GenZedong

Feels like things have been getting more and more unhinged lately.

Happy Zimbabwe Independence Day, everyone

edit: also, this is my first post. hello, my name is Violet.

Sadly mainstream lemmy has fallen to fucking crackkkers and fucking libs, but it warms my heart that they're getting fucked w/ 0 lube by MAGA while China is more relevant than ever

I've decided, after some thinking, that Marxist Rifle Association are probably NOT PatSocs or MAGA coms.

I don't know about the Red Rifle Collective.

Bit of a vent post. I tend to have a thing where (with very few exceptions) I avoid anything that has MTX in it because: 1) I know they tend to operate on exploiting impulsive spenders, 2) I know the design of a product nearly always necessitates being made worse to accommodate them, so that people have an incentivize to buy them, and 3) I know they can get in my head, personally, in spite of being overall frugal.

And I also got into a hobby of learning languages with the help of gamified language apps. Those with any familiarity with them can probably guess where this is going. I've had more than one time I liked an app and then it added MTX so, due to the above, I had to quit. And even when I can find more that don't have them at the offset, it's getting to the point where I don't feel like I can trust any of them in the long-term. Or in some cases, the apps are just silly overpriced for what they offer.

I still have one that I use for helping to learn Chinese, TalkMe, but I don't know if that will eventually go the same way as the others. It's just very frustrating. Oh and this isn't even getting into other kinds of changes that I've seen happen, like UI overhauls that make a unique app look like a Duolingo clone. Or revamps of achievements that mess with what you already had, trivializing the point of it being gamified to motivate you. And this is on paid products too, not free stuff where you'd expect the "you're the product if it's free" capitalist thing. These are subscription-based apps that it keeps happening to me and they all want to be Duolingo I guess. It just hits home how frustrated I get with capitalism in general and the nauseating behavior (that seems worse in the digital space) where companies can never sit still with a consistent profitable business model and have to "keep growing" to "be competitive". But if they happen to ruin things for existing customers along the way, I guess that doesn't matter as long as the God of Profits is fed.

Fuck RFK Jr.

That's all I have to say.

God almighty, why was I cursed with the geopolitics autism?

I've worked at a lot of different places, mostly commercial companies. I have never been closer to actually workers' mutiny than I have been at my current employer, the actual union. Our board of directors are absolute dictators and the working conditions are insane. They won't listen. They act like we are lunatics for some reason. No sympathy whatsoever for us. And we have had enough.

The comraderie this creates is nice though. Gives me energy.

https://stopice.net/

I find it funny that the people in a country, who couldn't be arsed to mask up or follow basic safety rules during a global pandemic, deem themselves fit enough to fight an actual war

Vijay Prashad will come to my city in two weeks, excited to see what he will say.

Starting up a fire within the Union to strike against the new government plans affecting my job. Let's not have them have any rest 🔥

So, in I think 2021 North and South Korea were about to sign an agreement which would include an end to war. Then I think Sullivan wrote on behalf of the US that they do not agree with it fully and that was the end of it. Does anyone have a link perhaps?

Fotos of Xi Jinping's reception in Vietnam!

I want to start being more active for my union, FNV. I want to go to more events they organise, and I'm going to ask working class friends and family around me if they want to join. Since my party BIJ1 doesn't really work that much with the unions I'll have to do it myself.

What are some alternatives to Reddit that are more popular than lemmy?

I finally had my first Seder yesterday. It was also the first time that I had matzah, matzo ball soup, wine, and gefilte fish, all of which I enjoyed having. I tried to imagine myself being an ancient Hebrew who hastily escaped chattel slavery, but it was difficult when there was so much commotion in the room.

Above all, the Seder was about mourning the situation in Gaza, how they have little to eat and only salt water to drink. We took turns reading from a pamphlet about the situation there and why we could not in good conscience have a celebratory Seder like most other Jews would normally have. We weren’t miserable during the event, but being conscious of Palestinian suffering made the Seder very different: we all knew that Gazans were still going to be in agony after the Seder was over.

Despite the noise in the room (in between and after reading from the pamphlet), I managed to have a couple of conversations with the other guests. The one to my right was taciturn, but we talked a little about the Spanish State and the Jewish history there and in Morocco.

The one to my left was more energetic, and we talked about modern history, like the status of gay Jews in the Third Reich. I told him that I may well have written the first article specifically on the subject, and I wrote on a napkin where he could find the topic—https:lemmy.ml (I wish that I had been more specific)—and my telephone number. Later he agreed to take me home and we talked about historical conspiracies and other events in modern history, like the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia and how Imperial America forgave most of Fascist Italy’s WWI debt, which amazed him. He hasn’t tried to contact me yet, but I wish that we could speak again.

After the drought we are seeing rain finally, be it ever so slightly. But the drought and the winter did make me forget what a humid hell it can be here, in the swamp. The gym is a nightmare and it's not even summer yet.

While I don't make much money and can't afford to move out, I sometimes still feel guilt for not coming from a very poor background, even if my family isn't that rich, because then I tell myself that I can't be a true socialist. Does anybody else feel something similar?

I feel this way because my parents have a middle class income and they own their own house. My dad is a lower manager in healthcare, what is the marxist vision on that type of work? My mom also works in healthcare but as a worker.

Everyone make sure to wish a great week to Oppo.

Btw, anyone familiar with millenial.chaos from TikTok? Or maybe anyone in his Discord? If not, maybe we could let them know we exist, because they seem to be a cool bunch.

Other than that, last saturday I attended the 31st congress of our party, which was overall a positive experience, even if just slightly tipping the scale. I'd appreciate other autistic people helping me with tips how they do fieldwork, being on the streets, talking to people, being observed and judged and so on. As well as, I'm wondering if there is anyone here, who can not do any type of party work like this, because if they'd do, they'd lose their jobs or be hated out of their local community. Cause these are the things I'm facing, but obviously I'm expected to perform and work for the party.