• KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    1 day ago

    So my union might be taken over by capitalists. The member parliament didn’t vote for a plan by the supervisory board that would basically turn the union into a company where the supervisory board would appoint the board of directors instead of the member parliament. So now the supervisory board is suing the member parliament. One of the people in the supervisory board is a former politician for the socialdemocratic party who helped implement austerity policy. Proves that socialdemocracy serves to destroy the workers movement from within.

    • demerit@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      18 hours ago

      During the allied occupation of Germany, the us basically removed socialists from union leadership and put conservatives in their place, so nowdays unions just rubber stamp company policies. And remember it was polish unions that brought down their socialist republic.

    • mistermodal@lemmy.ml
      8·
      24 hours ago

      Most unions (exceptions?) in the imperial core are not revolutionary in the slightest, their goal is securing overtime + wage stabilization for a select group of workers. You guys need land reform, capital controls + expropriation measures, employment & education provisions. None of that is a part of western leftist politics, including the stuff that postures as radical and antiimperialist. If it doesn’t even educate people on the economic structure of imperialism, how can it be revolutionary because it quotes Sankara? Mamdani is easy to criticize. People need to see what the PSL, the FRSO, and others are doing by repainting failed Vietnam War era sheepdog tactics that coincided with the repression of armed movements and the successes of Ho Chi Minh, taking credit for the sacrifices of the latter

      • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah. Remember when the dock workers union shutdown for a while but carved an exception for military shipments lol. America is a joke with zero class conscience.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    1 day ago

    If you have no plans for Saturday, you can watch the football match between North Korea 🇰🇵 and the Netherlands 🇳🇱

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I’m not good with computers and Europa Universalis V refuses to even launch, not giving me an error code, a crash report, or even anything. It launches, then immediately goes from stop on the play button to play again. Nothing else between. I was gifted the game.

    For the past two days, I have been struggling for answers. Graphical drivers are updated. Windows is updated. BIOS shouldn’t be a concern as I do not have a struggle playing any other single Paradox game or any game for that manner. I have decent specs and others with the same specs are able to play the game. I have attempted different launch options of -dx11 -dx12. I’m convinced rituals of incense and prayers would be more helpful than any of the suggestions from the developers or people on some of the forums.

    It’s a shame, really was looking forward to it.

    • demerit@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      18 hours ago

      What are your specs? EU5 has crazy high requirements. I think you need like at least 32GB RAM

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        32gb, 3050, later i7 series. Should be good, no? I’m not amazing with hardware stuff just using system info, most of my PC stuff was gifted or scavenged

        • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          if my i7 is like a single gen below and it refuses to launch whatsoever w/ no error/crash report, that is crazy.

          • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            yeah, that does suck, i wonder why the requirements are so high
            i get that the map painting games are pretty cpu heavy but surely it shouldn’t be that much more than the previous games

            • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              2·
              6 hours ago

              Even then, what the hell happened to just being able to run the game with some chop/jank? Most of my early PC history was using scavenged machine shop computers (rust-belt) or thrown out college computers to play games and even if they were poor requirements it’d still run just run like shit.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    2 days ago

    Every time I return to my home town I drive past ASML and I keep wondering what will happen if this building were to be randomly destroyed one way or another. It would turn the world into chaos I guess.

    Which makes me wonder about the drone movement of the ‘Russians’, above seemingly unimportant bases in Belgium. Fly your drones a bit more North to ASML and you’d have the world on edge in a second.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      2 days ago

      All I know is that its the brits fault and I’m pretty sure they are using the constant war and ethnic cleansing to hide their use of slave labor to mine gold and launder it through the UAE.

      • demerit@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        2 days ago

        Israhell has also been fuelling every civil conflict in sudan (and the South Sudanese civil war), because Sudan used to host the largest communist party in the arab world and used to be an anti-imperialist aligned pan-Arab state. Sudanese socialists even co-wrote the green book.

        • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
          31·
          1 day ago

          Yeah but israel is the brits fault too. As is the the existence of the UAE and the popularity of Wahhabism which is the ideology behind the genocide in Sudan. Its all the fucking brits fault.

          • demerit@lemmygrad.ml
            2·
            18 hours ago

            True but modern UK is second-fiddle to the USA and Israhell, they arent a player. And besides that UAE and Israhell are entirely able to act on their own as sub-empires under the US Empire.

            • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
              11·
              4 hours ago

              The infrastructure of exploitation in Sudan was all set up by the brits even if they keep their involvement at arms length these days. Even if other players are getting shares of the profits the brits are the ones who started it.

              The exploitation of colonial britain didn’t disappear they just switched to a more subtle means of extraction which includes lots of plausible deniability. Don’t underestimate their depravity they are still bathing in blood they just have other people do the killing for them.

              Just because the uk doesn’t have a large military doesn’t mean they don’t have a significant role in geopolitics. They just do more soft power work and a large part of that is used to direct the wrath of usa. You think the war in ukraine was usa’s idea? Nah they got pushed into it by the brits. usa has nothing to gain in ukraine but russophobia in the british ruling class goes back centuries.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    3 days ago

    Everytime a new drone pops up in Belgium, which is several times a day right now, I can’t help but play 99 Luftballons in my head

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      Still no photos or videos of these alleged drones? And i don’t mean just random civilian drones in civilian neighborhoods or out over random fields, because we know that regular people use drones all the time nowadays to film videos, you can see tons of drone videos made by regular people on YouTube in lots of different countries. I mean these supposed super advanced stealth drones over airports and military bases.

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        2 days ago

        No clear footage of them. They are mostly there are night and mostly around military bases or airports. Not even the military knows what to do. Apparently just shooting isn’t an option.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    3 days ago

    There’s this neolib politician in Belgium who from time to time makes based comments by accident. He fully supported Palestine at one point and now with the new government failing to form he told the prime minister to call to Vietnam to see how they did things some time ago as he saw that as a great example of what to do.

    Please, do adopt Vietnamese mindset.

    • mistermodal@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 days ago

      Well, this definitely sounds based, and if they were serious about it, it would be great, whenever a first world country talks about imitating the success of a country whose development they have systematically sabotaged on every level while they themselves subsist from neo-colonialism, I can’t help but get angry, even for Belgians. These people are completely unwilling to implement capital controls, which would to curtail the people who are ruining their own societies.

      It will be nice to see Vietnam engender the sort of cope China does as infrastructure, agriculture mechanization, urbanization, even semiconductor manufacturing in time take shape. Maybe BAP crew will discover Aryans created Vietnamese civilization

      What’s happening right now is really exciting and trying to trim it down to a few sound bytes for you all would be as much of a disservice as the western Abundance guys saying when China has trains it’s Abundance bro

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Get off my shift, I was gifted by a customer an entire 7 inch rolled-cone cigarette packed to the brim with some interesting, premium selection. So premium, that the smell is made very apparent through a storage locker, the locker-room and the entire store-front. This normally isn’t an issue, because I work alone and I keep my shit separate, but I was given a beautiful gift and how could I say no?

    Well. I am closing up and my jacket is in the locker-room. I shut the door and I heard a familiar click. No fucking way. Alright, I have experience with plying locked doors. No problem here. Next up, I trigger the alarm and the entire police and fire department is being called. I message my manager, tell hem what happened; everything is good there. Anyways, I am on my way home, seething and venting and I realized the entire time I butt-dialed my manager at midnight.

    Am I in a perpetual Clerks episode? I genuinely wonder if I’m a living example of Ohm’s Law. Normally, I don’t give a fuck but it’s genuinely comedic that my life is a catalogue for the absurd.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    4 days ago

    Local socdem party made a video in which they send a honorable membership card to Mamdani saying he could be one of them but they are also in the government who wants to cut all social security down to a minimum, among other right wing things.

    They got rightfully flamed for it.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    3 days ago

    In women’s football the Dutch U17 national team reached the World Cup final. It will be against the DPRK U17. And apparently the DPRK are favorites too.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      The dprk women team has been historically good, i remember they once scored like 20 goals vs singapore lol. The DPRK also is incredibly dominant in weightlifting competitions, i dont remember the weight class but they have a girl that just dominates every international competition.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      1 day ago

      this is idealist nonsense. It rhymes with the fascist hertzl’s “If you will it it is no dream” or an echo of the nazi “triumph of the will.”

      • Sleepless One@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        It’s a Mao quote. The source I was reading cited it as coming from Strategic Questions in China’s Revolutionary War, though the copy on marxists.org appears to be a different translation and the exact phrase doesn’t appear. The closest I could find in the linked source is “Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.”

        The context the source was using it in wasn’t idealist, but the idealism is definitely what appealed to me enough to post it here. Out of its original context it sounds like, as we say here in the US, “mind over matter”.

        • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          1 day ago

          Problems of Strategy: "To put the two statements together we may cite the Chinese adage, “Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.”

          So it isn’t a Mao quote he is quoting an old adage.

          If you want to quote Mao the second half is the good part: "To cross the threshold is not difficult and mastery, too, is possible provided one sets one’s mind to the task and is good at learning."

          A good materialist always hedges statements with "if"s and "possible"s

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    4 days ago

    Belgian government might collapse tomorrow as they can’t agree on the budget after trying to form a government for a year and a half. Turns out getting out on the streets helps.