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General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 50 - Syrian Solidarity Edition (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.

On Sunday last week, Damascus fell to Salafi terrorists and other imperialist-aligned forces. Regardless of the flaws of the ousted government, this is a horrible situation for the Syrian proletariat as well as for the people of Palestine, Lebanon and others. We can only hope for the perseverance of the Syrian workers and the remaining anti-colonial resistance.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

(rabm) is red anarchist black metal. shitheads don’t know what red means there lmfao.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Authoritarianism", god I hate that word. Gotta be one of the top most reductionist, misused words there is. I'm not gonna say everybody who uses it as a negative also supports some kind of imperialist/fascist/colonizer project, but it sure is common. And among those who view it as a purity thing, that opposing it is some kind of freedom from the confines of overreach in authority, they miss that there's no human society without forms of authority and that the countries they usually think "were supposed to be liberating communist projects and aren't" actually are democratic. One of those symptoms of when somebody realizes the imperialist country they live in is shit, but they still believe its propaganda about other countries.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

"Anarchists" who never read a book on anarchism. "They don't want to control power, they want to critique power"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

muric*nts do anything to spread propaganda

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

what is palestinian authority function in this crisis?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Aren't they controlled by Zionists?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Imagine Vichy France but they are also running death squads that kill partisans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

protest in ROK today

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Love this tiny bit of theory from an old Soviet film about the revolution, between Tanya the nurse and the political comissar Ignatyich:

Tanya: Listen, Ignatyich... Why isn’t there Soviet power abroad? Are they stupid?

Ignatyich: Go to sleep.

Tanya: But how come, Ignatyich?

Ignatyich: Seems they don’t have the strength for it. And they live better than we do. They're not desperate enough, haven’t ripened for it yet.

It's a great film, shame there doesn't seem to be a version with English subtitles on YT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

📢 Today is the 35th birthday of the Hungarian Workers' Party. Happy birthday and keep going! 🇭🇺

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I have a very, very, very strong feeling that the complaints about how Gen Alpha is "ruined by screens, entitlement, permissive parenting" is nothing but nonsense that is not very different at all from how previous generations were complained about. They even complained about "today's youth" in ancient Greece, Egypt, and Sumer!

It's an outdated mindset that I sadly see all around me, even among many progressives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Idk I guess you could make a point about screens. I read the other day about how there is an increase of children with eyesight problems probably caused by sitting too close to a screen from a young age. Also, some of the content for kids is literal brainrot lol.

But I guess that then just boils down to what content they consume and not just screens in general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I think there's a little truth in both. It was hard to sit eye-to-eye with old school CRT monitors and such. But nowadays we have 4k, full resolution, bright plasma tv screens with more and more details that even I noticed I have to sit closer to "take it all in".

Brain rot existed even far back then. Howdy Doody show? Watching it now is almost hilarious because it just makes zero sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Remember when when everyone said T.V. would rot kids brains? All the people who grew up watching T.V. are now saying Phones will rot kids brains. Either they have brain rot or they are making shit up just like their parents and grandparents did.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a cool experience to see so many union members dressed in red going to Brussels today. A big wave of red just cramming into a train, proper working class people✊🏼

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

never underestimate labor unions

Too much of the left does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In What is to be Done Lenin warned about overestimating the revolutionary potential of labor unions.

Labor unions are a great staging ground for agitation and radicalization but they are not revolutionary by nature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I'm already aware.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Tomorrow I will join a general strike in Brussels against the government. Excited to see what will happen. Might be a good networking opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Some criminals allegedly targeted a shop in the city of The Hague with explosives and they managed to explode an entire block of appartments instead. Multiple people died.

An 8 year old boy survived but lost his parents and sister in the explosion. The boy is of Chinese origin and the Dutch Chinese community stepped in to help raise money for him.

People find a way to be racist about this. Maybe some people are beyond redemption.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What the absolute fuck is going on in Europe? This sounds like a farfetched heist movie!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Netherlands and Belgium are major drug trafficking hubs, mostly due to hosting Europe's biggest ports. Drug gangs doing hits on eachother is not unheard of. In my city for example you often have grenade attacks on houses. But it's not entirely sure this is drug related.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm just missing it but I must wonder why that doesn't make the international news so much. Must be a bit scary to live there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Probably it doesn't make it to the news because it will ruin Europe's image of being the dream place(very different to my homr country Mexico where news about cartel fights are hears everywhere in the world). Same as what happens with the "American dream" being promoted to latin americans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

That does explain things, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What does Juche 113 mean and why is it used here? Thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

It is referencing the Juche calendar which beings with Juche 1 in 1912, Juche being essentially Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics, an application of Marxism specific to the Korean condition from my understanding but maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in I'm not well versed there.

It's a tradition to refer to the date in the Juche calendar from the old reddit r/GenZedong weekly discussion sticky that carried over to here as far as I am aware

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Anyone know how I can find my own DMs on here?

Edit: Found them— bell icon, messages, all.

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