I am planning on having children in the next 10 years (not that I care about the financial burden). When I thought about this I decided to make up some advice:

> "Spare the rod literally but not metaphorically."

Basically yes, corporal punishment is too cruel, you still need to discipline the child in other ways. How can this be executed? Life lessons are my pitch.

Personally, I think it's part of the petty-bourgeois delusion that a person can become part of the capitalist elite instead of realizing that they have more in common with the working class.

I am a member of the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions, or FNV, and they are not that progressive. They include the police union and don't make a stand for Palestine. They have made a statement today as a reaction to calls to kick the police union out of the federation. These calls came after police violence against pro-Palestine supporters. The leader of FNV defended the police union in his statement. I think the union has an important place in the fight against capitalism before, during and after the revolution. So when the union is compromised, it means it will be harder for change to happen. I do have hope for the union, but how can you exactly help bring back the revolutionary spirit and ideals?

The notion that Biden represents a lesser evil compared to the chaotic reign of Trump is a common argument. However, we must not forget that there exists a moral threshold below which neither choice is acceptable. To suggest that enabling a literal genocide can be considered a lesser evil is a morally bankrupt stance.

Saying that voting for Biden is a moral obligation to prevent the return of Trump perpetuates a dangerous fallacy. It implies that the democratic party is immune from scrutiny and accountability, no matter the atrocities they commit. This line of thinking allows for a never-ending cycle of justification, as long as there's somebody considered worse, the democrats are granted a blank check. This is nothing more than a form of gaslighting, manipulating the public into believing that their only choice is between two evils, rather than demanding a better standard of leadership and true representation.

Most of the people I'm around are reactionaries and every -ism especially my whole family. Talking to people on lemmygrad is somewhat good but i am craving physical interaction pretty strongly.

also punch drunk is scary as hell

It's needless to say that climate change is a very scary topic that is a lot to handle. There are a lot of very bleak predictions, and even optimistic predictions will significantly disrupt humanity for at least some time.

What are your tips on how I (and many others) can cope with this?

(P.S. It's like I make a new post every day, isn't it?)

Any "maoists-third worldists" here? I don't wanna waste my time with people who can't do a basic class analysis. Let's leave this juche hoxha shithole.

So ive got a perma ban on reddit, every new account I make gets banned immediately.

After some research I think its a device id ban. So my plan is to wait a couple weeks until my provider gives me a new IP adress, then I will backup my important stuff and do a factory reset on my phone and then create a new account on a fresh email address. is there an easier way?

I’d say infrastructure and devices worsened by planned obsolescence. gaming and media in general has by somewhat worsened by capitalism encouraging endless greed.

I see the appeal of being a conspiracy theorist. Sometimes a social trend is so bonkers or out there that you have to believe that it's completely artificial and being pushed by some shadowy group. But reality, I've found, is much more simplistic.

It's that time again, where Rings of Power is getting it's second season and Tolkien fans the world over (on social media at least) are pissed off about it. They swear up and down that anyone who likes it is either a shill or a fool because the alternative is too horrifying to comprehend. I'm not into ROP myself, because I'm not giving Amazon Prime a fucking dime of my money after being ripped off last time, but I've observed the fanbase and it feels natural to me. Plenty of fanart, fanfictions, character studies, the works. RoP has all the hallmarks of something people would be into. It's an adapatation of a popular fantasy series, it has a colorful cast of characters, beautiful men and women, and Orcs. Who doesn't love orcs? This is exactly how Game of Thrones and The Hobbit got off the ground back in the Tumblr days.

Another example is Velma, which got a second season. Twitter was alight with instructions begging people not to "hatewatch" and just let it rot. Then it became one of the streamed shows. At that point, I have to ask: Is it more believable that 10s of thousands of people watched Velma just to make mean reddit posts about it, or that a lot of people just wanted to watch Velma? Velma's a really funny case because it's not a great show, it's like 3/5 but the hate is so exaggerated and manufactured that you'd never know it. If you google it right now, you'll see thousands and thousands of 1-star reviews made by people who just did what they were told.

So to conclude, modern society really needs to grow up and stop thinking everything popular that got a bad video essay review is a scheme.

I think it could be because unhealthy food that can cause obesity is more addictive and therefore more profitable.

I am looking to get a job in the PC assembly industry (yes, servicing gamers) but I need some advice in applying for the job, specifically resumes, what rights do I have, what red flags to spot, and how to prepare for it.

One of my biggest considerations is that all jobs here somehow require a degree.

@comradeship The quintessential fediverse microblogging experience is creating an account only to immediately encounter an anti-communist radlib that you have to talk to like an infant.

That's it. That's the post.

I usually just have oatmeal and nuts and fruit 🍌 for breakfast . I then have pasta and chicken 🍗 or salmon 🍣 or pbjs. For dinner I have pasta or rice with chicken or salmon 🍣.

All because I said that beating down peaceful protesters isn't nice. I swear to God Western people are unhinged.

Was Sudan a socialist nation at any point in time, especially after the coup by Jaafar Muhammad Nimeiry?

I'm a little over half done my CS degree. I love programming, Linux, etc. I am considering getting CompTIA A+ and Linux+ this summer with pirated Udemy courses. I do coding projects too, like I am almost done my homebrew NDS game, threw together a Tkinter pomodoro app last week, and in the past I made a command line program that computes a readability score on a body of text. Finally, I am participating in 100 days of leetcode problems together with my CS club. So I've done a lot to move towards coding professionally.

The question is what kind of career should I go for to suite my goals in life. I would like to be able to own a place to live in Quebec (don't live there yet) whether it is in MTL or a rural area, not sure what I want yet. So software dev. gets a point for higher income, I think, plus it's what I've studied for, mostly. But it's important to me too that I have free time outside of work and so can participate in social movements. Would working in helpdesk allow a better or worse WLB? Would it be more likely to be unionized and thus a better place from which to participate in tech labour struggle? I'd really like to achieve fluency in French and Chinese (currently a beginner and intermediate learner respectively) eventually, and maybe the IT world would have me talk to people more. Is it easier to break into than software, like, so much easier that it would be worth changing course, or just doing IT as a stepping stone for my first co-op (internship program in Canada) or two?

Interested in others thoughts on how to proceed here.

For the meantime I think I'll start the A+ course because it can't hurt, and keep working on my DS game, cuz it's almost done.

I don't even know if I want to do either of those professions, I could see myself teaching English too, to Francophones and Chinese especially as I want to learn those languages...

What sort of watches do you guys wear?

I'm currently using the seagull 1963. It's a Chinese made watch that was ordered into production by the government. So this is a legit commie watch. Plus it's pretty

Seagull 1963 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Seagull_1963.jpg

edit: fixed broken link

Out of all the Anti-Chinese/Falun Gong Cult Youtube content, David Zhang is the most that has been shown in that Site, Why is this guy keep appearing on my feed man ?!

I have some extra money lying around in USD being slowly devoured by inflation. The conventional wisdom is to invest in stocks or bonds in the US. Fundamentally, that’s just gambling on the continued success of empire. Should I buy gold or other metals instead? Are there non-dollar-denominated ways to invest in economic development of the global south instead? I don’t care about returns I just want long-term stability of value

I'm personally much better at singing, but I know to play only 3 songs on the piano perfectly: Halloween theme, Toreador March and Der Flohwalzer because reasons.

So what instruments can y'll play and which songs can you do the best?

I am gonna spice up my casual wear for a bit by studying how people wore casually back in the day for the sake of sustainability and looksmaxxing while still being "modern".

One trend I noticed is how colorful it was back then (and yes, Ik problems back then), no sad beige/pseudominimalist bollocks, just color and authentic expression.

I have a draft of a short book (~45k words) that's been sitting in my computer gathering electronic dust for a while because I'm too anxious to show anyone else outside of very close family. It's based in a shared paracosm we had as children, so I think it's doubly important to get some unbiased criticism from an online comrade.

I know there are designated online spaces for writers but I get massive imposter syndrome there. 😓 It's like a coming-of-age science fiction story, if that makes any sense.

DM me if interested, sorry for the ramble...

We already know it will fuck up the U.S. economy. How badly will this affect their allies as well?

Bonus: What are other possible geopolitical effects from this?

And holy shit it was intense. The police escalated in every way.

First I was standing close in the area of the encampment, together with other protestors. But not too close because the cops had shut it off all entrances 50m from the encampment. They would also not let us get a closer look from the bridge so we couldn't see what they were doing. And this bridge was far from the encampment as well. This was all at 17:30. By then the eviction had already started. We were protesting and chanting and more people joined us. Then someone shouted that the busses that would be used for the arrestees were parked and we needed to go there. Some people stayed but I and others went to the busses. There were two busses in a straight line and we blocked them from the front. In front of the busses were cops. Then the bus in the back left by driving backwards. I felt bad because we didn't think of blocking them from the back. Then we blocked the bus from both sides. One of the tires was also succesfully deflated, and a new bus had to be used later on. The cops in front were gone and the demonstration went back to near the encampment, where there was also a metro entrance called Rokin. It was very busy. At least a thousand people were protesting. We were chanting the whole time. The entrance was by now fulled blocked by riot police. They were taking pictures of us and most of us were covering our faces, mostly with face masks, keffiyehs or Palestinian flags. Every once in a while some riot police would push some of the protestors, leading to our condemnation. At some point the riot police by the metro entrance were pushed back slightly by the demonstrators, but after a while the riot police provocated again, apparently also using tear gas. The demonstrators at that side then put up a barricade against the police. The squatted house nearby then showed their support from the window. Then on the other side of the metro entrance a new barricade was put up meaning that the police couldn't get to us from there leaving only a small exit for them. Some people threw stuff and the organizers tried to tell them that wasn't allowed since we didn't want a reason for the police to escalate. After a while the two barricades were joined together leaving even less space for the cops. But this almost failed and the police almost got through.

We started seeing special riot police called Arrestatieteam, who are known to be more violent standing at the gates of the metro station. We were standing on top of the stairs and they were 30m away from us. This was at 21:30. Quickly after, the cops started charging us from the north and we had to retreat. There was full panic and everybody started running. People tried to tell eachother to stay calm and not run. The riot police had police dogs and the police cars were also coming our way. I saw one girl fall down and when her friend helped her up, they were pushed back violently. These girls were running away like everybody else. There was no need to push them. We escaped through an alleyway, and then people started running even faster. I didn't look back but I guess they were charging towards us even more. The alleyway ended up on Rembrandtplein, a busy square with a lot of cafés where we were chanting. The organizers ordened us to stay on the square, so we are stronger if they decided to arrest us. After a while, at 12 o'clock we decided to move again but then the police came from the front and we were forced to retreat back to the square. There, there was a small altercation between some partygoers and some protestors. We tried to calm them down, and we succeeded. We stayed at the square, and by then some new protestors had arrived who cooked meals for us. But at 1:15 almost everybody had left.

We had some small successes, like making one of the busses unusable and barricading the police to cause them to retreat a little. And also, by being there by such large numbers I think we made the eviction a little harder for them since they had to focus on the protestors as well. The fact they sent in the most violent riot police showed us that we were powerful and that there were afraid of us. But still I feel like the police won, since the eviction still happened, we were forced away, people were still arrested and beated til they were bleeding and because they didn't do anything at the square, except for cop cars watching us, so people there left on their own.

Why do the police treat peaceful protestors like this? They blocked the entrance to the encampment from all sides. So why were they so violent to us, who were at least 50 meters away from the encampment and with other houses in the way? They could've decided to leave us alone and only block the entrances but no they had try to surround us from all sides. Ah well, I know why, but it's still as fucked up.

About the eviction itself, which I didn't see. The barricades there were all removing by bulldozers. Some people climbed on the bulldozers to stop them, but they were arrested or escaped by jumping in the canal. The police threw stuff from the barricade into the canal. Inside the encampment police were beating up and arresting people with excessive violence. Apparently the police also threw away personal items that were at the encampment.

I kept calling it an encampment, but I guess it's actually a squat, since it's a building that was occupied.

Please mark all spoilers in your comments. Thank you in advance

Edit: I have finished the movie and I enjoyed it

I am curious as to how capitalism either exacerbated or created a group/subculture of some of the most insufferable and obnoxious people known to man.

I was a little sad to see them go, honestly. I know I was supposed to be the instructor, but I learned a fuck ton from them this semester. It's a remedial math class, so many of the students in my class have had awful, awful experiences with math class in the past. I was determined to not be just the next traumatic math teacher in their lives, and it seems I've succeeded for some! I've gotten 3 emails and 1 in person conversation telling me that this was the best math class they've ever had and they actually feel prepared going into their next math class.

And I mean, it's my first semester. I'm sure I was ass at a lot of stuff. But that's where the learning from my students came in to play. I gave them lots of ways to talk to me about what was working and what wasn't (even anonymously if they wanted) and ended up with something I'm really proud of, and I'm sure is just going to grow as I get more experience.

On top of this, my office mate and I have been developing a huge overhaul to the way we run the grade book in the course that we think will be more conducive to learning and growing than grade chasing (I hate traditional grading with every fiber of my being) and I just got permission from my bosses to test drive it over the summer class I'm teaching. I'm absurdly excited for it, but I'm also quite nervous, since it's something I've never been on the student end of, and no one in my department has any experience doing it. So I'll be treading new territory, and nervous I won't be able to solve some of the challenges that will inevitably come up. Would hate to screw over my students by trying something crazy too fast.

At ant rate, I've officially decided I love teaching.

I went to a remembrance event where the focus is on LGBTI victims. But while it was a good event some things stuck out to me. The main speaker named some groups that were persecuted by the Nazis but he didn't name the Communists. He also said that we need to remember that some places aren't as free yet as ours, which seemed weird to me since we are responsible for that because of (neo)colonialism. And it's not like we're that free either.

Some speakers luckily mentioned Palestine, but some of those said Palestine AND Israel like they are the same. One speaker mentioned some groups that still don't live in peace, in which he also named the Uyghurs and Ukrainians.

When it came to laying the wreaths one of the groups that was invited to lay a wreath was the organisation for LGBT police members.

When this event was done I went to de Dam, where the national ceremony was taking place. There was a lot of police presence there since the organisers were afraid of a Palestine protest taking place during the ceremony. But this mostly manufactured outrage since it wasn't substanciated and only to bring Palestine and Palestine activists in a bad light. People were heavily searched. The event there was basically done when I arrived but there were still cops everywhere and you still couldn't enter the square. Every entrance was blocked by cops and there were armoured cop cars everywhere. This makes that quote about us having more freedom even more laughable.

Apparently only half the square was filled, which is what happens when you intimidate all your attendees.

My gf has the correct political vibes so to speak, but no theoretical basis or knowledge of history. However, she is interested in watching documentaries on the subject, so which are the ones you found most valuable? Thanks in advance

No I will not eleborate