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[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 hours ago

30K? that is terminal brain rot. There were 3 days of violence. The reason the internet is still turned off is because there is an american carrier group steaming to Iran.

As for how blacked out the internet is the commentator is correct that it is a near total black out.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There's truth to damage done by people literally paid to do terrorism there. See:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10468703

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10382120

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10356921

But the numbers claiming massive death done by the Iranian government are made up by the usual suspects:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10358195

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

thanks for the last one.

[–] 6kb_@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

rest in peace to pretti and renee good and rest in peace to michael parenti. man. this is just. wow

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

¡Chinga la migra!

[–] Marat@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't watch the videos of the Good or Pretti killings. I know that's understandable but even just looking at the thumbnails my heart rate starts to rise.

I saw a photo of the interior of Renee Good's car after the shooting. The blood all over the airbag makes me so...afraid for some reason. Maybe I place myself in her shoes at that moment. I don't know. I don't know

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

I feel the same. And I live in the Netherlands. I'm afraid we will turn in the same direction, especially with our fascist party rising in the polls. I feel threatened

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 day ago

A Dutch dog breeder decided to quit because their dogs were probably being used by the IDF and the increasing (legal) pressure from activists became too heavy. Activism works.

[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Inside you there are two wolves. One does ruthless criticism of everything that exists. The other follows party discipline. Both are Lenin.

[–] truly@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I think about Xi's published writings which I saw recently here or on Hexbear described as a bunch of speeches from ribbon cutting ceremonies, is it right to conceive of this as his thought being related to party discipline, strengthening of the party, which can also be seen in his anti-corruption purges? I was reading xiaohongshu's latest post talking about 3 CMC officials being purged - it seems to me both China and America have purged their upper ranks which I think corresponds with the qualitative shifts taking place in warfare at this moment. Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

[–] Marat@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't speak on the purges [probably related to corruption in China's case], but Xi's works are mainly speeches but they vary in terms of what they're about and where they are at.

In some cases they are ribbon cuttiing ceremonies, but in others its general speeches to organizations, universities, etc.

In any case Xi Jinping thought is a genuine refinement of Socialism with Chinese Charecteristics, and Governance of China explains the main goals quite clearly.

[–] truly@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Elementary school backpack from the DPRK

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The DPRK could unironically make a solid amount of cash exporting these, id definitely buy one for my nephews lol. Where did you find this picture?

[–] 6kb_@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago

theyre so cute :(

[–] 6kb_@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

WAAAUUUHHHHH OH MY GOD ITS SO CUTE (louder and sobbing)

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I saw this reel about a guy saying that private chinese investors are in a dire situation because they don't have real estate schemes where to funnel their money so they are doing this scheme where they buy expensive pokemon cards in china and then take these abroad to sell to get foreign currency. It was framed in a "oh look at the authoritarian ccp prohibiting investors!" but i see it as a pretty awesome way to get rid of speculators. China doesn't even lose anything since the only thing leaving china is pokemon cards, i.e. a worthless piece of cardboard 😂

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Please share, I need my daily sip of bourgeois tears sicko yes

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

it was a reel, it's basically lost in the abyss by now.

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Rich people are lazy

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 days ago

This reads like when I tried to make chatGPT make music.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Of course they're Swedish

[–] Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

God I hate this new censor in YouTube that silences banned words like "murder" or "suicide". First off, removing the word but maintaining the context changes absolutely fucking nothing, regardless of the type of content. Secondly, it actually calls more attention to the word itself because of the sudden sound cut and your mind quickly fills the blank, so you're even more likely to go "oh, suicide".

I understand (though still find stupid) silencing swear words, though it should be a client side optional thing. Silencing "bad words" is just stupid and can make serious videos about serious topics (like, say, a documentary about war) sound horribly silly with every other word silenced out.

Sounds like this:

James ____ John three times in the head ____ing him instantly. Two years later he was charged with first degree _____, but was eventually acquitted. In this lecture we'll explore this famous ______ case.

[–] Magicicad@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago

I've been organizing with a pretty organic student group at my college and it's been pretty frustrating to watch the Democrat machine begin to co-opt us (indivisible showing up to student organized protests and ignoring our messaging discipline, and fucking Disrupt trying to absorb us).

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Currently in the process of joining a local coop supermarket where everyone becomes a member and joins in running the supermarket as a cooperative, using only bio and fair trade products at an equal or even lower price than regular supermarkets.

Not necessarily communist led but still a cool thing to join of you have such a thing nearby. Great way to meet people, I guess.

[–] 6kb_@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

hapy cake day :]

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A Kurdish protest in my city has been the target of a knife attack it seems. 6 people have been injured. I know a lot of people active in the left wing scene who often visit these rallies so hope nobody got hurt. So far no info on the suspects.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 days ago

According to local anarchists the protest was attacked by jihad supporters, whoever that may be

[–] Marat@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Any other USians have that "growth mindset vs fixed mindset" thing really pushed on them in elementary school?

I feel like it was in a literal sense true but I always felt really infantilized by it. Although tbh I always felt infantilized at school in general anyway.

[–] 6kb_@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago

not usamerican but turbo vassal state and yeah. it’s pretty basic for me and it was very incessant throughout all of my childhood (i’m still in school but they’ve cooled off cuz i’m not a 5 year old anymore) and even when i was 5 i was like Okay i get it. but i still don’t hate the idea of it because my dad when he heard about it was like holy shit this changes my whole life and i was like oh okay if it makes you happy

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Idk but you can get better at anything by practicing and studying.

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