James Connolly (1868-1916) was a revolutionary socialist fighting for Irish national liberation; the founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party and the Irish Citizen Army. Today 109 years ago, he was executed by British colonizers after the Easter Rising in Dublin.(PW)
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Hi friends! I am generally supportive of the Zapatistas as an indigenous self-determination movement. I remember there being some criticisms of them regaerding external advice or lack of suppport to other groups in Mexico. Does anyone here have infomation or resources for where I could learn more about this? Thank you!
content warning: sexual assault
So in Belgium we recently had a case of sexual assault in which a student raped another student after a night out while she was basically drunk to the point of being blacked out. She filed a report the day after when she found out. The student that raped her was convicted of rape but received only a fine, no punishment and no criminal record either. On top of that he was deemed ‘charismatic and talented, full of potential’ by the judge and received no ban from their field of work. Which is gynacology btw. Yes, a rapist is free to become a gynacologist because he is ‘charismatic and talented’
A famous YouTuber from Belgium exposed his name in a video and was promptly arrested for it. He has a history of exposing criminals like that, becoming famous by exposing rich students who murdered a black peer during a hazing ritual. He was convicted of that also and was now on probation. The trial was today and he was sentenced to be free on probation again but he has to take the video offline and actually stop making content or face jail.
Yes, a rapist can become a gynacologist because he is talented and charismatic. But the YouTuber who exposes him is deemed a danger to society.
“charismatic and full of potential” what the fuck.
the rapist’s name is Ruben Vanstiphout for anyone wondering
Thank you horse of exposing predatory criminals who were protected by the state, your work is seen and always valued, even if not specified <3
God that is grotesque. Sounds like cut from the same cloth as the west vilifying support for Palestinians.
Contains link to assault
I take it this is the story https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/04/01/medical-student-convicted-of-raping-another-student-escapes-sent/
The judge: “It is undeniable that he passed the line of what is permissible. The man showed a lack of respect for the victim’s physical, psychological and sexual boundaries. However, he is still young and has no criminal record. He is also a talented and committed person both in his professional and private live. By finding him guilty but not punishing him, he will be made to feel guilty and the chance of him reoffending will be prevented, without socially impairing the man”.
This level of sympathy is too grotesque to not be guilty of the same crime.
Interesting that this article does not state specifically what they are studying in medical school. Wonder why they want to hide that* 🤔
Who is the YouTuber?
Yup that’s the story.
His name is Acid (Nathan Vandergunst)
Eurovision as an outsider must be strange. ‘Here is a song about milkshakes, followed by a song about Laika the dog, followed by a song about the Pontian-Greek genocide, followed by Latvian folklore’
Played Club Penguin for an hour, fell right into memory lane <3
I had a lot of ideas when I was young about how growing up would be but slowly getting poisoned by insane amounts of PFAs chemicals wasn’t one of them
That’s strange, it was my primary goal to have a microplastic concentration in my cells above .5%, what kind of woke propaganda were they teaching you in your school???
People become real LGBTQ+ advocates the second they can blame the hate on Muslims somehow
The Dems have completely given up on actually trying to win elections. They’re throwing out David Hogg because he had the audacity to insult the senior citizens who refuse to let go of their power. Liberals will still defend them of course.
There seems to be an increased reporting on Burkina Faso across Western media and that means we have another coup coming up soon of course
coup attempt, it will fail
I read somewhere that while Traoré was in Russia there was a significant assault by terrorists. (feels weird to use that word legitimately instead of ironically) I think it’s kinda funny because the west really wants to give them the Libya treatment but they know they couldn’t get away with it these days.
I noticed that too! Lots of articles vaguely attributing massacres to the Burkinabe government.
Belgian public sector Union is showing a Palestinian video on multiple occasions throughout the Eurovision broadcast. Which I guess is something, at least.
Wish FNV something similar here as well.
Today I was helping a dude at my work and when we were finished he looked at me and said’ : ‘I’m from Turkey and I think you are a very handsome man, especially with your [my distinct facial qualities].’ And I thought to myself: this is the behavior we should normalise lol. Uplift our fellow homies out there.
I don’t know anything about programming but I got Deepseek to help me write a simple python program that downloads the audio from the latest youtube video on a channel doubles the speed while keeping the pitch correct and then saves it on my mp3 player so I can listen to it on my morning walk.
There’s lots of room for improvement but I think my strategy for waiting for computers to learn to program instead of learning to program myself seems to be close to working out.
Podcast I used to be on degenerated into your typical masculinity-bullshit sports n’ pop-culture pod with spikes of anti-Semitism from mid-40s dudes. It really is a shame putting a shit load of work into a few episodes I was on (before it went to shit)
Some of the episodes was about your typical conspiracy bullshit, yea, but I had a lot of fun doing FOIA requests and digging up old documents with the insane bullshit the CIA used to do back in the day (injecting LSD into the brains of kids is something I gotta find again but don’t wanna view the pod again to support them) Plus, I didn’t know they’d end up going down the typical route as they seemed to be your typical shock-jock lib types rather than chuds.
Ended up leaving because one of the people straight up turned into an asshole against me because of my “communist bullshit” despite multiple attempts at talking about the host with it and being fully able to deflect his shit back; just didn’t wanna deal with it every episode. Host ended up agreeing because “he didn’t want it political”
I’m not sure what kind of milquetoast muppet thinks conspiracies have nothing to do with politics, but I guess I know now. It makes sense, he ended up becoming more CHUD when he finally got himself into an okay job after a decade of getting fucked over by the companies in his area and living in literal squalor. Yet, commies and jews are the problem to him apparently as a Puerto Rican in Florida. Dear god, make it make sense. I tried explaining.
there must be something in the water in Florida that makes latinos turn into the scourge of the earth.
I wouldn’t say it’s a Latino thing, more so the countries they come from have equal rabid anti-communism and when they get to America they can blame all the faults of their struggle on communists and of course, with that “community”, the internet offers jews as well. He really was a cool guy until his brain turned into sludge.
At least that’s my theory. A lot of Latino coworkers I had here would get upset at the mention of socialism or communism. In the same coin, the oldest, most “chud” looking types actually turns out to be a pretty rad dude.
Not so much Puerto Rico but many other central american countries got significantly more dangerous and poorer when they started exploring communism. usa would pump the far right with weapons and do black ops for them while the communists tried to resist. The people who fled to usa blamed the communists. They told stories of the ebil commies, first just to gain sympathy from americans and later to signal that they were “the good ones.” but over time and generations they came to really believe their lies.
That makes a lot of sense. Why did they blame the communists? I suppose I could see a parallel there with police being brutal assholes and some people in the U.S eagerly agreeing/advocating for it. Same thing there? Or just a desperation for security?
They blame the communists because they were one side of the conflicts and the other side was supported by their new home, usa. Can’t talk shit about your host’s friends if you don’t want to get tossed out.
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You have to send me an animal video now does are the rules
Cool gator
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It is indeed compulsory.
I saw this in the comments somewhere recently. Frog.
Cool frog
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Yo! Welcome, this is a wonderful community full of great people, lots of nice and interesting conversations, welcome :D
ngl I always thought buddy on the left looked like a bum, pretending to be some superhero of fiction (mad max/greaser type) when there clearly was a hero from reality right in front of him…
Yeah, the guy on the left reminds me of Cyrus from Trailer Park Boys
Where is this from?
Moscow 1990-1991.
