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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Takes a time to process sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm saving this comment for when the coal supplies run low.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I remade. I'm back hello hello 同志们

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

你好同志!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

This guy is too far gone. He thinks CIA is communist. You can't do irony or sarcasm with person.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Sometimes when I'm in the mood to chastise myself I log on to LinkedIn and read whatever radioactive garbage gets posted there. Like, you cannot convince me these people are real.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gotta say I don't love the Lemmygrad language filters because I couldn't post my comment calling a transphobic user a fucking loser, but to give y'all credit between the time I reported the post and edited my comment to pass the filter the post had already been deleted and the user banned, so gd credit to some fucking kickass mods maduro-coffee

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Well, holiday is over. Back to striking tomorrow, and 1st of May on Thursday!

The trend of countries deporting migrants protesting has me worried, as a migrant myself who is politically active. It's not happening here but still. It might.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So it turns out DPRK troops were fighting with Russians in Kursk this whole time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah its kinda funny that the Ukrainians lied so much prior and did such a bad job of actually proving it that everyone thought it was fake this whole time lol.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The real DPRK troops were the friends Russians made along the way.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Heya everyone, my first $495 ko-fi funds are complete. I'm waiting for 21 day delay to be finished by 15 of May

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I hope you all have a nice week :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ugggggggggggggggg Im so done

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you! How about a great week for you.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Anyone who is familiar with getting into programming/coding field, especially without prior paid work experience in it? I'm US-based. Have some self taught experience, I would say I'm beyond novice albeit rusty, but proving that on a resume is another thing and I might be a better fit for entry level for that reason. Part of the problem is, a lot in my area last I looked tends to be military contractor stuff and I do not want to go work on weapons tech or whatever. I guess I could look for remote stuff?

Does anyone know of specific opportunities? (Not asking people to google search for me, just wondering on that level if anyone already knows of something.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There is the Ren'py programming language to make visual novels that I am now learning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anecdotal experience but a friend of mine, who was objectively bad at coding but good communication skills, got a "requires Y years of experience in X language." job after doing a 2 week bootcamp in X language by lying on the resume/interview. So unless you are looking for a job at the FAANG companies, which ive heard do a lot of vetting, fake it till you make it really can work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Interesting, will keep that in mind. I do tend to be overly conscientious about that kind of thing to my detriment sometimes. 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dont know much but i have heard there are like certifications you can get pretty easily. Like you take a test and get a certification you can put on your resume. Might be worth looking into for you.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Thanks, its been a while hasn't it, too long

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've been listening to lots of King Crimson lately, especially '21st Century Schizoid Man' and 'The Court of the Crimson King'. I've tried some of their later stuff and it's not really my thing though. Maybe I'll give it another go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

80s and 90s King Crimson is also very cool, though it takes a bit to get used to. I'm ashamed to admit I never listened to anything post-Thrak. 70s King Crimson is also peak, I love John Wetton

Check out The Night Watch, Starless, Fallen Angel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you listened to the album Killer by Alice Cooper? King Crimson was one of his inspirations for the album especially the song Halo of Flies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Haven't yet since I only got into King Crimson through jojo, but I'll definitely give it a try!

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