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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

happy 207th birthday to obscure Marxist theoretician Karl Marx

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

He was this guy who got extremely good grades in school, so one day, somebody called him Carl Marks and it stuck. Then he went on to write Capital, an in-depth guide on uppercase, lowercase, and all things grammatical, and anti-comma-use English professors have hated him ever since.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

What a waste of a life, didn't he realise nothing ever changes?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

He should have known that English has been around in the exact same form for 6,000 years, back when Noah wrote the Bible while riding the Ark of the Covenant.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The Russian Communist dictator?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Being disabled is terrible. Everybody thinks less of you, don't want to be your friend, date you and don't think you're worth listening or talking to. Sometimes I even get bullied.

No matter where I go, I get less respect than others. I feel like I'm not human.

At least I'm able to talk more about how this hurts me, and it helps a bit.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry people treat you that way. You don't deserve it.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That is the same experience that I have as a child in the family of victims of Communism who embrace the very toxic brutal authoritarian practices that supposedly victimize them. The teaching of my extended family of victim of communism in the Hong Kong Canadian community is that repression is self-inflicted, that the repressor only repress bad people, and that repression is always avoidable. This principles should be a red flag that the victims of Communism were never victims of human rights violations. In fact, my father, who is a pastor of a curropted Protestant Christian church, boost that armed gangster boogymen rule Canada and that everyone should obey thugs and delinquents to gain favor from armed gangsters. He preached that even the police will not arrest armed gangsters and that the police will knowingly arrest innocent people under the commands of armed gangsters. The local Canadian community all side with the ableist people because of the political privilege of victim of Communism.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think one of the things that disgusts me the most is that what you do is never enough. Not for the govt, not for any job you MIGHT get; you're always expected to go above and beyond despite your own physical limitations in the economy we live in. But not too far.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Posted a comment on Instagram stating racist violence is not cool (bold claim, I know) and some shirtless dude pfp instantly threatened me lmao

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Oh they're all over Insta. I am on there to explicitly piss off the white nationalists and idiots. It's great fun.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

One of the most insane titles just dropped in Dutch news. One of the news outlets says this (translated): 'Dubious plan of Israel: it seems that Palestinian presence in Gaza nears its end'

Palestinian. Presence. Nears. Its. End.

What the fuck

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Sooner rather than later

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The ruling neolib party in Belgium, N-VA, is finally having a moment of infighting regarding Palestine. Some of em can't look away anymore.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Belgian football cup final was yesterday with a notorious right wing club being one of the teams. Their hooligans went into one of the more infamous Brussels migrant areas and started beating people up.

A left wing protest of 20 people gets tracked with drones and stuff but this could happen, because why??? Some of those who burn crosses etc

Anyway last week was May Day and Vijay Prashad gave a nice speech at our rally. Afterwards I went to check the socdem speech and it was all 'they are taking your pensions and your rights blah blah' and I was like 'who is they? You're in the government man'

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gringo pope is an hilarious outcome at this point in time, anyone knows anything about him?

A maga pope could cause some serious fractures within the latin american catholic base.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Wikipedia said he defended pedophiles

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

thats prob true for every single catholic church fella

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

To the absolute shock of nobody

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Cuban Telegrams are having mixed reactions for this pope. Looks like we will have to wait and see what could be discovered out of this new pope..

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I hope you all have a nice week :D

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't ever want to hear straight men talk about how others are insecure or whatever as they themselves constantly find themselves amazed by a dude that yells at them that 'LIONS HUNT, YOU ARE A LION' and then find themselves dipping their face and their nuts in an ice bath at 4 am. Real clown shit my dudes.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Gathered all of my coworkers to discuss the making of a plan to undermine our management as our working conditions are horrendous. And we did come up with a proposal. If they won't listen or the answer isn't okay for us, we will take further action. And if that doesn't work, we will deny them their authority and start working on our own agreed upon terms.

Gotta love a good worker uprising don't we.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The union workers must know how to strike right

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't be a leftist org without some infighting

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

While Hasan Piker isn't perfect on Palestine, I feel like he gets too much unfair criticism from the left

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Shoutout depression, that shit is kicking my fucking ass right now

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'm more of an anxiety enjoyer myself but it does suck when it kicks in seemingly out of nowhere

But we can make it through 💪🏼

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I am sorry you're experiencing anxiety, it's quite draining. This isn't my first rodeo, so I have reached out to the necessary friends/doctors before it goes south south. We gunna make it <333

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

What a great photo and it is even perfect with the hammer and sickle flag

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

He is Charlie from Congo who joined the march in Vladivostok with a portrait of his grandfather, a hero of World War II.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Make sure to watch the 80th anniversary event of the Red Army's victory, if you can!

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Anyone think there is a reason they're reopening Alcatraz? Sure, drumpf saw it on TV or what not but I am now thinking of the reasons a offshore black-site near San Fran could offer.

Then again, there's probably a couple of black-sites all over the country, so what's the point of this big, shiny one outside of a huge city? Intimidation? My mind went to it being a convenient way to do mass deportations by shipping them down if they can't get air-access or other concerns (cheaper/more could be deported by boat)...except only 300 something could be held there at a time.

What is the actual point of this? Is this genuinely an "idiot" moment?

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

So I am walking (at a graduation ceremony) this weekend, it feels hollow though given I still have my entire masters paper to write, and that feels pointless because I am watching the entire field I am a part in get dismantled infront of my eyes.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I'm in a Chinese cultural exchange discord server because of a few friends and the amount of people who are so unbelievably unaware of what is going on the US is crazy.

I guess I've been keeping away from non-left spaces for too long because it was a big shock that when I recommended people to not go to the US I receive pushback as if it's unfounded for you as a non-white to get kidnapped out of nowhere. It will never not be crazy to me how people, especially third-worlders can see the US in any positive light still. And their refutation is that "You don't live there, the people who live there would know". Which clearly doesn't hold up.

Sorry for the rant comrades, just wanted to get some anger of my chest. Please stay informed and be safe.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Tell them the US is a failed state. Source: I fucking live here.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Thing is there are many Americans in ther server, especially White males. They legitimately think the Trump deportation stuff is good because it gets rid of gang members. How they ignore all the rest is absurd to me and in fact how any American isn't rabidly against their own "country" is insane.

I've just been feeling like we can't go on like this anymore, not that we could before. But now it's so fucking evident that the US is a fucking dystopia that kidnaps people off the street to send them to a death camp. It seriously cannot get any more obvious than that, imperialism turns inwards and unleashes fascism unto it's own citizens and they still can't face the facts and take action.

What will the West be in the future? Global capitalism is on the decline and will eventually lead to the capitalist collapse but then what? Will the people ever wake up when the final imperialist war happens? It doesn't seem to be that they even have the capability to wake up, all they can do is delude themselves, refuse any form of "leftism" and keep shifting right. The only option then is literally a JDPON as ridiculous as it is, they have literally shown themselves to be incapable of having empathy and doing the right thing, others must to teach them how to do it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I think the problem is that the thing the united states has done most successfully in its propaganda is to get its people to not pay attention to the world around them.

I feel like people think of political strategies as a push and pull from left to right but even more prevalent in the west, where the spoils of global dominance are abundant, is a pull towards willful ignorance.

In the US I am rarely frustrated by a right wing person who has bad takes about what's happening- that is a very rare experience. The vast vast majority of people will never pick up a newspaper, read an article, or watch a video on the news. Most people get an inkling of major events by stumbling across them while browsing sports or their hobby on social media. And even then theyll peek in, internalize the first take they see that feels ok, then never peek again. My frustrations are with people who have no idea what's going on and feel proud about not wanting to find out.

The west is nowhere near a mass waking up because people are still going to their regular jobs, shopping at their regular stores, and hanging out with their regular friends. Change will have to come from outside of the west or things will have to get far worse here for far more people for anyone to be motivated to do something about something.

While I agree that the us is a failed state and the west is in a kind of collapse, it's hard to convince someone of that while they're playing video games on their PS5 after eating out at a new chicken place that opened up at the end of their day sitting in a cubicle chatting with coworkers.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

anyone kinda worried about india-pakistan spat turning hotter?

thanks britain for royally fucking the world

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Man I love no mow may. So many flowers and interesting plants starting to pop up everywhere. It's sad that it will be destroyed at the end of the month because of no fucking reason.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
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Socdes over here launched a campaign for Palestina all of a sudden only to vote against pro Palestinian measures in parliament

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Just finished reading The Vegeterian by Han Kang. I think more people should read it but to say it was a fun book goes too far. Disturbing is a better word I guess.

Ultimately it is a critique of the societal role of women in (Korean) society. Also important was the idea that the ultimate enforcer of societal roles is violence and that those who will reject it will be subjected to violence, while at the same time receive another form of violence for not rejecting it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's scary how little rain we had this year so far. I can think of maybe a day or five with some rain. And nobody seems to care.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

same situation in my region, its especially distressing since all our economy revolves around agriculture. i can count with my hands the times it has rained the past 3 years.

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