Translation:

Left side:

1917

Monarchist, cadet, S.R. ("social revolutionary"), menshevik: Soviet power will last two weeks!!!

Right side:

1932

5 [years of the 5-year-plan] in 4

15 years

The USSR ultimately consolidated itself on the socialist road.

Nitter is dead, right? How should I go about accessing Twitter now?

Thanks, Oppo

Just typed a post complaining about personal life, but then I clicked the wrong button and now the post is gone. No energy to type again. I don't feel well and I really need more sleep. Much work tomorrow. I wish students were allowed to take days off. Impatiently counting time towards the winter holidays cuz I really need a break.

At least I am enjoying this song by the Moranbong Band. Very beautiful singing and lyrics. (The video that I linked has subtitles in several languages.)

Picked up a magazine about "carreers in engineering" not long ago. The level of liberal brainworms in there was so unbelievable. Not going to take photos because that might dox my city, but it was basically:

• Advertising for the imperialist army
• Technology is going to save us from climate change
• You should work more than 40 hours a week (says guy who would benefit from you working more hours a week).
  • What is interesting, they ended it with a sentence like "If your work is for the benefit of society and fulfilling for yourself, it doesn't make difference how many hours it is." Which... I can't say I disagree entirely. But under this society? Lol no.

I did get some pointers I was hoping to get from there, so it wasn't totally pointless. But still, the entire time I was reading that, I was thinking "How can anyone take this seriously?"

I believe in Hamas's right to defend itself.

tragedies

Tragic for the bourgeois class, perhaps.

What would be the advantage in comparison to just posting them in a news community here on Lemmy?

Have been away from Lemmygrad for a month (life was stressful), did anything noteworthy happen in the meanwhile?

Anyway, I'm back!

Reject modernity

Embrace tradition

I'm not reading through that entire article (which is just Twitter discourse in article form), but honestly, that question itself seems badly posed.

Obviously, socialists aren't going to introduce a policy like "No more bananas" or "We must have bananas at any costs". In a country where bananas don't grow, availability of bananas will depend on desire to import bananas, and another country being willing to sell you bananas. I vaguely remember something about bananas being rare in the GDR because there were few friendly countries that grew bananas (though that might have been an anti-communist source, or plain made up, I don't know, but it doesn't sound too unrealistic). Availability of bananas will depend on the circumstances you're building socialism under.

From that article:

Although he does not identify as a “degrowther,” Harris rejects the “pro-growth” left’s suggestion that the American consumer’s preferences are sacrosanct.

I have no idea what this discourse is, but this line bothers me so much. Imagine caring about "American consumer's preferences". This is so stupid. If socialism ever somehow manages to take power in the USA, they really must work on changing societal attitude. US society, its values, its ways of thought reflect the worst that capitalism and imperialism have to offer. Socialism cannot succeed if these ways of thought go unaddressed. And whatever bullshit led to "I am consoomer and I am owed banana" is one of the things that have to go.

The most important question facing the American left today.

If true, that says much more about the state of the American left than it does about the importance of the question.