Some Random Tankie Memes i found on twitter

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Such a beautiful aircraft. Western media always tries to portray fictional Soviet machinery as boxy and ugly, but when you look at actual designs it's all flowing lines and style

Read about China on Reddit is like reading about Jews on stormfront.

So, embarassing confession time: I was kind of holding onto (hope I'm not the only one) an irrational hope that the patsoc crowd would someday get past their rightist nonsense and turn into genuine Marxist-Leninists. With the latest split between Maupin and Haz+Jackson Hinkle, I've finally seen what everybody else probably saw a long time ago: not gonna happen.

The thing is, the whole phenomena is just as media and personality-driven as the radlibs they criticize. Maupin is a TV reporter; Haz and Jackson Hinkle are "influencers;" Sameera Khan, who seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, is a model. And they're all jealous of each other's media presence. Maupin seems upset that Jackson have a bigger internet presence than he does. Haz and Jackson Hinkle are jealous that Maupin, as an RT reporter, plays in the media "big leagues;" going to Kremlin press conferences, interviewing the president of Iran, etc. Compared to him, they're small-time operators, and they know it. Hence the attempt to glom onto Andrew Tate -- very weird, because whatever Maupin did back in August last year, Tate did, and worse. Just a bunch of weird opportunists who mistake personal drama for advancing the revolution.

Hello, how’s everyone?

Went and touched some grass for a month.

If everything goes well the next few weeks, I’ll have a lot of free time the next few months for some effortposts on SEA history and politics.

One I especially wanted to do for a while was comparing South Africa vs Malaysia, specifically comparing the racialised class structure of their economies.

This is because in my preliminary research I found out that the the South African BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) programme (for all it’s faults) were inspired by Malaysia’s NEP (New Economic Policy) that aimed to redistribute wealth among the racialised classes in Malaysia. I wanted to explore more on that and also assess the failures of the aforementioned policies in actually transforming the racialised economic base of both countries (and improve my understanding of their histories as well).

Stay tuned for that.

If anyone has any material relating at all to this, by all means share it with me.

Have been away from Lemmygrad for a month (life was stressful), did anything noteworthy happen in the meanwhile?

Anyway, I'm back!

I remember reading a quote about how coalitions are essentially agreeing on the least-radical platform, with nothing taken from the more radical members. I thought it was in the state and revolution, but I couldn't find it. If someone knows what I'm talking about, please post it here.

why do I even bother?

I think I might try and touch grass a lot next month. Might spend all of October just focusing on reorganising my life and my work so things are a little easier on me. Had a rough month last month and have just been ignoring the frustration it was causing me. I've been avoiding dealing with my issues and distracting myself instead of focusing on improving things. Might just take a break from here as well. It's nice to talk to actual socialists (I have maybe 1 actual ML friend IRL) but it is frustrating to just see all the sheer hateful ignorance from the libs. It's fun to dunk on them, but it probably isn't good for my mental health to expose myself to all that right now. Making fun of them doesn't really do anything to combat those attitudes anyway. Sorry, this is getting rambly. I'll see people in a month.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Cool plane

I am curious if this happens in your countries. There are these businesses that sell stuff from local entrepeneurs, the catch is that the business charges a rent fee to showcase your products and also take a cut when they sell something 😂 funnily enough they are called "collectives"

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Comrades, Google has failed to give any useful information because of enshittification. Anybody know how to have a different working language between excel and word? I know VBA and all excel-associated commands in english but my work is in a different language. I type/work in that other language all the time except for in excel where I forget how to do the fuckin sum command. But changing the working langauge makes it a shitshow with spellcheck and several other issues. I'm tired of that BS. Any advice?

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !genzhou@lemmygrad.ml