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Is this northern Iran ?
Yes, Mazandaran
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Some guy got stabbed and died in my city because he wanted to stop some guy harassing a woman. The suspect’s ethnicity hasn’t been made public but that won’t stop racists from having a field day with it.
Currently reading Thoreau and I guess it resonates with me on some parts. Though I also feel like abandoning society all together isn’t the answer either. Plus he sometimes seems weirdly racist/misogynistic too. And he has the ability to use 6 pages to describe a single rock. But interesting read still.
Well turns out that both victim and suspect were migrants so confused racists I guess. Extremely sad situation once again.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
you too comrade 😁
I know this place , Bani , Burkina Faso .
beautiful and magnificent place . 👍🏼
what if i want a meh, or blah week?
that is a wierd story, and the conclusion… um no rehabilitating rocky?
No, you! :3
Thank you Comrade! 🫂
Have a nice week! 😁😁
Whoa! Look at its schnoz! It looks half ant-eater or something.
Hot springs in the DPRK
That looks lovely, I wish I could go. the lazy river is so pretty
It looks better than my local hot springs
Hot springs look chill
how’s everyone been a while.
My entire place of work is on fire due to insane work pressure, people quitting, shit management and government reforms so everyday there I wonder what will happen next.
Besides that fine I guess.
Im still around and kicking
Met with friends lately, and I was actually able to convince one of my friends of some of my opinions. He’s an apolitical but actually right wing worker. We were talking about the trade war and I said we should more trade with countries others than the USA. He agreed. When I asked if he’s in favour of better relations with China, he was unsure. I then said that China will try to leave you alone while the US forces you into agreements that mostly benefit them. He saw my point and agreed.
I asked him a while later if he thinks that socialism is better than capitalism, and after a little thinking he agreed.
At the end of the meetup colonial reparations were brought up, don’t remember why. He said that colonial reparations are useless since former colonies are independent now amd should develop themselves. I talked to him about neocolonialism and used Indonesia as an example of western countries and companies still controlling their former colonies and stealing the wealth. He was unsure of that. I then talked about how some countries try to stop the neocolonialism and try to develop their own country first to make the lives of their citizens better. I used Burkina Faso and their mines as an example.
A little while later, he came to me and said, actually I think you’re right.
I also remember a couple months ago when we were talking about Ukraine and he thought that Putin started the war and that he did so because he was afraid of losing support. I told him that I think it was because of geopolitics and that Russia felt threatened by increased military presence at its border. He thought I made a good point and that he hadn’t thought about that.
I think he’s the friend that is the most willing to become a socialist. An other friend of mine is apolitical and never wants to talk about politics even if the conversation is about it. He was completely quiet during my discussion with this friend. And another friend is a right winger with racist views. He did listen but didn’t seem to be convinced by my arguments. I also really want to call him out for his racist views but didn’t dare to do it.
So, there is no mutual/“practice” dentists in my area. There is no actual medicare/medicaid dentists in ym area within 30 miles.
Thus, I get incredibly intoxicated off gin and vodka and I stare at the pair of plyers in my family’s garage. I have ripped the tooth out of my mouth and I am bleeding pretty much everywhere but it’s starting to stop.
Life in America is always good. I am in incredible pain but the fish antibiotics and vicodin my uncle gave me hopefully will help. God bless America.
update: I"m so fucking igh
Is… Is this a bit? If not, take care you mad lad.
Am getting better. Was so high I only felt it leaving the socket and then the pain started when I woke up. Took half a tab and I’ve been doing okay. Pain is getting less and less.
Well it sucks that you had to do it this way but I admire your hardcore approach at least
I’ve had to do this before, so It’s not exactly unprecedented but I’m just happy I can get it out.
All in one go? fuck my dude. I’ve taken a few teeth out myself but I take a week about wiggling and prying and twitsing. You’ll have a hole in your gums for a long time but it should come together eventually. Just be sure to keep it clean for a while.
Update for everyone else, no it was not a bit. MF was getting looser and looser and when I felt it wiggle with my tongue I decided it was time to get blasted and rip it out. Worked pretty well, got a nasty hole but it’s already starting to heal. I was more worried about the shitload of bleeding. Thankfully that stopped. Extra doses of aquatic antibiotics.
Thankfully being incredibly high and drunk 1800s style does somewhat work.
I have…converted a liberal.
Literally all it took was reinforcing in their head they are not independent of material conditions. they kept thinking just because they think of a piece of their personality outside of their relaton to production that gommmunism doesn’t apply.
Good lord was it a struggle. I have another comrade!
Where is this?
yanbian korean autonomous prefecture , Jilin Province , PRC .
The Netherlands’ leading marxist YouTuber made a weird video about a political murder 20 years ago in which he suddenly felt the urge to ask the murderer, who is free now, about the why. And he did so by ambushing him in his hometown.
I don’t get it. Like, the reason the YT says is because he wants to get the story about the man who, according to him, is responsible for a bad rep of the left because of the murder. But the left will always get a bad rep regardless. I don’t see what newsworthy things this story will bring. Very cheap content.
But then again I think he is unironically a maoist and he had weird takes before
Yeah I saw it too. They made a whole deal out of it, like they were making the best journalistic piece but they said nothing that wasn’t already said before. I get asking Volkert why he did it but it’s not the most important thing right now and doesn’t need 39 minutes. They’re lucky I had time to kill otherwise I wouldn’t have watched it all.
It could’ve been okay if Bob actually managed an interview but he just drove to wherever Volkert lives and harassed him on his bike. And not in a tactful way, just straight up ‘WHY DID YOU DO IT???’ like he has some deeply personal vendetta against the guy.
There’s this right wing Dutch subreddit that is circlejerking itself so hard that it is unironically becoming more left by the day. It’s fascinating to see. Like they are hating in minorities so hard sometimes that for some reason they sway away from the hate somehow. Like, it’s as if it is too much hate and it needs to balance itself out sometimes.
Go in there and start ranting about how immigration is bad because it takes the most educated and motivated people away from underdeveloped nations which makes them continue to be dependant on the first world instead of being able to support themselves.