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There was an insane massacre in brazil by the police, more than a hundred people killed 😐
The police are a gang.
Turns out the UFO I saw the other day was, in fact, a drone
Identification is the third worst thing that can happen to a UFO.
The first worst thing is landing in the US
The joke I was going for was
worst: ceasing to be an object (being obliterated)
2nd worst: ceasing to fly (crashing)
3rd: being identified
Was it an alien drone
If only. Then at last the possadist were right.
Hello everyone, I’m new here, I’ve been lurking around for a little bit and have finally decided to get myself a lemmygrad account. 🫡 🫡
Welcome!
hi.
I keep lying to myself that “one day we’ll have a discussion about AI on Lemmygrad that is not entirely bad faith” and call it revolutionary optimism. 🫠
Moroccan diaspora when Palestine: FREE FREE PALESTINE AGAINST OPPRESSION
Moroccan diaspora when Western Sahara: YES WESTERN SAHARA IS OURS LONG LIVE MOROCCON KINGDOM 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦
Well dont you know that the Almoravid sultanate-
Like, even party members of ours are like this
Talking to people who think in individualism feels like different languages at times, stuck talking past each other. Or at least, I think that may be the cause. It can go a little something like:
Me: something something systemic issues
Them: okay, but like, you have to do what you can with what you have
Me: I know, I understand you have to work with the circumstances in front of you, I’m just saying, systemic issues though
Them: but you have to do what you can with what you have
I don’t know if there’s anything I can say differently in this kind of situation to bridge the gap, or if it’s just a fundamental difference in worldview.
They might see it as complaining about something beyond your control, because the average liberal doesn’t even consider doing anything beyond voting or maybe protesting (although if you suggest organized action, they’d likely just claim that it’s unrealistic)
That’s a fair point, thanks for your thoughts on it. I have wondered if it’s in that realm of things, but this crystallizes it more I think. Like because they don’t see it as realistic to force the world to change (or are too fundamentally icked out by the idea of collective force), they fall back on changing themselves as the only solution to anything? (Well, changing themselves and maybe trying to influence a few people in their circle, but that’s about it.) That seems plausible for sure.
Wilders is claiming election fraud in The Netherlands bruh lmao
Dutch media is now trying to frame a party of which the number 2 is saying she was reading Mein Kampf and for excited to gas the Jews as a decent party for the government
Well after two decades of neoliberal decline the Dutch people are fed up and have now voted for neoliberal decline
Dutch people fell in line with rest of the EU in austerity for endless militarization death spiral
I just wanted to post this stamp I got, not my photo but it’s the same one. I just like a lot of the art designs that went into soviet stamps.
wow Soviet stamps really were amazing!
My Amsterdam bubble strikes again. I was so convinced my party BIJ1 was going to get a seat or at least grow a little bit in this election. But Amsterdam is basically the only place where we grew in votes. In Utrecht we had a very slight growth as well. Nationwide we declined in number and did not get a seat. And Amsterdam is also one of the only big cities where the socialdemocrats were the biggest instead of the social liberals. Although Utrecht was very close with socialdemocrats only half a percentage away.
If it makes you feel any better i voted for BIJ1 and I am no where near Amsterdam
Well votes from people in foreign countries still have to be counted, which is 90K, of which at least two Bij1 votes lol. And the Caribbean areas and ABC island still have to be counted. And part of Amsterdam.
So, it is still possible. But it’s looking shit.
Also, party building and getting seats in Parliament are two different things. We as PVDA spent decades being irrelevant in Parliament until 2019 when we had a breakthrough. But by then we also already had thousands of active members anyway, getting out in the streets.
Yeah it’s looking bleak
About your second point, one positive aspect about BIJ1 is that we have growth in members and this election we had more people campaigning for BIJ1 than in previous elections.
As if the US moves here in Latin America has not been worrying enough, the police of Rio de Janeiro just committed the biggest massacre the state of RJ has ever had, there’s more than
160120 dead (sorry got the numbers wrong), and only 4 cops died. The governor of RJ is saying that the operation was a success, even tho they did not even get the person they invaded the favela for. From January to September of this year alone, the RJ police has killed more than 510 people.Shit’s getting bleaker.
Edit: There are also reports of some of the dead being decapitated.
That’s fucking awful, comrade. Stay safe.
Thanks comrade! I’m not from Rio and am fortunate enough to live in a place where I don’t have to worry about the police, but seeing the reporting of the amount of people dead has been daunting.
It’s good that you’re safe! Solidarity with the people of Rio, that’s horrifying.
I was reading about the favela raids yesterday and physically cringed. I’m so sorry and I hope you are able to be reasonably safe.
Thanks comrade, reading and hearing about it has been horrifying. I’m not from Rio so I don’t have to worry about any of that, but I feel for those living in direct line of sight of the police.
You are welcome. Please take precautions, as I imagine the circle to be ever expanding.
I assume the police is political aligned with Bolsonaro?
Not necessarily. The military police and these death squads go back to the US coup in '64. They were aligned with Bolsonaro recently, but they are going to align themselves with any right wing government. Bolsonaro is not all that relevant anymore. He’s under house arrest for now, and he’s gonna be sent to jail soon. He’s been convicted already.
The vast majority is definitely very reactionary. I can’t say if they are still aligned with Bolsonaro since he has been losing popularity a lot for some time now, specially because of how he handled the pandemic. But I would bet they are Bolsonaristas, even tho some of them might not like Bolsonaro himself anymore.
I know there is a very, very small minority of leftists in the military police force, but they have to keep their mouths shut not to be extremely harassed, fired or worse.
My home if I got paid everytime I defended communism like people claim
help how do i get paid to promote communism online comrade xi won’t respond to my emails
Watching election results is real life depression speedrun
SP shrinking and BIJ1 not in parliament 😢.
I’ll say the same as after last election, this just motivates me more to be politically active
I have hope for when votes are eventually counted because the exit polls are not necessarily representative. Especially when the bigger cities will be in.
Lmaoooo Frans just fucked off
