• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    14 days ago

    In China the government can force you to leave your village so they can tear it down to build more industry. They will offer you below market value for your house. A market value which has already declined drastically because your location has no future, fucking you over twice.

    Except this isn’t China but wholesome The Netherlands instead.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    18·
    17 days ago

    Police has once again launched water canons at a peaceful protest for Palestine. This time we were even at the right location.

    In order to keep the entrance to certain streets a certainty, which was the reason for the rejected protest place, the police blocked all the entrances themselves with their stormtrooper ass performance tonight.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      hrm

      I just don’t like this. God, at times I feel powerful but then I feel powerless.

      And the worst part is?

      I’m constrained by mundane things in my life, like family and other people.

      It’s them stopping me. I wish saying so didn’t make you sound spoiled, but that’s how I feel.

  • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    191·
    16 days ago

    I fucking hate Americans so much. My countrymen are completely insufferable.

    Criticize Republicans and you’re a Democrat; criticize Democrats and you’re a Republican.

    Nothing else exists. Two parties, two ideologies, two worldviews, two moral compasses, two philosophies, two of goddamn everything. Nothing more, nothing less.

    I fucking hate it here so much.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        It’s sometimes the same discourse in Latam, but that’s mainly due to the media there being largely Americanized.

    • p0ntyp00l@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      16 days ago

      I feel you. It’s sad that they don’t understand that when they reflexively bring up the other party (or parties) they’re Falling For It.
      Like… we are so past partisan politics and electoral solutions lol. Even in Canada I have to hear this donkey shit about the alternate universe where the conservatives won and how it’d be worse when I’m being fucked over by the banker factions NOW, in this timeline.
      “Sure they’re promising to gut everything and build new pipelines and give handouts to Bay street and turn their bureaucrats into soliders (HUGE LOL btw) but PP would’ve licherally made Handmaid’s Tale real!1!” not mad

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        I think people would be just as upset, Democrat or Republican; we saw more pro-Gaza protests under Biden than Trump.

        I wish the pro-Palestine protests were still going on.

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    17·
    15 days ago

    “evil see see pee has breadlines”

    What? You mean that there are dedicated community services fully financed by the state to feed the community actual shelf-stable food that isn’t spoiled or expired? It’s free too and accessible to anyone not just church-members or specific townships? Sounds better than America.

    “people disappear in evil see see pee”

    woah, wonder what ICE is doing these days.

    “You don’t have freedom in evil see see pee”

    Don’t make any Charlie Kirk jokes or your employment is subject to scrutiny!

    “social credit score”

    economic credit score

    “apartments are only 15ft by 15ft big, standing room evil see see pee”

    sounds better than a closet you pay 200 dollars a month for to live in

    Why is that evil china propaganda sounds better than most living conditions American proles live in?

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      14 days ago

      In China they hunt down homeless people… and give them a place to stay and help them get back on their feet.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        10·
        14 days ago

        No for real though, when I’m sitting there explaining actual poverty and bring up China, motherfucking chauvinistic fucks have to sit there and remind me of the “freedomless see see pee” as if anything they describe in their worst propaganda nightmares is any less dehumanizing than the actual cold-hard capitalist reality that they live in. “oh uh would you like it if the government picked out a job for you?”

        Sure! Sounds great! Maybe my actual aptitude for dealing with production machinery and facilities maintenance will actually contribute to something other than jocking a gas station register!

  • NotMushroomForDebate@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    17·
    16 days ago

    Diplomatic relations have strained between socialist Lemmy instances Hexbear and Lemmygrad as /c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net, one of Hexbear’s most active and influential communities, ceases federation with Lemmygrad.

    The seizure in federation was first noted by Lemmygrad user @Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml, who submitted an inquiry to the Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad.

    “For some reason the chapotraphouse comm [sic] isn’t federating with lemmygrad.”
    -Hexbear moderator @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net confirms.

    As of the time of writing, no definite cause for the issue has been made public.
    Lemmygrad and Hexbear admins are yet to provide an official statement.

    Update:
    Lemmygrad and Hexbear admins, @GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml and @CARCOSA@hexbear.net respectively, have confirmed that the issue regarding /c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net’s federation with Lemmygrad is not intentional.

    “We have not deliberately defederated from any Hexbear community. This is likely just a bug.”
    -GrainEater

    “There was nothing done on hexbear’s end from either mod or admin with regard to the federation of c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net”
    -CARCOSA

    The root cause of the disruption is still under investigation.

    P.S.

    This comment is mainly a joke. While the federation issue and comments are real, I’m just dramatising for fun.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    17 days ago

    Got a few days off the job this week. Which is good as I could feel my sanity slipping away with every living second there. I can use the days off to read my new Star Wars EU novels which I am looking forward to.

    Keep yer mental health steady. Communism will win.

  • dg2jeng@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    14 days ago

    there is large discussion on the korean left about china. many see them as a model of efficiency, while others are quick to point out their contradictions, particularly their overseas investments in real estate in korea. in my opinion, these questions are there to obfuscate the primary contradiction that is the military occupation of the united states.

    another day, another struggle!

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    15 days ago

    Not gonna lie people are dumb as shit and fall for the easiest propaganda possible. A TV station aired a ‘documentary’ on people getting unemployment benefits and found two people who were willing to say, on camera, that they do not WANT to work. And people fall for it and say we need to destroy the welfare system. Based on TWO PEOPLE.

    I could also create a documentary of my job which is also in the same welfare system and paint an entirely different picture but that won’t get tv time.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        15 days ago

        We need our own TV and media.

        But I do feel that our alternative media kinda underserves us.

        BadEmpanada, HasanAbi, and especially the “MAGA coms” like Haz and Jackson Hinkle.

        The people representing leftism or communism right now are just not what we need, but unfortunately, we’re stuck with them.

        We need more voices, new voices, more content creators, but also, people doing actual organizing and IRL activism.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    13 days ago

    Was back in The Netherlands to fix some stuff today and the mentality between The Netherlands and Belgium considering Ukraine continues to amazed me. On a few occasions now I have heard people in the wild having a discussion about Russia invading ‘any time soon’ over here. Not once have I heard people discuss it back home in Belgium. Like people are legit scared Putin will show up in Oldenzaal anytime soon. Not that Belgium is perfect on this but people are at least less scared it seems.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    17 days ago

    Also, at this point, for the Belgian government, I hope the drones are Russian or military. Because it painfully exposes how incompetent this country’s defence is. Yesterday five drones managed to hover over a nearby nuclear facility without being detected or taken down. For over an hour.

    Or this is the point and it will be used to further military spending.

    • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      10·
      17 days ago

      imagining a very confused phone call

      “General Kobylash, how goes our probing of Belgian defenses?”
      “Mr President, they uhhhh… seem to be just letting the drones just… hover there”
      “Over the nuclear facility?”
      “Yes”
      “How many drones made it to their target?”
      “All of them”
      “And they haven’t made any attempt to shoot them down?”
      “No, they are just sort of… staring at them, it’s a little odd”
      “Are we absolutely certain the Belgians actually have an air force?”

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        8·
        17 days ago

        One of the funniest exchanges I read about this ordeal was between defence and the police. Apparently defence filed a report at the police because drones were flying over their base but since the police is also the victim of budget cuts, the handling of the report might take weeks. This is a national security breach of basically the highest order lol.

        I can only imagine the feedback at the Russian side being like how you described above

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        6·
        17 days ago

        Apparently the Belgian army has a specialized anti drone team that has not been called to action, so it is suspicious.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      71·
      16 days ago

      I don’t understand how the Russians are supposed to be doing this all the way over in Belgium. Not only is it pointless, it would be an extreme waste of resources. Not even of the drones themselves but of the human resources.

      If they have agents embedded in Western Europe why would they be so stupid as to waste those assets on such pointless stunts that only help the Europeans increase the level of paranoia and militarization? What do they realistically even gain from it? There are much better ways to gain intel that is actually relevant to Russia.

      The dysfunction of Belgian drone defenses is totally irrelevant to Russia, they aren’t ever going to need to drone strike Belgium. If they were to probe NATO defenses they would do it in the Baltics, Romania and Poland, where they may actually need to strike at some point.

      And why would they risk their agent network being burned on such a childish stunt? It’s not like it’s impossible (for a competent country) to find out from where the drones are being flown. People have been arrested before for flying their hobby drones over restricted areas in many other countries.

      So, sorry but the “Russia theory” makes zero sense and anyone who continues to insist that this is a serious possibility just loses credibility in my eyes.