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I met someone who is a Free Mason. Not like a LARP thing but an actual Free Mason like the Illuminati group thing those conspiracy people on facebook rant about.
Apparently it is a real thing and he said lots of higher up people are part of it in our country. He said if I wanted to join he'd do a good word for me so of course I said yes lmao. Dying to see what it's all about.
We managed to get a seat in the municipality government of the city of Mons and now one of the country's banks refuses to finance city projects lmao
Russian ICBM use: 3am disinformation snag abetted by the oomfs? Real?
Today at lunch some colleagues were discussing cancel culture because of some inappropriate old 'funny' song. It went from 'shouldn't cancel it' to 'statues of slavers shouldn't be removed' to 'hitler was bullied by Jews but sure that isn't a reason for genocide'
I just kept shut and ate my lunch lol
My most recent thought on understanding the difference between US liberals and conservatives (posting it here cause kinda random):
Liberals are dinner party fascists/imperialists. "We don't talk about that," "you're upsetting people," "let's just try to be nice forced smile."
Conservatives are schrodinger's douchebag fascists/imperialists. "We should totally do something evil, ha ha, just kidding, unless...", "[insert racist stereotype] just a joke tho, if challenged on it, but is deadly serious," "saying that thing that was threatening to you or a minority group was just a troll, a prank, lolol."
But what they have in common as attitude: Both love to shift blame; it's anyone's fault but their own. Both love to downplay or deny atrocities committed by their 'team', or pin the atrocities on some other group (e.g. "it was ackshully the communists who were so bad, ackshully have you considered what Russia is doing when you say colonialism bad?"). Both think it's never the right time to take an ethical stand, unless their party leader tells them it's time to (and they project, accusing other countries of being leader worshipers) and then it's through a warped lens of colonizer binary good/evil, with their "ethical stand" being "we are the civil against the savage."
The cultural acceptance of ableism and abuse of authority in Parkdale high school of Toronto, Canada, fit in the toxic culture that you described especially when some victims of Communism are supporting the brutal authoritarian culture that the Chinese Communist Party eradicated.
I haven't really been bothered by the Ukraine war for the past three years but with things seemingly escalating now I am becoming uncomfortable. Honestly no idea what I will do when war breaks out.
Maybe we should get fat so they can't draft us. Lowkey though I remember being a little chubby and it made me feel so so so so bad. Might be better to be fit and frag. I don't know what to do. Oh hell.
oh no y'all, I'm watching libs pivot from emission reduction to carbon capture, we're so cooked
The copers at r/optimistsunite LOOOOOOOOVE jaw jacking about carbon capture lol. If you mention that only 0.1% of carbon is removed by carbon capture, they immediately bring up muh technological up-scalability. Delusional shit.
I figured this was coming tbh, the writing has been on the wall quietly, behind the scenes in the US energy industry for a really long time.
very politically influential US energy firms have been quietly selling off renewables and planning to ramp up gas and weird distributed nuclear for at least the last 6 years. I used to work for one but I left when they ditched renewables.
renewables got too cheap and China dominated for American capital to be excited about anymore
Every time I hear one of these new subs they made since I stopped using anything other than the like four subs where you can say communist shit I die laughing what the fuck is optimists unite. Just call it /r/ignorethecontradictions
Great idea for a community tbh. that's a terrific idea for a communist feeder community to catch libs and funnel them leftwards.
however nobody deserves to be subjected to "redditors". it's like making people work with asbestos
Wait that would actually be really fun though. Like a circlejerk where people can jerkpost and repost delusional content
Not enough impersonation of reactionaries, it wouldn't trick any of them into joining in and getting banned. Seems like a non-lemmygrad venture, mods here are serious
I had a pretty good day yesterday, a woman I've been quite enjoying getting to know started texting me again.
Hope you feel better soon!
Critical support for the woman and may you have many struggle sessions together
Feeling a lot better right now so thanks!
Also good luck with the woman, Hope things go well!
I appreciate it! I'm wondering if there's a Lemmy community where I could get the advice of internet strangers as to how best to not be an asshole... Do you know of such a community?
Oh jeez I am not sure this is the best posting format for that. Maybe try a post on Comradeship asking for resources and ways to practice? Don't ask me. I just avoid being an asshole to people IRL by cutting off people I don't like. 🤣
Haha, less of an option in this case. I think I've got the near-term sorted though so maybe I'll be on c/comradeship later but for now, we'll see
Thanks for the community rec!
No problem! To be completely honest I have no idea as I barely venture out of lemmygrad or hexbear. This thread alone is good enough in my opinion though. Apologies for not being able to give a community
Nothing to apologize for! I'll look around a bit for what question I'm really asking and probably write up a top level comment!
I am gathering power from the great storm over me. Carnage everywhere is strengthening me.
joined bluesky recently (against my better judgment) and spent like 4 hours trolling a guy who was talking out of his ass about how Ukraine will totally licherally win any day now, and I just kept asking the simple question of "how??". They basically just kept saying "muh advanced technology" and I was like... is there some sort of portal technology that the US has been sitting on? What possible "technology" can undo the fact that Russia has already completed several of it's war objectives while UKR has completed exactly none of them. Americans really do believe they're invincible and it's just by good grace that they don't conquer the rest of the world by force.
Who needs magical solution when you can dictate that Russia failed because they only do enough to defend minority group from massacre and not follow the objective to conquer Ukraine that the Pax Americana media fabricated?
I feel sad seeing all these Gazans on Instragram asking for donations, knowing I can't give them anything since I don't have a credit card
Reposting helps a tiny bit! Some people have trouble vetting and locating fundraising
Pics that go hard...successful ambush by Hezbollah on the IOF:
Show
Their videos are just insane did you see the tank destruction montage lmao
I was at a party this weekend and I heard someone say: 'Yeah I'm terrified of China becoming a global super power'. I don't drink and I didn't feel like arguing with a drunk guy so I just went to get some food but it was interesting hearing a take like that in the wild.
yeah man, how fucked up would it be to have to have to constantly fear a genocidal hegemony who can surveil your every thought, holds a nuclear arsenal, has a total strangehold over the means of information, and ruthlessly destroys any perceived threat to itself. What a nightmare. /s
I apparently had two intense workouts at the gym this week and now my whole body is sore on a monday. Everything for the gains tho.
What will happen this week? No idea. I feel a bit foggy brained like I'm in between things and I don't know what exactly.
On a more positive note: the elections seem to have given us a good amount of new members who want to be active in our local groups ✌🏼
and you are just telling me this now? after I ran the trains so well for you?
But hear me out... no, I will not, out of pure stuborn spite
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
