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Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
The events after October 7th are really fucking with my mental wellbeing. First of all I want to say that I know the west has always been fucked up. But the sheer amount of hate, propaganda and lying that has been going on ever since is just sickening.
Like, I am actively trying to fight against a genocide by protesting, raising awareness, aiding strikers and whatnot. I see images of dead children on the daily. I see images of starving people on the daily. I see war crimes being committed. Every. Single. Day. But somehow the media and the politicians and other people are trying to make it seems like I am in the wrong? For opposing apartheid and genocide? It makes me sick. It is despicable. It makes me seriously doubt why I am living in this society. How on earth will I ever be able to function normally when they very society I need to contribute to, is supporting genocide? I can't wrap my mind around it.
This is exactly how I feel as a covid-aware disabled person living in current reality. I have had genuine crises of ideology through it. Myself and people like me have, in effect, been abandoned by all, in whom as a communist I place the utmost confidence for radical positive change, and that is such a fucked up contradiction to navigate. I have watched friends and friends of friends die and continue to die to this shit as the world moves on and tells us we are in the wrong and actively punishes us for caring, and those of us not lucky enough to remain to struggle easily forgotten.
I have no faith in anyone anymore, especially not in the imperial core and especially not after witnessing the fallout of last October. Not after seeing everyone go back to brunch in '21 throwing any semblance of community care and public health away. Not after being in the summer of '20 George Floyd riots in my city and seeing in real-time the BLM movement co-opted and defanged right in my backyard. It feels like more and more of a depraved and hopeless situation in the western world- and most of all in the US- to me.
It's not in my nature to stop resising, as I'm sure can be said for you, too. I said it elsewhere and I'll say it here: as long as I’m alive and able, I’m not going out without giving these people hell to pay and I will never stop doing what I can for the struggle and what little of my comrades in that struggle remain that I can cling to. I owe no less to myself at the very least; you owe it to yourself. We are correct, and that has to amount to something in the end.
"I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy." 
The propaganda really does hurt, especially seeing what it does to others. So many people I love I now have to contend with being pretty much fascists who at near every chance given will gleefully talk my ear off about how stupid the Palestinians are for not liking the US or how protestors should be locked up/run over; they even donate to the IDF. Perfectly intelligent and empathetic people suddenly acting like monsters. It's made it so much harder to be around those close to me.
Feeling gaslit by the imperialists and genocidal sociopaths. You’re on the right side, comrade. Thanks for putting your ethics and morals into action.
the very society I need to contribute to, is supporting genocide
Are you finding that to be true even with younger people? I would expect them to be at least less disinformed than older folks. If so, it might make sense to focus your efforts there.
But I hear you. Where I live, it's as if Palestine doesn't even exist. Only one protest was organized after October 7th, and since then it seems everyone is back to normal.
Update on the cat: the surgery was successful, only one tooth was removed. I have already brought her back home. She is displeased. Her paw seems to be hurting somewhat due to the anesthesia catheter. Additionally, we'll need to get her kidneys checked, because blood biochemistry had some stats in red.
Keep wondering if it's easier with children, because they can at least point where they're hurting. But then realise it's probably worse, mentally.
You have been blessed by Smiling che
Yet another week on planet Earth
There's this somewhat popular left wing reporter in The Netherlands who posted an instagram pic of a sticker that said Fuck NATO and it brought out the socdems in the comments. I started beefing with some of them and their responses boiled down to CONSPIRACY NUT/RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA/ITS JUST NOT TRUE REEEE and that was it. Everything I don't like is fake.
I called America a "white supremacist state" and I was banned recently from a leftist forum.
They hated you, for you spoke the truth
There are talks about Senegal kicking out Fr*nce out of their country. Would be based.
Now there's a string of anti-imperialist West African countries from the coast to Lake Chad. Very good, especially since they all border eachother.
I don't have a piece of nationalism in me EXCEPT FOR TONIGHT WHEN WE PLAY AGAINST G*ERMANY
I hope you have fun watching your sport game
Naturellement
The Flemish Nationalist party released their party program for the upcoming elections.
Their nemesis towards the Islam has ended. Woke is public enemy number one now.
All my homies hate seasonal allergies
Heard that climate change is making seasonal allergies worse, something to do with how winters are warmer
A Belgian newspaper is rating politicians based on their last year efforts on a scale from 1 to 5 stars. One of our politicians, Jos D'Haese, got rated 4.5/5 as the highest rated politician. I thought it was pretty cool.
A few notable points: he lowered politicians' wages, is the most popular politician on social media and manages to constantly agitate the other parties.
Our party has started a push for nationalizing the recently declared bankrupt bus manufacturer in Belgium. We want to keep the productive forces capable of building (electric) buses instead of just letting them go bankrupt, forcing 2500 people out of a job.
I'd love to see more peoples talk about what their organizations are up to on grad, can we normalize that please?
did everybody see that putin opened the vault revealing jesus was Black?!?
Has anybody else noticed how upset Ali Abunimah looks in his latest videos? He looks like he cried for hours before attending his latest live stream, and I kept expecting him to suddenly break down during it.
I certainly don’t blame him for being upset with the monstrous atrocities that the neocolonists have been and are committing in Palestine, but I was so worried about him that I could not stop staring at him.
And my friend just sent a message in the group chat saying that the victims in the Moscow terror attack deserved it because of Ukraine. What the fuck.
Hit them with the 'yeah I guess, same for 9/11 victims because of Middle Eastern wars' to rustle their feathers
I must say I'm enormously relieved that tha image for the post changed(or the post changed) the other one caused me some degree of distress, but I didn't want to hide the post cause there might be some interesting stuff going on and such, but yeah this image is pretty nice
There is more and more proof that one of our extreme right politicians worked in service of the CCP. I'm extremely disappointed in this.
I don't think we should believe the CPC and VB are besties or that the CPC sees VB as an ideological ally. It's just that they are the biggest party who have been in Parliament for decades now, which probably makes it easier to get sensitive info without raising suspicion. A party like PVDA/PTB is probably under far more surveillance plus they are a rookie with their 5 years in Parliament. Also, right wingers and corruption, name a more iconic duo.
So uh how do I actually use the other instances on mobile like hexbear? Going to instances at the bottom just takes you there without the ability to post.
Ah so you click the all button at the top of the home page and that will let you see posts from all the federated instances
Our electoral program for the upcoming elections has launched (of which I have written some parts yay). Here is the link though it is in Dutch.
