• Bungkarnoenjoyer@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Ive noticed how Quickly Xenophobic, Fascistic, anti-semitic and anti-communist Europeans when they see Brown Baddies, and ebil mongol orcs/s. Ive just watch a video on youtube about Ukrainian Vs arab refugees, immediate fascist rhetoric coming from europeans telling how europe is ‘civilized’, then I saw a L*thuanians say europe must defend its ‘civilized’ continent from Evil ‘Communist Orcs’, I notice how hitler speeches on youtube filled with fascistic european comments praising hitler and i remember years ago on youtube, one comment that germany being ripped apart or loosing WW1 is blamed on the jews

    Ewwrope.

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    A bunch of really valuable young workers are quitting at my employer because the owners flat out refuse to respect us workers. With the way things at this place have already been falling apart with a handful of good people on board I’m really excited about what the future brings.

      • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        14
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        I’m carefully dropping breadcrumbs. It’s just tricky because the owners are physically present and obviously vehemently anti-worker, and due to some, let’s say familial relationships in the company, me obviously leading a union drive could backfire into my personal life.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    1 year ago

    I may have made a mistake filing taxes when I migrated some years ago (because fuck me taxes can be hard) and the state is sending me a letter about FUCKING TAX EVASION ON GODDDDDD like I’m Shell or something

    [Redacted] [redacted] [redacted] wankers

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Now now, if you were like Shell, they would be too afraid to touch you, and instead would vouch to give you a tax break

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t be mad if they send me a letter saying I made a mistake and to fix it. I don’t even mind paying taxes back.

        But they call it tax evasion and slap a 10% extra fine on it. If I wasn’t radicalized already this surely would make a difference.

  • gargantuanprism@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    If anyone didn’t know (and probably to no one’s surprise), the soft drink leninade is not made by a company with any kind of radical politics, it’s just a gimmick

  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    DDR born Gen Xer hot takes from today:

    Gorby was actually alright cause he let the people vote for “none of the above.”

    DDR bad cause your bachelor’s thesis topic was assigned to you and you couldn’t choose where you worked.

  • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Whenever someone types stfu think of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, I know I will

    (Settlers excerpt)

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    So I started my job at the Union this week. So far I’m liking it. It is a weird mix of being a progressive org while at the same time being stuck in the 80s it seems.

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        The amount of paper files often send by post in between members, union and other instances is immense. The operating systems look like they haven’t seen an update since 2003. The overall look of the building my department is in, lol. It has this 80s office look all over it.

        It just looks outdated. Nothing wrong with that, I’d rather have more resources going to the members and the front lines. But still, I sometimes look out of place with modern clothes in between the design of the office. I still like the job very much and I’m happy to be there.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    Just about to finish reading ‘Survival of the richest by douglas rushkoff’, it’s a decent contemporary tech critique but oh boy i have to put down the book sometimes because of the cringe idealist comments made by the author. Really makes me appreciate Lenin writing style more and more.

      • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        He mentions capitalism a lot during the book (also some subtle anti-china rethoric like any self respecting liberal of course) but he not once mentions anything related about relations of production, he just criticizes the infinite growth property of capitalism and ties it a lot with the contemporary tech industry. The usual shallow criticism coming from libs who know about capitalism just from the osmosis of living on it and haven’t really made any real study of it.

        This paragraph is just peak pseudo-intellectual liberalism lmao, not technically his take but there is no debunking of the comment later which makes me think he actually believes it

        • Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead thought cybernetics would prevent fascism. For where fascism depends on the fragmenting of knowledge and oversimplified direction from above, cybernetics would engender holism and serve as “a kind of vaccination against fragmentation.” - 💀