Welcome, Please make yourself at home, grab a seat, play some cards, inflict merciless punishment to the US Imperialists, have a hot beverage. In time-honoured tradition of our group, the weekly discussion thread.
lmaoooo the other socialist party Vooruit just launched an Instagram post calling to vote for them instead of our marxist party because a vote for us IS A VOTE FOR PUTIN!!!!!!
A Flemish nazi wanted to have a talk at a university and it sparked a lot of protest. The university wanted to let it happen because 'freeze peach'. Guy does the talk and now the university will press charges because surprise surprise the guy went on a racist white supremacist rant 🤯🤯🤯
Question to the comrades from China (or those who have been there recently):
What car brands are popular in Chinese cities? Not just Tier 1 cities, but smaller ones?
Asking because there's an ever increasing number of Chinese brands in Russia, yet I keep seeing claims that Chinese citizens themselves prefer German and Japanese brands (Audi, Toyota, etc). I understand that they're most likely made in China anyway, but it seems odd.
I'm an SE dude. We have to do a group project at my university. Sometimes I just wanna scream everytime a professor rejects a good project idea because it wouldn't be economically feasible. Also every competition here is just yet another shitty startup competition where they're more concerned about your business plan than on the utility of your idea.
Ended up having to go with yet another AI idea. At least we don't have to do anything with LLMs \_(o.o)_/
Finally managed to find a home after having to precariously couch surf for nearly 3 weeks. Feels good to have proper internet again. How have things been going meanwhile?
anyone else occasionally look up people's profiles you think are particuarly insightful/entertaining on here and read through to see if you missed anything good from them? only asking cause i know this type of redditlike forum is kinda meant to discourage following particular people but i still do it anyways
Belgian winter sucks ass. I have seen the sun for maybe three days in the past few months. Otherwise it's just gray or rainy. Great for your vitamin D levels.
I made an epub of Russian Justice, it is a very interesting book. Also quite niche, only one scan available online. I'll upload it to prolewiki (done) and libgen soon (together with This Soviet World)
I love not having any personal info in my Social Media accounts because you can tell when someone's frustrated they don't have a way to dox me or mock what I really believe in.
I'm learning Danish by watching the news from the public broadcaster, but can't handle their liberal propaganda. Their reporting of Palestine is even worse than that of the Dutch news. And don't get me started on their reporting on China and Russia. Every time I try to watch the news I get pissed off, while I'm just trying to learn a language... Maybe I need to find something else for listening practice.
The portrayal of Saracens as quasi‐Jewish killers of Christ enables Christians not only to glorify those who defeat them in battle but also to inspire new military campaigns. The Muslim chronicler Izz al‐Din Ibn al‐Athir provides a vivid example of such rhetoric when recounting what happened after Muslim forces retook Jerusalem in 1187.
Ibn al‐Athir, perhaps drawing on firsthand knowledge, reports that the city’s patriarch aroused fellow Franks to avenge this loss by making a picture of Jesus that “portrayed Christ (peace be upon him) along with an Arab, depicted as beating him. They put blood on the portrait of Christ and said to the people, ‘This is Christ with Muhammad, the prophet of the Muslims, beating him. [Muhammad] has wounded and slain him.’”
Ibn al‐Athir inserts the customary Islamic honorific for Jesus, whom Muslims revere as a messenger of God, but provides no further editorial commentary: he trusts that his Muslim audience will recognize the preposterous nature of the allegation that Muhammad killed Christ. Preposterous though it is, this propaganda builds on longstanding Frankish rhetoric associating Muslims with Christ’s persecutors, and it provides powerful religious motivation for Christian warriors to avenge the maltreatment of their God.
Ibn al‐Athir credits this propaganda with raising “more men and money than there would be any way of counting” toward what academic historians call the Third Crusade; “even the women,” he emphasized, “answered the call in great numbers.” If Ibn al‐Athir is reliable, he provides valuable evidence regarding the broad impact of religious rhetoric designed to appeal to a specific subset of Christian society, namely fighting men.12
I made a Discord. It's in my profile in case someone wants to reach out. I will have to get used to using it. Considering my situation, I am a hell of a downer and may respond slowly, but I am available if you need a more personal approach.
In all seriousness, a friend made me make it, because no other service worked for sharing pirated stuff to watch together synchronized 1:1, so I may as well let anyone reach out if they want to.
Hello dear Comrades, My name is Vittorio, im 24 years old, im from Italy and im proud and happy to be here also because i have such sympathy for comunism, marxism and everything related. I hate right-wing pundits mostly and im everything that conservatives and liberals hates, also nazists and fascists. Down with Fascism and Coloniasm, stop Imperalism, Communists, Leninists and Marxists Arise!