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uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
I feel like I’ve seen this comment somewhere before
probably just my imagination
I think Bush or Biden said it by accident. Whichever one it was he meant Vietnam. No, I don’t know why the US keeps electing people who don’t know history and who think a map involves a brief sleep next to a mop.
I think in a speech Bush meant to say Ukraine was being unjustly invaded but accidentally said Iraq was being invaded.
Oooooh
(Edit: as in ‘crow’ not ‘boo’.)
he did, but I don’t see the relation to the root comment
I think Bush or Biden said it by accident. Whichever one it was he meant Vietnam.
I was responding to this part of the comment. I thought they were talking about the Ukraine/Iraq speech so that’s why I brought it up but maybe I’m mistaken.
maybe we’re all mistaken
And it’s all my fault. I was making a joke to make it sound like Biden or Bush had said something they shouldn’t say but would say because they are both gaff machines. But now I have caused all this turmoil and explained it so it’s not even funny anymore if it ever was. Thankfully we got to see a capybara emote out of so everything turned out well. Oh and we had chips for dinner.
More and more people are saying it every day.
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When politicians say that the state is inefficient at managing whatever stuff, arent they implicitely saying that they themselves are fucking incompetent?
For some reason, when I put my delinquent trust fund cousin in charge of the health department, they fuck up constantly. I love my cousin, therefore state bad. >:(
"Well we gutted the health department and now the public clinics are performing worse than private ones, clearly it means privatisation is the key to success "
Yes. However they are actually very competent and doing the stuff they want to do. They just need you to do know it is too hard for them to improve anything.
My place of work had a huge banner of Allende on the front of their building today
I wish we did stuff like that, but I live in Texas, so the closest we’ll get is someone flying the Chilean flag thinking it’s the Texas flag
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Goat-Santiago.
Fucking fantastic, yet another private “festival” has fenced off the public park near me, blocking access for 2 full months. And of course it’s never the public parks in richer areas that get taken over by this bullshit! These bastards enclose a supposedly public area and charge $30 a head to wander around a public fucking park looking at plastic pumpkins while listening to a mix of generic spooky music and Disney soundtracks. Not to mention they leave their garbage all over the place and tear up everything driving around in giant pickups. Yesterday I accidentally wandered into their cordon because they hadn’t finished fencing it and I had a couple dipshits escort me out by driving behind me to make sure I didn’t look at their shitty fake jack o’ lanterns.
Apologies for the rant but it pisses me the fuck off
What a bunch of assholes
Where is this?
I commented about this a few weeks ago as well, but there is an increasing crack problem starting in Antwerp and Brussels. It is seemingly coming out of nowhere and I wonder what’s the deal with it. Brussels is hit worse than Antwerp, maybe the cartels running Antwerp have something to do with it, idk. But it is becoming more mainstream every day.
It comes in handy for right wing parties because it mainly seems to affect refugees and homeless people, who are creating tense situations at busy places in the cities.
Drugs aren’t new. There’s a cocaine war going on in Antwerp, with a grenade explosion every other day. But crack is new and it was there all of a sudden.
The increase in economic hardship as a result of NATO’s war is a main cause I think, western Europe in particular is experiencing a lot of this and it’s feeding into right-wing talking points. It’s rough and likely is only going to get worse. Social democracy is rotting in real time.
Reaching conspiracy nutjob territory here but it would not surprise me in the slightest if one of the three letter agencies is dropping crack into minority communities again in order to promote a more right wing Europe as a US partner.
It’s been done before and will be done again. I don’t think it’s conspiracy nutjob territory at all to consider connections between the state, and organized crime/drug cartels.
That is what happened where I live. The CIA has admitted to part of it. So you know it has to go so much deeper if they were willing to go even that far
In America the cops flooded the streets with cheap Crack for fun and profit. They made some money, and they got to ask for budget increases to handle the problems. I have no reason to belive this is any different
@[email protected], I’m humbled by your ability to post lib-baiting truths
Like half your recent threads are drawing them out of the woodwork and I’m there for it
Glad to be doing Marx’s work 🫡
Ghost of Lemmygrad strikes again
If I ever become head of state in a communist dictatorship I’m banning humidity. It’s at 83% right now. Just sitting and slowly chewing my food makes me feel like standing in a shower.
yea humidity makes it awful. like i prefer a 40 degree temperature with low humidity than a 30 degree with high humidity. it fucking sucks taking a shower and coming out sweating 😂
Humidity also makes cold feel worse. For example -10C in Leningrad feels nightmarish, while the same temperature in, say, Kogalym would see people walking around with no hats
10C is already unbearable for me (with high humidity) 😂 people living under those conditions are built different fr
I went to Kashmir in August, it was 2 deg C. Man, it was chilling. -10 would be a death sentence for me 🤣
Is it normal temperature for this season in Kashmir?
Agreed.
It’s stuff like this that makes me realise how much better a head of state Thomas Sankara was than I’ll ever be though. Homie refused to use airconditioning in his office because it was considered a luxury in Burkina Faso.
I believe Suslov was another revolutionary figure who eschewed the privileges that he had access to on the grounds that if it was good enough for the masses then it’s good enough for him.
I am banning the sport cricket in India…I don’t know what’s wrong with this sub continent but most of the males are addicted to this colonial game of UK🇬🇧 and which requires you to spend 5+ hrs each game.
The first time I heard of cricket was as a child when reading Douglas Adam’s H2G2. It seemed so ridiculous I immediately assumed it was a fictive sport invented by the author. How wrong I was.
Also it’s not just India, it’s in a lot of places they managed to get their grubby colonialist mitts on
We dodged that one in Ireland and hold in contempt anyone who plays it. Somehow rugby made the cut.
But our Indian sub continent got the most addiction. Our corrupt cricket board get billions of USD from government , scams, advertisers. Most people are just glued to this sport for hundreds of hrs for no reason whatsoever. I will make a rule, any person watching even 1 minute of this match will get 100 lashes from the state. I know it’s Saudi Arabia style but that’s how you can remove the addiction.
There’s a lot of talk about getting the right insulation for your house so that you have to use less energy to heat it, but I think that, especially with global warming in mind, focussing on keeping the heat out in the summer should also be a priority. The past week we had a heat wave over here. It was ‘only’ 32 degrees but when you live in a swamp area the humidity is enough to completely wreck you. The city I live in is notorious for having 1) bad insulated houses and 2) having almost no green spaces to cool down in outside. Most squares are concrete slabs die to the concrete lobby having connections in the government. It is one of the hottest places in the country because of this, with a four degree difference in some areas. My bedroom has been at 31.5 C at night for the past week. I have a rash on my skin caused by the heat. Most people live in appartments without AC and without a garden to chill in. Green spaces outside and better housing conditions are a must, imo.
Anyway, new week, new left wing struggle. I sometimes feel as if I completely lose the plot of living a life because of politics. I’m at a point where I get envious if I see other people living life and just enjoying the mundane, regular life things. I wonder if taking a step back and touching some grass for a while is a good thing to do right now.
Wouldn’t good insulation also assist in keeping the heat out? Like a thermos
Yes good insulation helps with that. But something as easy as planting more trees in a street helps as well. Or getting people with gardens to remove tiles and swap them for greenery. I think we should also think about how designing the public spaces can help with conserving energy, cooling down a city, etc. Luckily more orgs are aware of this right now.
Time to live in caves again, best natural insulation
For some off grid climate leftists that seems to be an actual option lol
Concrete foam with a layer of rammed earth is what I hear are the best so fsr
I’m also wondering what’s going to happen with heating in general. In Germany for example heat pumps are all but required now for all new heating systems in homes. But why do we need to have one heater per home? District heating can be done far more efficiently than individual buildings, but it’s almost never considered. Of course companies can make a lot more money selling hundreds of thousands of gest pumps than they can building a few district heating systems. And those would again most likely be powered by fossil fuels, as existing ones outside of China and Russia are.
Anyway, I’ve just been thinking that there are alternatives, but instead profits and “individual responsibility” must be prioritized rather than the climate emergency.
They have district heating pumps in Workers and Resources, but I am really unfamiliar with the idea. Also it rarely gets cold enough here to require them (so I turn off weather patterns when doing a local build). Fascinated by the idea though. Probably better for apartment blocks than suburbs, which I also do.
Individual places can still be insulated and better designed. I’m worried about summer, am not enjoying our current number of 40+ degree days :(
Cooling more efficiently is definitely something we need to work on as well. I always imagine a symmetric system which can heat and cool using basically the same infrastructure, but I’m not sure how realistic that is.
District heating has been done, AFAIK, in small cities with smaller apartment blocks, big cities with apartment high rises, and suburbs and villages with primarily one or two family homes. It can also be used for industrial processes. I’m sure there are plenty of issues, such as energy losses during transport of heat from the source to the consumers, but nothing we can’t and haven’t overcome.
At its simplest, district heating just a central water heater for an area, where the hot water is then pumped into houses to heat water for local heating and hot water needs. It can also be combined with heat pumps on the consumption side to improve efficiency and reduce the need for a high temperature difference.
If it’s hot water, you can get water solar panels/rigs, too. Probably not too helpful in some places but many places get enough hours of sunlight to start the hot water going. On top of insulating the pipes, most of the heat lost on the way to the rooms might be gained by being able to start the heating at however many degrees higher than it would be if you pulled it straight out the ground. Also good for jacuzzis in the summer, when you’ll be getting 60°C+ water out the panels and nothing to heat except water for pots. It’s a luxury but only because water’s so expensive to heat and we’re aiming for luxury, aren’t we?
Good insulation is magical and it is one of thr best tithing science has given us and it makes me impossibly sad that we don’t use it everywhere
I hope you all have a nice week :D
oh yeah, well how about you have a nice week, how do you like that
Thank you Oppo you too
How was festival?
Festival was fun. Really nice weather, lots of interesting talks and people around. Great international food. I had a great time and managed to speak to a lot of people from around the world. I was looking for someone to wish me a nice week but unfortunately no one did.
I am afraid travel would have been a bit to expensive
You were there with me on my mind, that’s what counts
I hope you have a hard week and it makes you strong. Not like a hard week that makes you sad. Which has been most my hard weeks lately.
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It’s been an anniversary of the coup, hasn’t it?
Yeah, yesterday
¡Venceremos!
I think I’m becoming a tankie :( how did this happen. What have you people done?
At this point, I’m considering learning Android development just so that I can give myself access to the custom emoji picker.
that’s not an “official” emoji, it’s just based on one from Hexbear
the immortal science, it is compelling
Shitting on people from other countries for being right wing shits is the worst because they sound just like American conservatives but they can also screech at you about not respecting their values (I do not respect their values, and I wish to make them as acutely aware of this fact at least as hard as they wish to make me know they don’t respect mine)
I’m trying to assert myself here and there’s enough speed bumps within country lines. I don’t need even more beyond them
people like that are why we have pig poop balls
respecting their values
If you don’t feel like PPB, you could also force them to clarify what “values” they mean…
It’s the worst. They try to make you feel bad about it. Sucks for them bc id-much-gaf but there is a twang of pity as I realise they are probably just very very confused. Or a comprador but I don’t talk to many of them, so.
In a conflict between respecting other cultures and advancing homosexuality (even just to stick up for myself), I will always choose the latter over the former without hesitation. All else - and I do mean all else - is trivial to me
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please put the first image in a spoiler tag (because of the two slurs)
Would be hard to guess which site that was from if it wasn’t for the greentext/UI lol.
Don’t share images of slurs like that
Anarchists irl
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In one of the communities where our party is in the government we managed to make sanitary products for women’s periods free in schools and libraries and other public buildings. And people are mad about it somehow 😭😭
Like, how can you be mad at free shit man
that’s like being mad about toilet paper in restrooms
No. Don’t do that. Don’t give them ideas.
My company has a container of tampons in every men’s washrooms and most coworkers that have talked about this hate it and think it should be removed lmao
Like it’s literally just a tiny plastic tray of cotton? Man tf up Jesus
Probably because it reminds them of women’s periods and they are gross!!! Like those guys who refuse to buy said products for their partners, because that’s embarrassing.
