Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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i think about sinwar dying with an arm missing, alone in a building, throwing anything he could at the oppressor till his last moment, fighting the imperialist entity’s zionist non-entity till his final breath as an old man, and the scarce possessions they found on him including mentos and the quran, as far as i recall, and it is a proud and valiant death. i think of ayatollah dying during the month of ramadan in an offensive against that same zionist imperialist entity and its father, the USA. wow
i miss him like a motherfucker right now, jesus
In those sermons [Khameini] said, “we must look to bring the ideas and system of Islam out of the realm of pure mental abstraction—like all schools of social thought—by looking at practical responsibilities, especially in the realm of social affairs, and reorienting theoretical discussions to see what their implications are for human life, what their goals are, and what methods they prescribe for meeting these goals.”
this is REAL liberation theology all of u other larpers can get out of here
Just wanted to say, I appreciate the PSAs in the Iran thread about how to handle information and such. It’s such an important reminder. @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml @SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
And thank you @rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml and others for the work on gathering sourced information.
Stay steadfast. 🙏
Glad that I could help. Not gonna lie but the psyop are getting wild. There are too many zionist bots active even in Iranian channels.
I can’t just imagine the amount of psyops comrades are receiving right now.
This is nothing unusual for those of us who have been following the Ukraine conflict since the start. There were times when there was an absolutely insane amount of bots. Russian speaking spaces were (and still are) heavily targeted. Even now there is always some Ukrainian psyop even in “pro-Russian” telegram channels. You can’t prevent all infiltrations, but with time and experience you learn to recognize the bullshit.
Right now there is a big blitz of botting and information warfare, but eventually it will calm down and there will be concrete on-the-ground results that will be impossible to deny (like how Ukraine can spin all the tall tales and put out all the deep-fakes it wants, but sooner or later Russian advances get undeniably geolocated). It’s why i recommend stepping back and waiting if you are unsure what is trustworthy at the moment.
Two wars in two days.
I’m kind of surprised this isn’t being described as the beginning of world war III.
theres this one blogger (dont agree w him on everything, but he’s got a good head on most current geopolitical affairs, including supporting china/dprk as progressive for the world despite not being avowed ML) who argues world war iii has never ended, since the world has long remained at war in different theaters that in many cases are connected to USA waging war against red threat, so it’s really just one long war, USA against all the world and a better future
Although I did share some relevant content, I feel nevertheless that I should apologize to Black comrades for how I underperformed for Black History Month. I had originally envisioned going on a marathon where I would share something daily about Black history, but I kept getting distracted from my goal and I went on researching simply whatever intrigued me at the moment. I don’t know if anyone expects much from me given that I am an individual rather than an institution, but I still feel like I must have let someone down, and I am sorry about that.
Twitter is goin WILD! There is speculation that there was an attack on Iran. Does anyone have confirmation?
I found some pics but I can’t confirm.
Source -> https://xcancel.com/RapidReport2025/status/2027629748394873333#m
Confirmed. Israel attacked Iran!
do we know was Iran’s Air Defences Compromised this time?
I suspect they used the Growler to deactivate the AD just like in Venezuela
If possible, can you pin this post? https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10864542
It will help everyone available to share updates in there.
Done, I will make a comment on there that it is the meta thread for the event
Crazy there’s people here talkin about this live
holy shit, it’s the guy from reddit, cited by chinese state media
I am sort of struggling to find a gift for someone and I realised that gift buying would be so much easier under communism. I would no longer need to worry about being deceived into buying a cheaply made expensive, bad product. I would just trust that the person I am “buying” from actually cares about me and the person I am “buying” the gift for.
How can someone reach the ripe age of 30 and never figure out the US is a global military dictatorship?
This can be generalized, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
The Italian crisis can only be resolved through the action of the laboring masses. There is no possibility for the liquidation of fascism on the plain of parliamentary intrigues, only a compromise that leaves the bourgeoisie at the lead along with armed fascism at its service. Liberalism, even if inoculated with the glands of the reformist monkey, is powerless. It belongs to the past.
Neither fascism nor liberalism: Sovietism! by Antonio Gramsci
If I lived in a communist country, I think I would actually like being in the army, but in a capitalist country it would be my worst nightmare
i fantasize about getting to join a reserve labor army like PLA/army of dprk the same way people fantasize about getting isekaid into genshin impact or becoming an arthurian hero
I like how China’s PLA is so often involved with disaster relief and does so much work to help people, rescuing them from floods and earthquakes and the like. That very much appeals to me. If i could be in like the engineering corps where i could build roads or bridges or something that would be really cool. But yeah, in a capitalist country i would rather frag the nearest officer or go to jail than serve.
Does anyone have a good read on the current situation with Pakistan and Afghanistan?
Watched a weird spanish film Sirāt, kinda interesting. It’s like a random story about a family split by war and an odyssey in a war torn desert. Feels like Mad Max but like very real.
In the hardships of life under capitalism, I’m glad I can have our little community here.
Sleep’s been scarce but hopefully this weekend will help. Stay strong comrades
What does it say about me that two of my favorite philosophers are Mao Zedong and Fred Rogers?
Says you you should wear a red cardigan with 4 small stars and one big star on the right breast.
That its a beautiful day in the neighborhood a beautiful day to kill the landlords?
what happens when the US dollar starts losing value? does industry start being reshored or are the treatlerites just SOL?
when the US dollar starts losing value?
Pretty sure it already has started. And the working class is getting crushed under unbearable cost of living.
idk the dollar still goes a lot farther abroad than in the us. i thought COL was more up to high rent prices than the decline of dollar hegemony
The dollar index (value of usd compared to a bunch of other currencies) dropped 10% last year. So regardless of inflation/rising prices in usa you will get 10% less overseas per usd than you would have in 2024. Most of the worlds currencies are losing their value as well because of dependence on the american dollar and economy. The cost of living crisis is happening in most countries around the world.
