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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 week ago

It blows my mind how the socdems in my city managed to put forward one of their old politicians who used to be mayor. He has been convicted of fraud and embezzlement when he was the CEO of a football club, among other things. He was facing multiple years in jail but managed to buy off his sentence. Highly corrupt individual.

But apparently socdems have no problem with that.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i wonder how big of a % of a country GDP is purely middlemen being parasites

[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago

A lot. The US conveniently switched from GNP to GDP as it stopped producing things. GDP is a measure of value captured, after all.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are virtually no public bathrooms anywhere here but I do have a subscription to some shitty chain brand gym and I can use that as a public restroom in any city. Dumb as fuck.

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you could use any statue of Leopold II, I don't see what other purpose they would serve

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I read somewhere once that the only reason the USA has a culture of having free to use bathrooms in businesses is because people would just go wherever otherwise back in the day. Like oh i cant use your bathroom? Cool lemme take a leak on your door step then.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Went to an anti-war demonstration yesterday where they called for diplomacy instead of more weapons to Ukraine, but they still called it an illegal Russian invasion. The Dutch left has a long way to go.

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[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I hope you all have a nice week :D

[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] lelkins@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How is progress going on giving me that 14 day week?

[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Fine, but I only wanted to do it the once

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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

he Otto Grotewohl, DDR prime minister

picture depicts him looking with immense disappointment at modern Germany

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol the gesturing makes me thing of a measurement...

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is trying to understand how Germany went from the GDR to whatever this is,

[–] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Germany is broken once again. Fuck AfD.

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

ever feel like the Unification went the wrong way?

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[–] guardofrepublic@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I remember that he was SPD before the merger of KPD and SPD in East Germany.

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I very very, deeply disappointed Prime Minister Otto Emil Franz Grotewohl from the German Democratic Republic

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

You had 1 job, just the one

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yesterday i talked about north korea with my laoshi, laoshi asked me if i liked the dprk and i said "yeah why not", then asked me if i liked south korea and i said "not much", laoshi laughed a bit then mentioned that young cnetizens despise south korea and constantly fight with them online lol. china is in good hands.

also another funny tidbit is that in dongbei, the province north of korea historically known as manchuria, the people are very hostile to japanese brands and people lol.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

omg my chinese lessons are working. I understand what laoshi means

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

很好!i am also starting to feel more confident as i progress through my lessons.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At this pace the EU and Ukraine will declare war against both Russia and the US. It feels like this entire continent is collectively losing their minds right now.

[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've been trying to get in touch with my father. I haven't seen him since I was very young, about 7 or 8 years old. I think I found an old Facebook account of his. It's not active, but I've been reaching out to some connections. Only a couple have responded and I gave one of them my phone number.

I think he might be trying to call me, but I pretty much never answer my phone. It's always on vibrate and I usually only receive spam calls anyway. I hesitated the first time. I picked up the second, but no one replied. I probably should have stayed on the line longer, but I panicked a bit. I finally got the courage to call the number back today, but it went directly to voicemail, which isn't activated.

Maybe it's spam. It's a local number, but it could be spoofed. What an archaic and frustrating way to contact people.

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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sometimes I am reminded of the phase in my life in which the Uyghur genocide bullshit was making rounds in the news and I went like: 'I'm going to never buy Chinese products again!' which I actually followed up on. I find it amusing to think about how I turned out eventually lol. But at least I actually wanted to do something against it back then, I guess.

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[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Palestine protests are in the news again, even though the dems swore up and down that they stopped, and now the MAGAs are salivating at the idea of Trump having them all arrested, murdered, and deported to Gaza. In that order.

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I've seen since last year that Mil-Tec backpacks are in fashion for some weird reason. And they all have a black and white US flag, or a camo-colored one. It's very strange since we're in Europe. It gives massive bootlicker vibes, but I guess the upside is it gets easier to spot them lmao

[–] The_Filthy_Commie@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How did the Hexbear auction go? Cause all my subs went silent, like slop, chisme, etc., but when I go to Hexbear they're still active?

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

they haven't re-federated yet

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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Exactly five years ago covid hit my country. I cannot accept it has been five years already lol. It's like I'm still sort of waiting for life to get back to normal despite no Covid restrictions being in place for a few years now.

In 2019 I started to break free from some bad habits and I felt like the future was looking bright for me. Going into 2020 I was excited about what might come. And then covid hit and it changed me from a pretty happy and goofy person into someone kinda bitter and anxious. It's probably not solely covid's fault but still. And then when it was 'over', Ukraine and its financial consequences for Europe hit.

[–] redline@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm almost at the point where I want to swap all the sites and apps I use for Chinese alternatives. I need some of them, so I won't fully commit to it, but wouldn't it be nice?

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Its so amusing watching europeans being so confused about the recent developments on ukraine.

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