General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 38

After nearly having a breakdown after moving a closet into my home, I decided it is time to go and take a grass touching break for a while. Life has been giving me some mental warning signs for a few weeks now and I should probably listen to it.

Until later my comrades.

There's a thread about the DPRK playing their first match in four years on r/soccer and it's... somewhat positive? Like, some people are calling out the blatant idiotic statements even. What is happening?

Outrage machine is more focused on Russia at the moment, libs can only really believe bullshit when its being blasted at them non stop every day
- That is one of the things that makes me a little hopeful tbh. They can only really focus on the "villain of the week" and so kind of forget that they are supposed to be hateful to other nations as well unless they are constantly reminded. Once that propaganda tap is shut off, the people will stop blindly hating so much, hopefully.
I need a DPRK soccer jersey, I’m addicted to soccer jerseys lol such an underrated clothing item
Lol that subreddit is something else. I remember it going full masks off during the world cup, when Argentina beat croatia and france.
- That must've been a crowded pitch.
Wow that's so weird. How does that happen? Normally such an extreme reactionary place.
- Yea I haven’t been on Reddit in a long while, but I remember them being mostly ok with monarchy
I want a dprk soccer jersey

Got invited to carting on the weekend. Can't stop thinking that it would be one of the things to go in the case of the worldwide socialist revolution. Due to pollution and all

They can be redesigned to be less ecologically harming, I'm not an expert on go karts or pollution, but I think the issues can be in the tracks and how much space they take for an entertainement, which could perhaps be fixed by making the track a park when it's not being used, modifying the vehicles and the road surface, like by looking at the image here there's a lot of unnecessary stuff
- That seems rather efficient in terms of space. Making race tracks of any kind multi use is tricky. At least with full size tracks (think 5km road length or so) park area can definitely be made in and around, but cart tracks are pretty compact. In that image I don't see anything that can be cut out while maintaining safety and functionality. Some races also use temporary road circuits but that brings in other issues from the massive effort required to set up and take down for just one event per year.
  
  I think the primary pollutants from car racing in general are exhaust and micro-plastics (rubber from the tyres wears off on the road and gets into the environment). Both can certainly be mitigated.
  
  Even so, I wonder to what extent we'll allow polluting activity on a small scale for hobbies and entertainment. Of course polluting just for fun isn't necessary (fireworks for example) but amateur/hobby sports definitely have a place in a socialist society.
- They could also develop electric go-karts as well. They don't need to be powered by fossil fuels. My local go-kart place is just inside a big warehouse and they just move tires around to make differently shaped tracks, that could certainly be an option for it rather than building a whole dedicated racetrack.
- If we banned cars and introduced free public transport, go-karters could have the roads practically to themselves without needing bespoke racing tracks that only have one use. There might be pedestrians and cyclists but the cyclists are used to it because of cars and pedestrians are slow, so easily avoided.
Electric carts go brrrrrrrrr
- They'd have to be ground effect based or something as well, because of the tires and flooring
Nah, f1 can hit the bricks. A little put put engine that runs on a thimble of high test fuel but still feels like you are wrestling a cheetah is perfect. Picture one of those little beasts with a tiny electric motor several of your drunkest comrades. That is what Stalin fought for.
- Well said

I hope you all have a nice week :D

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Yooo, my teacher complimented the Mao background on my computer. He also uses sayings in daily speech such as “it’s joever” and “based.”

~~PS: how do I get emojis to work? I can only get undefined and maybe “::” that doesn’t work.~~

If you type :xi- you should get two emoji suggestions (at least in the web UI), select one of them and it'll autocomplete. On other clients, there should presumably be an emoji picker
- Thanks. I have an emoji clicker, but it doesn’t work.

It costs so much money to do literally anything, so tired of it

I'm completely terrified of going to the doctor/dentist/nutriologist for a consultation.
And it's getting more expensive, too. The wonders of commodification!

Hello Comrades, I just discovered !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net . What is this community anyway ? Is this just Shitreactionariessay but for hexbear.. or im missing something..

yeah, AFAIK it's pretty much SRS for Hexbear, although it's not NSFW by default

amerikkkan politician mailers be like: "I'm not like those out-of-touch career politicians with their lobbyists and theatrics. I'm here to work for regular voters on the issues that matter most: starting with combating the Radical Gender Agenda and Building the Wall."

Western politics is a clownfest at this point.

SNOWDEN LEAK:

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1703959863796158678

Cavium networking hardware may have NSA backdoor. This is used by every cloud provider.

Libs seething because this is not China backdoor.

"the real progenitor of english materialism is Bacon [...]" - friedich engels 😂 without context its pretty funny

[Engels was banned for carnism] /s

It's pretty bizarre how big an a emphasis The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact gets among EU neocons on reddit-logo and twitter. They treat it like it's some kind of scientific truth of the horseshit theory. I don't remember people being this obsessed about it pre-2022. (And they clearly don't read much history.)

and they conveniently ignore that France and the rest signed pacts with the Nazis long before the USSR did and rejected all offers to cooperate with the USSR
- IIRC, France had a secret agreement with the Soviets under which they would both defend Czechoslovakia in the event of a German invasion. But the plan depended on the support of the United Kingdom and Italy, which refused to help. In addition, Poland refused to allow Soviet troops to enter its territory to help Czechoslovakia.
They treat it like it's some kind of scientific truth of the horseshit theory.

The Soviets also had non-aggression pacts with the UK and France and, together with the UK, invaded and occupied Iran to prevent it from allying itself with Germany.
Even if it were true, by any mathematical standard Germany had done way less genocide at the time so signing it was right. Bombing brittian was the only good things the nazis did.
- British imperialism inspired the Nazis (and arguably killed far more people than the fascists ever did).

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

Today I went on r/genzedong for the first time in about a year, and it's sad how that place has degenerated. For instance, this bit of libbery:

I remember when it was not so, and anybody defending porn and/or prostitution would be roundly dunked on.

Does Lemmygrad have an official statement on third worldists? Are they considered more as Ultras or Reactionaries?

Don't know of an official statement. My personal opinion: I don't see how they would be reactionaries. And I think the ultra tendencies are fairly clear to see.
- Have had recent interactions with some and they tend to be pretty backward in their views on queer people, buying into the idea of it being part of some western agenda to "subvert" culture in the global south.

I've been trying to get a new job title and description and raise for the last six months, which is more than two years overdue. I was supposed to meet with the COO today to finalize some details and they just stood me up. Nothing gets done at this place if it isn't threatening a revenue stream.

Even so, part of me blames myself for working above and beyond my job description in the first place. Now I've come to the conclusion that I have no leverage to get the title and raise that I've earned.

I've been told off before (privately) for wanting to unionize, but I might just do it anyway as a going away present to the owners.

Watched a police brutality video on Reddit for some reason. Comments were dunking on the cops with, "Go to Ukraine if you want to be a real troop," and another saying, "you say that like they would join the Ukrainian side 😏 "

This image goes hard af. Love seeing imperialists get btfo 😩👌

I am no longer post-post-meta ironic. I have transcended the irony horseshoe to become post-sincere.

I've seen a few articles mention "rectal torture" that occured in Guantanamo Bay, is it not just rape? Why would they not just say rape?

rape is a kind of torture; if the authors are pro-imperialists, they likely just used that term to make it seem less outrageous, like "military interventions"

Trying to find research I haven't read on the connection of deja vu and psychedelics while tripping on shrooms is hilariously frustrating