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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The local feed here is very relaxing I must say
every time i see someone that is genuinely trying to learn but is not really good at formulating questions and their questions are read by others as inflammatory i get that feeling of disappointed amusement it’s like a divine comedy because i get both sides and why they act the way they do. i fully fully fully understand how this hypervigilance online is a pretty apt response to just how wholly the internet is astroturfed but the thing that makes it most effective is that it’s truly indiscernible since most people are so inundated with propaganda or simply just unable to formulate a question in a way that does not seem loaded that a plant is indiscernible from someone in earnest. bleh
Many such cases
I’ve really been getting into painting this year. I feel like it’s a great way to work through emotions. Hopefully I can find a way to use it for politics and just so share, maybe by making agitprop. I was thinking of making a zine about a “socialist version” of the city I live in with some tongue in cheek visuals and at least somewhat more serious city planning/slice of life stuff
Happy Pride! Hope everyone has a great month ❤️
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
Saw a vid on the Dutch TV about an Israeli dude on a construction site, I guess he is responsible for it, explaining how some new rules make it illegal for Palestinians to work on his site. He started crying because he says he misses them a lot and they are his friends and he is worried about them. Probably the first Israeli person I have seen in years who shows a shred of emotion about what is happening.
I hope you all have a nice week and a great pride month :D
You too Oppo! Happy pride month Everybody!
You too! Happy pride month! ✯⸜( ᶿ̷ധ ᶿ̷)⸝✯
You too Oppo! Happy pride everyone!
Have a great week, everyone! Try to limit doomscrolling, being present in real life, touching grass, all of that is very helpful for achieving long-term goals and a healthier mindset.
As always, communism will win.
Happy pride!
I’m really worried about Cuba. I had a similar feeling of dread right before Venezuela was defeated, and Iran was attacked. But unlike the previous two, Cuba is the most vulnerable and susceptible to collapse under US pressure right now.
Cuba has survived a kind of economic siege and attempts to coup them for decades now. It’s always possible they could fall, but that’s true of the US capitalist class too. We live in uncertain times and the empire is trying to reassert itself in decline but the material realities don’t hold up. I think the US and israel are in somewhat mirrored positions right now, in that way. Israel is obviously more vulnerable as a whole, but both have more fronts open than they can handle, have global reputations in freefall, and are too stuck in belligerence to assert stability.
Also, I would not characterize the Bolivarian Revolution as defeated, from the information I’ve seen. They appear to be working through a difficult strategic retreat and some internal struggle to work through as a result, but the struggle for liberation is a war, not a single battle.
Your worry is valid, but I encourage you to zoom out and consider the larger picture.
Cuba is extremely vulnerable. The U.S. can just attack it unceasingly with less time needed for positioning units. They won’t have as much time to prepare in between strikes.
Venezuela and Iran can hold out but I don’t think Cuba can do the same.
everyone be kind to themselves and to others and i hope all of you fare well this coming week. happy pride month to all as well :)
generally after i started to even look into ML politics i am calmer and less anxious and distraught than i used to be on a day to day basis, even month to month, whereas before my liberal politics with no material basis gave me troubles and constant anger and confusion and distress and (well most importantly) hopelessness at the world.
on the other hand i also do get so enraged every so often and i understand why lenin had a stroke because today i’m just mad as fuuuuck. don’t want to argue with someone that replied to me on one platform, don’t want to think about the stupid middle schooler i just saw parroting uyghur genocide in this day and age (yes, it’s of the age where it’s forgivable, i’m not mad at the actual kid as much as i of course am at the myth continuing to this DAY), don’t want to think about how many people are getting shot and killed and bombed right now in palestine or iran or anywhere else and how little most people care, don’t want to think about the eileen gu poster i saw vandalized to deride her chinese identity, i want to sit in bed and rot until my vision stops having a red vignette like i’m in some stupid video game. i’m going to practice gratitude and not resent my adhd or any other thing that’s afflicting me and i’m not gonna let my rage make me crumble like a cookie but wow, some days your brain just conspires against you.
lenin’s stroke
You should being shot with a gun if you’re worried about this particular medical incident
audhd is like getting conked on the head some days
y’all wud go crazy hearing mexican media trying to frame “collaborating” with the CIA as a state governor, without telling federal goverment, as a good thing. The CIA!
