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I wore an ACAB shirt to work today and someone asked what it meant so I convinced them it was the police union
One of the far right Dutch parties, FVD, has a guy running for the municipalities who lost his teaching job for harassing underage girls. So I went to their insta to say how cool it was of them to let a pedo run for their party and they blocked me lmao. Free speech enthusiasts btw.
Last thing, has anyone here been the Beijing? I want to go on a trip there sometime. I’m planning on going to the Mao Mausoleum and the national museum, any other reccomendations?
I have, but I was very young at the time (around 6 years old.) We went to all kinds of temples and I even saw Mao Zedong’s tomb. I have seen Mao IRL.
They should just call it the Maosoleum in English
Hopefully you’ve booked those ahead of time as they’re usually packed lol. You can also try the Ming Tombs, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, Revolutionary Military museum (has a shot down U2 plane as an exhibit).
Oh im not planning on going for a long while, at least a year. But it’ll be my first time visiting a foreign country for any serious period of time so I want to be well prepared.
I think for this visit I’d like to stick more to socialist specific places, (although I’ll try to make room for the forbidden city and stuff) so the revolutionary history museum sounds cool
That’s fair lol, the revolutionary museum has a good number of exhibits from small arms, tanks, aircraft and even some small gunboats (both captured from enemies or those that were used by the army). There’s a small lunch area where you can buy and eat some of their MREs too.
If you ever find yourself in Shanghai, there’s also the museum of the Site of the first National Congress and the old Sihang Warehouse building where soldiers made a stand against the Japanese invaders.
Yeah, I’m trying to decide if I want to spend my whole time in Bejing or split it between Beijing and Shanghai.
Also I’m genuinely so mad that I can’t go to North Korea because of Visa restrictions. That would’ve been a nice day trip. But whatever, I’ll take what I can get
Why are western leftists like this lol
Is it just me or is the navy always a hotbed of rebellion for some reason? HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën, the German navy mutinies at the end of ww1, hell even Krondstadt (although I hold pess respect for the latter for obvious reasons) amongst others. Idk, i feel like i hear about it often enough so it’s starting to intrigue me
The store was out of my favorite flavor of rice crackers 2 weeks in a row. Its donald trumps fault.
It’s really wierd being adventurous but timid. Like I don’t mind trying new things or going to far off places, as long as I have someone who can help me in doing that. Unfortunately not a lot of people i know are lining up to take a hakf a week to a week long trip to China at somepoint. But also I don’t wanna go alone ):
Tomorrow there will be municipal elections in The Netherlands. I can’t vote as I don’t live there anymore. Just lean back and enjoy the shitshow, I guess.
I’m ready to be disappointed again
Just remember real movements get build on the streets and not on any government seat and it’ll be a bit more bearable
Looking at Javier Milei’s instagram… It’s just continuous shitty AI slop about how evil socialism is, often inserting himself as a heroic savior.
I can’t believe how cringy it is lol
Well that was something lmao
Also, thanks. Apparently some accounts I follow, follow and like his posts regularly. Good way to cleanse them from my feed.
Argentina is even more of a reddit occupied government than America. Sometimes I like to browse the Anarcho-Capitalism subreddit purely because some of the most hilarious people are on there. Here’s but a glimpse of some of their groundbreaking political theory:
That’s basically the meta of success in latin american politics, tho Milei is like the most vulgar form of it. E.g. see Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
I don’t really get the point of “critical” in critical support. It implies theres such a thing as “uncritical” support. When would that ever be a thing? As a marxist you’re always being critical. If you’re critical to the point you don’t support the government, then you’re not doing critical support. If you support something to the point you aren’t critical, you’re not doing marxism.
Critical support puts the emphasis on being critical. I have more problems with the Government of Russia than I have support for them but at the moment the majority of their focus seems to be on doing things I support. In many of the cases where I am critical of Russia I have no doubt that my criticism are correct.
China on the other hand I support. If I am being critical of their way of doing things I accept that there may be reasoning that I had not considered. I’ve only been actively practicing dialectical and historical materialism for a few years where they have a proven track record going back decades. Its more likely that I am wrong than the CPC.
Russia needs critical support because they are simply not marxist or any other flavour of leftism and therefore every pro-russia stance will be followed with that they need to fundamentally change.
This is different from, say, vietnam or china where we would criticise their approach to communism, but more in a friendly way towards comrades so that they can do better.
I think of it that it is critical that we support Iran and Russia no matter their politics and laws as long as they stay anti-imperialist whereas our support for China is a given because they are comrades.
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The United States wanted something, too: for China to get on board with a U.S.-led, liberal-democratic order and move away from its communist model. But that’s not quite what happened.
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i love when neolib school that hates me gives me bourgeois class conscious bangers that make me so happy
Every single day I am on the brink of ragequitting my job but the absolute state of the world makes me stay because I can’t afford the instability aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
Here have some bad advice: Quit your job, sell everything you own and live in your car.
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Sounds like the imperialist blockade has broken Cuba’s power grid, looks grim if they’re going to be attacking Cuba next.
Fortunately, this blackout is reported that it is being fixed -> https://www.granma.cu/cuba/2026-03-16/en-curso-el-restablecimiento-gradual-del-sistema-electrico-nacional-16-03-2026-21-03-42
As for the situation, the Cubans are rapidly increasing implementation of renewables and that is already helping with the reestablishment of energy services and the decrease of blackouts.
Even if the situation looks grim, there is hope and ways to fight it. As always, if you have the chance to help, please do!
Yeah, I’m glad China helped them with renewables like solar.
My heart, solidarity and full faith are in / with cuba and the cuban people, as I have said many times. Here though is hoping that the FAR is well prepared and or they have solid alliances
