General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 37
General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 37
Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at house. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread.
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Fucking fantastic, yet another private "festival" has fenced off the public park near me, blocking access for 2 full months. And of course it's never the public parks in richer areas that get taken over by this bullshit! These bastards enclose a supposedly public area and charge $30 a head to wander around a public fucking park looking at plastic pumpkins while listening to a mix of generic spooky music and Disney soundtracks. Not to mention they leave their garbage all over the place and tear up everything driving around in giant pickups. Yesterday I accidentally wandered into their cordon because they hadn't finished fencing it and I had a couple dipshits escort me out by driving behind me to make sure I didn't look at their shitty fake jack o' lanterns.
Apologies for the rant but it pisses me the fuck off
I commented about this a few weeks ago as well, but there is an increasing crack problem starting in Antwerp and Brussels. It is seemingly coming out of nowhere and I wonder what's the deal with it. Brussels is hit worse than Antwerp, maybe the cartels running Antwerp have something to do with it, idk. But it is becoming more mainstream every day.
It comes in handy for right wing parties because it mainly seems to affect refugees and homeless people, who are creating tense situations at busy places in the cities.
Drugs aren't new. There's a cocaine war going on in Antwerp, with a grenade explosion every other day. But crack is new and it was there all of a sudden.
@CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml, I'm humbled by your ability to post lib-baiting truths
Like half your recent threads are drawing them out of the woodwork and I'm there for it
There's a lot of talk about getting the right insulation for your house so that you have to use less energy to heat it, but I think that, especially with global warming in mind, focussing on keeping the heat out in the summer should also be a priority. The past week we had a heat wave over here. It was 'only' 32 degrees but when you live in a swamp area the humidity is enough to completely wreck you. The city I live in is notorious for having 1) bad insulated houses and 2) having almost no green spaces to cool down in outside. Most squares are concrete slabs die to the concrete lobby having connections in the government. It is one of the hottest places in the country because of this, with a four degree difference in some areas. My bedroom has been at 31.5 C at night for the past week. I have a rash on my skin caused by the heat. Most people live in appartments without AC and without a garden to chill in. Green spaces outside and better housing conditions are a must, imo.
Anyway, new week, new left wing struggle. I sometimes feel as if I completely lose the plot of living a life because of politics. I'm at a point where I get envious if I see other people living life and just enjoying the mundane, regular life things. I wonder if taking a step back and touching some grass for a while is a good thing to do right now.
Shitting on people from other countries for being right wing shits is the worst because they sound just like American conservatives but they can also screech at you about not respecting their values (I do not respect their values, and I wish to make them as acutely aware of this fact at least as hard as they wish to make me know they don't respect mine)
I'm trying to assert myself here and there's enough speed bumps within country lines. I don't need even more beyond them
I hate how the media gives everything coming from Ukraine a nickname. I saw a video about a pregnant women in the army and the media said: 'they call her the Ukrainian Joan of Arc'. Like fuck off no one is doing that probably.
Ukrainian Joan of Arc
Ghost of Kyiv
Russian 'General of Terror'
Ukrainian Potato of Eternal suffering, heir of the third Nebula, bringer of Justice, brother of Dave
holy shit i am gonna get a brain aneurysm by reading these mainstream media articles.
in the last months outsourcing transformed into nearshoring and just now i saw an article calling it friendshoring 💀
Was about to comment on someone's post looking for Linux help with the distro and DE I happen to use until I realized they're from lemmy dot ca who defederates us, so OP wouldn't see it 😩 Not about to make an account on another instance just so I can interact better with the
pit anywayThere was a discussion last night with friends of my parents about the state of LGBTQ rights.
Among them was this
I don't discriminate in my private practice 
dentist.When I brought up how we're going through the 2nd Lavender Scare with all the anti LGBTQ laws and attention to focus on that rather than how screwed we are, and a 3rd Red Scare demonizing Russia and China again. He was completely ignorant like I was talking greek. I said it wasn't so much an -ism fight as it is competing economies and resources. Like what happens when you sanction half the world's supply given the vast resources of BRICS with China and Russia? Prices go up - supply and demand. That was easy to grasp.
But when I pointed out to how people wouldn't support something like this without something to blame that triggered his
and he went off all "but there's resistance in Russia! 
!When I said yeah the dude is a merc. He gets paid. We probably paid him.
yeah but he got paid good.At that point I reminded him and now he's dead. They blew up his plane because he crossed Putin and comitted treason when there's a long history of that happening. Now all that money is dead.
He went off to huff elsewhere for the rest of the night.
But seriously I was at awe how these older people who grew up throught the last Cold War couldn't grasp the current events because they're programmed so damed hard to defend the empire and forget history as it repeats itself before their very eyes in real time.
Pasting the same snip for the 30th time cause boomers can't remember how to use a pdf. Bro just look at one of the 10 emails I sent you about this very same thing. The instructions haven't changed. This is your job that you do almost daily how do you forget?
Has the lead in your brain devolved the muscle memory out of you, ya fucking nincumpoop?
The National Owners Association said franchisees, suppliers and McDonald’s “must engage to support our California McFamily”
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Reading Who were the Sudras by B R Ambedkar. Came across this.
he provides literary evidence before this. Any thoughts?
what’s happening in congo?
