Happy birthweek? Stalin!

Went into a book store and noticed they don't have any socialist books, even though they have a whole section on economy and another on society. Even if you wanted to buy a book to change someone's mind, you can't. But they have a lot of liberal books, for example I saw one about how bad and evil the DPRK is.

I wish there were more communist video essayists who didn't primarily talk about politics but instead discussed stuff like history, writing, gaming, guns, etc. Literally anything that isn't politics, really.

There's nothing worse than when I'm enjoying a good critique of some trashy media and then the person in the video libs out and compares the villain to Stalin or makes that stupid "haha commie no food" joke or starts complaining about how evil, sinister China is planning evil, sinister things because the company that made the media is Chinese or something to that effect. It takes me out of what was otherwise a good, informative video and whacks me with severe mental exhaustion.

There's all these video essayists out here promoting their liberal or fascist ideologies while simultaneously focusing on topics that aren't explicitly about political theory, political science, current events, geopolitics, etc. and I'd like to see communists doing the same thing like a Marxist explaining the rationale behind why Soviet firearms developed the way they did, or picking apart how cyberpunk settings don't work even if they look cool as settings, or just discussing the history of ancient civilizations like the Achaemenids from a dialectical materialist perspective or stuff like that.

Like, I enjoy what Hakim does and all. It's very important work of course. I just feel like it might be easier to expose people to Marxist ideals through discussion of pop culture and the like and then use this as a jumping point to funnel people down the rabbit hole of actual political theory. Also it'd just be nice to sit down and watch a video about how to write villains and not have one of the examples used be fucking Stalin of all people - I actually did click on a video discussing this exact topic and deadass the video opened with the essayist talking about how "some people don't get punished for all the harm they've done" (paraphrased) while showing video of Stalin and I had never clicked off a video so quickly in my life. I audibly groaned.

I'm just tired, boss. I'm just tired of libs and fash dominating every discussion about everything. I want to be able to consume the thoughts and feelings of other people discussing things I'm interested in without them having shitty political takes about how Obama is a "cool guy" and a complete misunderstanding of historical socialism up to the point of treating the Holodomor as a serious narrative and not a complete invention of Nazi propaganda.

I don't not want politics in my videos that aren't about political subjects; I just want the politics to be GOOD.

Happy birthday Stalin!

Crazy that I share a birth week with Stalin

Have a good week everyone!

As always, communism will win.

First time seeing a small ad from the DRPK

I find it's hard not to feel a bit arrogant sometimes having ML views in the west. I don't really like feeling that way, but I have the feeling sometimes. Maybe lingering arrogance from previous socialization is part of it. But I also think a factor is that the western status quo insists on being blind to the insight and direction that scientific socialism can provide. So it's like you're on "team science but applied to politics" and they're like "nuh uh, that's communism, communism bad." And even with a basic understanding of the framework, you're already so far past on understanding how things work and why, and what could be done differently. It doesn't even mean you're good at it in a broader, practiced sense (like you might be really bad at it compared to an average party member in an AES state), but compared to the average westerner with no understanding of it, it's leaps and bounds just to have the basics.

So I don't know. I self-hate arrogance and ego in general. But maybe that feeling is my way of coping with how politically illiterate people tend to be. Arrogance rather than despairing about it or something.

It's nearly Christmas and I haven't even turned on the heating yet. Some trees and flowers in my street are even blossoming. Because that's normal.

The Belgian government is nicknamed Arizona because the party colours of the coalition match with the State of Arizona flag and our party keeps saying that we can take down Arizona. Which seems like we have this very one sided beef with this random state.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Ever since that new chinese ww2 has been making the rounds, I have seen an extreme spike in westerners claiming that the cpc "waited" out the war in caves and then claimed victory, while in earnest the KMT did all the fighting. Or worse that the chinese communists attacked the KMT while they were invaded by the japanese, linking metaphorically it to "tankies/ultras/doomers/wreckers/etc..." refusing to work with socdems inside capitalist political parties.

I'm honestly so excited for this course on Imperialism by the Critical Theory Workshop.

Edit: website source for the image: https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/upcoming-events/

Doing this Secret Santa thing with friends and the person I drew is a huge history nerd. I stumbled upon an old nazi propaganda magazine from 1940 and figured it was a fun gift. I had a look inside and apart from some archaic Dutch language the general subjects could be copy pasted by current day right wing parties lol. Dehumanizing language, propaganda of 'we are righteous and strong' and whatever bullshit.

I did have a strong urge to clarify that I'm not a nazi when I went to the register lol.

The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, might influence the future towards Western imperialist demands.

Every time Wikipedia does censoring anti-imperialist voices, the NPOV policy may not be genuine.

I feel like being vegan is less acceptable than being a communist. Whenever I talk about communism with people they do not always accept it but at least they tolerate it it seems. Being vegan though. Oh no. That's the biggest sin you can commit.

The brainrot came out because of the Australia attack

Hey guys, I am hopefully back here on a somewhat regular basis.

I have a couple things to bring to you as "news".

1. On saturday, our party is celebrating it's 36th birthday. I have been invited but honestly I am afraid to be there, because of my uselessness and to be confronted about is. (Meaning, I shouldn't be there, because I don't deserve it.)

2. The school I have been working at since september has turned out to be crazy taxing on me, which I have been dealing with very poorly to be frank. I think I need to exercise a lot more and fix my eating too, does anyone have an online resource I can trust for exercising? (I am vegan and an absolute beginner.)

3. I am doing okay with uni, even though I thought I will fail most of my classes, because of work. Nevertheless half of the exams are still ahead of me.

4. I have moved to arch on my puter, it is turning my not yet gray hair into gray ones, lol.

5. I was thankfully able to read most post on Lemmygard, thank you for keeping me sane.

6. I might write about my experience in school and maybe about what kinda discussion I had with an old classmate of mine, do you think comradeship is a fine /c for that or do you have another place in mind?

Keep going comrades, keep up the quality posts!

I got him a Giant Spoon for his birthday

Brazilian Senate just approved the soft amnesty for the coup plotters, with support from parties that are part of the executive government.

Lula has announced that he'll veto it, but in a very milquetoast way, without calling for further mobilisation and already paying lip service to the fact that the Congress can overrule his veto. Depending on how long he takes to actually veto, it could be during Christmas time to sabotage further mobilisations or January, when people will have more time to prepare.

He could also only do a partial veto, as he has done on the past with another bill that destroyed environmental protections. The partial vetos were also overruled by Congress.

Am I using Mastodon wrong or is it just boring and lifeless by default?

90% of every post I see is news, an advertisement, or some kind of bot. There are barely any real people on any of the feeds and it's a depressing experience. Am I doing something wrong?

I keep getting DDR and GDR mixed up because I'm unbelievably cooked and it's just a one letter difference why did the G*rmans do this ugh

Young Pioneer organizations of 14 countries

China, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, South Yemen, Vietnam, North Korea, East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Laos.