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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Gotta love people coming out of the woodworks to say it is hot elsewhere too when referring to our heatwave in Europe. Yes, I know Texas and Arizona and Carolina are hot and humid. Good that you can handle it. The point is that it’s not supposed to hit 37 in inland The Netherlands and combined with 70-80+% humidity we are in actual danger. This country was not build to handle these temps for days on end because it is not supposed to be this warm yet every year for the last decade we keep shattering records.
Tens of thousands of people across the EU die every year because of increasing heat and adapting to it and improving our housing and whatnot is painfully slow and ridiculously expensive.
Solidarity from Italy. I don’t even want to imagine how it’s going to be like next year, or the one after that.
Some months ago the city cut down some trees in a street to make a useless turn around loop for our tram system. Years of protest were denied by then. The people living in the streets did not want this to happen. So eventually a big protest erupted and it turned violent because the police just knocked people down. One of our elected reps to the city was arrested and confined for over ten hours without being able to communicate to anyone what happened.
The trees are down now. One of the functions of trees in a city is to cool down the place. During the current heat wave, residents of the street measured a temperature increase between 7 to 13 degrees celsius compared to previous heat waves. They are now cooking in their appartments. The loop has not been build yet.
Said street:
Depressing as fuck
Glorious liberal democracy in action
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story so depressing you cant think of a joke
If I’m going to hear one more person during this heatwave saying we as a country can’t fight global warming because CHINA IS PRODUCING MORE CO2 I will be violent. Please for the love of god use your two braincells to reason why China produces more.
do you think they know that China is also making all the solar panels
Have y’all ever been afraid of taking action? Reading about Fred Hampton doing all the stuff he did before he was 21 makes me think about how much I avoid doing stuff that I really need to do.
Sometimes yeah. Especially when police is involved. I remember just after october 7th when a hospital was bombed in Gaza, local activists wanted to just burn some candles on a square to remember them. I went there only to find out city forbid the gathering last minute. There were still like 30 of us there so we decided to have our moment anyway. Mind you this was just lighting candles and having a silent gathering, in the pouring rain no less. But cops showed up with dogs and sticks ready and were really intimidating. It’s hard not to get a bit scared in a situation like that.
At later protests cops actually turned violent which was also scary.
But ultimately I think about why I do it and that being scared is okay. As long as I still go, I can be scared, but I do what I need to do.
I can’t imagine what is like to face the cops. Really goes to show how basic organized empathy is still considered a threat. I don’t know what you thought during that moment, but thank you for doing what you have to do. I hope to have this courage as well.
In this interview Nick talks about his first serious confrontation at a protest. (13:49) The whole discussion was really good.
Thanks for the link
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
jesus christ the earthquake in venezuela was devastating
Our media are reporting 10 to 100k deaths which is insane
10 to 100k deaths
Yeah I’m not reading anything like that. I’m seeing dozens and hundreds injured.
Dutch media is still reporting it based off some US prediction method but it seems rather excessive for now
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too Oppo!
You too, Oppo! ॱଳॱ
Have a great week Oppo!
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
found the image from this thread in a Kazan metro station
Some banners from the Tatar ASSRSo an albertan incel went to Quebec and shot a Chabad rabbi. Now the right wing Canadian media is claiming he was a Communist because he cited Marx in his manifesto. The entire screed is about how capitalism is bad and that is why he can’t find a woman (to be his property) and so he is going to go try to be Luigi or maybe just shoot a prominent zionist.
Half baked class consciousness will kill ya.
The Dutch state will introduce a law that makes glorifying terrorism illegal. Terrorism of course being whatever the fuck the right wing loonies in charges deem it to be.
Honestly, i don’t even know where my GF and I will be safer, staying here in the netherlands or go through with our plan of moving to spain😭
The dutch state is already fucked, but it seems like the far right is going to be elected in spain too.
The far right is going to be elected in every European country that doesn’t leave the EU and NATO, because as long as they are trapped in this neoliberal prison there is no way out of continuing to experience a worsening decline in material conditions, the resulting frustrations of which will not be allowed by the EU and NATO to evolve into proletarian movements but will be redirected with all means available, propaganda, financial aid, and state violence, into racism, xenophobia and militarism.
sigh yeah…you are right. I just wish for a safe space for my GF.
I wish i had more of a…fire within me, you know? That would make me capable of preparing for the inevitable and organize against it.
I was falsly hoping to have a safe environment for her if i can’t build it up with revolutionary effort. Simply protecting her won’t be enough in this world.
I am so not ready for the upcoming heatwave. I legit cried and crashed at 30 degrees already.
Luckily my room is not directly hit by the sun. I am cleaning in a big building with mediocre AC though and i think i might actually be in danger if i am too careless with this heat.
If you can, place something in front of your windows if you don’t have good curtains. Like a spare bedsheet or something. Keeping outside heat out can make some difference. Try to air out the room at night or early morning.
Apart from that drink like a glass of water every hour at least and minimize physical effort.
Yeah the bedsheet idea might work quite well actually. I usually keep the windows closed during the day anyway, because my roomates smoke weed on the balcony in front of my windows and i can’t inhale any of the smoke while on my adhd meds. (The balcony directly in front of my windows is the best place for them to smoke btw, before anyone judges them)
I drink quite a lot and most of my physical labour is done early in the morning, but the weekends are different. On the weekends i have the afternoon shift and that might actually be dangerous for me due to bad ventilation were i operate and the job being very physical.
Put the sheets outside the window because if they are inside they still absorb heat and then disipate it inside.
Actually not a bad idea, if you are ok with washing those sheets more often since they will quickly get very dirty on the outside.
Bedsheets tend to be pretty thin, so they won’t be as effective as a thicker curtain. Might need to double them up to let less light through.
Think awning. Shade not just the windows but the walls too.
Have a great week, everyone! Bit by bit, our hard work builds up until leaps in progress, which is why steady work towards our cause is necessary even if it seems like it moves very slowly.
As always, communism will win.
So I had my Uncle over for a week. Because he lives so far away we rarely get to see him, so seeing him after five years was something. His one week visit definitely would’ve been nicer had it not been for his reactionary views.
does anyone else here block their family members or have friends or family member that have blocked other relatives? I have a cousin who’s done this; for context, and I don’t know if this is okay to share, but he’s married to a trans person. Unfortunately some transphobic relatives constantly misgender his spouse with my reactionary uncle saying his pronouns are “political labels”.
In response to people misgendering him and generally not accepting him for who he is, he and his spouse blocked them and from my understanding have gone no-contact with these people. I don’t blame them, I mean how do you have a good relationship with these people when all they want to do is misgender you or your partner? You can’t talk to these transphobic relatives, so what else can you do besides going no-contact with them?
Yeah I don’t talk to 90% of my extended family because they are all christo-fascists. I barely even talk to my parents because it feels like talking to children who might get upset if I challenge their world view in the slightest.
I’ve been no-contact with family for over a decade at this point. It’s weird sometimes not having the social safety network that a lot of people have access to. But I don’t regret it at all.
I know people that can smooth over shit like that but I’m not one of them. Life is too short and I’d also rather die.
Had a propa health scare today as I suddenly felt like my heart was going to pound out of my chest combined with a feeling of fainting. Lasted nearly two hours but I got through it. No idea what caused it as at the moment I was sitting in a building with AC. Almost felt like some sort of panic attack. ‘This is it’, I thought. No idea if it was sparked by heat either.
Anyway I ain’t on my way out yet. Take that capitalism.
Over-stimulation is no joke and can cause panic attacks and even nausea and other horrible feelings.
I wouldn’t wish a panic attack caused by over-stimulation my worse enemy.
Also, my friend and I have a cause of heart palpitations or rapid heart-rate and we don’t know why
But I do suspect that, at least in my case, it is indeed over-stimulation and panic attack.
Also, GABA tablet supplements cause it for me for some reason and I really have no idea why.
Could be over-stimulation
I have had a few moments like that which basically caused a panic attack.
Just this morning in fact.
