• yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    6 days ago

    in middle school we learned a vulgar definition of imperialism as the ‘exertion of control of a foreign country upon another’, which is excellently vague and incredibly effective since being on twt informs u that nearly nobody in the whole anglosphere has graduated to the higher understanding that that term is practically useless and not at all what most political writers they misquote were speaking about which leads to fun misunderstandings

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
    26·
    13 days ago

    Have a great week, everyone! We live in uncertain times, so it’s best to stay to your goals, habits, and maintain revolutionary optimism. We don’t have the luxury of nihilism!

    As always, communism will win.

  • Astrius@lemmy.ml
    25·
    12 days ago

    I’m joining the Party for Socialism and Liberation. I attended a volunteer event for Greg Levy in Ohio. I am excited to be organizing with them.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    12 days ago

    I’m grieving right now and it’s hard. I never lost someone so close to me before. I’m mostly fine, mainly because of denial, but then it randomly hits me they’re really gone and I break down. I notice that I’m more irritable and fall back on stress behaviors.

    • prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      12 days ago

      Grief is like that, it keeps coming back in waves, even years after. Make sure to accept those feelings as a necessary part of healing. All the love, comrade!

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    10 days ago

    The Netherlands is so individualistic that family bonds are becoming less strong. I haven’t seen my cousins (except one) in a coupke of years. One of them has a one year old child which I’ve never seen. It doesn’t help that we all live in different parts of the country, but still I feel like this wouldn’t happen in communist countries

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      My family is kinda the same but in Mexico. Idk i’ve never felt any bonds with them and we lived in a small town. This is particularly noticeable on petit bourgeois families and above, meanwhile families from a poor background are much more united.

      Really the amount of rich families i’ve seen getting torn apart because of property issues is kinda funny. And they are the most vocal supporters of family first slogans.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    13 days ago

    According to polls, if there were a vote in Brussels today we would be the largest party with nearly 27% of the votes

    • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      13 days ago

      And for the Amsterdam municipal elections in the last poll BIJ1 got 4%, which would mean 2 seats. A big difference with Brussels. But I will vote for De Vonk instead of BIJ1, and they need my vote more, since they don’t show up on the polls yet.

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        6·
        13 days ago

        I think De Vonk is a better option. Bij1 is a good party on a lot of points they are still not marxist, so any marxist party should get the focus imo. I hope they can surprise everyone by getting a seat.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    8 days ago

    There’s this dude at my job who has a son that has been recently diagnosed with autism and he says he doesn’t know how to handle it properly yet as he has no experience with autism. The other day I caught him changing his shoes mid day because he bought new shoes and said ‘yeah I always do this as I have troubles with getting used to new shoe feels often’

    My friend, I may have some news for you

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      10·
      7 days ago

      The amount of people who are autistic without realizing it is staggeringly high.

      Hell, I didn’t realize I was autistic for years upon years until I started learning about what autism is and realized I ticked most of the boxes lol.

  • Loki@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    12 days ago

    Wallahi my sleep schedule is cooked

    I finally deleted all the social media apps off my phone because my ADHD leads me to use that effortless means of dopamine instead of genuinely fulfilling things and it just got so absurd recently

    Im working on a map project for the near future (2050) if anyone has any cool ideas for countries and such in that scenario lmk

    Have a good Monday comrades and here’s an Evil for morale

    • ashestoashes@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      12 days ago

      That sounds cool! Mind explaining a bit more what you mean? Is it what you think the world will look like in 2050 or more just fun hyptotheticals that are unlikely? The sobering reality is industrialized society as we know it might not exist by then.

      • Loki@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        12 days ago

        It’s somewhere in between, I want it to be very grounded but also still considering some of the crazy shit that’s entirely possible.

        To be brief, it’s basically like Cyberpunk + The Fire Rises (HOI4 mod) + Pantheon, it’s a recovering post collapse world where most of the recovery is being facilitated by AI.

        It’s sort of like post cyberpunk, maybe urban solarpunk? If you lived in the US you wouldn’t have access to the same luxuries of globalization anymore, at least to the same extent, infrastructure would be crumbled, there would be no federal structure, but communities would still make do and build on top of the ruins of capital. Whereas cyberpunk is high tech low life this scenario would be high tech high life but no fucking infrastructure