GenZedong

So the news of the moment in the country right now is about a gynecology student who has been found guilty of the rape of another student during a night out after she got incredibly drunk and couldn't in any way consent.

He has been found guilty, he admitted he was guilty even. What is the problem, you think? Well, he faces no jail time. No criminal record. No exemption from his job (AS A FUCKING GYNECOLOGIST!). Nothing. There are no consequences. Why? Because they judge found him to be an 'extremely talented and caring and nice person who doesn't deserve his life to be ruined'. Read: he is white and from a rich family.

What a way to start the month in which campaigns against sexual violence against women are highlighted.

I am pretty happy about the fact that I taught somebody five days ago of the Palestinians’ Jewish heritage. She had also been under the mistaken impression that they were simply the descendants of some Arab tribe that moved in shortly after the Roman Empire expelled the Jewish population, and when I showed her the reality, she was fascinated.

Funny story about my source of inspiration: out of boredom, I looked into archived /pol/ threads (which I don’t recommend doing, by the way, especially with images turned on) where some antisemites wrote off the Palestinians as being Jewish. Then I did the same thing on X (formerly known as Twitter) and found others doing it, though some users actually brought up the fact in good faith and offered evidence for it. That was what really sparked my interest.

Online debate tribunes are cool as fuck and I love that my organisation has one. I don't have enough energy to contribute to the discussion on a national scale, but it's fantastic to be able to read so many writings from comrades in order to better refine the line both at the base and at the top. Democratic centralism is the best organisational methodology even in the slogan: "freedom of criticism, unity of action".

My mind is stuck on the mafia/mob metaphor for the US (well maybe more just literal than metaphor in some cases) and lately I've been thinking about it in relation to what people call "enshittification". The dynamic where a startup gets some nice "friendly" capital injections to build, build, build and grow, grow, grow, and then eventually there comes a part where the investors want a return and the product gets made more predatory and user-unfriendly in a desperate bid to make it especially profitable.

So it's sorta like "hey, we're here to help" later "we're gonna break your legs if you don't have something to show for it"

But a lot of the leg-breaking gets offloaded to the customer, for whom this dynamic is mostly invisible as a process and they just see the bait of "cool product" without the strings attached; the "get their hooks in you and get you dependent on it before they start trying to extract as much profit from you as possible." And once the customer actually sees it, it's too late, they're already personally attached and have to hurt themselves by leaving or hurt themselves by putting up with it.

And this is just like... most of the US tech world? Shit's sickening.

Trump: "uh so biden managed to unite china, dprk, russia and iran?, watch me doing something more difficult and unite quisling korea, japan and china! Im built different"

Any body have a todon.nl invite? I'm on bluesky but I'm so over corporate social media and want to try mastodon.

Found this thing called the Tim Dillon podcast, and he's a typical Imperialist conservative. I only clicked his video because I saw him criticiszing the recent deportations of protesting students and honestly made some good points...then he started to clarify that he doesn't buy any of the "gobbledyremoved" about Palestinean land being stolen or colonization, or just thought they were being silly. Just completely undercutting everything he said before. I rememebered that a lot of conservatives will always hate Muslims and indigenous people more than they hate bending the knee to another country.

screams

Material possessions and money give me anxiety. There was a time in my life in which I didn't really have much and I'm not saying I was necessarily happy but I was less anxious for sure. Now I have a car and disposable income and whatnot and suddenly I feel more trapped. Like, there is much more pressure to maintain this certain image that you have build, more pressure to keep performing in this society. And at the same time it feels whiny to complain about this because it could be so much worse. Hell, a couple year back I was in a much worse place. But at least I felt like I had the freedom to do things, paradoxically.

Basically, I feel like I have been pushed into some sort of role in society in which I have to work to maintain, in my eyes, useless things while the things I actually do value I have no time for. I spend a big amount of time each week at a place I don't want to be in order to pay for things I don't want or things I find ridiculously expensive all the while my energy is drained to the point I cannot do something else.

Just rambling, I guess.

A general strike today. Down with capitalism.

Will Zionism come to an end in 21th century?

lol speed streams on China feel like a Yakuza video game

I hope you all have a nice week :D

I also have an account here now :D

also I swear I saw someone have a trans flag in their display name but when I add it to mine it won't let me save >:(

Working on egocide