The incompetence of the American empire has inspired hope in this cold commie heart

Have a wonderful week, everyone!

As always, communism will win.

🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.

i still struggle to understand how americans can sincerely laugh at perceived cult of personality in other countries

Years ago I was wondering why the Japanese were so sympathetic to the zionist entity. This was until reading deeper into the crimes against humanity and wanton slaughter that the entity has committed against all the innocents that stood in the way of them expanding their lebensraum.

They really are two peas in a pod.

For those still keeping up with the Ukraine conflict (which has unfortunately faded into the background in light of the latest US-Israeli unprovoked war of aggression in the Middle East), here is some neat data quantifying Russian advances so far this year compared to last year:

(The red dot represents last year's gains by April 30.)

I thought it was important to have this on record because i've seen some uninformed comments on other instances about Russia supposedly being pushed back or not able to advance.

On a localized level there is of course always some back and forth, but the question is: what do you see when you zoom out and look at the net balance over a longer period of time? The picture is fairly clear:

Data compiled by https://xcancel.com/LajosPhd9236 based on mapping by @Suriyakmaps

(Also, keep in mind that this is a war of attrition and territorial advances are not the primary objective.)

I have seen that several of you made good posts on the Hungarian elections. Some even posted their questions, which were interesting to read.

On the 25th, our party's (Hungarian Workers' Party) next congress is coming up, to which, thankfully I have been invited to.

If you are still curious, our you'd think Lemmygrad would benefit from it, I would gladly write a short post about the party's official take on things along with a couple things I have noticed during this period in my area.

Although I was happy to see that many of you had a very up to date and on point approach to things.

I really do think thay we'll see the fall of not just the U.S. but the entirety of the west, and it's not just due to this war with Iran but western capitalist expansion has gotten so big it cant sustain itself anymore.

Spain seems to be turning against the western hegemony a bit with their PM meeting with Xi recently

Sometimes I wonder how I wouldve turned out if I were in my mid teens right now. Because with my interest in living healthy and working out and whatnot I can click on one wrong thing on social media and find myself stuck in some weird lookmaxxing jestergooning alt right pipeline by virtue of being a white guy. It can't be good for a young guy to have this amount of brainrot bombarded at you.

Having a job in a social field helping people is just utter insanity. This system drives people to insanity. This week alone I received death threats and other violent outbursts targeted at me. For doing my job. It's like an animal cage you're throw into. Pure survival mode for some. And it ain't worth it. Two more weeks for me and I'm gone. I just wish I had it in me to keep helping people but it's exhausting to the point of becoming mentally numb and constantly tense in your body.

Fuck this system and everyone who upholds it. Humanity my ass.

Thanks for reading this rant.

From Canada!

📸 🕯 🥀 A tribute is paid to the child martyrs of Minab in the city of Edmonton, Canada.

Every time I look up google streetview in Israel, I'm amazed by how ugly their cities look

Wishing everyone a great week.
The past month has been quite stressful for me, but things are starting to look up.

I hope you all have a nice week

It could be said that James Bond was a sort of cope for the dying British Empire; an empowered, competent Britain substituting for the real decaying country being subordinated by the U.S. empire and gradually fading into irrelevance.

I expect the upcoming live-action "Call of Duty" movie to be exactly the same thing: a dying empire coping with its increasing irrelevance by lionizing itself. As reality fails to deliver all their fantasies the imperialists turn to fiction as a coping mechanism. We saw this before in Vietnam where it was impossible to hide how poorly we were doing and Vietnam War films, accordingly, were set to fictional plots & characters rather than real events - unlike WWII movies which were often directly based on actual battles and the people who fought them. There was no victory to glorify in Vietnam so they had to invent one. You saw some of this with Iraq and Afghanistan too but not nearly as much - until, of course, the retreat from Afghanistan. Between that and the empire's humiliation by Iran I expect war movies to return to both nostalgia (when we could actually win wars, like WWII) or outright fiction (which is often thinly-veiled alt history).

Belgian Defence Minister made a panic about Russian drones some time ago and wanted to use said panic to buy more defence shit. He send vids to the newspapers with proof of a drone. Except it now turns out to be a police helicopter and he was wrong all along.

I suspect trump is even more likely to attack Cuba to try and compensate for being humiliated by Iran

I think it's a little funny that I'm basically too poor and china pilled to boycott anything. Don't eat fast food, already pirate everything, already used deepseek for the little ai I want to use, etc. The only new thing is transitioning over to libre-office I guess :p. Now if only I could get my family to not spend so much

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11237996

I thought about writing a note likening this to colonial powers despoiling indigenous populations, but I decided against it on the grounds that the similarities were too obvious. Perhaps that would have made my topic more interesting anyway, though. What do you think?

I had this thought/realization earlier that although I've made a lot of progress on learning about ML stuff, there are times where, when I am under stress, I appear to fall back on idealism thought. It's interesting how that works, but it makes a kind of sense to me. Idealism is what I grew up with, what was instilled in me from a young age, so it's the reflexive response, the low effort, low energy coping mechanism.

This doesn't mean, however, that it's a healthy coping mechanism. Part of the reason I was being conscious of it was because of turning inward and noting that the response I was having was detrimental to myself. I don't want to go into the personal details of what it was about, but in essence, I was noticing this kind of interplay between fatalism and magical thinking of idealism. The fatalism is the negative spiral end of it. The magical thinking is the "attempt to be positive" (without diamat grounding), that kind of thinking like sheer power of will is going to overcome. The fatalism/doomer/depressed thinking is a direct response to the failure of idealism thought. When it doesn't hold up to reality as is easily the case, it can start a negative spiral. Idealism thought builds positivity via sand castles, for lack of a better metaphor, so it easily gets swept away.

The solution is probably to make more of a conscience effort to practice diamat in day to day ways. After all, it is by practice that I internalized idealism, not just by being told about it. And I can't unlearn idealism fully until there is something to take its place.

looking at a superman comic panel and clark has to say "it's a shame castro's still alive when gandhi's dead" oh brother bruh

People on social media are still replying 'vaccinated????' on every young person dying five years after millions of us got vaccinated

So I was let go from my internship, because of bad results. I didn't understand my work well enough and my mind was preoccupied with my personal issues. I'll try to find an internship for next year. This all made me realise it's very hard for me to work on school and my personal problems at the same time, and even though I'm sad I couldn't finish my internship it means I can work on myself for the next couple of months. I'll try to get some help from school with finding a new internship which fits me, and maybe get a psychologist again. I should've taken a sabbatical before starting college to work on myself. I found out I was trans shortly before college and I didn't know how hard it would be for me to figure out my identify and my social life if I also had to focus on college.

lol today i had the most bizarre costco encounter, it was like one of those "outer worlds" shopkeepers that talk completely in corporate lingo almost entirely on character and with a cheerful tone but they had a dead expression. Maybe autistic?

dont tell me if this is false i want to believe

Do yall think Xi remembers anything about Chemical engineering?

I've seen a Trot defending that Stalin paved the way for Khrushchevites by trying to coexist with the West and his "communism in one state" policy, and Trotsky was proven right with the dissolution of the USSR by the peasant elites in the ruling class (the guy is from the Global South, btw).

I hate when I have an actual opinion on something and then someone just says it's bait

‘the old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born, now is the time of morons.’
-Indi.ca

Just read a piece claiming that Trump runs his government like a hedge fund and it was like a thousand light bulbs went off in my head.

Edit: Here’s the article if anyone is interested:

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/04/15/no-kings-and-maga-turf-wars-on-titanics-deck/

Ignoring why this is the case, the one thing I'll miss about the US will probably be the food diversity. I appreciate being able to go to sushi restaurants and Ethiopian restaurants and polish restaurants all within a couple miles of each other. I know some of it is americanized, but damn that Ethiopian restaurant was good

My mental health is once again being tested. It's been like this basically my entire adult life now and I wonder if I will ever acquire some peace. The guilt about feeling this way while lots of people have it far worse is also bugging me even though I know it's irrational.

I put some commie stickers in the bathroom of this anarchist bar in my city yesterday. It was filled with anarchist stickers and I'm glad I could do something to maybe persuade people.