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Reading that Luigi Mangione spend years in pain without help from his insurance but got a reply within an hour after he posed as an investor is wild
I cannot express how much I hate the new Colombian government.
I will say, I’ve been to Colombia before and the people have been nothing but wonderful to me. Any time I told them I was from Palestina they would immediately go on tirades about isntreal.
I heavily suspect the US meddled in their elections
That is guaranteed. It was a razor thin margin and Colombia is an very important node for the empire, seeing how the far right mercenaries are basically exported to every global conflict.
Especially when considering overseas votes
Wherever there are people being exploited, you will find sympathy for communism. Wherever there are people doing the exploiting, you will find sympathy for anti-communism.
The USSR showed the world how fragile the thrones of the exploiting classes can be when you apply the right kind of science to the process of smashing them and the exploiting classes have been punishing the world since for daring to have political literacy.
We don’t usually think about this but literacy is underrated af.
I think it’s amazing that we can read the thoughts of someone who died decades ago, and then learn from their mistakes, and their successes. Or read their fears and hopes for the future.
On a related note, knowing English is amazing as well. There is a lot of old books in English or translated to English.
Funny how the only system which has historically always produced near complete literacy amongst its population is socialism.
Books are the most important weapon of Communism. Besides actual weapons.
Very interesting car decoration in China!
has to be some sort of insane lib gymnastics to be celebrating a literal ISIS buffoon sentencing Assad and his family to death in Syria 😅
and at absentia at that
sorry for the delay, I forgor
Saw The Odyssey, it was a decent movie. Good cinematography. Later learned parts of it were filmed in occupied Western Sahara, which sucks. Saw some commie meme pages using Polyphemus for some image with some people commenting how Marx failed to consider Polyphemus’ possible anti-imperialist tendencies. Except Marx did mention Polyphemus multiple times lol. Read Marx.
Anyway I try not to fall back on doomerism regarding the climate. Situation is getting pretty bad. Record after record is getting shattered. The sea is insanely warm. El Niño still has to happen later this year. It will have no real effect over here but I fear for elsewhere in the world. The only thing the news worries about is loss of profit for companies. There is almost no water flowing through the rivers but it’s only bad because ships can’t go through it now. No mention of our wildlife and plants whatsoever.
Lara of Psychic militancy and Jared of MAKC had a good little rant about The Odyssey. Its kinda fucked up how white people have appropriated Greek culture while at the same time europeans kinda see Greeks as border line barbarians.
I’m a big nerd for Roman and Greek eras and their mythology and wars so Troy was a film I watched often as a kid. For The Odyssey I checked back with the movie, also because I kept seeing right wing chuds using that movie to slander The Odyssey’s diversity, and I noticed how many Nordic looking people were in the movie lol. Like, I have been to Greece and these people do not look Greek at all. Same with the Roman Empire basically. Take one look at Mediterranean people to see what they would have looked like.
The Odyssey itself isn’t particularly Greek either but I guess that’s what you get if you have a Hollywood cast.
Orientalism is born of the disgust/resentment of latins against greeks (and persians).
A lot of people severely underestimate how much biblical and classical stories were widely understood by modern educated people.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
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disgustingly evil assassination attempt by the communist seeseepee against feminist icon and britain’s greatest heroine smh we must nuke china lads
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A fire broke out in eastern Belgium. It is the worst fire in Belgian history.
You try not to doom scroll but you open the news and the apocalypse is there.
I have an anti-doomscrolling app now, ngl (shit works for what it worth so that’s good)
This is from a Cuban Telegram that I follow. I really like how they define a revolution. Hope you like it:
- “Revolution is a sense of the historic moment;
- it is changing everything that must be changed;
- it is full equality and freedom;
- it is being treated and treating others as human beings;
- it is emancipating ourselves by our own efforts;
- it is challenging powerful dominant forces within and outside the social and national spheres;
- it is defending the values in which one believes at the cost of any sacrifice;
- it is modesty, selflessness, altruism, solidarity, and heroism; it is fighting with boldness, intelligence, and realism;
- it is never lying or violating ethical principles;
- it is a deep conviction that no force in the world is capable of crushing the power of truth and ideas.
- Revolution is unity;
- it is independence;
- it is fighting for our dreams of justice for Cuba and for the world, which is the foundation of our patriotism, our socialism, and our internationalism.”
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«Revolución es sentido del momento histórico; es cambiar todo lo que debe ser cambiado; es igualdad y libertad plenas; es ser tratado y tratar a los demás como seres humanos; es emanciparnos por nosotros mismos y con nuestros propios esfuerzos; es desafiar poderosas fuerzas dominantes dentro y fuera del ámbito social y nacional; es defender valores en los que se cree al precio de cualquier sacrificio; es modestia, desinterés, altruismo, solidaridad y heroísmo; es luchar con audacia, inteligencia y realismo; es no mentir jamás ni violar principios éticos; es convicción profunda de que no existe fuerza en el mundo capaz de aplastar la fuerza de la verdad y las ideas. Revolución es unidad, es independencia, es luchar por nuestros sueños de justicia para Cuba y para el mundo, que es la base de nuestro patriotismo, nuestro socialismo y nuestro internacionalismo».
So yesterday I discovered MathML. It’s a pretty neat way to display math on the web like LaTeX does on PDFs.
This one is a fraction:
<math> <mfrac> <mn>1</mn> <mn>3</mn> </mfrac> </math>This makes me wonder whether Lenin and Marx would write their stuff with html (or latex) if they lived today lol
Marx would definetly have a bunch of notes laying around, shoddy markdown files, and voice notes, all from half-finished projects, which Engels would have to format lol
why do companies make their employees sit through boring ass finance meetings that put people to sleep
i’m in receiving; none of this corpo babble is relevant to me
they call it “transparency” as they brag about increased profits to people paid stagnant wages
lmao fuck offffff
I have been a semi-unwilling participant in a stellantis training course for some new jeep they were doing, with questions at the end.
Made me never want to work corporate in my life.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
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