We had a huge protest in the Hague yesterday with 100.000 people protesting against the Dutch government's stance on Israel. I was there as well. It got sort of coopted by liberals though with some political parties that were silent or supported the genocide taking part. But this protest shows that the people support the Palestinian people. But I feel like this protest was kind of wasted. 100.000 people could've shut the city down. We could've squatted the parliament building, but instead we were walking around the city and the government probably won't listen to us. Although there is more pressure on them now, which is good.
You know, even with all the crazy xenophobia happening in the US, my mexican middle class circle is still eager to migrate to the US. The american dream propaganda is so deeply internalized that it's frankly very sad to see.
Oh my fucking god yea. I was talking to a person in their mid-to-late 20s who was going on a date with a US Marine who for whatever reason was going to be in Southeast Asia. And they don't even get a visceral reaction when knowing the person is US military, but what's more they said it might be an opportunity to get a green card.
So I just stated what is happening to people to even people who are getting green cards in the US. And they don't want to listen, and Americans said it was ok and still act like it's just Trump. How fucking stupid can you be? You want to move to a county where almost everyone is barely getting by, nobody owns a home, your chance of getting killed just because you're not white is so fucking high it's not even funny, and he county is literally doing gestapo shit so blatantly now it's literally unignorable. But apparently it can be ignored, I honestly believe if you still move to the US, you get what's coming to you. You literally cannot be this fucking stupid and ignorant. If you want to stay in an echo chamber and not listen to people because you grew up watching Hollywood or whatever, nobody can help you.
(Sorry for ranting comrades)
The "American dream" propagandists are working overtime in Facebook, Twitter and other social media to sell the "beautiful" life of working in the US with a TN visa. Due to "el aspiracionismo" fallacy, lots of people are still falling to those lies of "success".
Reminds me of this one time, when I still used reddit, ran into somebody who was talking about being an immigrant and something about how they'd managed to succeed. I think I had tried to give them some socialist style commentary and it turned out that they were a landlord of a kind, and I was pretty blunt with them about the ridiculousness of their "success" being to become an exploiter.
I guess I think of it because some people who are migrants can technically succeed, if we consider the "American dream" to be "become the oppressor." But that's nothing to be proud of and few can do that even if they all had so little of a conscience to try.
For the first time since migrating I sort of miss home. Belgian people are really hard to connect to and they seem to be stuck in a perpetual state of misery for large parts of their lives. And that can be exhausting. I went home to celebrate my football team becoming champions yesterday and I realized I really miss dicking around with the people over there.
I wouldn't mind doing it all again or even migrating elsewhere again though. It has been an interesting experience. But I increasingly wonder what I'm doing here exactly. I will never be Belgian. I will never really belong here. And I will never be able to get used to whatever mentality prevails here. And I'm a white European too. Can't imagine how much more difficult it must be for non European migrants.
Anyway, tomorrow there will be a big strike again for the fifth month in a row. I am at a point where I wonder what the next step will be if nothing changes.
What's different in the mentality between southern Dutch and Belgian people? I thought that southern Dutch and Belgian culture was the same.
Sucks to hear tho. Is there a Dutch immigrant community you can connect to?
Congrats on you team becoming champions btw. I wish it was us.
Well we're both Catholic and there is some overlap in cultural stuff in that. We both live a more 'bourgondisch' compared to Northern Netherlands. But we Brabanders are still Dutch so we still have that directness in us. The main difference is, is that everyone is really closed up here it seems. You very rarely get personal questions anywhere. I've worked in several different places and I rarely talk to my coworkers about my weekend for example. It's difficult to become friends with Flemish people let alone find a friend group to get into.
Most of my friends here are Dutch lol. They experience the same issues so it's not like I am unlikeable or something. Belgian people have explained it to me as Belgian people getting 'stuck to their local church tower' in that all of their friend groups and most of their lives get decided by where they are born and they are hesitant to break free from that, so it's very hard for people at a later stage to come into existing social groups.
Maybe it's the same for people coming to The Netherlands as well, idk. It's not like The Netherlands is perfect or something. But in my experience at least the Belgians are far more reserved than I am used to as a Dutch person.
Also, hierarchy is much more respected here. Where at home I would regularly chat with the ceo's of the places I worked at, that is not done here. At my first job here I just walked into our CEO's office to ask him a question and he seemed mortified lol. And I think that results in some rigid social structures as well where a lot of people seem sort of helpless or incapable of finding solutions themselves if an authority figure is not present. Idk you have to experience working here to understand it I guess. Some sort of 'we've done this for ages now and we can't change it' mentality, even if things get outdated.
Also, Belgian men, for the life of them, cannot seems to save themselves if their lives depended on it lol. Very rarely I see a Belgian guy with actual strong, independent opinions, who is able to cook, clean, whatever. There is like this insane passiveness surrounding a lot of them and I often find myself wondering if there is anything going on in their mind.
Now, this all sounds very negative of course and I don't want to be disrespectful or anything but sometimes you just need to vent lol.
Let me post a beautiful landscape as well:
Where is this?
Afghanistan
It looks nice I think it's important to remember nature is beautiful everywhere
Morocco?
Yes 😌
The seventh semester of my undergrad is almost half way through and I am already exasperated. My brain is unable to function well lol
I hope everyone else is having a good spring! It rained earlier today.
I hope you have a great spring aswell
You have to send me an animal video now does are the rules
Its pretty funny that one of the rules of that BuyEuropean community is:
Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism.
Where this?
I took this when I was travelling on the Reunification Express Train in Vietnam 😎
I hope you all have a nice week :D
Visited a book store in the city today because I have been on a reading streak and I want to keep it up.
There was a whole table dedicated to anarchist books so I figured they are anarchist leaning. That's okay with me. I usually shop at our commie store but I can spice things up I guess.
What confused me, though, was that the table also had books on Navalny for some reason. I know we make fun of anarchist takes sometimes but this just genuinely confused me. They know he was a far right racist piece of shit, right?
Anyway I got some books. Testaments by Atwood, Walden by Thoreau and Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.
At this point I'm seriously contemplating doing a rain dance or something. My plants need water. Please rinse off the thick layer of pollen from everything. Please.
Do it. Rain dances are an S tier spiritual/magical ritual. Even if it doesn't work it's pretty fun. Just remember to do lots of jumps, spins, and arm flinging. Oh and being high helps.
Back in my occultist days the only thing that ever really felt like it worked was weather manipulation.
Seeing the grass along the roads slowly die is rather sad
Oh my god it's actually raining
Earlier for today I was going to talk about the Georgian uprising on Texel, one of Europe’s last WWII battles, but I had a dentist appointment and I spent the little free time that I had goofing around with Sid Meier’s Civilization IV instead of studying for my thread. It’s May 21st in most time zones now so it is too late to make topic for the eightieth anniversary. Oh well.
A cool dystopian thing happened this morning as I found myself discussing with my mother what exactly was in het emergency kit in case of war, seeing if it was cheaper to buy everything individually because private companies selling said kits are making them very expensive.
Because that's what life's about right? Prepping for war together with your mom.
Uhhh turns out the DC museum shooter was a PSL member at least in 2017. Im kinda anxious about the fallout that'll come from this. Even if it turns out that he wasn't a member in good standing/ he was kicked out of the party, that connection will undoubtedly be used to go after PSL and anyone tangentially related. Kinda anxious...
Just distance yourself as a party honestly. No need to bring unwanted drama.
I don't see how it would reasonably be used against PSL unless there were documented party organizing of the act (unlikely: if the manifesto published by Klippenstein is indeed the shooter's, he seems to have been acting alone and in no way affiliated with any particular party or group).
Of course, they could try to unreasonably go after PSL, but I'm not sure that's much different than what socialist/communist types have been facing in the US for decades. Lest we forget the Black Panther Party got vilified over such "horrible" acts as trying to feed schoolchildren. It has long been a grim tightrope for communists in the US, and going back even more than that, liberation efforts in general, marked by the state using misinformation, harassment, intimidation, infiltration, imprisonment, and assassination.
Those in the capitalist west in general should take the usual precautions with regards to the law and be prepared for the possibility that it will be used against you anyway. It can be understandably scary, but it is a marathon struggle going back a long time, don't forget that.
American fascists are gonna come for PSL eventually I think its probably better to tie the struggle against american fascism to the the struggle against zionist fascism. The alternative is that the fascists get to come up with a pretext for cracking down on PSL and other communists.
Americans are something else, out of all the places you could've suicide bombed, you chose a goddamn fertility clinic?
Wait, what? I'm out of the loop.
Let's see...
There were the shootings at the museum in D.C....
The shootings at the CIA center...
And now... this? Where did this take place?
The amount of people simping for Nick from The Handmaid's Tale is disturbing. An attractive nazi is still a nazi. The man is a literal fascist. For fuck's sake.
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