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So in the past week in The Netherlands at least 3 women were killed by a man but since the suspects were (most likely) Dutch, there is no massive outrage, no Dutch flags in football stadiums, whatever like there was some weeks ago when a refugee killed a girl. All of a sudden we don't have a femicide problem anymore it seems.

It's concerning the amount of times I end up in a discussion on Nazism and the other person says 'but they were left wing. They had socialist in their name'

One of my coworkers grew up in Soviet Latvia and yesterday she was talking about her school period and how it was kinda strict but at the same time gave opportunities to develop, and one of my other coworkers asked: 'and if you didn't listen? GuLaG? Haha' and she looked at him like: no that's not at all how it worked. The gulag wasn't that much of a thing.

Hope everyone can keep up with the goals you've set out for yourselves, has a pleasant week, and stays safe in these troubled times.

As always, communism will win.

One of our party members, Hanne Bosselaers, a doctor, has been illegally kidnapped from international waters by Israel

The last week of news has made me so angry. The UK going even more authoritarian on the right to protest, the treatment of the activists Israel illegally detained, the brownshirts of America waging war against civilians.

I wish I could do more but I am also really struggling to find a group in the UK with their shit together.

It has really been infuriating to witness and feel so powerless!

Got left in charge of making protest signs for the upcoming strike on the 14th in Brussels. Did it together with my other young colleagues. Most of us are communist or anarchist so I think the signs became a bit more radical than they wanted.

Calling our prime minister a genocidal fuck, lots of anti NATO signs, destroy billionaires, etc. It's going to be fun handing them over to the old heads at work lmao.

Got some new insights in the planned reform in our unemployment benefit system that will be implemented soon and it is shit. It is truly made by people who have no clue whatsoever of how it works. But in the end thousands of people will lose benefits and that's what counts to them. Keeping us under their thumb.

What surprises me more is how little resistance it gets. Same with retirement funds reform. Like, wake up guys. This is affecting YOU. YOU are closer to unemployment than you think. And then it's too late. YOUR retirement money is being taken away as we speak. YOU have to work longer. All the while billions will go to the defence industry annually.

The passiveness of it all is infuriating.

The Beijing Military Museum:

Sometimes I feel like if I were to go to the media I could have them write such a devastating piece on the unions that they would not recover from it.

I would never but fuck me do they make working there miserable, hypocrite bunch of shits.

In 2016 the Belgian government decided to lower the tax percentage on the employer side, meaning they are paying less taxes on the wages they pay, effectively making sure the state gets 8,6 billion euro less in tax revenue each year. Taxes that paid for welfare, retirement, healthcare, education, etc.

Now, nearly ten years later, the same figures that proposed the tax cuts are now making sure we get budget cuts in that same social security because we now have a deficit.

I think it is a clear example of how much the people at the top are planning ahead to fuck us over.

This is what I posted on October 7, 2023:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2258613

At the time that I wrote that, I had no idea about the raid on the ‘State of Israel’ until evening, when a friend on the telephone told me about the incident. At the time, I naïvely believed that the worst that was likely to happen was the IOF bombarding Palestine for a few days as retaliation. As we all know, the full aftermath was even worse than that, to put it mildly.

Yet it is having this context in mind that this otherwise mundane thread feels so much differently than it could have: there I was, talking about the differences between two Torot with an almost youthful fascination, blissfully unaware of what was going on in the Levant and the atrocities that would plague the region for two years. I almost envy the simplicity that our lives had back then. I could easily talk about the mildly interesting features in Judaism or Jewish cultures without feeling like I was neglecting anybody.

Is there even a difference between so called social liberalism and social democracy anymore? Seems like almost all socdem parties in Europe can call themselves social liberal as well

In France, the prime minister has handed in his resignation something like 12 hours after nominating the new government.

There have now been four prime ministers (Attal, Barnier, Bayrou, Lecornu) since Macron refused to recognize the result of the parliamentary snap election he called in summer 2024. Macron has stayed true to his original motto since 2017, which is not to compromise on anything ever, even with potential allies.

Polls in France systematically disadvantage the main left-wing party LFI and its probable presidential candidate for 2027, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Even so, he is currently polling at 15%, indicating that the coming presidential election will very likely be a contest between the left and the far right.

daily reminder that the nobel prize is selected by a committe appointed by the norwegian goverment.

A new world is slowly appearing. A world full of solidarity among the oppressed and hope for a brighter future

I hope you all have a nice week :D

My school has a plan to go to the USA for a study trip. Is it too risky to go as someone who's involved in left wing politics?

Oppo! Have a nice week NOW!!!

I really needed this. Here's Gazans celebrating the ceasefire: https://t.me/PalestineResist/82561

Okay look, I stand in solidarity with protesters of all stripes but please stop going to serious protests wearing funny little costumes. Like that person in a frog suit who got gassed, this isn't a game.

There is a terrorism investigation in a street in my city rn but cops won't release info on what it's about until later this evening.

Thing is, we have some holdouts in the street lol. I doubt it's us but ehhhh

I'm working on this plan of a mutual aid kitchen - clothes and general stuff redistribution system in which people from my city can provide for eachother. It's something I have been thinking about for a while and I think it can be a good asset in getting out party out there in a really material way. Life will be harder with the upcoming budget cuts.

My theory is that, through organising in this way, we can show people that it is possible to create some sort of alternative society in which we can provide for eachother on the basis of 'each according to his abilities, each according to his needs'. Even though it is currently only an idea, and the party is not involved yet, I feel like it can work.

From there on we can involve other areas. Gardening for example, to create more greenery in the city.

what do you guys think the next decade or so will look like? with the american empire crumbling, i could imagine decades happening. if the government can't keep a lid on anti-imperialist movements abroad, i could see the us taking its first baby steps toward revolution, not to mention the oppressed nations. at the same time, nothing ever happens. the empire is losing strength, but that's not the same as saying it isn't strong. internally, its citizens care more about being able to watch some shitty talk show than palestinian lives, maybe even their own lives. the security apparatus has a lot of money and a lot of toys. the western left is a joke. if the treat faucet doesn't stop pouring, nothing cool will happen in the us. and if nothing cool happens in the colonized nations, the treat faucet will never stop pouring.

I've been exploring some of the guns I never used before in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's only today I realized the one that looks exactly like an AKs-74u is a shotgun and not an SMG and I only discovered this when I tried to shoot a gangoon and didn't get the usual rapid fire of bullets I was expecting.

It was then I remembered the Saiga-12 exists and the design was likely based off it and not the AKs-74u.

I swear dealing with technology at work turns me into Kaczynski

There are a couple of Venezuelan guasanos at my work celebrating María Corina Machado. I'm pretty sure this guy was approached by the FBI

Work is going to put me in an insane asylum at this rate. This is the worst job I've ever had, easily.

Does anyone else think the USA right wing appropriating rhetoric from the left is because we have a massive vanguard party-shaped void here? There is a greater demand than ever for a vanguard and we do not have one so the right is trying to use the opportunity to absorb parts of the loose coalition we have of anti-imperialists, socialists, and groups targeted by the administration who are looking for somewhere to direct their energy.