The algarrobos are giving a lot of fruit this year

My half-year-old alt AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com got banned a few hours ago. There's been an adminwave over the past hours banning pro-socialist viewpoints, locking posts, etc.

Just wondering: how long will it be until they flip the switch from "tankies are genocide supporters!" to "of course I knew there was nothing going on" as it happened with the WMD accusations against Iraq? How long until the Uyghur "repression" gets treated the way Nayirah's testimony is treated now (i.e. just forgotten from western discourse)?

It's exhausting trying to reason with libs, even bringing evidence such as the re-education camps closing by 2022 by western-media accounts, sharing news segments essentially saying "yeah, the camps are closed, but at what cost?", and getting banned because thought-termination is encouraged when the word "genocide" pops up? Haven't they learnt anything from the actual genocide in Palestine?

The same people who enact and celebrate these bans will cry rivers of tears at the moderation policy in Hexbear with topics such as transphobia, while themselves suppressing anything outside their western-manufactured Overton windows.

This is just a rant, but it's honestly depressing and exhausting trying to argue in good faith (I believe there needs to be an informed socialist presence in broader Lemmy and not just in Hexbear) and receiving either "ruzzian orc" accusations or outright bans. I just want you to have healthcare and to stop murdering brown children, for fuck's sake

So yeah, the USA has bombed Iran. Just 3 months ago, in March, EU libs were clapping at the idea of "ReArm Europe", and the EU spending extra 800bn€ yearly in military and war.

This is the moment to talk to your lib close ones who supported the war budgets, and to show them what the money will be used to: not to defend Europe from anything, but to bomb sovereign nations in the name of Israel, the USA (coat in Trumpism for extra lib effect), or even for EU regional interests. Pushing for pacifism is a very good way of exerting revolutionary defeatism in the incoming imperialist wars that the EU will be no doubt joining.

So yeah. I'm a Spaniard who happens to be a commie. I joined an org about a year ago but they're trots and they don't accept any input from actually existing socialist states from what I've seen.

It's 2025, so is there a Cuban communist influencer from the party, or any effort from the Cuban administration to explain its communist goals, party organisation, union power, and economic policy to Spanish/English speaking people outside Cuba?! Like, how come I have no fucking contact or even propaganda whatsoever with the spearhead of the Spanish-speaking communist revolutionaries?! Please prove to me that I'm a fucking idiot and the resources are at hand's reach from outside Cuba as it should be...

Got some time this week to get on with woodworking, and I've made something I've been planning for months at this time but couldn't get to doing:

So yeah, it's simply a pine wood structure composed of two 100x60cm^2^ boards, one of which is simply lying on the shotgun and rear seats when folded, and the rear board has a cutout for that weird grey shelf of the trunk, and I cut some mortises in it to fit the base I made for it.

Here you can see the mortises and tenons more in detail. I went with this instead of screws because it's cheap and doesn't require additional hardware, it's easy to assemble and disassemble, and I honestly have fun banging mortises with the chisel and mallet

Here you can see it with the foldable high density foam mattress I picked up on AliExpress for like 45€, which is honestly more comfy than expected if you don't mind a hard bed. I'm a super tall guy so the whole thing needed to be 2m long, and I made it 60cm wide, the same as the mattress.

The support structure for the bottom conveniently disassembles into three pieces and takes very little space in the trunk!

Finally, the whole thing disassembled and in the trunk. I'm quite stoked of how it turned out. The total cost hovers around the 80-90€, I spent essentially 45€ on the mattress (whose plastic cover will obviously be removed once I start using it) and around 40€ on the wood you're seeing (I locally bought for 85€ a 22mm thick pine board of 240x120cm^2^ and used about half of it). There's really not much more to it, since I used no hardware, and I banged it all using handtools on the roman workbench I featured in my previous DIY post.

Oh btw the car is a Renault Grand Scenic from 2006, an old diesel beater I bought for 2000€ with 200.000km some months ago with this idea of travelling around Spain with it. It's pretty long so it's nice for a tall guy like me to be able to lie down fully inside it, and also it's quite fuel efficient, running at around 4.6L/100km in my experience over the past months.

Thanks for taking a look :)

I've been wanting to get going with woodworking on my newly made low roman workbench for a while now but I couldn't due to thesis manuscript.

Here you can see some rough planing of the surface of another workbench I wanna make for a buddy of mine, I'm gonna make a wooden bow workshop over the summer with friends and they need work surfaces to be able to do so. Thankfully I found a very cheap supplier of lumber in the province of Cuenca and the entire workbench will set me back only some 10€, kinda crazy.

This picture is just mood tbh. I love the little corner I have for my woodworking, the low workbench working both as seating and as workbench simultaneously makes it super compact, and the light was beautiful, finally it's the sunny season in Spain after a few months of unusually rainy spring

Here is the try square I wanted to make, finished and coated in linseed oil. I made some paste wax following the recipe of Wood by Wright (2 parts beeswax, 2 parts linseed oil, 1 part mineral spirits). This try square will open up a lot of possibilities regarding stock dimensioning and precise planning and lineup drawing, I'm stoked about it and it turned very straight!

Finally, a pic of the piece of log from which I split the wood to make the try square, it's from a tree they cut down locally and I hauled it home by hand, so yeah, free wood!! It's super hard, no idea what species it is, I'm used to pine and fir, so working with a hardwood like this is surprisingly different

I think the picture speaks for itself. I've never seen something so unserious.

I just wanna spam my friends and loved ones with Qin burning the western flags tbh, in Signal and Telegram. Is that a possibility?

"The worst part of this whole thing is that I don't get to be against those Asians anymore!!! Where's my american exceptionalism?!"

"Freaking Vance, even I could find a ton of bad things to say about China!!"

Say the word!!!

"Ackchually, China is about to collapse :smuglord: ghost metro stops! USSR shortages!!!!!"

God I fucking hate libs.

Link to post

Basically what I said in the title, the post was doing bothsideism with China and the US, comparing the Uyghur in Xinjiang to Palestine, and using wikipedia as sources. Reason for the ban, misinformation, lmao.

The writeup in question

Here is the leading opposition candidate saying, verbatim, during the genocide in Gaza: "as commander in chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, MOST LETHAL fighting force in the world" To which the crowd responded by chanting "USA USA USA". The USA is a fascist and genocidal empire, no matter which of the two flavours of imperialism is in the White House.

Well-known russophobe and nuclear war apologist "breadtuber" Adam Something attempts to make jabs at Russia being fascist in his community tab:

Hours later, the literal fascist genocidal empire of the USA produces this picture:

Just found it funny that he's trying so hard to paint Russia as the obviously most evil and fascist country and he plays the NATO apologism card (not in this post but he celebrated countries joining NATO as a response to the invasion of Ukraine), and the US just immediately hits him with the :i-am-adolf-hitler:

Also unrelated but god I love hexbear. It's nice being able to mention Russia without having to preface everything with a blanket condemnation of Russia's entire policy, living in western Europe is a freaking nightmare of freedom of speech.