Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our sect, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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featurebugI don’t know where else to post this so it’s going here! I love seeing Dr. Katchanovski go off on Twitter. He’s usually pretty tame but sometimes he’ll let loose a little (especially people he retweets lol):
Big
energy from that picture.
Dying for EUROs and then Copa America to start, need my football fix. Friendlies and Brazilian league not enough to take the edge off
Same, especially since I didn’t watch the last WC. I need my international tournaments man. As long as England doesn’t win, that is.
England winning would be a disaster we would never hear the end of it.
One of my favorite EURO memories was watching them lose to Iceland in I think 2016 in a bar packed full of englishmen in downtown Toronto. Barely got out of their alive, hoping for more of the same this year
I wore a union sweater to work today as it is comfy and warm and someone in the bus greeted me very kindly because of it
Is it just me, or does the page now repeatedly scroll up while creating a thread?
A similar thing has happened with me. It’s usually when there’s a picture. When I scroll down the picture shrinks, takes up less space and the page slides upwards to fill in the space.
Does it happen more with threads where you’ve opened some screenshots, etc?
The screenshots don’t make any difference. I tested this out on the create post page without inserting any images or URLs in it and I still got the glitch.
It’s an HTML bug, I’ve encountered it on other websites. I forget what causes it, but I assume it’ll be fixed with the next update.
why is r/librandu like this?
Looking at the source about Uyghurs, VICE again? is this believable?
Is librandu even leftist? I checked it years ago but it seems anti-BJP at best.
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As I get older, I became less religious. I lost my trust in the Catholic Church due to multiple crimes committed by some priests.
US imperialism must be abolished.
I was given a box full of books today and among them were Animal Farm and literally 1984. Should I read them?
Why not? First time I read it was last year when I bought it through a vending machine at a Chinese train station. At this point it’s just a meme, and won’t give you any insight to the oppositions psyche.
Book vending machines are so cool.Contrast that with the reddit vending machines elsewhere.
Nahh, it still cost a multiple of the initial asking price.
China does have smart libraries strewn about the place, especially in cities with low income, that are located along city streets and parks, which provide free Wi-Fi, charging and air conditioning. You can borrow books with an app for almost free (albeit with a required deposit that gets charged if you don’t return it)
That’s awesome. I just wanted to take a swipe at the creep machines tbh.
Reading books to understand the liberal psych is impossible today, I don’t think they read books
1984 is honestly a really good book. It is solid literature. The world it creates is also a perfect fascist/capitalist dystopia, and if the CIA propaganda behind the whole 1984 Gommunism meme didn’t exist, it would be an excellent piece of pro-communist literature.
Animal farm is literal drivel though.
Those two would be better used as toilet paper.
This election two of the youngest members of parliament got elected.
One is for the socdem party, the other one is for our party.
Members of parliament can get up to 11k a month over here, and the local newspaper (they’re both from Antwerp) asked them how they handled that much money at such a young age. (the socdem is 25 years old, our elected official Amina is 22 years old, the youngest woman ever to be in Parliament).
The socdem reply is something along the line of: yeah it’s a lot but I didn’t go into politics for the money blah blah blah
Amina gives most of it away to the party to keep an average Belgian wage as to not lose touch with the people
I think that highlights an important difference between socdems and us
you love to see it folks, one of the people representing the people
I continue to be sick and even worse is that I feel guily about it because I can’t go to work, even though they said it is fine
On top of that, the rain has returned and it will not leave us for another week or two. Pretty symbolic after the elections if you ask me.
you too Oppo
3 body problem netflix adaptation boils down to “the West saves earth from the consequences of chinese communism”.
From what ive read online, the story in the books mainly happens in China (in the adaptation the good stuff happens in terf island, except for the bad stuff which is left as it happens in the books, in China of course), and China and the west join forces to fight the turncoats. In the netflix adaptation, the chinese turncoat defects to the UK and its some english aristocrat ghoul bossing everyone to fight her society.
Which leads me to ask, if you’re moving the story from China to terf island, why keep the cultural revolution stuff? Its such a shameless anti-china propaganda lmao
Terf island sounds like what a really successful cultural revolution would look like, so it kinda fits.
Got banned on reddit again for wishing an American soldier gets cheated on by his wife and his knees to be blown up by an IED
Liberal snowflakes can’t take a joke (not joke) these days smh
That’s just praxis. Keep it up comrade.
Sexing with soldiers wives/husbands is praxis
Oh man there was a really funny post back on r/cth from some guy absolutely roasting some chud soldiers with “I fucked your wife” jokes wish I could remember it, was funny as fuck.
Never understood people’s obsession with cars being freedom. I take the bus to work sometimes. I get on the bus which stops nearly at my front door, sit down and look outside, and get off in front of my work. Zero effort required from my part. Investing in public transport is investing in freedom.
Bikes are true freedom. Commuting takes roughly the same amount of time because I don’t have to take the same crappy routes as with a car.
You don’t live in a society where you are physically incapable of doing absolutely anything without a car.
That’s your answer. A winter coat is impractical to someone in the Sahara, but that person works appreciate it a lot of the eh got thrown into Alaska.
I know, my rant was more city specific I guess
cars are the opposite of freedom in my opinion. I grew up/live in a city where there is fortunately rudimentary public transit but a lot of shit is highly inaccessible without a car. Especially in the winters here having to rely on the bus to get to work was absolute hell, but even then having a car is such a massive chore. Outside of rent it is my biggest expense in a month and driving is highly dangerous despite the fact that id consider myself quite good at it. Id much rather be able to just rely on public transport and not have to deal with the cost and stress of driving on a daily basis, would feel much more free id say. And thats not even considering the social aspects of not having a car here and how that can limit you, wish it were just typical (and practical) for most people to take transit
Is your city under the management of Capitalists who only implement architectures that benefits the rich people, raise cost of living, and creates an environment where environmentally destructive investment is the best choice for personal finance?
It’s a myopic view that is held mostly by people living in areas where public transportation is non existent and cars are the only means to get around. Either that or a city bloke who is rich and doesn’t want to mingle with the rabble.
I suppose it depends on how good your public transport is. I wasn’t quite so lucky when I had long commutes a few years back. 15 minute bus, 10 minute walk, 30 minute train, 15 minute walk, and the same thing in reverse getting home. Usually in the mornings without any space to actually sit at any point in the trip. Sure did wish I had a car at the time, lmao.
im anxious around people and feel constantly on edge or potentially threatened even when others are kind and flash a smile.
having a space where i can be certain things are where i expect them and when im looking for stuff i dont need to keep up appearances…
The other day I saw a ukro-nazi in the wild. Wearing nazi-inspired apparel like we often see in the supposedly photoshopped images of Ukrainian nazis. Dude was many countries away from the frontline. Surreal to see them live here
I saw some of them in my city as well, carrying around fascist flags on an electric scooter. Absolute wild how it is allowed even. Meanwhile every slightly controversial thing happening at Palestine protests get several news outlets writing about it.
