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It's concerning the amount of times I end up in a discussion on Nazism and the other person says 'but they were left wing. They had socialist in their name'

So in the past week in The Netherlands at least 3 women were killed by a man but since the suspects were (most likely) Dutch, there is no massive outrage, no Dutch flags in football stadiums, whatever like there was some weeks ago when a refugee killed a girl. All of a sudden we don't have a femicide problem anymore it seems.

One of my coworkers grew up in Soviet Latvia and yesterday she was talking about her school period and how it was kinda strict but at the same time gave opportunities to develop, and one of my other coworkers asked: 'and if you didn't listen? GuLaG? Haha' and she looked at him like: no that's not at all how it worked. The gulag wasn't that much of a thing.

Hope everyone can keep up with the goals you've set out for yourselves, has a pleasant week, and stays safe in these troubled times.

As always, communism will win.

The last week of news has made me so angry. The UK going even more authoritarian on the right to protest, the treatment of the activists Israel illegally detained, the brownshirts of America waging war against civilians.

I wish I could do more but I am also really struggling to find a group in the UK with their shit together.

It has really been infuriating to witness and feel so powerless!

Sometimes I feel like if I were to go to the media I could have them write such a devastating piece on the unions that they would not recover from it.

I would never but fuck me do they make working there miserable, hypocrite bunch of shits.

Got some new insights in the planned reform in our unemployment benefit system that will be implemented soon and it is shit. It is truly made by people who have no clue whatsoever of how it works. But in the end thousands of people will lose benefits and that's what counts to them. Keeping us under their thumb.

What surprises me more is how little resistance it gets. Same with retirement funds reform. Like, wake up guys. This is affecting YOU. YOU are closer to unemployment than you think. And then it's too late. YOUR retirement money is being taken away as we speak. YOU have to work longer. All the while billions will go to the defence industry annually.

The passiveness of it all is infuriating.

The Beijing Military Museum:

This is what I posted on October 7, 2023:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2258613

At the time that I wrote that, I had no idea about the raid on the ‘State of Israel’ until evening, when a friend on the telephone told me about the incident. At the time, I naïvely believed that the worst that was likely to happen was the IOF bombarding Palestine for a few days as retaliation. As we all know, the full aftermath was even worse than that, to put it mildly.

Yet it is having this context in mind that this otherwise mundane thread feels so much differently than it could have: there I was, talking about the differences between two Torot with an almost youthful fascination, blissfully unaware of what was going on in the Levant and the atrocities that would plague the region for two years. I almost envy the simplicity that our lives had back then. I could easily talk about the mildly interesting features in Judaism or Jewish cultures without feeling like I was neglecting anybody.

In France, the prime minister has handed in his resignation something like 12 hours after nominating the new government.

There have now been four prime ministers (Attal, Barnier, Bayrou, Lecornu) since Macron refused to recognize the result of the parliamentary snap election he called in summer 2024. Macron has stayed true to his original motto since 2017, which is not to compromise on anything ever, even with potential allies.

Polls in France systematically disadvantage the main left-wing party LFI and its probable presidential candidate for 2027, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Even so, he is currently polling at 15%, indicating that the coming presidential election will very likely be a contest between the left and the far right.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

My school has a plan to go to the USA for a study trip. Is it too risky to go as someone who's involved in left wing politics?

Oppo! Have a nice week NOW!!!

Okay look, I stand in solidarity with protesters of all stripes but please stop going to serious protests wearing funny little costumes. Like that person in a frog suit who got gassed, this isn't a game.

what do you guys think the next decade or so will look like? with the american empire crumbling, i could imagine decades happening. if the government can't keep a lid on anti-imperialist movements abroad, i could see the us taking its first baby steps toward revolution, not to mention the oppressed nations. at the same time, nothing ever happens. the empire is losing strength, but that's not the same as saying it isn't strong. internally, its citizens care more about being able to watch some shitty talk show than palestinian lives, maybe even their own lives. the security apparatus has a lot of money and a lot of toys. the western left is a joke. if the treat faucet doesn't stop pouring, nothing cool will happen in the us. and if nothing cool happens in the colonized nations, the treat faucet will never stop pouring.

I've been exploring some of the guns I never used before in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's only today I realized the one that looks exactly like an AKs-74u is a shotgun and not an SMG and I only discovered this when I tried to shoot a gangoon and didn't get the usual rapid fire of bullets I was expecting.

It was then I remembered the Saiga-12 exists and the design was likely based off it and not the AKs-74u.

I swear dealing with technology at work turns me into Kaczynski

i watched one battle after another a few days ago. it was fun (just ok imo), but damn... is this how they really see us? LMAO