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I can’t watch the videos of the Good or Pretti killings. I know that’s understandable but even just looking at the thumbnails my heart rate starts to rise.
I saw a photo of the interior of Renee Good’s car after the shooting. The blood all over the airbag makes me so…afraid for some reason. Maybe I place myself in her shoes at that moment. I don’t know. I don’t know
I feel the same. And I live in the Netherlands. I’m afraid we will turn in the same direction, especially with our fascist party rising in the polls. I feel threatened
A Dutch dog breeder decided to quit because their dogs were probably being used by the IDF and the increasing (legal) pressure from activists became too heavy. Activism works.
Rich people are lazy
When I think about Xi’s published writings which I saw recently here or on Hexbear described as a bunch of speeches from ribbon cutting ceremonies, is it right to conceive of this as his thought being related to party discipline, strengthening of the party, which can also be seen in his anti-corruption purges? I was reading xiaohongshu’s latest post talking about 3 CMC officials being purged - it seems to me both China and America have purged their upper ranks which I think corresponds with the qualitative shifts taking place in warfare at this moment. Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
I can’t speak on the purges [probably related to corruption in China’s case], but Xi’s works are mainly speeches but they vary in terms of what they’re about and where they are at.
In some cases they are ribbon cuttiing ceremonies, but in others its general speeches to organizations, universities, etc.
In any case Xi Jinping thought is a genuine refinement of Socialism with Chinese Charecteristics, and Governance of China explains the main goals quite clearly.
Inside you there are two wolves. One does ruthless criticism of everything that exists. The other follows party discipline. Both are Lenin.
I saw this reel about a guy saying that private chinese investors are in a dire situation because they don’t have real estate schemes where to funnel their money so they are doing this scheme where they buy expensive pokemon cards in china and then take these abroad to sell to get foreign currency. It was framed in a “oh look at the authoritarian ccp prohibiting investors!” but i see it as a pretty awesome way to get rid of speculators. China doesn’t even lose anything since the only thing leaving china is pokemon cards, i.e. a worthless piece of cardboard 😂
Please share, I need my daily sip of bourgeois tears
it was a reel, it’s basically lost in the abyss by now.
Elementary school backpack from the DPRK
The DPRK could unironically make a solid amount of cash exporting these, id definitely buy one for my nephews lol. Where did you find this picture?
It was shared in this X account -> https://xcancel.com/JustCherry__/status/2014635919924723822#m
WAAAUUUHHHHH OH MY GOD ITS SO CUTE (louder and sobbing)
theyre so cute :(
God I hate this new censor in YouTube that silences banned words like “murder” or “suicide”. First off, removing the word but maintaining the context changes absolutely fucking nothing, regardless of the type of content. Secondly, it actually calls more attention to the word itself because of the sudden sound cut and your mind quickly fills the blank, so you’re even more likely to go “oh, suicide”.
I understand (though still find stupid) silencing swear words, though it should be a client side optional thing. Silencing “bad words” is just stupid and can make serious videos about serious topics (like, say, a documentary about war) sound horribly silly with every other word silenced out.
Sounds like this:
James ____ John three times in the head ____ing him instantly. Two years later he was charged with first degree _____, but was eventually acquitted. In this lecture we’ll explore this famous ______ case.
This reads like when I tried to make chatGPT make music.
Of course they’re Swedish
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I’ve been organizing with a pretty organic student group at my college and it’s been pretty frustrating to watch the Democrat machine begin to co-opt us (indivisible showing up to student organized protests and ignoring our messaging discipline, and fucking Disrupt trying to absorb us).
Currently in the process of joining a local coop supermarket where everyone becomes a member and joins in running the supermarket as a cooperative, using only bio and fair trade products at an equal or even lower price than regular supermarkets.
Not necessarily communist led but still a cool thing to join of you have such a thing nearby. Great way to meet people, I guess.
hapy cake day :]
A Kurdish protest in my city has been the target of a knife attack it seems. 6 people have been injured. I know a lot of people active in the left wing scene who often visit these rallies so hope nobody got hurt. So far no info on the suspects.
According to local anarchists the protest was attacked by jihad supporters, whoever that may be
Any other USians have that “growth mindset vs fixed mindset” thing really pushed on them in elementary school?
I feel like it was in a literal sense true but I always felt really infantilized by it. Although tbh I always felt infantilized at school in general anyway.
not usamerican but turbo vassal state and yeah. it’s pretty basic for me and it was very incessant throughout all of my childhood (i’m still in school but they’ve cooled off cuz i’m not a 5 year old anymore) and even when i was 5 i was like Okay i get it. but i still don’t hate the idea of it because my dad when he heard about it was like holy shit this changes my whole life and i was like oh okay if it makes you happy
Idk but you can get better at anything by practicing and studying.
I did not have that experience, but the first thing I found in searching it on the web was an article about being an entrepreneur, so I can see what the problem may be lol. 💀 Probably gets warped into an individualist/idealist “overcome through power of will” thing. I know when I was doing therapy, I had times it seemed like my therapist was caught up in some thing about individual power of will and not properly acknowledging systemic factors.
Problem is, a lot of mainstream “advice” is there to redirect you back into integrating with capitalism and away from criticizing it, so they warp frameworks that may otherwise have legitimate aspects to them, toward that purpose.
The research around it is true, in that believing you can get better at something helps you get better at it more than if you think you are “genetically predisposed” to a certain level of performance in said task.
I think your experience of it being infantilizing is more due to the general cheesiness of psych and health learned in school when you’re young. When you’re young, you’re told all these ideas about eating healthy, sleeping early, adopting healthy psych techniques to help you succeed, like the growth mindset. At the time, we often disregard them as just irrelevant things that adults tell us, only to find out when we’re older that everything they said was right and they just kind of sucked at explaining it.
I myself am going through this revelation of eating healthier, sleeping better, learning useful techniques in therapy that all were touched on in grade school, but I didn’t take seriously back then until I ran into the problems I feel now.
this is very true god i fucking love sleeping at normal hours nowadays 📣 and i dont give a shit about my hs performance too so if they want me to bother with homework i tell them to fuck off and i sleep anyway . and life is so wonderful that way
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