Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our Order of CPC Shills™, here is our weekly discussion thread!

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    I’m currently in incredible awe by the absolute decadence and luxury the mexican bourgeoisie lives in. I mean, I know they are opullent, but just watched some videos on TikTok of the kind of places they live in and holy shit! I will never in my life be able to afford even the cheapest one. The comfort and luxury these people live in is something that make even my wildest fantasies come out short. I was thinking that if I ever get to movw out of my mother’s house and live in a modest and moderately comfortable place some day that would maybe be too much. I sometimes feel guilty of wanting to live like that in a country with so much inequality, but these parasites are literally galaxies beyond what I could even dream. It is impressive, disgusting, outrageous, depressing. I don’t know how I really feel about that. Amusement? Hate? Rage? Hopelesness? Don’t know.

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      Now imagine the amount of labour needed to upkeep those places and guess who does the job… the mexican ‘patron’ is the worst scum on earth (prob the same as other latin american countries), utterly incompetent, disgusting attitude towards workers (malinchistas) and they are all alcoholics. I come from a landowner class in north mexico, inherited a big chunk of hectares of land so i have experience dealing with other patrones, its like they make them out of moulds.

      Completely conformist with our position as raw material producers they have managed to manipulate people through mass media into thinking that it is more profitable to sell raw materials than making commodities with it . Utterly incompetent and lazy drunkards. 😂

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      Selling your countries resources, exploiting the poorest members of society, and running drug money and guns, will all get you very rich.

      Although you are definitely going to hell, and your life will most likely be much much shorter then average the second another capitalist usurpes you or you outlive your usefulness.

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    return to Malaysia for a 1 month visit after living in the U.S. for the last four years

    go back to the places I remember going to

    return to a famous seaside which I visited frequently

    find out that that seaside had been ruined by a land reclamation project

    mfw

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        Basically it’s a project where land is artificially added to a body of water

        I don’t know the specifics of the project which wrecked the seaside I was talking about, but it really sucks.

  • DankZedong A
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    Last week at my current job. After a three week holiday I will finally start my job at the Union and I’m looking forward to it. But first, Basque Country.

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    I have been without power in Springfield IL since Thursday afternoon, I am ready to burn down the entire state lol. I imagine publicly owned utilities work a lot better when they’re properly funded and staffed 🙃

  • Oppo
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    I hope you all have a nice week :D

  • DankZedong A
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    Our party posted an article/interview with Tings Chak about how China lifted 800 million people out of poverty. I think it’s the first interview in Dutch I’ve read about it and I’m spamming it to everyone I know.

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      The article is accompanied by a map of Asia with US allies and military bases highlighted, completed with an overview of US military spending, titled ‘How the US is besieging China’. I like the kind of out of the blue agressive stance the party is taking right now.

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    Just had the monthly get together with my youth group. We’ve planned so many dope things in the next few months, with one possibly major national campaign. I’m super stoked and things like this truly make me feel a better world is going to come.

  • Absolute
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    Can’t believe it’s already July, where the damn hell does this year think it’s going.

    Hope we all have a positive, productive and perhaps even enjoyable month.

    • DankZedong A
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      I think a lot of people here have been there. But ultimately you only hurt yourself by letting your energy become anger. It’s a frustrating ideology to have, especially if a lot of people around you are acting reactionary or clueless. But in moments like that, think about how you were a year ago, five years ago etc. I’m sure there were some positive influences on you that got you into this ideology. Now think about how you would have reacted if a lot of them showed a lot of anger and negativity instead of being helpful, patient, positive.

      It’s okay the be passionate, but allow yourself some time to reflect on your emotions before typing out things. And always act as if the person you’re replying to is acting in good faith, worthy of an actual constructive answer.

      Stay and learn, comrade. You will undoubtedly have good things to contribute to this community.

  • Krolacan
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    Apologies for being offtopic. I have noticed that the link “z-lib. is” has been declared a scam site on the official zLibrary reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/zx6z62/megathread_how_to_access_zlibrary_on_tor_app/). Although they have a clear internet adress (https://singlelogin.re/), the reqirement of an account, the personal domain management and the occasional instability make them quite unfit for the average lurker looking for a book. Also stated in their thread, I recommend the use of https://annas-archive.org/ as an easy to use substituent for “z-lib. is”.

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    There’s a video circulating around the net, featuring a man with both hands cut off. Allegedly it was done by rioters in France and the man was “trying to protect his car”. Anyone hear anything about that?

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      If it’s true, they’re deflecting and missing the point of the criticism.

      I am under the impression that tritium discharge isn’t a huge deal. But that’s not what the Fukushima water problem is about.

      Chinese media have been reporting for months if not years that TEPCO and Japanese authorities don’t even know what other radioisotopes are in the Fukushima waste water and at which concentrations. The filters used aren’t appropriate and only certain isotopes are even tested for.

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    One of our officials asked for sanctions against Israel stating it was possible real fast when Russia started the war against Ukraine and his mic was turned off 😭😭😭