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I think because orks made some moderates uncomfortable after the initial bloodlust and indignation wore off, so they’ve had to move to making it seem like all of Russia are just Putin’s mindless puppets.
Libs are surprisingly okay with denying agency to the ‘uncivilised’ (a term which must be in quotation marks because Western ‘civilisation’ hasn’t managed to work out how to feed 1 billion people from the mountains of food stolen from 4+ billion other people).
I’ve played the thick with this and asked them what they meant. Ah inhabitant of Moscow? How is that relevant?
Just to get them to admit they were trying to use a slur.
Same with “Ruzzia”, they can’t help but feel stupid when they have to explain.
I’m not sure how I feel about the emoji-sized emojis from Hexbear now. They were massive before but I kinda got used to them and now I’m squinting to try to see them in the same detail. I wonder if I’ll feel the same nostalgia about my landlord after we get the FALC update with Lemmy 0.20.3?
Went to Xinjiang restaurant in Tokyo. The food is fire.
That looks DELICIOUS! What kind of fish is it?
DDR my beloved
this guy got fired from his own company (founder) for posting this https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/ -speaking out about palestine. reminder that all rich white elites are genocide denying maniacs.
daily reminder openai leadership is bunch of zionists and genocidal maniacs https://x.com/itslaylas/status/1736484324961054875?s=20
From which company was he fired? CircleCI?
yep
Going on a trip to new zealand, i’ll give updates as I go
this is digging hard into the scraps of savings left but honestly fuck it, life is short
Life do be short, and it is good to explore this world while you can. Have fun.
its gonna be lit
hopefully
Just walked past a cafe and they were watching and chearing hamas videos like it’s a football match
…so like over here, lmao
it feels like our news sensationalizes this a lot like a football match
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I hope all comrades have an acceptable and if possible enjoyable week
We wish the same for you comrade. To many more not-terrible weeks!
For me it has been a rough winter, not cheery in the slightest. What about our other comrades here? Faring better?
If i didn’t have a calendar i wouldn’t know its december lol. It has been the warmest december i remember, haven’t gone to any party either (my decision, for the better). But it has been a near perfect weather for my crops lol.
It has its ups and downs. It’s mostly passing by in great pace while I seem to be zonnig out a lot. I don’t know if it’s because I’m tired or bored or burnt out a bit.
It sucks to hear that you are experiencing hardship. I hope better thing will come.
I used to like winter. I used to be depressed year-round.
Hate winter, now. Midwest blows. Convinced I have seasonal affective disorder. Convinced you’re abnormal if you live in the midwest and don’t have it.
I was going on walks, working out. Now I don’t wanna leave the house, ever. Winter blows.
Have you considered taking vitamin D?
I’ve done it before. It’s not a bad idea. Thanks!
Even if the supplements don’t do much, it’ll make me feel less bad about missing the sun so much and placebo can do its work.
I’m doing exactly the same thing for the same reason. I’ve no idea if they work but at least I can tell myself they do.
basically been like 3 weeks of me trying to rest, im doing better now though
Wish I could say the same, been nearly a month of non-stop work and stressful decisions. But hopefully these next few days can be a little calmer, for everyone.
we’ll get through it comrade, we’re here for each other
Here in Brazil it has been a very, very hot summer. Literally hitting 50°C on some street thermometers during a heat wave.
Jfc that sounds awful, 40C in high humidity climates is nigh unhabitable.
It gets even hotter here and it is very humid here
how u survive 😐
Air conditioning
When is the next thread? @GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml care to explain?
It’s under investigation
the situation has been resolved and /u/Oppo@lemmygrad.ml has successfully graduated from the crime rehabilitation facility
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In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
– Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds
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I have got to get this book
Weeks after far right has won Dutch elections, security services suddenly start focussing on left wing extremism, saying they have ignored it for too long. But then again they are pointing at the Dutch socialist sub for being extremist, so… Lol
“sub” as in subreddit?
Yes. Unfortunately the left in The Netherlands does not own a submarine (yet)
I seem to remember you mentioning the Dutch “socialist” subreddit being full of racist socdems and/or ultras
Yeah most of them are your typical socdems. Which is worrying if THEY get called extremist as well.
if you’re lucky and they’re actually that clueless, maybe they’ll focus on the socdems instead of your party 🤞
His party (and mine, I’m a card carrying member) are fastly becoming more and more mainstream. Which is good because we’re growing and it’s bad because we’re becoming an institutionalised party that wants reform instead of revolution. (Also theh denouced Stalin, which I still can’t get over).
That’s such an awful sub. I got banned from there last year after mentioning US involvement in the Ukraine.
My comments started showing up in vomit yellow, as do comments from some others. Anyone know what the issue is?
No issue, thats just “new comment” tint, goes away once the comment is a few minutes old.
Thanks!
I’ve always had that, wonder why that’s not true for others.
the background colour has changed quite dramatically; it’s been fixed (at least for the “darkly” themes) and will hopefully be included in the next update
