Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home, maybe get a cup of Tea or Coffee. For this time-honored tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
Every right wing and moderate news outlet in Latin America is shouting about fraud. It is insane. From Reddit to Facebook, they are pushing content against Maduro like crazy.
It is hellish now. FUCK Amerikkka and their vassals.
How it started: https://xcancel.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1818304799646835134
How it’s going: https://xcancel.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1818387307361169899
Well, several close friends reached out to end their friendship with me because I won't vote for Kamala.
Saw this coming, because it happens every time there is an opportunity for liberals to go full fash, but still hurts.
People call a plant based diet extreme meanwhile I have ads on my instagram for ground up cow testicle pills because it is supposed to be crucial to any meat eating diet
Returned from holiday. Still have a week off from work before it is back to the grind.
I returned to my balcony plants who have taken off in the last two weeks. I planted some nearly dead supermarket mint and it went really wild. A pumpkin appeared too. Several other herbs are doing great as well and they are attracting lots of insects.
Have a great week everyone.
Wolves have returned to The Netherlands (just a few though) and it is interesting to see how much detached to actual wilderness the average Dutch person is. A supposed wolf bumped into a child in a 'forest' today and there is a total panic now. Don't go outside with your kids! We need to shoot the wolf!
Part of it is because we live in a small country I think. But the biggest part of it is that we treat our country like one big farm property and as a result we have very little actual nature left. Dutch people see the outdoors as nothing more than a path to take a walk in with no danger at all. Because there is none. Forests get designed, paths get carved out, the furthest you can be from a road in The Netherlands is I think 11km or something like that.
I noticed this on my holiday as well. I was hiking on a mountain path along a stream carved into the mountain some hundreds of years ago. At some point we saw some Dutch people ahead of us and they were loud and started throwing rocks into the stream, causing it to clog and spill over the side of the mountain to below. The complete direspect people have for nature in this country should be studied. Not only are you being a dick, you are also being a danger to the area causing floods and a fucking waterfall to slide down a mountain with loose rocks on it.
There is also a tv show I watch about B&B owners abroad looking for love. There is this woman in it who owns a hotel like thing in South Africa's wilderness. In comes a Dutch man and while he is driven to this resort accompanied by a ranger, he tells the ranger that it would be a nice thing to set up a mountain biking company in Kruger National Park. You know, the park with the lions and rhinos and elephants and crocs and leopards and stuff. The ranger looked at him like he was a complete fucking idiot.
We act as if we completely own the world. As if it is our personal theme park to have fun in, instead of actual wilderness with biodiversity and wild animals and stuff.
We humans are part of nature yet we are so detached from it. I think this is the worst mental effect from capitalism.
This sounds similar to the UK. I've heard it called an ecological desert and almost everywhere you go feels very much like paths through some meadow or woods to take a stroll through. I would hope it's not like this everywhere since they still have a few large natural parks, but from the little I've seen, it sounds like what you're describing.
We act as if we completely own the world. As if it is our personal theme park to have fun in, instead of actual wilderness with biodiversity and wild animals and stuff.
Yep, the hubris and arrogance of westerners in their relationship to nature is staggering. My coworkers are some of the most disrespectful people towards the environment I've ever seen. Drinking water from plastic bottles instead of filling up their glasses from the water cooler because it takes fewer trips to the kitchen, and throwing them in the nearest trash can instead of walking an extra 30 seconds to the recycling. I know in the grand scheme of things this isn't what's causing the climate catastrophe, but still I think it speaks volumes about these people
On instagram, people make it seem like North Korean athletes are being executed for taking a selfie with South Korean athletes. Fucking hell
For those who think that muslims are all transphobic: I was at a pride event and bought a drink from a stand there, and the seller was a hijabi and she was very friendly to me who's wearing a trans flag
the mistake that many people do is forget that all Muslim majority countries were or are still colonized, a large part of the bigotry in the regions comes from colonialism.
I think, in general, white people should just talk to mulsims more often. We have a lot of muslim members in our party and we are strong advocates of LGBTQ+ rights. I have an indoor football group with several muslim men as well as gay men. No problem at all. I have muslim coworkers who don't care about our LGBTQ+ coworkers at all.
It's like they are people with all kinds of different opinions.
Never watched the Olympics before but it is surprisingly fun. Got me anxiously watching a sailing match even though I never watched sailing before.
Just a mental display of human athleticism.
they're fun to watch but I am absolutely dying for club football to return in a couple weeks, gives my life structure
lot of disgusting shit happening to chinese athletes. (excerpt from a conversation i had with a chinese friend)
Apparently a journalist 'accidentally' stepped on the Chinese table tennis contestant's paddle and broke it after stepping into a forbidden area.
::: spoiler The quote
In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. :::
-- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds
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I can’t find any sources that state this beyond randoms on Twitter, so my assumption is that this is not real.
