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Keep moving forward everyone, and have a great week! Consistency turns effort into results.
As always, communism will win.
Please enjoy this picture of the ultras from Real Sociedad from Donostia during their Cup final match against Atletico Madrid (which they won)
I didn't know they were that cool. They also commemorated an antifascist fan who was stabbed to death by a fascist Atlético fan 28 years ago.
Basque people in general are really cool. Basically all their football clubs are heavily left wing leaning.
Finally swapped my desktop over to Linux! Found out Hyprland dev is shit, so trying to figure out if I want Sway, Niri, or just Plasma. CachyOS is cool but I also feel the pull of Arch... Decisions decisions decisions.
Mainly a gaming PC but I also want to use it for basic productivity, libreoffice and the like + relearning to program, primarily interested in Rust and Clojure based on the buzz I see around them. Not serious dev work, just messing around on the side.
Saw this on twitter and it really pissed me off, western leftists seem to be constantly shitting on actual liberation movements and then turning around and praising socdems, i hate these kinds of "leftists" so much
I thought it was common knowledge in socialist circles that Jacobin is part of the imperialism-compatible left? This isn't the first time they smeared an anti-imperialist global south government.
"more pragmatic than socialist" is really telling on themselves - that they think socialism can function by ignoring what is practical
these are idealists posing themselves as socialists, neglecting the scientific part of it
Non-pragmatic socialists are either dead socialists or socialists still stuck handing out newspapers. Either way, they are not seizing and wielding power to build a better world.
Captain Traoré is building a better world for his people.
See, I think there is a discussion to be had on whether Traore is a socialist or a bourgeois revolutionary and that can be interesting discussion to be had and that is ultimately relevant to the future of Burkina Faso and its people.
But Jacobin's particular framing of socialism and pragmatism as being mutually exclusive very quickly highlights their idealism at play. As cfgaussian noted a socialist who isn't pragmatic is either ineffective or dead. The socialism of Jacobin is inherently Owenist to the core. They aren't Marxists nor do they conduct Marxist analysis; there is no dialectical materialism to be found in their articles. What we find instead are pieces like this which are critical of anti-imperialist struggles without justifying that critical position - and this is crucial because it is entirely possible to validly critique anti-imperialist struggles, this is why the "critical" in "critical support" exists after all. But Jacobin doesn't do this. It offers the criticism without the support but that's not how it works. If you're going to criticize Traore then there are only two positions you can be in: support or opposition. You either criticize him because you oppose him or you criticize him despite supporting him; there is no middle ground. You are either on the side of the imperialists or the side of the anti-imperialists. Jacobin, it seems, isn't interested in siding with the anti-imperialists and that means there is only one other side to take.
I can see why Chomsky loves these guys as they have a lot in common: criticism without the support; i.e. pro-imperialism.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
Ultras of Swiss hockey club Ambri Piotta
Good to see some fellow leftist hockey fans. It's an expensive sport to play so players tend to be rich conservatives, and fans as well
american stochastic terrorism now spreading to mexico, shooter in teotihuacan was a columbine shooter fanboy oh my god what a fucking imbecile.
Yup, new evidence came out revealing that the guy was a Neo Nazi.
spoiler
Sadly, this won't be last one. Remember the other attack in a school in Guadalajara? That shitbag was also a Neo Nazi too.
I would beat the shit out of any teenager wearing a swastika like that holy shit.
An awful lot of people coming out to say the whole Artemis thing is fake. Like hundreds of people on a single Dutch meme account and theyre all serious.
I mean usa can't even win a war against Yemen or Iran do you really believe they could send people around the moon? (this is mostly a joke)
Really feel like when I stop posting on reddit, all the shitlibs just come and take over.
I’ve been drastically reducing my social media usage in general, and stuff just gets worse when I stop.
I made chemical weapons. 
I can find legitimate civilian uses for them (like adding them to pickles) but their potential for violent application is too great to be ignored.
I remember when a chef in our canteen made ghost pepper jelly and liberally slathered it on our fries off the menu.
It was delicious.
I had this thought during the brief nuclear threat moment some time ago and I thought to myself that if nukes really fell I still was expected to work the next day and it made me angry lmao. We are a strange species.
A night club I go to sometimes had their Instagram account suspensed due to anti queer censorship by Meta. They should join XiaoHongShu, which I did recently
How're you liking it? Honestly I think I just don't use it enough to find a community on there ):
Did get this really funny image though
i got my flu shot im a very tough little awesome guy
I hate the last portion of the semester where you're tired and burnt out from all the exams but everything keeps moving At a normal pace before finals anyway.
Also i still hate my statistics class. I honestly wish Mao would've retaken Taiwan so my professor would've died in the army
I honestly wish Mao would’ve retaken Taiwan so my professor would’ve died in the army
Thanks. you were the first laugh of my day.
Slight vent post (to be clear ahead of time, not a post about people here - in practice, it seems to be a thing that comes most out of western "free thinker" arrogant types): Some people have a tendency to obsess over phrasing semantics. This in itself does not bother me because I believe some people's minds process differently than others and for some, precise phrasing means more to them. And in fact, when a person is mature about this, it can be an important correction and a tempered, reasonable discussion that can lead to more precise and thereby helpful use of language. Then on the other side of the coin, you have the person who thinks like this, is generally immature, with western arrogance, and makes it a key part of their identity to thoughtlessly correct everything they see that they think is out of place. These people can be supremely annoying because they don't even understand the world very well to begin with and then on top of that, not only do they correct obsessively (sometimes inaccurately) over trivial things, they can't handle it when it's done to them. It would be one thing if they tended to correct and could take correction, but this type of person is the definition of "can dish it out but can't take it" and it makes for an extremely annoying person to be around.
It's sorta like if sealioning was a whole personality.
Indi.ca's latest post is brilliant. He's arguing that Capital is Intelligent Artificial Life and that even the epstein cabal are just cattle to the Capital Entities.
I've had a discussion with my parents, who are pretty left leaning, but still vote for a bourgeois party, and they told me that they are seeing a certain push to the left in said party. Now, they could be wrong, but this got me thinking of what's to come. It could be possible that, as China cements itself as the greatest country in the world (in terms of military, economy, international relations, R&D etc.), their ideology will have an influence on not just the world proletariat, but also on the world petit-bourgeoisie and even bourgeoisie, following that the ruling ideology always ends up being that of the ruling class. As a result, a literal red wave might be coming. It could just be rambling, but this does put me in a good mood.
Ever since the municipal elections last month I haven’t been involved with my party, or with organizing or protesting as a whole. I was planning on leaving my party, but thought that it was hard to leave my comrades behind. Although I was not that close with them so it doesn’t matter and will probably leave the party in the coming weeks
Conflicted on whether I stick with my current communist org or not. Problem is with my depression as it is right now it's making it very difficult to do a proper material anylsis. And on top of that, i'm not able to heighten my amount of political work due to said depression, so I feel somewhat stuck.
Can someone explain why LEGO? How did this become the ultimate war propaganda AI Video theme?
I’m assuming it’s because you can explode people without gore
This is likely it, now that I think about it. AI Video generators likely have a load of filters to prevent generating violent content
I just took CBD oil drops for the first time last night after not being able to sleep for 2 nights in a row. Slept like a log, also my anxiety is down a bit.
