Happy International Workers’ Day! Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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My gf went to a museum the other day and proudly told me she had a souvenir for me. I came back today after a few days abroad and she gave me the gift. It’s a shirt that says BLACK COCKS lol. It’s so out of character for her as well.
Anyway, the sun is out and it’s a great Labour Day today. Lots of people on the streets.
she’s clearly referring to this
Very turgid
Wait what
I don’t know either lol
missed ya’ll, I’m doing slightly okay, but I’ll be fine
Long Live Communism! Long Live Marxism Leninism!
Who’s the mysterious downvoter?
Your dad. He’s a liberal 😔
Wish he was, he’s a weird mix of communist and racist/fash, basically a patsoc
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Wow that was a fast ban! Just curious, what did this user do?
From modlog: “don’t request an account just to harass people in DMs. Never request an account here again.”
Do posts from users disappear after a ban?
I don’t think so. I think wisconcom’s shit’s still up. I have no idea what they said for that comment to be removed.
IIRC the admin/mod can choose whether or not to delete the user’s posts and comments
Judging by the message on the comment, the user deleted it instead of a mod
Felis Uno de Mayo mis keridos haverim. ✊🏼 ❤️
( Happy may 1 my dear Comrades )
Am I drunk or is the media in complete radio silence regarding Sudan? Despite it being an all out civil war, with zero civil protection services and thus expected extremely high civilian casualties?
It’s in the news a lot over here, which mostly means the US is behind all of it and we Dutch/Belgian people now need to care as well.
in the West it’s obvious, but it’s also not being mentioned in Russian media?
I’ve been largely avoiding mainstream Russian media. The telegram channels I did look up, have some info, but obviously the focus is elsewhere
I start to hand out red flags to all comrades in the chat.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
Happy workers day! Reminder for all of us comrades to finding balance in doing some joyful activism, rather than always finding ourselves in angry lefty spaces.
Мир, труд, май!
Happy May Day! Today my outfit is going to try to mimic this.
Apparently Moscow Kremlin got attacked with a UAV last night. Video.
it appears someone is having fun downvoting all posts again, possibly an instance of liberal or Hoxhaist praxis
Let them waste their time, karma doesn’t even exist on Lemmygrad lmao
So what are the odds of US bourgeoisie jumping ship and just slapping a new label on themselves?
in what way?
Well right now, the richest people in the world (AFAIK) are USian. But it doesn’t appear that they have any sort of “patriotism” (for the lack of a better term) towards US as a country specifically. Rather, their loyalty is towards the system that allows their existence. They could move elsewhere, obtain new citizenship, perhaps even make some public statement criticizing the current government to gain some brownie points. After that - it’s back to business as usual, in a new place.
I’m sure they’ll try to hang on however they can for as long as possible, including moving to “emerging markets”, but when they can no longer instigate coups, steal resources, and abuse cheap labour, business as usual won’t be a possibility
instigate coups
These make comprador regimes easier, but there’s plenty of existing compradors to go around
steal resources
British empire is still stealing, no?
abuse cheap labour
Musk’s father abused labor in South Africa, then moved to USA and now Elon is doing the same there.
That’s basically what I mean. The “as long as possible” phase will only terminate after the worldwide socialist revolution, until then - does it truly matter which flag the bourgeoisie wave?
existing compradors
They need some way to materially support them, though. If they don’t have a foothold in a country, they can’t traffic arms, train terrorists, control the domestic media, etc.
British Empire
Yes, but it’s barely a threat compared to what it used to be, and it’s becoming less and less influential with time
Elon Musk
Yes, but at that time Amerika was the sole superpower, and that isn’t the case anymore. There also hasn’t been a time where a socialist country (China) was “in the lead” before, both in terms of domestic production and foreign policy. Capitalists can try to move to influential non-socialist countries like Russia, but I doubt they’ll be able to take over the government
Of course, capitalists won’t disappear until capitalism ends, but having a capitalist bloc doesn’t mean that imperialism will be able to continue (and that will hopefully speed up the rise of socialism in those countries as living standards fall). The flag they wave doesn’t really matter, but the dwindling possibility of imperialist exploitation does
very vocal critic of israel, chomsky met with ehud barack who is a israeli war criminal, why? any guesses
Even Dutch people realized that they can strike if they don’t agree with things. Last year it was the public transport, healthcare, teachers and now supermarket employees are blocking warehouses.
Albert Heijn employees keep striking and blocking the supply chain, leading to empty supermarkets. On top of that, Delhaize in Belgium (owned by same company) has already been striking for weeks now due to new policies made by the board. I hope they’re sweating already.
