General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 10
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I have no idea why I never post in this thread. Greetings comrades. Hugo Chavez was mentioned in the news today so I must post my favorite image of him.
just good vibes
Has anyone else been extremely burnt out, stressed, and depressed lately? I feel like I’m falling behind and I don’t know who to turn to. I can’t take breaks or vacations. I’m very tired.
I wish there was more I could do for myself, my community and my health. I’m just very tired.
Basic necessities cost way too fucking much, let alone small luxuries. And your society is gaslighting you into thinking that the genocide you're watching is actually totally cool and super normal. So get back to work, keep buying things, and stream some more pop culture garbage content.
It'd be crazy if you weren't feeling burnt out and dysregulated.
The news is horrific, conditions are rapidly deteriorating, the amount of homeless people I see everyday increases each time I commute to class, more stores are closing, the climate (especially in my area) has been royally fucked, etc.
On top of that, I’ve devoted fully to the student’s life, and I am regularly pulling 90-100 hour weeks between classes, lectures, projects, assignments, exams, studying, and working to stay alive. Everything is online, everyone wants to reach you every single hour of the day. I force myself to sleep 8 hours a day, so the little time I have to myself is for the bathroom, eating scraps, and chores.
I don’t have time to eat, let alone the money to do so. I just forget the eat many days, and I’ve lost a lot of weight. Don’t spend time with anyone except my partner whenever I get the chance, and if it wasn’t for them and my local party I feel like I would have snapped by now.
I don’t have the energy to do anything, and I’m still falling behind. I don’t even have the time anymore to volunteer with my party anymore, or attend any meetings. I feel like I’m failing the cause. Ironically the thing I’m studying is probably the best thing a communist could be, so I hope my work can bring meaningful change, but it seems like a cope.
Sorry if this was very venty. Things haven’t been good over here.
I can always eat you when it gets too hard, Comrade Salad. 🫂
Thank you for the laugh friend : ) I’ll keep your offer in mind lol
I guess it’s only fair for me to offer the same thing back, I can eat you if things get too stressful!
Yup 😎 just work and when I get back from work I don't have the energy to do something so I watch brain dead television instead. It has gotten to the point that I was anxious before my workout yesterday, even though I usually love working out.
I'm currently in a 'what's the point?' period in my life. I'm not suicidal but I do wonder what more there is to life than work for the vast majority of the time with little to no positive developments when it comes to housing, climate, right wing extremisme etc. Like, why am I making this much effort for this messed up system? Why not just start living my life in a more meaningful way?
I feel the same sometimes, with everything shitty that life can throw your way. The way I see it, a lot of the time there is not much that I can really do about these things apart from occasionally finding time to distract myself with things I care about. Although it's less and less often these days.
Sorry to hear that. I get like that sometimes, too. That's when I post the most because I don't have energy for much else. That feeling would be fairly constant at the moment, given the state of the world, Palestine in particular, if I e.g. read the papers or watched the news. I mostly stopped looking, for that reason. It's okay to switch off from some things to gather your strength.
Try to take it easy sometimes if you can. Your studies are important and you want to do well, but you won't be able to keep it all up if you end up too burned out. Is there a more efficient way of studying? There might not be, but it's worth thinking about, just in case.
Got an interview with a job on Malta. Lowest possible pay is too low to accept, but if they offered the highest one, it may be an option (a financial blow still tbh). The rents are higher, but there's SO MUCH MORE housing than in Ireland and the quality is also much higher. I'd probably get super skinny from the lack of convinience vegan meals (or at least it's implied it's not very available through an online search).
The recruiter referred to people like me as expats. I hate the term. I don't consider myself having a native country. I am culturally and ancestrally mixed. I am always seen as non native wherever I go. I am an immigrant, not an expat.
Congratulations on getting an offer, I hope you can get the high end... and find vegan meals...
I hope you get hired
Thanks, Oppo.
How did u all end up in lemmygrad?
that implies there was a time before the grad
The internet was miserable before the grad 😩
I used to lurk on the Marxist subreddits for theory discussions as I was feeling my way through the classics. There were always to many reactionaries and bad faith arguments for me to get involved other than reading. Then I saw a link to here and I've been lurking since the beginning. I made an account when I was confident enough with my Marxism to join in.
I've got basically the same story, except I disovered lemmygrad later on.
Reddit exodus after they started banning communist subs
Same here.
Through GenZedong
I came here though r/thedeprogram there was a link to this site that was pinned for a time just in case reddit did what it did to r/genzedong to r/thedeprogram. And when reddit terminated my account I came here.
I joined hexbear when it was still called chapo.chat but stopped using it. Saw a link to lemmygrad on r/genzedong browsed it occasionally but only made an account once the sub got quarantine
I'm a commie.
My disillusionment in Mormonism and subsequent embrace of atheism is what set me on the path that led me here.
Discovered Lemmy through looking at the Fediverse wikipedia page and just came across a Lemmygrad post(er) and thought the name was based. By then I had been in a radlib discord server but I knew something was off because they were very pro-ukraine (I'd watched the Boy Boy video about it and felt pretty convinced) and were skeptical of JT, calling him a tankie. Everything in my worldview was vibes-based. I stuck around and lurked this place and Hexbear for like 8 months until I made an account.
Basically everything about communism I know I came to know thanks to the users here and in Hexbear, so I'm eternally grateful for y'all 🫡
genzedong purge
its actually very wack that im a moderator here
I was aware of it for a while- either from (probably) GenZedong or the deprogram.
Russo-Ukraine war, genzedong made sense, it got purged wawa
I realized why turning off notifications works for some people and not me for reducing tech use. At one time I got many discord notifications, on another Instagram. Now all the notifications I get (on the off screen of my phone) are texts that I often don’t feel like responding to. Meanwhile I’m in the habit of constantly checking things like Lemmygrad because someone just might have replied to me. Lack of notifications don’t deter me because I’m used to opening my phone and refreshing. Suppose I should re-declutter.
Marvellous how some rays of sun can change your mood. Have a nice week, comrades.
Agreed! Sunshine, fresh air and some walking. Always perks me up.
spoke with my dad about israel today 🫠
you commie fellas are kinda gucci
The epitome of human progress that is the Dutch Green/Labor fusion posted a poster for Womens Day yesterday. On it were a satisfyer, birth control measures and a clitoris.
Needless to say people were mad.
True feminism is when women can have orgasms of there own
The aussie boys have proves that doing covert espionage is kind of easy lmao.
If they get sued, they should counterclaim for the ball.
Throwback to my previous surgery in Germany. The surgical site was infected making the healing impossible. At some point I was bleeding so hard I decided I'm gonna try to sleep it off, because I thought I'd die if I tried to get to the hospital due to the movement possibly making the bleeding worse. The next day I went to the hospital. I lost so much blood I was barely functioning, but they did a blood test from many vials regardless. The surgical site looked awful. They found it was infected... And then didn't get me anything for the infection saying the infection rate was too low. So I spent over a month not healing because my body was cut up trying to recover from that AND the infection. I had to go to a regular doctor to get something for the infection, but he couldn't prescribe me the right treatment... Because it can only be prescribed by a hospital. I still have issues with the surgical site to this day.
Oh, and they prescribed me sitting in very shallow baths. When I said I don't have a bathtub they recommended me to get a plastic bowl big enough to sit in. Like I can magically spawn one at my home. I could barely move. Not to mention how hard it would be for a person in my state to get up from something like this or even to lift it to empty it. Ironically, the whole ordeal was by far my best experience with German healthcare. :)))))))))))))))
A lot of bombs landing here tonight
Killing more resisters of your endless occupation
You bomb Gaza every day and night
The death they bring escorts a slew of martyrs to salvation
You air-dropped food just yesterday
Hoping to find some peace of mind by dropping stacks of MRE’s
Now your snipers watch that food and say, ‘Hurry boy, it’s waiting there for you!’
Palestine’s become a human barbecue
So many homes you’ve plundered and their families shattered too
We live in pain under martial law
Genocide’s the crime that undoes everything you have
Your Yahweh feeds on hate and spite
And he grows restless longing for some sanguinary gluttony
His orders are to smash and smite
As sure as murder and sorrow rises from the puss of your own history
You cannot thrive with apartheid
Try and you will meet the fire that comes
Palestine’s become a human barbecue
So many homes you’ve plundered and their families shattered too
We live in pain under martial law
Genocide’s the crime that undoes everything you have
(musical interlude)
‘Hurry boy, food’s waiting there for you!’
Palestine’s become a human barbecue
So many homes you’ve plundered and their families murdered too
Here stands Hamas here stands Hezbollah
Here stands Hamas here stands Hezbollah (here stands Hamas)
Here stands Hamas here stands Hezbollah (here stands Hamas)
Here stands Hamas here stands Hezbollah
Here stands Hamas here stands Hezbollah (here stands Hamas)
Genocide’s the crime that undoes everything you have`
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/links-3-5-2024.html#comment-4006746
Kind of funny that there are those in West that still cling onto the notion that Chinese production is inferior while over here people say if you want shit done you call China lol
this is glorious
Just saw a humongous dodge ram pickup, with a Z painted after the "ram" (in font the size of my head), and a "Biden is a Schmuck" sticker on the rear window. I live in Russia, not USA.
Bourgeoisie nationalism, not even once
American cultural imperialism has melted the minds of billions worldwide.
Some of my Belarusian family living in deep woods 100km from the nearest population center, isolated from most of humanity, have MAGA hats and try to talk to me about trump “draining the swamp” and “fighting the immigrants”. Fml
That's just depressing. It's like that meme about "Barnaul! Altaysky krai!"
Why is my only choice between medical "care" rude-and-inefficient people or nice-and-inefficient people.
harm reduction
Goodbye SleeplessOne 🫡
Wait what happened?
@CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml (aka SleeplessOne, or SleeplessOne1917) is... gone? I don't know.
Despite the [German–Soviet] pact, Communist resistance started very quickly in the Pas‐de‐Calais. The particular circumstances of the Forbidden Zone allowed for an independence of action that Auguste Lecœur and Julien Hapiot were able to take maximum advantage of. They decided, in August 1940, to begin organising illegal Communist activity against the occupying forces.7
[…]
Thus, the Communists of the Pas‐de‐Calais began their anti‐German propaganda very early on. Nevertheless, the Communists of the region did not think of themselves as disloyal to their party and their confidence in the Soviet Union was as strong as ever, it was simply that the daily reality of the Forbidden Zone pushed then more rapidly to a more anti‐German position than their comrades elsewhere.
(Emphasis added. Source.)
Ive never been a brand guy for really anything but lately ive been kinda craving for one of those BYD hybrids lol
To those who I've not responded to and were waiting for a reply, apologies but I won't get round to it this time. My unread messages are in the several hundreds. It's time to mark all as read and start again!
the amount of nato simping on hacker news is insane. somehow thinks it’s extremely beneficial 😜. people truly are in their bubble.
Techbros tend to be rich and therefore hyperlib.
Hi!
Hello
Any word on what's happening in Niger? Last I heard, they kicked the French out, but there was also a matter of yankee military presence. Which AFAIK did notget kicked out
They were trying to kick the Americans out, but they were staying. But now Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are creating their own joint anti-insurgency force to combat terrorism in the region, so they're moving away from working together with the US.
https://www.journalduniger.com/une-reunion-tripartite-pour-renforcer-la-securite-dans-laes/
Thanks!
Ordered a box of native flower seeds to spread around the city in an attempt to add some greenery to it. Also for my window sill in my appartment to look at pretty bees and stuff.
Very cool. :)
I wanted to participate in native forest reforestation back in Ireland, but was too far from any of the sites. :(
Native where? If to the Americas you would only really get native pollinators like bumble bees and butterflies, unless a honeybee farm or feral hive is near you and they need the nectar, even then they might not even be adapted to get it.
Getting native pollinators is a GREAT thing.
Native to Belgium/The Netherlands. I have actually seen bumblebees around here before so I hope to attract them to the flowers.
Still no call regarding the surgery. I bet they don't even work anymore. I genuinely don't even believe I'll ever get the call. This is madness. I am cursed.
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Any comrades here have any idea about operation car wash in Brazil?
Our party presented the program for upcoming elections and the emphasis is heavily on taxing rich people. Kind of a bummer tbh.
Can you still request changes in the program?
Not really. Other parts of the program aren't bad but I just feel like having your thing be 'tax the rich' is not really a marxist thing to do.
I drank nearly 2 XXL energy drinks and Im so hyper and annoyed I had to use corridor light for taking a shower because direct light is too annoying.
Anyone know the current Palestinian position on a ceasefire is? (To the extent that it's possible for so many people to have a single position.)
No one knows truthfully. It seems that Hamas leadership on the ground and the chain of command is in shambles. So coordinating anything is difficult.
However, they have signaled that they would be open to a complete and permanent ceasefire, and not the 6 week American proposal.
Is it true that indians getting recruited for fightin in russia?
This means russia ran out of their men>?>? sounds clownish
There have been stories of that going around but they seem incredibly untrustworthy. Like, getting foreign troops to help out is not that weird. Ukraine does it too. But to pick random Indian guys off the streets in India, promising them work in Russia only to send them to the front, untrained, is just bonkers.
Gotta deflect from the stories of Ukrainians getting bagged in the streets and pressed into the front lines, I guess
I feel so disappointed when I'm having a discussion with my friends/family and they say something liberal/imperialist. I know they can do better than that.
Frostpunk 2 got a release date (25 Jul.) and a new trailer. It looks very interesting.
Man I just got dog piled on an argument over voting. I get it's a hot topic in this community but having people call me a fascist and telling me to die in Barbara pit is a fucking mood killer. Is voting really deserving of such hate? Was it an argument that got too heated? Is it normal to experience this from fellow comrades over a small disagreement or is the issue really as defining of a person as it was made to seem?
Banned 8 day old account
Lmafo get fucked, infiltrator.
You should check out the "discussion" if you haven't already, they said some very funny lib things. Their final signoff was * chef's kiss *
thread can be found here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3850932
(And big surprise, they weren't "dogpiled" for a slight disagreement, but for actively being pro-fash and pro-genocide, smugly ignorant, and refusing to actually listen to anything anyone said, all while demanding civility from everyone else while not returning it in kind.)