General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 12

I hate how Ukrainian nationalists claim that communism was forced on them by the Russians, even though Ukrainians were just as much part of the Soviet Union as the Russians. Ukrainians built up the Soviet Union as well, but to them it's all Russian imperialism. Seems very insulting to their own countrymen to be honest. Do they forget Brezhnev was from Ukraine?

I had a dream last night where I made a post here about how showers were authoritarian without elaborating any further and it got so unpopular that it had 120+ dislikes and I almost got banned.

Bit idea: horiffic dystopian imperialist army but they're cutting corners everywhere, like instead of having prosthetic super soldiers they just cut their feet and replace them with wooden pegs

It's 9th March, 62nd anniversary of Algerian ceasefire day, I knew that because there's flags everywhere today, can't stop thinking of Gaza.

"Give nuclear weapons to Ukraine. I'm saying that as a leftist." -Slavoj "The Jester of the Empire" Zizek

I hope you all have a nice week :D

i crack laughing each time i see the Engels quote about authority "have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution??" Its so funny

Do you guys wonder if they allowed Navalny to run against Putin, and Putin got 55% of the vote while Navalny got 45% of the vote; would liberals still laugh, cope, and seethe at the “rigged Russian elections”? Despite that being identical to how western elections look?

I'm watching a Dutch show about people buying a house without looking at it first and the current people participating is a gay couple and a woman who have a child. They are one family. Talk about breaking taboos!

Anyway, my native flower steeds I planted outside my window are starting to sprout 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

How's everything going comrades? I'm feeling good for the first time in a while.

Apparently comrade Yogthos got banned from WorldNews@lemmy.ml. Couldn't handle the facts, I suppose

Rwanda with the support of the west is backing terrorists that have caused the displacement of tens of thousands of people from the Congo, this is not getting covered in media...

Took my cat to the vet just now. She had dental issues, so we went to get it checked with a dentist. Dentist said it's tooth resorption and can't be cured, so she needs surgery. Which will require sedation. And since she's overweight, sedation will mean intubation, because she wouldn't be able to breathe otherwise. Wish her luck.

What news sources do you all use for non-imperialist core daily updates?

The news in Belgium today for some reason started a live blog on Ukraine again. The headline said, in big letters: PUTINS WANTS TO DECLARE WAR ON NATO.

Needless to say it scared the shit out of me. Here I was thinking Russia may actually do it because of the way it was phrased. But it turns out it was just a US think tank that said it.

Youtube search officially fkn sucks. (or they might be censoring). I wanted to search for world economic forum video made by mintpress news. if i type ‘mintpress news world economic forum’ it never shows up. i had to find it from their youtube channel. anyway you should listen to this

https://youtu.be/za4Q8WXI4vQ?si=-hV_aInAufmBC0JF

there should be a tagline that reads ""I hope you have a nice week" -Oppo"

Is it me or are there a lot more liberals here than before?

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, also rest in piss bozo

banger remixes

Who in your opinion is most likely to succeed Xi Jinping whenever he retires as head of government? No I'm not asking who the "CCP" will "imperially appoint," but who is likely next. I'm looking to learn more about Chinese political figures! Also, who would you choose?

Oppo cake day, there's like 4 or 5 people with today as the cake day, was genzedong private on this day?

I'm reading this by Alexandra Kollontai.

Bleh.

I'm feeling physically sick today.

Bad stomach, bad headache, and aches all over. I'm cold because the people upstairs are too hot (hence, the cool air-conditioning throughout the house). I've been groggy as shit up till now due to taking too much Melatonin last night. Oh yeah, and I can barely focus for some reason as I'm too tired and didn't get good sleep.

Yippie we have site taglines now

Note to the admins: The spammer @ThuleanPerspective2@eviltoast.org is using images hosted on lemmygrad:

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Oh my motherfucking god, I can’t properly edit one of my threads and now I have somebody whining ‘I DON’T LIKE THIS SOURCE!!!’ at me.

I mean, we post content from garbage‐ass sources like CNN, the Guardian and the New York Times daily without any complaint, but somebody uses a ‘Trotskyite’ source and suddenly you have to cry that you didn’t get your meal on a silver platter? What is wrong with you people?

ETA: I figured out (I love how I don’t get a warning message) that the prompt kept rejecting my edits because I was inserting an otherwise ableist word that somebody was using inoffensively into my excerpt, so that’s one thing fixed.

Hey guys, can you share some good quotes on liberal "neutrality?" IE, excuses to not stop the nazis, so the nazis will kill the Soviets for them. Basically quotes that reinforce a 'negative peace,' it doesn't necessarily need to be about the above example.

If there was a global tension meter like in HoI, i think we would be around 90% rn. Future is looking bleak 😐

If anybody wants to view all taglines, you can do it here: https://lemmygrad.ml/api/v3/site —this works a lot better on firefox as you can: click "collapse all", then click on "taglines" to see only taglines.

Who's the person being held at gunpoint in the picture?

I just got a call that I got a new appartment and I immediately started feeling anxious about cancelling my current one and doing all of the stuff I need to do in the next few weeks.

The things we are required to do in order to have a roof over your head off which a leech can make a profit are exhausting.

What happened on March 23, 2022?

Note that the "Truth and Reconciliation" lipservice speech by Stephen Harper, who is the leader of the Canadian Conservative Party of Canada, is a fake apology for the fake school Holocaust as it claimed that the "cultural assimilation" project of Indigenous people are only about "cultural genocide" which the European immigrants confessed to since the start of the fake school Holocaust. Stephen Harpers hide the fact that the so-called "Indian Residential Schools" were actually a series of slave camps, unethical human experimentation camps, and death camps that the Nazi German copied for the Nazi Holocaust. Stephen Harper also claimed that some fake school survivors "desire" a return to the fake schools which mislead any audience who do not know about the savage indoctrination in the fake schools into thinking that the Indian Residential fake schools or boarding fake schools are beneficial. The people who know that the European immigrants waste so much taxpayer money on savage indoctrination in the fake schools to the extent that family love are alien to the children and grand children of the fake school survivors will realize that the claim that some "survivors desired a return to the [death camps]" means that some fake school survivors are completely accustomed to a savage authoritarian lifestyle which lead to the rejection of the civilized democratic child-loving culture of their First Nation parents in favor for the savage demon-worshipping life in the Indian Residential fake Schools.

What iOS app do you all recommend for Lemmy? Seeing new posts highlighted or that stand out from old would be a nice feature.

When is the next General discussion Thread?

don’t use redis. one of the contributors (not antirez) is an israeli

What did I do wrong? I could look up proper solution to this exercise but I would still like to know what exactly is off. I feel like its something super obvious and stupid.