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As someone who uses GIMP very effectively for commercial work, I am increasingly feeling like people who say that GIMP isn't a capable alternative are simply ignorant of it's capabilities. Yeah, it doesn't work like Photoshop. Yeah, it doesn't work like Affinity Photo. Yeah, it doesn't work like Photopea.

But yeah, it does work, and works well. If you apply a bit of patience to learn how it works, then it's also very easy to use, eventually. Maybe it doesn't cover all the use-cases, but it's ignorant to say that it categorically isn't capable for commercial use.

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I have never used any of those other softwares in more than a decade.

I still only use GIMP for image editing out of principle.

Still have to check every time for GIMP shortcuts because they are so counter intuitive. And there are so many counter intuitive things about it.

IMHO it have the same issue that Libreoffice. It was really made decades ago and never really updated. It's like that meme about workflows. In their efforts not to break workflows they have gotten behind in UX compared to other software.

Also development seems to be stopping to a halt with each release compared to other more modern foss projects. I suppose it's due an ancient codebase that's probably really hard to work with.

I use it. It can do a lot. But UX and development speed in GIMP is not up to par with projects like Krita, Inkscape or Blender (to name a few).

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Britney Spears - Do Somethin' (Official Video)


Lyrics
Do you feel this?
I know you feel this
Are you ready?
I don't think so

Somebody give me my truck
So I can ride on the clouds
So I can turn up the bass like
Somebody pass my guitar
So I can look like a star
And spend that cash like

What you gonna do when the crowd goes a-yo?
Why you standing on the wall?
Music starting everywhere
So why don't you just move along?

I see you looking at me
Like I'm some kind of freak
Get up out of your seat
Why don't you do somethin'?
I see you looking at me
Like I got what you need
Get up out of your seat
Why don't you do somethin'?

Now you all in my grill
'Cause I say what I feel
Only rock to what's real
Baby, bump-bump
But I can't do that with you
Only here with my crew
You can roll if you can
Don't be a punk-punk

What you gonna do when the crowd goes a-yo?
Why you standing on the wall?
Music starting everywhere
So why don't you just move along?

I see you looking at me
Like I'm some kind of freak
Get up out of your seat
Why don't you do somethin'?
I see you looking at me
Like I got what you need
Get up out of your seat
Why don't you do somethin'?

I see you looking at me
Like I'm some kind of freak
Get up out of your seat
Why don't you do somethin'?

I see you lookin' over here
Can't you tell I'm having fun?
If you know it like I know
You would stop
Staring at us
And get your own space
And do somethin'

I see you looking at me
Like I'm some kind of freak
Get up out of your seat
Why don't you do somethin'?
I see you looking at me
Like I got what you need
Get up out of your seat
Why don't you do somethin'?

I see you looking at me
Like I'm some kind of freak
Get up out of your seat
Why don't you do somethin'?

Fuck
Do somethin'
Why don't you do somethin'?

Written by: Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Henrik Jonback, Angela Hunte
Album: Glory : Japan Tour Edition
Released: 2017

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James Baldwin: Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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The Night in Black May When the Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells Attacked a Business of the Cop Claudio Crespo with Explosives: Chile


Claudio Crespo has been identified as the cop who shot and mutilated the eyes of a young person on November 8, 2019, when the October revolt was in full swing. A few days ago, the CIPER media released body camera footage of the chilean police [1], in which phrases can be heard like: “we’re going to shoot your eyes out”, “let the fucker burn” or “all these fuckers have to get killed“. In other audiovisual recordings he can be observed tearing out a lock of hair from a detainee’s head and sending a photo of it as a trophy to a Whatsapp group called “Scissors” where it seems it was common practice for these miserable police to send records of their “trophies”.

Days after the release of these videos, the cop Claudio Crespo affirmed that “I regret nothing” and “I don’t give a shit”.

[2]Does this surprise us? No. The police is the armed wing of the powerful, defenders of the flesh and blood of property, modern pacifiers who for a salary have decided to take up arms against those who challenge normality and confront a system of life sustained by hierarchies and obedience using the various practices of political violence. In this sense, the words of the cop in question represent the dynamics of the police, who possess no codes at the time of confrontation and make morbid, mocking remarks as a kind of gesture to show their masters that they work to defend their interests. Like a gaucho hanging the dismembered body of a cougar from the pediment of the plots in Patagonia, so the bosses know about their work, unaware that, at some point, the hunters will become the hunted.

However, anarchist and anti-authoritarian practice has known how to hit them across the world, in every corner where hands and hearts are ready to plan and organize gestures of vengeance translated in small victories. From Kurt Wilckens executing the repressor Benigno Varela [3], anarchist comrades in the U.S. sending letter bombs to police stations, book bombs sent to police in Greece, an explosive expert who lost a hand and an eye in Italy, a cop wounded by the explosion of a letter bomb inside a police station in Chile. These actions and many more have demonstrated that anti-police action is always necessary and urgent because, as we have pointed out, they are the defenders of the flesh and blood of all the infrastructure of power and authority.

Anarchist memory doesn’t only remember comrades who have died in action or for other causes, it must also identify and recognize the small victories created throughout the years, and guarantee that these remain necessary elements to create a practical-moral impulse in the present and in the next steps. In this sense, it seems necessary to recall the action carried out a few years ago by the Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells, when they attacked the headquarters of Fullclean Security with explosives. This company was created by the cop Claudio Crespo after he was discharged from the filthy institution in which he defended the powerful. Under control of the miserable man, the company has won important bids that have filled his pockets – contracts with the police hospital for about $6.5 billion, $3.6 billion with the municipality of Lo Barnechea, and $40 million with the Maipo Presidential Delegation.

In particular, the night of Black May on May 20, 2022, a powerful rumble was felt around 11pm in the Sucre de Ñuñoa neighborhood, specifically at #2161 where the offices of Fullclean S.A. are still located today. In the front garden of the property, police found cables, remains of a brown bag, pieces of plastic, a battery and timers and the South Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office took over the investigation, having exclusive control over such matters.

We leave the full communique of the explosive action below:

Claim of an explosive attack against Fullclean Security

We have attacked with explosives the private security company of Claudio Crespo Guzman, ex-cop mutilator, cocaine addict and part of Chile’s fascist shock troops!

On the night of Black May 20, we went to Fullclean Security at Román Díaz Street #2161, Ñuñoa., to harass this mercenary who, unable to continue repressing in uniform, has set up a private company to exercise power and control as a means of subsistence.

Both the business of state and private surveillance clearly maintain the relationships necessary to perpetuate their privileges and authority in this place. Repressive activities are an essential part of their validation mechanism, therefore there is not nor will there ever be a state that does not imprison, maim or kill those who stand in the way of its ongoing devastation and violence. These activities are part of a continuity of state policy that transcends governments, be they right-wing, left-wing, plurinational or conventional. There is no need to separate the leaders from the mafia: every authority is equally bad.

In confronting this repressive reality, we show our combative solidarity with subversive prisoner Marcelo Villarroel who is still imprisoned solely because of convictions by the military court, legacy of the dictator Pinochet and perpetuated by governments and the intellectual managers of democracy, including what is left of the Boric government. We call for agitation between May 23 and 30 for the freedom of our comrade.

Because a powerful fire is only the continuation of a small spark, this action goes in memory of our brother and comrade Mauricio Morales whose ideas and practices of freedom remain a bomb that spreads.

We salute the comrades who keep the fight for freedom alive in the high schools and in the streets, disregarding institutional hope with fire and disobedience.

A fraternal and revolutionary hug to Pato Gallardo, tireless fighter who recently died, leaving behind a committed history of struggle in dictatorship and democracy.

Greetings and freedom to our prisoners.

We’re angry and running out of patience, do not say that we are few, say that we here.

We send greetings and strength to La Negra Venganza, Grupo Autónomo Revolucionario del Maule, Grupo de Respuesta Animal, Fracción Autonómica Cristián Valdebenito, Células Revolucionarias Nicolás Neira, Simon Radowitzky Anti-capitalist Cell and those who keep attacking around the world.

New Subversion

Freedom or Death

Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells

The cop mentioned the harassment action on his Twitter account, saying that “yesterday I was victim to a cowardly terrorist attack at the company. They installed a bomb and thank God there were no injuries and my family is fine.” Apparently, he doesn’t know that it wasn’t due to divine will that the actions against him until now have intended to besiege him, and not as the comrades of the Grupo Autónomo Weichafe Matias Katrileo said a few years ago, “We alone decide the materials, schedules and objectives and advance according to the direction of war… when we intend that the damage-destruction will be different. This is how we will do it, and all planning will point in that direction.(4)”

We bring this action to mind in the face of so many comments -even from “anarchists”- tending towards human rights, positions and discourses aligning with reformist, platformist and/ or popular sectors, which only aim to rearrange the chess board of power. The human rights discourse is not at all close to our ideas, since its very existence is closely linked with the protection of democracy, and democracy itself is the protection of the state. We call on everyone not to lose the anti-authoritarian sense of smell, not to submit in our discourses and to enhance our anarchic memory, our ideas and horizons for confrontation.

(1) ciperchile.cl/2025/04/28/te-va…

(2) eldesconcierto.cl/2025/04/29/c…

(3) informativoanarquista.noblogs.…

(4) https://es-contrainfo.espiv.net/2018/01/25/santiago-chile-reivindicacion-de-ataque-incendiar

source: Act For Freedom

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#2161 #anarchism #chile #insurrectionaryAnarchism #southAmerica

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Kylie Minogue - Dancing (Official Video)


Official video for 'Dancing', taken from Kylie's new album 'Golden'.

Lyrics:

No one wants to stay at home
Nobody wants to be alone
When you come knocking, I'll be at your door
I don't ever wanna stop
I'm gonna give it all I've got
And when they ask me, "who could ask for more?"

Can't stand still
I won't slow down

When I go out, I wanna go out dancing
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
When I go out, I wanna go out dancing
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
I wanna go out dancing

I wanna go out
I wanna go out, dancing

This is where I wanna be with you
Your arms wrapped around me
And fireworks reflecting in your eyes
This is how I wanna feel
The wild kiss, the music reeling
Getting down, riding all the highs

Can't stand still
I won't slow down

When I go out, I wanna go out dancing
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
When I go out, I wanna go out dancing
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
I wanna go out dancing

I wanna go out
I wanna go out, dancing

Everybody's got a story
Let it be your blaze of glory
Burning bright, never fade away
And when the final curtain falls, we could say we did it all
The never ending of a perfect day

Can't stand still
(Can't stand still)
I won't slow down
(Won't slow down)

When I go out, I wanna go out dancing
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
When I go out, I wanna go out dancing
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
I wanna go out dancing

I wanna go out
I wanna go out
(I wanna go out dancing)
I wanna go out
I wanna go out
(I wanna go out dancing)

Written by: Kylie Ann Minogue, Nathan Paul Chapman, Steven Mcewan
Album: Golden
Released: 2018

Directed by Sophie Müller
Produced by Jacob Swan Hyam

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Check the Tucker Carlson 9/11 interview with with Curt Weldon below after listening to the first video. You decide what is truth about Real ID.

REAL ID IS NOT ABOUT KEEPING YOU SAFE

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Rep. Curt Weldon: It’s Time to Finally Tell the Truth About 9-11

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Iraq"-- though I received No $$$-- because I spoke against the War. On Oct 3, 2005 I was ordered to surrender to prison. On Oct 19, 2005, Rep. CURT WELDON delivered his EPIC speech on the House floor challenging the narrative of Iraq's participation in the 9/11 attack. His speech noted some persons had been sent to PRISON who might know details Congress was investigating. THAT WAS ME-- barraged by garbage evidence. Example: A diplomat accused

An Israeli acknowledgment of the accuracy of Sana’a’s missile messages dailyyemen.net/2025/05/12/an-i…

James Baldwin: I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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1 Mayıs Özgürlük ve Dayanışma Günü’nde fikir işçisi gazeteciler de sokaklardaydılar. Kimi “Tutuklu gazetecilere özgürlük!” diye haykırdı, kimi ise “Sendikalı olmak anayasal hak!” diye… Haklıydılar. Düşünce hapsedilmemeli. Sendikalı olmak ise gazeteci için önemli bir teminat. İş güvencesine sahip gazeteci basın özgürlüğünü çok daha güçlü savunur. Basında sendikalaşma bugün yüzde 8 civarında. Bu oranın 12 Eylül 1980 öncesinde yüzde 60 düzeyinde olduğu biliniyor. Sahi ya, Türk Basınında sendikalaşmayı kim öldürmüştü?..
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‪Emaldrien de Argutus‬ @emaldrien.bsky.green‬ am 13. Mai 2025 um 04:13:
Acht Männer alleine können sich so viel Nahrung leisten, wie vier Milliarden Menschen zusammen
Und du lässt dir von den Politikern, die du wählst, erzählen, dass die Dose Ravioli, die dein arbeitsloser Nachbar sich vom Bürgergeld leistet, das Problem ist?
Hältst du dich eigentlich für intelligent?

#Umverteilen #UmFairTeilen

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They're trying to re-run the WMD scare:

Same people doing it too.
Finish your Ukraine before you can have any Iran, warpigs.

And you can always trust handy neighborhood "dissident groups" to provide reliable intel. Perhaps they'll testify in committee about babies in incubators being bayoneted.

Glenn Greenwald tweets:
"Same exact play and script as the lies that led to the US invasion of Iraq: fear-mongering over WMD, secret nuclear sites "uncovered," heroic dissident exile groups, etc. Neocons are so unimaginative. It's been 20 years. Get some new war propaganda."

Fidel Castro: Capitalism means unequal exchange with the peoples of the Third World, exacerbation of individual selfishness and national chauvinism, the rule of irrationality and anarchy in investment and production, ruthless sacrifice of peoples to blind laws in the economy, the rule of the strongest, exploitation of man by man, every man for himself, every man for himself. Capitalism in the social order implies many other things: prostitution, drugs, gambling, begging, unemployment, abysmal inequalities among citizens, depletion of natural resources, poisoning of the atmosphere, seas, rivers, forests and, especially, plundering of underdeveloped nations by industrialized capitalist countries. In the past it meant colonialism and in the present it means the neocolonization of billions of human beings by more sophisticated economic and political methods, but also less costly, more effective and ruthless. Capitalism, its market economy, its values, its categories and its methods can never be the instruments to get socialism out of its present difficulties and to rectify the mistakes that could have been made. A good part of these difficulties arose not only from mistakes, but also from the rigorous blockade and isolation to which the socialist countries were subjected by imperialism and the great capitalist powers that monopolized almost all the wealth and the most advanced technologies in the world, product of the plundering of the colonies, the exploitation of their working class and the massive brain drain of countries that were in the process of developing. Devastating wars, costing millions of lives and the destruction of the vast majority of the accumulated means of production, were unleashed against the first socialist state. Like a phoenix, it had to rise more than once from the ashes and rendered such services to humanity as overthrowing fascism and decisively promoting the liberation movement of the still colonized countries. All of this they want to forget today. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


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  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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2 Mayıs 1916 Büyük Kürd Tehcirine Karar Verilen Gün

Celal Temel

''Büyük Kürd sürgünü kararını düzenleyen talimatnameler, 2 Mayıs 1916 (18 Nisan 1332) tarihinde, İstanbul’da İttihat-Terakki merkezinde hazırlandı. Hazırlanan dört talimatname, dört ana gruba ayrılan vilayet ve mutasarrıflıklara, Dâhiliye Nezareti, İskân-ı Aşair ve Muhacirin Müdüriyeti (İAMM) başlığı ve Nazırı Talat imzasıyla şifreli-gizli kaydıyla gönderildi.''

Ulusların tarihinde bilinen veya bilinmeyen, acı veya sevinçli günler vardır. 2 Mayıs 1916 tarihi, Kürd ulusunun tarihinde, büyük acıların yaşanmaya başladığı bir sürecin başlangıç tarihidir, buna karşılık bilinmeyen bir tarihtir.

1914 yılı yaz aylarında başlayan I. Dünya Savaşı’nda, Osmanlı-Rus savaşının Kafkas Cephesi, büyük oranda Kürd ve Ermeni coğrafyalarında gerçekleşti. 1915 yılı ilk günlerinde meydana gelen Sarıkamış bozgunu İttihatçıları şok etti; büyük komutan Enver cepheden kaçtı. Ardından, Rusya, bu günkü idari yapıyla on yedi vilayeti kapsayan Erzurum, Bitlis, Van ve Trabzon vilayetlerini işgal etti. Bir yılın içinde, Rus işgali, Van Gölü’nün güneyine kadar yayıldı.

Savaşı kazanamayacağını anlayan Osmanlı iktidarı İttihat-Terakki Hükûmeti, savaşın karanlığı içinde, öncelikle, tek ulusa dayalı bir devlet projesi için engel gördüğü, Ermeniler ve Kürdlerden kurtulmanın yollarını aradı. Daha savaşın başlarında, 24 Nisan 1915’de, İstanbul’da birçok Ermeni aydını tutuklandı, sürgün edildi; Ermeni tehciri başlatıldı. Ermeni Tehciri büyük bir katliama dönüşürken 1915 yılı ortalarından itibaren bu kez de Rus işgali dolaysıyla, çoğu Kürd olan Müslüman halk, savaş bölgesinden savaş bölgesinin dışına göç ettirildi. İşin ilginç yanı, bu savaşın Kafkas Cephesi’nde, Osmanlı Ordusu’nun önünde Kürdler, Rus Ordusu’nun önünde de Ermeniler vardı. İki ulus da kendilerine ait olamayan bir savaşın içindeydi.

Ermeni Tehciri’nin devam ettiği 1915 yılında, Rus işgalindeki Van’dan başlayan, 1916 yılında yaygınlaşan ve 1917’de de devam eden büyük bir göç hareketiyle, yüz binlerce Kürd insanının Anadolu’ya sürüldüğü ve yarısından fazlasının göç koşullarında öldüğü, savaştan sonra geri dönmek isteyenlerin engellendiği, kalanların asimile edilerek yok edildiği bilinmemektedir. Bu trajik göçe, sıradan bir göç havası verilerek Rus Savaşı’ndan Kaçan Müslüman Mülteciler, Müslüman-Türk Mülteciler, Vilâyat-ı Şarkiye Mültecileri veya Erzurum Mültecileri gibi adlandırmalarla konunun esası gizlenmiştir. Bu organize edilen göçün, aslında bir Kürd sürgünü olduğu saklanmış, aynı sıralarda yaşanan Ermeni dramı gölgesinde kalmıştır.

2 Mayıs 1916’de Hazırlanan Dört Kürd Talimatnamesi:

1916 Kürd Tehciri ile ilgili pek çok bilinmeyen detay vardır. Bu tehcir için, 1915 Ermeni Tehciri’nde olduğu gibi üç maddelik bir kanun çıkarılmasına gerek görülmemiş, konu tam bir gizlilik içinde tamamıyla farklı bir yöntemle, gizli talimatlarla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu yazıda, 2 Mayıs 1916 tarihinde, Büyük Kürd Tehciri’ni başlatan dört talimatnameden söz edeceğiz.

Büyük Kürd sürgünü kararını düzenleyen talimatnameler, 2 Mayıs 1916 (18 Nisan 1332) tarihinde, İstanbul’da İttihat-Terakki merkezinde hazırlandı. Hazırlanan dört talimatname, dört ana gruba ayrılan vilayet ve mutasarrıflıklara, Dâhiliye Nezareti, İskân-ı Aşair ve Muhacirin Müdüriyeti (İAMM) başlığı ve Nazırı Talat imzasıyla şifreli-gizli kaydıyla gönderildi.

Talimatnamelerde, ortak yanlar olduğu gibi, vilayetlerin özelliklerine göre farklı ifadeler de vardı. Dört talimatnamenin de 2 Mayıs ve öncesindeki günlerde hazırlandığı anlaşılıyor. 1.Talimatname, 2 Mayıs 1916 (18 Nisan 1332) salı günü, diğer üç talimatname 4 Mayıs Perşembe günü vilayet ve mutasarrıflıklara gönderilmiştir.

1.Talimatname, Diyarbekir Vilayeti’ne (BOA DH ŞFR 63/172-173),

2.Talimatname, Türk Bölgelerine Yakın Mutasarrıflıklara, Urfa, Maraş, Antep (BOA DH ŞFR 63/187),

3.Talimatname, Kürdlerin Dağıtılacağı Vilayet ve Mutasarrıflıklara, Ankara, Konya, Bursa, Kastamonu vilayetleri ve Kayseri, Niğde, Kütahya mutasarrıflıkları (BOA DH ŞFR 63 /188),

4.Talimatname, Rus İşgal Bölgesi Sınır İlleri, Sivas, Mamûretülaziz ve Erzurum vilayetlerine (BOA DH ŞFR 63/189) gönderilmiştir.

[1]“Dahiliye Nazırı Talat” imzasıyla, iskân yerleri, “Kürdlerin iskanına ayrılan Türklerin yoğun olduğu yerler” ve “Türklerin iskanına ayrılan Kürdlerin yoğun olduğu yerler” şeklinde ikiye ayrılıp, 2 Mayıs’ta Diyarbekir’e gönderilen ilk talimattan sonra, vilayet ve mutasarrıflıklar, yukarıda belirttiğimiz şekilde, üç gruba ayrılarak, 4 Mayıs tarihinde, aynı içerikte, küçük farklarla hazırlanan üç ayrı talimatname, şifreli telgraflarla ilgililere ulaştırılmıştır. Talimatnamelerdeki bazı ifadeler şöyledir:

  • “Kürd mülteciler, bilahare de memleketlerine iade edilmeyeceklerinden, daha uzak yerlere, Türklerin yoğun olarak bulundukları mahallere sevk edilmelidir. Türk ile Türkleşmiş kasaba ahalisi ise (ki bunların oranı %10 bile değildir) vilâyet dahilinde veya münasip civar mahallere iskân olunmalıdır.”
  • “Kürd mültecilerin, gittikleri yerlerde aşiret hayatı yaşamamaları ve milliyetlerini muhafaza etmemeleri için, aşiret reislerini derhal ayırmak gerekli olduğundan, bunlar arasında ne kadar nüfus sahibi ve eşraf var ise, bunların ayrılarak Konya, Kastamonu vilayetleriyle Niğde, Kayseri, Eskişehir, Kütahya sancaklarına ayrı ayrı sevk edilmelidir.”
  • “Kürd mülteciler, hiçbir vakit yerli ahalinin yüzde beşini (%5) geçmemek üzere, köylere tevzi ve iskân edileceklerdir.”
    Talimatnamelerde bunlara benzer pek çok ifadeler var. Yani bu sıradan bir göç değil, asimilasyon amaçlı bir tehcir, bir sürgündür. Bu dört talimatnamenin vilayetlere gönderildiği sırada, Talat, Enver’e gönderdiği bir telgrafta da şöyle diyordu: “Vilayet-i Şarkiye’den gelen Kürd mültecilerin, Kürd ve Arapların birlikte meskûn oldukları yerlerde iskânlarının uygun olmayacağı, harp mıntıkasından Anadolu içlerine sevklerinin uygun olacağının gerekli yerlere tebliğ edilmiştir…” diyordu.[2]

Yukarıdaki talimatnameler ve pek çok gizli-şifreli yazışmadan anlaşıldığı üzere, Urfa, Maraş, Harput, Erzincan gibi savaş bölgesine yakın yerler, çok az sayıda olan Türk mültecilerin, savaştan sonra yerlerine kolay dönebilmeleri için Türkleştirme bölgesi olarak gösterilmiştir. Kürd mültecilerin ise savaştan sonra da yerlerine dönmeyecekleri planladığından, mutlaka Sivas-Adana hattının batısına, Ankara, Adana, Konya, Hüdavendigar (Bursa) ve Kastamonu vilayetleriyle; Kayseri, Niğde, Kütahya, Eskişehir, Amasya ve Tokat mutasarrıflıklarına veya orta-batı Anadolu bölgesindeki diğer yerlere (Isparta, Tekke, Budur gibi mutasarrıflıklar) iskânları istenmiştir.

İttihat-Terakki’nin başı ve Dahiliye Nazırı olan Talat Paşa’nın, emirleri, talimatları, şifreli-gizli telgrafları, dönem boyunca devam etmiştir. Talat, özellikle 1916 yılında, vilayetlere, mutasarrıflıklara, diğer devlet yetkililerine gönderdiği çeşitli talimat ve yazışmalarda, Kürdlerin mutlaka Batı’da eritilmesi ısrarını belirtiyordu. Sadece BAO’da (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivlerinde), yüzlerce bu tip talimat ve telgrafın bir listesini “1916 Kürd Tehciri” adlı kitabımızın sonuna ekledik.

[3]Resmi rakamlar bile, bu tehcirde göçertilen ve büyük bölümü Kürd olan insan sayısının bir milyondan fazla olduğunu gösteriyor. Bu kitlelerin yarısından fazlası, yol koşulları, salgın hastalıklar, açlık, çocuk ve yaşlı ölümleri şeklinde gerçekleşmiş; kalanlar da Anadolu içlerinde asimilasyon canavarının elinde yok olmuşlardır. Kitlelerin yüzde onu bile savaştan sonra yurtlarına dönememiştir.

1917 yılındaki bir Ayan Meclisi toplantısında, bir üyenin sorusu üzerine, hükûmet yetkilisi, "Bir milyon, belki daha fazla kişinin göç ettiğini (ettirildiğini), yaklaşık 500-700 bin arasında bedbahtın hayatını kaybettiğini" belirtiyordu. Yine, Aşair ve Muhacirin Müdüriyet-i Umumisi Müdürü Hamdi Bey, 22 Aralık 1917 tarihli Osmanlı Meclis-i Mebusan toplantısında, müdüriyetine ulaşıp iaşelerinin karşılandığı mülteci sayısının bir milyon 77 bin kişi olduğunu açıklıyordu.

[4]1916 Tehciri, uzun süre Kürdlerin hafızasında “Mihacirê Serhedê” diye yer alsa da bunun nedenleri, Kürdler için getirdiği yıkımın üzerinde kimse durmamıştır. Bu öyle bir dramdır ki, "Dê weledê xwe davêtin" (Anneler, evlatlarını atıyordu) şeklindeki bir ifade de hafızalarda yer aldı ancak göç ettirilenler bile (ki çoğu çocuk, kadın ve yaşlı; genç erkekler cephedeydi) sürgün edildiklerini anlayamadılar. Kürd hafızası, Kürd bilinci zayıf olunca bu dram daha sonra pek dile getirilmedi, siyasi yönü üzerinde hiç durulmadı, üzeri örtüldü, saklandı.

1916 Kürd Tehciri’nin bilinir hâle gelmesi, büyük oranda, 1990’larda, Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivlerinin (BOA) açılmasıyla gerçekleşti. Dönemin Dâhiliye Nazırı Talat’ın, İskân-ı Aşâir ve Muhâcirîn Müdîriyyeti (İAMM), Aşâir ve Muhâcirîn Müdîriyyet-i Umûmiyyesi (AMMU) ve Emniyet Umum Müdîriyyeti (EUM) aracılığıyla vilayetlerle yaptığı, Dâhiliye Nezareti Şifre Kalemi (DH ŞFR) ve Dâhiliye Nezareti Emniyet Umum Müdürlüğü (DH EUM) antetli şifreli yazışmalar, 1916 Kürd Tehciri’ni tüm açıklığıyla ortaya koymaktadır. Muhtemelen, bu arşivlerdeki Talat Paşa’nın yazışmaları bilinmesiydi, konu yine çok az bilinecekti.

1916 Kürd Tehciri Neden Bilinmiyor?

O dönemde bölgede bulunan Batılı ve Rus görevlilerin anılarında kırıntı şeklinde bilgiler ve savaş sonrasında (1918-1919) yayımlanabilen Jîn, Serbesti ve Kürdistan adlı Kürd yayın organlarında, konuyla ilgili bazı haberler bulunsa da bu dönemde Kürdlerin başına gelenler ve bu tehcir bilinmiyor. Savaş sırasında, bölgede yaşayan ve çoğunluğu Kürd olan halkın, %80’inin göç ettiği veya göçertildiği, mülteci (muhacir) durumuna düşürüldüğü, sürgün edildiği, yarısından fazlasının göç yollarında öldüğü bu trajedi, neden bilinmemektedir veya çok az bilinmektedir?

Elbette böyle büyük sosyal ve siyasal bir olayın bilinmemesi düşündürücüdür. Birkaç yıldır konuyu dile getiriyoruz; bazıları konuyu şüpheyle karşılamakta, abartı yaptığımız sanılmaktadır. Böyle önemli sosyal ve siyasi bir olayın saklı kalması, araştırmacıların çalışmalarında sadece satır aralarında bulunması; önce İttihatçıların, sonra da Cumhuriyetçilerin başarısı olarak da değerlendirilebilir. Kürdler açısından ise bu durum büyük bir eksikliktir. Bilinmeme nedenleri aşağıdaki gibi sıralanabilir.

1-) İttihatçıların, I. Dünya Savaşı karanlığı içinde, bu sürgünü savaştan kaçma şeklindeki doğal bir göç olarak göstermeleri,

2-) Kürdlerin siyasal güç olarak zayıf olmaları, kurumsal yapılara sahip olmamaları, örgütsüzlük,

3-) Yayınlara sahip olmamaları,

4-) İç ve dış desteklerinin olmaması,

5-) Batılılarla farklı dine sahip olmaları,

6-) 1915 Ermeni Tehciri’nin gölgesinde kalması. (Ermeni diasporası ve Hristiyan Batı dünyası, Ermenilere uygulanan tehciri, katliamı, haklı olarak tüm detaylarıyla dünyaya duyururken Kürd Tehciri’ni duyuran olmaması),

7-) Kürdlerin Ermeni katliamına katıldığı iddiaları. (Bazı Kürd gruplarının Ermeni katliamlarına bulaştırılması ve bu yüzden Kürdlerin Ermeni Tehciri’nde günah keçisi hâline getirilmesi),

😎 Kürd araştırmacıların mensubu oldukları devletin resmi söyleminden kurtulamamaları ve arşivlerden yeteri kadar yararlanmamaları,

9-) Ermeni araştırmacı Arshak Safrastian ise bambaşka bir sebebe, gurur meselesine bağlıyor: “Fazla politik olmayan sade Kürdlerin hafızalarında, ölüm olayları, ağlama, inlemeler ve kayıplar dile getirmemeleri, itiraf etmemeleri ve insani-politik ilişkileri dile getirmemeleri, kendilerine yedirmeme ve aşiret şerefine bağlanabilir.”

2 Mayıs tarihi, bu tehcirde sembol bir tarihtir, Kürdler tarafından anılması gerekir. Tarihini bilmeyen kendini bilemez. Kürdler, eski, köklü, zengin tarihlerine karşın uzak veya yakın tarihlerini bilmemekle çok şey kaybettiler…

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[1] Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi (BOA) DH ŞFR 63/172-173 (Fuat Dündar, Modern Türkiye’nin Şifresi, s. 114-272; Uğur Ümit Üngör, Modern Türkiye’nin İnşası, s. 198)

[2] BOA DH ŞFR 63/187, 188,189 ve 190 (F. Dündar, s. 506-507)

[3] Celâl Temel, Birinci Dünya Savaşı Yıllarında 1916 Kürd Tehciri, İsmail Beşikci Vakfı Yayınları, 2029 ve 2023

[4] Meclis-i Mebusan Zabıt Ceridesi, D: 3, İçtima: 3, C: 1/21
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