The People's Cube - Political Satire

A new Bingo game with a delicate shithole twist.

It's easy, fun, and now with more ways to get B-I-N-G-O!

Join us for a head-exploding blowout! Make matches and earn tokens for big foreign aid payouts. Don't try to alter a bingo card - it's not worth it. Play it safe by following the rules and be sure to look for special handouts; any extra printed rules supersede previous rules.

To be a player, your country must match one or more of the following qualifications:

• People eat pigeons and rats
  
• Nobody can read or write
  
• People subsisting on garbage dumps
  
• Honor killings
  
• Trash everywhere
  
• Ebola
  
• Houses made from mud, sticks, and a tarp
  
• Child soldiers
  
• Hyperinflation
  
• Gangs more powerful than government
  
• Refugees emigrating
  
• Gays thrown off rooftops
  
• Child marriage
  
• Open-air slave markets
  
• Rape albinos to cure AIDS
  
• Live on less than $2/day
  
• Cholera
  
• Genital Mutilation
  
• Recent coup
  
• Children swimming in sewage
  
• Civil War
  
• Malaria
  
• Child prostitution
  
• Genocide

Bingo table: Brutalist.Press

Man at the bottom: "Why do we have to live in this shit?"

Man at the top: "Because this our way of life and the surest way to get foreign aid."

"shithole"?
Brave citizens of trumpishly calumnificated ("calumniated" is too weak a word for that!) countries stand up to palefaced cis-culture! "culture", <spit!>.











"shithole"?

I kept looking but never found "invaded by the US" on the bingo card. We never went anyplace nice in the Army...

Most Equal Komrads,

The Lockheed Magic Carpet (C-130) transported me to excrement pits all over the planet. If anything The New Stalin/Trump (spit!) (How's that for holding two contradicting thoughts in one's head at the same time?) must have offended a lot of excrement pits by not mentioning them. For the record, I have seen almost all of the items mentioned on the card. The most disturbing were Genocide and Slave Auctions. I believe I missed the one with Albinos, but I can't be sure. I would like to add "Unburied Bodies" to the list if more squares appear. Nothing says The Glorious World of Next Tuesday like that.

I'm going to go hit the fermented beet juice hard in an attempt to forget.

Red Salmon

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:. . . We never went anyplace nice in the Army...

But, but, Komrade Ivan - your 18 months Illesheim stint wasn't (I hope so!) like, total #shithole? (Kompostplatz a single (I hope so!) exception?)

As a former soldier Imperialist Yankee Dog I too had the pleasure of enjoying many of the sh*tholes sources of our vibrant diversity which bankrupt enrich us today. One addition was missing from the list of fundamental characteristics Western neocolonialist legacies cited above and that is landmines scatter across the landscape.

<PROG OFF>
I had the job of pulling the remains of a Serbian soldier out of a creek bed which had spent the summer stuck in a tree root as the local Kosovar Albanian Muslims wouldn't touch it.

We had to travel off the main road down a dirt road next to a grassy pasture which had numerous cattle in various states of decay because they were the local landmine clearing team. Our guides were VERY insistent that we never get off the trail they were taking us on because the only safe place to walk was where the cows had already safely traveled. Some things you never forget. <PROG ON>

A Nigerian immigrant tells President Trump what's what on his alleged shithole countries comment.

How can this be explained?

Senator/Doctor (or is it Doctor/Senator?) Rand Paul joined a team of eye surgeons on a four-day mission to Haiti in 2015, giving vision to nearly 200 patients.



The EVIL Trump had the audacity to help finance this Medical Mission Trip to Haiti.

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:But, but, Komrade Ivan - your 18 months Illesheim stint wasn't (I hope so!) like, total #shithole? (Kompostplatz a single (I hope so!) exception?)

Good Comrade, while Germany in general and Bavaria specifically were very nice, the geniuses at our Department of the Army did in fact place the living quarters directly opposite the local kompost-platz separated by only a chain-link fence, thereby importing shit to create the mandatory shithole that is required for the stationing of Amerikkkan troops. A technicality, yes, but by definition, a shithole.

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:I kept looking but never found "invaded by the US" on the bingo card. We never went anyplace nice in the Army...

I wonder if perhaps there are more Shithole Bingo! cards out there. There must be a domestic version with choices such as 'Chicago's Southside" and "Detroit Metro". And a North Korean version with enough source material to fill a dozen Shithole Bingo! cards.

Comrades!

I submit to you a wonderful photo collection of my 'hometown', the shithole previously called 'The Motor City' and of course changed to 'Renaissance City' in the 80's, not that it changed the place but we all know how slogan's matter. Enjoy!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitliger/

P.S. Brilliant work of 'Detroit Liger' (pun on Tigers and Lions) Robert Monaghan.

As Always, In Great Socialist Camaraderie!
Your Humble Liquidator™
Dimitri Kissov

Our most humble warrior [color=#C0392B]Ivan the Stakhanovets[/color] wrote:I kept looking but never found "invaded by the US" on the bingo card. We never went anyplace nice in the Army...

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Antonio Salazarinski wrote:A Nigerian immigrant tells...

... and (from EUSSR-since-2010 and especially Germany-post-2015 perspective):

Massively import shithole [the above gent clearly not an element of that] and your chances are excellent to become one within 3-4 generations.

Dimitri Kissov wrote:... photo collection of my 'hometown', the shithole previously called 'The Motor City' ...

ah, Detroit... epic, that downward spiral.

(... skims through archive) Packard Plant (Motor City Industrial Park)... Michigan Theatre... Michigan Train Station... United Artists Theater... Lee Plaza Hotel... Whitney Building... William Livingstone House... St. Margaret Mary School... Fisher Body 21 Plant... First Unitarian Church... Farwell Building... East Methodist Church... David Broderick Tower... Donovan Building... Fort Wayne Hotel... Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church... Arnold Nursing Home... Cass Technical High School... Detroit Public Schools Book Depository... abandoned classrooms in decay... .........

(Packard Clipper 1957)

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Spanning a progressive Next Tuesday Arc from Detroit to EUSSR, here Amsterdam:

(says a Dutch architect)

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Schuilkerk[en]: a Dutch thing, "clandestine" church[es], originated in 17th/18th century, for (tolerated) minority faith groups (nonstandard Christian flavors plus Jews).

BTW, here in Yurop, decommissioned churches are every now and then (knowingly) sold to Mussulman organizations and then (as planned and announced) changed into PBUH incubators. Particularly so in the UK.





P.S. Detroit Liger's work damn good, indeed. Eerily resonating this one: _ (Kubrick fan, anybody?)


Another (and there are so many) excellent one: a Frenchman.

Comrade!

It was sad to see places my parents lived in their youth left in ruins. I have pictures of them playing in the streets filled with kids and families. Comrade Father said interesting words, Detroit was, in the first half of the 20th Century, what 'silicon valley' is today. A boom town that drew millions seeking work. I'm afraid San Jose may, maybe in my children's lifetime, will end up just the same way.
I'm being bourgeoisie sentimental and must report for re-education without delay!

As Always! With Great Socialist Camaraderie!
Your Faithful Liquidator (™)
Dimitri Kissov

P.S. They are removing me from the The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters in Omsk.

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British Arts and Crafts → Art Nouveau (France) / Jugendstil (Germany) / Sezession (Austria) → radiating to all Europe and Russia (not yet in Bolshevik turmoil) and then to → very distinct American Art Deco was (seems to me) the last Western holistic (and highly sublime) approach to Art + Handicraft + Architecture + Decorative Art.
Soviet Socrealism ‒ "holistically" imposed in the late 20s the top-down way, by ukase ‒ was epigonic bombast from the outset.

Dimitri Kissov wrote:... places my parents lived in their youth ... Comrade Father said interesting words, Detroit was, in the first half of the 20th Century, what 'silicon valley' is today ...

Yeah, how true. Silent witness:

And see another witness.

Dimitri Kissov wrote:P.S. They are removing me from the The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters in Omsk.

Komrade Premier, don't worry - President Muffley has all the essentials:

Muffley to Dimitri [color=#888888]([url=http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0055.html][color=#888888]here[/color][/url])[/color] wrote:... Who should we call, Dimitri? The people...? Sorry, you faded away there. The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters. Where is that, Dimitri? In Omsk. Right. Yes. Oh, you'll call them first, will you? Uh huh. Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dimitri? What? I see, just ask for Omsk Information. ...

Comrade!Let me assure you that there is a mine shaft gap! Our ratio is 20:1, not the puny US 10:1. Remember, I am a 'man of the people' if you know what I mean, Eh Comrade! Eh?P.S. I like Stanley too.