Comrades Please sit down, take a celebratory box of Cuban cigars and a bottle of Cuban Rum, so we may Celebrate Cuban Liberation Day together 🇨🇺 ! As Comrade Castro said “If you smoke, you can smoke them; if you have any friends who smoke, you can share with them; but the best thing you can do with this box of cigars is give them to your enemy”, we do have donation boxes for the Yankees, Zionists and Fascist at the front.

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Oh, and I have also been informed I should to wish you a happy new year, and a good Juche 113, but lets be honest, we are all here for Cuban Liberation day right?

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I am planning on making a thread later about abusive parenting before, during, and after the Third Reich, with a link to an examination of Adolf Schicklgruber’s childhood. I’m sure that somebody reading this is going to groan since psychohistory has often been a misleading attempt to explain everything, but my conclusion may surprise you.

      • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago
        Because saying his actual name makes me feel dirty and vile. It almost makes me want to reach for some mouthwash.

        Although there is another reason:

        There are many weird twists of fate in the strange life of Adolf Hitler, but none more odd than this one which took place thirteen years before his birth. Had the eighty‐four‐year‐old wandering miller not made his unexpected reappearance to recognize the paternity of his thirty‐nine‐year‐old son nearly thirty years after the death of the mother, Adolf Hitler would have been born Adolf Schicklgruber.

        There may not be much or anything in a name, but I have heard Germans speculate whether Hitler could have become the master of Germany had he been known to the world as Schicklgruber. It has a slightly comic sound as it rolls off the tongue of a South German. Can one imagine the frenzied German masses acclaiming a Schicklgruber with their thunderous “Heils”? “Heil Schicklgruber!”?

        Not only was “Heil Hitler!” used as a Wagnerian, paganlike chant by the multitude in the mystic pageantry of the massive [Fascist] rallies, but it became the obligatory form of greeting between Germans during the Third Reich, even on the telephone, where it replaced the conventional “Hello.” “Heil Schicklgruber!”? It is a little difficult to imagine.

        (Source.)

    • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      It’s okay. I think the bulk of it’s popularity comes from Omni-Man and the Viltrumites so interest will probably drop off if they don’t appear for too long.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    The Belgian government is going to buy 94 electric busses from Chinese company BYD and libs on reddit are losing it, because they could have also chosen a Belgian company. They are mentioning VDL as a possible manufacturer which is strange because VDL isn’t Belgian either, it’s Dutch lol. And VDL also only delivered 2 out of 24 busses the government has ordered so far.

    Cope. Seeth. Cry.

    • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      I want to change my opinion on this to show how utterly stupid the government is here. There are actual Belgian companies producing busses. A company like Van Hool has been making them for 75 years now. They have the capacity for it. 65% of the 2300 Van Hool employees are currently on temporarily unemployment, meaning that the company doesn’t have enough work for their employers. The state pays their wages for now. Every month.

      The reason they chose BYD is because they were a bit cheaper. But the societal costs far outweigh the money saved it seems. This is the same government that urges everyone to ‘buy locally as much as possible’. Idiots.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    In Belgium we made it four whole days before we got to the first case of femicide of the year. I guess we have to keep up the statistic of 1 woman murdered in every 2 weeks.

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        I’ve read that roughly 75% procent of women that get murdered are murdered by someone close to them, compared to 13% of the men that get murdered. The issue seems to be domestic violence, misogyny, gender inequality or LHBTQ+ hate. The Reddit thread about this murder was full of men whining that men are more often the victim of murder, which is true. But they fail to see that the reasons that men get murdered are often different (crime being one of the biggest reasons).

        With things like this it gets pointed out that, akshually, women hate men so much that they deem themselves more important than the men getting murdered. But feminist orgs aren’t doing this. They are only asking for more legal options to prevent femicide from happening. If men getting murdered bothers you this much, maybe start your own campaign to tackle men related problems?

        • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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          9 months ago

          This is the real whataboutism—

          Women get murdered.

          Can we stop murdering women, please?

          Reactionaries:

          What about all the murdered men? Why do you hate them?

          Of course, reactionaries don’t necessarily want any less murdering, men or women. Otherwise, as you say, they’d start other campaigns. But reactionaries, unquestioning of their political economic environment, don’t stop to think why there’s no impetus to prevent murder: it would make things too safe for minorities, and it would undermine the justification for so much surveillance and police militarisation. There’s too much money in the murders that happen. The ruling ideas on murder prevention are, unsurprisingly, the ideas of the ruling class.

          • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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            9 months ago

            Yup. A few days ago a woman contacted the press about her stay in a safe house. She escaped an abusive husband to stay there the bill got to 3000 euro for a couple of weeks. You either are rich and pay it, are desperate and pay it or you keep staying with the abuser. It’s messed up.

            • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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              9 months ago

              Tragic. It’s the same elsewhere, I fear. But if you started providing affordable safe homes or properly subsidising housing for domestic abuse, it might eat into landlords’ and banks’ profits (it wouldn’t, actually, as it would just provide another way of filtering public money into private hands, but this would piss off the petite bourgeois). There are some good women’s centres but they’re so underfunded they can only do so much.

  • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Just found out an old friend of mine passed away a couple of months ago. Saw him for the first time in a while (pandemic, ect) earlier last year and it was clear he wasn’t doing well. Wish I had put more effort into trying to hang out with or talk to him.

    Reach out to your homies folks, its a lonely world out there