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Bourgeoisie states really do gaslight people. People get immersed in this belief that societal progress is this super hard struggle that always takes decades or more to achieve any progress on.
And then AES states are like... what do you mean, decades of struggle? We rapidly transformed this sector over here in just a few short years. And that was while dealing with constant attempts by bourgeoisie states to undermine/destroy us.
If AES states had been running things in the early 1900s and kept that power til now, we wouldn't even need to have a conversation about climate change today. They would have made pollution largely inconsequential by now and made it look easy. We'd be living in a near utopia with all the rapid progress.
Colonialism and imperialism in particular have been holding humanity back for centuries now. Choking it out. So that a handful can continue to live like monarchs. AES states are the living proof that when you have sovereign working class power outside of that, you can rapidly transform toward better. You aren't languishing in "maybe in another election cycle, we'll move the needle a tiny bit in the direction we want by electing a single representative sympathetic to the issue we care about?" Bougie electoral stuff is so absurd, what people are expected to treat as a legitimate means to getting problems solved.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
Sorry folks that I haven't fully come back. Never expected life to throw me so many issues at the same time while taking a break. For that reason, I will take a longer break.
In the meantime, found these beautiful photos from Italy. Hope you all like them. And.. I miss you all.
Good to hear from you. Take the time you need of course. We'll be here when you have more time for it again.
The (US part of the) world cup is going to be such a shit show and I'm here for it. Parking lots the size of Luxembourg, stadiums in the middle of nowhere with a 2 hour commute into town, probably some shootings here and there, insane temperatures and whatever the fuck Donnie will do
May be the first world cup I will follow a bit just to see the shitshow
I'm in Moscow. It's very hot here today. Victory park is a pretty cool place.
That's cool. I do wish to visit Russia one day if this war ever comes to an end.
Hi comerades. Finished Capital Vol II this weekend. Gonna take a short break before the next one.
Remember, we are on the side of the working peoples true interests, and the development of the productive forces. Therefore, we as a movement have a historic advantage, even when times get tough or when nothing seems to get anywhere, because through hardship lies victory, and even still waters can be stirred. Keep up the good work comerades!
Thank you for the motivational words, comrade!
Concentration camps don't happen overnight. It takes years of societal cancer developing to happen. And scenes across Europe have me worried. In The Netherlands there are groups of nazis going to refugee centers to 'protest' (read: burning down the buildings). We have riots in England and just last night in Northern Ireland in which non white people are targeted at random. Hell, even white Ukrainians get targeted. And while lots of people shake their head at all of these scenes, nobody really is doing anything to protect these people. Not the politicians, certainly not the police and everyone else is just basically ignoring it because if you are white yourself this does not target you (yet).
Hey everyone, hope you have a great week! Keep up with your goals, hold your heads high, and keep fighting.
As always, communism will win.
About to have an exam in a few minutes!!
Had to prepare half of it in 2 days 😅
Good luck
Every once in a while the Falun Gong has a stand in our busy shopping street doing god knows what. People actually go over to them lmao.
I once bumped into them holding a Mao book and they gave me some disgusted looks.
Watching Prairie Fire's video "Germany Was Never Denazified" and you know what as much as I hate my country I can say one positive thing about Americans: we are in fact less Hitler than the average German.
The American Left can at least call a spade a spade and recognize the fascism of Israel but for Germans that apparently is not fucking possible. Truly a sick and rotten country to the core. Signing that Morgenthau apology form right now; he was cooking and we should've listened.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
I know I say this as a United Stasian, but God I hate British people on the internet.
For some reason Americans on the internet tend to be fairly split. If you enter a specifically political space then you'll get a hegemony of Republicans or democrats, but otherwise, in my experience, it isn't inundated one side or another [beyond the general hegemony of the American Overton window].
But for some reason Brits are just...casually the most insufferable people. Racists, bigots, etc. It's not all of them, but Americans are more unconscious about it in my experience, while brits are out and proud for idiocy.
Also Farage is somehow more incompetent than Trump and that's saying something. Ignoring all politics, at least trump had executive experience before being elected. All farage has done is
1.Eat up checks from Europe and acted like a clown
2.lead the leave campaign and let the Tories take the fall for the consequences
3.join a party someone else built and lead it
4.get "tricked" constantly and throw everyone under the bus
5.might be PM
All of my complaints about British people are made with sympathy, because holy shit i would not wish Farage on anyone
Yesterday's match had two hydration breaks and Dutch public network took the opportunity to introduce ads during those breaks and I genuinely cannot comprehend how USonians accept this. I was ready to throw my couch through the tv in pure rage.
Americans typically work between two to four jobs, an American's brain is turned off by the time they can lay their body back. Plus the hyper individualism contributes to an inability to imagine a scenario where things change w collective action as everyone is tunnel-visioned on their own precarious situation. Those who resist are thrown into the prison system which disenfranchises them for life.
And if you combine all that with the literacy rates, the scale of alienation, the quality of our education, and propaganda that instills a fantastically-undeserved arrogance into every citizen then you got the perfect cocktail of a self-absorbed narcissistic population with no time or desire to form a coherent worldview.
I genuinely cannot overstate how poor the education system is. There is no attempt at forming critical thinking skills, if you look at federal and state guidelines theyre primarily testing memory and an absurdly oversimplified cause and effect understanding of history and in literature. We have repeatedly failed every generation with the education we provide, and with the material conditions getting worse we are only seeing worse teaching practices as the resources and training are inadequate.
The only thing that even gets any mild interest from the world cup for me is the possibility of moronic British Football hooligans clashing against moronic US police, win win no matter who gets beaten up.
Some guy on Bluesky a while back was trying to convince me workers own the means of production because we can vote in elections and I never wanted to slam my head into a wall harder than after reading that post.
A domestic abuser won Roland Garros and now I have no interest in men's tennis anymore
Women's part of sports at least have very little domestic abuse or SA problems
I think I mightve talked about this before, but recently got a hyperfixation on early Christian schisms. Honestly i think the early history [from the crucifixion to the Edict of Thessalonica] is a lot more interesting than the later history of the church
One thing that falls apart quickly about free market fundamentalists is that how is a small producer supposed to know the quality of a part, say ball bearings, without the help of an institituion that standarizes ball bearings? The $5 bearing looks, feels and weights exactly the same as a $50 bearing. Are we supposed to have specialized equipment to figure out the ± tolerances of each thing we buy? Lol, i am all for free trade but regulation is needed to figure out quality because the price tag is a terrible indicator of quality. I've had expensive bearings fail quickly while the cheapest ones manage to last quite longer, i've opened expensive sealed bearings only to find out there is no grease packed inside them.
Setting step-by-step reminders to learn structured meditation feels like a joke until it actually works. My resting heart rate is no longer freaky. Which is weird because I still drink too much coffee
It took USonians one win against Paraguay to believe they will take over football
I am considering permanently stopping making any posts here going forward.
Here's why:
I have now made a total of 1234 posts on Lemmygrad and i don't want to ruin that pretty number.
If someone can tell me a number that looks better that i can strive to reach in the future, i will continue to post.
The Flemish-Brussels area of Belgium is roughly the size of the Greater Tokyo Area and we manage to get traffic jams of over two hours on a road that is maybe 20km long. This country could be run entirely on public transport if we wanted too but we gotta drive our shitty roads into the ground, one traffic jam at a time.
I'm not kidding when I say my gf regularly stands in traffic for 2 hours for a commute of 16 km.
An anticommie in Gehenna is like a fish in water.
I will say, my initial impressions of Christianity were very negative because of the old testament. Im very glad to know I wasn't the only person who thought "hey the old testament god is kind of really cruel." like even gnostics back in the 2nd century were feeling that sl hard they just made the old testament god a different person
The old testament really is weird. Like, "So, some of you are thoroughly fucked in the head [citation needed]. Therefore, I'm going to mass murder all of you with a flood. But I'll allow a few of you to survive along with a bunch of animals on a large boat. I'm sure this wouldn't harm anything in terms of genetic diversity and will be well deserved."
If a human announced they were going to try that, we'd immediately call them genocidal.
Or like, "Your city really was not welcoming to strangers. I'm just going to destroy it. Everyone in it."
Or, "Can you sacrifice your son for me? J/k, that was a test."
Old testament god is absolute barbarian narcissist energy. Loves collective punishment and loyalty tests.
The Tanakh often depicts G-d as cruel because nature is often cruel. Floods, pain, droughts, &c.: these cruelties came from nature, and for the ancient Jews nature and G-d were synonymous. It is true that there are no verified records of, say, somebody turning into salt, but to the ancient Jews such a misfortune would not have sounded entirely out of character for nature either.
Qatar at least wanted to do some sportswashing and made sure every single fan attending the event had no problems. I have no idea what the US is doing or why they bother hosting an event with all the shit they are pulling.
Apartheid states blow dirty balls.
Friendly reminder that we had humans walking on the moon before women in Switzerland were able to vote. The last canton the legalise women's voting rights did so in 1990.