‘Lemmygrad’s resident expert on fascism’ — GrainEater, 2024
‘The political desperadoes and ignoramuses, who say they would “Rather be Dead than Red”, should be told that no one will stop them from committing suicide, but they have no right to provoke a third world war.’ — Morris Kominsky, 1970
I was not arguing that there should be no consequences for bigotry, only that a permanent ban might be a little too long in this case. Even so, I am tempted to delete my reply anyway because I’m embarrassed that I annoyed innocent people with my poorly thought out comment.
Honestly, I’ve seen people get away with saying far, far worse things on other social media.
I agree. Although his idea of sex was questionable, a permanent ban is too long for a user who has made plenty of fine contributions; I think that five months is long enough for him to learn his lesson. I wouldn’t trust him with moderator privileges again, but as an ordinary user we should give him a second chance. Undo the ban.
The way that I see it, imperialism is just a parasitic relationship that one capitalist country has with another country or region.
The Fascists’ relations with Somalia were imperialist because they were an overall gain for the Fascists but an overall loss for the Somalis.
The Republic of Cuba sending out numerous troops to defend the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was a loss for the Republic of Cuba but a gain for the BRV, so it was not imperialist. (Quite the opposite, if anything.)
Admittedly, this is a somewhat crude and informal understanding of imperialism, but it should be easy enough to grasp for those who unwisely oversimplify imperialism to just countries doing stuff in other countries.
It predates the CIA, but I agree that it’s a vastly overused word that is becoming a thought-terminating cliché.
I like how Emopunker omitted your last reply in a thread griping about you.
Also, -ov and -ova are prerevolutionary loans which probably feel as foreign to Tajiks as Fitz- does to us. Frankly, griping about the Soviets failing to derussify surnames is pretty boneheaded given how protective most people are of their surnames, but even if they did derussify those, anti-Bolsheviks would instead be whinging about the Soviets forcing people to change their surnames.
I never intentionally click YouPube links. If I want to watch any videos there then I consult Invidious, and if that proves too difficult then I download the videos through Parabolic. The downside is that I can’t access age-restricted videos.
I have never made a YouPube account. The community there is mostly terrible and I don’t expect the users whom I like to interact with me for more than a few seconds. Likewise, I have little skill in making videos, so, overall, there is not much reason for me to make an account. I can’t say that I have ever regretted my decision to avoid making one there, especially since I despise Google.
Cowbee is responsible for exterminating, at minimum, ten million White cishet capitalist men, and even that estimate might be too low.
You need to update your terminology. According anticommunists: genocide is just when communists do stuff. The more stuff we do, the more genocidaler it is. That’s the definition. The only correct definition, in fact. The Soviet reconstruction of Poland was an act of genocide, for example, but the IOF devastating over 90% of Gaza and massacring hundreds of thousands of civilians isn’t.
@GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml, your links to Anna’s Archive and libgen do not work anymore.
Try these: https://annas-archive.li/faq#mirrors
Have you ever wished that you could interact with a stranger whom you used to see somewhere online a lot.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160313063814im_/http://www.revleft.com/vb/member.php?u=15483
I remember reading and enjoying this guy’s posts, but I never got a chance to talk to him and I have no clue how anybody could contact him today — assuming that he remains alive, that is. I would have loved to have met him… sigh. I miss him. I hope that he is doing okay now, wherever he be.
R* Employee of many years here!
Understandably I want to remain anonymous due to retaliation from the Company, but I may be willing to verify I’m an employee with @Spider-Vice via DM (if required). I am also a member of the Union.
I’ve been reading a lot of the discussion on here and elsewhere about the firing of more than 34 of my colleagues last week (31 in the UK + 3 in Canada) and have seen a lot of disinformation and lies that are really concerning. Particularly concerning how so many folk are willing to believe the Company’s excuses.
Last week, my colleagues who were in the studio were each individually messaged by HR for a short friendly meeting, under the friendly guise of “Hey, are you free for a quick chat?”
Upon attending this meeting they were handed an envelope with a short letter stating that their employment had been terminated for “gross misconduct” regarding posts made in Discord.
They failed to provide any evidence when asked, nor was any stated in the letter. And did not divulge any other information or reasoning - “and no other reason”
They refused their right to Union representation in the disciplinary meeting (which is against UK employment law) and were frogmarched out of the studio with the meeting lasting less than 5 minutes.
For colleagues who were not in the Studio that day, they received a phone call from HR that lasted less than 2 minutes telling them they were fired and that they’d receive the same letter as above. I am aware of one employee who had a panic attack at this moment, and HR hung up on them during this panic attack not caring at all about their wellbeing.
These colleagues of mine were hard workers who have spent many many years at R* in critical roles. With colleagues who have been at R* for more that 18 years and none of them have ever had a disciplinary in that time. They are not easily replaced and will certainly affect us in making our project deadlines.
These are very senior artists, animators, QA testers, designers, programmers and producers. Including Leads. All super talented people who were proud of their work over multiple R* titles, and all they wanted was the best for R* and their fellow colleagues.
Some of these members were off sick, recovering from surgery or on paternity leave. Fired without pay, losing their careers and putting them into hardship in the lead up to Christmas, and even potentially losing their VISAs to work in the UK.
Let me make this clear! I never saw any discussion/leaking of Rockstar projects in the Union Discord. The only ever discussion was around unionisation efforts and the working conditions at R*. The Discord wasn’t public. It was a private Discord group that only contained R* employees and the IWGB Union officials.
This was Union Busting and nothing else! Everyone fired was a Union Member, they were also predominantly from those who were on the Union Organising Committees of each UK studio.
Just one week before, the Union had reached ~200 members taking us over the 10% threshold required to seek recognition and begin engaging in collective bargaining. Allowing us to negotiate directly with management on the key issues that affect us: worsening crunch, inadequate pay and inflexible working arrangements.
They have fired over 34 of us now. There were over 250 of us in that Union/Employee Discord group. There is the fear that if they get away with this, they’ll have nothing stopping them from doing this again and again.
Those of us who are lucky and remain for now work in fear! Fearful when talking to each other at the tea prep, fearful that we’re next in line and are easily got rid of, too scared to go outside the studio and talk to (or even acknowledge) our colleagues outside protesting in fear of reprisals. Morale in the studio is at rock bottom. When we should be excited about what’s to come over the next year we are now totally deflated and our trust and confidence in others is totally shot.
Which is the truly heartbreaking part, as for us in the Union, all of our ambition was to make R* a happier, fairer, safer and more equitable place. That’s all. What has happened clearly shows that we care more about the wellbeing of our colleagues at Rockstar than the Company does.
The union remains unbowed and is fighting to win the reinstatement of every dismissed member of staff at Rockstar through legal means and campaigning.
This fight is critical, if Rockstar can get away with this, they will keep treating their workers with disdain, disrespect, and subjecting them to continued illegal treatment.
Thanks for your time, and I hope this is some truth that helps you all understand what’s going on here at the moment.
I you would be so kind, you can contribute to the fundraiser to support those fighting their dismissal here: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-rockstar-workers-fighting-unfair-dismissals/
It would be really appreciated if you could also share the above link. I won’t be cross posting this to other forums, but please feel free to share.
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Seeing the snow outside today reminded me of something: one night about one dozen years ago, back when I was living in Texas, I went outside for a promenade despite the layers of snow on everything. I walked towards the lone street light on the corner.
What I witnessed amazed me: it was dead silent outside. No insects or other animals making noises. No machinery that I could hear. No wind blowing anywhere. No precipitation. Just sheer soundlessness until I started walking again. It was the first time in my life that I could go outdoors to the sound of absolutely nothing, and I’ll never forget it.
Not only is China indisputably persecuting Uyghurs, but we have far more proof for the genocide in the Xinjiang province than we do for the one in Gaza. Millions of scholars who are not at all associated with either Adrian Zenz or Uyghur separatists agree that the Uyghur genocide is the deadliest, most important, and best documented atrocity of all time. If you need links to the evidence, I can give you as many links as you want.
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What is it that you think would motivate a lower-class Westerner to sympathize with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China?
Having nothing better to do?
Were you already aware that Soviet policies lead Transnistrians to resist antisemitism, even during Axis occupation?
ETA: Doing a search, it looks like I already told you this six months ago. I was unaware since you did not upvote the thread. That being said, if you hadn’t got around to reading the research then this is as good a time as any to start.