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Pictured: “Free/Liberate Palestine!” In Basque.

I also saw a Palestine remix of Geurnika but it was high up on an industrial silo and I couldn’t get a good picture of it. sadness

Yesterday was spent exploring local communities and villages. It was pretty quiet because it was Sunday on an off season. I am limiting photos because I post my stuff on social media, so what is on hexbear is only on hexbear.

Basque word of the day: “Txirimiri” (Pronounced similar to Cheer-e-meer-e). The word describes the sound of a light drizzle. Similar to “sprinkling rain”.

Today I spoke with my Chinese classmate who asked me “Why do American’s hate their home and president so much, it’s not like the president lives in their house.”

“I could explain over coffee if you want, I’m interested in your perspective from China as well.”

So she gave me a cigarette and we had a conversation over lunch. She is from hongkong so her perspective was different towards the mainland government. (All government is bad, high taxes, etc.)

I was told that in China what most Chinese know about America was from television. I told her that what is seen is only true for rich Americans, but for everyone else we are a product to be used by the rich for profit. By the end of the conversation my poor classmate was just john-agony

(She has friends who moved to America to start a business recently)

It was a productive conversation and I made a new friend! I’m going to meet up with her and her husband tomorrow and we’re going to go to the library.

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[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I honestly don't know If It was funded by them specifically. I know a lot of extreme nationalist groups back in the 90s was funded by the US. Lost relatives because they didn't have much choice but were conscripted to fight. Dad's pretty traumatized too since he lived in Bosnia but moved to Serbia during the war time.

But yeah Yugoslavia built a ton of impressive shit. Housing programs were pretty great too. Though Tito was, yeah, a revisionist, but he was probably the best we had at the time. Also my grandpa actually met him and had a beer with him (not kidding btw, gramps told me this lmao).

I'm not the best like "convincer" (If that makes sense) like you did with the friend in the post. So I'm not that useful in that department lol. I'm in an org rn (NKPJ or in eng. NCPY) and I'm simply trying my best to do this stuff.

Though the left here has been in the shitter for a good while unfortunately.