• She Was Speaking@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Idk if any of y’all know of Lexi Alexander, but she was banned on Bluesky two days ago. She’s a leftist, Palestinian-American filmmaker (she directed Punisher Warzone and some other, more niche movies) who’s been outspoken against the genocide in Palestine. Doubt anyone here has any illusions about Bluesky being any better than Twitter, since they’ve been banning Palestinians & leftists without warning & making space for TERFs and white supremacists for ages now, but…

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Contemplating going back to my home town Tuesday to form an anti racist protest as a reaction of Geert Wilders and his anti immigrant protest over there. But it’s at 6 and I have a job and it’s over an hour drive so probably won’t make it. Just hope others are able to then.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    11 hours ago

    If anyone ever wants to know something about the cluster fuck that is Belgian politics:

    Belgium is devided into a Dutch speaking part and a French speaking part. As a result, most parties have grown into a Dutch side or a French side. This can lead to either one being elected for government. This is now the case with the socdems. The Dutch part of Vooruit is elected to rule with the neolibs while their French part PS is not. Vooruit is going along with the budget cuts while PS is fighting against it. Literally fighting against their own party.

    They even share the same building in Brussels. Can you imagine having to work on finding ways to do opposition while possibly sitting next to your coworker working on government plans?

    • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      2·
      9 hours ago

      This just leads to the question, of why would you opt to split your party like this. All it does is puts you at a disadvantage, your on the hook for all the terrible things that are done AND you still opposed any good thing your party was able to force through

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        9 hours ago

        I don’t understand either. Out party doesn’t do it and remains one party throughout the country. Much easier.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Another stabbing in the city. This time a guy got stabbed by a woman after allegedly harrassing her friend. Which, if true, based of course.

    • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Why do I feel like there will be a prade of people saying the harrasment is bad but it should not be a death sentence… and that he should have gone without consiquinces starting now

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    1 day ago

    So Jeff Bezos can rent out the entire city of Venice for his wedding and all the media are so quirky about it like it’s not a fucking bizarre thing to do

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        1 day ago

        Depending on the prenup Jeff Bezos might enter history known as the man that is responsible for one of the richest woman on earth, twice.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    1 day ago

    There’s this absolutely brain dead tv show in The Netherlands on the most stupid tv channel there is but one of the people in it is called El Che. That’s his first name and I’m only slightly jealous.

    • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      19 hours ago

      I looked it up. According to him, Che is because there was a character in “Goede tijden, slechte tijden” with that name and El is because of Elvis Presley.

      • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        1 day ago

        “I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    2 days ago

    I often wonder what life in the DPRK is like and today I figured: someone must have uploaded some google maps pictures. And there are indeed some photos from ground level DPRK and it’s really cool to see.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    2 days ago

    Dear comrade Kim Jong Un watching you have fun in the water slide that was prepared with care for every citizen.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    2 days ago

    Thought I had about liberal individualism: It’s well-illustrated by the scene from the movie Office Space, where the boss is chastising the employee about her flair and people who do the “bare minimum.” Because of policy, he can’t just tell her to wear more flair than the minimum, but he still very much wants her to do so, so rather than getting the policy changed (which would be “restrictive” and go against the concept of “being yourself”), he tries to convince her through repeated shaming and browbeating and talking around it. The whole thing centers around him trying to convince her that she wants to be someone who wears more flair and comes off very passive-aggressive because it has no real understanding or respect for her as a person, only this sort of facade of respect that is grudgingly given.

    I think it also fits well with the notion about “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.” Because it helps show how underneath liberal individualism, there is this aggressive desire for conformity and adherence to a strict way of being. But the norms of liberalism say you’re not supposed to directly pursue that, lest you become “authoritarian”, so people find passive-aggressive ways to pursue it instead. End result being you get this confused cocktail of mixed messages, where you’re simultaneously being told you should live your life how you want to live it, while also being told you better only live it within a very narrow framework.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    Spanish should be the Lingua Franca of the Americas, seeing as it’s the most spoken language there. An Argentinian or Ecuadorian should be able to go to Milwaukee or Saskatoon and talk to the people there in Spanish. I hate English language imperialism.