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From Italy
Italy, are you sure? The other symbol besides Mao is from a Brazilian football club and the phrase “Bonde do …” is a very typical Brazilian phrase.
EDIT: The phrase “Luta de Classes” is for sure in portuguese as well, in italian it would be “Lotta di Classe” according to google.
You are right. Fixed it.
I thought it was a photo of Brazilians in Italy tbh
most based image ever
Being an adult and going to trade school while having ten years of experience of full time work hits different. Today they said that there will be a parent-teacher evening next week 😭 I said I’m not doing that and they asked me if it was my own decision or my parents’ lmao
I still haven’t found an org to join here. The only options are some small commie orgs in a nearby city or the regular Socialist Party but they are socdems at best.
Oh
Are you not in Belgium now?
Where are you?
;_;
Back in The Netherlands
Is there a PVDA equivalent in NL?
No not really. The commie parties here are pretty small. Though they should get the chance to grow, of course.
Big oof
Also
“my decision or your parents’”
R E A L
On another note, I am here in Zaragoza, Spain now without ANY family members.
Shit is so slayyyy
😌😌
Well my laptop’s OS decided to not boot anymore, so I took the opportunity to use the USB stick that I used to try to install Linux on my PC on my laptop, and it worked! There are some hardware issues, but at least I can use it, and it shows that I’m not a complete idiot with installing Linux.
We got this
Christian liberalism teaches people the important truth, that when you fail at something and are forced to stop, that’s actually a good thing because now you can’t be judged for doing the thing on an ongoing basis. Doing things will make you impure and risk losing heaven, so it’s best to just do nothing as much as possible. As your reward, in the afterlife, you get to happily do nothing forever in heaven; if you were to do things in heaven, that might ruin your mood and mess with eternal happiness, so it’s best to just do nothing as much as possible.
Just in case I didn’t layer it on thick enough: I do not actually believe this. Tis a joke. Though I do believe that Christian thought in the west acts something like this some of the time.
Ironically both:
James 1:22: “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.”
James 2:17–18: Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Exist as passages in the bible.
I remember there was some conflict between James and some random letter from Paul over which is more important, faith or works. Apparently, Martin Luther almost took James out the Bible over that or something else.
The churches took a bunch of books out.
100%
I’m pretty sure that most of Paul’s letters are lost.
A bunch of old testament, then the gnostic gospels: Mary, Thomas, Judas, etc. Can’t say about Paul, I’ve not run across any, so far. But the Book of Adam and Eve was only discovered in the last handful of years, so who knows?
told my mom about that one, she stopped talking to me about going to church and god afterward.
don’t touch my precious faith bubble heathen!
I maintain most of these people aren’t believers, it’s just some sort of social cohesion that requires playing their parts.
The bible is a weird book cause it has stuff like that and then it also has stuff like incest.
I mean, they were barely out of the caves.
President of Serbia officially signed his resignation a minute or two ago. I hope a Communist org/s can get a foothold in the state. I don’t doubt he won’t try to get right back into government (as PM instead of president), so if the people wan’t their actions to last, just axting through the present mechanisms won’t get them anything. They have their own candidates, but I have no idea as to what they’ll do.
DPRK to the semifinals! They won against Canada in FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup!
Fans of the DPRK in the stadium!
I watched them win last year on the TV. It was interesting to see plenty of North Korean fans that were white.
The Chollima spirit is alive and thriving. I cannot express how happy i am for them.
It’s wierd to think that FDR was literally inches from dying right at the start of his presidency due to an assassination attempt which would’ve let John Nance Garner [basically a dixiecrat who wasn’t super pro-new deal] become president. I really wonder what would’ve happened if that occurred.
Context:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Maybe that would have helped the labor movement? The New Deal was about neutralizing socialist tendencies in the US, right?
As a Yankee, it messes with my head a bit, the thing of connecting with people over overlap of pop culture interests. Like having played the same video game and liked it, or liked the same books or movies. The fact of it alone is not what weirds me out. It’s the extent to which that seems to be a primary way of connecting, if that makes sense. Like there is not that much to bond over because so many things that are more serious, people are so divided on? So the fandoms sort of become a stand-in.
I just can’t unsee it in the context of that Iran quote about Qasem Soleimani. The more liberated parts of the world, who have had to battle for sovereignty, have real heroes to look up to. The west has Spongebob Squarepants. It seems rather pathetic to me. It’s like escapism became a mainstream cultural crutch rather than a fringe coping mechanism.
Settlers have a hereditary psychic illness that is often overlooked, we have no culture. We have no shared history other than the crimes of the generations before so we escape into fiction.
Indigenous peoples have had direct assaults on their culture and theft of their ancestral lands but they still have remnants of their culture and ways to connect with the land even if someone else claims ownership of it.
Settlers have no culture. We aren’t home where we were born and we aren’t welcomed in the land out ancestors abandoned or were pushed out of. We might know how to cook a traditional dish or two from our ancestral culture. Or maybe there is a story or two we were told that goes back to the old country. All we have is this fake bullshit entertainment to use to relate to one another.
Sad to think about, but a really good point.
i will never get used to stop signs and red lights being mere suggestions in California
The state I live in has a drug problem. We mainly manufacture nearly every XTC pill for the entire continent. Think Breaking Bad but with molly.
Sadly that’s the only thing we get referenced for in cultural stuff. Every serie that gets produced that takes place over here has drugs as a theme. On top of that they also portray us as stupid hillbillies. We have our own distinct dialect which they can’t be bothered to either learn or hire, you know, locals. So you get butchered accents with overly caricaturized versions of us. And the serie will always contain carnaval. Because all we do here is make molly, be stupid and drink beer at carnaval.
and what state is that? asking for a friend
I do say this as we have yet another shooting but whatever my point still stands
I was watching a Dutch news report (NOS Journaal) from the day of 9/11, and in this report they immediately started theorizing that (other than Al Qaeda) Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestinians could’ve done it and also showed clips of cheering Palestinians. The idea of military intervention was also already thrown around. I didn’t know they started blaming them so quickly.
Once it became clear it was an attack it makes sense. Al-Qaeda itself already attacked the WTC before via a parking garage bomb and the gulf war had only occurred a half a decade or so before that.
