Welcome Welcome, please make yourself at home, have a chocolate milkshake. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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I agree with this article a lot! We need more unity in the organization.
https://www.cpusa.org/article/strategies-for-organizational-unity-and-action/
My kiddo was singing along with this on the way home. I must be doing something right. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gaXHUI6Gl1Q
you know the drill. boycott google
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/
What’s a good follow up to Settlers? Incredibly blackpilling book, surely, but surely there’s a follow up discussing things that can be done.
Red Deal (read my Marx madness if you like audio)
Read Hinterland
Wasn’t Rainer Shea recommending that?
I hope not, but it’s definitely not something that he should like, and he’s probably just cherry-picking whatever agrees with him while negating others.
I think I downloaded that book when I liked Shea on his recommendation. I can’t find the post, but I did find a recent pro-Hinkle one💀.
Yeah, it’s not something that PatSocs should like and they’re just cherry-picking.
The book Hinterland by Phil A. Neel is a good book though.
Maybe some texts on Black Liberation in US? From the BPP or Angela Davis for instance.
Not a bad idea, I still need to finish Women Race and Class by Angela Davis.
Dating apps make me feel so unlovable. I never get matches and when I do they unmatch me when I send a message. I’m on lesbian Tinder and it feels like they consider me undateable for being a pre-transition trans woman
I feel like dating apps have set this weird precedent where you meet someone and you immediately have to decide whether they’re someone you want to date/ ave a relationship with or if they’re someone that you want to be friends with but in my experience the people that I’ve dated have typically been people I was friends with and then it kind of naturally just becomes a little more romantic and a little less platonic.
I can’t help but feel like that was how it was before online dating became the norm… You know, you become friends with a woman/man, and then maybe it becomes a little more than that, and if it doesn’t, I don’t see why you still can’t be friends. Just make it very clear that if one party isn’t interested in the same way as the other party, it’s up to that other party to come to terms with that, and as long as that other party can come to terms with that and move on and not be like, “well, you know, you’re the only one for me”, then I don’t see what’s wrong with this logic.
For what its worth im a cis white dude and have largely the same experience, I think those apps just absolutely suck. I find Tinder is especially bad for that, fairly certain a significant portion of accounts are bots. Maybe try Hinge ? I have had more luck at least having decent conversations on there, though honestly I think it is just incredibly hard to actually form a connection with someone on a dating app. I find myself unable to maintain interest in talking to someone over text but also not overly interested in going on a date with anyone I talk to. Might just be a me thing but I feel like maybe it is true for a lot of people.
I heard it’s the same for transwomen in hetro tinder and even for Grindr
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I want to make a Wikipedia for MLs.
As an alternative to Wikipedia.
There is the Cuban https://www.ecured.cu/EcuRed:Enciclopedia_cubana There is also ProlWiki
EcuRed, right?
I know about this website.
Does it have an English version?
Also, I want to create an alternative to ProleWiki as well since it’s biased against CPUSA.
I’m asking some friends if they want to get involved.
no its only in spanish,
It’s a good thing that, as a Latino, I’m re-learning Spanish.
Regardless, I will make my own Wikipedia alternative with some friends as ProleWiki seems hostile to people like me.
Yes, but it’s biased against CPUSA (among other issues I have about it) and I’m afraid to edit it, even though I have a ProleWiki account, because my edits might not be approved or taken down.
Which is why I’m gathering some friends to help me make a Wikipedia alternative.
what do you mean by “biased”? Is what they are saying true or not? And if it isn’t true what exactly isn’t true about it. Have you ever written out anything to tell them what is incorrect about their position and correct about yours?
Fuck Albert Camus, one of the worst modern French philosophers. Literally, it is the definition of first-world problems in philosophy
Cope + boulder is not rolling itself
“We cannot wait for favours from nature; we must wrestle them from her!” - Ivan Michurin
Nitter is dead, right? How should I go about accessing Twitter now?
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Twitter changed their API and killed the service purposefully.
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dont, its the sign that you should leave twitter for good
ATTENTION CITIZENS OF GRAAD
hi
I did a test by a newspaper to see if you are left or right wing and lo and behold I am a left wing progressive
This is a complete blindside. Your politics have always been an enigma and you’ve left many baffled with where you lie on the spectrum. Especially with the suspicion right wing post yesterday…. Hmm
Well the weird thing is: afterwards the quiz showed how other voters of specific parties ended up on the political compass. Most of the voters from our party were economically and social-culturally left of course, but there were also quite a few who were economically and social-culturally right wing. Which doesn’t make sense at all. Why vote for a marxist party? Lol.
I could actually believe that.
For the socially right wing people, we’ve seen them on the grad constantly. They’re the people who might be full marxists, but then despise LGBT people because they’re devout Muslims or Christians, or they were raised in an environment with those ideals and never shook them. Or they’re the people that are so extremely anti-racist that they end up become racist themselves. Or people that want socialism but only for chauvinist and protectionist reasons while hating foreigners.
For the economic right wing, I blame that on the right having good optics with their “bootstraps”, “individual freedom” and other such slogans that entice people on the surface. Or they know nothing about economics and they choose right wing options because they simply sound good despite being disastrous.
I want to create my own Wikipedia-like repository of knowledge.
Look into Obsidian.
Is China actually going to implement market based reforms like Yellen suggested? What’s the outcome of this visit?
Seems like the outcome was thanks, but no thanks. XD https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4201913
