Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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So the news of the moment in the country right now is about a gynecology student who has been found guilty of the rape of another student during a night out after she got incredibly drunk and couldn’t in any way consent.
He has been found guilty, he admitted he was guilty even. What is the problem, you think? Well, he faces no jail time. No criminal record. No exemption from his job (AS A FUCKING GYNECOLOGIST!). Nothing. There are no consequences. Why? Because they judge found him to be an ‘extremely talented and caring and nice person who doesn’t deserve his life to be ruined’. Read: he is white and from a rich family.
What a way to start the month in which campaigns against sexual violence against women are highlighted.
There is also this youtuber who is now exposing him as details about his name (after conviction!!!) are nowhere to be found. This youtuber also exposed the details of the murderers of student Sanda Dia a while back (who didn’t get punished either, because rich and white) and he got punished for that. He faces jailtime now for exposing the rapist, effectively getting a heavier punishment.
i will always be distrustful of male gynecologist
And I really don’t think anyone will blame you when the government presents an enthusiasm for letting such individuals be above the law.
yea, i mostly distrust them because my most degenerate acquaintances from high school went to study medicine and are specializing in gynecology…
Yeah that’d do it too. It is very unfortunate too that such horrible people specialise in such a domain as there is a global shortage of gyno doctors, hopefully the global precident changes soon
screams
cries
Understandable
joins screaming
Why, we’ve got a choir here!
starts screaming as well
stares, then screams
I won’t tell you it’s going to be alright but there will probably be moments where things are a bit better than they are now.
Working on egocide
Ecocide?
Egocide, killing ego.
Unfortunately I have depression and was debilitated by it (on and off and on again) for lack of better words about a year, its all quite sad if you let it be. BUT, for lack of better words my ego just has to die for me to move on to the next stage in life, and as a process it’s actually going quite well which I am glad about. I’ve been working on this process for a while and I’m proud of myself. I’m trying and I’ve got a stupid grin on my face doing it. Couple really scary things I have to face soon, so I’ll have to keep braving the storm but until then, its just egocide I have to worry about.
Alright, but make sure to have a healthy balance between your self and other people. Boundaries are important. I don’t know exactly what you’re going through, but include helping yourself in with helping others.
Well, maybe your ego has to completely die, but doing things for yourself is not selfish.
Will do Makan <3 not trying to be some selfless martyr or something, just a healthy happy fulfilled person, my wording probably just sounded super ominous or something my bad
OHHHH
I see, I see.
Yeah, I feel that, and sometimes, we have to take a step back from ourselves and let our ego go and think about the whole.
I getcha now.
For a person killing their ego you sure used the word “I” a lot. (This is mostly a joke.) Though attempting to limit references to oneself is an interesting exercise in ego death and mindfulness.
lMfao good point. Curious though did you get this tidbit from a philosophy of some kind? Chickennuggies would like to give it a read, it would be helpful ;p <3
I really couldn’t tell you where I got it. Its been a long time since my explorations in that area.
If any of yall are going through it, reach out to me if you want to talk, and on top of that I invite you to see a therapist, honestly it really does help. Be kind to yourself, you’ll stupidly enough survive all of the things you’re scared of (lil projection, but it might help the reader)
lol speed streams on China feel like a Yakuza video game
I hope you all have a nice week :D
U2!
same to you
noice
And the nicest of weeks to you as well, comrade! :D
Lemur: behold! Uh, something
screams
O7
lil homie too cute
Have a nice week!
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Is there any kind of talk anyone can point me to on working with/bridging gaps to the brown and black lumpen in the deep south? I’m surrounded by them here in the hood; but I wouldn’t know how to start. Thanks in advance.
i had a really really really fucking terrible day, made a mistake that likely cost me my entire year of work if not more.
SCREAMS
libs handwaving literal fucking CIA documents about the gulags and Stalin pisses me off. My gf’s friend also had a fight with her because my gf’s friend’s bf got mad at her for supposedly flirting with his gf and now I’m in a generally sour mood.
I also have an account here now :D
also I swear I saw someone have a trans flag in their display name but when I add it to mine it won’t let me save >:(
Did you come with my friend asking people on Reddit to join Lemmygrad?
I don’t use Reddit anymore, I came here from Hexbear
Awesome. Is Hexbear alright?
yup
good
Ugh, is that bug back again? Looks like I’m going digging around in some Rust again lol.
Day #13098724019827350912374509 of looking for jerb
Material possessions and money give me anxiety. There was a time in my life in which I didn’t really have much and I’m not saying I was necessarily happy but I was less anxious for sure. Now I have a car and disposable income and whatnot and suddenly I feel more trapped. Like, there is much more pressure to maintain this certain image that you have build, more pressure to keep performing in this society. And at the same time it feels whiny to complain about this because it could be so much worse. Hell, a couple year back I was in a much worse place. But at least I felt like I had the freedom to do things, paradoxically.
Basically, I feel like I have been pushed into some sort of role in society in which I have to work to maintain, in my eyes, useless things while the things I actually do value I have no time for. I spend a big amount of time each week at a place I don’t want to be in order to pay for things I don’t want or things I find ridiculously expensive all the while my energy is drained to the point I cannot do something else.
Just rambling, I guess.
A general strike today. Down with capitalism.
Life was really simple when I was homeless… but my back loves my mattress and not carrying everything I own all the time.
I’m in a similar boat. I ended up getting rid of my car and a bunch of other expenses that were not bringing me joy and were a drain on me. As a result, I’ve been able to save a lot as a bulwark against the need to constantly perform. It doesn’t help though, because I still need to go to a place I don’t want to be for too many hours per day. It’s not like I could survive indefinitely if I stop working.
I hope to see the day at which I can live in a peaceful Basque coastal town, drinking my espresso, listening to Cuban music at the beach. One day capitalism will be over, comrades.
Inshallah comrade
Online debate tribunes are cool as fuck and I love that my organisation has one. I don’t have enough energy to contribute to the discussion on a national scale, but it’s fantastic to be able to read so many writings from comrades in order to better refine the line both at the base and at the top. Democratic centralism is the best organisational methodology even in the slogan: “freedom of criticism, unity of action”.
I am pretty happy about the fact that I taught somebody five days ago of the Palestinians’ Jewish heritage. She had also been under the mistaken impression that they were simply the descendants of some Arab tribe that moved in shortly after the Roman Empire expelled the Jewish population, and when I showed her the reality, she was fascinated.
Funny story about my source of inspiration: out of boredom, I looked into archived /pol/ threads (which I don’t recommend doing, by the way, especially with images turned on) where some antisemites wrote off the Palestinians as being Jewish. Then I did the same thing on X (formerly known as Twitter) and found others doing it, though some users actually brought up the fact in good faith and offered evidence for it. That was what really sparked my interest.
Yeah. This is a really important idea. Pushing back on the narrative that israel is the ancestral homeland of Jewish people destroys the legitimacy of the zionist state. Palestinians are descended primarily from Hebrews that converted from Judaism to Christianity and Islam. While israelis are descended primarily from europeans who converted to Judaism. The lie that Jewish is a race or ethnicity and not a religion is an invention by zionists.
What do you say to my theory that Zionists recognized the largely untreated generational trauma of the Jews that were in the Holocaust and their descendants as something to be weaponized ?
That’s not just your theory. Its fact. israeli schools send kids on death camp tours in europe. I heard somewhere that they don’t use local tour guides and instead have israeli guides who’s entire job is to scare fascism into kids but I am having trouble remembering where I heard it.
Going to join a match against sexual violence today following the rape case in which a rapist saw no punishment because he was ‘talanted and likeable’. You just know your country is doing something fucked up if r/news has a better reaction to it than your own country’s subreddit.
