• Space Dengism@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    Anyone else exhausted trying to get people around them to understand how capitalism is the root of all their fears and problems?

    Like damn… I feel like I’m lucky to change the mind of 1 out of every 100 I talk to. It’s just frustrating that so many people can’t connect to the bigger picture beyond all the culture war slop.

    Revolutionary optimism always, but man I feel like I to apply ice directly to my brain

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      Gotta focus on the radicalized liberals first, then work backward. Go for the easiest people to talk to first, it’s given me far more success.

    • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      The Liberals are often redefining words like Capitalism to confuse the people. The Western people could not understand how Capitalism is the source of their problem because Capitalism in theory means free market and minimal government intervention even when Capitalism in practice means plutocratic command economy. Furthermore, the definition of dictatorship and Socialism mean absolute authority and command economy in Western school textbooks. Marxists suggest that those two words originally had different definitions when they mention that dictatorship distribute authority to the working class or their opposition to plutocratic government intervention which is a form of command economy.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      1 out of every 100 I talk to.

      Geeze I wish it was that high. Agitation feels sisyphean most of the time. Even when someone does agree that capitalism is the root of the problem they will immediately say “communism always fails. human nature… blah blah bullshit”

      If I didn’t like arguing and being an asshole I would have given up a long time ago.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    I haven’t drank alcohol for a year now today, which I guess is somewhat of an achievement.

    I hate the way the murder of a 17 year old girl has been hijacked by right wingers purely because the suspect is a migrant. At yesterday’s Ajax match people paid a tribute to the girl in the 17th minute and some Ajax hooligans felt the need to raise Dutch flags in the form of a cross. Absolutely disgusting behavior. Online you keep seeing things like ‘migration stop’ over and over again. We have had several murder by a Dutch dude in the last few years. It is almost always a Dutch guy. But now everyone can blame migrants again.

    • Eiren (she/her)@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      As always, a murder by an ethnic minority member is the fault of foreigners and migration, while a murder by an ethnic majority member is the fault of neurodiversity and too little involuntary drugging. Under no circumstances has a “normal, upstanding” white male supremacist person ever committed a crime.

      • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        This scapegoating and lack of accountability is a rampart problems in Parkdale high school of Toronto, Canada, in 2012 with the delinquency by children of victims of Communism, victim privilege of psychopath with Aryan appearance, corrupted racist white men in authority, and scapegoating of high performing well-behaved autistic students who only act in self-defense.

  • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    Is it weird to fantasize about a new apartheid where genocide supporters are made second class citizens who are black listed from certain jobs and entertainment and have no right to vote?

    • z_poster365@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      what you are describing is the songbun system in Korea, where the Japanese/American collaborators and counter-revolutionaries form a “lower class” because they are punished and kept outside of government positions and important roles. They have to earn their way out of it by displaying loyalty and self-criticism.

    • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Too much work, just kill them all at this point. If two years of a livestreamed genocide aren’t enough to deradicalize them then no amount of schooling will help.

  • TheBungTankie@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    Currently, our neoliberal clown government has raised the salaries of corrupt parliament lawmakers by 50 million rupiah (at least 3,000 USD), while half of the population remains poor or low-income. It’s obvious why people are angry, and now We are protesting Againsts it.

    Good Lord, my country is in deep Shit

      • TheBungTankie@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        Lmao No, the closest thing are the Socdems, which suck ass.

        Suharto Regime really eliminate all Socialist Movement in My country

            • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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              8 months ago

              And that marks the real indicator for autocracy. When the Liberals accuse Communist governments for human rights violations, they boosted that independent media platforms, mass protests, and anti-government organizations can run freely in Communist countries without repercussion which raise question of allegation of human rights violations.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    I’m more and more bothered by the gentrification in my part of the city. More and more rich middle class or upper class white people are moving in and the poorer, mostly poc inhabitants have to move away. This is why I see gentrification as a form of racism. It was way more diverse just five years ago.

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      In Mexico, we have been organizing against it. Some even did an announcement of a protest from a leftist meme page and had an incredible and numerous spontaneous/grassroots participation.

      If you are organized with some comrades, you can give it a try and test the waters.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    For some reason Instagram keeps sending me ads for magic mushrooms lmao. Which are illegal in Belgium btw (not in The Netherlands). I get that I am Dutch and all but you’d think they’d be able to determine my location. Or they don’t care and are willing to sell drugs. Not that I’m against that.

    Calling for a Free Palestine can get you banned though.

    • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      They’re illegal in Canada, but there are windowless shops with mushrooms painted on the facade where you can buy them. You can even find them in the downtown area of major cities.

    • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      Is it because Liberal politicians do not comprehend the fact that business advertisements are a form of indoctrination? Do they even know that a manipulation of consumer’s demand rigged the free market? The ideological justification for free market is that a private firm will change their products and services to fit the demand of consumers and not that consumers alter their culture to utilize a product or service.

  • sunbleachedfly@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I got COVID this last week. The symptoms bad as it was before, but I’m SO fatigued all the time & it really lingers more than other sicknesses. Stay safe out there comrades.

    In the meantime I’m binging a show & practicing drawing quite a bit, which has brought me a lot of joy. The first character I ever drew was Luna from Sailor Moon. Now I’m practicing shading & shadows. Now I get why people draw fruit so much when they’re first learning.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    Two Israeli tourists got beaten down by a 15 year old in my hometown. Media cried antisemitism for days afterwards. Police now released him stating antisemitism wasn’t the case. The guy didn’t even know they were Israeli until he was arrested and brought to the station. Also, the Israeli tourists were being dicks during a paintball game and that’s how the fight happened eventually.

    What’s really funny to me is that a 15 year old manages to beat two Israeli dudes lol.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    USians be like “we want no drug cartel no more” meanwhile their most widely acclaimed media is about either mexican cartels or italian mobs lmao.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      accused of trying to return home with a trove of sensitive research

      sensitive research

      His work, which focused on research for a breast cancer vaccine, made him an employee of the state of Texas.

      They make it sound like he was stealing government secrets, when he was just trying to help people not die.

      • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 months ago

        Yeah that’s how I’m reading it too. He may have been spying but it was definitely not on behalf of the CPC