Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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I just wanted to post this stamp I got, not my photo but it’s the same one. I just like a lot of the art designs that went into soviet stamps.
wow Soviet stamps really were amazing!
Have a great week, everyone!
As always, communism will win.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
Have a nice week!
You too!
You too Oppo!
You too Oppo!
Congrats to my city! It’s Amsterdam’s 750th birthday today
Does anyone know of a dictionary of Marxist terms and concepts? Found one from around 70 years ago, but it isn’t as detailed as I’d like. I’m wanting to have something like this to bring around with me to jog my memory talking about politics.
If nobody has anything else, I may just make it myself and post it as some sort of collaborative thing, though I’d need to make the time for it.
Prolewiki is great!
Somehow forgot about Prolewiki, thank you comrade.
You could probably start adding your dictionary to our same name pages with anon edits 🤔
Turns out the UFO I saw the other day was, in fact, a drone
Identification is the third worst thing that can happen to a UFO.
The first worst thing is landing in the US
Was it an alien drone
If only. Then at last the possadist were right.
Election day in The Netherlands today. Again, because we can’t keep a government for more than a year it seems.
Anyway, most of the topics boiled down to: ‘MIGRANTS’ as if that’s the only thing that matters now. Can’t have a single discussion about anything in that parody country without worrying about brown people.
Also, some dubbed the potential Green/Labour-Neolib-Christian Democrat government as ‘left wing’.
I see militarisation as the biggest topic this election but of course the media doesn’t
Probably because every single party except Bij1 and maybe SP are in favour of increasing spending so they don’t need to debate that. They know everybody will just follow Yankeeland on that one. And according to D66 you can horndog on Princess Amalia in the army too!
If after that statement D66 still become the biggest party this election, we have failed as a country
There was an insane massacre in brazil by the police, more than a hundred people killed 😐
The police are a gang.
Hello everyone, I’m new here, I’ve been lurking around for a little bit and have finally decided to get myself a lemmygrad account. 🫡 🫡
hi.
Welcome!
Sometimes I am reminded that the city I live in is 55% migrants (from everywhere around the world) and I’m amazed at the diversity. Over 180 nationalities in this city.
As if the US moves here in Latin America has not been worrying enough, the police of Rio de Janeiro just committed the biggest massacre the state of RJ has ever had, there’s more than 160 dead, and only 4 cops died. The governor of RJ is saying that the operation was a success, even tho they did not even get the person they invaded the favela for. From January to September of this year alone, the RJ police has killed more than 510 people.
Shit’s getting bleaker.
I was reading about the favela raids yesterday and physically cringed. I’m so sorry and I hope you are able to be reasonably safe.
Thanks comrade, reading and hearing about it has been horrifying. I’m not from Rio so I don’t have to worry about any of that, but I feel for those living in direct line of sight of the police.
You are welcome. Please take precautions, as I imagine the circle to be ever expanding.
I assume the police is political aligned with Bolsonaro?
Not necessarily. The military police and these death squads go back to the US coup in '64. They were aligned with Bolsonaro recently, but they are going to align themselves with any right wing government. Bolsonaro is not all that relevant anymore. He’s under house arrest for now, and he’s gonna be sent to jail soon. He’s been convicted already.
The vast majority is definitely very reactionary. I can’t say if they are still aligned with Bolsonaro since he has been losing popularity a lot for some time now, specially because of how he handled the pandemic. But I would bet they are Bolsonaristas, even tho some of them might not like Bolsonaro himself anymore.
I know there is a very, very small minority of leftists in the military police force, but they have to keep their mouths shut not to be extremely harassed, fired or worse.
That’s fucking awful, comrade. Stay safe.
Thanks comrade! I’m not from Rio and am fortunate enough to live in a place where I don’t have to worry about the police, but seeing the reporting of the amount of people dead has been daunting.
It’s good that you’re safe! Solidarity with the people of Rio, that’s horrifying.
Turnout in The NL pretty low so far. Though people have to work of course.
Over here in Belgium at least you get a day off for it. But voting is also mandatory here.
At least turnout in the big cities is up, which could mean more leftist voters. Let’s hope it will be in BIJ1’s favor
My home if I got paid everytime I defended communism like people claim
help how do i get paid to promote communism online comrade xi won’t respond to my emails
I keep lying to myself that “one day we’ll have a discussion about AI on Lemmygrad that is not entirely bad faith” and call it revolutionary optimism. 🫠
Watching election results is real life depression speedrun
SP shrinking and BIJ1 not in parliament 😢.
I’ll say the same as after last election, this just motivates me more to be politically active
Lmaoooo Frans just fucked off
I have hope for when votes are eventually counted because the exit polls are not necessarily representative. Especially when the bigger cities will be in.
