• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    My apologies to the GenZedong people for interrupting a democratic proces when it comes to the making of the weekly General Discussion post. I was not aware of the system behind the post making and I created one on my own initiative. I shall repent.

  • ayamohamed [she/her]
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    16 days ago

    This picture is of girls in the Popular Front in Palestine, specifically Gaza, where the anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front Party is held every year in Palestine. This picture is from Gaza specifically in a football stadium called Palestine Home Stadium.Near this place.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    I made a post some days ago about getting suspended on Instagram for insulting a nazi. Yesterday I reported a post on a hooligan fights page in which a guy was sieg heiling and had an SS tattoo. I got a message from Instagram saying that it doesn't break Instagram's policy.

    I spend my weekend in the Ardennes part of the country, which has to be one of the most beautiful fall places in the world. Endless hills with brown colored trees on them, cute villages with stone houses, friendly people. I went there with my gf's family and I spend the weekend chopping up wood, lighting the fireplace, hiking and having fun with the family. It once again confirmed my desire to fuck off to a more secluded area and live in contact with nature and solitude. Until then I have to find my way in the city and spread communism I guess.

    Our party send a volunteer brigade to Valencia to help with the fallout of the flood. My comrades keep sending me surreal pictures of completely wrecked streets, piled up cars, people's entire furniture collection spilled out onto the streets. It's complete chaos it seems.

    • mjackxson@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 days ago

      no way! Meta's starting to become a fascist cesspool

      wow!!! That sounds wonderful! I feel you... i wish i could do the same lol

      Damn.

  • mjackxson@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    ngl, im feeling very depressed from work and family issues. The genocide in Gaza, Sudan and Congo also makes me feel more depressed and nihilistic. Some Revolutionary Optimism would go hard rn. (P.S is that image from the PFLP in Palestine? that's fire)

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    The violence against Maccabi fans in Amsterdam last week seems to have been a perfect event for the right wing government to restrict demonstration rights and to shift the narrative to the even more pro Israel side

  • Neptium@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    Haven’t checked on Lemmygrad in a while. How’s everyone been?

    My life has been going better lately, just hoping I can continue this momentum into the future.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    I went bouldering today. One of my coworkers invited me to come to his local place and I figured it would be a nice change from my regular gym routine.

    It was a super leftie gym. Lots of antifa stickers, pride flags, vegan food and whatnot. I expressed my desire to find leftist gym buddies here before and I think I have found just the place to get some organizing started.

    Also, bouldering is tough shit lol.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    I'm really enjoying "Class struggle" by domenico losurdo, i've been slacking on theory recently reading a minuscule amount of pages per day but ive enjoyed this one a lot.

    The global capitalist system is not based in a single oppressive relation, but in a myriad of them and very often contradictory. An american worker, member of an oppresed class, can view with indiference the subjugation of global south countries and sometimes even support it and effectively side with the oppresors. mexican workers, doubly oppresed by being members of an exploited class and exploited nation, can be the "bourgeoisie" in the family by oppresing women to domestic slavery. And this woman, triply opressed nationally, in work and in house, can also take part in the "exploitation of children by their parents". Its a myriad of contradictory relationships that a binary view of things like class reductionism can not explain. We have to surpass the binary view of social struggle.

  • amber (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    Used a sick day to get out of work. I do not have the energy to put up with the holiday rush lol. I don't know what the plan is for the rest of the day now, maybe read some more? I started The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome on my way home last night, so maybe I'll get comfy and read the next chapter of that. I've been meaning to watch Nosferatu as well, so maybe it's time for that. I don't really know anything about the movie other than the fact that it's an old vampire movie, so hopefully it'll be interesting.

    Do you all prefer to go into media blind, or do you prefer to know what you are getting into? Personally, I like going in knowing as little as possible, but for movies/shows I sometimes end up learning a lot before watching anyways, because I like to watch with my wife if she's interested, but she can't watch really violent stuff and unfortunately there is a lot of that out there.

    • ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml
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      15 days ago

      I haven't seen Nosferatu, but if I were to plan on seeing it I would do a little research on the historical context and phase that cinema was at when it came out. It helps to appreciate the film and see it in the lens of its time vs the bias I might have from film having evolved and grown from that period. Spoiler free as possible!