General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 16

⬆ Socotra Island in Yemen, occupied by the US military

my friends' group chat is talking about Iran's attack and is repeating the "Israel stopped 99% of the missiles and drones, what an overwhelming victory for Israel" shit. I don't have the energy or will to argue with them about it so I'm just ignoring the chat for a while

This week had an extremely good start! 🇮🇷🇵🇸🇸🇾🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇶

Anti-semitism was born out of the rejection of multiculturalism and diversity that jewish people brought to the different places they lived, a completely reactionary sentiment.

Now it is the israelis that reject multiculturalism and diversity! fucking reactionary shithole that place is, and they have the nerve to claim that they're the real jews.

I did a test to see which party I should vote on and the party that matches with my answers the most is.... the Green party. Which is not my party lol.

Tips for engaging with the US Military

if they live by u, like on a base, this is some good stuff to do. I can't confirm or deny if I or my friends have engaged in any of this:

• feed them dog treats: u can dress up like ur handing out free samples at the mall, and give the service members dog treats. it's pretty fun

• pretend ur out of gas: this is my personal favourite. somewhere near base pretend to have run out of gas. eventually a bunch of jarheads will show up to help you push ur car, stay inside slightly riding the brake. they'll keep trying, let them, but just like really wear them out. for a fun twist, start ur car after they get exhausted and drive away flipping them off

• set up online dates with them and then don't show up. this one's just funny and obvious

• send terrible Grindr guys to their room: only do this to bad guys on Grindr but this is also really funny

How is the month half over? I haven't even started on my work for the month yet. Where did the last two weeks go? I feel like I need to get someone to help me stay on track and focus on my work or something, like a personal manager.

I really dislike ads, so usually I have them blocked, but not all my devices have it done yet. Usually it's just capital trying to get me to buy things so I just scroll past, but just over the weekend it was scary how quickly ads relating to Iran's retaliatiatory action started popping up with the obvious slant you would expect in the west. There seems to be a concerted effort to start beating war drums... This is not including the horrific ads I've seen coming from Zionists over the last half year with blatantly genocidal language. I even reported those ads and nothing came of it of course.

I guess to sum up: ads can and are used as political tools to shape ideology. Yet another reason to get everyone you know on an ad blocker.

Comrade Xi better explain to me why "beautiful nation" in chinese means USA.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Are Northern academics under pressure to fill some sort of anticommunist quota in order to appease their publishers? That would at least explain why they have to shoehorn in their dissertations these irrelevant potshots at communism, even when they’re self‐contradictory like this.

Did we give the Jewish populations back their stuff before June 22, 1941? Or did we dispossess them only a little bit? Which one was it?

Let’s say for argument’s sake that Genocide Joe is too worried about reelection and decides to actually not send direct American assistance. Isn’t “Israel” potentially biting off way more than they can chew?

I think I'm finally doing this "touching grass" thing people talk about, I just got an e-bike a few days ago so I'm finally able to get out of the house in a meaningful capacity since I can't drive and I'm horribly out of shape, this lets me get around to places I need to go somewhat comfortably on my own while still letting me get a decent amount of physical activity (certainly far more than the near-zero I got before)

I've done a few trips just for fun and it's nuts just how much more you pay attention to and enjoy the environment compared to in a car, but today I did a grocery run and it was also very practical, I got a decent pannier bag I can clip to the bike that can be used as a shoulder bag or backpack and it holds a pretty decent amount

The weather seems broken the past few days. Every day seems to contain every know season and weather condition. Rain, cold, then a warm sun, then thunder, hail, wind and storm. And then I have a headache all day because of seasonal allergies and thunderstorms combined.

Pic goes hard

I have been thinking about this incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident and how Obama's imperialism and spying was the gift that gave us modern stealth Iranian drones.

Iran - Israel is a distraction. Don’t fall for it. Palestinians are being massacred. Recently ISIS targeted palestinian bus in syria.

i can't be the only one that thinks that taylor swift music is AI generated recently right?

Hey, comrades! What's this weekly post for? [wrong answers only]

https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/business/google-fires-28-employees-involved-in-sit-in-protest-over-1-2b-israel-contract/

Watching the Champions League and its nice to see that comrade @Oppo@lemmygrad.ml features significantly on the advertising hoardings

Not to be melodramatic but I think whatever was left of our Democracy just died today. The new defense bill went through, meaning Billions of dollars to our satellite countries, including Nazi occupied Ukraine, and the remarkably unpopular Israeli regime. The TikTok ban just got pushed through, which has a lot of language that basically means the US government has just severely limited free speech online.

I watched Come and See movie. Is there any soviet war era movie that shows soviets fighting germans victories.

Should maybe post it in the linked thread, but is the GenZedong matrix server planning to support sliding sync to be compatible with Element X and other matrix clients that will start using that as a base, like Schlidi Next?

https://github.com/matrix-org/sliding-sync/blob/main/docs/Landing.md

I think I have some guilt over going to Eurovision in Concert. I don't regret it, but feel like I have to make up for it by going to pro-Palestine protests. I've added a few actions to my agenda

I just want a single letter from Molotov, referenced in one of your other documents UN. How hard can it be?

Eli5 the differences between imperialism and neo-colonialism, or shoot me some recommendations to read? ty

https://youtu.be/qLhUss0oyrQ?si=QH9M_7VmQigx4qMK

are russia and china doing enough for palestine? 2min video

Do you believe in this entire discourse?

He states that from his credibly asian sources, that Israel planned to detonate tactical nuke mid air (EMP) to bring down Iran’s electric grid but got shot down/intercepted by Russian Air Force.

You will see no one covering this

https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1781652011173253524

follow up (claims another source)

https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1782015672639168882

https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1781848540534227291

will they go through this?