• Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    6 hours ago

    I can’t watch the videos of the Good or Pretti killings. I know that’s understandable but even just looking at the thumbnails my heart rate starts to rise.

    I saw a photo of the interior of Renee Good’s car after the shooting. The blood all over the airbag makes me so…afraid for some reason. Maybe I place myself in her shoes at that moment. I don’t know. I don’t know

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    20 hours ago

    A Dutch dog breeder decided to quit because their dogs were probably being used by the IDF and the increasing (legal) pressure from activists became too heavy. Activism works.

  • truly@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    20 hours ago

    When I think about Xi’s published writings which I saw recently here or on Hexbear described as a bunch of speeches from ribbon cutting ceremonies, is it right to conceive of this as his thought being related to party discipline, strengthening of the party, which can also be seen in his anti-corruption purges? I was reading xiaohongshu’s latest post talking about 3 CMC officials being purged - it seems to me both China and America have purged their upper ranks which I think corresponds with the qualitative shifts taking place in warfare at this moment. Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

    • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I can’t speak on the purges [probably related to corruption in China’s case], but Xi’s works are mainly speeches but they vary in terms of what they’re about and where they are at.

      In some cases they are ribbon cuttiing ceremonies, but in others its general speeches to organizations, universities, etc.

      In any case Xi Jinping thought is a genuine refinement of Socialism with Chinese Charecteristics, and Governance of China explains the main goals quite clearly.

  • Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    1 day ago

    Inside you there are two wolves. One does ruthless criticism of everything that exists. The other follows party discipline. Both are Lenin.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    I saw this reel about a guy saying that private chinese investors are in a dire situation because they don’t have real estate schemes where to funnel their money so they are doing this scheme where they buy expensive pokemon cards in china and then take these abroad to sell to get foreign currency. It was framed in a “oh look at the authoritarian ccp prohibiting investors!” but i see it as a pretty awesome way to get rid of speculators. China doesn’t even lose anything since the only thing leaving china is pokemon cards, i.e. a worthless piece of cardboard 😂

  • Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    1 day ago

    God I hate this new censor in YouTube that silences banned words like “murder” or “suicide”. First off, removing the word but maintaining the context changes absolutely fucking nothing, regardless of the type of content. Secondly, it actually calls more attention to the word itself because of the sudden sound cut and your mind quickly fills the blank, so you’re even more likely to go “oh, suicide”.

    I understand (though still find stupid) silencing swear words, though it should be a client side optional thing. Silencing “bad words” is just stupid and can make serious videos about serious topics (like, say, a documentary about war) sound horribly silly with every other word silenced out.

    Sounds like this:

    James ____ John three times in the head ____ing him instantly. Two years later he was charged with first degree _____, but was eventually acquitted. In this lecture we’ll explore this famous ______ case.

  • Magicicad@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been organizing with a pretty organic student group at my college and it’s been pretty frustrating to watch the Democrat machine begin to co-opt us (indivisible showing up to student organized protests and ignoring our messaging discipline, and fucking Disrupt trying to absorb us).

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    3 days ago

    Currently in the process of joining a local coop supermarket where everyone becomes a member and joins in running the supermarket as a cooperative, using only bio and fair trade products at an equal or even lower price than regular supermarkets.

    Not necessarily communist led but still a cool thing to join of you have such a thing nearby. Great way to meet people, I guess.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    A Kurdish protest in my city has been the target of a knife attack it seems. 6 people have been injured. I know a lot of people active in the left wing scene who often visit these rallies so hope nobody got hurt. So far no info on the suspects.