Welcome again to everybody. Take a seat make yourself at home, and please let me know if you find the Radio Remote its been missing sense last week. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Danish elections are today. Let’s hope Enhedslisten can grow
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too comrade!
Thank you comrade, you too!
Hey Oppo, how is the new job?
Have a nice week! ʕ̯•͡ˑ͓•̯᷅ʔ
I don’t know either lol. Cute though :)
Thank you comrade oppo!
You too
Thank you! I hope everyone stays safe, fed, relatively stable/positive, sheltered. Love all of you to the moon and back! 💗
So much for the “checks and balances” of the US system lol
You mean the checks contributing to the balance in the politicians bank accounts?
Anyone else feel like an anomaly? Like they’re not supposed to be here, or that something went wrong and you’re a byproduct.
I used to like being called wierd, but…there’s a certain feel to it now. Like I’m almost alien. Maybe it’s just that I haven’t found “my people” (even in my organization that I’m in) but…idk.
Feeling like/being described as/telling people they are an alien is a common theme with autistic people. My cousin and I were both 99% we were aliens between age 8-12. Just saying.
I’m not sure if I relate in those words. I don’t view myself as a mistake or something. But I have for various reasons spent pretty much my whole life feeling like an outsider in one way or another. I do wonder sometimes though, if I would still feel that way if I were living in a communal society that is more oriented around getting people’s needs met. It’s maybe not such a bad thing that I don’t feel like I belong in the horrible culture that is the US.
Yup. I’m not supposed to fit in! What s relief!
there was something about being refugees from the future or something like that, about revolutionary spirits who have aspirations beyond what we may achieve in our own lifetimes (like full communism, or full gender equality even). if i ever find the quote, i’ll send it straight to you
The army has been deployed in the Jewish district in my city to protect them. Two and a half year of genocide has sparked zero incidents and yet tax payer money will be spend this way. I have to walk past a hundred dudes equiped with machine guns when I go to work now.
I wear a keffiyeh sometimes so I guess I will leave it at home for now
and there’s the confession. how does it feel to terrorize a whole district with a square of fabric?
I have never gotten a negative response honestly. That’s the thing, the whole Palestina movement and the Jewish people here have never had a clash because it was never about targeting Jewish people.
what’s the deal with vietnam and israel? actually, what’s the deal with vietnam in general?
If you have questions regarding Vietnam, you can ask several comrades that have knowledge from there such @kredditacc@lemmygrad.ml and @traxanh@hexbear.net .
As for your comments here, trading is not the same as giving support. Never fall for the lie of straying away from the main culprits of keeping the Zionist entity alive which is the West.
As for the rest, be extremely careful from where you get your news from. Right now, there is a strong wave of fake news and psyops trying to destabilise every single country that I am keeping tabs on. Western news are very unreliable and untrustworthy regarding countries that are not aligned or have a different system from liberalism. As an example, check how the Western media slandered the Cuban Flotilla. This type of trashy and insidious reporting is repeating everywhere including in the Sahel countries as Traore warned and even in Asia.
Always crosscheck your sources with the local ones and study how Psyop works.
Beside that, check the community of Vietnam for updates regarding the country if you are really interested -> https://lemmygrad.ml/c/vietnam
I don’t like talking about Vietnam because some comrades get angry with my opinion but hey why not.
Vietnam got recaptured by Neo-colonialism. In Wretched of the earth Fanon warns against the national bourgeoisie capture of the post-colonial state and selling it out to former colonial powers. I see a variation on that going on in Vietnam. Foreign capital and the local bourgeoisie control the means of production. Some of that foreign investment comes from zionists so they support the zionist project.
The party does try to raise the living standards for workers through social spending like healthcare and pensions but they have essentially bought off the revolutionaries and are now slowly betraying them now that the revolutionaries are too old to take up arms.
China avoided this fate by having a civil war after (also preceding and concurrent with) the anti-colonial war which separated the national bourgeoisie from the real communist revolutionaries and followed that with the Cultural Revolution.
I find this analysis lacking and boarderline idealistic. I will start with Vietnam did have a civil war, and I would argue more well known than the Chinese Civil war, that being known, atleast in America as the Vietnam war. I would also point out IIRC the CPC views the cultural revolution as a miss step, but I could be wrong on that so someone who knows more feel free to correct me.
Second the United States, dispite loosing, had Vietnam pay them reporations, essentially making all of that a loan to South Vietnam that the Unified Vietnam had to pay back, and so from what I have heard and red Vietnam moved to a more market based socialism and opened up inorder to pay back the reputations thet where somehow saddled with.
Third, I don’t see, personally a huge difference in what Vietnam was attempting to do, and what the PRC was able to do, just Vietnam was less successful, but reports I hear from those in Vietnam say that Vietnam is Still a Dictatorship of the Prolitarate, and I am not sure that I have enough information to disagree, however I am more than willing to change my mind if evidence is presented.
Lastly I dont know much about trade with Israel, however I do know that both the PRC also does trading and the Communist Party of Vietnam is very pro palistine
If i am missing sometimes or am blind in my analysis please however let me know,
I would also point out IIRC the CPC views the cultural revolution as a miss step, but I could be wrong on that so someone who knows more feel free to correct me.
Tldr: you’re right.
Have a great week, everyone! May Iran be victorious in kicking the empire out of West Asia!
As always, communism will win.
Thank you, inshallah! You too!
Tried to take a walk in the park to clear my mind but the park was so busy with people, cyclists and joggers that I couldn’t relax. All the good benches away from the paths were taken as well. I came back home even more overstimulated. I stayed in a small village recently where you could just walk in the forest without seeing anybody which was great. I could just walk without the fear of judgement or invasions of personal space. I really need that. Especially since I’m grieving and don’t like seeing people just living life normally, while I’m broken inside.
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City life innit? It can be difficult to be alone and it can be borderline torture when over stimulated.
I think that on some biological level people aren’t meant for city life
We had a party meeting regarding Cuba and we will send a solidarity team soon so we now have to get as many supplies as we can. Medical supplies, gardening supplies and seeds, bike supplies, whatever you can think of.
We have had close relationships with the Cuban government for decades now and it’s good to see that we can keep up the solidarity between us. They often help out with our party’s free healthcare clinics throughout the country and they also secretly supply our yearly festival with Cuban rum lmao.
Thank you for helping our Cuban comrades!
If possible, check with your org if they can bring solar generators and panels as well! That is urgently needed.
MAGDA: Make America Great Depression Again!
I think it’s starting to set in for me that the war may go on for months or more. The duplicitous nature of both the current US admin and the zionist entity means it’s essentially impossible to have peace talks. Iran’s battle is going to be (with the assistance of other resistance forces in the region) to evict colonialism and imperialism from the region to the extent that peace is even possible and safety is remotely achievable. Without that, it’s just Trump tweeting about talks while greenlighting another attack on civilian infrastructure, or the zionist entity grandstanding about ceasefires and then violating said ceasefires endlessly. Things are at a point where there is nothing really to talk about. The colonial/western presence in the region cannot be trusted for even a week at a time to not work on something violent.
Lefties in Israel need to take one for the team and post pics of missile strikes again.
Had a great first week at my job. The pay is decent but what I really love is the social environment.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
I have much hope, but it does not quell the fear. I wish us all great bravery.
What are some good practices when reading? When I read, it takes a while. I’ve had times where I read a page up to 3-4 times before registering it and I don’t know why. I feel like I am not doing something right.
Do you have ADHD by chance? I do and struggle with this very much when unmedicated.
Yes I do… hmm…
