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      Guy’s name is Bob Vylan and he puts out some bangers.

      “White folks love quoting Martin Luther / 'Cause he held hands and prayed while they bombed his building / Good for him but the times have changed / And don’t forget, white folks still killed him”

      (Song is “Pretty Songs”)

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    Idk if any of y’all know of Lexi Alexander, but she was banned on Bluesky two days ago. She’s a leftist, Palestinian-American filmmaker (she directed Punisher Warzone and some other, more niche movies) who’s been outspoken against the genocide in Palestine. Doubt anyone here has any illusions about Bluesky being any better than Twitter, since they’ve been banning Palestinians & leftists without warning & making space for TERFs and white supremacists for ages now, but…

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    Contemplating going back to my home town Tuesday to form an anti racist protest as a reaction of Geert Wilders and his anti immigrant protest over there. But it’s at 6 and I have a job and it’s over an hour drive so probably won’t make it. Just hope others are able to then.

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    Another stabbing in the city. This time a guy got stabbed by a woman after allegedly harrassing her friend. Which, if true, based of course.

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      Why do I feel like there will be a prade of people saying the harrasment is bad but it should not be a death sentence… and that he should have gone without consiquinces starting now

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    If anyone ever wants to know something about the cluster fuck that is Belgian politics:

    Belgium is devided into a Dutch speaking part and a French speaking part. As a result, most parties have grown into a Dutch side or a French side. This can lead to either one being elected for government. This is now the case with the socdems. The Dutch part of Vooruit is elected to rule with the neolibs while their French part PS is not. Vooruit is going along with the budget cuts while PS is fighting against it. Literally fighting against their own party.

    They even share the same building in Brussels. Can you imagine having to work on finding ways to do opposition while possibly sitting next to your coworker working on government plans?

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      This just leads to the question, of why would you opt to split your party like this. All it does is puts you at a disadvantage, your on the hook for all the terrible things that are done AND you still opposed any good thing your party was able to force through

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        I don’t understand either. Out party doesn’t do it and remains one party throughout the country. Much easier.

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    So Jeff Bezos can rent out the entire city of Venice for his wedding and all the media are so quirky about it like it’s not a fucking bizarre thing to do

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        Depending on the prenup Jeff Bezos might enter history known as the man that is responsible for one of the richest woman on earth, twice.

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    There’s this absolutely brain dead tv show in The Netherlands on the most stupid tv channel there is but one of the people in it is called El Che. That’s his first name and I’m only slightly jealous.

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        “I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”

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      I looked it up. According to him, Che is because there was a character in “Goede tijden, slechte tijden” with that name and El is because of Elvis Presley.

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    The Israeli ambassador came to visit Belgian parliament today for some reason and one of our MPs went off on her saying they are a genocidale state and that their lies to everyone will not prevent a Free Palestine and that their leaders will end up where they belong: in jail