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General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 51 (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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Aloha and Seasons Greetings Comrades! Pull up a chair, say hello, vent, or just stare until someone screams! This is the Weekly Discussion Thread, where grain is eaten and dreams are made or something.

Only two more weeks until 2024! Almost another year closer to the inevitable victory of communism and the working class! Venceremos!

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[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure how I feel about the emoji-sized emojis from Hexbear now. They were massive before but I kinda got used to them and now I'm squinting to try to see them in the same detail. I wonder if I'll feel the same nostalgia about my landlord after we get the FALC update with Lemmy 0.20.3?

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Went to Xinjiang restaurant in Tokyo. The food is fire.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

That looks DELICIOUS! What kind of fish is it?

[–] areyoulessthan@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago

DDR my beloved

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

this guy got fired from his own company (founder) for posting this https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/ -speaking out about palestine. reminder that all rich white elites are genocide denying maniacs.

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

daily reminder openai leadership is bunch of zionists and genocidal maniacs https://x.com/itslaylas/status/1736484324961054875?s=20

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[–] Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago

[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Going on a trip to new zealand, i'll give updates as I go

this is digging hard into the scraps of savings left but honestly fuck it, life is short

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Life do be short, and it is good to explore this world while you can. Have fun.

[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

its gonna be lit

hopefully

[–] absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope all comrades have an acceptable and if possible enjoyable week

[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

We wish the same for you comrade. To many more not-terrible weeks!

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just walked past a cafe and they were watching and chearing hamas videos like it's a football match

[–] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

...so like over here, lmao

it feels like our news sensationalizes this a lot like a football match

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[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

For me it has been a rough winter, not cheery in the slightest. What about our other comrades here? Faring better?

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

It has its ups and downs. It's mostly passing by in great pace while I seem to be zonnig out a lot. I don't know if it's because I'm tired or bored or burnt out a bit.

It sucks to hear that you are experiencing hardship. I hope better thing will come.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

If i didn't have a calendar i wouldn't know its december lol. It has been the warmest december i remember, haven't gone to any party either (my decision, for the better). But it has been a near perfect weather for my crops lol.

[–] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to like winter. I used to be depressed year-round.

Hate winter, now. Midwest blows. Convinced I have seasonal affective disorder. Convinced you're abnormal if you live in the midwest and don't have it.

I was going on walks, working out. Now I don't wanna leave the house, ever. Winter blows.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered taking vitamin D?

[–] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've done it before. It's not a bad idea. Thanks!

Even if the supplements don't do much, it'll make me feel less bad about missing the sun so much and placebo can do its work.

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[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

basically been like 3 weeks of me trying to rest, im doing better now though

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[–] FlightSimEnjoyer@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here in Brazil it has been a very, very hot summer. Literally hitting 50°C on some street thermometers during a heat wave.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jfc that sounds awful, 40C in high humidity climates is nigh unhabitable.

[–] PanArab@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It gets even hotter here and it is very humid here

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[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When is the next thread? @GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml care to explain?

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the situation has been resolved and /u/Oppo@lemmygrad.ml has successfully graduated from the crime rehabilitation facility

[–] Oppo@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

It's under investigation

[–] Binkie55@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't expect an analysis on soviet history this nuanced nowadays

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Weeks after far right has won Dutch elections, security services suddenly start focussing on left wing extremism, saying they have ignored it for too long. But then again they are pointing at the Dutch socialist sub for being extremist, so... Lol

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[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My comments started showing up in vomit yellow, as do comments from some others. Anyone know what the issue is?

[–] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

No issue, thats just "new comment" tint, goes away once the comment is a few minutes old.

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

[–] Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've always had that, wonder why that's not true for others.

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the background colour has changed quite dramatically; it's been fixed (at least for the "darkly" themes) and will hopefully be included in the next update

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Parenti quote test.

[–] ParentiBot@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The quote

In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

-- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds

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[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

success!

[–] geolaw@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have got to get this book

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

yarr 🏴‍☠️

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Liberal institutions have no response, other than unproductive hostility, against conspiratorial thinking because they require nothing but blind trust. The media doesn't know the difference between a structured and informed radical analysis and whatever wierd stuff people on the internet come up with. Most importantly, conspiratorial thinking is the basis for creating myths about the imperialist's enemies.

It's up to us to provide the tools to build upon broken trust in liberal institutions

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[–] rando895@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't fucking stand the "bOtH SidEs aRE BAd" fucking Liberal goonies Jesus Christ what in the ever loving Christ is wrong with people.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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