Hello and welcome to our community tradition of a weekly discussion thread. Before we begin we here at GZD would like to wish Comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin a happy birthday. Now please join us in singing for he is a jolly good fellow in Russian and Georgian as we cut the cake!
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The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, might influence the future towards Western imperialist demands.
Every time Wikipedia does censoring anti-imperialist voices, the NPOV policy may not be genuine.
Jimmy Wales is a fkn zionist btw.
So the Bondi shooters were wahhabis and even the MSM are admitting it… So I’m like 99% sure it was a false flag.
I’m 100% sure it’s a false flag
I got him a Giant Spoon for his birthday
Ever since that new chinese ww2 has been making the rounds, I have seen an extreme spike in westerners claiming that the cpc “waited” out the war in caves and then claimed victory, while in earnest the KMT did all the fighting. Or worse that the chinese communists attacked the KMT while they were invaded by the japanese, linking metaphorically it to “tankies/ultras/doomers/wreckers/etc…” refusing to work with socdems inside capitalist political parties.
IIRC wasn’t it the KMT that kept breaking the truce and attacking the Reds?
Doing this Secret Santa thing with friends and the person I drew is a huge history nerd. I stumbled upon an old nazi propaganda magazine from 1940 and figured it was a fun gift. I had a look inside and apart from some archaic Dutch language the general subjects could be copy pasted by current day right wing parties lol. Dehumanizing language, propaganda of ‘we are righteous and strong’ and whatever bullshit.
I did have a strong urge to clarify that I’m not a nazi when I went to the register lol.
any Indian comrades here shine some light on dharundhar movie? is it a piece of shit jingoistic govt bollywood propaganda movie or am I misreading it?
Not Indian but watch Bollywood movies sometimes. Haven’t seen this one but judging from the plot, it seems like propaganda. Doesn’t bollywood have ties to BJP, like Hollywood has ties to the US miltary? That makes it even more likely
Not Indian but watch Bollywood movies sometimes
I absolutely will be using this sentence in my life from now on
How so?
Idk as a stand alone sentence it sounds so funny if there is no further context. Like ‘Not Dutch but I do wear clogs sometimes’
“I’m not trans but I play Fallout: New Vegas sometimes.”
I’m not American but I occasionally eat burger
I’m honestly so excited for this course on Imperialism by the Critical Theory Workshop.
Edit: website source for the image: https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/upcoming-events/
That course sounds really good!
Am I using Mastodon wrong or is it just boring and lifeless by default?
90% of every post I see is news, an advertisement, or some kind of bot. There are barely any real people on any of the feeds and it’s a depressing experience. Am I doing something wrong?
Im not sure I dont use mastodon much,
The thing about mastodon is that it doesn’t have an algorithm to put recommended posts into your feed like the “normal” micro-blogging social medias you might be used to. By default, the feed shows only posts from accounts you are subscribed to in chronological order, so if you aren’t subscribed to anything, it won’t show you anything. You need to build your feed yourself by going out of your way to find accounts you want to see posts from.
i tried to do mastodon a couple times but i came to the same conclusion as you. tbh it’s a lot easier for me to just follow the few people on mastodon who actually matter through rss than it is for me to get a good mastodon feed
The Belgian government is nicknamed Arizona because the party colours of the coalition match with the State of Arizona flag and our party keeps saying that we can take down Arizona. Which seems like we have this very one sided beef with this random state.
I mean… I suport you taking down the state of Arizona
If only it was that literal. Free the Navajo!
Brazilian Senate just approved the soft amnesty for the coup plotters, with support from parties that are part of the executive government.
Lula has announced that he’ll veto it, but in a very milquetoast way, without calling for further mobilisation and already paying lip service to the fact that the Congress can overrule his veto. Depending on how long he takes to actually veto, it could be during Christmas time to sabotage further mobilisations or January, when people will have more time to prepare.
He could also only do a partial veto, as he has done on the past with another bill that destroyed environmental protections. The partial vetos were also overruled by Congress.
Is there no Feature Request Community on Lemmy.ml? I was just thinking it would be nice if I could put a temporary filter on my feed to remove all posts containing the word “trump”
Been trying therapy lately and it actually works. I’m starting to feel like I can breathe again. Unfortunately it is taking up politics time for now.
I’m also working on myself more lately, and also notice I have less time for politics. Sucks how we can’t do both. But think I will be more effective in my politics if I’m more emotionally stable
I find it’s hard not to feel a bit arrogant sometimes having ML views in the west. I don’t really like feeling that way, but I have the feeling sometimes. Maybe lingering arrogance from previous socialization is part of it. But I also think a factor is that the western status quo insists on being blind to the insight and direction that scientific socialism can provide. So it’s like you’re on “team science but applied to politics” and they’re like “nuh uh, that’s communism, communism bad.” And even with a basic understanding of the framework, you’re already so far past on understanding how things work and why, and what could be done differently. It doesn’t even mean you’re good at it in a broader, practiced sense (like you might be really bad at it compared to an average party member in an AES state), but compared to the average westerner with no understanding of it, it’s leaps and bounds just to have the basics.
So I don’t know. I self-hate arrogance and ego in general. But maybe that feeling is my way of coping with how politically illiterate people tend to be. Arrogance rather than despairing about it or something.
Yeah I feel that way sometimes too. The western liberal status quo can be really frustrating, especially their stubborn resistance to new perspectives. Arrogance about having ML views probably feels better than that frustration.
When I notice arrogance in myself, I try to remember that everyone has to start somewhere - that there was a time before I became an ML, when I was an ignorant radlib westerner lost in a sea of propaganda. It’s humbling (even somewhat embarrassing in hindsight), and it helps me to be a more effective educator when I can have empathy and understand where people are at. Not trying to give any unsolicited advice, just sharing my own experience.
Thanks, yeah, that’s a healthy reminder. Reminds me, one way I try to combat it is to reframe my own situation as the result of a lot more than just me. For example, remembering the people who most contributed to my learning about this stuff. Or remembering a place like this and how it has contributed to my growth in it.
I definitely felt like that for the beginning of my learning, but nowadays I just feel confused by every kind of media and discussion around me being painted in lib views, to the point of experiencing paranoia / delusion. Glad that those times are behind me, but now I tend to devolve into blood boiling anger if I’m by myself, but try to remind me to ask others questions about their understanding, instead of devolving into debate culture. lol
Can someone tell me if this channel is legit or sus?
Your Life as a North Korean Upper Class Citizen
Seems sus to me
Happy birthday Stalin!
