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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Protest against gentrification in Mexico
Is it mostly about expats, or about richer Mexicans as well?
Prob expats since you see signs written in English.
I think I want to switch from learning Portuguese to learning Spanish. I noticed I come across more Spanish and I enjoy speaking in it a lot more than in Portuguese
An easy switch. Spanish & Portuguese mutual intelligibility is not symmetrical. Portuguese speakers have the advantage.
Welcome to the united snakes
Land of the thief, home of the slave
Grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred and power is god
May the marg bars see many amrikas
So femicide is a real problem here. Every other week a woman gets murdered in Belgium, in most cases by a partner or someone close to them. Most of the time for patriarchal reasons.
What’s funny to me is that right wingers shout a lot about revenge killing in Muslim communities but remains silent about the dozens of women killed every year by Belgian men.
As I was making the comment above a dude set his wife on fire while being on parole because prisons are too full here
The rich or more wealthy get parole while the dirt-poor don’t and are left out sight and out of mind.
More prisons beget more crime, tbh.
I never thought an european country had that problem. TIL
Well I feel like it gets swept under the rug because of Western supremacy views. Just ‘incidents’ rather than a structural societal problem.
Tomorrow morning the yearly visit to János Kádár’s grave will take place in Budapest.
To be able to grasp what he meant to Hungary, consider reading something from him from here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kadar/index.htm
Or check out what life was like in Hungary during his time with us:
You have me interested. I’ll read.
Another day, another lazy horseshoe theorist meme raking in thousands of updoots.
This is a perfect example of why I rarely pay attention to these topics anymore. Both the OP’s point and the comments therebelow follow the same script, and it is rare for anybody to show up citing scientific journals, interesting-sounding history books, or even amateur investigators like Moss Robeson.
I can understand other communists being angry at threads like that, but after you’ve seen them so many times you become desensitized and too exhausted to be angry. They’re all so boring.
Especially reddit, get off there. Absolutely reactionary pedo infested place. And everyone else are libs (don’t know which is worse)
TIL China has exported greenhouses to Yemen
and the DPRK!!
Day #8 of going through the four withdrawals of Guanfacine (lowered the dosage), caffeine pills (now I mostly just drink tea as opposed to the five 200 mg pills I was taking every other day), Lexapro (I’m now taking Zoloft), and vitamins (I was taking more than recommended for over a year, maybe two, and got hypervitaminosis).
I feel… pretty good today!
I took creatine for the past week or so and doubled my dose of it in the last three days.
Why am I so angry right now? Very angry?
It’s the only supplement I’m taking, btw.
From what I read, past the loading phase you don’t actually want to take more than 5 grams daily. Your body isn’t able to absorb more than that effectively, and it just ends up putting stress on your kidneys.
Actually, I should be honest: I went above 5 gram, doubling it for seven days straight…
Today I am thirty-one years old.
Happy birthday! 🥳
Happy birthday
Happy birthday!
happy birthday!
Hope you enjoy your day, do you have any plans?
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday ! Comrade 🥳
Happy birthday!
This is my 1000th comment on Lemmy and I think it’s a good time to take a look back. It’s already been 2.5 years, and although I haven’t participated much, I feel I have started to learn a lot and grow politically thanks to Lemmygrad, Hexbear more recently, and a few comrades on lemmy.ml and other instances (even the occasional .world). 2 years ago I was very much a lib. Now I sometimes take the time to read through articles, made a list of books to read and bought a few, to my family and I. To reflect, time passes too quickly and I haven’t read the tiny Engels book on my night stand. I’m lucky enough to not have a physically demanding job but at the end of the day I’m still exhausted and drained. I wish others in my branch could realize we are very much exploited, even though it is at different degrees. Another bothering point is that even the leftist of my friends has a hard time challenging the non stop propaganda we are fed, and it’s depressing
This comment was a mess. Thank you Lemmygrad, keep it up, and for those who have the energy to explain basic things to liberals: yes, it matters
Well thank you for being here too 🫡
I used to work several physical demanding jobs, from a steel factory to carpentry to a warehouse dragging beer kegs for 12 hours a day but I have never been as fatigued as my current office job. That is not to say that office work is harder than back breaking work but I do feel like the toll it takes on your psyche and body gets underestimated a lot.
Working on an assembly line or fast food restaurant, I’d punch out and not give work another thought until I punched in. Working in the software industry, it’s seldom fully gone from my mind, even on the weekend.
Mood. I’ve worked warehouse shipping and receiving, car part assembly lines, food service, retail, computer/phone repair and help desk, IT support. None of these jobs bled into my personal life the way working software in the tech industry has. I’m cooked.
Libs cry that china is imperialist because they give loans while the loans are literally used to repay IMF interests lmao
The mosque in my city that got send a letter with a bullet in it the other day just received another one and it shocks me to see how little people care.
Honestly, as a Turk, growing up after 9/11, it was difficult…
Damn, you are a Turk, as well a dear American? Hasan?
I am Turkish and Dominican.
You are Turk, Dominican, and a dear American? Is it true that you need to fill out your “race” on various forms over there? If so what do you say yours is when they ask?
Latinx, if they have that option, of course.
I have seen Arab Christians go through additional screening upon entry to the US despite their obvious Arabic Christian names and the crosses they are wearing. Hatred of Islam is still widely acceptable in the West and they use that to hate on all peoples from south and east of the Mediterranean even those who aren’t Muslim. Otherwise they will have to admit that they are just racist, which many sometimes can obviously be, see how Sub-Saharan Christians are treated in Europe.
yeah…
I don’t like to talk about my childhood partly for this reason.
In a world where antisemitism holds so much weight, islamophobia apparently doesn’t matter at all.
(yeah I know that real bigotry against jews barely matters too and that the word has been coopted by zionists)
Alright… Be Honest Comrades…
I dont Trust Zohran… Yeah…Yeah He Make Right-wingers Meltdown…
I just Hope He’s Not AOC 2.0
in a vacuum he seems like a great guy but it’s hardly relevant in the grand scheme of things. at best he is going to implement policies that marginally improve NYC people’s lives, which is something i could hardly care about. heck even if lenin himself were to become mayor, it straight up doesn’t matter, the imperial core won’t be reformed through liberal democracy.
He’s still a politician in the Third Reich and nowhere near a revolutionary marxist that some people make him out to be. When the other candidates are genocidal maniacs you can see the ‘maybe let’s not do that’ candidate as a good guy but ultimately we need much more than what Zohran is.
We’ll see what he turns out to be. Hopefully the comrades in the NY area use this as a way to get in touch with more people.
I think Mamdani the idea is infinitely more valuable than Mamdani the man - no matter how good Mamdani the man turns out to be. The fact that Zionists across the aisle decided to make this a referendum on “”““anti-semitism””" (read: anti-Zionism) only to get utterly humiliated was not only hilarious, but serves as proof of the popularity of the pro-Palestine movement to all the holdover liberals who made excuses for Biden / Harris by saying, “but Palestine isn’t popular! They’d be committing political suicide!” - now it’s clear that it is political suicide not to support Palestine. Ditto for trans rights, and also just socialism in general - like, we’ve heard Democrats say they can’t support trans rights because they’ll lose votes over it, and then Mamdani has a blowout victory after going out promising to give 65 million to healthcare for trans kids.
So if nothing else, I feel like Mamdani is a good avenue through which to radicalize liberals against Democrats. You’ve got a bunch of people looking at Mamdani and realizing that better things are possible… and if Mamdani ends up getting ratfucked by the Democrats or just disappoints, it’ll be very easy to welcome them into the fold.
Also, all of the Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani by right wingers and fellow Democrats alike have got liberals I wouldn’t normally so much as acknowledge calling for the resignation of Hakeem Jeffries. If nothing else, the man is a golden opportunity for establishment Democrats to end their political careers.
The fact that he is running as a dem is a red flag. They are using him to rehabilitate the dem brand. Participation in bourgeois elections only helps the cause if it is done under the banner of communism. He’s a sheepdog rounding up the “progressive” liberals who are disgusted by the support for the genocide.
He is the dem’s way of saying “I’m sorry baby. I’ve changed. I’ll never hit you again. Please take me back”
