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

    USians be like “we want no drug cartel no more” meanwhile their most widely acclaimed media is about either mexican cartels or italian mobs lmao.

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

    Do the hasbara ghouls not realize how strange they look when they automatically spew all the talking points on Hamas/Oct7 whenever they’re confronted about Israel? Like do they think they look smart parroting these talking points as fast as possible? 😂

    Look at the recent adam friedland interview, the guy sounds like a NPC lmao.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      5 days ago

      accused of trying to return home with a trove of sensitive research

      sensitive research

      His work, which focused on research for a breast cancer vaccine, made him an employee of the state of Texas.

      They make it sound like he was stealing government secrets, when he was just trying to help people not die.

      • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        5 days ago

        Yeah that’s how I’m reading it too. He may have been spying but it was definitely not on behalf of the CPC

  • materialanalysis1938@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    7 days ago

    Anyone else exhausted trying to get people around them to understand how capitalism is the root of all their fears and problems?

    Like damn… I feel like I’m lucky to change the mind of 1 out of every 100 I talk to. It’s just frustrating that so many people can’t connect to the bigger picture beyond all the culture war slop.

    Revolutionary optimism always, but man I feel like I to apply ice directly to my brain

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      6 days ago

      1 out of every 100 I talk to.

      Geeze I wish it was that high. Agitation feels sisyphean most of the time. Even when someone does agree that capitalism is the root of the problem they will immediately say “communism always fails. human nature… blah blah bullshit”

      If I didn’t like arguing and being an asshole I would have given up a long time ago.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      6 days ago

      Gotta focus on the radicalized liberals first, then work backward. Go for the easiest people to talk to first, it’s given me far more success.

    • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      5 days ago

      The Liberals are often redefining words like Capitalism to confuse the people. The Western people could not understand how Capitalism is the source of their problem because Capitalism in theory means free market and minimal government intervention even when Capitalism in practice means plutocratic command economy. Furthermore, the definition of dictatorship and Socialism mean absolute authority and command economy in Western school textbooks. Marxists suggest that those two words originally had different definitions when they mention that dictatorship distribute authority to the working class or their opposition to plutocratic government intervention which is a form of command economy.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      Its mostly garbage yeah. I mostly watch international movies/series in there, i recently saw one India movie called “white tiger?” which left me a bit surprised. It pushed an antiwestern message, and explicitly stated “the century of the white man is over, now is the century of the yellow and brown man”, its not remotely “leftist” but still interesting.

      There is also some Thai stuff in there that is fun to watch, like “angry unicorn” and the thai black mirror (don’t remember the name). One great chinese film i saw in there was “me and you”, a great romantic drama. Unfortunately, most of the chinese stuff in Netflix is from Taiwan so they’re a bit westernized and boring to me.

      Most of the stuff i imagine is sanitized for western consumers, maybe these are even region locked (theyre available in Mexico Netflix), but nonetheless interesting to watch. Thai stuff is very obviously influenced by china, its very common for characters to speak both Thai/Mandarin in the series and travel to China to do business etc… The “Mad unicorn” series even has thai/chinese characters that regularly switch languages.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    11 days ago

    I haven’t drank alcohol for a year now today, which I guess is somewhat of an achievement.

    I hate the way the murder of a 17 year old girl has been hijacked by right wingers purely because the suspect is a migrant. At yesterday’s Ajax match people paid a tribute to the girl in the 17th minute and some Ajax hooligans felt the need to raise Dutch flags in the form of a cross. Absolutely disgusting behavior. Online you keep seeing things like ‘migration stop’ over and over again. We have had several murder by a Dutch dude in the last few years. It is almost always a Dutch guy. But now everyone can blame migrants again.

    • Eiren (she/her)@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      9·
      11 days ago

      As always, a murder by an ethnic minority member is the fault of foreigners and migration, while a murder by an ethnic majority member is the fault of neurodiversity and too little involuntary drugging. Under no circumstances has a “normal, upstanding” white male supremacist person ever committed a crime.

      • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        10 days ago

        This scapegoating and lack of accountability is a rampart problems in Parkdale high school of Toronto, Canada, in 2012 with the delinquency by children of victims of Communism, victim privilege of psychopath with Aryan appearance, corrupted racist white men in authority, and scapegoating of high performing well-behaved autistic students who only act in self-defense.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    10 days ago

    Two Israeli tourists got beaten down by a 15 year old in my hometown. Media cried antisemitism for days afterwards. Police now released him stating antisemitism wasn’t the case. The guy didn’t even know they were Israeli until he was arrested and brought to the station. Also, the Israeli tourists were being dicks during a paintball game and that’s how the fight happened eventually.

    What’s really funny to me is that a 15 year old manages to beat two Israeli dudes lol.

  • TheBungTankie@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    11 days ago

    Currently, our neoliberal clown government has raised the salaries of corrupt parliament lawmakers by 50 million rupiah (at least 3,000 USD), while half of the population remains poor or low-income. It’s obvious why people are angry, and now We are protesting Againsts it.

    Good Lord, my country is in deep Shit

      • TheBungTankie@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        11 days ago

        Lmao No, the closest thing are the Socdems, which suck ass.

        Suharto Regime really eliminate all Socialist Movement in My country

            • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
              4·
              10 days ago

              And that marks the real indicator for autocracy. When the Liberals accuse Communist governments for human rights violations, they boosted that independent media platforms, mass protests, and anti-government organizations can run freely in Communist countries without repercussion which raise question of allegation of human rights violations.

  • sunbleachedfly@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    11·
    11 days ago

    I got COVID this last week. The symptoms bad as it was before, but I’m SO fatigued all the time & it really lingers more than other sicknesses. Stay safe out there comrades.

    In the meantime I’m binging a show & practicing drawing quite a bit, which has brought me a lot of joy. The first character I ever drew was Luna from Sailor Moon. Now I’m practicing shading & shadows. Now I get why people draw fruit so much when they’re first learning.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    11 days ago

    For some reason Instagram keeps sending me ads for magic mushrooms lmao. Which are illegal in Belgium btw (not in The Netherlands). I get that I am Dutch and all but you’d think they’d be able to determine my location. Or they don’t care and are willing to sell drugs. Not that I’m against that.

    Calling for a Free Palestine can get you banned though.

    • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      10 days ago

      Is it because Liberal politicians do not comprehend the fact that business advertisements are a form of indoctrination? Do they even know that a manipulation of consumer’s demand rigged the free market? The ideological justification for free market is that a private firm will change their products and services to fit the demand of consumers and not that consumers alter their culture to utilize a product or service.