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uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
I feel like I've seen this comment somewhere before
probably just my imagination
I think Bush or Biden said it by accident. Whichever one it was he meant Vietnam. No, I don't know why the US keeps electing people who don't know history and who think a map involves a brief sleep next to a mop.
I think in a speech Bush meant to say Ukraine was being unjustly invaded but accidentally said Iraq was being invaded.
More and more people are saying it every day.
When politicians say that the state is inefficient at managing whatever stuff, arent they implicitely saying that they themselves are fucking incompetent?
For some reason, when I put my delinquent trust fund cousin in charge of the health department, they fuck up constantly. I love my cousin, therefore state bad. >:(
"Well we gutted the health department and now the public clinics are performing worse than private ones, clearly it means privatisation is the key to success "
Yes. However they are actually very competent and doing the stuff they want to do. They just need you to do know it is too hard for them to improve anything.
My place of work had a huge banner of Allende on the front of their building today
I wish we did stuff like that, but I live in Texas, so the closest we'll get is someone flying the Chilean flag thinking it's the Texas flag
Fucking fantastic, yet another private "festival" has fenced off the public park near me, blocking access for 2 full months. And of course it's never the public parks in richer areas that get taken over by this bullshit! These bastards enclose a supposedly public area and charge $30 a head to wander around a public fucking park looking at plastic pumpkins while listening to a mix of generic spooky music and Disney soundtracks. Not to mention they leave their garbage all over the place and tear up everything driving around in giant pickups. Yesterday I accidentally wandered into their cordon because they hadn't finished fencing it and I had a couple dipshits escort me out by driving behind me to make sure I didn't look at their shitty fake jack o' lanterns.
Apologies for the rant but it pisses me the fuck off
What a bunch of assholes
I commented about this a few weeks ago as well, but there is an increasing crack problem starting in Antwerp and Brussels. It is seemingly coming out of nowhere and I wonder what's the deal with it. Brussels is hit worse than Antwerp, maybe the cartels running Antwerp have something to do with it, idk. But it is becoming more mainstream every day.
It comes in handy for right wing parties because it mainly seems to affect refugees and homeless people, who are creating tense situations at busy places in the cities.
Drugs aren't new. There's a cocaine war going on in Antwerp, with a grenade explosion every other day. But crack is new and it was there all of a sudden.
The increase in economic hardship as a result of NATO's war is a main cause I think, western Europe in particular is experiencing a lot of this and it's feeding into right-wing talking points. It's rough and likely is only going to get worse. Social democracy is rotting in real time.
Reaching conspiracy nutjob territory here but it would not surprise me in the slightest if one of the three letter agencies is dropping crack into minority communities again in order to promote a more right wing Europe as a US partner.
It's been done before and will be done again. I don't think it's conspiracy nutjob territory at all to consider connections between the state, and organized crime/drug cartels.
That is what happened where I live. The CIA has admitted to part of it. So you know it has to go so much deeper if they were willing to go even that far
In America the cops flooded the streets with cheap Crack for fun and profit. They made some money, and they got to ask for budget increases to handle the problems. I have no reason to belive this is any different
@CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml, I'm humbled by your ability to post lib-baiting truths
Like half your recent threads are drawing them out of the woodwork and I'm there for it 
Glad to be doing Marx’s work 🫡
If I ever become head of state in a communist dictatorship I'm banning humidity. It's at 83% right now. Just sitting and slowly chewing my food makes me feel like standing in a shower.
yea humidity makes it awful. like i prefer a 40 degree temperature with low humidity than a 30 degree with high humidity. it fucking sucks taking a shower and coming out sweating 😂
Humidity also makes cold feel worse. For example -10C in Leningrad feels nightmarish, while the same temperature in, say, Kogalym would see people walking around with no hats
Agreed.
It's stuff like this that makes me realise how much better a head of state Thomas Sankara was than I'll ever be though. Homie refused to use airconditioning in his office because it was considered a luxury in Burkina Faso.
I believe Suslov was another revolutionary figure who eschewed the privileges that he had access to on the grounds that if it was good enough for the masses then it's good enough for him.
There's a lot of talk about getting the right insulation for your house so that you have to use less energy to heat it, but I think that, especially with global warming in mind, focussing on keeping the heat out in the summer should also be a priority. The past week we had a heat wave over here. It was 'only' 32 degrees but when you live in a swamp area the humidity is enough to completely wreck you. The city I live in is notorious for having 1) bad insulated houses and 2) having almost no green spaces to cool down in outside. Most squares are concrete slabs die to the concrete lobby having connections in the government. It is one of the hottest places in the country because of this, with a four degree difference in some areas. My bedroom has been at 31.5 C at night for the past week. I have a rash on my skin caused by the heat. Most people live in appartments without AC and without a garden to chill in. Green spaces outside and better housing conditions are a must, imo.
Anyway, new week, new left wing struggle. I sometimes feel as if I completely lose the plot of living a life because of politics. I'm at a point where I get envious if I see other people living life and just enjoying the mundane, regular life things. I wonder if taking a step back and touching some grass for a while is a good thing to do right now.
Wouldn't good insulation also assist in keeping the heat out? Like a thermos
Yes good insulation helps with that. But something as easy as planting more trees in a street helps as well. Or getting people with gardens to remove tiles and swap them for greenery. I think we should also think about how designing the public spaces can help with conserving energy, cooling down a city, etc. Luckily more orgs are aware of this right now.
Time to live in caves again, best natural insulation
For some off grid climate leftists that seems to be an actual option lol
I think I'm becoming a tankie :( how did this happen. What have you people done?
the immortal science, it is compelling
Shitting on people from other countries for being right wing shits is the worst because they sound just like American conservatives but they can also screech at you about not respecting their values (I do not respect their values, and I wish to make them as acutely aware of this fact at least as hard as they wish to make me know they don't respect mine)
I'm trying to assert myself here and there's enough speed bumps within country lines. I don't need even more beyond them
In one of the communities where our party is in the government we managed to make sanitary products for women's periods free in schools and libraries and other public buildings. And people are mad about it somehow 😭😭
Like, how can you be mad at free shit man
holy shit i am gonna get a brain aneurysm by reading these mainstream media articles.
in the last months outsourcing transformed into nearshoring and just now i saw an article calling it friendshoring 💀
I hate how the media gives everything coming from Ukraine a nickname. I saw a video about a pregnant women in the army and the media said: 'they call her the Ukrainian Joan of Arc'. Like fuck off no one is doing that probably.
Ukrainian Joan of Arc
Ghost of Kyiv
Russian 'General of Terror'
Ukrainian Potato of Eternal suffering, heir of the third Nebula, bringer of Justice, brother of Dave
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