Welcome again to everybody. Take a seat listen to rhythm of the street. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Broke, partially deaf, and now sweltering heat, this is easily among the worst summers.
Found another great font for reading (Gentium Plus):
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But before any rants, lightherted question for everyone, as I’m not in one of my hating moods to rant right now. Favorite flavor of chewing gum?
Chewing gum is like injecting microplastics into your body.
just mint, there is something to the fake freshness it brings
So… thought I got some help for my living situation but something happened on their end and they stopped messaging me. I am not sure what to do now.
iirc disabledacesocialist also had someone bamboozle them like that for a while so be careful.
They sent resources for me and showed a lot of photos to prove that they were not some faker, but they stopped one day, which is weird.
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idealists think it matters so much what they think and wish and want. that’s why all they can do is whine about freeze peach and “do politics the right way”
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I don’t think they have the proper idea of a “discussion” in their minds in the first place.
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Agreed
Many a rant to be made here, but only when I get the energy to do so.
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Didn’t the Sino-Soviet split happen because the party wasn’t Stalinist enough??
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The problem with the Trot mindset is that if they ever do a revolution, then the day after they will split and a part will denounce the other saying the socialist experience had degenerated. They can’t deal with the contradictions of building a new society from the previous one. That’s why their discourse is simply self-defeating.
We all know that Mao and Stalin did a lot of bad things, but that does not change the fact that both were trying to build something. And while they criticize the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union, that thing was there from the beginning, even when Trotsky was one of the party leaders.
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During the heatwave weekend we had more excessive deaths in a few days than covid
It is 2:00 AM EST in Virginia where I live.
I am have those dark thought-loop spirals or whatever, this time involving catastrophism.
Seems that rage, fury, anger, or annoyance is the trigger for these dark thought spirals.
Hmmmmm
Honestly, I wonder if I have anger management issues.
I don’t often snap at people or yell at them.
But I have gotten angry and then tried to suppress that anger because I had no recourse. It was either that or do something stupid and act on impulse.
Emotional suppression is bad for memory and other things or so they say (need to look that up sometime).
People in my immediate family snap at me or chastize me and I just wear a mask.
Anyway, took Vyvanse a while ago because it helps call me down and think clearly (but also in a very soothing way).
I visited the Manchester Art Gallery today and they had these large rooms in which they acknowledged colonialism and capitalism and whatnot, which I thought was good. But they also happened to have a room on Dutch art and they described us as a brave nation becoming wealthy by finding sea routes to trade on.
Like how does that work lmao. We robbed half the world to get rich. No critical thought whatsoever in the Dutch room.
I think I’ve read that the Dutch East Indies (modern day Indonesia) historically was the most lucrative (i.e. highest net-profit) colony by a large margin. I cannot remember the numbers though.
There is no clear consensus but it is believed the Dutch East Indian Company was worth several trillion dollars adjusted to current day inflation.
No other company to this day came close. It employed up to a million people versus 800k by the rest of European colonial companies combined. It owned over 4000 ships and operated a private army to do whatever it wanted.
Dutch version of “Then they ate corn :)”
Cuba will win this shit.
There should be a one child policy for settlers in North America and Australia, with the exception for descendants of slavery or indigenous people
this is eugenics, comrade
Don’t settlers already have trouble with having children? Most of the Global North has low birthrates. I think it’s better to give incentives for indigenous people to have children rather than punish settlers.
Why not both?
What do the Indigenous people want? That is the question.
99% of “settlers” in north america didn’t have any choice in where they were born. Stop blaming individuals for the systems put in place by the bourgeoisie. It’s idealist and individualist thinking.
We don’t blame climate change on the people who drive cars because we know that they are just caught in a system that makes not driving cars hard and we know that they are just a fraction of the problem. The white working class people are not the ones who are continuing the genocide against indigenous people. All workers are exploited and abused by capitalism, punishing the white people because they were less abused is stupid.
Its a racists discourse. Yes we need to do what we can to make things right for the indigenous peoples who have suffered the most from capitalism and imperialism but we don’t do that by further entrenching racial divisions by punishing people who did not cause the suffering.
How is this different from China having an exception for ethnic minorities for their one child policy?
We shouldn’t copy and paste China’s policies into our own nations. Don’t forget the historical context: the Chinese didn’t know how industrialization would affect population growth (nobody did at the time), and their nation had a lot of famines in history.
A larger population isn’t gonna do shit for the indigenous people if they don’t get political representation. IIRC South Africa had a Black majority but the White minority was the one in power.
The Land-back movement isn’t a “get out settler” movement. It’s about the Indigenous people having the right to choose their destiny and control their land. In practice that would mean socialism, higher percentage of minorities in Assemblies, quotas for jobs, incentives for having children, and land reform.
China’s one child policy was to combat explosive population growth as well as the reactionary habit of having many children as a store of wealth. Ethnic minorities in China are mostly from regions where there is not an abundance of food and thus they had lower reproduction rates to begin with.
Birth rates don’t even hit replacement levels in settler states. Explosive population growth is not a issue at all. Indigenous peoples already have higher than average birthrates in the 3 big settler states.
Its a “fix” for a problem that doesn’t exist done for eugenics purposes.
Trying to find Wordle clones but in Spanish to practice my Spanish language skills.
Every once in a while I think about how easy itwould be for me to get ICE’d in the US if I went. Country I’m from has a red passport. If I speak my native language it is quite likely I will be searched. (“Friend” of mine briefly got taken away for questioning by ICE at the airport (Seattle if anyone is wondering) for speaking the same language, was let go after). There is no way I will keep a straight face for the “are you and have you been associated with any communist parties” question. If I ever went I would probably get a different phone, throw away my old one just in case. Not that I want to go to the US, but I have always wanted to visit NY and Seattle.
I don’t blame you. I don’t feel safe in the US even though my outward appearance and language are seen as “normal” here. But Seattle and the Pacific Northwest are great. New York is, how do I put this, both incredibly overrated and a perfect mirror of the US.
Travelling to Spain when it’s going to be 38 degrees is gonna be a challenge. Also won’t help that there will be a lot of excitement in Madrid due to Spain being in the finals of the cup.
At least AC is somewhat common there so you can always hide in the AC. Other than that if you do like football you are possibly in for a big party.
