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how's everyone? it's chuseok here
Merry chuseok! (I didn't know what that was until just now but harvest festivals are the best festivals)
thanks a ton. it's nice out here
There was a big event organized by a left wing party in Mexico and they invited plenty of parties in the world(primarily from Latin America).
It was so big that a lot of Europeans joined it including Serbian, French, Spain, Belarus and Moldovan. There were 3 parties from Russia: komros, KPRF and United Russia.
From Asia, we had Laotian, CPC and Vietnamese. (Edit 1 AND the DPRK's PTC)
In the event, the Venezuelans even explained there socialist communal system and the transition that they are currently planning to make to phase out the outdated representative bourgeois democracy at the base of society. Pretty interesting.
You can check out some of the participants in the following list.
Also, Palestinian comrades joined the event!
Wow so 
is pushing the socialism button?
Yes! There was an english speaking author that was following the process as well and also joined in the explanation during his presentation in the Seminar that I mentioned above. His name is Chris Gilbert and he has a couple of books in case you are interested to learn more.
Website -> https://chrisgilbert.site/books/
Cool! Thanks!
Hope everyone has a pleasant week, sticks with their goals and plans, and takes care of themselves.
Communism will win.
I need to apologise to all the comrades who were saying Corbyn is controlled opposition, a distraction, and no better than Bernie.
You were right all along and I should've seen it back when Corbyn as the Labour leader banned socialists who supported Palestine for supposed "antisemitism" while keeping all the Blairites, neoliberals and imperialists like Starmer. I thought "he has to do that to stay electable and to survive in British parliamentary politics" but the truth of the matter is he was perfectly content to strangle the new party in it's infancy the moment he felt attacked from the left, and suddenly being electable or survival of the party didn't matter at all.
For context, he announced a new party with Zarah Sultana, she quit the Labour party for this, and the moment she went out of line (by launching the membership portal without checking with him first) he immediately threw a public tantrum, threatened legal action, sent a mass mail to all subscribers that the portal is "unautharised" and "if any direct debits have been set up, they should be immediately cancelled" and so on.
The portal was doing great by the way, it had 20,000 paying members within 3 hours of announcement which is completely unprecedented and he wrecked it and completely killed the momentum because he felt threatened by a young, brave, socialist, brown Muslim woman.
Now it seems Zarah has been completely sidelined, there is no mention of her in any communications, and today Corbyn officially registered the party with the Electoral Commission with himself as a sole leader and a transphobic, socially conservative landlord as Nominating Officer.
This is a complete betrayal and I feel sick thinking back to how I kept supporting him. He's a wrecker, I was being a lib and I was wrong.
Yeah he shit the bed massively it seems. Which sucks because he came to our party events a lot but this just looks shit. Fucker.
I have the opportunity to get therapy and it has now led to some heavy introspection to think about how I got to this point. I had to take the day off today because of this. On the one hand it is good to finally get therapy, on the other hand it is tiring.
I'm also feeling let down with party work as basically nothing of value is coming forward. Just a meeting now and then, no real activist or other organising stuff. I'd love for us to start leading by example and set up some direct action stuff in the city but I've already said this a few times without getting a real response.
I spend the weekend in my hometown and that means, for me, spending time in the middle of a blue collar, working class community. I have trouble linking the people that join our party with the typical working class people I grew up with. Or at least the side of the party I am active in. Mostly educated, straight out of college leftist type of people. Which is not wrong per se, but I feel like we are starting to get that type of person tunnel vision, you know? I personally never gratuated college and through blue collar work managed to get where I am now and sometimes our party group feels like losing track with what keeps the working class busy. My dad, working a blue collar job for 30+ years now, does not see the need to sign the umpteenth petition for example. And neither do I feel the need to ask people to sign the umpteenth petition if I had to be honest. We need to do more.
Just a rant and I'll probably figure things out but if you can't reach the working class en masse after more than two decades of right wing policies I feel like you are doing things wrong.
And also, with trust in political parties at an all time low it seems, how much credibility do you think to build up when to them, you seem like just another party asking for votes?
Get out there and show how organising can bring change. Turn that ugly run down piece of land in your neighborhood into a park. Hell, maybe squat an empty building but without the anarchist pissing against the wall tactic. Do something.
I don't know where you live, but where I do, many usually uneducated workers, peasants, and petty bourgeois think it's normal to throw rubbish everywhere. Even educated peoples, which are usually well-off seem to have the same problem, so while building and planning such projects, which in my case is a communal garden, take it as an opportunity to make such basic concepts normalized and encourage more community building along side political agitation. In my experience, the youth are usually the most prone to radicalization, so focus on planting seeds there.
Hope the best
Just heard about a local hospital suing 3,000 of its own patients for medical debt and I've never wanted to do something I can't legally describe more than right now.
Fuck this country, man. This place is evil.
I have internalized learned helplessness the way only a materially comfortable petite bourgoisified first worlder can and I hate that about myself.
I got my reddit account temporarily banned for 3 days.
For context, r/NBA was discussing gambling, and a user said there are wealthy people making a lot of money with gambling. So despite being detrimental to society, gambling isn't going anywhere.
I replied we can stop them by cutting their heads off. Got suspended for violating Rule #1, then deleted the app 😛
I am pretty sure the primary source of revenue for sports leagues right now is their partnership with gambling sites, so unfortunately online gambling is here to stay in sports in most of the world. It's crazy how embedded it has become the last 5-6 years, they put betting lines in the damn broadcast overlay, sports influencers are all sponsored by one of the big online casinos, it has become so normalized that people simply do not watch games without betting.
Did Hegseth just encourage the army to do even more war crimes? Also on a freudian slip he confirmed that the troops get paid to murder people and pillage stuff 😐
One of the victims of the stabbing in Manchester today was hit by a police bullet and may have died as a result. Can't make that shit up.
what's keeping yall sane these days? for me.....breakfast.
The progress in AES while the west debates how "tylenol causes autism"
The thought that socialism might actually be achieved in my country in my lifetime…
I've got a lot of my sanity riding on the Flotilla. Like I'm half expecting they get murdered but I also expect that to be the last mistake that the zionists make.
Soon everything that was lost will soon come back. Not in the form it was before but in a stronger and brighter version.
Socialism is inevitable if we all fight from our respective place. A better world is possible.
holy shit people are fucking ridiculous, man.
leftistgamermemes literally used the word "socialism" to mean the benefits that would be available to all of us under a socialist economy as the concessions given to soldiers in exchange for their service to capital. Is it scientifically correct? No, but it isn't exactly wrong either. The things that your government employee; military or not; and much more, would be readily available to everyone under a socialist governance. Despite the meme doing very well on the page and actually doing okay on chapo, multiple people completely lost their fuckin' shit over a fucking meme I didn't even create.
Is this meme saying that socialism is when politicans get stuff or obviously that a select few enjoy the benefits we all would enjoy under socialism? Like jesus, people are acting like it's saying "socialism is when government does stuff" without looking deeper whatsoever into the context or the fact that it's playing off nostalgia to begin with. I genuinely had someone sitting there and asking me "if I knew how much damage this slop is doing" while at the same time telling me I'm overrepresenting it/deflecting/shifting blame on something I didn't even fucking create. Schrodinger's Slop.
Do veterans control the means of production? Are they democratically represented in government? Beyond some of them getting a pension or some equivalent, is there anything protecting them from the grinding gears of the class society that they are still in the underclass of?
not the tiny small-bean uwu baby-killers that literally get a plethora of benefits for themselves, their spouse and their children for literally servicing a death-machine. The thing protecting them from the "gears of class society" is their service and even then they are given a lot more than your average person to prevent them from "falling down". It as a system just has zero issue shrugging off the undesirables and "useless". There's plenty of soldiers out there who have recognized and realized otherwise, but I'm not going to pretend like most of them are good people. Sadly, a genuine chunk of the good ones killed themselves. I don't mean that in a edgy "haha dead soldier is a good soldier" but the ones high in empathy don't last too long.
I dunno about you but a three month old account seemingly fully dedicated to creating as much argument and division out of a fucking gaming meme screams really weird to me, but then again we have eight people posting the same question repeatedly without any further thinking or consideration than the tik-tok clip of Richard Wolf looping in their brain. Yes, I do know some of them were joking.
So a stabbing at a synagoge in Manchester today. The presumed suspect is an Arab/Middle-Eastern looking man and it is suspected he was wearing a bomb belt too.
This is just going to accelerate the already sky high tensions between white supremacists and the rest.
i must organize in order to live. life without a political purpose or motivation is to accept the suffering of millions. i love organizing with all my heart!
huh, didn't realize there were still so many electoralist holdouts on hexbear until the last half year or so. not making a judgment one way or another or trying to feed internet drama, just an observation. it had seemed for a while that the space had turned pretty firmly against that theory of change post-Bernie.
Pretty sure there has been an organized operation to make hexbear less revolutionary that has been gaining significant traction over the last year. By this time next year it'll be a blahaj.zone clone with a better take on the ukraine war.
Protests in Peru
Reinstate Castillo already.
The coup was a rightwing putsch.
The Global Sumud Flotilla is less than 150 nm from Gaza: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/#help
Armed Queers group has communist ties to China, Cuba #communism #Cuba #fbi #socialism #china
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9313943
^ Seems the FBI and DoD and wider "intelligence" community are gunning for some sort of pretext to oppress us...
I got the party overviews for the upcoming elections in The Netherlands today as I am living in another country and need it up front. One of the participating parties is NL Plan which is set up as some sort of meme thing by a Chinese dude and it might unironically be the most leftist thing out there.
Free public transport, in favor of building affordable housing, pro migration, pro public healthcare, etc. But it's a joke of a party of course. The dude is pro China though lol.
I'm realizing one of the fundamental problems with the field of mental health and therapy is the contradictory nature of knowing a person vs. not knowing. A therapist is supposed to have a certain level of professional detachment. But this also means they are unable to be in your corner the way a close friend would, preventing them from providing similar benefits. A therapist also just has a very limited scope of knowledge about you. Most of their information on you is based on the assumption that you're a reliable narrator about yourself and your life, which may not be the case. I imagine there's probably some training to look for signs of being an unreliable narrator, but overall, it's not like they can just go check with other people you know to see if your stories are straight.
But even if everything you present is accurate, even if they read between the lines and learn tics you have, all they are seeing is "therapy you" during a very limited time frame. They don't see how you are with friends, family, when you're out and about, etc.
In short, they don't really know you and if they did really know you, it would be hard for them to do their job in a professionally detached way. But without knowing you, most of what they can prescribe is generic advice. And that works some of the time. Like deep breathing techniques for anxiety, sure, that applies to a lot of people. But it's also advice you can find with a web search. I think there is something valuable in basic back and forth with a professional, but beyond that, I'm not sure it does much and it might make things worse if the therapist is professionally compelled to get you to "change". They can frame it as wanting to help you change in the ways that you want to change, but underneath that is the professional compulsion to show improvements relating to a standardized mental health designation of chronic issues.
I suspect a lot of people these days just need someone to talk to and that's part of why turning to an LLM as "therapy" is enough for them. Because for them, they don't really need the limited effectiveness therapy process in the first place. They just need something like the distance of talking to a therapist without feeling like they're being pushed in a certain direction. I mean, isn't it a bit weird that even in romantic relationships, the common refrain is you shouldn't get into a partnership expecting to change someone, but in therapy, it's basically the opposite; the expectation is that you come out different somehow. But if a romantic partner, a person who you'd expect to know you better than almost anyone, is not supposed to be someone who changes you, what qualifies a single individual who doesn't know you from very limited conversation sessions to help you change?
P.S. Did not realize this would come out so long. Thought about doing it as a post in freechat, but don't want it to come across as a broader anti-mental-health-field message. I have nothing against the intention of the field as a whole. Just have problems with it in practice and the logistical limitations of it.
Today is the Truth and Reconciliation in Canada in recognition that the children from Native American, Inuit, and Metis groups were imprisoned in the series of slave camps, human experimental camps, and death camps under the pretense of "Indian Residential Schools" and fake cultural assimilation since the 1850s. Although the European settlers claimed that the fake schools ended in 1997, there are evidence that the fake school death camps continued in secret after that time.
For the Truth and Reconciliation, the European settlers' government in Canada confessed that there were some vague child abuses and cultural genocide. However, they refused to confess that the fake schools are slave camps and death camps in disguise. They continue to deny that the Nazi Holocaust were inspired by the Indian Residential fake Schools from the British diaspora or that the fake schools provide free child labor, free stolen inheritance from the extortion of money from Indigenous parents, and demonic blessing from child sacrifices to demons. The free riding over Indigenous groups from the fake schools ensure victory against the hard working innovative scary red Soviets who gain the permission from the invisible hand to manage lazy Capitalists in Pax Americana. However, the cost of free riding over Native Americans, Inuits, and Metis is the current need to import enormous number of immigrants of Non-European origin to compensate for the declining number of Indigenous babysitters.
In fact, they continued to frame the First Nation people for the savage teaching from the Indian Residential fake Schools, the ongoing sabotage of reparation, planned imprisonment in harsh barren wasteland until the Indigenous people forfeit the reparation, planned starvation, planned chemical attacks, and planned assault by white rapists. The then Conservative Party of Canada, Stephen Harper, recognize that he could no longer hide all the free riding, savagery, and hypocrisy in the fake schools. To provide lip service, Stephen Harper open the Truth and Reconciliation speech where he confessed to the unrefutable cultural genocide to gain creditability to hide the more severe war crimes in the fake schools. He also boosted that the savage teaching in the fake schools is so strong that some fake school survivors cannot adjust to the civilized life of their parents and are demanding a return to savagery and cannibalism in the fake schools.
Watching the flotilla live feed. I think it'll get deadly in the next 3 or 4 hours.