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

We have a Matrix homeserver, where I am your overlord friendly server admin :), at genzedong.xyz. See this thread for information about our Matrix space.

Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Anna’s Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.

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    [Transcript]

    In January 1923, the young journalist Ernest Hemingway covered the Lausanne Conference for the Toronto Daily Star. His first encounter with Mussolini left him distinctly unimpressed. Ushered into a room along with other journalists, Hemingway found the Premier so deeply absorbed in a book that he did not bother to look up. Curious, Hemingway “tiptoed over behind him to see what the book was he was reading with such avid interest. It was a French‐English dictionary—held upside down.”


    Hmm… there is something awfully ominous about this.

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    Varios talking heads from and around the Russian government have been carefully talking about another “partial mobilization”. I don’t like this.

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      Ask an AI to generate a middle eastern skyscape

      Giant mosque with several D O M E S

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        Domes are cool. We should bring back domes in architecture

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    In light of Makan CPUSA finally getting banned, I’ve come to realize that his posts would on average gain the most traction out of anyone here.

    Particularly the ones about videogames.

    Are we all just secretly gamers? Terrifying prospect.

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      I don’t know about all of us being full on gamers, but it seems most of us at least play some video games.

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        Official ban reasoning says it was because of comments he made in the matrix server. His recent post appeared to spark a discussion about the CPUSA which didn’t go down very well, I assume it had something to do with that.

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          They where uncivil in a discussion about CPUSA, then through around insults and accusations without evidence in the Lemmygrad matrix channel

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            Is there a lemmygrad specific matrix server? I never saw him in the genzedong one.

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            His baseless assertions remind me of when he declared ResearchGate ‘alt‐right’, and when I asked for evidence all that he told me was ‘I was there a few times and saw their bad takes.’

            Why the fuck would an alt‐right website of all things host a black researcher’s report on Fascist Italy’s mustard gas attacks on Ethiopians? That’s utterly mindless. It pissed me off because I wanted to tell people about a serious subject and the first comment that I got was an ‘I don’t like this source’ comment (and a poorly substantiated one at that). I thought, ‘Fuck, I guess that I can’t link to this one anymore.’

            That said, I think that a permanent ban was too long for him.

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              That said, I think that a permanent ban was too long for him.

              Judging by the modlog, the ban switched from temporary to permanent after he said some stuff in the lemmygrad matrix room. I have no idea what it was he said, though.

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                He was throwing a fit and saying he would get hexbear to not federate with us “because he’s on the mod team”

                1. why would we even care that much? Like it will be nice to have more people to engage with our comms but we do just fine without hexbear federated
                2. he’s not an admin over there like he was implying, he’s only been on hexbear for a month and they let him mod a couple of comms, he has 0 sway on their admin team

                It’s a shame, I think he was a decent poster

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                  saying he would get hexbear to not federate with us “because he’s on the mod team”

                  Looks like the Hexbear admins said no. Also, no idea where he got the idea that lemmygrad harbors patsuccs.

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      finally

      I take it you were looking forward to it?

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        Not really, just that he’s been with us for years and it seemed rather sudden.

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    It’s fun fighting libs with you all 💕 I just wish they would learn lmao

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    I hope you all have a nice week :D

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    I finished the first class trial in my fanfic and the battle of moscow is coming up, make sure to check it out.

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    My city will start to turn off street lights at night in order to save money due to high electricity costs lmaooooo

    But Slava Ukraini!

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      Incidents go brrrr

      Criminality go brrr

      Quality of life go brrrr (but downwards)

      But hey, at least we can give 10 euros everyday to Mr elenskyy!

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    This thread is titled “Block The Rich” but I misread it as “Block The Reich”.

    I was going to ask you why I misread it like that, but I think that we all know why.

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    So reddit’s favorite billionaire just changed the name of Twitter to “X.” Kind of dumb, and I obviously don’t like the Muskrat, but so many libs seem weirdly butthurt about it.

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    Bruh i thought i was a terminally online internet consumer demon and that i knew about every dystopian thing happening until i started reading this book ‘Survival of the richest’ by douglas rushkoff, this guy has me beat, he mentions some businesses that make things for billionaires that i thought he was joking (for how absurd they sound) 😂 but actually exist. Look up “seasteading”

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        My brother used to refer to that kind of thing as “taking money from billionaires without using guns”

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      Honestly I kind of like the idea, I just wish it wasn’t just to dodge taxes.