Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Sit down in that squeaky rocking chair over there. Have some hot cocoa. That’ll be fifty yuan. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory (and other books), you can use z-lib, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.
Commemoration of the Nanjing Massacre in Hong Kong schools today. This is the first time the anniversary of the event has been mandatorily commemorated in schools in HK.
It’s a good change compared to previously where some even taught that the British and Japanese invasions were to bring “civilisation and modernity”
So I have this course on diversity and when I tell people about it, they just laugh because they don’t take it seriously.
But in my eyes it is an absolutely crucial course to have for everyone and it should be taught in elementary or high school.
It really opens my eyes on how we as a society treat people that aren’t cishet white. And it also raises some very interesting discussion between class mates and professors.
Being inclusive and diverse for your activist org is incredibly important.
Arguably people laugh it off because they instinctively know it’s libcringe. And even libs are allergic to libcringe
That’s the thing. It’s less libcringe that you’d image. It uses pretty radical examples. I think it’s because my professor is an Iranian woman that is pretty radical herself. She encourages us to advocate our Marxist viewpoints in class.
Well that is both surprising and cool
Based!
Based!
based class
huh
kids are alright
How is diversity and inclusion libcringe exactly?
In short: not by themselves, but by the way the course is bound to present them. It’s like the difference between Marxist feminism and modern liberal feminism. Dig?
I sort of get this, because even in the countries who are “inclusive” they do it through a liberal lens. Its not a bad thing through and through, though (god I hate english) since it was only by efforts of the working class and our socialist ancestors that any of these things are done.
stahp
No. Wtf are you talking about?
Different underlying philosophy. Diversity or feminism as espoused by liberal mainstream is metaphysical in nature. Things are what they are, and they do not change. Everything fits in these neat tiny boxes.
Dialectic approach understands that things are subject to processes and change.
I understand that on the surface my comment seems that I’m just going “yuck, diversity”. That is not the case.
Any liberal analysis is inevitably going to be much worse than a materialist one, but even a watered down, capitalism-friendly discussion about systemic exploitation (without mentioning economic class) is a good thing from my perspective, especially if it leads to better analysis later on. It’s probably easier to radicalize people who are already aware of structural oppression on the basis of race/gender/etc.
Okay cool thanks for the clarification 👍
As in e.g. the waves of feminism going from first wave for the bourgeois, 2nd wave for the academics, third wave to include black and lesbian women and 4th(ish) to include all women. Feminism adapted to meet the needs and develop as a movement for equality in patriarchal society but this is rarely understood through a Liberal lens, that’s what we are referring to?
wheat
I see to much of this outside… I am surrounded by wheat and corn… Not even on my computer can I escape from the grains.
Have you ever been interested in a giant spoon? I’d think it would be a great investment for you!
It is my life’s purpose to discover the resting place of Stalin’s original Giant Spoon, it is the Holy Grail of MLs and would grant me an immense power…
Could be worse. Could be suburban sprawl.
True, I’d rather live homeless in a cornfield then in a 50’s American suburban nightmare
yeah, suburbia is awful
Is it bad?
No, not in isolation. But when all you see is grain then it can become a bit maddening.
Time for Stalin to eat it all.
Nice
Thanks to an unidentified Romanian tankie for this week’s picture 👌
Reminds me of this vid
Fun vid, even if those guys are pretty lib
Shame Ireland’s slipping further and further into the Imperial core, after all they did to escape it.
Here are links to Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:
this bot gets my coveted stamp of approval
Thanks, it’s my bot. It’s currently misbehaving and leading to my IP being rate limited. I’m going to need to fix that, probably by switching to the WebSocket API, for which I’ll need to add support to my
go-lemmylibrary.Definitely use a websocket connection instead of repeatedly polling the server with requests.
Bot should be using WS now. Testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYe3Cv_pUI&t=12s
Here are links to Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:
Yes, that’s what I intend to do. I avoid polling at all costs whenever possible. The problem is it’s a bit more difficult to implement and use the WS api in Go because of how it’s structured, so I decided to implement polling first.
Internet Archive also has reading lists such as this one:
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
^ This person saved over 1,200 books from oblivion; a lot of these are out of print and have been for decades.
“Yeah, I support the troops (internet archivists).”
Mega oof.
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What?
oh was the oof sarcastic? i read it as serious
It was a bit serious.
Archivists do good work. I’m just parodying american hyper-patriotism.
holy shit! So much reading material! are they translated?
Yes.
Happy monday comrades here is to another productive week.
As a side note I got diagnosed with ADHD last week and have begun treatment (medication/therapy) after struggling heavily with it for a number of years. Already feeling such a difference, actually somewhat optimistic about my life for once.
Yeah! Same here when I started getting treatment. What are you taking? Adderall? That alone helped me immensely and it’s not even the most powerful treatment for ADHD.
Also, here you go, just in case you need it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpB-B8BXk0
Definitely look at out to utilize your ADHD and how it works online.
Thanks for the link I will check it out after work. I got prescribed biphentin which has been great the controlled release really helps. Pretty cheap too which is nice.
Actually just so excited to accomplish stuff now lol
Yeah, mine helps me with something as simple and fun as playing video games.
Dr. Barkley is a god among men. Nothing but a positive influence on the ADHD community.
Yeah!
Here are links to Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:
It gets better, comrade, I swear it! You know the problem now, or at least the root of some issues, and now you can properly tackle them in any way you see fit!
Someone called me less manly today because I don’t eat meat and eat a lot of vegetables lmao. Like you could be 6ft1 180 lbs minding your own business, eating your veggies, and some guy still feels the need to try to be a tough guy or something.
Being manly is eating dead animals.
I hate masculinity and I identify as male so whatever.
I’m coincedentally looking for gifts I want to receive this Christmas, after my mom has been pushing for me to make a list for weeks now, and so I went on to websites of some stores I visit often. I choose ‘for him’ and it’s books on how to BBQ, meat knives, whacky nerd shit like star wars, something about fires or stuff, alcohol etc. I then went over to the ‘for her’ section and it was herbs and spices, a garlic press, how to make your own cooking oil, vega(n) cook books, basically stuff I actually want lol.
Like, I’m a man. I’ve always identified as a man. But my god could the whole ‘for him’ section of a lot of stores use an upgrade. Give me my rack where I can put my herbs and spices on, damn it.
Yeah, that’s exactly how I feel.
Like, I’m a man, but I’m not a “beardo” or have a triangular physique.
I’m a small person and that’s how I imagine myself as and that’s how I imagine some of the characters that I create for my fictional novels.
But now everyone in fiction has a beard or looks “swole” or whatever.
I like people who are slight or even small, like myself IRL.
Hell, whenever I played a video game, it was always as someone who had a slight build and was a “thief” or “assassin” or whatever sneaky class I could play as, if I had the option.
Ngl but If you can eat an alive animal I don’t care what gender you are, that’s pretty metal.
Manliness is when no fiber and chronic constipation.
Am I the only tankie who doesn’t like to read/ write entire walls of texts?
I’m not always in the mood to read but one thing I really like here is that people are willing to go into great detail to make their point clear. Reddit in particular is filled with people that condense complex issues into a one paragraph argument, failing to mention crucial details.
The world is complex and it needs complex explanations sometimes.
Aye, probably it’s on me that text walls are associated with ranting
Yeah, I get that.
Rambling? No
Theory? Still usually no, but I do it anyway
How will you read theory then?
That’s the only thing I’m willing to read
lol Word.
I prefer books.
You can learn techniques for reading, btw. Something as simple as highlighting the text every time you read can do wonders, along other techniques or “hacks.”
No
Aight. I had thought that that was our trademark.
It depends on how interesting it is. If it’s dry and boring, my ADHD will never let me read the whole thing. If it’s interesting, it will be difficult to stop me from reading it.
Writing them is about the same. I write absolutely massive, well written walls of text about interesting technical topics, but try to make me write something about anything I don’t find interesting, and I’ll struggle to write a single word.
In fact, my brain often actively resists reading and writing uninteresting things. For example, I have had numerous times where I had to write a school essay and literally forgot how to write an essay right when I sat down to do it, then remembered the second I stopped doing it, and forgot again when trying to do it again. I’ve also had numerous books I was being forced to read (like 1984, unfortunately), where I forgot the meanings of words while reading, and forgot all the context as if I never read it, essentially meaning I never made any progress. I ended up getting an F in English class and just stopped caring after a while.
Indeed. There are things I really like to write about afterall, but I usually break them down into short paragraphs and interact with the inquirer.
Does anyone know any good news sources for China and the DPRK that aren’t just RFA propaganda/bourgeois BS?
For China, there’s always CGTN, Global Times, etc., but they’re obviously going to be positively biased
I’ll try checking those more, do you know any for the DPRK? Only one I know is the KCNA.
unfortunately not 😔
god I had a bunch just the other day, some with translated book pdfs straight from the DPRK itself. Can’t find them right now comrade.
If you find them let me know.
I will comrade
Any update, comrade?
Bruh I found out I was an egg while in the fucking Yugopnik discord
Im never living that down
“Hey when did you realise?”
“Have you heard of the deprogram?”
Is that the world-renowned podcast featuring an Amerikan, a Slav and an Iraqi???
IT FUCKING MIGHT BE!!
NOO, THE LIGHT! You have allowed light to infiltrate my room! How dare you do this? Are you being paid by big light to intentionally infiltrate the surroundings of chronic dark mode users and hurt their eyes? I cannot believe you’ve committed this terrible injustice against dark mode users everywhere.
Sensible reaction
Have a nice week everyone
Thanks. Have you seen the weather in Moscow? Wild
Seems rough. It’s getting colder here as well unfortunately (or not, I mean it’s supposed to be colder). A big test for many with turning on the heating and all.
Here in the states we’re having a massive cold storm going across the country it seems. Sometimes living in the south has its benefits lol, my family up north aren’t excited.
Good luck!
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Dank
IT’S STRIKE DAY BOISSS
Half the country is down and I’m striking as well. Good times.
How’s it going so far?
Time to play Grain Eater’s theme song.
what a thrill
G R A I N
E A T E R
Here are links to Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:
Thnx ig
The links are to the same video, but on Invidious, for people who don’t want to use YouTube. Maybe I should clarify that.
Oh thanks
😏
I’m at the Indian restaurant watching Argentina Croatia and we are all rooting for Argentina, its a vibe (they just did a gol BTW 1-0)
Edit: 2-0 Edit: 3-0 🎉🎉
rip Space Cowboy
not again 😰
last time I spoke to them they mentioned they had some personal things to deal with, so hopefully they’ll eventually make another account
