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I soldered a lamp today, yay
Zotero is pretty great for reading theory, not gonna lie.
Die Linke won the Berlin election! Not completely satisfied, they will need to form a coalition with the liberal SPD and Grünen, but at least Berlin became a little more left. It showed that fascism can be stopped, although the left needs more than just good election results
My eyes roll back into my head and then forward again when I hear “totalitarianism”. Enlightened centrists make my blood boil. Sorry for the angry posts, but seriously, they’re so smug about it that I can literally feel my blood pressure rise when they say it.
I was talking to that woman again recently and she was talking about being a parent and she was like “if I’m ever upset with him, after I calm down I say I’m sorry and explain how I was wrong” and i legitimately gave her that amazing digital circus thousand yard stare
You are gonna make it, comrade.
Hello again.
Still in Zaragoza, Spain.
Mom left from Madrid back to the United States recently.
Social media algorithms are brutal. I stared too long at a post of losing the love of your life and how much it hurts and now my feed is full of similar posts all the while going through breakup. Thanks Meta I wanted an easy Sunday.
78th Anniversary of the Communist Youth Org of Venezuela!
Love to see it.
Trying to find a good delivery service app to use here in Zaragoza.
Need some medicine.
I guess I can try Grubhub or Instacart.
Tbh, I would rather not do this, but it seems kinda hard for me to go outside now.
No pharmacy nearby? I feel like there are pharmacies on every corner in Spain.
In Zaragoza, there is Farmacia Aragonia.
But today is Sunday.
Ah yes. Welcome to Europe lol
Yeah, I may order some to my apartment tomorrow.
don’t know which app to use here
And they have those flashing signs, so it’s hard to miss them
Sometimes when I close a private browsing tab that has grown too bourgeoisie, I accidentally close the innocent prole ones too, thereby wiping out the means of cached login info. This sets back the development of the tabolution by at least a minute.
P.S. This is a joke, but the act of accidentally closing more tabs than I meant to is not.
P.P.S. I’m aware “private browsing” is only internally private insofar as not persisting stuff like history across sessions, not externally private.
Another far right protest in The Netherlands. They are getting less shy about using literal Nazi symbolism. Even sang about gassing Jews. Somehow the pro Israel orgs do not seem to shout antisemitism now.
It’s infuriating that the empire’s attachment to the israel project gives literal nazis an in to rebuild discriminatory hatred of Jewish people. I mean, it’s not like the empire has been against nazis and nazism in the first place (which fits with the selective silence of zionist orgs that you’re describing), but there is at least a public view stigma against nazis as an open ideological group. Now with zionists constantly insisting zionism and Judaism are the same thing, it makes it easier for anti-Jewish sentiment to grow.
Now with zionists constantly insisting zionism and Judaism are the same thing, it makes it easier for anti-Jewish sentiment to grow.
Now more Jewish people might move to “Israel”. That’s the plan I think.
Isn’t this just the standard mossad playbook from the middle east too
Hmm, makes sense I think (from empire perspective of maintaining and growing the zionist project). I could believe it.
To renovate the Dutch waterways and bridges we need some 80 billion euros. The government is not really taking action.
This country exists because of bridges and waterways. It is by far the biggest economic force here. But let’s spend tens of billions annually on defence.
I get a (metaphorical) headache every time I watch a certain group of people on youtube. People like GamersNexus, Louis Rossmann and Spectresoundstudios. What makes them so infuriating to watch is their textbook reactionary takes. They go on an on about consumer rights and the market and “oh this company did something bad, they should be taxed!”, and the whole “corporatism” schtick. The type of petit bourgeois that Lenin talks about in Imperialism. I wish I could just completely stop hearing the words consumer or “consumer market”. It demotes people purchasing commodities into mindless zombies, who’s only purpose is CONSOOM. I guess that is a part of capitalism, after all.
I feel you. “Consumer” is such a dehumanizing label and tends to be used in the service of passing off responsibility from the exploiting classes to the individual choices of people who pay for things, i.e. it tends to be used to shift blame from organized capital to the isolated worker.
I think Louis Rossmann is useful for anti-reformist propaganda. Showing how hard he works for such basic reforms and accomplishing so little. Gamers Nexus became tiring to listen to though.
I didn’t think of that angle. But you could say I was partially disillusioned by his efforts. But the petit bourgeois brainworms still persist.
They persist, but they might help steer people leftward.
I think I started to move leftwards due to videos from people like Adam Something or BritMonkey, who are very reactionary but still raise important points.
Unfortunately, the lib-to-commie pipeline is pretty weak, so I dunno how Louis fits on that.
Summed up my thoughts perfectly. I remember a GN video from a bit ago covering a really small GPU maker in the us, just struck me as odd they promoted it both because it would be better to show the advances China is making across the whole supply chain, and the video was more of the “corporatism” thing you mentioned.
To add: Third guy does the whole scummy three thumbnails with three titles thing. Loves his clickbait. And making my linux-using blood boil. If you’re a producer, Ubuntu studio exists for a reason. ZorinOS is not very good for that job. But I shouldn’t even be getting mad, he’s complaining about the wrong things, and hate tends to be wildly popular on the internet.
If a FLDS member managed to build a succesful company to fund it’s cult leader lifestyle, why can’t we do it to fund the communist movement ?
Interesting results from this poll.
DPRK century let’s goooo.
Also, OOP chose a really terrible color scheme for poll results. Purple and blue are hard to distinguish.
dawg how is china purple 💀
That one is neck to neck.
I suspect that the Japan choice is either being voted by diasporoids (Hong Kongers, Shitlib Mainlanders, or the rebellious province of Taiwan), or Rightoids from the west. In other words, people that haven’t read about Nanjing or have no idea what the Japanese did to the colonized in China such as using people to test katana sharpness.
