Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our sect, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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featurebugwhy is r/librandu like this?
Looking at the source about Uyghurs, VICE again? is this believable?
Is librandu even leftist? I checked it years ago but it seems anti-BJP at best.
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I continue to be sick and even worse is that I feel guily about it because I can’t go to work, even though they said it is fine
On top of that, the rain has returned and it will not leave us for another week or two. Pretty symbolic after the elections if you ask me.
you too Oppo
I thought about addressing this strictly to @[email protected], but I think that you should all see it, because part of the reason that I study Fascism and regularly invite you all to learn more about it is the Shoah.
Admittedly, I can’t say that it is the only reason: I did not get to work immediately after I saw the 6 million statistic for the first time (as epic as that would have been). Rather, it was a gradual process: it took a good deal of maturity on my part, and it was only in 2017 that I really took fascism and neofascism seriously and began studying them thoroughly. As I read about these atrocities and viewed depictions of them, that was when the millions felt like more than another statistic to me.
I think that for most of us, the Shoah is already one of the many reasons why we oppose fascism and neofascism, only we rarely say it out loud since it seems obvious, and maybe a few of us are worried about coming across as pretentious or condescending white knights for saying ‘I want to protect Jews’. Still, it is a debt that deserves at least a little acknowledging: my compassion for Jewish people is an important reason why I do this work. It may be hard to tell when I am talking about banana cultivation in Somalia or the Imperial abuse of Nanking—matters that seem completely unrelated—but that I’m taking note of wherever this tragedy leads me only shows that it means so much to me.
I hope you all have a nice week :D and a absolutely milquetoast and bland week to the person that requested it
Have a nice week comrade Oppo 🫡
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Thank you for wishing me a bland week, it means alot
lmao that is literally the exact same relationship my friend’s pit had with my cat. He was a few months older when he got her.
Have a nice week, tovarish!
It’s a wittle baby one!
The evil CCP invoking a dragon to kill 9949485859504040 quintillion protestors:
Is it just me, or does the page now repeatedly scroll up while creating a thread?
It’s an HTML bug, I’ve encountered it on other websites. I forget what causes it, but I assume it’ll be fixed with the next update.
A similar thing has happened with me. It’s usually when there’s a picture. When I scroll down the picture shrinks, takes up less space and the page slides upwards to fill in the space.
Does it happen more with threads where you’ve opened some screenshots, etc?
The screenshots don’t make any difference. I tested this out on the create post page without inserting any images or URLs in it and I still got the glitch.
As I get older, I became less religious. I lost my trust in the Catholic Church due to multiple crimes committed by some priests.
US imperialism must be abolished.
Saw someone from my school earlier who was pro-palestine post something about the Xinjiang Genocide on her instagram story. It was pretty much just an afterthought in a list of modern genocides (most of which I presume were real), but still.
I hate the west for poisoning the youth.
One battle won, one battle to win I guess
We even have people like that in our party. As long as they can be right on a lot of thing then there is room for them to have the occasional wrong take. The Western propaganda machine is enormous after all, and we need to keep educating.
:( unfortunately the “uyghur genocide” narrative seems to be more ingrained into people’s minds because of how anti-china the west is and because there’s hardly any widely known accurate information about it
In the Palestine group chat for the local Uni protest I once saw some person saying that they didn’t want to buy a keffiyeh made in China because of the Uyghurs.
Got banned on reddit again for wishing an American soldier gets cheated on by his wife and his knees to be blown up by an IED
Sexing with soldiers wives/husbands is praxis
Oh man there was a really funny post back on r/cth from some guy absolutely roasting some chud soldiers with “I fucked your wife” jokes wish I could remember it, was funny as fuck.
Liberal snowflakes can’t take a joke (not joke) these days smh
That’s just praxis. Keep it up comrade.
I was given a box full of books today and among them were Animal Farm and literally 1984. Should I read them?
1984 is honestly a really good book. It is solid literature. The world it creates is also a perfect fascist/capitalist dystopia, and if the CIA propaganda behind the whole 1984 Gommunism meme didn’t exist, it would be an excellent piece of pro-communist literature.
Animal farm is literal drivel though.
Why not? First time I read it was last year when I bought it through a vending machine at a Chinese train station. At this point it’s just a meme, and won’t give you any insight to the oppositions psyche.
Book vending machines are so cool.Contrast that with the reddit vending machines elsewhere.
Nahh, it still cost a multiple of the initial asking price.
China does have smart libraries strewn about the place, especially in cities with low income, that are located along city streets and parks, which provide free Wi-Fi, charging and air conditioning. You can borrow books with an app for almost free (albeit with a required deposit that gets charged if you don’t return it)
That’s awesome. I just wanted to take a swipe at the creep machines tbh.
Reading books to understand the liberal psych is impossible today, I don’t think they read books
Those two would be better used as toilet paper.
This election two of the youngest members of parliament got elected.
One is for the socdem party, the other one is for our party.
Members of parliament can get up to 11k a month over here, and the local newspaper (they’re both from Antwerp) asked them how they handled that much money at such a young age. (the socdem is 25 years old, our elected official Amina is 22 years old, the youngest woman ever to be in Parliament).
The socdem reply is something along the line of: yeah it’s a lot but I didn’t go into politics for the money blah blah blah
Amina gives most of it away to the party to keep an average Belgian wage as to not lose touch with the people
I think that highlights an important difference between socdems and us
you love to see it folks, one of the people representing the people
The other day I saw a ukro-nazi in the wild. Wearing nazi-inspired apparel like we often see in the supposedly photoshopped images of Ukrainian nazis. Dude was many countries away from the frontline. Surreal to see them live here
I saw some of them in my city as well, carrying around fascist flags on an electric scooter. Absolute wild how it is allowed even. Meanwhile every slightly controversial thing happening at Palestine protests get several news outlets writing about it.
