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Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
I guess I'm just not ever reading national news again because archive.is appears to be down, I can't find any further reputable paywall-strippers, and I am not paying the spineless catamite propagandists for the tripe they call 'news'
Archive.ph usually works for me when archive.org does not. Also I didn't test it but it looks like its working for me
archive.* has been giving me "We’re having trouble finding that site." errors for the past week now
From comrade Yogthos on another thread:
I also highly recommend one of these plugins, they get around most paywalls for me
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean/
Few things beat finding an old out of print Michael Parenti book at a thrift store
Oh hey, I got my first "Reddit Cares" report on reddit! I haven't posted anything politics related on there in a long time, so I think it was over a comment about e-bike safety which is just makes it so much funnier 🤣
I love how they have to have an entire paragraph at the bottom telling you what to do if someone's using the feature to bully or harass you, they clearly know that this is literally all the feature is used for yet they do nothing about it lmao
Well obviously mixed use just means bikes only /s
Our electoral program for the upcoming elections has launched (of which I have written some parts yay). Here is the link though it is in Dutch.
Firefox translate to the rescue! ... Or not:
Firefox translate being... very good.
Democratie
Democracy in the democracy and the
Werk
Work on work
Gezondheidszorg
Health care and health care
Jongeren
Young people and youth
Mobiliteit
Mobility of mobility and mobility and
Economie
The economy of the
Samenleving
Society of society
Internationaal
Internationally and international
Mobility of mobility and mobility
Because we really care about mobility.
And my friend just sent a message in the group chat saying that the victims in the Moscow terror attack deserved it because of Ukraine. What the fuck.
Hit them with the 'yeah I guess, same for 9/11 victims because of Middle Eastern wars' to rustle their feathers
Hello comrades!!! 👋 I finally got Jerboa working again, turns out I had to update Fdroid. It feels very nice to be back 😁. I'm glad to see you all again, hope you have a nice week!
If anybody wants some brain-rot reading, S/2024/239 (U.S. ceasefire resolution in regards to Palestine) is now available. S/PV.9584 (Verbatim records of meetings) is also available.
Some time ago I commented how I remembered reading that the Soviet had set their enemies free, but couldn't remember where I had read it. I found it! Chapter 3 of Russian Justice.
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Considering first the crushing of those who oppose the order of government or hinder its development, we find the methods of coercion varying from leniency and toleration in the beginning of the Revolution, through the frightful years of the Cheka (extraordinary commission to combat speculation and counter-revolution in the early days) reign, to the more severe activities of the OGPU in recent times. Shortly after the October Revolution in May, 1918, all those persons held for political crimes were set free by an act of general amnesty. The results of this liberality were rather serious for the rule of the proletariat, since those released, bitterly determined to overthrow the new and not too firmly seated government, returned to the fight with vigor. Among these was the renowned General Krasnow who organized the White Guard Cossacks and caused no end of trouble to the Soviets.
Such a policy of clemency was bound to end if the Soviet government continued to live. When next they had political prisoners in hand there was a different tale to tell. Whoever of them saw the inside of a prison or place of detention were not released to run back to the fight. We find Stalin defending later severe measures toward these prisoners in an interview with Ludwig in 1932.^1^ “Soon it transpired that such leniency was only undermining the strength of the authority of the Soviets. We committed a mistake in showing such leniency toward the enemies of the working class. If we repeated this mistake any further, we would have committed a crime toward the working class. We would have betrayed its interest. And this became perfectly clear very soon. It became very sure that the greater our leniency toward our enemies, the greater their resistance.”
Our party has started a push for nationalizing the recently declared bankrupt bus manufacturer in Belgium. We want to keep the productive forces capable of building (electric) buses instead of just letting them go bankrupt, forcing 2500 people out of a job.
I'd love to see more peoples talk about what their organizations are up to on grad, can we normalize that please?
Sounds like a great plan! Is there any process you can legally follow for this? Will the financial receiver not just ignore you and just asset strip the place?
I don't know really, it's the first time I see something like this. I know the Belgian government did something similar during the banking crisis years ago, so I guess it's possible?
As for the asset strip: the company will go bankrupt if they don't find someone to take over. So far no realistic offer has been made. The government is perfectly able to do just that. It's a lost cause I think with neoliberals in charge, but it's goot to get the message of nationalization out there for the people to consider.
BABE WAKE UP LAOS MENTIONED
We do not forget about Laos here at GenZedong
Laos mentioned
You?cannot forget about Laos
A Belgian newspaper is rating politicians based on their last year efforts on a scale from 1 to 5 stars. One of our politicians, Jos D'Haese, got rated 4.5/5 as the highest rated politician. I thought it was pretty cool.
A few notable points: he lowered politicians' wages, is the most popular politician on social media and manages to constantly agitate the other parties.
Damn Jos slaps
You can meet him on May 3rd at our event in Antwerp. Maybe he can sign your pfp.
I have money now so I could afford the travel
Would be funny
Has anybody else noticed how upset Ali Abunimah looks in his latest videos? He looks like he cried for hours before attending his latest live stream, and I kept expecting him to suddenly break down during the stream.
I certainly don’t blame him for being upset with the monstrous atrocities that the neocolonists have been and are committing in Palestine, but I was so worried about him that I could not stop staring at him.
There are talks about Senegal kicking out Fr*nce out of their country. Would be based.
Now there's a string of anti-imperialist West African countries from the coast to Lake Chad. Very good, especially since they all border eachother.
Based country
The events after October 7th are really fucking with my mental wellbeing. First of all I want to say that I know the west has always been fucked up. But the sheer amount of hate, propaganda and lying that has been going on ever since is just sickening.
Like, I am actively trying to fight against a genocide by protesting, raising awareness, aiding strikers and whatnot. I see images of dead children on the daily. I see images of starving people on the daily. I see war crimes being committed. Every. Single. Day. But somehow the media and the politicians and other people are trying to make it seems like I am in the wrong? For opposing apartheid and genocide? It makes me sick. It is despicable. It makes me seriously doubt why I am living in this society. How on earth will I ever be able to function normally when they very society I need to contribute to, is supporting genocide? I can't wrap my mind around it.
This is exactly how I feel as a covid-aware disabled person living in current reality. I have had genuine crises of ideology through it. Myself and people like me have, in effect, been abandoned by all, in whom as a communist I place the utmost confidence for radical positive change, and that is such a fucked up contradiction to navigate. I have watched friends and friends of friends die and continue to die to this shit as the world moves on and tells us we are in the wrong and actively punishes us for caring, and those of us not lucky enough to remain to struggle easily forgotten.
I have no faith in anyone anymore, especially not in the imperial core and especially not after witnessing the fallout of last October. Not after seeing everyone go back to brunch in '21 throwing any semblance of community care and public health away. Not after being in the summer of '20 George Floyd riots in my city and seeing in real-time the BLM movement co-opted and defanged right in my backyard. It feels like more and more of a depraved and hopeless situation in the western world- and most of all in the US- to me.
It's not in my nature to stop resising, as I'm sure can be said for you, too. I said it elsewhere and I'll say it here: as long as I’m alive and able, I’m not going out without giving these people hell to pay and I will never stop doing what I can for the struggle and what little of my comrades in that struggle remain that I can cling to. I owe no less to myself at the very least; you owe it to yourself. We are correct, and that has to amount to something in the end.
"I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy." 
The propaganda really does hurt, especially seeing what it does to others. So many people I love I now have to contend with being pretty much fascists who at near every chance given will gleefully talk my ear off about how stupid the Palestinians are for not liking the US or how protestors should be locked up/run over; they even donate to the IDF. Perfectly intelligent and empathetic people suddenly acting like monsters. It's made it so much harder to be around those close to me.
It fucking sucks seeing people you care about defend Israel. It makes me mistrust the people around me
Feeling gaslit by the imperialists and genocidal sociopaths. You’re on the right side, comrade. Thanks for putting your ethics and morals into action.
the very society I need to contribute to, is supporting genocide
Are you finding that to be true even with younger people? I would expect them to be at least less disinformed than older folks. If so, it might make sense to focus your efforts there.
But I hear you. Where I live, it's as if Palestine doesn't even exist. Only one protest was organized after October 7th, and since then it seems everyone is back to normal.
There is more and more proof that one of our extreme right politicians worked in service of the CCP. I'm extremely disappointed in this.
I don't think we should believe the CPC and VB are besties or that the CPC sees VB as an ideological ally. It's just that they are the biggest party who have been in Parliament for decades now, which probably makes it easier to get sensitive info without raising suspicion. A party like PVDA/PTB is probably under far more surveillance plus they are a rookie with their 5 years in Parliament. Also, right wingers and corruption, name a more iconic duo.
I find it funny lol, kind of tells that these far right dudes are just grifting for money and it doesn't matter where it comes from.