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The socdems walked in the May Day parade over here and held speeches. Against the ‘inhumane new government that targets the working people’.
But they are in the government lmao. Never heard such a bullshit speech ever.
Israhell’s on fire right now lololol
Anyone know of a good place for being able to share, like, a single audio file that I could delete later for privacy if I wanted to? I was gonna try soundcloud but it’s being a pain to get into a previous account I had and plus it seems like a lot for one file.
Reason I ask is I wrote a little song, liberation themed. I don’t sing much, but I did a rough rendition of it so if anyone likes the lyrics, they have a general sense of what tune I’m going for and could use it for a better rendition. But I’m getting a bit snagged on the logistics of actually sharing the audio here, where simplicity and privacy is concerned.
I think https://vocaroo.com/ is the one you want.
Oh I was thinking that one is just for recording and then sharing what’s recorded. I see there is an upload option too. Thanks, I’ll consider it.
I can’t help but notice how many MCU movies have CIA agents that are causing all the problems who then just kinda walk off like nothing happened.
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I had a very interesting and even emotional party meeting today and I must say combined with the recent increases in strikes and protests it really re-ignited some fire inside of me and I feel ready to continue fighting
This system will go down
I was just thinking about how great hitlers mustache is. Not that it makes him look cool or anything but that it really made him stand out. That stupid little patch of hair saved 1 in 50 white european of men from having to live their lives looking like hitler.
1 in 50 seems awfly generous I was thinking 1 in 30
Never been to europe is it really 65% uglier than I imagine?
I feel like if the blackout that happened in iberia wouldve happened in the US, there would be at least 10 mass shootings from psychos thinking there is a zombie apocalypse.
I’m saving this comment for when the coal supplies run low.
Sometimes I find myself reading theory and thinking to myself ‘man am I too stupid to understand this or what?’. I’m not but I think reading theory just doesn’t help to bring across the point that is made in the books. I feel like I need some other form of learning theory.
This is where a book club or theory discussion group would be very helpful. Just getting a different perspective on the same text can facilitate understanding, and I find it also helps to connect the theory to examples of historical or current events.
I like to listen to theory a few times as an audiobook while I do chores, cook, exercise, or play less cerebral videogames. It builds a familiarity with the simple ideas and the flow of the text, how the parts relate to each other in general. It lets my brain work on the ideas without my conscious mind getting in the way because it is busy doing other things. Then after listening to it 2 or 3 times read along with it and really get down to attaching all the parts together in the order they are presented and turning them into one solid thing.
That’s exactly how I approach theory as well!
I’ll look up for an audio book, podcast, video or something that I can listen to while doing something else so that I can at least get acquainted with the terminology used and write down something I might need to search for it (eg. Let’s say the topic is about a specific event that happened in the USSR that I’m not familiar with. Before listening to that audio again, I’d like to have looked more into that event and the factors that led to it).
And of course, repetition is key. If possible, I’ll try my best to read even just a quick paragraph during the day and ask myself what I learned from the previous paragraph.
Also, since we mentioned audio books, I can’t recommend or thank Dessalines enough for his amazing YouTube channel which has an insane amount of audios recorded by him
Takes a time to process sometimes.
I make a su*cide joke here please forgive me. Also mention of queerphobia.
Ever hear something so stupid you just wanna die? Like you just wanna get vaporised off the face of the planet so that you may not hear something so stupid again?
I overheard some family members talking about children’s cartoons. Then a guy said Cocomelon should be avoided. I agree with this. But why does he think so? Cocomelon is (along with Peppa Pig) a leftist psyop where this nebulous leftist cabal uses bright colours in a (I quote) Manchurian Candidate experiment to indoctrinate children into waving the rainbow flag.
I wish my eardrums would have given in before the waves for these words fell upon them.
Meanwhile the pro-wrestling and the entire country music scene are some the campiest aspects of American (I assume this family member is American) culture.
You should should lean into it.
Tell him you listened to what he was saying about pepa pig and that its worse than he seems to know. Its Nazis that are doing the brainwashing and they are hiding in the CIA. Then dump the skinny on MKUltra/Galidio/Congress for Cultural Freedom and all the shifty stuff the CIA got up to under Richard Helms the nazi lover who was a lead negotiator on project paperclip.
This guy is too far gone. He thinks CIA is communist. You can’t do irony or sarcasm with person.
To come to a conclusion that CIA is communist must have been a hell of a ride…
It might seem far fetched to most people here but if someone is a brain deprived far-right Hindu nationalist anti-communist who is also somewhat vary of the USA, it is a concievable (though not understandable) conclusion to round up all these beliefs which don’t have much basis in reality. He is the type of person who you would immediately snitch on if there was a cultural revolution.
Today’s strike was fun (for a lack of a better word). There were 7000 people present at the march in my city which was honestly more than we excepted, so that’s good. Several thousands of people in other cities around the country as well. I assume many more people striking but not going to a protest.
I spoke to many different people, also from different communist parties. Mostly Trots though but still interesting to see what they are up to. Being anti-China was one of those things which I thought was funny coming from a party in the margin (duh).
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin’s What To Do quote).
The sun was absolutely blasting though so I feel a bit woozy from walking in the sun all day.
On the way home I got stopped by this girl working for a charity who asked me to donate. She was very passionate about the case which I thought was cool. Upon getting home however I saw that I subscribed to a monthly thing and I don’t want that given how many things I already am active for or are paying for, so I called the org to stop it so that I can make a one time payment. The lady on the phone said ‘okay, I will send a mail to the girl you spoke to to cancel it’ and I found that quite sad lol. I at least asked the lady to tell her in the mail that I still donated though so that she would not feel too bad.
I did however like their wish to become a bit more radical with the protests because holding up some quirky signs every month will probably not save our rights and our own party is not doing much different (insert Lenin’s What To Do quote).
but isnt it more than just a protest, because its also a strike? the way to make it more radical would be to hold an indefinite strike, but that is something for the unions to decide
Well I guess so, it was a strike. But the Trotskyist members were there on their own account instead of striking it seemed so their vision of it might be a bit skewed.
Personally I am all for (a version of) an indefinite strike but I doubt ABVV and ACV want to do that given their ties to Vooruit and CD&V so as to not jeopardize their positions on the negotiations. I also don’t feel like there is a party ready to back the unions, able to provide the neccessary context to the working class people apart from PVDA-PTB but even then I´m not too confident in how they will handle that with no allies apart from the unions. Vooruit will never back PVDA and neither will Groen I´m sure.
yeah exactly, it seems like things are not bad enough for unions to completely turn their back on the government and burn all bridges, same with greens and socialists
The thing is that there are some really serious things that are being proposed that they cannot ignore I think, otherwise people will be royally fucked in the coming years and-or decades. And simply remaining idle with some accepted strikes in between is not going to solve it, so at some point they would have to do something more serious.
I remade. I’m back hello hello 同志们
你好同志！
Sometimes when I’m in the mood to chastise myself I log on to LinkedIn and read whatever radioactive garbage gets posted there. Like, you cannot convince me these people are real.
Gotta say I don’t love the Lemmygrad language filters because I couldn’t post my comment calling a transphobic user a fucking loser, but to give y’all credit between the time I reported the post and edited my comment to pass the filter the post had already been deleted and the user banned, so gd credit to some fucking kickass mods
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So it turns out DPRK troops were fighting with Russians in Kursk this whole time.
Yeah its kinda funny that the Ukrainians lied so much prior and did such a bad job of actually proving it that everyone thought it was fake this whole time lol.
The real DPRK troops were the friends Russians made along the way.
*Soviet peoples (they were more than just Russians)
