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  • Belgium has a femicide problem. Every two weeks a woman gets killed. And of course the government doesn't seem to do anything about it.

  • Our party is focussing hard on the upcoming elections next year and even though I see the importance of it, I don't feel the urge to invest too much energy in parliamentary politics. And that's mainly what we seem to do right now.

    It sucks, because it's really hurting my motivation right now.

    • What does your party usually do? Mutual aid, theory groups, etc.?

      • Main focus is non parliamentary things. We try to influence people in the workplaces by having our members set up groups at their place of work. We often stand at factory gates in the early mornings to talk to the workers starting their shifts. We operate in local action groups who tackle local problems. We run several different free healthcare clinics. We do exchange projects with for example Cuba and Palestine.

        There's lots of things we do, but I feel like they are not the main focus right now. I get why, elections can be important. But I feel less inclined to tell people to just VOTE!!!

  • The mood of the Soviet Union today is a mood of tremendous struggle and incredible conquest in which individual values and problems pale before the brightness of one great problem whose solution is told off by the ever-rising curve of production, the opening of steel mills, the successful mastery of tractor plants, machine building works, textile factories. It is a mood in which a newly literate servant girl will hail the rain running into her leaky shoes if that rain means harvest. Harvest somewhere far off on farms she never sees.

    Anna Louise Strong, This Soviet World (Chapter VII) [Emphasis added]

    This probably goes harder in context of the book. I'll work my hardest to get it done, because this thing is soo good.

  • So Marinka was liberated last week, Avdiivka will also be liberated soon, Pissinger died, GTA VI trailer just dropped, new Godzilla/King Kong trailer dropped, yeah things are going pretty good this week, hope it continues for the rest of the month.

  • What... It's already a new week? It was yesterday I saw the new weekly thread go up?

    • "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin... Then there are weeks that we all skip somehow

      • Let me answer your quote with my own (I have nobody to send it to, but I want to tell people about this great book I am epub-ing).

        All over the country for more than a month elections had been going on in far-away factories and villages. Soviet elections do not take place on a single day but are determined by local convenience within a period of several weeks prior to the convening of an All-Union Congress. Localities choose dates which will enable their outgoing governments to finish their business, and give the incoming governments time to prepare demands for the All-Union Congress. These candidates and demands had been subjects of much discussion. But the attitude to the elections expressed itself rather in action than in talk. Hundreds of thousands of peasants were joining collective farms "to break with the past and enter the elections as collective farmers." Factory workers were energetically completing new models of locomotives, turbines, inventions, to send as presents to the coming congress. There were, in fact, so many of these presents that the sending of most of them was ordered confined to reports.

  • Listening to some beautiful patriotic music from the DPRK.

    Thinking of how the west has never forgiven these people for building a life for themselves and refusing to submit to US imperialism. Sanctions are still in place. Average westerner doesn't see them as human at all. US bombing killed 20% of their population in 1950--1953. They (the west) would gladly do the same again. We all are witnessing the massacre that the US puppet is committing in Palestine. The pictures are burned into my brain now. Can't imagine what it's like to actually have to live through the horrors. While the world looks on and does nothing. They would gladly do the same to every other country that dares to oppose them. The kids from this video? US army would murder them and not even blink an eye.

    I am incredibly glad the DPRK has nuclear weapons. International law is a joke. Death to America.

    Sorry for incoherent rambling. I'm really bad at writing.

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