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Today I am thirty-one years old.
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This is my 1000th comment on Lemmy and I think it’s a good time to take a look back. It’s already been 2.5 years, and although I haven’t participated much, I feel I have started to learn a lot and grow politically thanks to Lemmygrad, Hexbear more recently, and a few comrades on lemmy.ml and other instances (even the occasional .world). 2 years ago I was very much a lib. Now I sometimes take the time to read through articles, made a list of books to read and bought a few, to my family and I. To reflect, time passes too quickly and I haven’t read the tiny Engels book on my night stand. I’m lucky enough to not have a physically demanding job but at the end of the day I’m still exhausted and drained. I wish others in my branch could realize we are very much exploited, even though it is at different degrees. Another bothering point is that even the leftist of my friends has a hard time challenging the non stop propaganda we are fed, and it’s depressing
This comment was a mess. Thank you Lemmygrad, keep it up, and for those who have the energy to explain basic things to liberals: yes, it matters
Well thank you for being here too 🫡
I used to work several physical demanding jobs, from a steel factory to carpentry to a warehouse dragging beer kegs for 12 hours a day but I have never been as fatigued as my current office job. That is not to say that office work is harder than back breaking work but I do feel like the toll it takes on your psyche and body gets underestimated a lot.
Working on an assembly line or fast food restaurant, I’d punch out and not give work another thought until I punched in. Working in the software industry, it’s seldom fully gone from my mind, even on the weekend.
Mood. I’ve worked warehouse shipping and receiving, car part assembly lines, food service, retail, computer/phone repair and help desk, IT support. None of these jobs bled into my personal life the way working software in the tech industry has. I’m cooked.
Libs cry that china is imperialist because they give loans while the loans are literally used to repay IMF interests lmao
Alright… Be Honest Comrades…
I dont Trust Zohran… Yeah…Yeah He Make Right-wingers Meltdown…
I just Hope He’s Not AOC 2.0
in a vacuum he seems like a great guy but it’s hardly relevant in the grand scheme of things. at best he is going to implement policies that marginally improve NYC people’s lives, which is something i could hardly care about. heck even if lenin himself were to become mayor, it straight up doesn’t matter, the imperial core won’t be reformed through liberal democracy.
He’s still a politician in the Third Reich and nowhere near a revolutionary marxist that some people make him out to be. When the other candidates are genocidal maniacs you can see the ‘maybe let’s not do that’ candidate as a good guy but ultimately we need much more than what Zohran is.
We’ll see what he turns out to be. Hopefully the comrades in the NY area use this as a way to get in touch with more people.
I think Mamdani the idea is infinitely more valuable than Mamdani the man - no matter how good Mamdani the man turns out to be. The fact that Zionists across the aisle decided to make this a referendum on “”““anti-semitism””" (read: anti-Zionism) only to get utterly humiliated was not only hilarious, but serves as proof of the popularity of the pro-Palestine movement to all the holdover liberals who made excuses for Biden / Harris by saying, “but Palestine isn’t popular! They’d be committing political suicide!” - now it’s clear that it is political suicide not to support Palestine. Ditto for trans rights, and also just socialism in general - like, we’ve heard Democrats say they can’t support trans rights because they’ll lose votes over it, and then Mamdani has a blowout victory after going out promising to give 65 million to healthcare for trans kids.
So if nothing else, I feel like Mamdani is a good avenue through which to radicalize liberals against Democrats. You’ve got a bunch of people looking at Mamdani and realizing that better things are possible… and if Mamdani ends up getting ratfucked by the Democrats or just disappoints, it’ll be very easy to welcome them into the fold.
Also, all of the Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani by right wingers and fellow Democrats alike have got liberals I wouldn’t normally so much as acknowledge calling for the resignation of Hakeem Jeffries. If nothing else, the man is a golden opportunity for establishment Democrats to end their political careers.
The fact that he is running as a dem is a red flag. They are using him to rehabilitate the dem brand. Participation in bourgeois elections only helps the cause if it is done under the banner of communism. He’s a sheepdog rounding up the “progressive” liberals who are disgusted by the support for the genocide.
He is the dem’s way of saying “I’m sorry baby. I’ve changed. I’ll never hit you again. Please take me back”
The mosque in my city that got send a letter with a bullet in it the other day just received another one and it shocks me to see how little people care.
In a world where antisemitism holds so much weight, islamophobia apparently doesn’t matter at all.
(yeah I know that real bigotry against jews barely matters too and that the word has been coopted by zionists)
Honestly, as a Turk, growing up after 9/11, it was difficult…
I have seen Arab Christians go through additional screening upon entry to the US despite their obvious Arabic Christian names and the crosses they are wearing. Hatred of Islam is still widely acceptable in the West and they use that to hate on all peoples from south and east of the Mediterranean even those who aren’t Muslim. Otherwise they will have to admit that they are just racist, which many sometimes can obviously be, see how Sub-Saharan Christians are treated in Europe.
yeah…
I don’t like to talk about my childhood partly for this reason.
Damn, you are a Turk, as well a dear American? Hasan?
I am Turkish and Dominican.
You are Turk, Dominican, and a dear American? Is it true that you need to fill out your “race” on various forms over there? If so what do you say yours is when they ask?
Latinx, if they have that option, of course.
DPRK releases unpublished images of soldiers deployed in Kursk at an event for the visit of the Russian Minister of Culture.
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Here’s a pic of Man Utd player Onana posing with Ibrahim Traore for some reason
Another pic
I have so much fun lurking in the european instance where they pretend to be anti-american but do not acknowledge they are their vassals.
That sounds maddening.
TIL China has exported greenhouses to Yemen
and the DPRK!!
So femicide is a real problem here. Every other week a woman gets murdered in Belgium, in most cases by a partner or someone close to them. Most of the time for patriarchal reasons.
What’s funny to me is that right wingers shout a lot about revenge killing in Muslim communities but remains silent about the dozens of women killed every year by Belgian men.
As I was making the comment above a dude set his wife on fire while being on parole because prisons are too full here
The rich or more wealthy get parole while the dirt-poor don’t and are left out sight and out of mind.
More prisons beget more crime, tbh.
I never thought an european country had that problem. TIL
Well I feel like it gets swept under the rug because of Western supremacy views. Just ‘incidents’ rather than a structural societal problem.
Where from?
So in my Dutch hometown there will be an anti migration protest at which some far right leaders will join. It’s near the city hall. A counter protest is expected.
My mom works at the city hall and she has to evacuate the building after 16h otherwise safety can’t be properly guaranteed. Wild to think that my mom is now at danger from actual fascists.
Leave it to the ‘concerned citizens’ to do this protest and show up with Nazi flags
Something about this being in my hometown makes me absolutely furious. Get the fuck away you fucking wankers.
A new law was implemented here today that will see capital gains taxed at a higher percentage (only slightly so). It will be free of tax until a 10k profit is reached.
Now, people are swarming to the comments online saying this will just target the ‘middle class good intentions father’.
I hope these people get a reality check soon. 10k in profits (FROM INVESTING!!! PER YEAR!!!) is not middle class.
Middle class ain’t nothin’ but a vibe 🤷 10K is about what you’d get if you’ve got ~150K socked away in the public stock & bond market. White collar workers and the petite bourgeoisie often have that much accumulated before they reach middle age.
Never been the biggest vegan activist there is (despite being vegan now) but I got myself some vegan print t shirt. One of them says SOYBOY lmao. Can’t wait to wear them in public.
