A moroccan-belgian dude defended a Muslim woman on a subway against a racist guy and he got hit in the face by a heavy object. He died after being in a coma. He was murdered by a racist.

The headline: 'Man passed away after defending woman from attacker'

Passed away. Passed. Away. Like he peacefully lived his life until old age took him away.

Have a wonderful week, everyone! Quantitative efforts build up towards qualitative developments. Remember this whenever you feel like your goals are unbreakable walls. You will burst through, eventually.

As always, communism will win.

There's this Dutch artist Sophie Straat who has been in the news recently for asking all white men to go stand in the back at her show for one song and white men online are absolutely seething lmao

I have a crush on a guy, and I haven't seen him in a while. But I saw him recently in the line for the night club I was going to go into. But instead of going up to him I panicked and went back home. Why am I like this?

Two attacks by supposed Islamist in Europe in one week. Welcome back early-to-mid-2010s. Probably an indicator of the economy being in the gutter.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

So my uncle asked my help for spellchecking some of his documents (he's an attorney). However, the docs required a specific program that supports Window$, macO$, and Debian-based distros, and I have Fedora. It took me a long time to create a compatibility layer. Since all else failed, I had to create a Win10 virtual machine.

In the end, my uncle ruled that I'm tech-illiterate. Lol, lmao even.

I hate the fact that, in scifi book reading circles 1984 novel has become a standard of "dystopia". I can't escape it.

Situational depression can be such a catch-22. Like the change in circumstances that would (probably) resolve it can require sustained motivation and energy that the depression saps right out of you.

Permanently back in The Netherlands, watching TV at my parents place. Dutch TV is full of talk shows every night and it so insanely lib and pro capitalism. I never really watched TV in my Belgium years and it kinda feels like a shock to watch this slop.

This has been going on for a while now but its absolutely dire seeing companies on the pride parade. Fuck you mean Takeaway needs a boat? Let them not abuse their employees first.

Last week of summer vacation 🙄 gonna enjoy this little piece of freedom. Have a good week everyone!

I also started trying to learn Chinese. Wŏ xihuān xué hanyŭ 😄

As an autistic person, I feel like a lot of autistic symptoms are actually trauma symptoms

I do not have any feelings of gender dysphoria.

Period.

Quit looking at my two blåhajs.

I just saw someone call the houthis virtue signaling for shutting down “global trade” and took psychic damage.

No serious rain for the next ten days. The Rhine river is at its lowest ever. Everything outside looks beige.

Sorry to jump topic a bit bit I cant believe Disney live action/realistic cgi remakes have been going on for so long. I mean, I guess they were making money so there was no reason for them to stop, but I for one don't understand how they were making money tbh

🛞 You WHEEL have hope, car-rade.

I'm taking up bouldering and for some reason it has a really left wing audience. I have been to multiple locations and they were all plastered with lgbtq+ flags or anarchist and communist stickers.

I hate PDFs.

Stopped drinking coffee for two days now and I have legit headaches. Didn't even drink that much coffee either.

While learning Spanish I've noticed that my native language (Portuguese) is really weird sometimes.

Like, "I am hungry" is "tengo hambre" in Spanish (trans. "I have hunger"), but in my language it's "estou com fome" which literally translates to "I am with hungry".

I watched "The Odyssey" today. Nothing worth to talk about honestly, it's just another shitlib slop. Just don't mention it and let it fall into obscurity. At least I didn't pay for the ticket.

My score is 2/5. It's only redeeming quality is visuals, but visuals mean nothing without a solid story.

Lol the FIFA scandal is insane, seems like there is a split upcoming between UEFA and FIFA, likely other football unions splitting too. Contradictions are piling up even in the football world.

I was reading law this week (for an exam) and I noticed some things about constitutions: (not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advice)

1. Constitution states, but does not explain. Look at these articles from the Constitution of the USSR:

   ARTICLE 1. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist state of workers and peasants.

   ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education.

   Like, the Constitution doesn't bother to explain why exactly the people of the USSR chose socialism as their system of government nor the entire theory of Marxism-Leninism. It also doesn't explain what subjects are gonna be taught in schools etc. The Constitution is a guideline for future developments. Explanations are probably part of jurisprudence.

   I know it's a bit obvious that this is the purpose of constitutions but I still think it's neat to note. Imagine if Marx wrote like this:

   Article 20. Labor-power is the capacity to do work.

   Article 21. The proletariat is the class defined by its lack of capital and whose only means to sustain itself is by selling labor-power to the bourgeois.

   Then in a book, he goes like:

   Consequently, it appears that the capitalist buys their labour with money, and that for money they sell him their labour. But this is merely an illusion. What they actually sell to the capitalist for money is their labour-power (Constitution, Article 21). [...]

   All Marxist theory would just people citing articles from the "Constitution" in other documents and exploring its consequences.

2. Law works in a general pattern: "If X, then Y, unless Z happens, in which case W."

   For example, everyone has the right to move anywhere, except if you commit a crime, in which case you lose your freedom in jail. Laws don't work like physical laws or Math axioms that generalize a lot of cases. It's a general principle and then a ton of exceptions.

   Exception in laws is where loopholes live and arguably where the bourgeoisie do their businesses.

3. Law is made to achieve an outcome.

   Also obvious but noting this kind of takes away the "power" of the law. Like, if you know that a law was made to punish protests then you know you should protest even if it's illegal. Because...

4. Law is a superstructure.

   Law only exists if there is people to enforce it and people to obey it. Otherwise it's just a piece of paper. Even something that isn't a law like a sign that says "Do NOT touch the saw. The saw CAN turn on at ANY moment" is probably gonna have way less disobedience than a federal law that forbids loitering.

Trying to give Undertale a second chance (last time I got like... idk, 3/4 of the way through? and couldn't finish it).

Currently on the verge of giving up again because there's a part with the kind of game design that is so bizarrely player-unfriendly, it feels more like the developer is playing a practical joke on the player than anything else.

Explanation / vent in spoilers:

Sorry to vague post a little bit, but I hate "half denouncement." [Term by me].

What I mean is when people will rage so vehemently against something, but won't actually rage against the implications of said thing.

As much as I hate to bring the topic up, US veterans are a good example here. Here and other places like the deprogram subreddit will rage against veterans and take the BE position on things. This comment isn't to debate that position, I think it's an understandable one even if I have a few disagreements.

But in none of these discussions no one ever criticizes, for instance, the PSL that holds what I'll term the "old line." The PSL is very explicitly in the camp of what people criticize, and yet I very rarely see it brought up. Either in discussions on veterans or on the PSL. Not saying it has to be every time, just that it feels like a blind spot

This goes for other things too, but I just wanted to put this out here for rn while I was thinking about it

Edit: another example is Russia. Again, not here to actually debate a position, but both r/communismmemes and the deprogram subreddits took an inter imperialist war position on the conflict. However, when the DPRK has taken a much more pro-russian position, I feel like that criticism kinda got blind spotted by a lot of people