Welcome everybody to the weekly Tradition of our group our Weekly Discussion Thread. This week I have no witty clip or introduction as none seem appropriate, all I have is anger and sorrow.
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I always feel really wierd, class wise…
Like…I’m not super poor. Obviously I have internet, a house, electronics, and I don’t have to work part time to afford college (with scholarships)
But…sometimes I feel really poor too. But I can never tell what poor I am. Like, I have a friend who is transferring and he was talking about how his parents will be paying A TON more in tuition than i am.
And ive talked about it before where last year I felt really, really ashamed about my mom not having an important job like everyone else in the class (She works as a laborer while everyone else had parents who worked as lawyers or dentists or upper managers, etc.) And like…logically I shouldn’t, i know that. I don’t think anyone else cared either, but for some reason having to say that just made me feel really ashamed for some reason.
I think I just feel like I don’t fit in either world. I’m too “artsy” (for lack of a better term) and effeminate and privileged to really feel working class, but too limited and stressed to feel super privileged either.
I’m not asking for a ton of sympathy, i just wanted to get these thoughts out, because my emotions are involuntary so i wanna know why I have them
I feel this too sometimes but it’s important to remember that the idea of working class being exclusively manual, blue collar workers is a very intentionally created image created by people who are not working class
hello everyone. tankiethedeprogram ACP mod drama is actually so insane. on a minor level considering everything but like, what’s going on… if this is seriously some sort of psyop (which i dont like to accuse liberally bc it takes away from honestly evaluating how many ppl organically come into shitty beliefs, absolutely not saying that psyops do not happen on a far broader scale than most people imagine) that’s like. fucking crazy
mod in question was on r/asksocialists agreeing with post that said transgender people on left were degenerates oh woah it might be over
Update on the r/TankieTheDeprogram drama: The ACP mods have been kicked out! Their offensive didn’t even last 24 hours against the Tankies. We are yet to hear from the head mod u/Alexitine about this failed infiltration attempt.
I’m so looking forward to March Madness…this silly, ridiculous basketball tournament makes me feel like a kid in the best ways. Watching these intense finishes and upsets with my friends, driving to the games in college, watching these 20 year olds have this sudden and fleeting moment of fame.
It’s extremely exploitative, especially before NIL. And the whole thing rakes in millions of gambling dollars every year… but it reminds me of childhoods greatest moments
Happy International Women’s Day, comrades. We hold up half the sky.
women? more like, “woahman” because women are amazing 😎
i spent like a good 10 minutes refreshing this site looking for the soviet women/american women quote and it didn’t work today but i was gonna send that to my friend for womens day
Happy International Women’s Day!🌹
I hate seasonal allergies with a burning passion. And the burning passion being my eyes and lungs.
issa march 8th, everybloody!
happy women’s day! i know this is an important day to most of you since it’s one of the traditions that are linked to socialism. we celebrate it here in romania
HAPPY WOMENS DAY!
HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!!!
Is it just me, or are error messages commoner on Lemmygrad than they used to be?
Thankfully they tend to be brief, but they are annoying all the same.
traffic is way higher than normal.
Definitely for me. I’m assuming some of it is the servers having higher load from people checking in on Iran news.
“Hmmm…load” - Dr. Hakim.
Hexbear seems to not be federating properly with Lemmygrad
just noticed that too, must be something with the new 0.19.16 version. 1.0 is getting close to coming out so hopefully it will be resolved by then
did some poking around, hb can see everything we’re posting but we cant see anything from hb
Small motor rally in memory of Stalin
stumbling onto cryptofash website is the weirdest thing ever.
ETA: the reason why i stumbled there was bc it was first page result when i was looking for data on how many people watched nayirah testimony aside from wikipedia (later referred to wikipedia’s citation instead since i couldn’t find much) and there was a site that looked fairly obscure and small. click and it’s talking about israel… okay… weird about it, but sometimes people who have fair critiques of israel are also antisemitic and weird (which is wrong, but usually their factual content on israel is right) so i read their article on nayirah testimony. hey this language is weird. go to About. trheres a statue. im like oh no. neoclassical aesthetics. proceed to read most heinous thing ever.
trying to read on nayirah testimony and my two options are “cultural marxism and jewry are evil pollutants” and democracy now hard “uyghur genocide is real” agenda. yes the factual contents for both on the nayirah testimony are right but their frameworks are sooooooooo stupid (i mean demnow is better than blogspot that has 10 likes, one of which has SS logo profile picture, but)
wait this sounds so lenient to the cryptofash website byy comparing it to demnow. it’s like saying azov is like amnesty intl. like yes amnesty IS stupid as hell butlike. at least ‘well intentioned’ even though it still says dumb shit or furthers capitalist aims (DPRK propaganda, back then supporting the words of nayirah testimony though they revoked that, uyghur genocide myth.) like i did not properly articulate this but it’s a genuinely repulsive thing to see and it makes your stomach roil and demnow is not at least on that level of explicitly backwards corrosive and evil ideology even if ultimately it supports neoliberal world order/‘liberal democracy’. the other people are open eugenicists
It’s really funny that “dark woke” Azov Something did a really thrash video giving horribly thrash dating advice while complaining that “the Left” failed “young men” (by not indulging their reactionary need to prove themselves as men through pick up artistry), when three years ago Shaun already did an actually quite good video giving advice for young men, including dating advice but also a lot of general self-growth advice. It’s like the embodiment of left-aesthetic reactionaries in video form, absolutely refusing to feel uncomfortable with their own internalised misogyny, pampering their male egos, and thinking they’re cured of all it just by declaring themselves “dark woke” or some other inane shit. He even opens the “advice” section pretending it isn’t solely dedicated to heterosexual men, like non-het non-male dynamics are just drop-in replacements. In Portuguese we even have a word for this kind of redwashed pick up artist, “Esquerdomacho” (lefto-male? “Sexism” in Portuguese is “machismo” so the word has that connotation too).
It’s gross, and the attached 91-page lefto-PUA manual is extra gross, but also funny in how bizarre it is. I feel every paragraph is huge screenshot-worthy “WTF”. Like “first dates only from Monday to Thursday”? My guy, what do you think is the point of weekends for employed people? Dreadful stuff.
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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If only nuclear proliferation was easier. I know people say “just get nukes” but enrichment is a really, really hard and energy intensive task. It’s very hard to hide a centrifuge.
Talking about nation-states here, not personal centrifuges, feds. /s
I have no party and I must revolt 🤐
