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  • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    50 riot cops just evicted a 60 year old guy that couldn’t pay rent in rome, that’s capitalism for you

    Edit: it was actually in bologna, one of the most communist cities in Italy, and yet shit like this happens, some militants got injured too… Seems like they’re occupying an house in solidarity with the man

      • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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        911 months ago

        Yeah… It was state subsidized housing too, the fact that a worker in a moderately rich industrial city (with great food) like bologna can’t even afford that speaks volumes to the conditions we are in right now, state subsidized housing in capitalism is just a way to have worker ants to work your machines till they die

  • Oppo
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    1311 months ago

    I hope you all have a nice week :D

  • DankZedong A
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    1211 months ago

    A couple of weeks ago I had this meeting on poverty with lots of different people involved in social work and the government. The discussion got heated at some point and the government was asked how it is possible that big energy companies have put us in this horrible situation. The answer was: ‘free market, can’t do anything about it’.

    The answer has been bugging me ever since. It’s the FUCKING GOVERNMENT saying this as if they are some helpless small org. But it’s a classic example of the mindset of the people in control.

  • DankZedong A
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    1211 months ago

    I replanted some plants and their baby offspring into new pots and ground yesterday and I hope they survive.

    I’ve got some Pilea plants that produced new stems which I repotted. The Pilea truly is an invincible plant. If there ever were a nuclear fallout, it would survive together with the roaches it seems.

    • @redtea
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      711 months ago

      Did you use any rooting powder? I got a small pot last week, but haven’t tried using it yet.

      • DankZedong A
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        No I just used earth that has extra nutrients in it. I guess extra stuff won’t hurt the plant, though. Especially with more fragile plants.

  • @Bl00dyH3ll
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    1111 months ago

    I guess the Kremlin is in the room with us right now.

    • @m532
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      1611 months ago

      The amount of mind control yankees are under is beyond my comprehension

    • @lil_tank
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      311 months ago

      ‘West bad’ well that’s a bit basic but nonetheless the right conclusion when you look at colonialism

    • SovereignState
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      1211 months ago

      Maoists are funny. hope the twitter OP grows up

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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        11 months ago

        Lmao:

        For note, i did notice quite some people larping as Philippine Maoists on various reddit subs and they are always coming with superhot takes like “Government is only a step from falling to our millions strenghts army and 90% support among the people, the only thing keeping them alive is Chinese help”

        Or at least, i hope those are westerners larping because if those are real then holy shit.

        • SovereignState
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          711 months ago

          dear god lol I saw that and I’ve seen similar with NPA twitter larpers being outed as amerikan Red Guards. It’s so cringe. Reminds me somewhat of when u/frgskncht tried to convince people on reddit that he had something worthwhile to say about communism in the Philippines (he was involved somehow or something) and it turned out he was a German living in Germany.

          I am interested in knowing what the CPP and NPA are actually doing - do they have control over some land? Are they an inert lumpen party like the Shining Path has become? All seems to depend on who you ask, but none of them seem to really know the answer.

    • QueerCommie
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      611 months ago

      Chinese protesters: We support SWCC, but please support our struggle for labor rights Online MLM: they are obviously Maoists fighting the oppressive CCP for real socialism

  • Neptium
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    911 months ago

    Currently feeling the freedom of a 10% rent increase by a poc landlord because of “inflation, interest rates and rental demand”; how progressive.

    • Absolute
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      1011 months ago

      God that’s embarrassing. I’m guessing the fact that the Ukraine spent 8 years shelling Donbas or every second soldier having a black sun tattoo is considered a false narrative perpetuated by Russian state propaganda.

      • @knfrmity
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        611 months ago

        They do. I can’t find it now but there was a link shared on here a few months ago (iirc Wikipedia) which said exactly that.

    • @knfrmity
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      711 months ago

      Looks like someone saw the Notepad++ version naming scheme and wanted to one-up them.

  • @Darkerseid
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    811 months ago

    have no idea about hiphop but this cover is hilarious 😆

  • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    My org (along with other, individual, protests) just won a big one today, we won a 660mln euros investment into affordable housing for college students in major university cities, the decision isn’t final yet so the struggle continues, but in the end only struggle pays off!

    Edit: aaaand they reverted it, curiously right after that leech zelensky asked for more money, also another big eviction today, militants got injured

    • DankZedong A
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      411 months ago

      Congrats that’s massive, good work

      • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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        211 months ago

        And it got promptly reverted because “it wasn’t the right time” A single room in Milan can cost you 800€ a month, with average salaries for young people of about 1000/1200 a month, here in Rome it’s a bit better but still, about 600 a month. Overall, fuck the bourgeois Italian “republic” and it’s muddening of the word “republic”

  • DankZedong A
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    611 months ago

    According to the polls we have become the biggest left wing party in Flanders today

  • DankZedong A
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    11 months ago

    Just had the second interview with the union. I’m weirdly neutral about the interview and the job. Very extensive second interview with lots of discussion about me as a person and a roleplay exercise, took like two hours in total lol.

    We’ll see. After the first interview I didn’t know what to think either and they did send me to today’s expensive HR agency for another interview, so maybe it went good for them after all.

  • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺M
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    511 months ago

    So I just learned that according to everyone’s favorate Wikipedia the DPRK is considered "None Marxist-Lenninist socialist state"under the principles of “Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism” this puts them in the same “socialist” catagory as Portugal, India, Algeria ect.

  • @CannotSleep420
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    11 months ago

    When I was smoking a bowl with some friends, one of them casually mentioned how their landlord who was a burger soldier in the invasion of Vietnam would, along with the rest of his unit, not smoke weed at night because the Viet Minh could tell the difference between their dank and the burger dank. 😮‍💨

    Later in the night I explained the fediverse to them. It seemed to blow their minds, although they then suggested I should become a programmer for the glowies. Fucking burgers, man.

    On the bright side, one of my otherwise anticommunist friends was ridiculing Yeonmi Park for spreading ridiculous made up shit.