Pictured: “Free/Liberate Palestine!” In Basque.
I also saw a Palestine remix of Geurnika but it was high up on an industrial silo and I couldn’t get a good picture of it. 
Yesterday was spent exploring local communities and villages. It was pretty quiet because it was Sunday on an off season. I am limiting photos because I post my stuff on social media, so what is on hexbear is only on hexbear.
Basque word of the day: “Txirimiri” (Pronounced similar to Cheer-e-meer-e). The word describes the sound of a light drizzle. Similar to “sprinkling rain”.
Today I spoke with my Chinese classmate who asked me “Why do American’s hate their home and president so much, it’s not like the president lives in their house.”
“I could explain over coffee if you want, I’m interested in your perspective from China as well.”
So she gave me a cigarette and we had a conversation over lunch. She is from hongkong so her perspective was different towards the mainland government. (All government is bad, high taxes, etc.)
I was told that in China what most Chinese know about America was from television. I told her that what is seen is only true for rich Americans, but for everyone else we are a product to be used by the rich for profit. By the end of the conversation my poor classmate was just 
(She has friends who moved to America to start a business recently)
It was a productive conversation and I made a new friend! I’m going to meet up with her and her husband tomorrow and we’re going to go to the library.
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Man I wish I could get murals like those in my village in Serbia here. We only have ones of far-right war criminals and how we’re gonna take back Kosovo (somehow) lol.
I’ve seen some far right stuff here but it’s always like a teeny tiny statement written rapidly in marker really quickly because fascists get their shit kicked in on sight.
OH YEAH, that reminds me of a story-
So a few days ago I went out with classmates to Casco Viejo/Zazpikaleak/old town. It is a Basque enclave and is filled with anti-fa organizations and it’s full of Basque punks wearing. “FCK NZS” logos.
And one of my classmates is an American CHUD who listens to Louder with Crowder and Andrew Tate garbage. He was in my student apartment for a hot minute but got mad and left when my roommate didn’t humor his trash.
So this guy starts lecturing another student about how “Basque traditions aren’t even that old, they only started 28 years ago.” (This is a popular anti-Basque talking point in Spain) And he’s saying this just as we enter old town and there are punks on every corner giving him the eye and the rest of us who knew better just quietly abandoned him.
The reality is that these traditions were eradicated through -genocide- and were brought back to help rebuild community and foster appreciation for the culture. They are real traditions, but for some mysterious reason these traditions were not practiced for decades. Y’know, while families were murdered or forced to hide in graveyard crypts/hollow walls. Not that this CHUD could appreciate that, his brain pan is not formed for curiosity it seems.
Good for you. We only got CHUD’s here you mention for the most part because of far right propaganda campaigns from the 90s.
Like oh gommunism suppressed religion, If you said anything against Tito and the state you’d go to prison.
Most of the murals here are of a Serbian war criminal general Ratko Mladić who ethnically cleansed Bosniak Muslims, a big one where It says “WHEN THE SERBIAN ARMY COMES BACK TO KOSOVO” and some more with a Chetnik tagline (Chetnik’s were royalist rebels turned nazi collaborators) “IN THE NAME OF GOD - FOR KING AND FATHERLAND”. They really like to abuse the image of Gavrilo Princip (dude who shot Franz Ferdinand) as a nationalist hero when his cousin was a communist lol.
It kinda sucks lol. Like commmunism is viewed as boomer ideology too. Most of these are done by far right football ultras who may or may not are a cover for some illegal stuff.
EDIT: Sorry I realized I made this about myself since I was frustrated, my bad.
Yeah I’m really curious about anti-communism in the Balkans, was anti-communism funded by USAid?
I was curious about Balkan states so I started watching some YouTube videos and the hosts would often complain about their bad infrastructure, or that “boomers don’t know what they’re talking about, the Soviet Union was terrible!” Even though “boomers” lived in the soviet state and have lived experience. Like, I know generations can disagree on things, but the disconnect is so bizarre to me.
The Soviet Union built so much, and it’s only falling apart because the current capitalist government refuses to update/maintain/restore these buildings.
I honestly don’t know If It was funded by them specifically. I know a lot of extreme nationalist groups back in the 90s was funded by the US. Lost relatives because they didn’t have much choice but were conscripted to fight. Dad’s pretty traumatized too since he lived in Bosnia but moved to Serbia during the war time.
But yeah Yugoslavia built a ton of impressive shit. Housing programs were pretty great too. Though Tito was, yeah, a revisionist, but he was probably the best we had at the time. Also my grandpa actually met him and had a beer with him (not kidding btw, gramps told me this lmao).
I’m not the best like “convincer” (If that makes sense) like you did with the friend in the post. So I’m not that useful in that department lol. I’m in an org rn (NKPJ or in eng. NCPY) and I’m simply trying my best to do this stuff.
Though the left here has been in the shitter for a good while unfortunately.
Regarding Edit: You’re good! It’s interesting to learn about your culture and other European experiences.
