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People will watch mormonism and scientology be literal cults, with the former basically being an organized crime and corruption syndicate, and then wonder why china doesn't like the falun gong or other such things.
Have a great week, everyone! Try to limit doomscrolling, being present in real life, touching grass, all of that is very helpful for achieving long-term goals and a healthier mindset.
As always, communism will win.
Happy pride!
I hope you all have a nice week and a great pride month :D
Labeling everything aimed at jewish people as antisemitism has done some real damage. Jewish people circumcise their kids and in Antwerp they take it one step further. Over here the rabbi who does the act (no medical expert btw) sucks the blood out of the penis afterwards. Several children contacted HIV already.
Now, normal people would be disgusted but because of Europe's questionable past we now have jewish figures in the media defending sucking little kiddie dicks as tradition and everyone is acting like they have done wrong by saying that shit is insane.
The rabbi sounding the alarm is now treated as a borderline pariah in the community. The leading liberal party in the country has a zionist on board who defends this shit.
Jesus, that's bleak.
Happy Pride! Hope everyone has a great month ❤️
There is this Dutch climate activist who was the head of Dutch Clinate Defence. He managed to succesfully sue Shell and get them convicted in a Dutch court.
He all of a sudden got a job at Tata Steel to help them in the process of getting greener. Tata Steel is the biggest polluter in the country.
Today would be his first day and he got fired immediately. The reason being that he was the head of a pro apartheid student club in his teens. He himself says he moved on from these visions and that he does not support it anymore.
Shithead past no doubt but I truly feel like this is some inside job to neutralize an effective activist lol.
I think he was already neutralized the moment he decided to work for Tata Steel. But I do think he still made some people in the company uncomfortable, and afraid he would be able to change the company (unlikely, and probably not his intention), so they decided to dig up some dirt
NYPost put a hit on Hasan Piker lol, they straight up put a photo of his house.
every time i see someone that is genuinely trying to learn but is not really good at formulating questions and their questions are read by others as inflammatory i get that feeling of disappointed amusement it's like a divine comedy because i get both sides and why they act the way they do. i fully fully fully understand how this hypervigilance online is a pretty apt response to the extent the ‘net is astroturfed but the thing that makes it most effective is that it's truly indiscernible from the other good quarter of sincere beginners. most people are so inundated with propaganda or simply just unable to formulate a question in a way that does not seem loaded that a plant is indiscernible from someone in earnest. bleh
Many such cases
In The Netherlands we have reached the stage of politicians discussing what a true Dutch person is. This country is on a fascism speedrun. We even have refugee centers being attacked and not even the centrist president is too bothered about it.
I'm really worried about Cuba. I had a similar feeling of dread right before Venezuela was defeated, and Iran was attacked. But unlike the previous two, Cuba is the most vulnerable and susceptible to collapse under US pressure right now.
Cuba has survived a kind of economic siege and attempts to coup them for decades now. It's always possible they could fall, but that's true of the US capitalist class too. We live in uncertain times and the empire is trying to reassert itself in decline but the material realities don't hold up. I think the US and israel are in somewhat mirrored positions right now, in that way. Israel is obviously more vulnerable as a whole, but both have more fronts open than they can handle, have global reputations in freefall, and are too stuck in belligerence to assert stability.
Also, I would not characterize the Bolivarian Revolution as defeated, from the information I've seen. They appear to be working through a difficult strategic retreat and some internal struggle to work through as a result, but the struggle for liberation is a war, not a single battle.
Your worry is valid, but I encourage you to zoom out and consider the larger picture.
Cuba is extremely vulnerable. The U.S. can just attack it unceasingly with less time needed for positioning units. They won't have as much time to prepare in between strikes.
Venezuela and Iran can hold out but I don't think Cuba can do the same.
Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru (Communist Party of Wales) just published a very satisfying takedown of the reactionary CPB position on trans-rights and "biological sex" that people might appreciate.
Wales stay winning.
generally after i started to even look into ML politics i am calmer and less anxious and distraught than i used to be on a day to day basis, even month to month, whereas before my liberal politics with no material basis gave me troubles and constant anger and confusion and distress and (well most importantly) hopelessness at the world.
on the other hand i also do get so enraged every so often and i understand why lenin had a stroke because today i'm just mad as fuuuuck. don't want to argue with someone that replied to me on one platform, don't want to think about the stupid middle schooler i just saw parroting uyghur genocide in this day and age (yes, it's of the age where it's forgivable, i'm not mad at the actual kid as much as i of course am at the myth continuing to this DAY), don't want to think about how many people are getting shot and killed and bombed right now in palestine or iran or anywhere else and how little most people care, don't want to think about the eileen gu poster i saw vandalized to deride her chinese identity, i want to sit in bed and rot until my vision stops having a red vignette like i'm in some stupid video game. i'm going to practice gratitude and not resent my adhd or any other thing that's afflicting me and i'm not gonna let my rage make me crumble like a cookie but wow, some days your brain just conspires against you.
lenin's stroke
You should being shot with a gun if you're worried about this particular medical incident
Players of Galician club UD Ourense
Great to see some leftism in an otherwise right wing football culture
At least lots of Spanish, French and Italian teams have a left wing tendency and even communism is welcomed there, especially by Basque, Italian and Galician teams. The Netherlands would never.
Yes true. I'm jealous of Spain's football culture in particular
everyone be kind to themselves and to others and i hope all of you fare well this coming week. happy pride month to all as well :)
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
Chronic anxiety is so weird cause I can look and act really calm on the outside, even while feeling like something is vaguely wrong about everything and nothing. I'm pretty sure there was a time when I just thought I was calm because that's what other people said about me and it seemed plausible enough. But looking back, I was distinctly anxious about various things even at a young age. I just didn't have the kind of relationship / family dynamic where it felt like something I could bring up, or maybe even had the words for. Signs of it were instead categorized as "shy" or "introverted". Other siblings of mine were the "sensitive ones" and I didn't want to be one of the "sensitive ones", so I learned to repress my emotions instead I guess. Which was pretty easy to do since I could learn it by mimicking a parent who did the same kind of thing.
Also I've heard that prolonged stress can be damaging to memory, among other things. Or maybe it was specifically about depression and such, I don't know. Can't remember off the top of my head (tempted to say "no joke intended" to be a smartass about the other recent comment in here). But anyway, I think I've been hit by that kind of thing a lot. I can remember enough to function, but in terms of like childhood memories or even things I did a few years ago, there just isn't that much that I remember. I think a lot of my memory gets funneled toward looking for threats (cause anxiety) and little toward reminiscing and tradition. Which makes it harder to build and maintain relationships.
If I'd grown up in an AES state, I might have made a good detective. But then again, if I'd grown up in a place like that, maybe I would have been genuinely more chill too. Mentally, in my liberal days, I briefly flirted with the idea of looking into that kind of thing, but I'm glad I didn't cause it would suck to learn that and end up working for imperialists.
Same. I grew up with anxiety probably as a byproduct of being on the spectrum. It sucks ass. Recently I had therapy though and it was a bit of a breakthrough. But now I have to process years of anxiety and spectrum denial too.
I hope you can find some peace of mind and someone to share your thoughts with, even if it is online.
Thank you. I'm glad you've had something of a breakthrough on it. I hope your processing of it goes well.
Also I’ve heard that prolonged stress can be damaging to memory, among other things. Or maybe it was specifically about depression and such, I don’t know. Can’t remember off the top of my head (tempted to say “no joke intended” to be a smartass about the other recent comment in here). But anyway, I think I’ve been hit by that kind of thing a lot. I can remember enough to function, but in terms of like childhood memories or even things I did a few years ago, there just isn’t that much that I remember.
Mood. I've been depressed since I was a child and my memory is shit.
Sorry to hear that. Hope you can heal from the depression at some point. It's a rough thing. I'm pretty sure I've had low-grade depression for a long time myself.
Saw a vid on the Dutch TV about an Israeli dude on a construction site, I guess he is responsible for it, explaining how some new rules make it illegal for Palestinians to work on his site. He started crying because he says he misses them a lot and they are his friends and he is worried about them. Probably the first Israeli person I have seen in years who shows a shred of emotion about what is happening.
Well, back in the motherland. It will take some time to adjust from a vibrant and metropolitan city like Antwerp to the tech hub that is the Eindhoven region. There is no real left wing org that I know of here, so I will have to look to some niche ones I guess.
The plus side is that this region is getting a shit ton of money though and they are ramping up the skyscraper building, which as a skyscraper nerd I can enjoy.
But jesus christ did I forget how boring and backwards this area can be lol. No more 24/7 living I guess.
The local feed here is very relaxing I must say
I've really been getting into painting this year. I feel like it's a great way to work through emotions. Hopefully I can find a way to use it for politics and just so share, maybe by making agitprop. I was thinking of making a zine about a "socialist version" of the city I live in with some tongue in cheek visuals and at least somewhat more serious city planning/slice of life stuff
y'all wud go crazy hearing mexican media trying to frame "collaborating" with the CIA as a state governor, without telling federal goverment, as a good thing. The CIA!
rough week huh
This is gonna read like such vagueposting and it's not about anything here, but god am I tired of the capitalist world uplifting controlling people; by controlling, I don't mean "anyone who imposes rules". I mean a specific brand of person who is already kind of an asshole who gets their way by being a combination of charismatic and pushy, and then capitalism creates the conditions for them to climb any given ladder of power they can find, so that they can then really throw their weight around more broadly, over incidents that basically amount to them wanting their way about something in the moment. They become these mini-tyrants and people learn to act differently around them: more ingratiating, more avoidant, so as to avoid their ire.
To put it in more specific context, Trump is sorta the culmination of this as a leader of society, but the capitalist world is riddled with people who are far less bad and far less obvious than Trump, but nevertheless have similar dynamics in how others learn to interact with them. In a reasonable society, these kind of people would be kept far from power and be pressured into reconsidering their ways instead of the other way around.
It's so annoying when people write (no pun intended). It's one thing to say it out loud after accidentally making a spur of the moment joke, but there's no reason for this to exist in print. If you really didn't want to make a joke then rephrase the sentence.