General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 6
General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 6
Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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My application to be a member of the party has been accepted! This Sunday, I'll be attending my first ever meeting! Such a joyous occasion.
Éljen a munkáspárt! 🚩🇭🇺
31Guess who just got an eviction notice. Death to landlords.
22Death to landlords, of course. I wish you luck in finding a better place to live 🫡
17Thank you comrade, its tough out here
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May Mao watch over you. May all landleeches die and their ill-owned property redistributed to those who'd actually live there.
14im so sorry comrade, i wish you the best of luck, and all future revenge
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I pandered buying a commie pin for my backpack, but I'm trying not to get hatecrimed and I already have a high risk being a femboy.
21Where do you even get a hold of communist pins? I’ve debated getting some myself (subtle as I don’t want to be attacked) but I don’t know where would be good to get them.
5You can find some on websites like Temu, but they won't be named "communism". I found one here. I've noticed they frequently get resold with a big margin on western sites. This way you will directly pay the producer.
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So I was walking through the city this evening when a guy started talking to me. Thinking he was some sort of street sales person fot whatever internet company or something, I politely told him to leave me alone. But then he said he was collecting money for Palestine and I felt bad. He was raising money to send water filters to Gaza. I donated of course but I still felt shit lol.
19CW: deteriorating mental health, depressive tendencies
My mental health has deteriorated horribly since uni started back in September. I hate university so much and I don’t think it will ever be a good experience for me, since I’m not a very sociable person and I find myself very irritable lately…
I want to find an alternative (my main interests are the gym and programming) that at least gives me enough money to live, because I’ve accepted I will never be happy. However, my parents seem to hate that idea and have tried their hardest to keep me from dropping out. It’s been hard.
With that being said, hope you all have had a good week!
19Gotta respect to the people who sneak into buses through the back door.
19I'm gonna be real. I'm getting tired of seeing news articles about things that are obviously going to be happening under capitalism.
Yes they are privatizing everything. Yes they are killing everything and everyone.etc etc etc.
Is there a community, or an interest at all, where we can post something and talk about praxis?
So instead of "they are ruining healthcare!". Could maybe have at least one community where it's:
They are ruining healthcare (article) and my town and I have started organizing against it.
Or : there are so many homeless! (Article) we started this mutual aid group. Any advice?
I just think it can become a distraction from real action constantly reinforcing what we know, without an effort or recognition of each other's praxis.
19I get where your coming from but I'd also like to point out that for me personally these articles come in pretty handy when I'm discussing these things that we know will happen with friends that don't. They're a useful tool to back up my arguments when I try radicalizing people, as it's helpful to be able to point to specific instance where these things are happening right now, in an effort to convince others that theories established long ago are correct.
17You're right of course. I suppose it's frustrating knowing there are dozens of us and we don't have a place to share successes and failures of praxis. Maybe I have internalized the sentiment that social media is a distraction from action.
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Tempted to start calling Dutch libs who are against farmers protests genocide deniers like they do with the Holodomor
16whats the picture of?
16you listen to a song that mentions him all the time yet you don't know George Habash?
3WAIT YEAH OKAY THATS THE SAME ONE I REMEMBER NOW
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The Dutch socialist sub is having a proper funny infighting session this week. Two or three MLs (though they seem to be ultras actually) are constantly starting shit about NATO being evil and the socdems and libs are getting mad about it.
Shows how far from socialism The Netherlands is.
15Rare ultra W tbh. If the succdems want "NATO with socialist characteristics" then fuck everything they stand for.
13I just finished this very good video of a dutch sociologist exposing how dutch socdems are a imperialist war force in service of NATO (and how NATO destroyed Yugoslavia) https://youtu.be/xhmTqS2o6Q0
4I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Drone was intercepted near Dzerzjinsk last night. Yes, it is named after Felix Dzerzjinsky. No, it's nowhere near the Ukrainian border. If fact it's further away than Moscow.
14Was just watching the new Coaster College video about the roller coaster accident that happened in a park in Shenzhen last October, and while the video was good, man, so many of the comments are exactly what you'd expect about anything related to China
The funniest ones were the "made in China" ones, when the coaster in question was made by a US company 😂
It's also pretty funny for people to act like there's fewer repercussions for Chinese companies for this kind of thing, when the video even mentions that the investigators sent by the city directly recommended criminal charges against multiple managers from the park in question, which is wild when these sorts of accidents in the US almost never result in anything resembling criminal charges, usually the people responsible don't even face any consequences
It's also interesting to see people mention it as being unusual that the Chinese government is so open about something (since the investigation info is available to the public), unfortunately I doubt they'll look at this and question anything else they've been told about China's government
13bruh i used to post like 24/7 what happened to me
13Did you, perchance, happen to brush up against some grass
15Sometimes it's good to take a break
11Collage
8Looks like you're doing that thing where you develop healthy boundaries with your phone
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Why is translation so damn expensive? I just want a single book translated. I'm not buying a fucking car.
13good translations require actually checking out every individual word to make sure nothing goes wrong, think about reading "I walked to the ball." You either imagined that as a little round thing or a grand ceremony, that happens in every language, and only gets more confusing the further from your language you go. Not to mention translating culture, translating words that dont have a 1 to 1 with your target language, trying to translate how a society views certain concepts or ideas, and translating a joke is absolutely insane to watch the process of.
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Bad news folks, parents got covid
12Good news folks, my test is negative
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thanks to /u/AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml for this week's picture
10hehe 69
10hey, don't know if it's Jerboa (my client), but the matrix homeserver and space link doesn't work for me.
cheers from Brazil, have a great day!
8Brazil mentioned
5apparently I forgot to update it, thanks 👌
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I have one more midterm this week and I’m pretty sure I flunked the three last week. Oh well.
8I failed first year math once and physics twice. I now have a physics degree with a math minor and engineering minor, and will be submitting my master's thesis in physics this month.
So it sucks.
But it's not the end of the world.
10Edit: I forgot to say that this comment is quite inspiring really. Knowing that you’ve accomplished so much even with a few slip ups, it does make me feel less alone and at ease. So thank you for that.
This is sort of the mindset I’m trying to have. I only really need a C- to get the credits (I’d rather get higher so my GPA doesn’t suffer) but I know failing these first exams isn’t the end of the world, I have other exams/quizzes/assignments to make up for it. Thankfully after this term I will be done with psychology and I can focus on History and PoliSci.
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This is one of those comments where an 'acknowledgement upvote' could be misconstrued – I'm sure you've done fine!
7Maybe but even if I did horrible I’m not to stressed about it, those three classes have a second midterm (my online course has four) to make up for it plus quizzes and assignments (that make up a huge chunk of the overall grade) and the final of course. Maybe I did surprisingly well but considering I had to guess a lot I’m thinking not lol (I’m not stupid I just didn’t study as well as I could’ve since they came too fast). Thanks for the vote of confidence!
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I wish finding games to play was easier. I yearn for affordable entertainment. Nothing sparks joy. No, I do not accept the depression diagnosis. A good game would cure me, but all new releases are buggy messes or/and have barely any content with most of stuff locked behind paid for DLCs. And for some reason a lot of games also heavily go into either a blue or a sepia tint all over which makes me sick.
7What console do you play on? If you're on PC you can check out itch.io and download the free stuff. There are tons of indie devs making cool stuff on there, it's like the flash game websites of old
5What kind of game are you looking for?
I've been having a lot of fun with My Time at Sandrock and a modded Stardew Valley (Stardew Valley Expanded) lately.
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