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Happy 120th birthday on 22/8 to certified cool dude Deng Xiaoping
A man was found supposedly murdered in my city’s park the other day. He was found with his hands and feet tied together. Police immediately started an investigation.
He was identified today as a 26 year old Palestinian. The city’s park is in the middle of the city’s Jewish district coincidentally.
Police is still investigating the cause of the murder.
After seeing clips from that Democrat convention, this really makes me sick… Things are only going to get worse. If Palestinians have been abandoned by the liberals then we need to make sure that they are safe in our communities
One of our party’s founders, Jo Cottenier, sadly passed away today at age 70. He saw the party grow from a niche ML student club into a serious communist party with tens of thousands of members. Rest in Power.
Currently at a Palestinian-Indian wedding. People from all over the world. US, Hungary, Netherlands, Belgium, Palestine, India, whatever. Wish the world could be like this. Just vibin
Ngl even felt emotional when Palestinian music came on. Danced with some people to it and it was beautiful. Just the raw emotion that happened was overhwelming. Free Palestine forever.
People say that Luxembourg is a rich country but when I was there I saw a lot of people begging and sleeping in the streets.
its literally just a tax haven.
How do you convince someone that following the news is important? Trying to radicalise my apolitical friend
“They will use your tax money on whatever the politicians decide. If you don’t pick the politicians, you don’t decide how your money is spent, and if you don’t follow the news, you don’t know the good politicians or good ways to spend your money”
How true is this?
Thanks for the extra resources @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml. The truth is so contrary to the general perception. Nuremberg is treated as a kind of justice holy site where good things happened to the baddies. One of the greatest propaganda stunts of the twentieth century.
is this true? if so, what are these leaked documents
I really wish F1 wasn’t such a mess of hypercapitalism, incredibly wasteful, only accessible to the rich ect because it’s so much fun to watch and can be to follow too when it is actually competitive.
We need communist F1 where all teams have access to same kits/parts and a fixed budget, having the edge come down to engineering and driving skills only.
Would be nice for it to be made more sustainable too, but I do love the world tour vibes of racing all over the world over course of season which id imagine is hugely wasteful :/
That’s why karting is a better sport. And are you familiar witj Formula E?
can you tell me who gets arrested in China (apart from paedos)?
“If there’s a problem with the company, fine them .002 percent of their annual income. That’ll teach them.”
Given the complete disregard to human rights and international law demonstrated by the US in Occupied Palestine, wouldn’t Russia be excused in taking the gloves off against NATO in Ukraine?
after the ukraine attacks on russia territory, i think we are going to see an escalation…
bangladesh coup not good
The US wants a wide border around China.
I really hope the student protestors are seeing this and realising they need to take to the streets again
Keep seeing vids about the dems in my feeds everywhere and they are supposed to be so le wholesome 100 xd but I can’t help but vomit
It’s been interesting watching the burger leftists twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain how they DO care about genocide, but it’s naive of us to ask them to even threaten to stay home during the sacred American electoral cycle.
I hope things get nice and uncomfortable for them when Biden starts WW3 on his way out so they can finally take the mask off and admit that their own comfort is all they care about.
Nowadays I’m just honest that I don’t give a shit about their elections anymore lol, they don’t like that.
It’s been interesting watching the burger leftists…
Counterpoint: their support for the democratic party confirms they are not leftists at all.
Yeah lol I was being facetious, but they really do identify as leftists! I think they have the same brain worms I had when I was a lib that made me think that doing politics is the same thing as understanding procedure and reading the “news” on twitter too much (rather than like, doing actual, systemic analysis based on a ML framework + praxis).
I know you were being facetious and wasn’t meaning it to be a serious critique of your comment. It just annoys me that they think they are leftists when they are really center right.
I was the same way too, but it’s a journey. Hopefully more people will become class conscious, but so many are close-minded.
Absolutely. It’s frustrating because I see myself in them, as recently as like 3 years ago. I don’t really put myself out there to educate since I got burnt last time and decided to stop. We can only hope their understanding on politics evolves enough for them to understand that burger democracies aren’t inert objects that are piloted by individuals, but rather systems with built-in failsafes and pressure release valves that proactively resist change. I had to struggle for years and hit rock bottom multiple times before I saw the truth: nobody is coming to save me. Or us.
I don’t really put myself out there to educate since I got burnt last time and decided to stop.
I stopped online, but IRL, it seems worth it and I’ve made progress with people. It’s a slog. Such an unforgiving, slow process. Online, I don’t usually make serious posts or comments because it’s just a place to relieve stress and hang out with comrades. I don’t know many IRL and while the DSA is active in my area, most of them are not ML and have negative opinions of AES countries.
I had to struggle for years and hit rock bottom multiple times before I saw the truth: nobody is coming to save me. Or us.
True. I think there are a lot of people recognizing this, but they end up nihilistic because they feel powerless. That’s where I think there is room to make inroads exposing people to leftist theory. Not that I don’t feel helpless sometimes, but learning ML theory took me from hopeless to determined because I saw a path to change, even if it’s a long, hard road.
Yes I definitely have been accused (and have seen others accused) of spreading nEgATivItY when trying to explain that we are totally out of options to fix our problems electorally. I used to kind of understand it but now idgaf about the tone policing, they need to hear that the electoral strategies that have been used in the 21st century thus far have failed to deliver the goods. It’s not just gonna work this time because they want it to.
I try to link relevant literature to show them a way out, but I think it’s a cowardly defense mechanism that reveals that they don’t actually understand that politics is a power struggle, not some game. I just try my best to stress that capitalism can’t survive long-term and that most people aren’t bad at heart, they’re just put in material conditions that weren’t designed for them to thrive. But there’s only so much sugar I can pour on the facts when we live in an evil empire :shrug:
I got a new one yesterday. White guy in Hong Kong says to me “no you mustn’t eat pork when you go to the Mainland, that’s how they hide the bodies.” This was from someone who takes as a point of pride that they read the NYT cover-to-cover every day, but idk where they got this gem from.
So in case anyone’s wondering, according to this guy the “CCP” has been promoting pork as a major part of Chinese cuisine (Which Chinese cuisine you ask? All of them) because it tastes similar to human flesh. He says “you’ve got to tip your hat to them” because it’s evil genius: it lets them hide evidence of their crimes and it solves famine issues.
The best bit, he then says to me, dead serious: “how else do you think North Korea did so well in the Olympics?”
Hasn’t pork always been the main meat source in China?
Yes. But this white guy was telling me it’s because of the “CCP”
At what point do you start thinking people like this need professional medical help
I’m taking my final exam Friday and then I’m finally done my post-grad infosec program after 2 years of work. I’m VERY broke rn tho so I won’t have much time to relax before looking for work. Thinking of getting rid of discord for the rest of the year. Hearing election shit from american radlibs 24/7 has been extremely grating.
You won’t know what to do with yourself when the studies are over, even with the job hunt. Well done for getting through it and good luck for Friday!
Thanks! I’m a dilettante at heart and I still need my CISSP after this so the studying will continue probably until I’m dead lol. Still, being done with grades and having some kind of official expertise to offer will be nice.
I’m similar. Never stop studying! I’m too curious to not be looking into something all the time.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too oppo :D
