• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    31·
    10 months ago

    The events after October 7th are really fucking with my mental wellbeing. First of all I want to say that I know the west has always been fucked up. But the sheer amount of hate, propaganda and lying that has been going on ever since is just sickening.

    Like, I am actively trying to fight against a genocide by protesting, raising awareness, aiding strikers and whatnot. I see images of dead children on the daily. I see images of starving people on the daily. I see war crimes being committed. Every. Single. Day. But somehow the media and the politicians and other people are trying to make it seems like I am in the wrong? For opposing apartheid and genocide? It makes me sick. It is despicable. It makes me seriously doubt why I am living in this society. How on earth will I ever be able to function normally when they very society I need to contribute to, is supporting genocide? I can’t wrap my mind around it.

    • Ivysaur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      This is exactly how I feel as a covid-aware disabled person living in current reality. I have had genuine crises of ideology through it. Myself and people like me have, in effect, been abandoned by all, in whom as a communist I place the utmost confidence for radical positive change, and that is such a fucked up contradiction to navigate. I have watched friends and friends of friends die and continue to die to this shit as the world moves on and tells us we are in the wrong and actively punishes us for caring, and those of us not lucky enough to remain to struggle easily forgotten.

      I have no faith in anyone anymore, especially not in the imperial core and especially not after witnessing the fallout of last October. Not after seeing everyone go back to brunch in '21 throwing any semblance of community care and public health away. Not after being in the summer of '20 George Floyd riots in my city and seeing in real-time the BLM movement co-opted and defanged right in my backyard. It feels like more and more of a depraved and hopeless situation in the western world- and most of all in the US- to me.

      It’s not in my nature to stop resising, as I’m sure can be said for you, too. I said it elsewhere and I’ll say it here: as long as I’m alive and able, I’m not going out without giving these people hell to pay and I will never stop doing what I can for the struggle and what little of my comrades in that struggle remain that I can cling to. I owe no less to myself at the very least; you owe it to yourself. We are correct, and that has to amount to something in the end.

      “I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.” stalin heart hands

    • Alpacario@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      10 months ago

      The propaganda really does hurt, especially seeing what it does to others. So many people I love I now have to contend with being pretty much fascists who at near every chance given will gleefully talk my ear off about how stupid the Palestinians are for not liking the US or how protestors should be locked up/run over; they even donate to the IDF. Perfectly intelligent and empathetic people suddenly acting like monsters. It’s made it so much harder to be around those close to me.

    • RedCheer@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      10 months ago

      Feeling gaslit by the imperialists and genocidal sociopaths. You’re on the right side, comrade. Thanks for putting your ethics and morals into action.

    • Che's Motorcycle@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      10 months ago

      the very society I need to contribute to, is supporting genocide

      Are you finding that to be true even with younger people? I would expect them to be at least less disinformed than older folks. If so, it might make sense to focus your efforts there.

      But I hear you. Where I live, it’s as if Palestine doesn’t even exist. Only one protest was organized after October 7th, and since then it seems everyone is back to normal.

    • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      10 months ago

      Now there’s a string of anti-imperialist West African countries from the coast to Lake Chad. Very good, especially since they all border eachother.

  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    10 months ago

    Update on the cat: the surgery was successful, only one tooth was removed. I have already brought her back home. She is displeased. Her paw seems to be hurting somewhat due to the anesthesia catheter. Additionally, we’ll need to get her kidneys checked, because blood biochemistry had some stats in red.

    Keep wondering if it’s easier with children, because they can at least point where they’re hurting. But then realise it’s probably worse, mentally.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    10 months ago

    Yet another week on planet Earth

    There’s this somewhat popular left wing reporter in The Netherlands who posted an instagram pic of a sticker that said Fuck NATO and it brought out the socdems in the comments. I started beefing with some of them and their responses boiled down to CONSPIRACY NUT/RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA/ITS JUST NOT TRUE REEEE and that was it. Everything I don’t like is fake.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    10 months ago

    The Flemish Nationalist party released their party program for the upcoming elections.

    Their nemesis towards the Islam has ended. Woke is public enemy number one now.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    10 months ago

    A Belgian newspaper is rating politicians based on their last year efforts on a scale from 1 to 5 stars. One of our politicians, Jos D’Haese, got rated 4.5/5 as the highest rated politician. I thought it was pretty cool.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    10 months ago

    Our party has started a push for nationalizing the recently declared bankrupt bus manufacturer in Belgium. We want to keep the productive forces capable of building (electric) buses instead of just letting them go bankrupt, forcing 2500 people out of a job.

    • LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      10 months ago

      Sounds like a great plan! Is there any process you can legally follow for this? Will the financial receiver not just ignore you and just asset strip the place?

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
        8·
        10 months ago

        I don’t know really, it’s the first time I see something like this. I know the Belgian government did something similar during the banking crisis years ago, so I guess it’s possible?

        As for the asset strip: the company will go bankrupt if they don’t find someone to take over. So far no realistic offer has been made. The government is perfectly able to do just that. It’s a lost cause I think with neoliberals in charge, but it’s goot to get the message of nationalization out there for the people to consider.