General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 8
Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Getting into it with someone IRL and having them straight up say that "Of course America will be able to actually catch up and compete if we get some of the loose baggage off of us!"
(This loose baggage is things like D.E.I, trans etc)
Despite the unpleasantry, I was able to get them to at least admit that cutting government programs isn't gonna make us somehow compete with China. Nor spending billions on programs that only cost China hundreds of millions. Decent progress, despite the bad-taste in my mouth.
The thing that makes me genuinely shocked though is that there are a lot of burgers who think that by just being as racist, homophobic piece of shit settlers even harder that somehow that will absolve their country of struggle and decay. Somehow that will solve all the issues...it's the "third column" holding our country back...apparently. I suppose all the propaganda of "China bad" in terms of convincing burgers of their wunderwaffe compared to "inferior chinese products" really did take a toll.
I think it's a result of declining material conditions and concessions being given to oppressed minorities coinciding at the same time. The two are separate things, but timing wise they coincide so it's really easy to falsely link them as cause and effect.
I feel like this is the key to neo-liberalism/crypto-fascism today. Without this move class consciousness would be way more advanced in western nations.
Yup. It also confirms and validates notions about tradition to them; "truly things were better back then with no woke!".
I'm so tired of working. 3 jobs and I'm still wondering if I can make my rent this month.
Fuck that.
I'd spare some, but last time I promised, I fucked up, unfortunately, and now I still don't have the money,.
something tainted my algorithm and ive been getting bombarded by clips from this lib called sarah paine doing "psychoanalysis" on Stalin and Mao lmao. The west is just so cooked if they have these people as respected thinkers.
You can go into your history and delete things you watched to try to fix it. I started trying to tweek my algo and then just turned the history off all together.
sarah bread lololololol romanian for bread is paine lololololol
jokes aside, i have relatives that believe in dimensional aliens and fucking REGRESSIVE HYPNOSIS
LIKE THEY SHOWED ME A VIDEO OF SOME LADY BEING POSSESSED BY DEMONS PRETENDING TO BE CHRISTIAN ICONS/MURALS THROUGH HOLOGRAMS... ALL IN A FUCKING ZOOM CALL
1 HOUR LONG
sorry for talking about this shit, i saw "psychoanalysos" and thought of the "alien cultist soul freeing 2d rock 5d alien 3d person fellow all religion is demons sucking your soul energy" stuff some relatives of mine believe in
people believe in this shit because capitalism forces everyone to not go to the left path, only in the fairy tale world or some shit
"Hey, lib-buddy..think this source is dogshit propaganda.." "THEY'RE MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU!!!"
Been through that quite a bit.
I been getting clips of her too. I could only watch for a couple seconds before I had to stop because I couldn't stand her smugness
Took some days off and decided to fuck off to my hometown for a few days. Time stands still in a weird way here. Like, life moves on but at the same time almost nothing changes. I see the same people I saw years ago when I still lived here. The stories people tell me are the same stories. It's as if they outside world has no influence on this little area of the world. It's both comforting and yet extremely boring at the same time. I feel at home while at the same time I feel like living in some sort of dream state like it isn't real life.
I totally get this. Same exact experience when I am back to birth place. I rarely return. Hehe
Is there a group of people who use the downvote button as an emotional confirmation tool now a la reddit style?
Am thinking of my recent encounters with still no responses; and many others that have completely hid behind the "disengage rule".
i never interacted with r*ddit but my first ever post (my introductory one) for some reason has a fucking downvote, i will never understand why
do people hate me this much? are my shitposts that bad?
my effortposts based on a hyperfixation i have barely get traction but my shitposts sometimes skyrocket. and i still get downvote. hell, i literally don't get anything in my foss game posts. i don't feel like writing them anymore cause of it.
i planned on making a post based on a comment i made here on c/games but what's the point if i'd just get zero looksies and thus zero interest in open source games that i personally enjoy?
Nope groups of pathetic fucks who call themselves proudly "plague rats" (anti-vaxxers) or whatever other fucking garbage shit. Wastes of time that I have to deal with in person every single day. Why bother sometimes when people just shit out of their mouths, right?
I just do it anyways because fuck it and fuck them. Really all there is to it.
All I can say, as someone that used Reddit for almost a decade and now is on Lemmy for a while: do not care about votes. Yes, people use it as a "I agree" or "I disagree" button, but you shouldn't use it as a validation tool. Especially on Lemmy where your account doesn't have karma.
One of the things that was nice in difference to those websites was that it was used as an actual disagreement or agreement tool. Usually, I use it and then explain my thoughts if it's negative or vice versa if it's positive. On Reddit they use it like a emotional validation/response tool and don't even bother to ever explain anything. That's why I thought there was no karma to prevent shit like that.
Am feeling better. Am glad I have a good immune system because my family apparently is still struggling. Have an extra day to recoup because of the genocidaire holiday, so one thing at least.
Bananas, veggie soup and elderberry is champ. Shoutout to those powdered IV packets. Already forgot the brand-name. That fucking sucked; I have no idea where that came from but I have a sneaking suspicion it was being around a group of people even while I was wearing a scarf/mask. Genuinely was horrible, never had a chill/heat cycle happen what felt like every minute before. I had COVID before and this felt worse, all though I don't think it was COVID because I didn't get nearly as bad "brain fog". Who knows, been able to stay inside thankfully.
I rewatched CCK Philosophy's "Violent End of the German Revolution" and the Urban Guerillas one. So many bad-ass people lost almost entirely to the annals of history. It makes me sad, but hopeful in a way if that makes sense.
glad you are okay mate :D
i am honestly feeling better too. i am just cozy right now
Am just glad it's not lasting a week and a half like COVID did.
Thanks though! :D
The downside of working for an org that is trying to help as many people as possible is that I see a lot of people and I am once again sick. I used to never get sick but ever since I see a 1000 people a week my body decided to say fuck that.
Same. Masking helps a lot though
my chinese teacher saying vietnam is troublesome country but laos is okay made me chuckle 😂
Hope everyone is doing good.
I hope you are also doing great
Not that I particularly care much for the mainstream media, but Trump apparently signed an executive order, stamping out the last few vestiges of democracy this country pretended to have.
Time to start learning Mandarin.
Me, I'm still re-learning Spanish.
Just crystallized for me that I have a tendency to retreat into myself when I'm stressed and it makes it harder to be friends with people because 1) it means time that I'm less interested in spending with them / getting to know them / etc. for no apparent reason and 2) I miss out on bonding that I could be doing by telling them what my stresses are. Probably made worse, too, by the fact that my beliefs aren't exactly mainstream in the US / western sphere, so when the stress is induced by things relating to that, even if I did try to share my stresses, a lot of people would probably just not really get quite what it is that I'm stressed about.
Even in the context of Trump being in charge of the US right now, I still feel somewhat alone when talking to liberal-resistance-minded people about it because it's like they're approaching it from another universe of belief about how things work. Like with USAID, trying to explain my not exactly being shock and horror that it's facing problems. Some of the stuff I think is funny or borderline funny, they think is super serious and some of the stuff they think is funny I think is missing the mark. But that's just an example of where it's worse, I think. My problems with it go beyond politics.
I was in a similar position. Best advice I can give is to try to find a local Marxist org if you can. Luckily there was one for me, but I know not everyone has one. I think isolating ourselves is probably the worst thing we can do right now, even though the capitalist system makes it easy to do so.
I used to think that I could convince my more lib/conservative minded friends since I read so much, but it's not that easy even if you have all the knowledge needed for making a point. I have never successfully converted someone, but I think I at least made them think a little bit more critically and even have them agree with me on some things.
Even in the context of Trump being in charge of the US right now, I still feel somewhat alone when talking to liberal-resistance-minded people about it because it’s like they’re approaching it from another universe of belief about how things work.
Yea I feel this too, and imo it's because they are not against the system but the individuals running the system.
Thanks, yeah, one of those things where I know it's not healthy to do, but gotta work out what will help me unlearn it. Getting more involved in the immediate sense may help.
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Why do MAGAs think being deported is the same as having someone publicly executed? Just because they're moved from a location doesn't mean they'll stop being critical of the US. It's not a magic wand.
Tf is going on in my Twitter FYP, Been a lot of Pro-Jolani And Syrian Opposition Shits, Can anybody Explain to Me
CIA
The US has been doing a ton of work whitewashing him, they even got him awkardly photographed with a bunch of "christians" wearing a western suit lmao.
It's an USian site. This is normal for them. Back when I was on Twitter, I saw a lot of astroturfed anti-Iran/pro-shah trending hashtags. Of course those account posting were mostly bots, because they were all posting the exact same thing
Twitter FYP is intentionally designed to make you angry because it drives engagement, use Following tab instead
In other news, Nazis win Nazi Germany's election again for the 22nd time.
Hey big momma
Anyone have any suggestions of where I could post a video of of old soviet footage of it's airplanes to some cool music? Couldn't really find one here that fits
if it's just one video, you can just post it in this community
At risk of sounding like a lib, I really do feel we are missing some kinda strong and intellectual leader type that goes against the status quo. Unfortunately the only leaders willing to go against the status quo are people like Trump and Milei, who I dont really consider strong. Even the status quo they go against is in more of a backwards cultural way rather than economic, because economically the status quo is already trending towards neoliberalism. This could also just be me being western biased, there are things going on in the Sahel states that I'm not too informed on.
Putin maybe? But he seems to be another capitalist at the end of the day. China is off doing their own thing. The whole Gaza genocide and Syria collapse just made Iran look really weak to me, but idk Im just an amateur looking at the situation from afar. Guess the west is literally just going to collapse through its own contradictions with no one there to pick up the pieces
Ansar allah, Ibrahim Traoré, Evo Morales (the CIA tried to kill him recently)
A lot of burgers are locked entirely into mainstream media; or the revolving NGOs masquerading as news agencies revolving around it. With a good chunk of the population entirely subsumed into the narratives presented on prime-time, I think it's really, really hard for anyone "counter-cultural" to either not be coopted or casted out entirely when they don't follow orders.
I mean, look at Greta.
Mélenchon in France and his party is doing a lot of work considering the insanely reactionary politics currently ongoing in his country.
Putin does not only seem to be a capitalist. He's 100% a capitalist, he just happens to be from a country the US hates. More than a capitalist, putin is a reactionary asshole doing exactly the same kind of shit far right politicians in the rest of the world are trying to do, plunder all they can while blaming minorities for it.
Furthermore, I would argue Milei and Trump are not really going against the status quo, they just removed the veneer of "civility" liberals love to tout while doing the same shit.
How do you directly/privately message the mods of a community? Or do you have to DM a specific mod? I know of the report feature for specific posts, but thinking of broader message than that.
I don't think Lemmy has such a feature; your best bet would probably be to DM a mod you know to be active
Oh ok, that would explain not being able to find it then. Thanks for the info.
I recently really got into Rugby League. Anybody else follow this sport?
I have nasal pads and they... fucking work so far?
I feel a difference in the way I breathe through my nose.
I'm going to use this with my CPAP machine.
(Also, if anyone has a CPAP machine, let me know, because I need to get that damn thing to work; I can't sleep with it so far.)
I didn't sleep well last night and ended up taking twice my ADHD meds.
I shouldn't have done that.
I have 3 days extra though so thankfully I won't run out before it's time to get a new batch.
Ouch. What kinda effect did it have ?
I'm on 40 mg Lisdexamfetamine. There was a day when I took it twice because my routine was messed up.
I ended up cleaning the house all day, make way too much food for the week, call my mom four times, while I was supposed to take it easy because I had a bad week and was near exhaustion already.
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