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I hate all U.S. soldiers.
straight facts
In China the government can force you to leave your village so they can tear it down to build more industry. They will offer you below market value for your house. A market value which has already declined drastically because your location has no future, fucking you over twice.
Except this isn’t China but wholesome The Netherlands instead.
there is large discussion on the korean left about china. many see them as a model of efficiency, while others are quick to point out their contradictions, particularly their overseas investments in real estate in korea. in my opinion, these questions are there to obfuscate the primary contradiction that is the military occupation of the united states.
another day, another struggle!
“evil see see pee has breadlines”
What? You mean that there are dedicated community services fully financed by the state to feed the community actual shelf-stable food that isn’t spoiled or expired? It’s free too and accessible to anyone not just church-members or specific townships? Sounds better than America.
“people disappear in evil see see pee”
woah, wonder what ICE is doing these days.
“You don’t have freedom in evil see see pee”
Don’t make any Charlie Kirk jokes or your employment is subject to scrutiny!
“social credit score”
economic credit score
“apartments are only 15ft by 15ft big, standing room evil see see pee”
sounds better than a closet you pay 200 dollars a month for to live in
Why is that evil china propaganda sounds better than most living conditions American proles live in?
In China they hunt down homeless people… and give them a place to stay and help them get back on their feet.
No for real though, when I’m sitting there explaining actual poverty and bring up China, motherfucking chauvinistic fucks have to sit there and remind me of the “freedomless see see pee” as if anything they describe in their worst propaganda nightmares is any less dehumanizing than the actual cold-hard capitalist reality that they live in. “oh uh would you like it if the government picked out a job for you?”
Sure! Sounds great! Maybe my actual aptitude for dealing with production machinery and facilities maintenance will actually contribute to something other than jocking a gas station register!
Prediction: The AI bubble will pop moments after Ukraine collapses.
That’s actually what I’ve been thinking as well. A lot of A.I shit is jacked directly into defense spending, even if it isn’t directly contracted out by “Defense companies” (excluding Palantir) but by defense contractor’s favorites like Nvidia, Google, etc.
With the Ukraine war nearing the end, I genuinely think they’re going to need to keep the wars up to prevent the bubble from popping. Venezuela is on the menu for that.
I’m officially an adult now. I was gifted a bread basket, and I was happy about it
Yeah that is pretty adult thing. I was thinking about buying a little 1ton excavator from China (they are way cheaper than you’d think) but it seemed a bit too much of an adult thing to do.
Oh, I thought you were older.
Well, congrats on that to you.
I’m 30 so I have to worry about work, but I’m glad that I have a job and was able to land one in this labor market.
Did I reply to myself or Krupskaya?
Anyway, yeah, I’m nervous about it, but I’m glad that I got the job.
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Oh hey, I’m back.
I got a job.
After looking for eight months, stopping for two months, and then resuming and looking for one week, I got a job.
I start on Monday.
Congrats!
thank you!
Congratulations, comrade! I’m still looking for a job.
Think I just saw another drone fly over lol
Oh, I know you’re somewhere in Europe, I forget where
Not gonna lie people are dumb as shit and fall for the easiest propaganda possible. A TV station aired a ‘documentary’ on people getting unemployment benefits and found two people who were willing to say, on camera, that they do not WANT to work. And people fall for it and say we need to destroy the welfare system. Based on TWO PEOPLE.
I could also create a documentary of my job which is also in the same welfare system and paint an entirely different picture but that won’t get tv time.
We as communists should really lead people away from mainstream TV
We need our own TV and media.
But I do feel that our alternative media kinda underserves us.
BadEmpanada, HasanAbi, and especially the “MAGA coms” like Haz and Jackson Hinkle.
The people representing leftism or communism right now are just not what we need, but unfortunately, we’re stuck with them.
We need more voices, new voices, more content creators, but also, people doing actual organizing and IRL activism.
I’m reading Absolute Batman right now.
Comrades, New Bridge Collapse In China, Already the MSM is Mass Reporting This collapse, and off course…
Do not Look at The comment section and replies of the Bridge Collapse in Social Media, it is Dogshit
Landslide, by the way. Natural disaster, not structural engineering failure. But that kind of “detail” is of course not going to be mentioned.
I could point to several bridges no more than 100km away from me that collapsed during the severe flooding we had in Germany in 2021. And some of them are still not rebuilt.
Shit happens when you have natural disasters, what’s important is how you deal with it. China closed the bridge just in time and avoided any casualties.
How much do you want to bet China will rebuild the bridge, if not in this exact place then just a little further away over the same valley within a year at most?
I’m not interested because America doesn’t do infrastructure.
I fucking hate Americans so much. My countrymen are completely insufferable.
Criticize Republicans and you’re a Democrat; criticize Democrats and you’re a Republican.
Nothing else exists. Two parties, two ideologies, two worldviews, two moral compasses, two philosophies, two of goddamn everything. Nothing more, nothing less.
I fucking hate it here so much.
Yeah, feel like there’s no choice sometimes.
I feel you. It’s sad that they don’t understand that when they reflexively bring up the other party (or parties) they’re Falling For It.
Like… we are so past partisan politics and electoral solutions lol. Even in Canada I have to hear this donkey shit about the alternate universe where the conservatives won and how it’d be worse when I’m being fucked over by the banker factions NOW, in this timeline.
“Sure they’re promising to gut everything and build new pipelines and give handouts to Bay street and turn their bureaucrats into soliders (HUGE LOL btw) but PP would’ve licherally made Handmaid’s Tale real!1!”
I think people would be just as upset, Democrat or Republican; we saw more pro-Gaza protests under Biden than Trump.
I wish the pro-Palestine protests were still going on.
Now imagine that same discourse, while playing telephone, make it ‘‘en Español’’, and you have Puerto Rico.
It’s sometimes the same discourse in Latam, but that’s mainly due to the media there being largely Americanized.
ok I’ve finally swallowed my pride and decided to just ask here: how do you create line breaks on Lemmy?? I feel like I’ve tried everything
Two spaces at the end of a line adds a line break, as does a backslash followed by a newline. Two newlines adds an empty line. Example:
new paragraph
new line
new lineThe “view source” button shows the Markdown used for a post or comment.
ohh ok im a fool lol
thanks!Good luck on whatever you’re trying to do.
Police has once again launched water canons at a peaceful protest for Palestine. This time we were even at the right location.
In order to keep the entrance to certain streets a certainty, which was the reason for the rejected protest place, the police blocked all the entrances themselves with their stormtrooper ass performance tonight.
hrm
I just don’t like this. God, at times I feel powerful but then I feel powerless.
And the worst part is?
I’m constrained by mundane things in my life, like family and other people.
It’s them stopping me. I wish saying so didn’t make you sound spoiled, but that’s how I feel.
Diplomatic relations have strained between socialist Lemmy instances Hexbear and Lemmygrad as /c/[email protected], one of Hexbear’s most active and influential communities, ceases federation with Lemmygrad.
The seizure in federation was first noted by Lemmygrad user @[email protected], who submitted an inquiry to the Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad.
“For some reason the chapotraphouse comm [sic] isn’t federating with lemmygrad.”
-Hexbear moderator @[email protected] confirms.As of the time of writing, no definite cause for the issue has been made public.
Lemmygrad and Hexbear admins are yet to provide an official statement.
Update:
Lemmygrad and Hexbear admins, @[email protected] and @[email protected] respectively, have confirmed that the issue regarding /c/[email protected]’s federation with Lemmygrad is not intentional.“We have not deliberately defederated from any Hexbear community. This is likely just a bug.”
-GrainEater“There was nothing done on hexbear’s end from either mod or admin with regard to the federation of c/[email protected]”
-CARCOSAThe root cause of the disruption is still under investigation.
P.S.
This comment is mainly a joke. While the federation issue and comments are real, I’m just dramatising for fun.
We have not intentionally defederated from any Hexbear community (I don’t even know if it’s possible to do at a community level with an unmodified backend), and neither has Hexbear according to at least one admin. This is likely just a bug.
This comment is mainly a joke. While the federation issue and comments are real, I’m just dramatising for fun.
I love it, it felt like reading a serious report.
Is this the Sino-Soviet split of our generation? 😭
I just joined lemmygrad and am so confused, what?
Lol, it’s a joke. I think the defederation is probably some technical glitch or an oversight. I doubt there is anything more to it.
It seems completely random to me but they can do whatever they want of course 🤷🏼
