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My hometown in The Netherlands, a real working class city, was hit with a PFAS scandal in which a company polluted the area for millions worth of damage, spreading cancerous waste in the air and water.
A marxist youtuber visited the town to talk to people and one of them went off like: 'they are fucking cancer sufferers, fucking typhoid rats, dirty antisocial cancerous scum' and I feel like that language pretty much describes how I was raised lol
I would not be surprised if the IDF was personally involved in the Hasan-Ethan Klein drama at this point.
im like 99% sure the H3 fellas get media training from them.
I thought this was hyperbolic at first, but after getting into a thing about it in youtube comments, the person could be garden-variety overzealous fan, but I'm not discounting the possibility they are part of an astroturfing campaign; they were weirdly adept at twisting everything I said to be the most bad faith, bad intentions comment possible and their coherence had a tinge to it that reminds me of LLMs that are almost on track, but just a little bit off. It felt like they were doing what Ethan does, like they knew how to do the same thing, of twisting everything.
Man I hate when people do that.
That problem will solve itself because he is going to give himself an aneurysm or heart attack very soon. Dude does NOT look healthy at all.
From Venezuela.
Climate changes is causing pollen to be around earlier, heavier and longer. Usually it is two weeks of suffering for me and then it is okay but I have been going for over a month now. It is drier and hotter than usual with virtually no rain for weeks so it just keeps hanging in the air. Cars are covered in a thick layer of pollen everywhere. Windows too.
It's miserable. I can't open my window even when it's 30 degrees and full sun outside because my house will be full of it in no time. It's been going on for so long now that my throat is getting infected from being irritated all the time. People see the ice melting and think it's far away but stuff like this is also going to happen, making life increasingly miserable.
Every spring since I started gardening the right time to plant veggies changes drastically. I have to do a vibe check and even then it's a crap shoot on whether I got it in too early or too late. If my potatoes don't get flooded my late crop of beets gets blasted by a heatwave just as they sprout. Every year I either get more water storage for the garden or I plant less to make the water go farther but its never enough.
The socdems walked in the May Day parade over here and held speeches. Against the 'inhumane new government that targets the working people'.
But they are in the government lmao. Never heard such a bullshit speech ever.
Anyone know of a good place for being able to share, like, a single audio file that I could delete later for privacy if I wanted to? I was gonna try soundcloud but it's being a pain to get into a previous account I had and plus it seems like a lot for one file.
Reason I ask is I wrote a little song, liberation themed. I don't sing much, but I did a rough rendition of it so if anyone likes the lyrics, they have a general sense of what tune I'm going for and could use it for a better rendition. But I'm getting a bit snagged on the logistics of actually sharing the audio here, where simplicity and privacy is concerned.
I think https://vocaroo.com/ is the one you want.
Oh I was thinking that one is just for recording and then sharing what's recorded. I see there is an upload option too. Thanks, I'll consider it.
Israhell's on fire right now lololol
I can't help but notice how many MCU movies have CIA agents that are causing all the problems who then just kinda walk off like nothing happened.
I was just thinking about how great hitlers mustache is. Not that it makes him look cool or anything but that it really made him stand out. That stupid little patch of hair saved 1 in 50 white european of men from having to live their lives looking like hitler.
1 in 50 seems awfly generous I was thinking 1 in 30
Never been to europe is it really 65% uglier than I imagine?
I had a very interesting and even emotional party meeting today and I must say combined with the recent increases in strikes and protests it really re-ignited some fire inside of me and I feel ready to continue fighting
This system will go down
Sometimes I find myself reading theory and thinking to myself 'man am I too stupid to understand this or what?'. I'm not but I think reading theory just doesn't help to bring across the point that is made in the books. I feel like I need some other form of learning theory.
This is where a book club or theory discussion group would be very helpful. Just getting a different perspective on the same text can facilitate understanding, and I find it also helps to connect the theory to examples of historical or current events.
I like to listen to theory a few times as an audiobook while I do chores, cook, exercise, or play less cerebral videogames. It builds a familiarity with the simple ideas and the flow of the text, how the parts relate to each other in general. It lets my brain work on the ideas without my conscious mind getting in the way because it is busy doing other things. Then after listening to it 2 or 3 times read along with it and really get down to attaching all the parts together in the order they are presented and turning them into one solid thing.
That's exactly how I approach theory as well!
I'll look up for an audio book, podcast, video or something that I can listen to while doing something else so that I can at least get acquainted with the terminology used and write down something I might need to search for it (eg. Let's say the topic is about a specific event that happened in the USSR that I'm not familiar with. Before listening to that audio again, I'd like to have looked more into that event and the factors that led to it).
And of course, repetition is key. If possible, I'll try my best to read even just a quick paragraph during the day and ask myself what I learned from the previous paragraph.
Also, since we mentioned audio books, I can't recommend or thank Dessalines enough for his amazing YouTube channel which has an insane amount of audios recorded by him
Takes a time to process sometimes.
I feel like if the blackout that happened in iberia wouldve happened in the US, there would be at least 10 mass shootings from psychos thinking there is a zombie apocalypse.
I'm saving this comment for when the coal supplies run low.
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I make a su*cide joke here please forgive me. Also mention of queerphobia.
Ever hear something so stupid you just wanna die? Like you just wanna get vaporised off the face of the planet so that you may not hear something so stupid again?
I overheard some family members talking about children's cartoons. Then a guy said Cocomelon should be avoided. I agree with this. But why does he think so? Cocomelon is (along with Peppa Pig) a leftist psyop where this nebulous leftist cabal uses bright colours in a (I quote) Manchurian Candidate experiment to indoctrinate children into waving the rainbow flag.
I wish my eardrums would have given in before the waves for these words fell upon them.
You should should lean into it.
Tell him you listened to what he was saying about pepa pig and that its worse than he seems to know. Its Nazis that are doing the brainwashing and they are hiding in the CIA. Then dump the skinny on MKUltra/Galidio/Congress for Cultural Freedom and all the shifty stuff the CIA got up to under Richard Helms the nazi lover who was a lead negotiator on project paperclip.
This guy is too far gone. He thinks CIA is communist. You can't do irony or sarcasm with person.
To come to a conclusion that CIA is communist must have been a hell of a ride...
It might seem far fetched to most people here but if someone is a brain deprived far-right Hindu nationalist anti-communist who is also somewhat vary of the USA, it is a concievable (though not understandable) conclusion to round up all these beliefs which don't have much basis in reality. He is the type of person who you would immediately snitch on if there was a cultural revolution.
Meanwhile the pro-wrestling and the entire country music scene are some the campiest aspects of American (I assume this family member is American) culture.
Today's strike was fun (for a lack of a better word). There were 7000 people present at the march in my city which was honestly more than we excepted, so that's good. Several thousands of people in other cities around the country as well. I assume many more people striking but not going to a protest.
I spoke to many different people, also from different communist parties. Mostly Trots though but still interesting to see what they are up to. Being anti-China was one of those things which I thought was funny coming from a party in the margin (duh).
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin's What To Do quote).
The sun was absolutely blasting though so I feel a bit woozy from walking in the sun all day.
On the way home I got stopped by this girl working for a charity who asked me to donate. She was very passionate about the case which I thought was cool. Upon getting home however I saw that I subscribed to a monthly thing and I don't want that given how many things I already am active for or are paying for, so I called the org to stop it so that I can make a one time payment. The lady on the phone said 'okay, I will send a mail to the girl you spoke to to cancel it' and I found that quite sad lol. I at least asked the lady to tell her in the mail that I still donated though so that she would not feel too bad.
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin’s What To Do quote).
but isnt it more than just a protest, because its also a strike? the way to make it more radical would be to hold an indefinite strike, but that is something for the unions to decide
Well I guess so, it was a strike. But the Trotskyist members were there on their own account instead of striking it seemed so their vision of it might be a bit skewed.
Personally I am all for (a version of) an indefinite strike but I doubt ABVV and ACV want to do that given their ties to Vooruit and CD&V so as to not jeopardize their positions on the negotiations. I also don't feel like there is a party ready to back the unions, able to provide the neccessary context to the working class people apart from PVDA-PTB but even then I´m not too confident in how they will handle that with no allies apart from the unions. Vooruit will never back PVDA and neither will Groen I´m sure.
yeah exactly, it seems like things are not bad enough for unions to completely turn their back on the government and burn all bridges, same with greens and socialists
The thing is that there are some really serious things that are being proposed that they cannot ignore I think, otherwise people will be royally fucked in the coming years and-or decades. And simply remaining idle with some accepted strikes in between is not going to solve it, so at some point they would have to do something more serious.