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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

After nearly having a breakdown after moving a closet into my home, I decided it is time to go and take a grass touching break for a while. Life has been giving me some mental warning signs for a few weeks now and I should probably listen to it.

Until later my comrades.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Take care, comrade.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We all need it every now and then, all the best to you

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

Best of luck!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There's a thread about the DPRK playing their first match in four years on r/soccer and it's... somewhat positive? Like, some people are calling out the blatant idiotic statements even. What is happening?

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

Outrage machine is more focused on Russia at the moment, libs can only really believe bullshit when its being blasted at them non stop every day

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That is one of the things that makes me a little hopeful tbh. They can only really focus on the "villain of the week" and so kind of forget that they are supposed to be hateful to other nations as well unless they are constantly reminded. Once that propaganda tap is shut off, the people will stop blindly hating so much, hopefully.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I need a DPRK soccer jersey, I’m addicted to soccer jerseys lol such an underrated clothing item

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol that subreddit is something else. I remember it going full masks off during the world cup, when Argentina beat croatia and france.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow that's so weird. How does that happen? Normally such an extreme reactionary place.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yea I haven’t been on Reddit in a long while, but I remember them being mostly ok with monarchy

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Got invited to carting on the weekend. Can't stop thinking that it would be one of the things to go in the case of the worldwide socialist revolution. Due to pollution and all

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They can be redesigned to be less ecologically harming, I'm not an expert on go karts or pollution, but I think the issues can be in the tracks and how much space they take for an entertainement, which could perhaps be fixed by making the track a park when it's not being used, modifying the vehicles and the road surface, like by looking at the image here there's a lot of unnecessary stuff

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

That seems rather efficient in terms of space. Making race tracks of any kind multi use is tricky. At least with full size tracks (think 5km road length or so) park area can definitely be made in and around, but cart tracks are pretty compact. In that image I don't see anything that can be cut out while maintaining safety and functionality. Some races also use temporary road circuits but that brings in other issues from the massive effort required to set up and take down for just one event per year.

I think the primary pollutants from car racing in general are exhaust and micro-plastics (rubber from the tyres wears off on the road and gets into the environment). Both can certainly be mitigated.

Even so, I wonder to what extent we'll allow polluting activity on a small scale for hobbies and entertainment. Of course polluting just for fun isn't necessary (fireworks for example) but amateur/hobby sports definitely have a place in a socialist society.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could also develop electric go-karts as well. They don't need to be powered by fossil fuels. My local go-kart place is just inside a big warehouse and they just move tires around to make differently shaped tracks, that could certainly be an option for it rather than building a whole dedicated racetrack.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If we banned cars and introduced free public transport, go-karters could have the roads practically to themselves without needing bespoke racing tracks that only have one use. There might be pedestrians and cyclists but the cyclists are used to it because of cars and pedestrians are slow, so easily avoided.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Electric carts go brrrrrrrrr

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope you all have a nice week :D

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

xi pointing at the screen Yooo, my teacher complimented the Mao background on my computer. He also uses sayings in daily speech such as “it’s joever” and “based.”

~~PS: how do I get emojis to work? I can only get undefined and maybe “::” that doesn’t work.~~

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

If you type :xi- you should get two emoji suggestions (at least in the web UI), select one of them and it'll autocomplete. On other clients, there should presumably be an emoji picker

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

Thanks. I have an emoji clicker, but it doesn’t work.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It costs so much money to do literally anything, so tired of it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'm completely terrified of going to the doctor/dentist/nutriologist for a consultation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

And it's getting more expensive, too. The wonders of commodification!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello Comrades, I just discovered [email protected] . What is this community anyway ? Is this just Shitreactionariessay but for hexbear.. or im missing something..

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

yeah, AFAIK it's pretty much SRS for Hexbear, although it's not NSFW by default

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

SNOWDEN LEAK:

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1703959863796158678

Cavium networking hardware may have NSA backdoor. This is used by every cloud provider.

Libs seething because this is not China backdoor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

amerikkkan politician mailers be like: "I'm not like those out-of-touch career politicians with their lobbyists and theatrics. I'm here to work for regular voters on the issues that matter most: starting with combating the Radical Gender Agenda and Building the Wall."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Western politics is a clownfest at this point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"the real progenitor of english materialism is Bacon [...]" - friedich engels 😂 without context its pretty funny

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

[Engels was banned for carnism] /s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's pretty bizarre how big an a emphasis The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact gets among EU neocons on reddit-logo and twitter. They treat it like it's some kind of scientific truth of the horseshit theory. I don't remember people being this obsessed about it pre-2022. (And they clearly don't read much history.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and they conveniently ignore that France and the rest signed pacts with the Nazis long before the USSR did and rejected all offers to cooperate with the USSR

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Today I went on r/genzedong for the first time in about a year, and it's sad how that place has degenerated. For instance, this bit of libbery:

I remember when it was not so, and anybody defending porn and/or prostitution would be roundly dunked on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Lemmygrad have an official statement on third worldists? Are they considered more as Ultras or Reactionaries?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't know of an official statement. My personal opinion: I don't see how they would be reactionaries. And I think the ultra tendencies are fairly clear to see.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have had recent interactions with some and they tend to be pretty backward in their views on queer people, buying into the idea of it being part of some western agenda to "subvert" culture in the global south.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Yea they are led astray into these reactionary views, as someone from the global south i kinda get why these people tend to be "class reductionists", our material conditions are much much worse than in the imperial core.

it is infuriating when international companies that have exploited our countries for decades hijack the queer movement and move the conversation away from class to identity politics, this of course does not justify hatred against anyone but i think it is one of the reasons why people are led to this. Its very similar to how conservatives in america do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two choices: >colonizers who pretend to not hate queers >anti colonizers who hate queers, They're misguided

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's not what i typically think of when i think of third worldists, but yeah those are reactionary views. However i'm not sure that is sufficient to qualify an individual as a reactionary, let alone a whole ideological group. If that were the case then a lot of Marxist-Leninists would be reactionary too. People with progressive ideologies can hold reactionary views on some issues. People are complicated and such contradictions are very common.

The point i'm trying to make is that views such as the ones you described may be held by some individual third worldists, but these views are not integral or essential or a logical conclusion of the third worldist ideological outlook. Their ideological framework has ultra characteristics but not reactionary ones. At least as far as i can tell.

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

Watched a police brutality video on Reddit for some reason. Comments were dunking on the cops with, "Go to Ukraine if you want to be a real troop," and another saying, "you say that like they would join the Ukrainian side 😏 "

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

I've been trying to get a new job title and description and raise for the last six months, which is more than two years overdue. I was supposed to meet with the COO today to finalize some details and they just stood me up. Nothing gets done at this place if it isn't threatening a revenue stream.

Even so, part of me blames myself for working above and beyond my job description in the first place. Now I've come to the conclusion that I have no leverage to get the title and raise that I've earned.

I've been told off before (privately) for wanting to unionize, but I might just do it anyway as a going away present to the owners.

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