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Oh hell yeah, Mr. President please investigate Ft. Detrick

Andrew Millison has got some good stuff to start you off.

• We Found America's Lost Food Forest
• Is This the Most Useful Plant on EARTH?
• How Trees Bring Water
• Cuba Permaculture Pilgrimage - Peregrinaje de Permacultura en Cuba

I tend to start with one of his videos and let the algorithm take me for a ride. Ublock origin and Sponsorblock helps keep the trash out of my vibe.

I'm old enough to splinter the party

I've been a communist for quite a while now, but it really seems that my "activism" has solely been focused on arguing with people online. I've attended one public meeting organized by a local pro-Palestinian organisation, that's it.

A big portion of the reason for that is most likely me being lazy, but I feel that's not the whole story here. You see here in Estonia, a nation the size of a small city anywhere else in the world, there are zero outlets for real left wing activism (besides the pro-Palestinian organisation I mentioned before).

I've made this kind of post before, i failed to find a satisfying answer. Nearly all of them required a pre-existing foundation onto which something could be built — that does not exist here. Decades of neoliberal indoctrination, nationalist posturing and the hollowing out of whatever was left of the old communist parties have led here.

The attitude has drastically shifted to the right, people openly talk about the Russian minority being a problem needing to be dealt with. Everything is couched in euphemisms, of course. But the message is understood. After all, imagine the alternative! "Little green men", as they like to call them, creating a fifth column inside the nation. How horrible!

I'll reiterate the title — what do I do? As much as I'd love to just create the vanguard party, that is not realistic. If that were feasible, then the world revolution would have already been completed. A party needs mass backing, it cannot simply be 1 or 2 people deciding to soap box. A party also cannot just be created, it needs to form. It is an organic growth, something that responds to it's environment and adapts to it. You cannot plant a flower seed in infertile soil, in the wrong season, and then expect it to miraculously blossom that night. If it is necessary to branch out from the level of a book club, then that will be done. If the situation proves a vanguard necessary, and the prerequisite organisation is there, only then is the formation of a vanguard even to be considered.

On that note, where do I begin then? I do not even know where to find like-minded individuals, such spaces simply do not exist.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7607666

Cat Kremlin - Paper Mache Teach your cat about the struggle of the proletariat and the oppression of the bourgeoisie with this handy 4ft piece of custom architecture!

Garage Desk (W 21in, L 57in) Saw on it! Paint on it! Drill into it! A great place to turn your mildly broken electronics into an unfixable mess! The only limit is your imagination (and the space in your crammed garage).

5 Gallon Buckets Holiday Themed. Recreate the classical off-broadway play STOMP at home! Or just carry stuff in them. The future is yours.

absolutely random stuff about organs from counterpunch, but fascinating

Commodification of news under capitalist model creates barriers to access in form of paywalls, ads, data harvesters, and so on. Western media, driven by profit imperatives, increasingly treats news as a luxury good rather than a public utility. Paywalls lock critical reporting behind subscription fees, while ad-driven revenue models bombard readers with intrusive trackers and disruptive marketing prioritizing profit over access.

On the other hand, Chinese state-supported media model sidesteps these barriers by decoupling news accessibility from commercial pressures. I find myself reading outlets like Global Times or China Daily precisely because they provide clean, accessible articles without the junk. These platforms ensure information reaches a wider demographic, including marginalized groups who are priced out of Western media ecosystems. The structural advantage here is undeniable because Chinese media is unburdened by the need to “sell” audiences to advertisers or shareholders.

The west champions "free press", but the reality is that access is often restricted through financial and technological gatekeeping, while China’s approach leads to practical accessibility that's not possible under capitalist model. As a result, I expect that Chinese media will become increasingly more dominant globally due to being easily accessible.

It might not take off in the west where there's too much propaganda against China for people to turn to Chinese sources, but that's not the case for the global majority.

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I know more about this site's memes and in-jokes than the admins do, believe me.

And the last post was a fucking chicken jockey meme? (Forgot to add image for context)

interview with pal action in nlr

Get fucked Rubio, your "patriots" are failures

Also libs: UKRAINE SHOULD FIGHT TO EVERY LAST HUMAN TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM VLADIMIR POOPIN

They expect us to take this ideology seriously somehow

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