• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    9 hours ago

    So the news of the moment in the country right now is about a gynecology student who has been found guilty of the rape of another student during a night out after she got incredibly drunk and couldn’t in any way consent.

    He has been found guilty, he admitted he was guilty even. What is the problem, you think? Well, he faces no jail time. No criminal record. No exemption from his job (AS A FUCKING GYNECOLOGIST!). Nothing. There are no consequences. Why? Because they judge found him to be an ‘extremely talented and caring and nice person who doesn’t deserve his life to be ruined’. Read: he is white and from a rich family.

    What a way to start the month in which campaigns against sexual violence against women are highlighted.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      9 hours ago

      There is also this youtuber who is now exposing him as details about his name (after conviction!!!) are nowhere to be found. This youtuber also exposed the details of the murderers of student Sanda Dia a while back (who didn’t get punished either, because rich and white) and he got punished for that. He faces jailtime now for exposing the rapist, effectively getting a heavier punishment.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    7·
    20 hours ago

    I am pretty happy about the fact that I taught somebody five days ago of the Palestinians’ Jewish heritage. She had also been under the mistaken impression that they were simply the descendants of some Arab tribe that moved in shortly after the Roman Empire expelled the Jewish population, and when I showed her the reality, she was fascinated.

    Funny story about my source of inspiration: out of boredom, I looked into archived /pol/ threads (which I don’t recommend doing, by the way, especially with images turned on) where some antisemites wrote off the Palestinians as being Jewish. Then I did the same thing on X (formerly known as Twitter) and found others doing it, though some users actually brought up the fact in good faith and offered evidence for it. That was what really sparked my interest.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      18 hours ago

      Yeah. This is a really important idea. Pushing back on the narrative that israel is the ancestral homeland of Jewish people destroys the legitimacy of the zionist state. Palestinians are descended primarily from Hebrews that converted from Judaism to Christianity and Islam. While israelis are descended primarily from europeans who converted to Judaism. The lie that Jewish is a race or ethnicity and not a religion is an invention by zionists.

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    24 hours ago

    Online debate tribunes are cool as fuck and I love that my organisation has one. I don’t have enough energy to contribute to the discussion on a national scale, but it’s fantastic to be able to read so many writings from comrades in order to better refine the line both at the base and at the top. Democratic centralism is the best organisational methodology even in the slogan: “freedom of criticism, unity of action”.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    1 day ago

    My mind is stuck on the mafia/mob metaphor for the US (well maybe more just literal than metaphor in some cases) and lately I’ve been thinking about it in relation to what people call “enshittification”. The dynamic where a startup gets some nice “friendly” capital injections to build, build, build and grow, grow, grow, and then eventually there comes a part where the investors want a return and the product gets made more predatory and user-unfriendly in a desperate bid to make it especially profitable.

    So it’s sorta like “hey, we’re here to help” later “we’re gonna break your legs if you don’t have something to show for it”

    But a lot of the leg-breaking gets offloaded to the customer, for whom this dynamic is mostly invisible as a process and they just see the bait of “cool product” without the strings attached; the “get their hooks in you and get you dependent on it before they start trying to extract as much profit from you as possible.” And once the customer actually sees it, it’s too late, they’re already personally attached and have to hurt themselves by leaving or hurt themselves by putting up with it.

    And this is just like… most of the US tech world? Shit’s sickening.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      I see it more as a subsidy, the startup with more capital manages to kill its competition (if any) due to them being subsidized by venture capitalists and can operate with negative margins, and they turn predatory once they have aquired a monopoly share.

      You know how they complain about “ccp subsidies”, well venture capitalists are pretty much doing exactly that.

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        1 day ago

        Most of that makes sense to me, though I’d think the nature of a socialist government giving a subsidy is going to be pretty different than venture capitalists, since the socialist government will not be wanting to extract value for a minority ruling class. That’s where the mafia analogy more comes in for me, is the nature of it not having any kind of intrinsically supportive motive in the capitalist case; there’s a “catch” and someone is probably going to suffer at some point to fulfill that. Whereas with the socialist structure subsidy comparison, if there were any “catch”, it would be more like “this better bring value to society” or “this better not be trying to bring down our socialist government”. So while the impact in a competitive space might be similar, the outcome should be pretty different for the customer / end user / whatever you want to call them.

        I’d also say the socialist case is more incidentally competitive, in that it bypasses the problems of capitalist funding precisely because it’s willing to do things for the sake of something other than profit (operating at a “loss” isn’t necessarily perceived as a “loss”). Versus the capitalist, such behavior can only ever be considered temporarily valuable for the longer term payout.

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

    Trump: “uh so biden managed to unite china, dprk, russia and iran?, watch me doing something more difficult and unite quisling korea, japan and china! Im built different”

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 days ago

    Found this thing called the Tim Dillon podcast, and he’s a typical Imperialist conservative. I only clicked his video because I saw him criticiszing the recent deportations of protesting students and honestly made some good points…then he started to clarify that he doesn’t buy any of the “gobbledyremoved” about Palestinean land being stolen or colonization, or just thought they were being silly. Just completely undercutting everything he said before. I rememebered that a lot of conservatives will always hate Muslims and indigenous people more than they hate bending the knee to another country.

  • John@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Any body have a todon.nl invite? I’m on bluesky but I’m so over corporate social media and want to try mastodon.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    3 days ago

    Material possessions and money give me anxiety. There was a time in my life in which I didn’t really have much and I’m not saying I was necessarily happy but I was less anxious for sure. Now I have a car and disposable income and whatnot and suddenly I feel more trapped. Like, there is much more pressure to maintain this certain image that you have build, more pressure to keep performing in this society. And at the same time it feels whiny to complain about this because it could be so much worse. Hell, a couple year back I was in a much worse place. But at least I felt like I had the freedom to do things, paradoxically.

    Basically, I feel like I have been pushed into some sort of role in society in which I have to work to maintain, in my eyes, useless things while the things I actually do value I have no time for. I spend a big amount of time each week at a place I don’t want to be in order to pay for things I don’t want or things I find ridiculously expensive all the while my energy is drained to the point I cannot do something else.

    Just rambling, I guess.

    A general strike today. Down with capitalism.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      3 days ago

      Life was really simple when I was homeless… but my back loves my mattress and not carrying everything I own all the time.

    • SeeingRed [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      I’m in a similar boat. I ended up getting rid of my car and a bunch of other expenses that were not bringing me joy and were a drain on me. As a result, I’ve been able to save a lot as a bulwark against the need to constantly perform. It doesn’t help though, because I still need to go to a place I don’t want to be for too many hours per day. It’s not like I could survive indefinitely if I stop working.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      2 days ago

      I’d like to believe that all forms of racial/religious/ethnic supremacy will be eliminated by 2100 but my faith in a better world within my lifetime is waning.

  • SockOlm [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    3 days ago

    I also have an account here now :D

    also I swear I saw someone have a trans flag in their display name but when I add it to mine it won’t let me save >:(

      • chickennuggies@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Egocide, killing ego.

        Unfortunately I have depression and was debilitated by it (on and off and on again) for lack of better words about a year, its all quite sad if you let it be. BUT, for lack of better words my ego just has to die for me to move on to the next stage in life, and as a process it’s actually going quite well which I am glad about. I’ve been working on this process for a while and I’m proud of myself. I’m trying again and I’ve got a stupid grin on my face doing it. Couple really scary things I have to face soon, so I’ll have to keep braving the storm but until then, its just egocide I have to worry about.

        • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          2 days ago

          For a person killing their ego you sure used the word “I” a lot. (This is mostly a joke.) Though attempting to limit references to oneself is an interesting exercise in ego death and mindfulness.

          • chickennuggies@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            lMfao good point. Curious though did you get this tidbit from a philosophy of some kind? Chickennuggies would like to give it a read, it would be helpful ;p <3

        • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Alright, but make sure to have a healthy balance between your self and other people. Boundaries are important. I don’t know exactly what you’re going through, but include helping yourself in with helping others.

          Well, maybe your ego has to completely die, but doing things for yourself is not selfish.

          • chickennuggies@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Will do Makan <3 not trying to be some selfless martyr or something, just a healthy happy fulfilled person, my wording probably just sounded super ominous or something my bad

            • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              3·
              2 days ago

              OHHHH

              I see, I see.

              Yeah, I feel that, and sometimes, we have to take a step back from ourselves and let our ego go and think about the whole.

              I getcha now.

        • chickennuggies@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          If any of yall are going through it, reach out to me if you want to talk, and on top of that I invite you to see a therapist, honestly it really does help. Be kind to yourself, you’ll stupidly enough survive all of the things you’re scared of (lil projection, but it might help the reader)