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“Guys, I’m not Korean. I’m SOUTH Korean. Get it right, I’m one of the good Asians.”
-Bootlicking Chan
My team became champions today and there is nothing more comradery like than celebrating the championship for 2 whole days drink like a motherfucker.
Congrats from an Ajacied!
Semester 4 starts tomorrow and it’s going to be a doozy due to the fact that it’s a expedited semester (13 weeks of course content condensed into 2.5 weeks, ouch). This semester of Political Science is about the history, so we have to read Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics, also a guy named Augustine. For this class I have to write an Exegesis as well, it’s something I’ve never heard of before but it seems hard (I have to write one on a book/“chapter” from Plato’s Republic), I’ve never done something like this. I am nervous due to the amount of readings and papers; and each class is 3 hours a day!
This is just History of Politics Part 1, Part 2 is held in June and both are separate classes (meaning they have their own credits). I also have a history course that spans May and June (it’s online) and is about post-1867, in this class I have to write a paper about the unsolved murder of William Robinson with the goal of figuring out who killed him.
This is going to be a strange semester…
Also as a side note, I hate how there are separate students loans (provincial vs federal). I’ve been taking out provincial ones when I should’ve been taking out federal as they don’t have an interest rate anymore. Provincial loans will have an interest rate 12 months after school, that’s fucking dumb, why are they different? They should be the same thing. I want to understand provincial sovereignty but at the same time I find it incredibly annoying. Semester 5 and onwards (including Masters) will be with federal loans because fuck interest rates. The interest still shouldn’t apply until I’m out of school but I’ll make sure to call my province’s loan people to make sure I don’t have to pay early because I switched to federal.
Fun fact (has nothing to do with school) I have a document on my tablet that just lists a bunch of ideas for posts I want to make here. If I have a “good” question/theme for a post I write it in the document so I don’t forget and when I have the time/willpower I can write it here.
I just finished the Republic. Interesting book, kinda weird. I can see the connections to modern politics.
Re post ideas - I write any idea I have for a meme or whatever in my journal along with all my other thoughts.
alternate thumbnail (CW: Zionist being blown up)
A new week.
We are having a party event this week. Looking forward to it. It’s supposed to be better weather this week too but this is still Belgium, so I’ll believe it when I see it.
And, most importantly, it is labour day on Wednesday.
very hyped for labour day
Are you going to do anything special? Lots of marches and activities going on.
im going to the ptb event in brussels
Is this a real account?
I am presently reading Katherine Aron‐Beller’s Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, and I especially enjoy the fact how even prior to the first millennium, xenophobic gentiles were portraying Jews (based on the slimmest of evidence) as being partners in crime with whoever was the public enemy of the day, such as Muslims or even competing Christian denominations. One brief example:
During the reign of Constantine V (741–775) who is considered the most “iconoclastic” emperor of the eighth and ninth centuries, iconophiles associated their iconoclast opponents and their position on idolatry with Jews, typically denouncing them as blasphemers and destroyers of images.78
We’re all familiar with the more recent iteration known as ‘Judeo‐Bolshevism’, and we may be witnessing a more complex iteration now where ‘bad Jews’ like George Soros (not that I admire him unjokingly) are responsible for the recent university protests and for Hamas’s present funding. Since merely blaming ‘the Jews’ for these protests would be too confusing, the Zionist distinctions between ‘good Jews’ and ‘bad Jews’ could come in handy.
Thinking about the Tito fridge magnet I declined to buy at a tobacco stand in rural Croatia cause it was of highly dubious quality and the lady wanted €4, wish I had it on my fridge now smh
Had to delete my previous account cause it was too close to my public profile as a producer and I don’t wanna dox myself
But that also means I probably can’t link my music here either 😭 a sacrifice I’ll just have to make cause living in the imperial core is gonna get even more dangerous in the near future
Keep in mind that many of your comments are likely backed up on archive.org (and possibly similar websites, or even Lemmy instances that federate with Lemmygrad but don’t synchronize account deletions). If it’s important, the safest option is to create an account with a different name and pretend like you’re a new user
I also probably should have nuked all my posts and comments too 😰 whoops, didn’t think about that
those are all supposed to be deleted when you delete your account, but there’s no guarantee that all federated instances do so as well
Well I didn’t say anything wild on any other instance and I mainly kept to lemmy so I think should be ok
I think archive may be looking at hard times soon idk how their appeal is going
Has Iran responded yet to Israel’s last attack on them?
Do they need to respond at this point? They kinda proved whatever they needed to with the first one. Israel now knows for sure that it would be in trouble if it insisted on taking things further than this show of saving face. Hopefully Iran is willing to accept that it’s made it’s point and decides not to retaliate to the retaliation against it’s retaliation for Israel’s consular attack. To keep us that step further from WWIII and all that.
There was ANOTHER!?!?!?
A small one, I think.
deleted by creator
which episode
deleted by creator
SXSW absolutely turned to shit
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
In what can only be described as a quarter life crisis I have decided to get a buzz cut and dye my hair blonde lmao
that one regular show episode
So youre basically eminem?
Communem
The Collective farm’s spaghetti
Just now?
Yeah lol. I’m sorry you have to meet me this way.
heh
swag
Tennis ball looking
Went down to the US for the weekend to visit gamer friends. I’m driving in a school zone and slowed down as a result, there were y’know kids everywhere crossing the street. A USian then speeds behind me, barely avoids plowing into my back, then slows down to hang out of the car, yelling about how slowing down was bad for their dog. Then at the next few lights they tried to ram and brake check us, again hanging out of their car yelling slurs and murderous threats.
White americans are so fucking absurd, I grew up there and they will all kill if you even look at their ridiculously abused pets the wrong way. Like a friend was bit once and got pepper sprayed when she tried to stop the dog. Not saying Canadians are much better (in a lot of ways we’re worse and more mask off with our racism), but USians are a special kind of unhinged. I constantly have to remind myself that just about every single white person in Canada or the US is descended from someone that killed to live there
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You make the Internet a better place.