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Dutch commie YouTuber Left Laser did the ‘China bad’ thing in his most recent vid today. Shame as I actually thought he was okay and not an ultra.
Happy Pride Month y’all, just don’t visit any social media at all today!
This is the second time now that somebody has directly accused me of ‘antisemitism’. I am guessing that the offending remark was ‘I know that it has always been perfectly natural for Jewish people to consciously and unconsciously borrow from the cultures surrounding them’, but I would be very surprised if any Jewish historians disagreed with that statement.
Still, I guess that I should have omitted ‘Jewish’ when I said ‘Jewish people’, because it almost sounded like I was calling it a uniquely Jewish trait, when really it applies to humans in general when different cultures surround them. Irish people do it. Chinese people do it. West Africans do it. Everybody does it when they’ve been living in a ‘foreign’ land for a while, not only Jews. I didn’t think that clarification would have been necessary since the community has known me for a while and it would have been most unlikely that I meant ‘nobody does this other than the Jews’.
I would have approached a moderator about the removal—I can see how my comment was a tad insensitive—but it would have been too troublesome to be worth the effort.
I am an assessor at my local voting office, staying there from 7h30 to after the votes are counted (polls close at 20h00, it is only 11h20 right now). Making the most of a useless election…
Maybe the Communist party will suspiciously win 99.999% of the votes only at my voting office and nowhere else
Last day before the elections. Our team went out today at local events to gather votes. We managed to convince around 500 people to vote for us tomorrow. Throughout our total campaign we managed to convince something like 5000 people. That’s just one group in one specific city.
THE DANISH DEMSOCS MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST PARTY IN DENMARK. The liberal fraction is still the biggest in Denmark however
is their foreign policy any good?
Shit I thought they were better, but looking at their website it says this:
– https://sf.dk/det-vil-vi/europaparlamentsvalg-2024/sammen-staar-vi-staerkere/
A common European defense policy We live in a time when undemocratic regimes commit war crimes and spread misinformation. We live in a time when we can once again risk Trump taking the White House and becoming the first president of the United States. Where Putin believes he must resurrect the Soviet Union as a new superpower. Where Iran constitutes an increasingly aggressive force in the Middle East. And where North Korea tries to play with their muscles and play with their war toys. That is why it is crucial that Europe sticks together.
Europe is a strong community Denmark is a small country, but if we stand together with our European neighbours, in a solid community, we stand much stronger. There is a need to show the rest of the world that Europe holds together – that Europe is a strong community that fights for a free world supported by human rights, freedom and international law and order. SF believes that the EU’s defense policy must have a special focus on ensuring stability and peace in the EU’s neighboring countries. The EU is fundamentally a peace project, and it must also be the foundation for the EU’s foreign policy in the future.
European independence Together, we Europeans must strengthen cyber security and joint defense of critical infrastructure in Europe. We need European independence in energy, health, transport, food, defense equipment and digitalisation. In addition, we must ensure that the African countries in particular, qua the union, have a real alternative to their cooperation with China and Russia.
"It’s been two years since Russia launched a brutal attack on Ukraine. It is in difficult times that we must stand together in defense of our common values: Democracy, freedom, rule of law and human rights. The complete opposite of what Putin’s regime stands for.”
Villy Søvndal
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I’m not excited anymore. Enhedslisten (another DemSoc party) seems to have the same opinions as well.
https://enhedslisten.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/EP_Valgprogram_2024.pdf
Seems like the communist party is the only good option in Denmark., but they are too small to participate in elections yet
unfortunately, basically every “democratic socialist” (kind of a red flag, implying that socialism isn’t inherently democratic) party in the West seems to be closer to socdems than communists
In a morbid, fucked up way I am curious to see what happens when white Europeans will soon be on the receiving end of the fascism stick.
Probably the same breathless tentative vibe I’ve got waiting to see these comfortable-assed Amerikan crackers experience it, no doubt. Like, for me, I acknowledge it’s morbid and probs a little bit fucked up because I was born here; but at the same time? Just because I was born here does not mean it’s my country.
The crackers lock my people up on federal timeframes of carceral slavery for the kinds of things whites get slapped on the wrist and fined at most for. They still lynch us left right and center; and every democrat since Obama has repeatedly, routinely funneled military surplus to PDs all over the country under the 1033 Program to continue lynching us-- except now, because it’s a bullet instead of a noose, the so-called ‘good’ crackers don’t think anything of it. This ain’t my country; and I consider Amerikans to be an existential enemy that if more of my community still had revolutionary fervor, we should have been fighting the same way Palestine fights Israel.
So nah; I’m eager to see what happens next. Can’t be any worse than what “democracy” has been doing to us since Reconstruction was intentionally-downed.
I’m in Indonesia for a bit. Got to ride the HSR built by China between Jakarta and Bandung. Hot dog! It was awesome.
It’s usually a two hour car ride, but the train made it in 30 minutes. Top speed of 350 km/h. And even at that speed it felt much smoother than American trains going only 100 km/h.
