Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at hoome. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Anna’s Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.
Regardless of what happens with people in the wider fediverse demanding to defederate from Hexbear, I will always be glad to have our friends from Lemmygrad beside us
I’ve been asked to become a writer for the upcoming version of our official party line, which will be written after the next National Congress. My name will be forever tied to a published communist piece of literature.
that’s pretty cool
CIA finna tap my phone and wire my house only to find out I’m a pretty boring guy
After a local newspaper reported that Webb had died from multiple gunshots, the coroner’s office received so many calls asking about Webb’s death that Sacramento County Coroner Robert Lyons issued a statement confirming Webb had died by suicide.[71] When asked by local reporters about the possibility of two gunshots being a suicide, Lyons replied “It’s unusual in a suicide case to have two shots, but it has been done in the past, and it is in fact a distinct possibility.”
When? Did those cases also happen to involve people who challenged the CIA?
Based and well deserved!
points
shrieks
“I’m calling the posting police! You went outside! You touched grass! You did a praxis!”Also,
I’m really glad we’ve federated with Hexbear. The weeks in between the reddit Lib influx and the Hexbear federation were really rough, since the shitty lib takes seemed to pop up way more than I was comfortable with. But as soon as we federate we end up once again with an overwhelming majority of based takes. Thank you Hexbearists for backing us up against the Lib idiots!
There’s a farmers’ protest starting in Belgium similar to the one in The Netherlands. The Netherlands’ one is hijacked by far right extremists, but for some reason the one starting over here is starting to show some leftist signs. I even saw a sign about how the leader of the biggest neolib right wing party is ‘supporting the big capitalists’. The farmers are also targeting big industrial polluters with their actions.
Our party is on it as well. We can’t afford to have a Netherlands 2.0 over here, since the left over there completely shit the bed with handling the protest.
I will keep you guys updated, inshallah we may have an uprising
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You basically have two Belgiums: Flanders (the Dutch part) and Wallonia (the French part) and they are basically two different countries with different cultures.
Flanders has a bit of a far right problem. It’s the most populated and richest part of the country and naturally they are still pretty neolib / far right. Since it’s the most populated part, most ‘big’ cities are here (relatively big, only Antwerp and the Brussels area have population over 1 mil). Most problems with migrants etc will happen over there and that unfortunately leads to bigotry among people. From what I have experienced as a migrant, people in Flanders are very reserved and they tend to ‘stick to their own church tower’, meaning they probably won’t move very far from where they were born. They will have the same friend group since daycare basically and every outsider is treated with a lot of suspicion. For me, this meant it was very hard to make friends, and I’m a white guy from The Netherlands even lol. Luckily I live in Antwerp and was able to find a cool group of people, but I can tell they are considered unique persons by ‘regular’ Flemish people. So I ended up with lots of queer friends, commie friends, migrant friends and other Dutch people. I wouldn’t call the Flemish people bigoted per se. It’s not like they are all raging racists, most of them just tend to be very reserved. But I will say that a decent amount of them do have a far right problem. Compared to The Netherlands I feel like people are definitely less open minded. At my first job no one even introduced themselves to me lol. It took them a few months to figure out why I moved to Belgium. And again, I’m white. Can’t imagine what it’s like to be non-white, non-Dutch speaking.
Wallonia I know less of. They are more left leaning and they even have one actual right wing party versus multiple center or left leaning ones (and our Marxist party, of course!). They are the poorer part of the country, mostly due to the fall of heavy industry. Never ask a Flemish guy what he thinks about Wallonia otherwise he pulls his mask off and goes on a Hitler like racist rant. It’s insane how they think about their fellow countrymen. It has absolutely beautiful nature with never ending hills and woods, and they make world class beer. I always like going to Wallonia. The people I meet there are very friendly and down to earth. I don’t live there, so I can’t fully speak for them, but I’m willing to say they are far less bigoted then the Flemish people.
I wouldn’t call The Netherlands that progressive either. A lot of people say that due to the 1970s-early 00s in which we did make great steps forward regarding weed, LGBTQ+ rights and social securities. But for the last 25 years or so, neoliberale policies have taken place and they seem to be a holy line of thought right now. Right wing extremism is on the rise, we are consistently going lower on the LGBTQ+ rights list, inequality is growing at a tremendous pace and society is highly individual. If I were to bet money on where actual revolution would take place, my money would be on Belgium. There’s a far stronger class consciousness here. Unions have a lot more power, with over 60% of all working people being a member. We have an actual marxist party and it’s growing fast.
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im drunk again
yall 196 reactionaries never been
as fuckin high as me
Green on blue, green on blue! Cease ppb fire!
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entertain us, o Unwise one
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Truely once the revolution comes all thinks will be distributed to society as needed
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The best part about federating with Lemmygrad:
we’ve got 3 megathreads now
Thank you for enhancing my scrolling experience with these images 🫡
I’m hoping to visit China one day and paint some of these gorgeous natural landscapes. Absolutely breathtaking.
It’s bigger than it looks in the picture. You’re going to need a lot of paint.
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Two questions:
- Does anyone else accidentally tap the up vote button when their screen jumps while typing on lemmygrad in a browser and lose everything they were typing? I’m wondering if I’m the clumsiest person here.
- I saw on Hexbear that some users from the ‘general’ instances are creating new accounts Hexbear (here too?) because they’re upset with defederation, etc. One problem may be that if they signed up to an instance with a personal email address and then sign up here or on Hexbear with the same name, they may put themselves at risk of being doxed if they make the wrong enemy through e.g. their lemmygrad account. Is it worth featuring a post telling people to use a new, anonymous name on lemmygrad if they create an account to protect their identity? This won’t stop wreckers ruining someone’s reputation but it may offer some security.
I think it could be a good idea to show it somewhere (ideally when registering, although that may require code changes), you should contact an admin
Dutch news is running a story about China’s youth unemployment of 21%, stating that according to economists, it’s a ‘telling sign of decay’. Meanwhile Europe is sitting at roughly the same percentage. I wonder what the signs say about that.
That ~21% unemployment rate is based off the 16-24 age group; composed of high school and university students, whose main task is studying and not working.
People of high school and university age actually go pursue an education and aren’t wage slaves? That’s terrible the east has fallen!
People of high school and university age actually go pursue an education and aren’t wage slaves?
But at what cost?
Bout three fiddy
Our society is going to crisis, quick make some articles about how CHINA IS BAD
The icing on the cake was how they said China’s economy had a growth of 4-5%. They said that this would be really good for a European country, but for China it is BAD lmao. Meanwhile the EU is committing economic suicide on virtually all levels.
It’s setting up the narrative for when China needs to be rescued from itself.
Modlog continues to be my favorite sort option
Your fixation with race is astounding. I’ve quite honestly never even considered the word ‘mongrel’ to be racially charged, nor was that my intent. That should be all you need to know, really, but you do go on. The word ‘removed’ could be ascribed exactly the same level of racially charged slur, but that’s not what people generally think, noy whats in the dictionary or wikipedia and not what i think when i hear the word. Nor the word bastard for example. That is unless, of course, race and racism are at the forefront of your mind at all times.
the word ‘removed’ could be ascribed exactly the same level of racially charged slur, but
what a lot of words to say “i’m white”
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There’s this Dutch energy company of which 40% of the customers have solar panels installed. They generate enough electricity for the people to give back to the company to store. This costs money, of course. Their solution? Have the customers pay for the electricity THEY PRODUCE. So you have these people, who want to have an eco friendly way of producing energy, and you’re going to fuck them over once more. You just can’t win in this system 🫠🫠🫠
Germany solved this “problem” by tacking 3-6c/kWh onto every person’s electric bill to pay for the electricity generated by individuals’ solar panels. Industry didn’t have to pay the surcharge though, just working people. As of last summer it’s been abolished, but do you think our electric price has come down?
I’ve heard this happens over here too, their lazy justification for it in our case is that you’re still using their grid to distribute the energy. As opposed to building your own grid, I guess.
if you don’t like my electrical grid, just use another one!I’ve heard of this being done intentionally in many countries, as (partially) self-sustaining households cut into the profits of electricity companies. Spain is an infamous example, though they seem to have ended the practice in 2019.
Legislation introduced in 2013 by Spain’s then-ruling Popular Party made it compulsory for any individual or company to hook their solar panels up to the national grid to be metered and taxed, or face fines running into millions of euros.
popular party
does something unpopular in every sense of the word
what bourgeois “democracy” does to a mf
Those customers should use their Aircon in the garden to (a) cool the planet and (b) lower their bills.
Hello! I’m new and happy to be here. Excited to explore Lemmygrad 🤗
Welcome! Enjoy your time here! :)
Stalin always screams when he has sex. Especially when I walk in on him
School is starting in many places around the country, so it’s a good time to remind everyone that schools in the US are utterly and completely fucked. One of the largest ongoing domestic neoliberal projects is the current privatization of schooling via the charter school system, highly recommend people research it a bit so they know what’s going on.
American delenda est
They’re working on it
