• rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    231·
    13 days ago

    Be that voice that will never stop talking about the possibility of a new world. A voice that convinces people that socialism is the solution. A voice that sparks the desire for a better and fair world.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    13 days ago

    Sometimes I am reminded that the city I live in is 55% migrants (from everywhere around the world) and I’m amazed at the diversity. Over 180 nationalities in this city.

  • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    17·
    10 days ago

    As if the US moves here in Latin America has not been worrying enough, the police of Rio de Janeiro just committed the biggest massacre the state of RJ has ever had, there’s more than 160 120 dead (sorry got the numbers wrong), and only 4 cops died. The governor of RJ is saying that the operation was a success, even tho they did not even get the person they invaded the favela for. From January to September of this year alone, the RJ police has killed more than 510 people.

    Shit’s getting bleaker.

    Edit: There are also reports of some of the dead being decapitated.

      • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        7·
        11 days ago

        Thanks comrade! I’m not from Rio and am fortunate enough to live in a place where I don’t have to worry about the police, but seeing the reporting of the amount of people dead has been daunting.

      • prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        7·
        11 days ago

        Not necessarily. The military police and these death squads go back to the US coup in '64. They were aligned with Bolsonaro recently, but they are going to align themselves with any right wing government. Bolsonaro is not all that relevant anymore. He’s under house arrest for now, and he’s gonna be sent to jail soon. He’s been convicted already.

      • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        6·
        11 days ago

        The vast majority is definitely very reactionary. I can’t say if they are still aligned with Bolsonaro since he has been losing popularity a lot for some time now, specially because of how he handled the pandemic. But I would bet they are Bolsonaristas, even tho some of them might not like Bolsonaro himself anymore.

        I know there is a very, very small minority of leftists in the military police force, but they have to keep their mouths shut not to be extremely harassed, fired or worse.

    • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      10 days ago

      I was reading about the favela raids yesterday and physically cringed. I’m so sorry and I hope you are able to be reasonably safe.

      • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        Thanks comrade, reading and hearing about it has been horrifying. I’m not from Rio so I don’t have to worry about any of that, but I feel for those living in direct line of sight of the police.

        • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          10 days ago

          You are welcome. Please take precautions, as I imagine the circle to be ever expanding.

  • Fruitbat [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    11 days ago

    I just wanted to post this stamp I got, not my photo but it’s the same one. I just like a lot of the art designs that went into soviet stamps.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    171·
    13 days ago

    Bruh legit saw a UFO just now. Saw something flying in the air with lights flashing (two white, one red) but in a pretty fast way. I was like: damn that plane is flashing a lot. But then I noticed it was hovering in one place too. So I grabbed my binoculars but I couldn’t figure out what it was. It wasn’t a helicopter either because it was pretty far up in the sky as well. Maybe it was a drone?

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      13 days ago

      Well, observer effect would mean that’ll you’ll see more soon if it was a some aliens drifting some sick orbs. Otherwise probably just a NATO drone looking for weddings.

      edit: two white on red sounds like aviation lights as well.

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        12 days ago

        We’ve got an airport so it’s not strange to have lots of planes flying around but the fact it was hovering makes it strange. So probably just a drone. The army has been increasing drills lately.

    • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      12 days ago

      You are currently in Belgium right? Its likely just drones in preparation for the soon to come russia-eu war

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    10 days ago

    Dutch media is now trying to frame a party of which the number 2 is saying she was reading Mein Kampf and for excited to gas the Jews as a decent party for the government

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    9 days ago

    Talking to people who think in individualism feels like different languages at times, stuck talking past each other. Or at least, I think that may be the cause. It can go a little something like:

    Me: something something systemic issues

    Them: okay, but like, you have to do what you can with what you have

    Me: I know, I understand you have to work with the circumstances in front of you, I’m just saying, systemic issues though

    Them: but you have to do what you can with what you have

    I don’t know if there’s anything I can say differently in this kind of situation to bridge the gap, or if it’s just a fundamental difference in worldview.

    • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      10·
      9 days ago

      They might see it as complaining about something beyond your control, because the average liberal doesn’t even consider doing anything beyond voting or maybe protesting (although if you suggest organized action, they’d likely just claim that it’s unrealistic)

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        9 days ago

        That’s a fair point, thanks for your thoughts on it. I have wondered if it’s in that realm of things, but this crystallizes it more I think. Like because they don’t see it as realistic to force the world to change (or are too fundamentally icked out by the idea of collective force), they fall back on changing themselves as the only solution to anything? (Well, changing themselves and maybe trying to influence a few people in their circle, but that’s about it.) That seems plausible for sure.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    11 days ago

    Well after two decades of neoliberal decline the Dutch people are fed up and have now voted for neoliberal decline

    • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      10 days ago

      Dutch people fell in line with rest of the EU in austerity for endless militarization death spiral