Welcome Welcome, please make yourself at home, have a chocolate milkshake. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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I’m having my first week off of work since July and I feel like it was much needed. I’ll be making plans for my upcoming move and I will travel with my friend’s van for a few days. This weekend I spent visiting my gf’s dying grandfather in the heart of the Dutch Bible Belt. The contrast with my daily life was interesting to say they least. Yesterday I had an Easter brunch with friends and we visited a gay couple’s city garden next to a church where they planted a lot of different herbs with which they served tea. It was a lovely place.
Anyway, I feel more alive now. I hope you all have a nice week.
ATTENTION CITIZENS OF GRAAD
hi
This is actually so…I don’t have the words for it. Feeling a pit in my stomach. The combination of the picture and the “temporarily closed” when they know full well what’s going on just makes me want to cry.
Nitter is dead, right? How should I go about accessing Twitter now?
What happened to Nitter?
Twitter changed their API and killed the service purposefully.
I shouldn’t be surprised anymore. Invidious instances are being hit too.
dont, its the sign that you should leave twitter for good
Fuck Albert Camus, one of the worst modern French philosophers. Literally, it is the definition of first-world problems in philosophy
Cope + boulder is not rolling itself
I want to create my own Wikipedia-like repository of knowledge.
Look into Obsidian.
3 months deep into unemployment, I feel like I’m going crazy, stuck in the house, no cash, lots of noodles and ham sandwiches. I think I’ve eaten more ham sandwiches in the last month than I have my entire life.
Been there, hope you can stick through it and make it out on top
I start a new job within the next three weeks of just getting trained up and getting licensed. My concern went from, I’m not going to be able to pay my rent, to this job is going to make me more money than I’ve ever made in my life and potentially break the cycle of poverty before me, going back as far as my family can remember. I’m kind of weighing that. It’s not like a DOD thing, I’m not contributing to that, but, you know.
There’s that idea of, am I a class traitor for making this money or trying to make this money? Which is not the goal, you know, of course. Like, I sell t-shirts online with art on them and stuff, but I wouldn’t consider myself petite bourgeoisie because I don’t own the means to produce those shirts. I mean, I make like 200 bucks a month just to help cover rent, you know. Hell I try to give away profits when I can, friends need healthcare. So, it’s just… Trying not to moralize my place as an individual within the system, I mean, I got out of tech because basically every tech company is complicit with this genocide, and even the ones that are removed Not like I worked for Raytheon or something, but still. So, just trying to not betray my own principles while paying my rent, you know.
I know communism isn’t a cult of poverty but being from.that background, and then becoming a Marxist, it can feel like it on a personal level.
My kiddo was singing along with this on the way home. I must be doing something right. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gaXHUI6Gl1Q
“We cannot wait for favours from nature; we must wrestle them from her!” - Ivan Michurin
Ever since I started commenting on Instagram posts made by a far right wannabe militia they started to seem less confident of their case. Sometimes my comments get deleted, sometimes people I reply to even delete their comment altogether. I think it goes to show that they are just cowards who can bend easily when shown a bit of competition.
Check your stories, and see who’s viewing them. I’ve done this type of thing before, and you’ll notice that you’ll have a lot of people who you don’t follow start watching your stories.
I do this with my personal account which is set to private, so nobody except my followers can see my stories. I do get lots of follow requests, though.
What’s a good follow up to Settlers? Incredibly blackpilling book, surely, but surely there’s a follow up discussing things that can be done.
Red Deal (read my Marx madness if you like audio)
Read Hinterland
Wasn’t Rainer Shea recommending that?
I hope not, but it’s definitely not something that he should like, and he’s probably just cherry-picking whatever agrees with him while negating others.
I think I downloaded that book when I liked Shea on his recommendation. I can’t find the post, but I did find a recent pro-Hinkle one💀.
Yeah, it’s not something that PatSocs should like and they’re just cherry-picking.
The book Hinterland by Phil A. Neel is a good book though.
Maybe some texts on Black Liberation in US? From the BPP or Angela Davis for instance.
Not a bad idea, I still need to finish Women Race and Class by Angela Davis.
you know the drill. boycott google
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/
Can anyone link me to the list of quotes used at the top of the page when you load into Lemmygrad?
I’m going to meet Vijay Prashad next week so like
um
do y’all have any questions I should ask him? I can try to get some in if he’s available toward it.
No questions but that’s really neat, and I hope it’s a great, informative time!
thank you!
he recently visited south korean parliament for some sessions. can you ask more details about that? i can’t find any online.
that sounds like a good one
Did he have any disagreements with Noam Chomsky when coauthoring a book with him?
there are 2 books now
Oh god.
ask him about his honest opinion on cpi (m)'s blatant revisionism
what kind of revision, in case asked for clarification
right deviationism, they have been exceedingly liberal, socdem at best in the states they have attained power in, and have engaged in counter revolutionary events like that in nandigram. moreover the party’s violent policy against the cpiml in the 70s is partly the reason the naxalbari movement turned out the way it is rn.
In what context will you meet him? Are you going to interview him or just casual?
he’s doing a speech on campus, although I wish I was cool enough to be the one interviewing him
let me just say the taglines are a great addition
