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Make sure to watch the 80th anniversary event of the Red Army’s victory, if you can!
Just finished reading The Vegeterian by Han Kang. I think more people should read it but to say it was a fun book goes too far. Disturbing is a better word I guess.
Ultimately it is a critique of the societal role of women in (Korean) society. Also important was the idea that the ultimate enforcer of societal roles is violence and that those who will reject it will be subjected to violence, while at the same time receive another form of violence for not rejecting it.
Gringo pope is an hilarious outcome at this point in time, anyone knows anything about him?
A maga pope could cause some serious fractures within the latin american catholic base.
Wikipedia said he defended pedophiles
thats prob true for every single catholic church fella
To the absolute shock of nobody
Cuban Telegrams are having mixed reactions for this pope. Looks like we will have to wait and see what could be discovered out of this new pope…
Gathered all of my coworkers to discuss the making of a plan to undermine our management as our working conditions are horrendous. And we did come up with a proposal. If they won’t listen or the answer isn’t okay for us, we will take further action. And if that doesn’t work, we will deny them their authority and start working on our own agreed upon terms.
Gotta love a good worker uprising don’t we.
The union workers must know how to strike right
Wouldn’t be a leftist org without some infighting
Socdes over here launched a campaign for Palestina all of a sudden only to vote against pro Palestinian measures in parliament
Death to fucking America.
Sooner rather than later
"Amongst the flowers I
am alone with my pot of wine
drinking by myself; then lifting
my cup I asked the moon
to drink with me, its reflection
and mine in the wine cup, just
the three of us; then I sigh
for the moon cannot drink,
and my shadow goes emptily along
with me never saying a word."
There’s nothing funnier than going into an unpopular opinion thread and then seeing people get mad at a take they don’t agree with
anyone kinda worried about india-pakistan spat turning hotter?
thanks britain for royally fucking the world
I have some fear about it, but then, I also have fears about a lot of things. In general, it feels hard to muster much headspace for it with everything else going on in the world. Plus like, I don’t even really understand it and I don’t want to do a bothsidesism unfairly, so there’s not much for me to do with the information coming out about it.
Anyone think there is a reason they’re reopening Alcatraz? Sure, drumpf saw it on TV or what not but I am now thinking of the reasons a offshore black-site near San Fran could offer.
Then again, there’s probably a couple of black-sites all over the country, so what’s the point of this big, shiny one outside of a huge city? Intimidation? My mind went to it being a convenient way to do mass deportations by shipping them down if they can’t get air-access or other concerns (cheaper/more could be deported by boat)…except only 300 something could be held there at a time.
What is the actual point of this? Is this genuinely an “idiot” moment?
One of the most insane titles just dropped in Dutch news. One of the news outlets says this (translated): ‘Dubious plan of Israel: it seems that Palestinian presence in Gaza nears its end’
Palestinian. Presence. Nears. Its. End.
What the fuck
Being disabled is terrible. Everybody thinks less of you, don’t want to be your friend, date you and don’t think you’re worth listening or talking to. Sometimes I even get bullied.
No matter where I go, I get less respect than others. I feel like I’m not human.
At least I’m able to talk more about how this hurts me, and it helps a bit.
That is the same experience that I have as a child in the family of victims of Communism who embrace the very toxic brutal authoritarian practices that supposedly victimize them. The teaching of my extended family of victim of communism in the Hong Kong Canadian community is that repression is self-inflicted, that the repressor only repress bad people, and that repression is always avoidable. This principles should be a red flag that the victims of Communism were never victims of human rights violations. In fact, my father, who is a pastor of a curropted Protestant Christian church, boost that armed gangster boogymen rule Canada and that everyone should obey thugs and delinquents to gain favor from armed gangsters. He preached that even the police will not arrest armed gangsters and that the police will knowingly arrest innocent people under the commands of armed gangsters. The local Canadian community all side with the ableist people because of the political privilege of victim of Communism.
I think one of the things that disgusts me the most is that what you do is never enough. Not for the govt, not for any job you MIGHT get; you’re always expected to go above and beyond despite your own physical limitations in the economy we live in. But not too far.
I’m sorry people treat you that way. You don’t deserve it.
I don’t ever want to hear straight men talk about how others are insecure or whatever as they themselves constantly find themselves amazed by a dude that yells at them that ‘LIONS HUNT, YOU ARE A LION’ and then find themselves dipping their face and their nuts in an ice bath at 4 am. Real clown shit my dudes.
Ice bath at 4am is great for getting sober before work; that’s about it though.
The ruling neolib party in Belgium, N-VA, is finally having a moment of infighting regarding Palestine. Some of em can’t look away anymore.
Don’t worry, their consciences will be soothed by the direct deposit notification hitting their account when a political donation goes through.
