GenZedong

Honestly as of this year I've gone very much from "my mom did her best" to "my mom could've done better" to "wait is x not normal" to "I hate my mom."

I know I shouldn't say that, we're family and she was a single mom taking care of me in a dysfunctional family. But it's the hypocrisy mostly, like how she constantly complained that everyone lacks empathy for her but never gave me any empathy for the things she did while drunk, or for emotionally abusing/exploiting me, or constantly guilt tripping me, or the fact that I said I was scared of her during one of her outbursts and she said she should be scared of me.

Gods, it's just...I don't like her. I honestly wish I could've had a normal person see the way she treated me behind closed doors.

It's wierd because it got worse as I got older. Somehow the kid who was screaming and tantrumming was treated nicer than the one that was obedient, pliable, and an emotional punching bag.

I think the thing that really gets me is when you read on reddit or even talk to people in real life (break-room politics, the best) you realize that liberals really, really don't give a shit that the war is happening. So many comments of "I can't believe we're losing to IRAN" and disbelief that we didn't just bowl over a country twice the size of afghanistan with double the mountains. If this occurred under Harris; we might have a few discontent grumbles but "Finally, we're doing something about one of the largest powers in the middle-east! Trust me, Iran is at fault for everything so it'll totally work this time"

Even more disgustingly, I could see them co-opting Palestine entirely and saying "Oh, we need to get rid of Iran to help the security situation in Gaza!". That was my prediction if she did win. Why so many seemingly left-leaning liberals were eager to jump and blame Hamas at every corner.

Shit is fucking disgusting.

I was thinking recently, why didn't the US use the name "Axis of Resistance" as a propaganda tool against its enemies? I dunno like framing the fight as the Axis vs the Allies yet again (I haven't seen them doing that yet).

Aren't Amerikkkans crazy nostalgic for WWII? So framing this as another fight against another Axis could be useful. Then again, they might be too sympathetic to the Nazis to ever do that.

The whole Dutch branch of the anti 15 minute city conspiracy is just so dumb. We already have that. I live in a city of 100k. I can be in the center within 15 minutes despite living at the edge. In the other direction I an be in an even bigger city withing 25 minutes. It's been like that for decades now.

Nothing quite hits like american true crime documentaries, it is such an insane society. Just saw one where a girl stole a newborn baby ( and killed ) to pretend she gave birth(?) because she had built up an insane web of lies about being pregnant hiding that she had hysterectomy when she was younger 😂

9/11 is the magical time of year I get to shake my ass at the yanks online who get pissy when the rest of the world anonymizes their lives like the do the rest of us 😜
Like... you've been killing this many people every 3rd week for 200 years bro idk what to tell you

Happy 9/11.

Entering the world of blue collar workers is ripping me out of my left wing marxist bubble I had in Belgium. All of my coworkers claim to be right wing. At our friday afternoon drink today several of them voiced their support for AFD winning in Germany saying they are glad they won and that the people have had enough.

Now, at first you feel like you need to get out of the racist group. But marxist organising for years has prepared me for this. Deep down I believe people are left wing and that they are led on to become right wing by scapegoating of the oppressive bourgeoisie class. So, naturally, you try to engage in their visions and concerns. By asking them some simple questions I managed to get to the core of their problems which were almost all the same: cost of living increase, imaginary enemy created by the media, working too many hours for too long, etc.

I managed to make a start in poking holes in the fabricated narrative they have inside their head. Too easy for left wingers it is to stick their heads in the sand thinking they just know better than all those racist blue collar workers who mostly vote right wing in this country. Which is a shame, as our very beliefs were founded by these same workers many years ago. The left managed to abandon the working class here resulting in them turning to racist parties.

This will be a huge task to fullfill but I truly believe that by empathic towards their concerns and steering them in the right direction, I can get these people to change their views. Of course this is possible because of my privileged position of a white man. But someone has to turn the tide. A specter is haunting The Netherlands. It is me.

Dwarf Fortress development should be nationalized for the following reasons:

• Game need optimization
• Game needs to exist forever to teach children
• Game teaches:
  • nobles are parasites
  • central planning is better than free market
  • child predators (goblins) and thieves of public property (kobolds) should get thrown into magma
  • tunnelmaxxing and engineering
  • proper revolutionary optimism ("Losing is fun!")

Wow, discourse around new products is ridiculous.

Was watching a video on the new foldy iphone. Gave up halfway because of how utterly meaningless it was to me. I think phones should be a textbook example of literal commodity fetishisation. "It's just 3000 dollars guys!". For a folding plastic screen with fancy cameras, that you'll use to poison your brain with instagram reels (or ehatever the newest thing is, I only use lemmygrad and a freetube, and the mobile version of freetube I use doesn't even work right now.). You cannot convince me thhat people naturally want this. People don't need this. It's pure ideological brainwashing.

Are there ethnic Ukrainians who speak mainly Ukrainian who are pro-Russia? And are there interviews or articles about them?

I had a day out with my partner some days ago, it was nice. Although we're still figuring our relationship out, I can definitely say life feels a little more manageable since it started.

The windows 10/11 comparison page is funny. They have a thing that compares features and one of the standout features they have for windows 11 compared to 10 is "Smart App Control provides a layer of security by only permitting apps with good reputations to be installed on your Windows 11 PC."

That is not a benefit unless I am, like... an elderly person whose mind is going and needs to be kept safe from myself. For most people, this is "you're too stupid to understand tech, we'll decide for you." It's infantilization at best, but more likely malicious matter of capitalist control. Fuck windows.