• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    I have formally been asked to join the free masons. Not sure if I’ll do it but I guess it would be funny.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      1 day ago

      Ask them questions like “what’s the pension plan look like?” or “If I get kidnapped for the secrets of the lodge do I get rescued or do I have to break open my fake tooth filled with cyanide?”

      From what I have been told by members the masons are just a buisness networking association. They recruit a bunch of people and they find ways to make them feel like they owe favors to the other lodge members. Higher ranking members are the ones who know how to exploit the other members and guilt them. Most people never really benefit from membership and upward mobility is based strictly on wealth.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    2 days ago

    I had forgotten how exhausting it is to hear libs go on about Trump after a few days like they’re just discovering what “decisions against their interests” are. I don’t think I was as aware the first time around either, it feels somehow more painful this time, like having spent years on and off trying to tell people a car is crashing and them mostly brushing it off or not taking it all that seriously and then Trump is in power and suddenly they’re like “omg car crash incoming, are you seeing this?!?”

    It would be one thing if they were like “I see what you meant now”. But the Trump narrative isn’t like that. The Trump narrative says that he is somehow uniquely bad and different from the rest of the system, not of it.

    And I think the most aggravating part to me, within that, is the “blame voters” narrative. Seriously gets under my skin. Guy is trying to wreck things and your priority is “hate on your fellow regular person”??? We (in the US) were presented with “genocidal top cop without a primary to vote on” vs. “genocidal shitty mob boss”. There was nothing voting could have done to fundamentally improve that short of being able to someone get millions to switch to a third party and then they probably would have declared it illegitimate somehow.

    • Dengalicious@lemmygrad.mlEspañol
      9·
      2 days ago

      Recently I find myself thinking of Mao’s oft-quoted concept that one has no right to speak if they have not investigated the subject matter. I find so many liberals commenting on the affairs who, quite simply, lack even a cursory understanding of history. I’ve come to see most liberals as egoists at this point: everyone thinks they have something to say even when their education and knowledge on the matter is limited to an extreme degree. Having thoughts are one thing, but if you do not know what the Nullification Crisis is, or your historical understanding precludes any thought from before 1900 than I quite simply do not wish to hear what you have to say.

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        2 days ago

        everyone thinks they have something to say even when their education and knowledge on the matter is limited to an extreme degree

        Yesss, so much this. That’s one of the things I’ve tried to address in my own thinking in becoming more communist and less liberal, is if I don’t know enough about something, I don’t need to have a “take” on it. Especially I try to apply this with countries I don’t live in. Most of the time, if I’m being honest with myself, I know little about the realities of them. And it’s one of the things that motivates me to learn Mandarin, so that I can learn about China from the perspective of China and Chinese people living there, not through a western imperialist “endless lies” filter.

        • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          4 hours ago

          Liberals have main character syndrome. and its fucking annoying.

          Also, I got on Redbook recently to see what the hype is all about. It’s been a really good, mostly wholesome experience. As a Westerner it’s been cool to talk with people from China about daily life and run into the odd culture clash.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    2 days ago

    It’s scary and fascinating at the same time watching fascism unfold in real time. You’d think it would be fast and spectacular but it’s slow and sort of boring. One freedom robbing law after the other gets implemented. One fascist puppet gets put in a position. Slowly but steadily life gets harder and more miserable. And the majority of the people is just passively watching it unfold.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      2 days ago

      They learned from their experiences. Taking power slowly and gradually means there is less resistance. If nazi germany had been slower going into extermination mode europe probably would have just sat back and let it happen. If they waited a bit longer to invade france and sent some time making baseless accusations to justify their war the rest of europe probably wouldn’t have cared. If they had exercised more soft power on britain and the usa they could have probably gotten their support.

    • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      2 days ago

      The trick here is to know that precursors to overt Fascism occurs is only obvious but hidden from the news. The Nazi Death Camps are modelled after the so-called Indian Residential Schools where Indigenous children are being enslaved, experimented on, tortured, and murdered since the 1850s. The fake school genocide might also be continuing to the present in secret. The Nazi Concentration Camps are imitation of the Federal Reserve concentration camps in the British diaspora that are still continuing. In fact, the British emigrant governments still continues the planned starvation, planned chemical attacks, planned illegal occupation by European immigrant corporations, and planned raids by European immigrant rapists against Indigenous people in the concentration camps.

      The current economic sanctions and threats of annexation by Trump against a fellow British diaspora country is the same aggressions that the Western Europeans and British diaspora had been commiting against former European colonies and successful countries founded by people of color. The difference from the typical aggression by Pax Americana is that Trump is directing the aggression against a rich stable country of Western European diaspora and commiting it openly.

      The current exploitation of vulnerable refugees and foreign students by the Western European diasproa are a continuation of the exploitation against their Indigenous population to some extent.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    Ever since the elections are over some of our party leaders are doing side quests lol. Some of em are currently in Cuba doing God knows what. Curious to see what it’s all about.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    3 days ago

    Seems like shit is going down in Congo right now but I haven’t found a good source on what exactly is happening. It says Rwandan backed rebels are taking a city.

  • Felhfeltetel ☭@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    3 days ago

    I don’t remember who it was, but a couple weeks back I have seen someone posting about them getting the Pura 70 from Huawei for themselves.

    I used to have a Pixel, which was 4-5 years old by now.

    A month ago Google messaged me, that the batteries are faulty in this model, therefore one of the options offered to us was 20 USD cash payment, which I accepted, although the money did not yet arrive.

    Whatever. This accelerated the process of me having to find a new phone, as the one I had needed to be charged hourly. I had to find something I can afford and good enough to be by my side for years to come. I was of course eyeing the Pura 70, but that is way over my budget. I got an Honor 200 Pro on a discount, and I love it. Just wanted to share my story. I hope, you, mysterious person like your Pura as well. Awesome products.