• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    13 hours ago

    Hijacked a party of Flemish nationalist at the city’s main square with Palestinian flags after the right wing city government banned some pro Palestinian artists from attending

    Can’stop the people singing you shits fuck you

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/21349_Tuxedo_Cat

    I saw this in a magazine and got it as a holiday present for my uncle yesteryear. This thing has been a pain in the ass since I got it. I remember the evening when it was lethally cold outside and we slowly walked into the shopping mall (which was playing abysmal music) to pick up a copy. I was annoyed being in the LEGO shop and bringing it home, but whatever. That was just ill luck.

    I started assembling it a day or two later. It was very boring: the process of assembling it takes several hours, and at one point I had to stop working on it for a day because I was so bored (and sweaty) putting it together. Seriously, has anybody ever noticed how boring it is to assemble a LEGO set that has over a thousand pieces? I don’t mind a few hundred pieces, but a thousand or more is obscenely excessive.

    Anyway, after I finished assembling it and giving it to my mom so that she could gift it, I thought that that would be the end of it. Nope. Some prick released a third-party add-on that hooks lights up to the set and my mom insisted on buying that. We returned to my uncle’s house and I thought that applying the add-on would be easy enough, but the vague instruction book (written in broken English) and my uncle’s real cat whining repeatedly caused me to leave his house in anger.

    It was in-between this and the time when I finally installed the add-on that I learned that one of my uncle’s students knocked over the set before trying to reassemble it, making the add-on’s instructions even harder to follow, and somehow my mom or my uncle lost a few LEGO pieces in his car. That thing is almost as fragile as glass.

    So after procrastinating for several days, I finally installed the fucking lights on the imperfectly reassembled and incomplete set and my mom takes it back to my uncle’s house. (She insisted that the add-on installation be secret because she wanted to ‘surprise’ him, but he undoubtedly wondered why it suddenly went missing, so my mom must have spoiled the surprise.)

    Fast-forward a few months and I get a text from my mom asking where the instruction manual is because they somehow lost it (WHAT‽); the set needs to be reassembled again and this time she is going to use glue even though the LEGO Group discourages that, and I’m not doing it myself because she knows that I’m fucking sick and tired of handling that overpriced heap of plastic.

    I am so sorry that I ever got that set and I wish that I never got into LEGO. I hate LEGO now. Overpriced boxes of shit.

    Come to think of it, I hate toys in general now, basically. Tom Hodgkinson can explain it for me.

    • lelkins@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      18 hours ago

      when i was in middle school, i made a mario pixel art lego thing and it was shown in the entrance there. a day later it was mangled to hell and back

      :(

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    2 days ago

    A socdem politician came to visit my workplace today. Now, we are severely understaffed and overworked. Today was no exception. Place was packing with clients who had to wait 3 hours to get help. Insane day.

    She came in with an entourage accompanied by our directors. It was like the queen herself came to the place. Pictures were taken of her standing at our workplace, looking interested.

    She didn’t say a single fucking word to us or our clients. Not one. Not even hello. Absolute 0 sign of respect. Fucking shithead. It was as if she came to see some monkies at the zoo.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    prob my most asshole move but i constantly remind people in agriculture that call themselves “engineers” that they’re not engineers but glorified salesmen. like dude you have never ever used a tool in your life, all you do is drive around selling pesticides or whatever that you didn’t even develop or anything.

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      Hey, don’t hate them so much. 🫠

      Los ingenieros agronomos do work depending on the project. Actually, I could have been one in another life.

      Here is a rice field in Cuba!

      • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I have no doubt that there are some actual agronomists out there but in my region every freaking vendor calls himself engineer but all they do is resell products.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      2 days ago

      You need to up your asshole game if that’s the best you’ve got. You should be telling liberals that they are rolling out the red carpet for the next hitler, yelling at old ladies in the hair salon for their complicity in climate change.

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    3 days ago

    My native fruit vines i planted last year just came up again. I was getting worried they were a bit behind schedule. Looking forward to having some in a few months. :)

      • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        2 days ago

        From what I have heard its almost impossible to find an mma gym with no nazis and the second the nazis know you are a leftist they will hound you.

        • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          2 days ago

          I heard of that as well. Thought it was an exaggeration until I found an open Nazi in one gym that I go to(I have multi branch gym subscription).

        • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          2 days ago

          I was thinking of looking for a gym with a good queer community figure if they advertise as queer friendly it probably turns off Nazis from signing up.

          I wouldn’t really be doing MMA to socialize anyway. I’d just learn what i need to learn, and cancel the membership after.

          • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
            2·
            2 days ago

            Unless you are already a well trained fighter this is not a good idea. It could easily turn into serious bodily harm under the guise of “we were just sparing.”

            • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
              2·
              2 days ago

              yeah i was just being cheeky even libs would probably freak out about that. I wouldn’t wear something like that somewhere i didn’t know people already and know atleast some would be fine with it.

  • NotMushroomForDebate@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    When are we getting the ProleWiki podcast where twice a month @CriticalResist8 along with different contributors and editors talk about everything ProleWiki from updates, news, challenges, the “On this day…” event etc. with a section at the end of each episode highlighting some of the goofiest edit attempts in ProleWiki history?

    Of course, there would also be a Q&A section to plug the Patreon/Liberapay, as only patrons would be able to submit questions. They’ll also get exclusive access to a compilation of bloopers from the last 2 episodes every month.

    And it goes without saying that once a month there will be a special episode with a section where @CriticalResist8 invites esteemed guests from Lemmygrad to discuss the featured article and essay on the ProleWiki homepage from that day.

    this comment is a joke

        • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          22·
          3 days ago

          Because I want more organizing and activism.

          I don’t want people who have never organized or done activism or built anything.

          I don’t want just commentary.

          • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
            61·
            2 days ago

            Agitation is the foundation of organization. There are plenty of leftist organizing things but they get co-opted by the liberals because the class consciousness isn’t there. With sufficient class consciousness in a population you can’t stop organization. It will happen nearly of its own accord.

            Maybe the next revolutionary leftist podcast will be the one that breaks out of leftist circles and starts killing liberalism.

            • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              12·
              2 days ago

              I doubt that it will happen with a podcast; we need to meet people in real life, not just through podcasts that sometimes preach to the choir.

              • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
                4·
                2 days ago

                Lenin didn’t spend half a book talking about the necessity of founding newspapers because he never considered talking to people in real life. You will never be able to have a one hour political conversation with 10,000 people. A small podcast does that every week. Podcasts are the pamphlets and newspapers of the 21 century. If the podcasts aren’t reaching the right people we need more of them not less.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    3 days ago

    Being a vegan activist might unironically be harder than being a communist one. You’d have the most rational people losing all critical thinking ability the second you say vegan.

    • NotMushroomForDebate@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      The struggle is real. Although in my experience I would say that doing vegan activism generally is “activism on easy mode” compared to communist agitation.

      If you start the conversations off the right way and with context that gets people to think about animals, whether it’s a video, VR experience, information about the animal agriculture industry, etc. it’s a very straightforward A --> B for a lot of people. If you think animal abuse is bad --> don’t support animal abuse.

      Of course there is the background of misconceptions about everything from health and nutrition, sustainability concerns (somehow), believing it’s more expensive to be vegan, thinking there must be a “right” way to murder an animal, etc. But in my outreach conversations I make a conscious effort to not argue with people.

      The main goal is to get them to express their empathy for animals and confront the contradictions in their actions and values. Once they understand this, understand what veganism actually is and that it’s not a diet, it becomes much easier for them to address the information part as they’re already motivated by the “why”. From that point I don’t spoonfeed them information or argue with them, I just give them resources that they can look into on their own time.

      Maybe for me it’s also a difference in experience because I haven’t had that many conversations regarding communism with many people. I feel that it’s impossibly hard. For veganism, all I needed to realise was this one contradiction regarding animal exploitation and abuse, and just inform myself mostly about diet stuff. For communism, it’s a process that took years, a lot of reading, a lot of correcting misconceptions about communism itself, a lot of history, a very large change in worldview, even though I would’ve described myself as an “anti-capitalist” for a long time before that.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    People being divorced from production and paying outrageous amounts of money for funkopops does not disprove the theory of value.

  • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    4 days ago

    Just got back from a trip to Japan and South Korea. Was originally supposed to go to China but there were issues that stopped that from being feasible.

    Japan was surprisingly awesome. Such friendly people and so respectful. SK is definitely worst Korea though. It’s basically the US in another language.