Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
☭ Matrix homeserver and space
☭ Theory reading group on hiatus, will move to Lemmygrad later this year
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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” 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.
what the fuck is a plague rat? they don’t die in 3 seconds due to severe poisoning
i genuinely do not understand the phenomenon cause i never heard of it
Am wondering if it’s some proud “anti-vaxxer” bullshit. Lack of response only gets more and more suspicious.
i know people who are anti-vaxxers. they’re extremely vocal, i think the ones you are talking about are a different kind compared to the ones that i know
they use me as proof that vaccines cause you autisms and shit and that vaccines are “the devil”
romania is starting to get more and more anti-vax cause of covid. like they already don’t trust the government much, so now far right romanian news outlets are all in on antivax shit because “the leaked 8chan”. my entire family became anti-vax cause of some incidents surrounding me and “autistic traits”
“they injected you with adhd!!! they made you a vegetable!!!”, i heard it all
fucking hell. i don’t wanna mention chemtrails and flat earth, i know people that believe in those too. i talked about it some time ago here so idk
That’s really shitty, I’m really sorry to hear that. I despise people using others specific inherent traits (disability, personality, etc) to confirm their beliefs.
I recently really got into Rugby League. Anybody else follow this sport?
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.
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
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.
“Hey, lib-buddy…think this source is dogshit propaganda…” “THEY’RE MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU!!!”
Been through that quite a bit.
my chinese teacher saying vietnam is troublesome country but laos is okay made me chuckle 😂
Hello, friend. @RedCheer@lemmygrad.ml
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’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,.
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.
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.
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!”.
Hey big momma
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
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
I feel like we need to prize the proletariat and the common person more often than “another Lenin.”
True. There needs to be some vanguard of the revolution though.
I agree, but Great Man Theory is not vanguardism.
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.
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.
I thought that Greta was moving in the right direction, lately? I get that she is probably still a neoliberal, but I remember thinking she is becoming more radical. The good kind of radical.
You’re right about Greta’s leanings toward more radicalism. The previous poster’s point is that people like Greta are touted by media when they’re not radical, but get dropped once they do.
Thus you won’t find these excellent leaders by watching mainstream capitalist media.
Having listened to Eugene Puryear of the PSL speak, his ability to connect cross-cultural historical knowledge with today’s struggles make him a great one to follow: https://www.instagram.com/pslbayarea/reel/DGPasWHRf_h/
Eugene is great!
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
