General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 33

Found this pic on UrbanHell (of course). It's Pyongyang. Just people outside, chilling, sitting at a little bar type of thing.

how is this remotely a urban hell lol
You can tell that it’s hellish because none of the signs are in English for no fucking reason.
This seems like a really great urban spot. People are actually outside because they want to recreate outside, and not because they need to go from place to place. That's what I'm missing in my city and it seems they have it there.

I feel terrible because in a victoria 3 playthrough with Mexico i supported the south in the civil war to mantain the US divided and weaker lol. The long term plan is to balcanize it and free native american states. Supporting the objectively reactionary side of a regional war in order to achieve a progressive goal, that being stopping the settler colonialism project, is a justifiable strategy.

It's funny that binchotan charcoal has been made obsolete by coconut briquettes but weaboos still buy the extremely expensive binchotan because muh japanese artisanship.

Not only are coconut briquettes much cheaper, they are also much more environmentaly friendly since it uses waste from the coconut industries and more efficient to make.

Tiocfaidh ár lá

My city has a free outdoor cinema all summer and they are showing Kneecap this evening

Pretty dope movie actually. Do see it if you have the chance.

The five-year plan has been completed, and the country is excellent. Let's bring the special achievements to the Central Committee of the Fatherland!

New DPRK poster.

My humblebrag of the week is that I got arrested on Saturday in Parliament Square under section 13 of the 2000 Terrorism Act. I was one of the old duffers holding the sign in support of PA.

I got a coworker to start reading Blackshirts and Reds! He's found it very eye opening, but very sad how nothing has changed.

Bad news for Pol Pot enjoyers as I have been advised to get glasses

sickosyes.jpg

Im just here manifesting anarcho-bolshevik to do a King of the Hill review.

I think the best joke was in the first episode. "What ocean?"

Photos from a hotel in Russia.

My major part paid of a community project is finished. I learned a lot about myself during this time. Now it's time to rest and process for a bit, get neglected personal projects back on track, before the next as yet unknown thing. I still have a roof over my head, food in the kitchen, energy to prepare it, and internet to converse with good people who help me broaden my horizons. Life is good.

ok back from work i will be dealing with emails starting with tomorrow god i hate my life

I'm back in uni for the final year

Congratulations and you're going to be great!
Good luck! Nearly through the finish line!
good luck! i will start again in like 2 months

I gotted banned off the shitliberalssay subreddit for making a lib joke. The mods over there seem a bit too trigger happy.

It's reddit, it's full of libs, they must be traumatized

ay mates can you all watch my girl for me please i have to go to work

She's been awfully quiet
- nah im here!!! how's it going? :3c
  i just got in this acc dont worry about me!! ^^_^

I have returned from a long break from Lemmygrad. Also, I can't see my profile picture, for some reason.

Welcome back!
I can't see your pfp either. I can see your banner though.

Everytime I upload a YouTube video, I'm suddenly swamped with dislikes. Usually 8. Why are all my foes crazy and obsessive?

If your reading this, your cute and you survived another week in this shit of a system

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0023656X.2025.2531432

In Britain, the Labour government deployed troops in at least 18 industrial disputes between 1945 and 1951 (Ellen, 1984). In Australia, the army was used to break a national coal strike that same year (Deery, 1995). In France, a centrist coalition government that included the [so-called] Socialist Party twice resorted to large-scale military and police repression during nationwide strikes in 1947 and 1948, including the occupation of mining regions and mass arrests of workers (Mencherini, 1998).

Did "democratic" Liberals decide that they need military coercion and terrorism against any protestors who demands meritocracy and accountability? At least it is one more prove the claim by Chinese government that are defending the peaceful protesting against armed terrorist group in the 1989 Tian'ammen Square massacre.
How could I believe in fake news from Western media oligarchy about government repression by successful countries of people of color when the Western media oligarchy practice the same repression themselves? They can claim that government oppression by Pax Americana is better than other governments, but this claim depends on the creditability of Pax Americana itself. If they are serious about their Liberal doctrine, then they should fire the workers if they had other potential workers as replacements. If they lack other prospective candidates, then the workers has bargaining power of the free market and they need to negotiate with the workers for better compensation or good working condition.

It's funny how Israel is seen as the protector of Jewish culture when they discouraged their citizens from speaking Yiddish or Ladino

I like to hurt myself by starting shit in predominantly right wing online communities. I made a post about a far right org intimidating our Pride on a Dutch subreddit and it is so funny. They are always posting Muslim lgbtq+ intimidation incidents and defend lgbtq+ rights in those topics. But now they are trying to bring nuance or are outright deflecting with other bullshit. I wonder why.

Also, these guys have the PR instinct of a mosquito. All you can do to make me look like a fool is saying: man that is stupid I condemn this. But they cannot bring themselves to condemn a right wing attack on the lgbtq+ community.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Still gay

based

From the DPRK

Beautiful architecture.

I'm working on a joke tell me what you think

Q: How many zionists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: This joke is antisemitic.

Do y'all think ID verification will soon be mandatory across all mainstream social media?

I can definitely see it ramping up even more than it already has. There may be one or two holdouts that distinguish themselves for not doing so, at least temporarily, though.
Will be in australia. By december all social media sites have to delete all accounts of people under 16 and the only way to do that is for them to ID people. Supposedly its to "protect children" but they aren't calling for age verification on porn sites so its pretty obvious its all about tracking what people say and do online.
- I've also heard that sites like YouTube will implement AI systems to estimate users' ages based on the content they view, and apply restrictions accordingly, such as blocking the viewing of videos deemed problematic, and an ID will be needed to prevent these restrictions. But considering that the majority of YouTube's "kid's content" is either brainrot or ElsaGate content, this will more likely be used to silence opposition, such as coverage on Israel's genocide against Palestinians.
I expect it to mandated by law to make accounts with any online service within the next 5 years. I'm working on a full transition away from the few things i still use that need accounts with those types of corporate services now. The main thing left to do being email.

Dark horse predictions for friday's trump putin summit:

Trump gets novachok poisioned by the british and the west blames putin.
A nuclear bomb detonates at the airport when putin's plane lands both sides blame the other and say the opposing president avoided the meeting and is just hiding.

What will you buy if you were here?

A bell and fuzzy hat. Winter is coming!
Def grabbing some pins, the classic hammer and sickle still rocks
I've been wanting an Ushanka. I already have a silver Lenin bust.
I already have some soviet pins, but a Lenin bust on my desk would be 🔝
give me all of the pins

My Mom is trying to get me to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad now:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8784661

The journalist Anas al-Sharif was murdered by the occupation. I had to cry it out after hearing it. When will it stop?

Yeah. Every few days I break down and scream something like "Just stop it already" to nobody in particular. If there is a god, when I die, I swear I am going to stab them like 30 times while yelling "This is for Gaza you sick fuck."

Back to work. Two weeks off for my pre burnout did me good I must say.

Pride was decent. Some fighting between participants and fascist who were protesting. Sadly queer activists for arrested for it.

Damn that's sad. At our pride, we had activists arrested for protesting the Booking .com boat that was pinkwashing their involvement in genocide. It seems the authorities who claim to be on the queer's side aren't on our side after all. That being said. I'm feeling more empty now our prides done. As a queer person, it was still nice to see that for a whole week the city became ours. Even though it attracted a lot of straight people who just came here to party and were harassing queer people lol.

Listening to the Autistic Culture podcast, season 3, and it's great so far.

Idk whether this has been talked about or not, but since Pocket has shut down, anyone has an alternative recommendation to it? I have downloaded Raindrop, but I haven't registered yet, maybe somebody has a better solution. (I have no access to self-hosting yet), thank you!

If you're able to self-host, you may want to look into karakeep or shiori. I started using Vanadium instead of Firefox on Android lately and have stuck with it because of how much better it is, however I do miss the ease of bookmark and tab sharing across devices. Right now, I'm trying to work with floccus, but having a shared read it later list now sounds appealing to me.
I'm using Raindrop, it's fine. I've used Pocket for a long, long, time. Raindrop is for me more like a bookmark manager, while the pocket was mostly 'read it later' or rather never app.

I have just watched Takopi's Original Sin and it's some really heavy stuff. It sheds light on some very real issues in today's society such as bullying, domestic abuse, suicide, etc., and how unfair conditions can lead to such behaviors. However, the ending feels a bit... Libby, for lack of a better term? (Spoilers ahead)