The thing is: a genocide claim is so bold and so out there that many people seem to fear disproving it. The difference with Palestine is that no media outlet in the west is actively claiming genocide on Palestinians despite that happening and many people seem to fear to call it one because they fear some backlash. The same thing is happening with Xinjiang except the other way round: people fear being shunned for denying a genocide.

The genocide claim makes it almost impossible to actually have a discussion about what is going on in Xinjiang. It’s the same as with the Soviet Union. So much bullshit has been published about it that an actual discussion is basically no option with your average Westerner. The propaganda runs deep and needs hours upon hours of ‘deprogramming’ so to say.

I heard that the directors quit and were replaced by an interim board of directors in March, only for them the quit yesterday.

Maybe they just secretly decided to go to my specific gym

The Dutch union seems to be in absolute shambles due to infighting. We have that too but it just stays private.

Nobody is criticizing men for wanting to be fit. I actively encourage them to do so. However, an urge to be fit does not necessary means you have to become an misogynistic asshole. You build positive masculinity by revealing the fascist nature many gym bros currently have and offer an alternative.

When my parents first bought a home they had the option to get a free dishwasher and a free laundry machine with it because people couldn’t sell their house if their lives depended on it. Then they sold that house for profit, buying their current house that they have been living in for nearly 20 years now. They bought this house cheap and managed to get some profit off their previous sale as well.

Their current house is now worth somewhere between 500 and 600k. It is up nearly 300k from the purchase price. There is no way you can get such an increase in wealth in the same amount of time by just working. And the wages are stagnant. I will never be able to do what they have done in our current syste.

Man I love no mow may. So many flowers and interesting plants starting to pop up everywhere. It’s sad that it will be destroyed at the end of the month because of no fucking reason.

And every week it’ll be like ‘there’s going to be rain this week’ only for it to be a blue sky with full sun

It’s scary how little rain we had this year so far. I can think of maybe a day or five with some rain. And nobody seems to care.

Just finished reading The Vegeterian by Han Kang. I think more people should read it but to say it was a fun book goes too far. Disturbing is a better word I guess.

Ultimately it is a critique of the societal role of women in (Korean) society. Also important was the idea that the ultimate enforcer of societal roles is violence and that those who will reject it will be subjected to violence, while at the same time receive another form of violence for not rejecting it.

Wouldn’t be a leftist org without some infighting

Gathered all of my coworkers to discuss the making of a plan to undermine our management as our working conditions are horrendous. And we did come up with a proposal. If they won’t listen or the answer isn’t okay for us, we will take further action. And if that doesn’t work, we will deny them their authority and start working on our own agreed upon terms.

Gotta love a good worker uprising don’t we.

Socdes over here launched a campaign for Palestina all of a sudden only to vote against pro Palestinian measures in parliament

Like, all the people in Gaza will be dead if this continues. And then what? Be proud I went out at least? They’d still be dead. We’d all be ashamed and will ‘never again’ ourselves and continue with our lives. But they are dead.

Be ashamed we didn’t do more? What else apart from [redacted, illegal] is there to do?

I voted again and again only for the party to do absolutely nothing it promised. Then a few years later some rich fuck in my city wanted to claim a piece of public land and we got together with some comrades and bullied them into submission. It was far more effective than any voting I ever did.

Doesn’t China also occupy a part of Kashmir? How do they relate to this war?

One of the most insane titles just dropped in Dutch news. One of the news outlets says this (translated): ‘Dubious plan of Israel: it seems that Palestinian presence in Gaza nears its end’

Palestinian. Presence. Nears. Its. End.

What the fuck

His own corpse

The ruling neolib party in Belgium, N-VA, is finally having a moment of infighting regarding Palestine. Some of em can’t look away anymore.

Posted a comment on Instagram stating racist violence is not cool (bold claim, I know) and some shirtless dude pfp instantly threatened me lmao