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First day at my new blue collar job. Time to slowly spread some Marxism-Leninism among the workers.
Good luck!
Started college again this week. I'm a bit older than the other first years. Someone asked me about a class today thinking I was a teacher lmao. I'm not THAT old.
We also had a protest this weekend at a local town where a refugee center will be located. A Dutch far right leader came to speech and there was a counter protest. We turned up with like five times as many people. It was great.
It's been nearly a decade since my last physical labor job and I kinda forgot the shit diet people have. Especially now because I want to eat healthy myself. Like we are out cutting trees, lifting heavy and whatnot and these people get by on some simple sandwich with a slice of salami or an egg. And lots of cigarettes and coffee.
Meanwhile I am here with my wraps with tofu, avocado and vegetables lol. These people are either scrawny as hell or overweight but all of them are tough as a nail. I'm covered in scratches and dirt myself but at the end of the day it feels very rewarding being out there doing all this. Much more than staring at a screen all day in my opinion.
Have a great week everyone! Make sure you take care of yourselves and those you care about.
As always, communism will win.
Surreal scenes on a Dutch talkshow where a scientist was sounding the alarm on climate change followed by a guy who was praising China's efforts on combating climate change saying their models might be the way forward. What is happening?
History
Decades happening in a few weeks, I suppose.
The actions of the US over the last few years have been so blatant, both in rhetoric and execution, that I thought for sure this would be a radicalising moment for the majority of people to realise that the country, or at least it's ruling class, is inherently malicious and dangerous.
Unfortunately this isn't the case, US propaganda is so effective that most people in the West who do have negative opinions of their country's actions, simply chalk it all up to Donald Trump. Is that really the best they can do? Turbo Trump derangement syndrome instead of some genuine awareness? Fuck these people just as much as those who enthusiastically support the imperialism, their ignorance and lack of investigation is yet another pillar on which the Empire can stand.
These things don't happen all at once, or all organically. The conditions make it easier to get through to people on a point like this, but they will still benefit greatly from guiding voices. The media apparatus is practiced at redirecting people's ire in various wrong directions, so part of our task is getting past that to make sure people are not being led astray.
The other thing to keep in perspective is that "the majority" is a lot of people. It would be unreasonable to expect that outcome in any country, while the various state apparatuses and inertia are in place. What is most needed as a foundation is people who can build an alternative. It's not as though western countries are going to pass a threshold of disliking the government and then automatically press the revolution button. Probably what would happen if the majority saw it as fundamentally awful, is the exploiting classes would sell them on the idea of reformists in office and some people would fold on their views if/when they see the system reforming at all.
Point being, popularity/unpopularity only goes so far. Organizing and tactics are what turn potential into substantial change.
I think it makes a lot more sense when considering that they are just labour aristocrats justifying themselves. But it is still a opportunity to help people recognize reality I think
You are in the belly of the beast as it is filling up with poison but it just wont vomit.
Agitprop is a material condition. Your voice can be a quantitative change that pushes the qualitative change. I believe in you.
I used to read Wikipedia and watch "left" YouTubers a lot in the past. I read a lot of smear against China but that changed really quick after reading about it.
In retrospect, I think the main reason for this quick change was that I wasn't emotionally invested in it. Like, the Wikipedia page for the Uyghur "genocide" doesn't have any images of a malnourished person like the page for the Holocaust has. There wasn't any punch to my gut, so to speak.
Business as a school subject. I cannot express in amy way gow much I hate it. Liberal economics combined with bourgeois ideology. I have a difficult time even listening due to the sheer amount of horse shit said. Again, how the fuck do people honestly belive this?
I was lucky that my business classes happened in a very left-leaning school.
One time I had a class on stocks. Of course there was the "this can make you rich!" talk, but my teacher also talked about the pandemic and stuff, like "this is why the richer get richer and the poor poorer" and "rich people like crisis".
But yeah, other than that, serious petit bourgeois brainworms.
Maybe think of them like studying the enemy. It might help.
Ngl I kinda hate quantum physics. "So these balls are spinning except they're 0 dimensional waves and not spinning and also there's color charge and also there's like 20 fundamental particles but half of them decay immediately, and half of the other half can stack in the same quantum state and the others can't, also everything is waves now and all the electrons are the same because fuck you."
[From an engineer not specialized in electrical or computing or nuclear]
Quantum physics is alright. It's just a lot of fancy linear algebra and spinors. I have a lot of problems with the culture surrounding it though.
Like, it seems like scientists want quantum mechanics to feel magical. For example, "quantum wave collapse" is a "collapse" only in some interpretations of quantum mechanics. There was one article by 真理zhenli that talked about this mystification of physics.
Tldr: quantum mechanics is the "shut up and calculate" of physics and a grand theory of everything ain't gonna happen in this century.
Edit: Found the articles: Physicalism was a Mistake; Let us Return to Materialism and A Critique of Idealist Interpretations of Quantum Theory
This is extremely low on the pecking order, but I like watching Minecraft survival videos & other cool mods. Im watching a recreation of WW2 edition of Minecraft, and the video creator somehow managed to force in 2 "soviets had no supplies & food" jokes into a span of like 2 minutes lol. Just let me enjoy my slop without the incessant anti-communism.
For real, I hate seeing anticommunism in videos that have nothing to do with communism. You literally can't escape the brainrot.
Oh yeah, Minecraft with mods is awesome, especially industrial mods.
Zaragoza (not sure I got the pictures or angles right; might need a better camera than the one on my Redmagic Astra tablet):
Not sure what camera to get, tbh.
Studying political economy is really paying off. I feel like I might be able to analyze things in the future. I've fallen off a bit with studying Chinese though, will have to try to pick it back up again.
So I had coffee for the first time today. It felt...fine I guess? I accidentally had a larger dose than I should've but like mentally it felt okay. For some reason it made me feel calmer. However it also made my arms feel like sore or whatever and my stomach hurt a bit. Idk. I think I'm gonna try cold brew and see how that is
Given the amount of mask-off moments from some companies recently, I'm gonna start assuming that every proprietary software is eventually gonna be prop up by fascists.
5 minutes late GrainEater smh
I should play the new Grain Eater remake
Grain Eater: Kept you waiting, huh? (opens new mega thread)
Published by Konami, of course.
Is hyrox a right wing sport? I only see these right wing liberal kinda types doing it. The consultants crowd. Maybe it's their equivalent of bouldering.
I lowkey though HEMA was but my comrade in Shanghai loves that shit.
She's a good communist too.
I bought an e-book reader. But I have to install my favorite fonts in a .bin format
Big oof
Oh yeah
I should install that Chinese font I have saved to my laptop that a friend on Lemmygrad told me about a while back.
