• 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    0·
    5 days ago

    due to my circunstamces ive met many petit bourgeois and a few very wealthy people, and i am glad to say that they are completely stupid 😅

  • Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    6 days ago

    why do people go on ideological debate between ukraine and russia even the popular leftist circles, saying that both sides bad?

    the main reason people don’t acknowledge is a geopolitical one and is definitively NATO eastward expansion. every country requires a buffer zone for historical reasons. china, india, russia and of course usa, if you encroach on that countries take drastic measures like starting a war or in this case the so called unprovoked war. (the fact that they mention unprovoked means that its provoked, but that’s another discussion)

    • burrhus@lemmygrad.ml
      0·
      5 days ago

      It’s ultra rhetoric that reduces “imperialism” to whenever a country invades another (they don’t understand what imperialism is). Russia is definitively not apart of the imperial core, is not imposing an imperial mode of production, and is merely acting/reacting nationalistically.

      A lot of the myth of Russian “imperialism” is due to Dugin, who is a complete idiot and nobody in the Russian gov’t cares about him. Russia doesn’t have the population nor military capacity to become global hegemons, its simply not going to happen.

      • redline@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        0·
        5 days ago

        are you sure there are no imperial tendencies at all in the Russian establishment? This seems unlikely, even if one does not read present policy as imperialist

        • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
          0·
          4 days ago

          Putin had obvious legal justification for the humanitarian intervention. Putin had been using peace negotiation to stop the massacre of ethnic minority in Ukraine under the unelected dictator from the Euromaiden coup and later under Zelensky’s rule for 8 years. Putin has the legal right for military intervention and the result of the military intervention achieved the stated goal of protection of ethnic minority and of rebelling states contrary to the claim by Pax Americana about takeover of Ukraine.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    6 days ago

    You know the Statesian tennis player (Emma Navarro) who threw a tantrum after losing to a Chinese player (Zheng Qinwen) at the Olympics? Well, at the Beijing Open yesterday, she lost to another Chinese player (Zhang Shuai), in the second round. One who had the longest losing streak in history recently.

  • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    6 days ago

    Anyone else rapidly approaching 30 and have no clue what to do with their life cause they didn’t think they’d make it this far ? Absolutely no clue what I should do career wise, never have had less of an idea. If any comrades have some worldly insight it would go a long way for me right now

    • KvasiroftheWoods@lemmygrad.ml
      0·
      6 days ago

      Right now, I’d say the biggest beneficial thing you can do is just experiment. Pick a few things that look interesting and find some beginner resources to dip your toes in. It’s important not to over-analyze and be too critical of these new pursuits in the beginning. My problem was, quite frequently, I’d talk myself out of something before I really explored it to even decide with confidence if it really was for me or not.

      Allow yourself to just go with an idea without judgement. Reserve your criticism for later when you have enough information to make a informed decision on if it is for you. Although, be aware that there are times when you can intuit your interest and desire based off of how it makes you feel early on, just don’t be so quick to pivor away because sometimes it’s just the learning curve of trying something new, and when you power through the initial discomfirt you find that you DO like whatever it is.

      Bottom line: don’t feel as if you need to rush. With some exploring and experimentation you’ll find something that really resonates with you. For me that was writing and it’s been incredibly refreshing.

      Good luck, comrade ;)

    • Giyuu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      0·
      6 days ago

      I floated around several different jobs. Never found anything I liked so I decided to move back in with my parents so I can do the last few things I need to change careers/apply for physical therapy school, and I’m older than you.

      I don’t know if there’s any otherworldly insight to it other than I just really love exercise and training.

      When I was working other jobs, I felt like two different people. I had my job that I honestly didn’t give a flying fuck about, had no motivation, made me depressed and just couldn’t force myself to be interested in. I had to pretend to care while surrounded by people who did care.

      And when I was doing my physical training for the sports I love I was/am a completely different person- much happier and learning new things because I care.

      On mental health: I think not being in a career adjacent to my passions really, really hurt me. It’s not like I’ve solved my depression but I can wake up now with something to look forward to, a path that I actually want to walk on.

      It was passion that I had to build on but there was always an interest in exercise even before I can say I developed it into a passion. I was previously going to college for physical therapy, changed direction, but built my passion and now coming back to it, it all seems to make sense. Maybe there is something you have enjoyed in that past that you can return to build on?

      And the big thing I can say is try not to get too down. This isn’t uncommon nowadays for people around our ages.

      Don’t think of these years as wasted years, but learning years. I always felt like I was spinning my wheels and there’s a lot of truth in that. My parents always wondering what I was doing etc., is a terrible burden. But maybe in a way, I wasnt ready to go down that road since I hadn’t the passion for it yet, and the world didn’t make sense to my neurodivergent brain because I hadn’t learned Marxism yet, either.

      And I suppose while we’re at it (to use Marxist terms), my experiences and internal contradictions weren’t strong enough yet that they’d need to resolve themselves by producing a new decision to go back to school.

    • Che's Motorcycle@lemmygrad.ml
      0·
      6 days ago

      I kinda fell into IT. You can get decent salary and benefits for work that’s at least intellectually stimulating. And there are a number of nontechnical roles if programming isn’t your thing.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    6 days ago

    There’s a rumour at my place of work about a coworker getting on the list for our party for the upcoming municipality elections, which is a touchy subject for my place of work.

    Thing is, I know every party member, both out AND undercover, working at my place and nobody seems to know who it would be. I even scanned our list of reps to see if I recognize anyone but nope. It’s probably a big nothing burger but it’s funny to hear.

  • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
    0·
    9 days ago

    Is there some way to just subscribe to all the communities (or see the posts as such) from another instance? I want to move my acc to Hexbear for the better emojis (and seeing things as local, tbh it’d be really nice if one could set more than one instance as viewed in locals, idk)

    • ∞🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its]@lemmygrad.ml
      0·
      9 days ago

      Yea, I also moved to Hexbear to view everything on local, and the emojies. I don’t really use Lemmygrad anymore.

      Is there some way to just subscribe to all the communities

      There might be.

      long technical explanation

      If you export your settings, edit the file such that “followed_communities” has all communities you want to be subscribed to, then (wait so it doesn’t give you an error, then) import the edited file, it should have you subscribed to all the communities you added.

      To get all communities I’d use the api, i.e. https://hexbear.net/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&limit=50&page=1, then copy the raw text into https://regexr.com/, make the regex "actor_id":"(.*?)" and use the List tool with "$1", (see screenshot), copy the output into a text file, open the next page on the api and go on like that until the api returns blank.

      screenshot

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    0·
    10 days ago

    Does anybody else think that Dan Osborn sounds suspiciously like a protofascist?

    At first he seems okay: he is a labor union leader with some proletarian experience, he supports a minimum wage, accessible abortions, is critical of corporations, he opposes a Republican candidate, and he is even interested in protecting some undocumented workers. So far, so good.

    Then looking into his polices, that was when I started worrying: he supports small businesses, he favors stricter border control, and he brags about his military background. Although he does not appear to own a business, his wife works as a general manager of a bar and grill in Omaha. There is also this:

    On foreign affairs, Osborn approvingly quoted a friend who had said: “funding Ukraine is America First.” “It is helping our national security by stopping Russian aggression there before it gets anywhere else,” he said.

    When I learn that somebody has a military background, it tends to concern me but it is not necessarily a major obstacle to cooperation either. When somebody has a military background and misrepresents small business as an alternative to big business, that is when my alarm bells go off. I know that Osborn seems moderate or innocent now, but I’ll be unsurprised if his politics evolves the same way that Oswald Mosley’s did. Call me paranoid if you must.