Got left in charge of making protest signs for the upcoming strike on the 14th in Brussels. Did it together with my other young colleagues. Most of us are communist or anarchist so I think the signs became a bit more radical than they wanted.

Calling our prime minister a genocidal fuck, lots of anti NATO signs, destroy billionaires, etc. It’s going to be fun handing them over to the old heads at work lmao.

Kamala’s on that book store getting yelled at by Palestine protesters, and all she can do is deflect to Trump. Absolutely no comprehension of why people are mad at her.

Sometimes I feel like if I were to go to the media I could have them write such a devastating piece on the unions that they would not recover from it.

I would never but fuck me do they make working there miserable, hypocrite bunch of shits.

Oppo! Have a nice week NOW!!!

In 2016 the Belgian government decided to lower the tax percentage on the employer side, meaning they are paying less taxes on the wages they pay, effectively making sure the state gets 8,6 billion euro less in tax revenue each year. Taxes that paid for welfare, retirement, healthcare, education, etc.

Now, nearly ten years later, the same figures that proposed the tax cuts are now making sure we get budget cuts in that same social security because we now have a deficit.

I think it is a clear example of how much the people at the top are planning ahead to fuck us over.

I’ve been exploring some of the guns I never used before in Cyberpunk 2077 and it’s only today I realized the one that looks exactly like an AKs-74u is a shotgun and not an SMG and I only discovered this when I tried to shoot a gangoon and didn’t get the usual rapid fire of bullets I was expecting.

It was then I remembered the Saiga-12 exists and the design was likely based off it and not the AKs-74u.

what do you guys think the next decade or so will look like? with the american empire crumbling, i could imagine decades happening. if the government can’t keep a lid on anti-imperialist movements abroad, i could see the us taking its first baby steps toward revolution, not to mention the oppressed nations. at the same time, nothing ever happens. the empire is losing strength, but that’s not the same as saying it isn’t strong. internally, its citizens care more about being able to watch some shitty talk show than palestinian lives, maybe even their own lives. the security apparatus has a lot of money and a lot of toys. the western left is a joke. if the treat faucet doesn’t stop pouring, nothing cool will happen in the us. and if nothing cool happens in the colonized nations, the treat faucet will never stop pouring.

One of my coworkers grew up in Soviet Latvia and yesterday she was talking about her school period and how it was kinda strict but at the same time gave opportunities to develop, and one of my other coworkers asked: ‘and if you didn’t listen? GuLaG? Haha’ and she looked at him like: no that’s not at all how it worked. The gulag wasn’t that much of a thing.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

One of our party members, Hanne Bosselaers, a doctor, has been illegally kidnapped from international waters by Israel

Is there even a difference between so called social liberalism and social democracy anymore? Seems like almost all socdem parties in Europe can call themselves social liberal as well

There is a terrorism investigation in a street in my city rn but cops won’t release info on what it’s about until later this evening.

Thing is, we have some holdouts in the street lol. I doubt it’s us but ehhhh

I swear dealing with technology at work turns me into Kaczynski

This is what I posted on October 7, 2023:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2258613

At the time that I wrote that, I had no idea about the raid on the ‘State of Israel’ until evening, when a friend on the telephone told me about the incident. At the time, I naïvely believed that the worst that was likely to happen was the IOF bombarding Palestine for a few days as retaliation. As we all know, the full aftermath was even worse than that, to put it mildly.

Yet it is having this context in mind that this otherwise mundane thread feels so much differently than it could have: there I was, talking about the differences between two Torot with an almost youthful fascination, blissfully unaware of what was going on in the Levant and the atrocities that would plague the region for two years. I almost envy the simplicity that our lives had back then. I could easily talk about the mildly interesting features in Judaism or Jewish cultures without feeling like I was neglecting anybody.

Okay look, I stand in solidarity with protesters of all stripes but please stop going to serious protests wearing funny little costumes. Like that person in a frog suit who got gassed, this isn’t a game.