Even though I am frustrated about it I do sincerely hope you are correct. Thanks for your reply

They did indeed, but despite the great optics of 100,000 people dressed in red shirts ‘drawing a red line’, it was in realty full of liberals (including several liberal party representatives who voted to send weapons to Israel) who were shouting down activists who tried to start chants of “free Palestine”, “from the river to the sea”, and other popular slogans we know.

After the march there were several photos of these red-shirted libs in Starbucks and McDonalds, both of which are on the BDS list and have been specifically targeted by activists. Dutch-leftist twitter and instagram has been abuzz about this and there have been quite some pictures, screenshots, critiques, and warnings about yet another anti-Zionist movement getting overrun and watered down by establishment liberals in the 11th hour after so much of their willful blindness.

Meanwhile every other pro-Palestine protest in NL is treated violently by the police, even today the day after the big fancy redshirt protest. To be clear I don’t mean that as a dig against Nakba Day, but against the apparent average attendee. I do sincerely hope these libs start to wake up and actually speak up but this march yesterday was an “approved parade”.

Please excuse the rant, it’s been bothering me all day.

Yes I’m 100% sure. The archive function operates almost identically to Whatsapp. As far as exports, I recall Signal used to allow you to export your chats (both encrypted and unencrypted IIRC) but I don’t see it in the settings anymore. But to be fair I’ve been using it since it was still called TextSecure so maybe that function was removed a long time ago. The last time I recall exporting a Signal chat was around 2018 or so

100% agree Amsterdam Pride is a corporate-led joke. I can’t even stomach going to the boat parade anymore, makes my blood boil. Bunch of capitalists, warmongers, and fascists (but I repeat myself) pretending to give a F about marginalized groups without a single hint of irony. Plus the grandstanding of government-approved performative issues of the year (pro-Ukraine and pro-Israel), August here we come.

Paywalled article with confusing title. The official Signal app lets you archive messages too…

Hang in there comrade, and to comment similar to another here: for the love of all that is good please never ever ever consume synthetic cannabis again. It’s really dangerous, doubly so for a person with PTSD. Spoken as myself some who also has PTSD and consumes real cannabis daily to help my own problems, the synthetic shit is 100% anti-theraputic. If I may kindly suggest, keep working out and staying active (and staying jacked apparently). And try to find some like minded kinfolk to keep you grounded in the real world. I know it’s easier said than done, and I’m no perfect example. But I feel for you and hope you can figure it out. Hugs from NL

I hate this sort of thing. My recommendation to maybe get around it is to use an app like SecScanQR (open source android app on fdroid app store) which allows you to scan a code and see/copy the text without immediately opening the link. Then at least you could copy it to your computer or another phone or something and paste it into your web browser and go from there.

Or if I misunderstood the nature of the problem, aside from the rant which I totally agree with, please disregard

Yeah they were chased/jumped into the canal in the old side of the city. Well deserved IMO

Amsterdammer here. I was not present in the fighting but local sources have shared what happened.

In short, the Israeli hooligans including some off-duty IOF soldiers were attacking locals and stealing Palestinian flags from peoples windows. Also chanting about death to Arabs and a bunch of other racist shit.

Finally the local activists and mixed youth (including many many non-left) had enough and started taking them on physically because they were sick of the disrespect.

The cops arrest and beat these locals while protecting the Israelis. Meanwhile you’ve all seen the propaganda crying anti-semitism.

They literally brought it on themselves. Fuck them.

Just piggybacking to reiterate the sad truth of this comment, the Dutch have lost their effing minds and IMO are even more self-righteous about “Muh-kraine” than the USAmericans. Both in regards to the politicians and also majority of the people I’ve talked with about it. It’s fucked.

Seems to me the endless onslaught of propaganda during Covid broke so many people’s brains to the extent that they are seeking out more propaganda because they literally don’t want to think for themselves at all. Hell I’d be surprised if many people on Lemmygrad continued to “follow the science” on Covid since Ukraine started as results from that worldwide experiement are finally starting to come out (instead of just the number models). shrug

I’ve had a similar experience before in NL. One evening at a bar I asked for an espresso (the machine was still on and functional) and the two bar women kept trying to shame me into getting a beer instead. Never went back to that place

I had just started getting deep into using Vim a couple of months ago and it continues to impress me in it’s usefulness. Shame to hear that the creator has passed on.

RIP to a great one, pouring one out for Bram

Solidarity comrade.

Reading those comments was an exercise in inadvertent self-flagellation and it intellectually hurts

There’s no amount of psychoanalysis that can cure a trauma caused by the material reality of a patient. You can give them coping skills, you can make them understand certain aspects of their psyche, but cannot advance any further without improving the material existence.

Exactly. This should be a repeated opening statement for anyone getting into therapy whether as a giver or receiver. Too often it’s treated as some mystical “science” whereby all of the patient’s ills can be therapized away with just enough inner effort (and money!). I’ve had many traumas to deal with and at the end of it all the singular thing that helped me the most was solving my basic material needs. Thankfully I came to the same realization as your statement on my own (after much introspection) before getting pathologized and needlessly medicated. I reailze there are people who may need the medication and all, but I’d wager that they are not the majority of people who end up there.

And 80%+ of the Collective West’s citizens will buy it, just like they bought Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Ukraine since 2014. It hurts my sensibilities. Some of the most intelligent people I know buy this shit, every fucking time. Clearly deep knowledge in one area doesn’t matter much when it comes to spotting admittedly obvious patterns of propaganda. Sigh…

Can we start calling him Pagliacci?

Bless the Parenti family and the personal assisstant too!

Apologies, for some reason I didn’t get a notification for your comment but @Bothersome_Inductor@lemmygrad.ml described the gist of it well :)

And the greedy parasites are so ill-informed of their own system they don’t even realize the unescapable inevitability of the capitalist model: eventually profit will become 0. They can’t hide behind “externalities” forever, despite their efforts.