Welcome everybody, in what is now the year of the Dragon! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Billions of us woke up today to do some mind numbing profit generating. What a waste of life this system is.
Have you clocked in yet? How else would we know you really are profit generating
My job recently abandoned clocking in. Also, I don’t have to generate a profit for the union, so 🤷 Feels much more free than before where every single minute was counted
I like believe the clock system does not exist to micro manage me but it exists so I can use my collected overtime for a day of
That’s good if you can do that but unfortunately that’s how many of my coworkers ended up with 500 hours of overtime lol. Some of them now have to work 4/5 at 5/5 pay for the next two years to compensate.
5 o’clock is still 5 o’clock but I travel with public transport so I tend to be a bit early and eventually that will add up to a day or compensation for when the train does not drive
What is public transportation like?
Update on public transportation: Today once again my train was cancelled because it broke this caused the next train to also get cancelled and the next train I was able to take to still come on time for work had a 10 minute delay this caused me to miss my bus and forced me to wait 30 minutes at the bus station in the rain
Pretty good delays are a problem though they are not big 5 minutes most of the time I used to go to school to a nearby town and a different train to that area left almost every 10 minutes work is a different town though. Yesterday there was some unexpected railway construction so I get to go with the bus and showed up and hour later because of that
Of course, my job IS to handle the machine and overview the shifts.
What do you do when your fellow proletariat does not clock in?
I write them in manually of course, if it’s justified. 👍🏻
So no one is ever late to a shift?
Just an update from my side: yesterday at the meeting they held a little “inauguration ceremony” for me at the party meeting. The party representative from the Capital had given me my little red membership book as well as gifted me a book from our president and a brand new party pin. Our goal this year is to get in the EU parliament to voice the program of people’s Europe together with all major European communist parties. Thank y’all for the crossed fingers, the whole event went great! I hope you don’t mind me talking about my experiences here.
Hell yeah
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Now comrade where is this?
Bingyu Valley located in the mountains of Zhuanghe , Dalian City , Liaoning province , PRC .
You lucky motherfucker. I’d kill to be in China.
Fuck me, it’s gorgeous!
Kind of crazy how insane the cult of personality around taylor swift is.
I’ve met seen some really cool “Swifty’s” but they are relatively rare.
they might be cool despite being a swiftie not because of it lol
I wish I could sleep like this.
This dog does not know a life under capitalism, and someday you will not either, and you too shall sleep like this dog.
May the dragon lead us to victory in the final battle.
I mean with the dragons on our side, we cannot loose.
If the 5–6 million Jews that the Axis exterminated were all confirmed anti‐Zionists, then Zionists would immediately and unhesitatingly hail all the Axis powers and their collaborators as heroes.
You know it’s true.
Pretty sure many of them were. I.e. Litvaks in Vilnius
Correct! But the Axis also liquidated Zionist Jews when they were no longer useful, and for Zionists that was the point where the Axis went too far. Even killing a single Zionist Jew would have been too much. If all 5–6 million—without exception—were confirmed anti‐Zionists, though? No big deal.
“‘I hope you all have a nice week :D’ -Oppo”-Comrade Pup Ivy
Wait can you just do that?
I have made it to the top, I have become the spiderman meme
As it turns out. Yes, yes I can. I have clearly become all powerfull
Have you prepared a capybara video for when graineater says “you too”?
you eight
I can admit, this is a better video than the one I had found… and I was sleeping on the job
Don’t worry next time your video will blow everyone’s expectations
I agree with the thesis statement of this video
This is what the bourgeoisie will be reduced to under Capyland
… no… I have not yet… I guess I need to do that now don’t I
Would you truly be all powerful if you did not?
Good point, I have a video, thank you for reminding me of this.
New EU austerity measures force Belgium to make budget cuts of up to 30 billion in the next few years. What a time to be alive.
No free public transport anytime soon
I just hoor the unions and socialist parties keep their back straight and strike
What if we just don’t do budget cuts? What are they gonna do kick us out?
They’ll tank the economy like they threatened with Greece. Worth it to escape their clutches, but only if there’s a plan for introducing socialism the next day. Otherwise it’d just be pain. There are probably vulture capitalists hoping for exactly that.
Eu headquarters are in Belgium how would they host the next summit
I like this idea, though I thought that “Officially” and “Legally” the HQ was somewhere in France so once a month they hold a meeting in France so France does not throw a fit … That being said Belgium seems to have lots of negotiating power here
That would be an epic funny. But unfortunately line must go up so I don’t think it’s going to happen in this society.
I know reddit is a mess but Instagram has to take the crown of bizarre comment threads for sure. You could post a picture of a pillow on a couch, no context whatsoever, and people will be fighting about something in the comments. You’d almost think the entire thing is simulated or something.
In my experience Instagram comments are even more reactionary than Reddit comments
There’s no downvotes and the comments are up depending on how many replies it gets, also instagram doesn’t seem to automatically remove slurs or autoban for using them
There’s a pro strongman that has started shitting on shitty people from the comments section of fitness videos. For example: woman lifts heavy weight, butt hurt “men” comment various idiotic hateful things, strongman looks at their profile and calls them a removed based on something relevant.
Obviously it doesn’t do anything systematically, but it is a bit of solidarity and the original poster often tanks him. So I guess that’s okay.
But yeah they are the worst.
Tradwife vids are becoming more popular on Dutch TikTok right now. Truly a country that set progress in reverse the last few years.
Dutch tradwifes eh? Do they wear clogs while they help their husbands pillage Indonesia?
That would make more sense but the influencers just seem to go for a Mad Men 1950s cosplay where they play secretly depressed housewives that drink wine all day
I just deleted TikTok today since it just wasted my time. Since deleting it, I’ve been practising drumming, although I don’t have a drum pad/set yet.
Putin must go
Who must go?
It’s official, the CIA agent Navalny is no more.
What? Did that bastard finally die?
Yes!
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOO
I’m told this is the ‘end of politics’ in Russia, meaning that political change in Russia is ‘no longer possible at the ballot box’. Wtf are libs smoking?
I’m surprised they attribute such legitimacy to Russia’s electoral process in the first place, a true to heart lib would think the elections are thoroughly rigged
If it were possible to interrogate the writers of what I might start calling pulp news, you’d probably find exactly that. Libs aren’t interested in consistency, though. Other than consistent allegiance to the paymaster. This turn in the propaganda is another attempt to keep up the hatred, the fear mongering, and that big MIC money rolling in. The underlying message here is, ‘We tried but we’re left with no opportunity; Russia is simply so unreasonable, so uncivilised, the west has no choice but to find any way to dissolve the federation to bring democracy.’ But you’re right, they literally turn the same direction every week as if they tried to do it any other way the week before. They know the readership successfully underwent it’s mind-wipe over night, ready for a new short term history to be written every the morning.
just found out my hometown is supplying drones to israel terrorists. fuck
My friend sent me on Instagram a video of Jos D’Haese of the Belgian Workers Party advocating for better housing in the Flemish parliament. This friend is pretty apolitical and never sent me stuff like this before. Pretty random as well, since we are Dutch and not Belgian. I hope this is the beginning of him moving to the left.
Jos has the ability to actually reach (younger) people. Even one of my friends, who is a VVD politician, said he liked Jos.
