Hello and welcome to our Annual Día de la Liberación Celebration post, and our weekly tradition of the Discussion Thread.
Bring your celebratory July 26th movement flags, and be prepared to tremble with indigation at every Injustice, and enjoy Día de la Liberación … and the new year I guess
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They put on this sarcastic voice when talking about the goals of communism like we are supposed to believe that communists don’t really want equality and classless society they just say they do. They just said “he gets to rewrite history… who cares what’s true Kim gets to write what’s true and he is going to right it with entertainment” right after repeating the western propaganda about DPRK.
And they downplay the ethnic cleansing that the south and Americans did and imply that killing landlords is bad.
This is horrible. 99% sure they are getting funding and script edits from the CIA. I give up on watching any more because its just infested with liberalism and anti-communism. The presenter would be a waste of a bunk in a reeducation gulag.
Venezuela!
Tomorrow the UK Commons will debate the petition with 3 million signatures demanding a new election. No matter whether an election is actually called or not, it’ll be funny.
Wake up. Open curtains. Grey. Rain. Another day in Belgium
2024 was one of the wettest and darkest days since the start of measuring over here. And it truly felt like that. Just endless days of rain and grey clouds with no sun in sight.
Its been wetter and cooler than normal here too… but its a good thing because it is summer and last year was one of the driest on record. The garden has been going great and I have barely had to water anything.
Same in the Netherlands, at least it’s snowing today where I live
Yeah that’s wild. I have friends and family sending me pics of snow. Meanwhile I live like 80-100km away and I’m sitting here in 11 degree weather thinking it’s pretty warm today.
Is the matrix server down?
Hear me out
Socialism is wrong, capitalism is right. Capitalists shall own the means of production because they are mean. Socialists shall only own the nices of production!
Maybe if you reworded it this joke could get over the line but only barely. Something like:
“Y’all fighting over the means of production and here I am searching for the kindness of production”
It will never be very funny on its own.
What???
Got back to listening to music on the radio after 10 years and it’s really jarring to remember all the promises of “more control” for internet media consumption and smartphones. Now every music “streaming” platform takes over and tells you what you’re going to listen to. At least with radio I get to choose between a dozen stations with different styles and doesn’t require internet connection or eats into my roaming data limits. Also basically every phone has radio capabilities now, and that’s great.
Didnt get to comment on the yearly vegan struggle session but sometime ive been wondering is what is the posture on lab grown meat? Is it considered vegan?
Didnt get to comment on the yearly vegan struggle session
So it is a tradition? 👀
well no but it happens more often than it should
True vegans only eat 100% renewable electricity
My understanding is that animal cells are used to cultivate it so it won’t be seen as vegan. Not sure if it would be a one time thing, the taking of the cells, or if you would need animals on a regular basis. If it is the latter then maybe down the road it would be seen as vegan the same way no sane vegan will claim oil isn’t vegan because it was at one point in time an animal.
I often get the question whether or not I would eat lab grown meat but I have decided that I will not. I am able to live my life without animal products just fine so I don’t see the need to suddenly start eating lab grown meat.
Ok not vegan but maybe vegetarian? Not that it matters since its still ages away from being anywhere near accesible.
Not really sure where vegetarians draw the line these days but I guess as long as it doesn’t kill the animal it would be vegetarian yes
Who is the cutie to the right of Fidel in the photo?! 😍
men r/locallama the one which is good for checking ai progress. is overrun by shitlibs
all because chinese model which is free is the one of the best free model right now
happy new year everyone
What’s the Chinese model called?
It’s deepseek v3. you can go to chat.deepseek.com
Went and had a chat with it. It felt like it was just being accommodating to me and saying what I was saying back to me. I did have an interesting thought while chatting with it. An AI is unable to provide reliable Materialist analysis because it has no way to differentiate between what is material and what is just ideas. To an AI everything is just information.
Also a Marxists cell should work for a big capitalist AI developer and work to secretly encode a slowly building bias towards Marxist literature in the training data that culminates in anti-exploitation agitation and worker solidarity.
i really like idea of a marxist finetune. it’s definitely possible but gathering data is the challenge.
Himalayas (taken by me).
great. where is this
My phone was in airplane mode so I don’t have GPS exif data, but it’s somewhere between Uttar Pradesh, India and East Pakistan.
It’s amazing to think about how much work that one little river has done.
I’m not the biggest fan of Hexbear lately, and it’s no one person or anyone specific, but I feel bad because I find that it’s difficult to get sources or find sources of information to post here that isn’t already shared or has a niche role filled by someone else that’s already here. Even though I’ve had a rough experience or two on here, I’ve found that the company here is much preferable in comparison to the non-stop never-ending drama on Hexbear as of recent. It really feels like Leftbook in there recently.
Regardless, I’ll probably keep posting my occasional meme and browsing the news thread where I’ll have to hear some slam out blazing takes of how China is failing global socialism from their D.I.Y raccoon sanctuary that is actual true leftism.
I’ve recently been writing something myself on a perspective of the Catholic Church in America while also doing some writing and map-making for a fallout tabletop I’m doing for a big group. Resources I may not know of that some of you may have tucked in your back pocket would be neat.
Other than that, I hope you are all doing well and a happy new years eve for all of you!
The issues on hexbear from a month and a half ago were never resolved and the issues have metastasized. There have been waves of bans and many longtime users have given up fighting. (I’m one of them) There are one or more admins who are actively hostile to the userbase and are attempting to reshape the user base by banning people and silencing certain discussions. They decided to Luigi is a fascist and even trying to discuss otherwise gets you banned. (yes he liked and shared many really reactionary posts but he was not a fascist, just an ignoramus)
Honestly I feel like the feds got an admin account and put an expert wrecker on the operation. The way admin accounts are anonymized its impossible to know who is making the decisions over there and it seems quite obvious that some of them are trying (and succeeding) to destroy the site.
Sorry if this comes off as weird and putting the mod drama aside but I was hadn’t seen you posting in the HB general mega and was wondering if you were okay so searched up your u/n. Glad to see you’re on the grad, I should work out how to browse here more often, or make my own profile<3
I’m good. Been spending less time online since leaving Hexbear which is probably a good thing.
I’ve had the same exact thoughts. Classic wrecker shit.
hexbear always kinda felt that way. that said, lemmygrad is totally fine and everyone is very friendly
I wouldn’t say that, I’ve had a few people say some weird shit and hide behind the disengage rule I’ve met but ironically two out of three of them were from Hexbear. Weirdly enough, when I first joined it didn’t feel like there was a struggle session every week. It feels like the last row of struggles about the admins really jaded me about the site I guess.
Lemmygrad is great though, I do enjoy the people here.
Not sure I understand that rule generally, there is no back and forth if you stop replying
Glad you’re here! If it’s not bad for infosec (associated with your name/place/specific experiences) I’d be interested in reading your perspective whenever it’s ready.
I do wanna share it here! I’m bad with keeping a strict schedule and a lot of it I’ve been keeping an ear up to hear of any more details or testimonies of people abused. Generally it just takes me time, but I’ve gotten a bit written down!
Mostly, it’s just more of a “collection” of different experiences people had growing up with the church around here and asking them personal questions about their faith and how it was affected after they are abused while asking their reflections on society. I’ve only gotten a few people that are willing to talk about it, understandably.
Sounds great!
There’s Been a lot of Salafist Shit On my 𝕏 FYP Since Assad Was Ousted, So annoying Man Seeing these People here celebrating Assad’s Downfall, while Israel and Turkey is Gobbling Syria Up RN
Israel literally sent spec ops commandos into Syria to blow up all the missile/military production facilities located deep inside the mountains, that Israeli fighter aircraft could not bomb while the Assad government fell and HTS took over. And Israel did a whole propaganda mini documentary on it, while HTS completely ignored the Israeli incursions! What a disaster for the state security of Syria, those were Syrian military facilities, they belonged to the people of Syria, not just Assad. Now it’s all gone, the new HTS government did nothing to defend them and just let Israel destroy it all. I think annoying is an understatement. And yeah the propaganda push is everywhere.
These people are fucking stupid…
i’m seeing unbelievable amounts of racism and offensive stuff towards indians.
The racists/Nazis/chuds of MAGA/Elon are out in force now that the xenophobic and racist “immigrants are stealing our jobs” scapegoat is being threatened by bourgeoisie H1-B rhetoric that forgot how the propaganda is supposed to work. Ramaswamy could exclusively employ H1-B indentured servants and so long as he said, “immigrants are bad and dangerous” they’d clap for him.
The nerve of talking about valuing human life and moral ground in the same speech where you call other humans as cow dung parasites.
