Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our sect, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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featurebugAs I get older and older, I get unfathomably uncomfortable seeing kids and teenagers online. Just a moment ago I discovered a whole section of DeviantArt where 13-14 year olds post their names, faces, and houses all voer their accounts with no thought to cyber safety. First of all, I’m shocked people still use that site and in that manner and secondly none of these kids seem to grasp the amount of danger they put themselves in.
As a former kid, kids are idiots. They do their best of course but with the lack of life experience, and floods of hormones, decision making isn’t really easy to do. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of kids have really good ideas, and great takes on things, but making decisions? It’s just hard to make good ones.
Can you do an AMA as a former kid?
Let me check with my parents
I got like bronchitis or something and man is it beating me down hard. I was better for a day or two but it RKO’d me outta nowhere again. Feels like inhaling glass shards.
“Or something”… Get checked? Also, don’t leave home with bronchitis. Comrades shouldn’t infect other comrades, even if it’s just a flu. Get some symptom relief drugs prescribed just in case, and if it still isn’t gone after a week get some antivirals (most doctors don’t know about antivirals, so you’ll have to mention it).
I have been checked twice now as it has been going on for weeks. First I got like an ionized mouth wash, the second time I got an inhaler and some numbing spray for my throat. I felt better for two days but it’s back again. Called in sick and I’m now trying to contact my doctor for yet another review.
Take care
It’s because using antivirals on non-serious conditions, even if they kick your ass, is how we get super bugs and ineffective anti-vitals.
True, but Dankzedong said it has been going on for weeks at this point. I’m just making the suggestion, in the end it’s up to doctor’s discretion.
Is it just me, or does the page now repeatedly scroll up while creating a thread?
It’s an HTML bug, I’ve encountered it on other websites. I forget what causes it, but I assume it’ll be fixed with the next update.
A similar thing has happened with me. It’s usually when there’s a picture. When I scroll down the picture shrinks, takes up less space and the page slides upwards to fill in the space.
Does it happen more with threads where you’ve opened some screenshots, etc?
The screenshots don’t make any difference. I tested this out on the create post page without inserting any images or URLs in it and I still got the glitch.
I would love to incorporate local Dutch elements in my clothing, but Dutch traditional clothing is so ugly, impractical, and region-specific so don’t want to do that. Don’t know what else I can do. If only there was a contemporary Dutch style of clothing I could use.
Volundam enters the chat
Excuse me, what about this looks impractical to you?
On a more serious note, but maybe not typical Dutch: many of my friends are into like 40s-50s style fashion. Oftentimes it’s great quality, looks traditional and I guess you can add Dutch things to it.
17-18th century Dutch Calvinist Burgher Drip. Just dress as the last (successful) revolutionaries in Dutch history.
Ew, drippy burghers are gross, way too much sauce, and probably not a good idea if they want to dress in nice clothes, it’ll stain them.
I continue to be sick and even worse is that I feel guily about it because I can’t go to work, even though they said it is fine
On top of that, the rain has returned and it will not leave us for another week or two. Pretty symbolic after the elections if you ask me.
you too Oppo
The evil CCP invoking a dragon to kill 9949485859504040 quintillion protestors:
I hope you all have a nice week :D and a absolutely milquetoast and bland week to the person that requested it
Have a nice week, tovarish!
It’s a wittle baby one!
Thank you for wishing me a bland week, it means alot
lmao that is literally the exact same relationship my friend’s pit had with my cat. He was a few months older when he got her.
Have a nice week comrade Oppo 🫡
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Saw someone from my school earlier who was pro-palestine post something about the Xinjiang Genocide on her instagram story. It was pretty much just an afterthought in a list of modern genocides (most of which I presume were real), but still.
I hate the west for poisoning the youth.
:( unfortunately the “uyghur genocide” narrative seems to be more ingrained into people’s minds because of how anti-china the west is and because there’s hardly any widely known accurate information about it
In the Palestine group chat for the local Uni protest I once saw some person saying that they didn’t want to buy a keffiyeh made in China because of the Uyghurs.
One battle won, one battle to win I guess
We even have people like that in our party. As long as they can be right on a lot of thing then there is room for them to have the occasional wrong take. The Western propaganda machine is enormous after all, and we need to keep educating.
I thought about addressing this strictly to @AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml, but I think that you should all see it, because part of the reason that I study Fascism and regularly invite you all to learn more about it is the Shoah.
Admittedly, I can’t say that it is the only reason: I did not get to work immediately after I saw the 6 million statistic for the first time (as epic as that would have been). Rather, it was a gradual process: it took a good deal of maturity on my part, and it was only in 2017 that I really took fascism and neofascism seriously and began studying them thoroughly. As I read about these atrocities and viewed depictions of them, that was when the millions felt like more than another statistic to me.
I think that for most of us, the Shoah is already one of the many reasons why we oppose fascism and neofascism, only we rarely say it out loud since it seems obvious, and maybe a few of us are worried about coming across as pretentious or condescending white knights for saying ‘I want to protect Jews’. Still, it is a debt that deserves at least a little acknowledging: my compassion for Jewish people is an important reason why I do this work. It may be hard to tell when I am talking about banana cultivation in Somalia or the Imperial abuse of Nanking—matters that seem completely unrelated—but that I’m taking note of wherever this tragedy leads me only shows that it means so much to me.
As I get older, I became less religious. I lost my trust in the Catholic Church due to multiple crimes committed by some priests.
US imperialism must be abolished.
If there’s no peace talks yet, I hope Russia advances quickly. I’m kinda frustrated with the slow speed of their advances. I just feel like there’s not much time left before the west will escalate even further, and it would be good if Russia gained more ground so they can protect themselves better
You may need to brace yourself for disappointment. Peace talks are not happening and i see nothing that would indicate that Russia views this the way that you do. They seem to regard territorial gains as an afterthought at the moment to their strategy of attrition. Nothing about this has changed for well over a year now and i don’t expect any big surprises. Just more of the same slow and steady grinding.
I think that Russia considers that time is on its side and that it is in no hurry whatsoever as far as Ukraine is concerned. Putin basically said as much in a recent conversation with international reporters at the St Petersburg Economic Forum. I don’t have the exact quote on hand, but paraphrasing it was something like “yes we could go faster but at the cost of greater losses which we do not want”.
They have also consistently maintained that no additional mobilization will occur, which means that the pace of advance will continue to be limited by the rather modest (compared to what Russia could deploy if it wanted to) size of the force they have dedicated to this conflict. Furthermore, the appointment of a civilian economic administrator to the post of defense minister indicates that they want to prioritize a healthy civilian economy that is not overly skewed toward the military side.
All of these are indications that they are pursuing a strategy not centered around immediate military gains but around long term economic and social stability, even at the cost of a slower resolution to the Ukraine conflict, particularly since they seem convinced that the longer it goes on the weaker the West gets and the worse the global crisis of the US empire will become.
Edit: I have to add a caveat which is that of course all of what i said is contingent on there being no sudden, unexpected developments on the Ukrainian side such as a major political crisis in the Kiev junta or a sudden collapse of the front due to attrition of trained manpower, equipment shortages, demoralization, etc.
All you said was true, I know this is a war on attrition, but I also want the Donbas to be fully liberated so they are not on the direct frontline if shit really hits the fan
Yesterday, my daughter was born healthy folks! I feel blessed!
Congratulations comrade!
Congrats, comrade!
Congrats!
Congratz
Congratulations
Congrats! Wish you and your beautiful daughter the best! ❤️
The other day I saw a ukro-nazi in the wild. Wearing nazi-inspired apparel like we often see in the supposedly photoshopped images of Ukrainian nazis. Dude was many countries away from the frontline. Surreal to see them live here
I saw some of them in my city as well, carrying around fascist flags on an electric scooter. Absolute wild how it is allowed even. Meanwhile every slightly controversial thing happening at Palestine protests get several news outlets writing about it.
