Welcome again, everyone! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
We have a Matrix homeserver, where I am your overlord friendly server admin :), at genzedong.xyz. See this thread for information about our Matrix space.
Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Anna’s Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.
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In January 1923, the young journalist Ernest Hemingway covered the Lausanne Conference for the Toronto Daily Star. His first encounter with Mussolini left him distinctly unimpressed. Ushered into a room along with other journalists, Hemingway found the Premier so deeply absorbed in a book that he did not bother to look up. Curious, Hemingway “tiptoed over behind him to see what the book was he was reading with such avid interest. It was a French‐English dictionary—held upside down.”
Hmm… there is something awfully ominous about this.he was just practicing for his hanging
So Ben Stiller’s character in Dodgeball was partially inspired by Mussolini. 😂
what the fuck? you serious
AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now
Good wrap up of ‘left’ Dem politicians and AOC in particular, but especially fascinating to me just how close libs can get to realizing the futility of electoralism without ever actually getting there.
I think that moment is very far gone where she rejected any inkling of anything further than moderate politics
Varios talking heads from and around the Russian government have been carefully talking about another “partial mobilization”. I don’t like this.
I hope everything will be alright for you my friend!
Ask an AI to generate a middle eastern skyscape
Giant mosque with several D O M E S
Domes are cool. We should bring back domes in architecture
In light of Makan CPUSA finally getting banned, I’ve come to realize that his posts would on average gain the most traction out of anyone here.
Particularly the ones about videogames.
Are we all just secretly gamers? Terrifying prospect.
I don’t know about all of us being full on gamers, but it seems most of us at least play some video games.
why did he get banned?
Official ban reasoning says it was because of comments he made in the matrix server. His recent post appeared to spark a discussion about the CPUSA which didn’t go down very well, I assume it had something to do with that.
They where uncivil in a discussion about CPUSA, then through around insults and accusations without evidence in the Lemmygrad matrix channel
His baseless assertions remind me of when he declared ResearchGate ‘alt‐right’, and when I asked for evidence all that he told me was ‘I was there a few times and saw their bad takes.’
Why the fuck would an alt‐right website of all things host a black researcher’s report on Fascist Italy’s mustard gas attacks on Ethiopians? That’s utterly mindless. It pissed me off because I wanted to tell people about a serious subject and the first comment that I got was an ‘I don’t like this source’ comment (and a poorly substantiated one at that). I thought, ‘Fuck, I guess that I can’t link to this one anymore.’
That said, I think that a permanent ban was too long for him.
That said, I think that a permanent ban was too long for him.
Judging by the modlog, the ban switched from temporary to permanent after he said some stuff in the lemmygrad matrix room. I have no idea what it was he said, though.
He was throwing a fit and saying he would get hexbear to not federate with us “because he’s on the mod team”
- why would we even care that much? Like it will be nice to have more people to engage with our comms but we do just fine without hexbear federated
- he’s not an admin over there like he was implying, he’s only been on hexbear for a month and they let him mod a couple of comms, he has 0 sway on their admin team
It’s a shame, I think he was a decent poster
saying he would get hexbear to not federate with us “because he’s on the mod team”
Looks like the Hexbear admins said no. Also, no idea where he got the idea that lemmygrad harbors patsuccs.
As well as attacking admins of lemmygrad using baseless assertions and not proving evidence
It’s no longer a permanent ban
Is there a lemmygrad specific matrix server? I never saw him in the genzedong one.
Yes there is a lemmygrad spefic one, its less popular than the GZD one but it exists
there’s no separate server (AFAIK), but there is a room at
#internationale:matrix.orgThat is what I ment
finally
I take it you were looking forward to it?
Not really, just that he’s been with us for years and it seemed rather sudden.
I hope someone continues to make those style of posts he made about the video games with discussion questions like that
It’s fun fighting libs with you all 💕 I just wish they would learn lmao
I hope you all have a nice week :D
I hope you have the most amazingly wonderful fantastic week Oppo
Happy (Cuban) National day of the rebellion. Long live Cuba, Long Live the Revolution, Long live the 26th!
Im so glad you clarified your only the admin and not an overlord, I got worried for a second.
I’m definitely not your overlord. Nope, not at all, not sure why you’d ever think that. Definitely no sarcasm in this comment.
Somewhat related: I thought of the pun “cis admin” the other day and am having trouble thinking of a setup to the delivery that doesn’t suck.
Please tell me Oracle realized the pun when they wrote this
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17967_01/ContentIntegration/cis_admin_help/c02_admin_app.htm
My city will start to turn off street lights at night in order to save money due to high electricity costs lmaooooo
But Slava Ukraini!
Incidents go brrrr
Criminality go brrr
Quality of life go brrrr (but downwards)
But hey, at least we can give 10 euros everyday to Mr elenskyy!
I finished the first class trial in my fanfic and the battle of moscow is coming up, make sure to check it out.
lmao
Look at all these brainworms
So reddit’s favorite billionaire just changed the name of Twitter to “X.” Kind of dumb, and I obviously don’t like the Muskrat, but so many libs seem weirdly butthurt about it.
What does that make twitter videos then
Something with an accurate domain name
The musk stuff is the current liberal raison d’etre, its fucking weird
He’s the new Trump
This thread is titled “Block The Rich” but I misread it as “Block The Reich”.
I was going to ask you why I misread it like that, but I think that we all know why.
Bruh i thought i was a terminally online internet consumer demon and that i knew about every dystopian thing happening until i started reading this book ‘Survival of the richest’ by douglas rushkoff, this guy has me beat, he mentions some businesses that make things for billionaires that i thought he was joking (for how absurd they sound) 😂 but actually exist. Look up “seasteading”
I’ve heard of that but seeing pictures of it….why would anyone even want that?
My brother used to refer to that kind of thing as “taking money from billionaires without using guns”
Libertarian brain rot
Honestly I kind of like the idea, I just wish it wasn’t just to dodge taxes.
