• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    3 months ago

    One of the victims of the stabbing in Manchester today was hit by a police bullet and may have died as a result. Can’t make that shit up.

  • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Just heard about a local hospital suing 3,000 of its own patients for medical debt and I’ve never wanted to do something I can’t legally describe more than right now.

    Fuck this country, man. This place is evil.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Did Hegseth just encourage the army to do even more war crimes? Also on a freudian slip he confirmed that the troops get paid to murder people and pillage stuff 😐

  • prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    I got my reddit account temporarily banned for 3 days.

    For context, r/NBA was discussing gambling, and a user said there are wealthy people making a lot of money with gambling. So despite being detrimental to society, gambling isn’t going anywhere.

    I replied we can stop them by cutting their heads off. Got suspended for violating Rule #1, then deleted the app 😛

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I am pretty sure the primary source of revenue for sports leagues right now is their partnership with gambling sites, so unfortunately online gambling is here to stay in sports in most of the world. It’s crazy how embedded it has become the last 5-6 years, they put betting lines in the damn broadcast overlay, sports influencers are all sponsored by one of the big online casinos, it has become so normalized that people simply do not watch games without betting.

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    I have internalized learned helplessness the way only a materially comfortable petite bourgoisified first worlder can and I hate that about myself.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      You are a good person.

      Just because you’re petit-bourgeois doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re a bad person or that you can’t overcome your learned helplessness.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    3 months ago

    So a stabbing at a synagoge in Manchester today. The presumed suspect is an Arab/Middle-Eastern looking man and it is suspected he was wearing a bomb belt too.

    This is just going to accelerate the already sky high tensions between white supremacists and the rest.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      It’ll probably mean defcon 1 in our Jewish district in the city as well. So military in the streets, I guess.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    4 months ago

    There was a big event organized by a left wing party in Mexico and they invited plenty of parties in the world(primarily from Latin America).

    It was so big that a lot of Europeans joined it including Serbian, French, Spain, Belarus and Moldovan. There were 3 parties from Russia: komros, KPRF and United Russia.

    From Asia, we had Laotian, CPC and Vietnamese. (Edit 1 AND the DPRK’s PTC)

    In the event, the Venezuelans even explained there socialist communal system and the transition that they are currently planning to make to phase out the outdated representative bourgeois democracy at the base of society. Pretty interesting.

    You can check out some of the participants in the following list.

    Also, Palestinian comrades joined the event!

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Armed Queers group has communist ties to China, Cuba #communism #Cuba #fbi #socialism #china

    https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9313943

    ^ Seems the FBI and DoD and wider “intelligence” community are gunning for some sort of pretext to oppress us…

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    4 months ago

    Soon everything that was lost will soon come back. Not in the form it was before but in a stronger and brighter version.

    Socialism is inevitable if we all fight from our respective place. A better world is possible.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    4 months ago

    I have the opportunity to get therapy and it has now led to some heavy introspection to think about how I got to this point. I had to take the day off today because of this. On the one hand it is good to finally get therapy, on the other hand it is tiring.

    I’m also feeling let down with party work as basically nothing of value is coming forward. Just a meeting now and then, no real activist or other organising stuff. I’d love for us to start leading by example and set up some direct action stuff in the city but I’ve already said this a few times without getting a real response.

    I spend the weekend in my hometown and that means, for me, spending time in the middle of a blue collar, working class community. I have trouble linking the people that join our party with the typical working class people I grew up with. Or at least the side of the party I am active in. Mostly educated, straight out of college leftist type of people. Which is not wrong per se, but I feel like we are starting to get that type of person tunnel vision, you know? I personally never gratuated college and through blue collar work managed to get where I am now and sometimes our party group feels like losing track with what keeps the working class busy. My dad, working a blue collar job for 30+ years now, does not see the need to sign the umpteenth petition for example. And neither do I feel the need to ask people to sign the umpteenth petition if I had to be honest. We need to do more.

    Just a rant and I’ll probably figure things out but if you can’t reach the working class en masse after more than two decades of right wing policies I feel like you are doing things wrong.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      0·
      4 months ago

      And also, with trust in political parties at an all time low it seems, how much credibility do you think to build up when to them, you seem like just another party asking for votes?

      Get out there and show how organising can bring change. Turn that ugly run down piece of land in your neighborhood into a park. Hell, maybe squat an empty building but without the anarchist pissing against the wall tactic. Do something.

      • RedCat@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I don’t know where you live, but where I do, many usually uneducated workers, peasants, and petty bourgeois think it’s normal to throw rubbish everywhere. Even educated peoples, which are usually well-off seem to have the same problem, so while building and planning such projects, which in my case is a communal garden, take it as an opportunity to make such basic concepts normalized and encourage more community building along side political agitation. In my experience, the youth are usually the most prone to radicalization, so focus on planting seeds there.

        Hope the best

  • dg2jeng@lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    4 months ago

    i must organize in order to live. life without a political purpose or motivation is to accept the suffering of millions. i love organizing with all my heart!

      • dg2jeng@lemmygrad.ml
        0·
        4 months ago

        i got introduced to my org through my friends. i think if you have any friends that are already organizing, go with them. i did this and found out that the deepest of all friendships is comradeship.

        if you don’t, however, i would make the decision based on three things:

        1. are they ML
        2. do they do/want to do mass work
        3. are they intense about political education

        if yes, join. all the smaller ideological squabbles you can ignore. if there’s no org like that around you, start one! black panthers started with six members.

        • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          0·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, I might try to start a collective, but that’s beyond me right now, due to extenuating circumstances outside my control.