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Wow Oppo, are you immortal?
Literally
she has been hoping for nice weeks since the dawn of time
And I assume will do so until the end
First time in the US and in Washington DC. Thought Supreme Leader Biden’s Palace was bigger…
Besides that, experiencing the imperial core for the first time after becoming a commie has been interesting, to say the least. United Statesians seem like great people, it’s just too bad they’re indoctrinated as hell when it comes to leftist ideas.
Cheers from Brazil!
So our party leader is going around on television to highlight how Colruyt, a leading supermarket chain in Belgium, is supposedly paying 0.27% tax on a 1.8 billion euro profit. But the thing is, it’s not entirely true. If you look at all the daughter companies and the main company together, the actual tax percentage is around 25%. Still, it’s less than an average Belgian person has to pay of course but it seems that either he and our study dept. fucked up on this one or he decided to roll with it anyway and got caught with it.
Now, of course this ‘communist lie’ gets more media attention that normal. But it still is weird to just tell misleading information.
Meanwhile a local branch of far right party Vlaams Belang is parading around a guy who dresses up as Hitler and newspapers decided to give ´Little Hitler´ a visit to ´hear his story´. We´re worse though.
Little Hitler brings back memories.
What an interesting place!
Going to the doctor this afternoon. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼
Well nothing concerning it seems. Probably some nerve or muscle annoyance. Good to know I guess, kinda sucks that I have to live with it 🤷
The good old classic “come back when you are dead”
Onkruid vergaat niet
Is it something that foam rolling would sort out?
Yeah looking into something like that right now. Or a massage or fysio. It has gotten better last week with stretches, more walking /running as well.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
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why did my upside-down text not get an upvote, this is discrimination
Oh sorry I will upvote it :update I upvoted it
disaster averted
So, I am one TMS short of the final treatment that is going to happen tomorrow. They say it will have it’s effects in 2 weeks time. I feel better, but from complex causes, mainly a supportive family.
Today I attended my very first protest and met the president of our party. On one hand it was a blast, I had old guys congratulating me showing up for the event and a young comrade approaching me to engage in a conversation. Not to mention the several positive comments and smiles I got for the pins I was wearing. On the other hand, I have hyper-empathy and I hated every second of people walking by and making comments and so on. There was even a dude spitting once towards the speaker. How do you guys process shit like this? The feeling was and still kinda is unbearable.
by people walking by and making comments you mean people from outside the protest, right?
Exactly. It’s heartbreaking.
I feel you, comrade. That’ll happen until the end of time, unfortunately. Bigots are everywhere. What I did is to occupy my mind with something else right after an encounter like that (that’s how I got my monster energy addiction lol)
What is TMS?
What if there was a Marxism test? Not so people could brag about their scores or be allowed into things, just a diagnostic assessment. It could be used to figure out one’s theoretical weaknesses and what they should study. More like a personality test than an important standardized one.
Marxism SATs
Socialism Aptitude Test
An Angel 🥹
i miss @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
Same… They’re busy with school, I think.
I’ve been subjected to too much NPR in the last few days. It’s sad hearing them and knowing Marxism would help them so much in making sense of the world. For example I remember when, on Planet Money, the guest was asked what would happen if there was no unemployment. He couldn’t come up with an answer.
Citations Needed is like a left wing NPR.
True, that show’s great.
sorry if it’s a dumb question, but what’s NPR?
U.S.'s “National Public Radio”.
Don’t let the name fool you, they receive more private funding than public funding. They even got mad at Musk for slapping a “U.S. government-affiliated media” label on their Twitter account, crying, “no, in fact, we’re almost 99% privately owned!” and ditching the platform.
I have liked a couple of their programs, but even their best program cannot escape the confines of the liberal braincage.
Oh, during Bush’s presidency, they banned the word torture from being used in any of their pieces detailing his administration, claiming it was a loaded and biased term to describe waterboarding. So.
Never sure how much weight to place on ‘public’ even in the best of bourgeois dictatorships.
So there’s this popular Ex-Muslim youtuber that I used to watch a while back.
They became a raging Zionist.
Average “Ex-Muslim” Westerner be like.
Internalized racism from post 9/11 islamophobia do be hutting different
Anyone has that hoang phan post about ex-nazi hired by CIA to produce plague bombs for korea? I saw that post in lesser known facts on quora can’t find it, because it was deleted, I believe he took a screenshot on that.
I’m surprised you expect people to know who hoang phan is, and yet I do. However, I cannot help you, as I was only active a while ago on that terrible site.
turns out i made a post while back
found out about them here. 😂
How? I’ve never seen a post of theirs on here.
i am not sure. it might just be a comment as far as i can remember.
By far the most underrated human skill.
When I met Stalin, I did not find him enigmatic. I found him the easiest person to talk to I ever met. He is far and away the best committee chairman of my experience. He can bring everybody’s views out and combine them in the minimum of time
There are people who think that the record inflation in the US is caused by the one time stimulus checks that got sent out 2 years ago (and dwarfed by corporate stimulus packages) and not corporations price gouging for record profits. Like there’s invisible wall where they understand that corporations got more stimulus than individuals and corporations are reporting record profits but the final gap just isn’t closing to make the connection between price go up and corporate number go up. The problem is obviously 🙄 the fact that some poor people got money.
I’m talking specifically about a member of my gaming guild, who is pretty unavoidable if I want to play with my guild. I just can’t with this dude.
there are dozens of small business in my area that have between zero and three employees, each of these businesses got hundreds of thousands of dollars in PPP loans, all of which were forgiven
