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General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 13

Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.

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  • The events after October 7th are really fucking with my mental wellbeing. First of all I want to say that I know the west has always been fucked up. But the sheer amount of hate, propaganda and lying that has been going on ever since is just sickening.

    Like, I am actively trying to fight against a genocide by protesting, raising awareness, aiding strikers and whatnot. I see images of dead children on the daily. I see images of starving people on the daily. I see war crimes being committed. Every. Single. Day. But somehow the media and the politicians and other people are trying to make it seems like I am in the wrong? For opposing apartheid and genocide? It makes me sick. It is despicable. It makes me seriously doubt why I am living in this society. How on earth will I ever be able to function normally when they very society I need to contribute to, is supporting genocide? I can't wrap my mind around it.

  • You have been blessed by Smiling che

  • Yet another week on planet Earth

    There's this somewhat popular left wing reporter in The Netherlands who posted an instagram pic of a sticker that said Fuck NATO and it brought out the socdems in the comments. I started beefing with some of them and their responses boiled down to CONSPIRACY NUT/RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA/ITS JUST NOT TRUE REEEE and that was it. Everything I don't like is fake.

  • Update on the cat: the surgery was successful, only one tooth was removed. I have already brought her back home. She is displeased. Her paw seems to be hurting somewhat due to the anesthesia catheter. Additionally, we'll need to get her kidneys checked, because blood biochemistry had some stats in red.

    Keep wondering if it's easier with children, because they can at least point where they're hurting. But then realise it's probably worse, mentally.

  • There are talks about Senegal kicking out Fr*nce out of their country. Would be based.

  • All my homies hate seasonal allergies

  • The Flemish Nationalist party released their party program for the upcoming elections.

    Their nemesis towards the Islam has ended. Woke is public enemy number one now.

  • I hope you all have a nice week :D

  • I don't have a piece of nationalism in me EXCEPT FOR TONIGHT WHEN WE PLAY AGAINST G*ERMANY

  • Even westerners are admitting China is better at this point.

  • Ok I pull up

  • Our party has started a push for nationalizing the recently declared bankrupt bus manufacturer in Belgium. We want to keep the productive forces capable of building (electric) buses instead of just letting them go bankrupt, forcing 2500 people out of a job.

  • A Belgian newspaper is rating politicians based on their last year efforts on a scale from 1 to 5 stars. One of our politicians, Jos D'Haese, got rated 4.5/5 as the highest rated politician. I thought it was pretty cool.

  • Laos mentioned

  • Hey, everyone.

    How are you all doing?

  • And my friend just sent a message in the group chat saying that the victims in the Moscow terror attack deserved it because of Ukraine. What the fuck.

  • :3

  • Has anybody else noticed how upset Ali Abunimah looks in his latest videos? He looks like he cried for hours before attending his latest live stream, and I kept expecting him to suddenly break down during it.

    I certainly don’t blame him for being upset with the monstrous atrocities that the neocolonists have been and are committing in Palestine, but I was so worried about him that I could not stop staring at him.

  • did everybody see that putin opened the vault revealing jesus was Black?!?

  • I must say I'm enormously relieved that tha image for the post changed(or the post changed) the other one caused me some degree of distress, but I didn't want to hide the post cause there might be some interesting stuff going on and such, but yeah this image is pretty nice

  • So uh how do I actually use the other instances on mobile like hexbear? Going to instances at the bottom just takes you there without the ability to post.

  • BABE WAKE UP LAOS MENTIONED

  • There is more and more proof that one of our extreme right politicians worked in service of the CCP. I'm extremely disappointed in this.

  • Our electoral program for the upcoming elections has launched (of which I have written some parts yay). Here is the link though it is in Dutch.

  • Happy Cakeday, @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml

  • Hello comrades!!! 👋 I finally got Jerboa working again, turns out I had to update Fdroid. It feels very nice to be back 😁. I'm glad to see you all again, hope you have a nice week!

  • Oh hey, I got my first "Reddit Cares" report on reddit! I haven't posted anything politics related on there in a long time, so I think it was over a comment about e-bike safety which is just makes it so much funnier 🤣

    I love how they have to have an entire paragraph at the bottom telling you what to do if someone's using the feature to bully or harass you, they clearly know that this is literally all the feature is used for yet they do nothing about it lmao

    Edit: My comment was literally just like "it's not safe for pedestrians if you go bombing down the mixed use pathway at 70 km/h on an electric motorcycle" lmao

  • Some time ago I commented how I remembered reading that the Soviet had set their enemies free, but couldn't remember where I had read it. I found it! Chapter 3 of Russian Justice.

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       Considering first the crushing of those who oppose the order of government or hinder its development, we find the methods of coercion varying from leniency and toleration in the beginning of the Revolution, through the frightful years of the Cheka (extraordinary commission to combat speculation and counter-revolution in the early days) reign, to the more severe activities of the OGPU in recent times. Shortly after the October Revolution in May, 1918, all those persons held for political crimes were set free by an act of general amnesty. The results of this liberality were rather serious for the rule of the proletariat, since those released, bitterly determined to overthrow the new and not too firmly seated government, returned to the fight with vigor. Among these was the renowned General Krasnow who organized the White Guard Cossacks and caused no end of trouble to the Soviets.
       Such a policy of clemency was bound to end if the Soviet government continued to live. When next they had political prisoners in hand there was a different tale to tell. Whoever of them saw the inside of a prison or place of detention were not released to run back to the fight. We find Stalin defending later severe measures toward these prisoners in an interview with Ludwig in 1932.1 “Soon it transpired that such leniency was only undermining the strength of the authority of the Soviets. We committed a mistake in showing such leniency toward the enemies of the working class. If we repeated this mistake any further, we would have committed a crime toward the working class. We would have betrayed its interest. And this became perfectly clear very soon. It became very sure that the greater our leniency toward our enemies, the greater their resistance.”

  • Few things beat finding an old out of print Michael Parenti book at a thrift store

  • If anybody wants some brain-rot to read, S/2024/239 (U.S. ceasefire resolution in regards to Palestine) is now available. S/PV.9584 (Verbatim records of meetings) is also available.

  • Anyone seen Sand Land, the new series by Akira Toriyama? It's a desertpunk and has great politics, if that matters. Way better than Dragon Ball

  • I guess I'm just not ever reading national news again because archive.is appears to be down, I can't find any further reputable paywall-strippers, and I am not paying the spineless catamite propagandists for the tripe they call 'news'

  • Wait, Lemmygrad has its own Mastodon instance?

  • The US just abstained in a UN Security Council resolution for an immediate ceasefire! Only for Ramadan according to what I've heard

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