Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Since tensions are escalating, do I need to start prepping?
Its a good idea I’d say, get your papers if you’re an American perhaps observe the exit options for yourself and family even if its not the plan rn
I always laughed at the idea but tbh better safe than sorry I guess. At least get a noodpakket like the government says. Can’t hurt anyone with that. Maybe some canned food and some water bottles to last you a week or so if shit happens.
How do you read theory? Do you make notes, do you use pen and paper, or some kind of digital format? I want to seriously read and retain as much information as I can. Do you have any suggestions? Would you like to share your methods? Thanks comrades!
making notes is usually the best. for some popular materials there are also usually study guides with questions to help you test your understanding. personally i just highlight interesting passages
Taking notes is important unless your memory is extremely good. If I had an e-reader with a touch screen, I’d use that to highlight important sections, but right now I just take notes in a text editor. You could also use a highlighter pen on a physical book or a print-out
is there like a single damn thing that is not dropshipped or resold from china or asia in goddamn amazon?
Yeah. If you can find it you win a prize.
Hint
it’s one of the dozen maga hats.
Anticommunists give Soviet urban planning a lot of shit, but with regular maintenance they seem to be great places to live. Sturdy houses with lots of green, walkable, social services, stores and recreation nearby and great public transport connections. In my city they just build new neighborhoods without including anemities and public transport options
I went to Latvia and had spent several days living in the much hated commie blocks. They could use some upkeep for sure but the entire area was green with parks, playgrounds, shops, water, benches, gardens etc. Public transport nearby which would have you in the city center in no time. They beat every single urban design out there, 60 years after being build.
Pretty impossible to beat development that prioritized user comfort over market value profits yadayada. I hope to see more of that in my lifetime. Still gives me the warm fuzzies to see a well built public service building.
There’s people from the party (just member, not officials or anything) I follow on IG and it’s a constant stream of political content. Even when on holiday. Like, enjoy your holiday maybe lol.
Ugh, my eyes hurt and so does my stomach, bleh
Context: I had Taco Bell.
Yo no quiero Taco Bell.
I’m still making my Internet forum, but I don’t know if I want it to be a Marxist-Leninist forum anymore.
I want it to be… Idk, maybe a left unity one? But I hate that.
Maybe more open to non-Marxists, idk.
Maybe not even about Marxism or leftism…
What do y’all think?
isnt that just lemmy.ml or hexbear or lemmygrad?
Lemmygrad is Marxist-Leninist-exclusive.
hexbear is a broad marxist forum. lemmy.ml is even broader leftist
i’m aware
I think that sounds like speedrunning Western leftism
Wdym
- “I want to split off my own ML forum/group/party.”
- “It’s too small, maybe it should be open to non-Marxists”
- “It’s too small, maybe it should be about broad left-unity”
- “It’s too small, maybe it should be about rejecting labels and traditional political divides”
- “Maybe I should get into crypto?”
- “You know the thing they don’t want you to know about the COVID vaccine is…”
- “Guys, the FBI just rolled up to the compound of my ancap sex cult where my sister-wives and I are stockpiling explosives and waiting out the end of days, what should I do?”
i dun get it
I’ve thought for some time that the US has no real culture (other than maybe some pockets of it in the south / from marginalized groups in the south or elsewhere). But I’m starting to think it and the west in general does have a kind of culture; the culture is being controlling and destructive. Each time a westerner destroys something, they get a sense of pride and power from having been able to make that decision; whether it made sense as a decision is less important than the fact that they were able to make it.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just describing a facet of colonizer “culture” with different words.
Imo a culture does exist, but it’s based on the same individualist and consumerist fallacies as the rest of society. What’s missing is community and respect, among other things ofc.
The historic/legacy countries do have some of that as a remnant, but the manufactured countries like USA AU etc are just “let’s make neoliberalism our culture”
The west is so capitalism pilled, it’s stupid. A fun thought to let wild is wondering if it has anything to do with the fundamental differences between western and eastern religion, where western religion is more top-down (monotheistic god saving individuals directly) and eastern religions are more bottom-up (unlocking oneself and raising others up through it)
Maybe I’m biased but you can even see the difference in cultures between predominantly Catholic countries vs Protestant countries. The former seems to have alot more distinctiveness and (not very, but slightly more) collectiveness
Tru!
同志，这是哪里？
Béjaïa Province, Kabylie, Algeria.
Gas became cheaper in my area due to tarrifs dropping oil prices. Trump actually has a positive effect on me so far.
I work at a lefty org but they required me to work nearly 7 hours straight before a lunch break today. Practice what you preach and such.
To be honest I never followed h3h3 ever since I grew out of the ripe age of 13 so to now see him conflicting with some youtuber I watch for supporting a genocide has me shocked at the state of him lol. Man is down bad bad.
With how much of my free time I devote to going to the gym in order to maintain physical health it dawned on me how unhealthy regular life is if this effort is required.
That guy iShowSpeed really deserves a Hero of Socialist Labor medal. He is no leftist but he broke multibillion $$ propaganda
He is really a nice person. I got his autograph some time ago.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too comrade! 🫡
Beautiful ! 👍🏼
