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This was a sign at a anti-genocide rally in NSW Australia the other day:
Have a great week, everyone! Keep up with whatever it is you're trying to do, steady progress yields steady results!
As always, communism will win.
I think I reached a new level of depression, cigarettes and alcohol are doing absolutely nothing. Silver lining is that it'll be easier to quit, I guess.
really sorry you're feeling that way, comrade. depression is tough. hope you feel better soon.
I feel similar lately with sugar. Feels like this year has been extra stressful. Hope things get better for you soon, one way or another. ❤️
I hope empire will break their teeth attacking Iran
I hope their rust bucket navy sinks to the bottom of the ocean all on its own.
Just wanted to say, I appreciate the PSAs in the Iran thread about how to handle information and such. It's such an important reminder. @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml @SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
And thank you @rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml and others for the work on gathering sourced information.
Stay steadfast. 🙏
Glad that I could help. Not gonna lie but the psyop are getting wild. There are too many zionist bots active even in Iranian channels.
I can't just imagine the amount of psyops comrades are receiving right now.
This is nothing unusual for those of us who have been following the Ukraine conflict since the start. There were times when there was an absolutely insane amount of bots. Russian speaking spaces were (and still are) heavily targeted. Even now there is always some Ukrainian psyop even in "pro-Russian" telegram channels. You can't prevent all infiltrations, but with time and experience you learn to recognize the bullshit.
Right now there is a big blitz of botting and information warfare, but eventually it will calm down and there will be concrete on-the-ground results that will be impossible to deny (like how Ukraine can spin all the tall tales and put out all the deep-fakes it wants, but sooner or later Russian advances get undeniably geolocated). It's why i recommend stepping back and waiting if you are unsure what is trustworthy at the moment.
Do you need an addiction to survive in capitalist society? I know it sounds like cope but basically everyone I know who isn't retired or a child has some addiction. Not cripplingly addicted in most cases. Maybe a "dependency" would be a more apt term. It's less that a person is constantly under the influence of it, more like they need it in small doses consistently [i.e, someone who smokes a cigarette every half an hour or something] or needs to get absolutely lost in it [i.e someone completely sober 95% of the time but gets shitfaced on Saturdays]. Is it natural to have some addiction like that or is it necessary only due to capitalism?
Don't think it's only a capitalism thing, but I guess capitalism causes so much psychic damage both due to how individualised the burden of existing is and how you constantly have to deal with completely unnecessary nonsense. Also drugs are commodities, so they fit very naturally into "fixing yourself" in capitalism compared to other economic systems, despite all laws. My smoking buddies are usually either political activists or homeless people, and it makes sense as those are two sets of people who engage with the irrationality of the shape of society on a day to day basis.
My hypothesis is that much of it comes from need(s) being unmet consistently and traumas that can linger even when needs are getting met from times in the past that they weren't. Needs meaning basic things that include what people would usually think of like food, water, and shelter, but also includes less emphasized things (especially under capitalism) like intimate connection (can be platonic), sense of community (in the meaning of interdependence not fandoms), sense of purpose and direction, sense of safety and security.
Capitalism is far from the first or only system to fuck people up (formalized slavery comes to mind), but... if we're looking at it in detail, capitalism puts the working class in a precarious position where they are disposable, which fucks with any sense of safety and security; it destroys community; it warps relationships toward the transactional; it reduces purpose to "live to make money and buy product"; it leaves direction in the hands of liberal individualism. From the perspective of basic needs, these are a lot of very big problems and it's no small wonder people will turn to various unhealthy coping mechanisms, some of which plays right into capitalist profiteering; it has industries ready to fill the void with "treats" and the less fulfilling these treats are, the better (for the capitalist) because that means you'll need to come back for another hit more often.
In the hardships of life under capitalism, I'm glad I can have our little community here.
Sleep's been scarce but hopefully this weekend will help. Stay strong comrades
who the fuck is Eileen Gu and why are liberals frothing at the mouth over her
She's a Chinese-Amerikan winter sports athlete who decided to compete in the Winter Olympics under the Chinese flag, and ofc she's really good, so naturally the racism comes in because they can't have a non-amerikan be good at what they do and not be amerikan
They hate her because she represented China instead of the US.
i think about sinwar dying with an arm missing, alone in a building, throwing anything he could at the oppressor till his last moment, fighting the imperialist entity's zionist non-entity till his final breath as an old man, and the scarce possessions they found on him including mentos and the quran, as far as i recall, and it is a proud and valiant death. i think of ayatollah dying during the month of ramadan. wow
Politics is a funny thing. The Belgian coalition parties in the government are launching 'save public transport' campaigns. At least the socdems and the Christian dems are doing it.
The same parties who are in the government. Approving budget cuts. On public transport. And their voter base are so positive in the comments. My dudes, you VOTED for the budget cuts get a grip.
I'm having another mood swing episode rn. I hate it so much. Why couldn't I have just been normal?
Apparently fiber is the new protein when it comes to food hypes. And comments on Dutch social media shocked me as virtually everyone I saw said they had difficulties eating enough fiber. I knew lots of people were lacking in fiber but my guys please eat your daily vegetables and stop putting meat and cheese on everything. It's not that hard.
I am sort of struggling to find a gift for someone and I realised that gift buying would be so much easier under communism. I would no longer need to worry about being deceived into buying a cheaply made expensive, bad product. I would just trust that the person I am "buying" from actually cares about me and the person I am "buying" the gift for.
do you guys think that user that got banned for spam was an ai model being trained
Nah, too few paragraphs. I reckon they were was just overeager to participate and maybe a bit too happy to find a forum that supports their "identity" as a "Stalinist", whatever that means in their mind. It was two day ban anyway, so hopefully they learn and adapt to the culture of actual discussion forums.
I kinda thought that maybe it was an AI trying to "karma farm" to build a reputation so they could infiltrate. The takes were super shallow and ignorant beyond just being a "baby leftist."
Two wars in two days.
I'm kind of surprised this isn't being described as the beginning of world war III.
theres this one blogger (dont agree w him on everything, but he's got a good head on most current geopolitical affairs, including supporting china/dprk as progressive for the world despite blogger not being avowed ML + he’s natohater) who argues world war iii has never ended, since the world has long remained at war in different theaters that in many cases are connected to USA waging war against red threat, so it's really just one long war, USA against all the world and a better future
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
it's unrelated, but i don't know, with everything going on in the world it's kind of super wholesome to me to see that kim jong un seems to get along really well with his daughter. 😭 . like, every other world leader in the west is pedophile (djt has been a weirdo disgusting perv to his own daughter) and kim just seems to bring her around places... and like... hang out with her... idk 😭
Twitter is goin WILD! There is speculation that there was an attack on Iran. Does anyone have confirmation?
I found some pics but I can't confirm.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/RapidReport2025/status/2027629748394873333#m
Can people please recommend some media (writings, videos etc) for times of mental hardship? Feeling extremely stressed these passed few weeks and just want some pick me up. Essentially ML material that lifts me up hopefully.
The recent webinar about Michael Parenti was a much-needed mental pick me up for myself, personally, so if you haven't seen that yet I would recommend it https://www.youtube.com/live/eGPXwOPDD-g
There was a new Tankie Group Therapy video a few weeks ago that was good too https://www.youtube.com/live/rX2hbS3eKqg
Friends of Socialist China regularly posts articles with positive news/analysis that can be uplifting. For example, this one about China supporting Cuba with solar power https://socialistchina.org/2026/02/25/with-chinese-support-cuba-triples-solar-power-in-one-year/
The granddaughter of Ayatollah Khamenei was martyred.
If I lived in a communist country, I think I would actually like being in the army, but in a capitalist country it would be my worst nightmare
I like how China's PLA is so often involved with disaster relief and does so much work to help people, rescuing them from floods and earthquakes and the like. That very much appeals to me. If i could be in like the engineering corps where i could build roads or bridges or something that would be really cool. But yeah, in a capitalist country i would rather frag the nearest officer or go to jail than serve.
I bring a type of [redacted] the billionaires to the tax the rich party that other lefties don't enjoy
How can someone reach the ripe age of 30 and never figure out the US is a global military dictatorship?
This can be generalized, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Although I did share some relevant content, I feel nevertheless that I should apologize to Black comrades for how I underperformed for Black History Month. I had originally envisioned going on a marathon where I would share something daily about Black history, but I kept getting distracted from my goal and I went on researching simply whatever intrigued me at the moment. I don’t know if anyone expects much from me given that I am an individual rather than an institution, but I still feel like I must have let someone down, and I am sorry about that.
A lot of the images seem to be broken, do we have a tech thread about that?
Honestly seeing people talking about the incident at the BAFTAs involving tourettes [albeit, the response from the organization was shit] reminds me why I don't talk about my psychiatric problems. The "it's am explanation not an excuse" crowd don't ever actually care about disabilities and just want to judge people
Fuck it I'm making a post about this
What does it say about me that two of my favorite philosophers are Mao Zedong and Fred Rogers?
Says you you should wear a red cardigan with 4 small stars and one big star on the right breast.
