17921/bronze-box-with-arabic-inscription

Capitalism needs to go, but the main point of dispute there is that it’s a whataboutism, not that it’s not true.

Additionally, I’d point out that the argument as commonly formulated isn’t true. The death tolls commonly attributed to capitalism require that essentially all excess mortality in third-world countries, many of which are not particularly capitalist, be attributed to capitalism. With the fall of the Soviet Union and the transition of the PRC to a capitalist model, it can be argued that capitalism causes more deaths in the present day, but that’s generally not what the argument is positing. Conversely, it can be argued that capitalism, having exercised considerable influence since the 17th century AD, is responsible for large death tolls, but that itself raises questions of where capitalism’s influence comes in, and where and in what proportions capitalism, as a largely non-revolutionary ideology which subsumed previous reactionary institutions piece by piece, rather than all-at-once, is responsible and is responsible for a worse outcome than would otherwise have occurred (as feudal and mercantilist systems are certainly not short of the urge to rack up massive death tolls).

On the other hand, the argument that communism ‘caused’ the massive death tolls in Soviet-style countries in the 20th century is only really applicable insofar as one is willing to accept the definition of communism, in the context of this particular argument, as “Stalinist insanity”.

… I think I lost where I was going with this. It’s early, I’m barely awake, have mercy on my poor scattered mind 😭

Modeling a watchtower at the prison camp!

Went back to check

https://www.mohtashemi.art/artworkDetail/781096/17919/calligraphic-tile

Our piece would have formed part of a row of tiles, as the text is incomplete, reading:

‘…earth. Who is there…’

This forms part of the Ayat al-Kursi or ‘Throne Verse’ (255) from sura 2 (al-Baqarah) of the Qur’an. Completed, the two sentences should read: ‘His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth?’

Not so much that long answers can’t be correct as calling out the attempt to use verbosity as a replacement for accuracy.

https://www.galeriedelalande.fr/marine-sciences/antiquites-de-marine-divers/travail-prisonnier-mirador-norman-cross-dexkc2a

CIA is when you don’t like Stalinists who deny genocides?

Quite the stretch. There really isn’t any comparison to be done between a war of foreign aggression and a civil war in this context.

As I said elsewhere, the effect of denying the centralized government the ability to offer elections in occupied territory is the same.

Also didn’t the US allow a third time for Roosevelt during WWII for much the same reasons?

There was no law at the time limiting the number of terms presidents could win.

… it feels like that some days.

I’m not sure if it’s colorized or autochrome

https://www.mohtashemi.art/artworkDetail/867620/17919/qajar-tabletop

I mean, the arguments put forth for not having elections during wartime is sound. It’s not so much a moral high ground as an amusing piece of trivia.

But yes, the current shitwit’s enthusiasm for locking us under the fascist regime is… notable.

Explanation: Many European countries, including Ukraine, which is currently struggling against an imperialist incursion by Russia, have laws on the books which restrict or restrain elections during wars which violate the territorial integrity of the polity - ie, that holding elections while being bombed is impractical, and holding elections in occupied territory is impossible.

The US, being a vast country even at its youngest point, founded in an era before motorized armies and aerial bombing, and insanely attached to the one document that lays out the processes of our government (because if we weren’t, we’d immediately start killing each other over what it should be instead), has no such laws. During the US Civil War, we just ignored the South during the 1864 election. Doing so resulted in the most radical and forward-thinking (relative to contemporary society) Congress in US history, and a resounding re-election victory for President Abraham Lincoln.

… we gave the South their fucking voting rights back too soon.