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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

I'm really glad we've federated with Hexbear. The weeks in between the reddit Lib influx and the Hexbear federation were really rough, since the shitty lib takes seemed to pop up way more than I was comfortable with. But as soon as we federate we end up once again with an overwhelming majority of based takes. Thank you Hexbearists for backing us up against the Lib idiots!

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

The best part about federating with Lemmygrad:

we've got 3 megathreads now lenin-shining

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

I was pissed when the colonial government in hawaii did nothing to help us when we burn, and move mountains to evac tourists. And now that they've sent "aid", I'm even more pissed.

you want to know why?

Instead of sending extra volunteers, more firefighters, or further aid. Instead of stopping the landlord leeches currently using this crisis to further buy up land.

they sent a mortuary assistant to help identify our burnt corpses

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

That just feels like open mockery

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Regardless of what happens with people in the wider fediverse demanding to defederate from Hexbear, I will always be glad to have our friends from Lemmygrad beside us

left-unity-4

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

The water suppliers over here are starting to refer to people as customers like water isn't a basic human right and they are rolling out a digital meter to track your water usage to the last drop (and charge you for it). This meter is closely watched by the EU to implement everywhere.

Europe is in a normal place.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's this Dutch energy company of which 40% of the customers have solar panels installed. They generate enough electricity for the people to give back to the company to store. This costs money, of course. Their solution? Have the customers pay for the electricity THEY PRODUCE. So you have these people, who want to have an eco friendly way of producing energy, and you're going to fuck them over once more. You just can't win in this system 🫠🫠🫠

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I've heard this happens over here too, their lazy justification for it in our case is that you're still using their grid to distribute the energy. As opposed to building your own grid, I guess.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

porky-happy if you don't like my electrical grid, just use another one!

I've heard of this being done intentionally in many countries, as (partially) self-sustaining households cut into the profits of electricity companies. Spain is an infamous example, though they seem to have ended the practice in 2019.

Legislation introduced in 2013 by Spain’s then-ruling Popular Party made it compulsory for any individual or company to hook their solar panels up to the national grid to be metered and taxed, or face fines running into millions of euros.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

:::spoiler Modlog continues to be my favorite sort option

Your fixation with race is astounding. I've quite honestly never even considered the word 'mongrel' to be racially charged, nor was that my intent. That should be all you need to know, really, but you do go on. The word 'removed' could be ascribed exactly the same level of racially charged slur, but that's not what people generally think, noy whats in the dictionary or wikipedia and not what i think when i hear the word. Nor the word bastard for example. That is unless, of course, race and racism are at the forefront of your mind at all times.

the word 'removed' could be ascribed exactly the same level of racially charged slur, but

michael-laugh

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

what a lot of words to say "i'm white"

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

I've been asked to become a writer for the upcoming version of our official party line, which will be written after the next National Congress. My name will be forever tied to a published communist piece of literature.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Hello! I'm new and happy to be here. Excited to explore Lemmygrad 🤗

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Welcome! Enjoy your time here! :)

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

I hope you all have a nice week :D

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dutch news is running a story about China's youth unemployment of 21%, stating that according to economists, it's a 'telling sign of decay'. Meanwhile Europe is sitting at roughly the same percentage. I wonder what the signs say about that.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That ~21% unemployment rate is based off the 16-24 age group; composed of high school and university students, whose main task is studying and not working.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People of high school and university age actually go pursue an education and aren't wage slaves? That's terrible the east has fallen!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

People of high school and university age actually go pursue an education and aren't wage slaves?

But at what cost?

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Our society is going to crisis, quick make some articles about how CHINA IS BAD

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

The icing on the cake was how they said China's economy had a growth of 4-5%. They said that this would be really good for a European country, but for China it is BAD lmao. Meanwhile the EU is committing economic suicide on virtually all levels.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

School is starting in many places around the country, so it's a good time to remind everyone that schools in the US are utterly and completely fucked. One of the largest ongoing domestic neoliberal projects is the current privatization of schooling via the charter school system, highly recommend people research it a bit so they know what's going on.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Wtf is this dystopian sh!t?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Gotta dress fascism in bright colours and kid-friendly fuzzy toys, then no-one would notice

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Is it OK if I post the same thing here that I posted in the hexbear megathread? I'm just wanna do it right now. These feelings are hitting me hard. DOnt worry though, I'm about to go to bed.

The problem I'm having with the back and forth with libs is my inherent empathy. I feel for them and want to reach out with them. I can't (Usually) just aggressively dunk and move on.

The worst yet for me was the thing earlier with the guy who can't engage with political memes at all because he thinks they all MIGHT be Russian social media infiltration. I started getting sincerely and genuinely invested in being concerned for their mental health. I actually had like, a continuous low level panic attack going. My body was tense and nervous.

I know the response here is going to be to tell me to just log off and stop getting invested in this, but I really just wanted to vent about how all this is making me feel. I want to help these people out of the bubbles they are in. When they use thought terminating cliches to avoid thinking, it upsets me because god I WANT THEM TO THINK. For their sake.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I think it's good to always act in good faith towards them. But if you explain something three times and they're not at least considering another opinion, that's on them.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Started watching the X-Files to balance the politics in my life and so far I'm liking it

But I'm a huge space/alien nerd, so

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

federation to the rescue

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's a farmers' protest starting in Belgium similar to the one in The Netherlands. The Netherlands' one is hijacked by far right extremists, but for some reason the one starting over here is starting to show some leftist signs. I even saw a sign about how the leader of the biggest neolib right wing party is 'supporting the big capitalists'. The farmers are also targeting big industrial polluters with their actions.

Our party is on it as well. We can't afford to have a Netherlands 2.0 over here, since the left over there completely shit the bed with handling the protest.

I will keep you guys updated, inshallah we may have an uprising

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

im drunk again

yall 196 reactionaries never been

as fuckin high as me

PIGPOOPBALLS

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