• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
    22·
    21 days ago

    Have another great week, everyone! I know I’m on less frequently than I used to be, but I have been much better for limiting social media use. The quality of engagement goes up that way. Consider something similar if you’ve felt too much brain fog lately!

    As always, communism will win.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    16 days ago

    I visited the Manchester Art Gallery today and they had these large rooms in which they acknowledged colonialism and capitalism and whatnot, which I thought was good. But they also happened to have a room on Dutch art and they described us as a brave nation becoming wealthy by finding sea routes to trade on.

    Like how does that work lmao. We robbed half the world to get rich. No critical thought whatsoever in the Dutch room.

    • Rylo@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      15 days ago

      I think I’ve read that the Dutch East Indies (modern day Indonesia) historically was the most lucrative (i.e. highest net-profit) colony by a large margin. I cannot remember the numbers though.

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        14 days ago

        There is no clear consensus but it is believed the Dutch East Indian Company was worth several trillion dollars adjusted to current day inflation.

        No other company to this day came close. It employed up to a million people versus 800k by the rest of European colonial companies combined. It owned over 4000 ships and operated a private army to do whatever it wanted.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    21 days ago

    Over here in Belgium the government has stopped some restrictions on so called flexi job which are jobs in which you can work for some time without having to pay taxes on your wages. They are used by people who want to work in places like bars and cafes next to their regular job to make some extra money. The rules were adjusted so that it would be easier to get such jobs and that you can work more hours. Lots of people were critical of this because this also means less income from taxes and we already have a heavy deficit. But it just had to be done! The ‘market’ asks for more flexibility.

    The government is now saying something needs to be done against all the flexijobs as it is costing them tax money. Like liberals are so incredibly stupid it is not funny anymore.

  • Jarmund@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    18·
    20 days ago

    Capitalism is when no time nor space to sex your partner (commodification of housing is infuriating)

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      20 days ago

      Or no climate even. Ain’t nobody getting down to it when you have been cooking in 40 degree weather all day with night temps at 33 degrees. You’d have to be surgically removed from eachother the way you’d be sticking skin to skin.

    • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      20 days ago

      I recently was talking to a guy in a bar, but we didn’t go home with eachother since we both still live with our parents. We lost contact after that.

  • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    19 days ago

    Dear salty Egyptians, US Americans and now bafflingly British people: There is no universe where Argentina is somehow the most racist country on earth, just because they beat you at a stupid sports game/make you feel better about your own way worse racism.

    I’m now convinced that the Mossad has worked overtime to get the world cup slop viewers to hate and believe that Argentina is somehow the most anti black, genocidal and Nazi country on earth, it’s wall to wall on all my feeds and pissing me off that people are this ignorant.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      15·
      19 days ago

      England has hundreds of years of genocide, slave trade and colonialism in their history but you know Argentina bad because some people are racist

      • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        19 days ago

        I have lost brain cells seeing people almost universally bring up Nazis fleeing to Argentina every time this dumb af argument about Argentine racism comes up, but somehow nobody constantly talks about Nazis feeling to the US, Canada, and bloody WEST GERMANY ITSELF which took way more Nazis. Actual psyop and it makes me wish Argentina wins the entire thing just so these people can cry harder.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    14·
    18 days ago

    There is this american-chinese influencer doing a series flying random people into China and he got a random american from Texas into Yun’nan 😂 he met him while trespassing his ranch, turns out the guy is surprisingly open minded agreed to go to China and managed to get him dressed as a PLA soldier 😂

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    20 days ago

    This summer in Europe is really bad. There has been near zero rain and it’s burning from the south of Spain to the north of England.

    The extreme heat is gone in Belgium at least. It’s warm but it still cools down at night. But it’s just so incredibly dry.

        • burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
          7·
          18 days ago

          The problem with the Trot mindset is that if they ever do a revolution, then the day after they will split and a part will denounce the other saying the socialist experience had degenerated. They can’t deal with the contradictions of building a new society from the previous one. That’s why their discourse is simply self-defeating.

          We all know that Mao and Stalin did a lot of bad things, but that does not change the fact that both were trying to build something. And while they criticize the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union, that thing was there from the beginning, even when Trotsky was one of the party leaders.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    20 days ago

    Thinking about how many conservatives watch videos of girls in skimpy clothes shooting guns. Super performative. Surely you guys can just go read playboys like the rest of us

  • LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    21 days ago

    So… thought I got some help for my living situation but something happened on their end and they stopped messaging me. I am not sure what to do now.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      7·
      20 days ago

      iirc disabledacesocialist also had someone bamboozle them like that for a while so be careful.

      • LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        20 days ago

        They sent resources for me and showed a lot of photos to prove that they were not some faker, but they stopped one day, which is weird.