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  • DankZedong
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    242 years ago

    Cryptobros have a funny mindset. They want to be their own banks and want the least amount of government interference. Yet when it goes bust (or the exchange goes bust) they want a refund lmao.

  • @boston_key_party@lemmygrad.ml
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    182 years ago

    I don’t have the bandwidth to keep up with conversations so whenever I open a can of worms I tell myself my next comment will close it and just stop posting for extended periods of time. Sorry about that. Maybe I should just stick to shitposting. I also told a friend I’d read 12 Rules for Life before I read any more revolutionary theory but I’m constantly reading theory on accident, especially if you count maoist blog posts.

    It’s also a struggle to abstain from bourgeois decadence because I’m never sure what counts and what doesn’t, and where self-care ends and weakness begins. I’ve got psychological holdovers from abrahamic religion that make me feel like Uncle Joe is watching me 100% of the time and judging me for not being a coward and otherwise not a good communist. Every time I buy something I feel like I’m betraying our comrades that died fighting in Stalingrad. Being alive at this time in history is… objectively better than any previous time but still annoying.

    I haven’t joined a party because I want to read enough theory to understand my own positions on everything so I don’t get chewed up and spat out in criticism sessions right away

    • ButtigiegMineralMap
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      112 years ago

      I kinda understand where you’re come from here. It’s not bad to buy things, otherwise us communists wouldn’t be arguing for better pay. It may be disappointing knowing where the money goes to, but honestly as long as you live in a capitalist state that’s what will happen. So don’t feel bad about Bourgeois decadence, chances are that you don’t have the capital to be bourgeois yourself, so end of the day you’re proletarian and treating yourself by buying Epsom Salts or nice soaps isn’t bad because you earned it, you work your ass off day in day out, nothing wrong with feeling nice afterwards. If you like wearing Jordans, do it because you like them and not because of advertising or commodity fetishization. If you simply enjoy the colors and the way they fit, who cares what someone else thinks at that point

    • @RedFields@lemmygrad.ml
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      82 years ago

      It seems to me that your way of thinking about this is rather unhealthy. We live in a captalist system in which you will have to buy something food, transportation, clothes, and so on. This is not a betrayal to the soviet soldiers that lost their lives fighting the facist dogs. We must do what we can to survive because a dead revolutionary is a non-factor in this struggle. You are merely another worker act like one instead of trying to separate yourself from them. Because right now what I am seeing is a flacid revolutionary sitting on high while the workers struggle on. Theory is useless without putting it into practice and as such you must join a vanguard party. This is going to be your school in which victory and defeat will come to teach you a million lessons. Remember comrade we are racing aganist the clock now as ecological collapse looms over us. We are running out of time comrade and we need as many as people as possible to bring this machine down. Less talk more work comrade day in, day out.

    • KiG V2
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      22 years ago

      Do whatever is necessary to make you an effective revolutionary. All human beings need to relax. We all have vices, all have pleasures, all have times where we “waste time”…but is it really wasted if it skipping it leaves you a burnt out husk? Husks are no good in wars.

      Lose the guilt! You are only a person, everybody has their faults and wanting wanting enjoy life a little is not a “fault.” Lose the sense that you need to be critic proof! If you trying to join an organization ends with you being ruthlessly criticized, the bad guys are the dingbats who wasted time scolding you, not you for not reading hundreds of tomes to feel worthy of being a communist; if you have a decent grasp on the fundamentals, this should be more than enough. I know damn well that even if a completely uneducated person tried to join an org that I ran, I would be delighted at the opportunity to educate, not pissed that someone isn’t up to my standard of ideological purity.

  • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
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    162 years ago

    Random idea I had. Not sure if it should be a post or an entire community, but we should have a location for a list of worker owned co-ops, etc to support. I recently bought some coffee from a co-op here in the US and it was great.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap
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      132 years ago

      I feel like 9gag is for people who tried Reddit, got kicked off for trying to be edgy, tried 4chan, got called a barrage of slurs, then went to 9gag.

  • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    142 years ago

    Conservatives are already trying to blame Monkeypox on China, using the same lab in Wuhan even. I’m starting to think the real conspiracy is trying to rally support for nuclear action on the mainland because of a “WMD threat”.

  • @Rafael_Luisi@lemmygrad.ml
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    142 years ago

    Have you guys seem how common “jew jokes” are on the internet? I swear its some type of nazi stereotype, and i find extremelly sus to see this type of “joke” at random on youtube. Does anyone know why this bordeline nazi stereotypes are so common? Why so many people say so casually that jews are aways rich money hungry greedy traders?

    • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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      102 years ago

      I’m pretty sure it’s a Nazi psy-op. Normalize “joking” about Jewish people being greedy and paranoid and also running the world. It doesn’t help that mainstream tv shows are doing it too, like Family Guy.

      • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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        72 years ago

        Yeah, I’ve also noticed this lately. Comes right after the “lumping Jewish people with Zionism” and “erasing Yiddish history and communism” too.

        I don’t like any of it one bit.

    • @pinkeston@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      idk but literally all the Jewish people I’ve met (n=~8) make them too lmao

      Not sure if it’s actually an acceptable thing or if the Jewish people I’ve met just wanted to lowkey humblebrag about their family’s wealth

  • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
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    122 years ago

    Has anyone read Xi Jinping’s Governance of China book? I’ve just started reading regularly and I’ve got a huge backlog, but I was wondering if it’s worth adding to the list?

    • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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      22 years ago

      It is! Though a bit overrated as there are other great translated work by Chinese intellectuals, academics, administrators, party-men-and-women, etc.

  • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    122 years ago

    Zelensky just got on the horn to give “thoughts and prayers” about the Texas school shooting. The comments are predictably a bunch of his fans talking about how great he is.

    I don’t know why, but seeing that Nazi puppet try and take the moral high ground makes me very angry. Plenty of atrocities in your own country, by your own guys, to address you heinous person.

  • KiG V2
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    122 years ago

    Debating taking an edible tomorrow because hashtag why not, but I fear I will just tweak out and waste the time. However, I also need to do something fun and shake things up a little.

    I’ll check this tomorrow, even upvotes/downvotes number is a no. Odd number upvotes/downvotes is a yes. Net zero I will take twice the amount of edibles that I should. We shall let the mercy of our lord and savior Complete Luck decide.

    • @pinkeston@lemmygrad.ml
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      72 years ago

      If you get too high peppercorn works great to sober up quickly

      Either chew like 3-10 whole ones up a bit before swallowing or grind them up and lay them on your tongue a bit before swallowing

      • KiG V2
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        12 years ago

        I can’t seem to find my original post (maybe I broke a rule?) but thank you for your concern and the tip! I ended up doing it but I maxed 3/10, nothing crazy. Bless

  • Arsen6331 ☭
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    2 years ago

    Here’s a nice tip: Don’t spend multiple hours debugging a microcontroller only to realize you didn’t specify which pins should be used for I²C. (I definitely did not do this for sure)