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Why is my phone brand on lmygrad
She just got so owned
Insgelijks
It’s the last week of semester 2 at my university. I have a research paper due Friday which I’m worried about, maybe he’ll grant an extension but who knows… Next week is the start of finals; today in History class my professor is going to talk about Mao (with regards to modernity in China) so that should be “fun.” This class specifically is making me grow resentful, I fear. I don’t wake up enthusiastic for school anymore, I’m just angry. That could also be due to it being the end of the semester but I doubt it, maybe if this class had gone a bit differently I wouldn’t be as pissy. Also, I’m still reeling from the death of my childhood dog (she died November 23) so thats been messing with me a bunch. I don’t mean to complain, in all honestly I am and will be fine, I’m just tired.
condolences for your dog 😔
Thank you, comrade. She was a 16 year old pug, the sassiest little thing ever. I’m lucky to have been able to spend so much of my life with her.
I am terribly sorry for your loss, comrade
Thanks, comrade. It’s tough right now, to me she was family, but I’ll be okay. Right now I just have to go through the process.
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.
Almost 1/3 of the population in Flanders would vote extreme right Vlaams Belang according to today's poll 🫠🫠🫠 we really are going to see openly fascist European governments soon.
We have a housing crisis, energy crisis, sky high inflation, increasing poverty but no, IMMIGRATION is supposedly the biggest concern of the Flemish people...
Can't wait to read the declassified CIA documents on supporting far right extremists win in Europe
No they suddenly got in power coincidentally at the same time. No CIA medling in our free, democratic West™.
They did it in the 40s, 50s, 60s, etc... No reason to think they've stopped.
The CIA only does bad things 50 years ago, anything now is just conspiracy theories /s
At this point i believe these ghouls are self-reproducible.
recently i found out that lemmygrad is blocked by my school lmao
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!!!
Sounds like you're doing well. Do you have any way to influence the leadership (national or local) wrt the focus on electoralism?
I do but I don't think they will abandon the current strategy, especially with the far right gaining nearly 1/3 of all the votes at the moment. It's important to steal as many of their voters I guess.
I will probably try to organize a more underground group for when shit hits the fan (which, looking at the state of things, will probably happen).
well, I wish you and your party luck and many broken legs 🫡
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.
laughing so hard at the modlog rn, 2 months ban for defending biden, deserved tbh
They're Genocidin' with Biden™
So what are the odds of Venezuela invading Guyana and becoming the next hot topic for our Western leaders?
Very high, guyana compradores are in talks with the US to set up military bases there.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/12/the-drums-of-war-are-growing-louder-in-south-america.html
The us general is drooling at the prospects of taking over this region.
There is a lot of jungle in the region right? I feel like Venezuela would truggle in a long drawn out conflict if guyana received a lot of arms and weapons and they just hide in the jungle
Almost the entire country is jungle and based on history, Venezuela will be in for a tough fight indeed.
And like if Venezuela where it successfully invade and annex 85% of the country what would the rest be left with how would they rebuild
I'm dismayed seeing how many western leftists and so called communists are immediately against Venezuela and their rightful defense against the long burning issue of Esequibo. They are drunk on showing how righteous and oppossed to captialism and colonialism they are but as soon as things heat up in actual anti-imperialist and anti-colonial projects they immediately fall in line with the US State Department interests. I have no faith in any of that. ¡Chavez vive, la lucha sigue!
running a minecraft server is pain
That thing is nothing but pain!
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.
Seriously been thinking about dropping out of university and going for the one of the trades recently. Most likely would try to be an electrician. Probably a mistake but fuck im losing it here so idk
Well there's good money to be made in trades. But money isn't everything of course. What would YOU like to do?
I'm also seriously considering doing some sort of trade either as a job or as a side thing, because sitting at an office is wearing me down I think.
So.. the gta 6 trailer just comes out
Florida Man MMORPG
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.
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