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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lol whoever made that post that the chud from predictive history was a clown was right, the guy did an interview with SNEAKO LMAO
I’ve been calling him a grifter whenever the topic comes up but I don’t start conversations about people who I think are fucking idiots because if I start I’d never stop.
I do like to play with the idea that he is a Chinese misinformation agent sent to make westoids even more stupid.
Wild to think my entire lineage can be traced back to some lizard crawling out of the ocean
I think it was a type of fish that came out of the ocean.
Fizzard
Soon
but muh
!god please let this happen it’d be so fucking funny
I like Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ but, damn, some of the characters (like Beecha and Mondo) are selfish.
Christians will complain about how lgbtqia+ is so confusing while having 100+ different denominations that are supposed to be just following the teachings of one guy
REAL IDENTITY: yeah i’m panromantic asexual, i’m also agender and go by they/xem
FAKE IDENTITY: i’m a Jehovah’s Witness
ULTRA FAKE IDENTITY: i’m a Mormon
every time i pass this comment i must add one more gender/sexual identity or pronoun, it’s a toll
Wishing you all a great week comrades!
This week will be heavy on the body, but the eyes look to the future and see greatness. Don’t let despair take your heart
Spent the whole day listening to “El Pueblo Unido” in repeat and that definitely cheered up my spirits
新年快乐！Happy chinese new year everyone! Hope your year is full with good luck and good organizing.
Ooo, ring of fire eclipse, I nearly forgot!
Happy Chinese New Year to you comrade
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
Hello comerades
I wanted to try to translate the Norwegian poem “Revolusjonens Røst” by Rudolf Nielsen to english for you because I quite like it. I’ve taken some liberties to try to make it a bit less akward than a literal translation, and also skipped trying to force it into a rhyming scheme to focus on the message. Here you go:
The Revolutions Voice
Give me the true and rising, the solid people of strength. Those who are patient and willful, and never in life will go wrong, And sell out my great purpose, instead fighting to death for it.
Give me the cool and the wise, who how I am real. Much more than many who say they believe, I need those who know. Nothing is more like words in sand, than promises of love to come.
Give me the bitter and spiteful, without fear in their hearts. Give me the godless and proud, without a taste for the ideal, but who will make a heaven here by their own class.
Give me the burning hearts, which never give way to doubt, who never give in to sorrow and fear and settle for mere rest, but meet every victory and defeat with the same invincible grin.
So give me the best of you, and I will give you all! No one will know how much we fought for untill we have truly won. We might just need to save our earth, the best among you are called.
Remembering an old news story from years ago about a guy who just walked into a warehouse with nothing but a clipboard, pretended like he worked for the company, then just walked off with thousands of dollars in merchandise and nobody even realized until he was long gone.
Fucking gigachad. I wonder if he ever got caught.
I bet throwing on a business suit and a hi-vis vest would help.
I’m sure everyone here already knows this, but this is just as much a reminder to myself.
When we go out there to help people, we should never expect anything in return. Otherwise we’ll turn into Trotsky-lite. If we can’t expect someone to pay it forward themselves then something isn’t right here and we need to address that. Either within ourselves or within our environment.
I wish everyone great courage, you matter, thank you.
Day before yesterday, saw right wing nutcases doing protest in Gangnam for their ex president. Seen USA flag, Pissrael flag, and flag with Sygman Rhee lmao. I wanted to take a picture but my out of shame forbid me to do so. 2 hours later they were gone.
Something clicked for me about ADHD after I saw this vid on youtube where somebody interviews two kids, one neurotypical and one ADHD, and the ADHD kid is asked at the end what they want to say to kids who don’t have ADHD about kids who do. And she has this heartbreaking line, “[They could help them by] telling them that whatever you do, it’s still right because you tried your best.”
I would say my thought applies more to disability in general under capitalism than ADHD specifically. But basically, it’s that people with ADHD, and people with disabilities more generally, work extra hard to manage only to still be seen as inadequate, inferior, or otherwise less-than-competitive for situations where steady, consistent labor is needed. It’s something that is probably kind of obvious to a lot of people with disabilities, but I guess for me, because ADHD is this mostly invisible thing, it’s always been hard to internalize that for myself. I want to believe that I can be “normal” and live a “normal” life, and it just doesn’t work that way. I am often climbing uphill at times when others are walking a straight line and it may help explain some of the weariness that I chronically feel. And yet, whether because of my scattered disposition or playfulness as a coping mechanism or something, it seems like I can appear the opposite of how I feel at times with the people who most need to understand what it’s really like for me: like I’m just chill and goofy and having a good time. I think it’s a form of masking in a way. It’s not that I’m lying about being playful, but it doesn’t really show the part underneath that thinks the concept of sleeping for a year in the hope it will rejuvenate me is a nice idea, even if it doesn’t make any logistical sense.
Vid for those who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IO6zqIm88s
what happened with venezuela? i remember people making fun of trump for doing a “decapitation strike” that took out one person, and now suddenly rodriguez is sending cuba’s oil to israel? did something change or did maduro just always have a chud vp?
Don’t believe everything you hear.
Venezuela is surrounded by US aircraft carriers.
Venezuela doesn’t have any oil anymore. Its imperialist oil going to israel, its just stolen from Venezuela instead of one of the other places they extort.
Back before the kidnapping there was a report that Maduro had offered the us “everything.” So the policies Rodriguez has implemented were probably already agreed to by Maduro. Likely the only sticking point in those negotiations was that usa wanted Maduro to give the presidency to someone usa picked out. By withholding a endorsement of an anti-communist regime, Maduro forced the usa to come get him but this forced usa to leave the socialists in power because they were the only ones with the popular support to implement the negotiated appeasement.
This is real 5d chess. The Venezuelan government aren’t stupid. They know what kind of hell usa could bring them. That kind of suffering would have undermined the support of the Bolivarian revolution. Things will probably get harder for Venezuelans because of the reduction in oil revenue but the blame will be put on america and anyone who supports america instead of the blame being put on the Bolivian revolution like it was for the last few decades. Even the moderate opposition have sided with the Chavista Government to denounce the imperialists. The entire nation is being pushed left by the actions of the usa.
The preservation of the socialist project is more important than the revenue from oil. All the Chavistas have to do is survive a few more decades untill usa crumbles. The commune systems put in place by Chavez and Maduro make it possible to do that. It won’t be easy for Venezuela but it will be easier than war with usa and the struggle will reinforce anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism and Chavismo.
i guess that makes a lot of sense. so the us now controls venezuelan oil more or less completely? is that what’s causing the oil crisis in cuba? sorry i guess i’ve been living under a rock for the past couple weeks; this whole thing has kinda taken me by surprise.
More or less yeah. usa is saying they are going to sell the oil “for” Venezeula but the money is going into an american bank that the usa controls. On top of Cuba losing access to Venezuelan oil usa is threatening a physical blockade and “tariffs” (sanctions) on any nations that try to send anything to Cuba.
i thought cuba had other energy suppliers. is that more blockaded than usual or what’s happening with that?
Yeah so Mexico was a supplier I think but the tariff threats have stopped those shipments and everyone else too.
This article will help contextualize fully what is happening with the venezuelan oil -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10778092
oh that makes a lot of sense. thank you for taking the time to post this and i’m sorry to acting president rodriguez for calling her a chud.
The oil shipment to Israel was denied by Venezuelan gov
In the Sopranos episode ‘Christopher’, there is a scene where a Turtle Islander (presumably Philip Ng) gets into an argument with somebody counterprotesting on behalf of Columbus Day, and the Turtle Islander yells ‘He fed our people to his dogs!’ to the counterprotesters.
I have a feeling that that was an oversight since Columbus never set foot in what we now call the United States, and I get the feeling that the Turtle Islander was from one of the northern tribes (the Mohawk, maybe?) rather than from the Caribbean. That said, if there are Turtle Islanders who sincerely see the Caribbeans as part of their people, that is really cool of them! I don’t expect many, sheerly due to the degrees of separation, but it is absolutely possible.
A lot of people are under the misconception that Columbus landed in mainland North America, and I would be unsurprised if there are even indigenous adults who think this, which leads me to pessimistically assume that the solidarity is unintentional. I would love to be wrong about this, though.
