Comradeship // Freechat

After having a professor basically ask us induvidually to memorize and repeat parts of it to him, I've finally realized why "its on the Syllabus" is annoying.

Professors are so goddamn inconsistent with it.

For some they want you to follow everything to the letter, others haven't changed it since 1999, others basically just copy and paste university policies, others make changes to half of it, others forget it exists, and so on. So when I see a Syllabus I basically take it as a suggestion and a place to answer basic questions rather than this holy document. Ergo, when I start getting a pop quiz on the thing i get more than a little annoyed.

I don't exactly know why I made that post. In any case no matter what I shouldn't have posted something like that. Anyway, I'm feeling a bit better now. I'll try to be better about managing things

I have as much optimism as i can muster but i'm struggling. For me the fact that i am even writing my thoughts here is a bit of an admission of weakness. I am deeply frustrated.

I have autism. I'm fucking hating my life, this is more on a personal level. I still have hope for the working class and do my best. I find it really hard to talk to people, i dunno how to connect with regular folks around work. Barely can utter yes and no at times without freezing; how am i supposed to agitate? I picked the ideology that requires the most SOCIAL skills. The theory is correct, it is good, proven and works. It's just me. I don't "work". Boyfriend stares at me with blank stare puppy eyes when i try to talk socialism because he has ADHD. I love him a lot, and he does so too back. Used bananas to explain basic socialism to him, which it has been the only info his birdy brain has retained. Did i say i love him?

Mom; live with her, stuck with her. Can't escape because no stable jobs. Took me 5 years to get a very simple degree, as health issues, depression and COVID happened. Transitory services enterprises (E.S.T) are the bane of my existence as companies no longer hire directly but through an intermediary. They use you until they no longer need you and most of the time always pay the minimum and you have to be fucking thankful for it according to mom. (Fuck neoliberalism)

Housing in Chile for people my age is fucked. Prices are getting fucked. Jobs are fucked. My mental state is fucked and Penco is REALLY FUCKED (have you seen the fires?)

He has a thousand songs, from memory such as :
- An hommage to Fidel Castro : https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/commandante-fidel-alejandro-castro-ruz ;
- « What makes a person go from Occupy Wall Street, To marching through the desert with blisters on their feet » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/rojava ;
- « And they can talk as they may » https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/st-patrick-battalion-2 ;
- A brief history of the democratic party https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/democrats-make-me-wanna-vomit-2 ;
- Another world is possible : https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pxvKvjPik7c ;
- Everything could have already changed https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/everything-can-change ;
- And they all sang the internationale https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/they-all-sang-the-internationale ;
- Of course https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/why-dont-they-play-you-on-the-radio ;
- And so much more, i.d.k.

YT Music banned him in November, without explanations nor possibility to appeal as usual, he thinks it may have been linked to this song, but how can he knows.

Of course he's no millionaire, so if you're ever interested in his agitprop consider donating and gain access to all this, or not, i'm just saying

A lot of his songs are about the history of past struggles of the american worker's movement, or historic figures, as well as many songs against Israel(, being of jewish origins himself), or on landlords/'rent control'. https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-sing

I.d.k. if it's linked, but a few months ago, after so many decades, he turned to a.i. music(, which he justified by many posts, e.g.), where he's producing almost one song per day(, he's already at the tenth album in ~four months, but even before that he produced more than 45 albums in 30 years) ! https://youtube.com/channel/UCeaMkZIylEBdx8ue4cfkeEg
Each album has its own guided tour

Did you strike a blow ? https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/strike-a-blow-against-the-empire

Make some noise

I'm a member of a revolutionary party. known as a leading comrade in my region with positions in unions and in the party. However, I paid a visit to a comrade some months ago, I'm a little intense (ADHD) and an extroverted introvert. But the visit went well (so I thought), we had hot drinks and chatted for a few hours, they even had some weed (I don't smoke). I would say they are a good comrade but lacks theoretical understanding, class instinct is however outstanding. They will argue against union work, suggest boycotting and mostly wants to create localised small campaign around local issues. In principal I am for local issues, and we can have and have had great interventions in anti racist campaigns, but honestly, running campaigns as a small branch requires a lot and trends towards limited outcomes. This person seems to have blocked my messaging them privately, we are also planning on doing some recruitment in theyre town, it seems I am not invited. As I've been asked to do legwork instead of recruitment/party social (food and drinks after) Then there had been two promising recruits who I had met initially, a second meetup happened where two comrades went to meet them in my city (I have no problem with that) but when I asked about it, one of the comrades lied, and I know this because the other comrade told me about the fucking meeting.

I think I am currently being spoken about behind my back.

I can understand that I'm intense. I still find the secrecy to get under my skin.

For years tankies kept saying that no, Russia won't take over Europe, the US is the biggest threat, and you were called a Russian bot for it

Now Trump has shared a vid of him literally planting a flag on Greenland and calling it a US territory

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What is this? I'm not the owner or a moderator here but I have posted my email address here. Do they just trawl through lemmy looking for anyone's email to send this to?

Couldn’t make it last year because my wife’s travel permit didn’t arrive until November, and we shouldn’t have really afforded it anyway. She got a new position at her job this year though, and my pops is paying for the most expensive part, the tickets, as a Christmas present from the Christmas before last, he couldn’t afford it last year either, so we’re finally gonna go back.

I’m excited and nervous. She came into the US as a tourist and we filed change of status in the Biden years. They were rushing through green card apps there at the end, so we were hopeful hers would get done, but it didn’t, and then it made no movement until last Nov when we got the travel permit. So she’s still sorta in limbo, no green card, not even an interview scheduled, but she does have her travel permit, and work permit.

I’m trying to stay positive and not focus on the possible negative outcomes, like her not being allowed back into the country…

It’ll be good for her to see her friends and family, she didn’t intend on staying here, just visiting, and she misses them dearly. We’re also gonna hop a domestic flight and go to Chongqing and Zhangjiajie while we’re at it, we’re staying for close to a month. A lot of the trip will be running around and getting the rest of her stuff packed and shipped, hitting the hospital for the stuff we can’t afford to do here, but gotta enjoy ourselves too, and Zhangjiajie seems like a perfect way to get away from the city for a while and breathe in the natural. Might get a tattoo while we’re at it too.

Any of yall been to Chongqing and have anything to check out? We’re gonna hit the obvious stuff, Hongya Cave, Dazu Rock Carvings, that building that has a like horizontal building across it and the building next to it, but neither of us know much about it. I know it’s history during the War of Resistance against the Japanese Imperialists, but it’s mostly ROC history there that I know about. I don’t think there’s too much PRC stuff there, other than a liberation monument in the shopping area I’ll be sure to check out.

Anyways, just needed to vent my anxieties for a bit and I hope you all are having an alright day, all things considered. I’m gonna crash and I’ll see yall tomorrow!

We're seeing the SDF being thrown out like the US puppet that it is. Just another example of the Kurdish political factions siding with Imperialists, only to be stabbed in the back. Who could have predicted this? (Every ML, Shiite, and anyone with an understanding of geopolitics)

After Rojava is killed I'm convinced that Jolani is going to turn around and finally begin the multipronged assault on Hezboallah. We are going to see Jolani continue to butcher Syrian minorities, something all of us "Assadists" said would happen if Bashar fell.

The PKK essentially sold out the Kurdish movement for the SDF, and they won't even get the crumbs. Israel will of course steal more Syrian land without any pushback from the terrorist army, but it's fine I guess becuase we got to see the failure that was "Democrat Confederalism".

Libertarian "socialists" and anarchists have supported Rojava as some examples of their socialism, and what do they have to show for it? A sectarian takfeeri state that's going to ethnically cleanse everyone involved in their expirement. They never broke with the US, becuase they needed "security". Well where is that security now fuckwits?!

Occupied a country on behalf of the imperialists for 10 years. Stole their oil, their wheat, their gas, all on the behalf of the US, in order to be allowed to exist. And now after a decade, as soon as Bashar was taken out, what happened? Oh, Rojava is disintegrating a year later.

WHO COULD HAVE FORSEEN THIS?!

And you know what boils my blood even more? I'm almost sure that the SDF have been helping to destabilize Kurdish areas in Iran. It really must be a sisyphusian existence to live as a Kurd who fights on behalf of the US. To put your lives and blood on the line for a doomed political project on the vague promise of the world's most untrustworthy gangsters.

They will continue to run themselves ragged, trying to topple every enemy of the US until there's nothing but shattered ethnostates easy for Israel to gobble up.

This is probably my most reactionary opinion, but I hope to NEVER see Kurdistan on the map of West Asia, unless it's only made up of Turkish territory. I shall never forgive the broader Kurdistan political movement for their actions in both of my parents homelands. I hope Iraqi Kurdistan is eventually betrayed by the US like every other time, and it's leaders reap what they've sown.

For me, the answer to the Kurdish National Question, is a resounding NO. Kurdistan has almost soley been used by the imperialists to sow discord in West Asia. If a nation can only exist through service to imperialism, then that nation will be nothing more than a vessel for imperialism.

Quoting Jeffrey Veidlinger’s In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, pages 288–289:

In April 1920, Polish and Ukrainian forces advanced toward Kyiv from the north, beginning what came to be known as the Polish–Soviet War. Their goal was to challenge Bolshevik ascendency in the region and reclaim the historic lands of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Petliura, who was then in exile in Warsaw, had agreed to an alliance with Piłsudski in which Poland would support Ukrainian independence in the provinces of the former Russian Empire in exchange for Petliura’s renunciation of Ukrainian claims to Eastern Galicia.¹ Polish forces had already made gains in Belarusian territory, conquering Mazyr and Kalinkavichy in March.

The Red Army was completely unprepared for the assault. Polish soldiers were amazed at the bedraggled appearance of the Bolsheviks. “Some were barefoot, some had shabby soft shoes, others had rubber galoshes,” wrote Franciszek Krzystyniak, “while on their heads they wore a variety of headgear—some even had women’s hats—and winter caps or kerchiefs, and some were even bareheaded, their hair flying in the wind. They looked like ghouls. Their rifles were either suspended on string, or without any straps—but they did have plenty of ammunition in their pockets and their aim was good.”²

The Bolsheviks’ tenuous hold over Ukraine seemed to be evaporating just as it had in the face of the Whites eight months earlier.

(Emphasis added.)

Maybe I should have known this far sooner than I did, but I was always under the impression that the Red Army had simply invaded Poland unprovoked!

And it can't connect to wifi but that's going to get fixed

I don't have my Vyvanse. I abused it initially at the beginning of my 90-day refill and went over and now I'm asking for an emergency refill and... Yeah...

It'll be a month until I get Vyvanse again.

I used it to get through a scary time in my life, but I'm through it now.

But now I have no Abilify (lost it) and Vyvanse (until next month).

I will say this: being without Vyvanse is not as bad as I thought it would be.

And the cannabis gummies I'm taking sort-of ease things (if anyone knows any that cuts through brain fog or make me think clearer, let me know).

But honestly, it was my own damn fault.

And now I'm switching to BlueCross BlueShields because I have no insurance; the Abilify refill cost $2,000 without my old insurance.

Again, I accept that it was my own fault, but I'm glad that I at least was able to get a job.

Thanks, everyone, for cheering me on in getting that job.

It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

I'm not sure if there is a therapy for withdrawal, but someone in my family is seeing if they can find a "withdrawal therapist" while I wait till mid-February for my Vyvanse pill refill.

Hello guys, I hope that you're all doing well, I found out about this place through my friend, you might know him as Kirby so let's just call him that. We all know that the internet is a wasteland as far as leftist spaces go and that's the reason he was on this website for years in the first place.

As far as I know he was banned many months ago for some reason(he didn't tell me, he just told he was banned and gave up on it), but since then he doesn't have a leftist space to go since reddit pretty much purged those some time ago and the same thing on other social media, left is dead in real life here and not to mention constant western oriented content, comments and news, it got particularly intense lately.

During the recent events in the past few months, Kirby is on downward spiral and his sanity is worrying me. Almost every time we met he had unhinged rants about western white people, how he wants Yellowstone to explode and destroy United States after every non-western is evacuated, how he wants to watch cartels execute white Americans, especially republicans, how he personally wants to kill every western and western-aligned leader starting with American presidents and Erdogan and is cheering on NATO infighting over Greenland. Being a leftist, I also heavily dislike the west, but I wouldn't want a nuclear war or volcanic cataclysm to take place because of it, he was always hating on west, but never said stuff this unhinged, stuff that I wrote isn't even scratching the surface of everything he said. When he's on PC and not on the internet, he's playing GTA V and constantly killing cops and in the past few weeks downloaded probably every single game where you can kill American soldiers.

His most recent rant which I had to listen to was 3 days ago and it was about how ''westerners destroyed/ruined Godzilla'', it went on and on for an entire hour however unbelievable that sounds and it was... interesting to say the least... Certainly more so than his usual constant rants about vampires in western media. I'm not into Godzilla and I just casually watched a couple of movies some years ago and so I didn't understand more than half the stuff he said.

He has a brother and sister, I've been hanging around with his brother almost just as much as with him during school and he's pretty much the same in opinions except he's level headed and doesn't have bursts of anger. His older sister also shares same opinions, is extremely LGBT phobic, goes on rants and introduced him to Terrifier movies, so that's all you need to know about her sanity. So family isn't going to help in this in any way.

I know him since 2012, we grew up together and am extremely saddened to see him go from a silly guy with dark humor to this... Since he's been here for years, you probably know how he was online unlike me, so please, If you have some advice or any way to help, to bring him back and talk to him, tell me, why did this happen to him all of a sudden.

Thank you in advance.

So in 2008, the Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins, it turned out, had a starring role in a very crappy low-budget film called The Legend of Don Williams (I watched it on youtube, it's really bad). In it, he plays a gr@p1$t and murderer (how prescient!) Anyway the IMDB page for the film uses his prison mugshot as his photo, and I just thought that was really funny. It gave me a laugh anyway.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1419088/

My landlady and I are, as anyone who reads my posts knows, having a really tough time financially. What with me having been unable to pay rent for a while and my landlady unable to get any other lodgers, straits have become dire. So much so, in fact, that recently she decided to sell some items on ebay. I listed them for her on my account since she doesn't know how.

We looked through the house and could only find 4 items that we thought might be worth anything, some sealed Pokemon card boxes that she'd come into possession of a while ago and was saving for her grandson's birthday. So I listed these 4 boxes on ebay and all sold just now for between £24 - 44 each. What a relief, £139 to put towards one of the many bills and debts that are piling up. Except immediately, as soon as one of the items sold, the buyer requested a cancellation. And I can see why, the same item is available cheaper on "buy it now" from another seller. But then why bid? He pushed the priced up and won and then cancelled immediately. He must have already known it was cheaper elsewhere. Why do that?

I accepted the cancellation because otherwise he'd probably damage the item, claim it was damaged in transit, return it and then we'd have an unsellable item. I've relisted it but now my landlady has to wait longer for the money and will probably get less for it. All because of one selfish idiot. Not only that but judging by his username and items for sale, he is a reseller who just wanted to get this cheap and resell for more and has realised he won't be able to sell it for more.

Not only that but the listing was originally free but ebay says we'll be charged 35p to relist it. Really annoying when every penny counts.

Of the other buyers, one has paid but another bought the other two items and is demanding a combined postage invoice. However ebay won't let me do that for simple delivery. So the buyer hasn't paid and I don't know if they're going to be a nuisance about it too. Why does everything always have to be difficult? We stayed up late tonight, were thrilled and relived to see she'd be getting £139, and now she only has £44 and one cancellation and one difficult buyer who won't pay without an impossible combined invoice. Should have just used gumtree I suppose.

EDIT: Yes the other buyer has cancelled too. Cancelled because postage can't be combined. Spent 5 days bidding, won and then cancelled to save about £2. Now we're out three sales and can't pay bills. I guess I'll have to try gumtree but who knows how long that will take.

I know they are focussed on immigrants but who do they target? Illegal immigrants? Because I have seen so many vids of them attacking people at work or in their homes that I wonder: are these people illegal immigrants? How does that work? How do they have jobs or a home without documents? Do they attack random people they suspect to be illegal?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10411489

This is kinda like me, ngl.

Am Autistic as well.

We also mistake joy for anxiety.

Title.

Also, should we have a tinfoil hat emoji?

There's a possibility the US - EU beef might spiral into mutual sanctions and since most digital services are US based (Google for example) I wanted to try and setup some stuff in case it all goes down over here

Eat shit and die

That is all

First Discrete Math and now Linear Algebra... I hate this especially because I studied pretty hard (although in a somewhat disorganized way).

I can refuse to keep the grade and take these exams again in like three weeks, but seeing the kind of questions that were asked, I'm not sure I can master these topics in such little time. Also, in Februrary I have two other exams for which I didn't even began to prepare for, so I would have to study a lot... And to throw more fuel, I want to graduate with honors... But something now tells me that it's something that is very unlikely to happen.

I hate university, there is literally nothing I like about it.

recently is being talked in tiktok about a french guy claiming that he's trapped in the year 2055...showing plastic cases of games for ps7 and sodas with that date. even when that's BS, i was thinking...how would you communicate with people 26 years ago? we're talking of someone from 2026 talking to people in 1997...

-twitter didn't exist (even myspace and hi5 didn't exist)

-the most advanced cellphone were the nokia 3310 or 1108 or those old-ass siemens

-internet was something basically unknown for most people in those years

-sony releases a playstation almost every 7 years, so...for 2055 it should be in ps10 (assuming that sony or douyin still exist by then)

what do you think? how would you use current technology to communicate with people of the past?

I was recently reading an English translation of a non-theory-related non-fiction book that was published just a few years ago. Next on my list was re-reading Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific".

I can only describe my experience as the most severe whiplash; comparable only to reading the comments on a news thread on .world after checking the Lemmygrad thread.

I found myself reading so slowly. In 30 minutes I would have barely read a few pages, even though I was not struggling with the content itself.

I found that it's just that the language is so needlessly impenetrable. So many run-on sentences, so many odd turns of phrases, archaic terms (not relevant to Marxist theory), and bizarre sentence structures.

I have never read the original German text nor any other language translation, so I don't have a point of reference. I don't know how much of it is Engels' writing style, versus the translator's 19th century English.
A translation written in 1892 was not written for English speakers in 2026.

My question is: Would these works not become so much more accessible if we had a modern English translation from the original text?

If this would be considered useful, how could we realistically realise this for all of the fundamental works from that time period?

1. I imagine that finding and hiring a translator who is familiar with Marxism to re-do the translations would be extremely difficult and expensive.

2. Community translations are probably not feasible as translation requires a very specific skill set, not just fluent speakers.

3. Machine translations might be possible, but it's crucial to not lose any specific terminology and not misconstrue the meanings of certain quotes and phrases. The translator (whether human or machine) needs to have a strong grasp on Marxist theory and history to not distort the meanings in the text.

I would really appreciate everyone's thoughts and suggestions on this. Maybe I completely dropped the ball on this topic.