• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    9 hours ago

    So in a completely unsurprising turn of events Belgium has to follow strict EU budget cut rules.

    EXCEPT FOR DEFENSE SPENDING. Which can be kept outside of the entire budget. For four more years.

    So for four more years we can spend whatever we want on defense. But have to do budget cuts all around.

    In four years we have elections. And with budget cuts done by neolibs there is a chance of getting some sort of left wing government then due to public outrage. Which in turn has no spending room because then defense spending gets taken into budget.

    • NotMushroomForDebate@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      What do you think the situation in the EU is gearing up towards in the next 4 years? At some point something has to budge. If I have a right read on it, the further right parties in EU countries aren’t super thrilled with the defence spending, further deindustrialisation, and worsening relations with Russia regarding Ukraine and the energy crisis.

      I haven’t seen much that gives me hope that the left would be able to capitalise on this more than already-popular far-right parties. I’m not very familiar with the situation in countries like Belgium and the Netherlands though.

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        46 minutes ago

        While some right wing parties are against increased spending I don’t think that will stop it. If I look at The Netherlands virtually every party is in favor of increased spending of some sort. Even PVV. And in countries where the far right is against, there is always the option of excluding them from governments.

        More important is that the EU itself is heavily in favor of increased spending and ultimately they decide what their members states can and cannot do. So even if you as a member state go against the EU policy, you will face their consequences.

        For The Netherlands I don’t have much hope. Even the left wing parties are in favor of increased spendings. Unions don’t really seems to make a fuss. For Belgium I have some more hope. Our party is heavily against and at least we have a good sized following. Unions are very vocally against it too. On Tuesday we had 140k people marching in Brussels against austerity and increased defense spending.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    1 day ago

    So the people rioting in Brussel at the protest the other day are said to be linked to the former CCC, a ‘communist’ terrorist group from years ago who did terror attacks. CCC has always been suspected to be a part of Operation Gladio.

    It could literally he a psyop.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 days ago

    There’s this Dutch streamer who makes mostly Goofy reaction vids and for some reason he went into climate policies and his chat went: ‘but China pollutes so much!’

    And his response was how China is the factory of the world and not only that but they invest the most in green energy, and should be allowed to have some more pollution for being, you know, our factory.

    And I was like what the hell is this pro China talk doing outside of my commie bubble all of a sudden. Is change upon us?

    • Arachno_Stalinist@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      Hasan allegedly used a shock collar on his dog on stream, and chuds are clinging onto this to discredit his views.

      I don’t know if he really did/does or not, but in the video clip of the supposed shocking, it looks to me like Kaya (his dog) stubbed her foot on her platform during the moment she yelped.

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        1 day ago

        Yeah. I don’t even like Hasan and i could immediately tell it was a coordinated Zionist campaign against him.

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    I had my first day of trans group therapy session.

    So far, so great.

    I don’t know when I’ll start HRT but the deadline I set myself is the end of next year for when I start.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    4 days ago

    Never seen so many people at a strike. Must’ve been 120k+. Police says 80k+ but that doesn’t make sense. Waited 1.5 hours in the back before I could even start walking.

    Shoutout to people attacking the cops lmao mad lads

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      4 days ago

      Police estimates of protests are just silly in australia.

      For the Palestine march across the Sydney harbor bridge the police officially told the media it was 90K, the day of they told in private to Palestine Action that there were 100k but independent researchers using AI for people counting estimated 225k on the low end and 300K at the high end which was what the protest organizers said as well.

      Then a week later there was a far right march against immigration and the police said it was 15K when researchers say it was 3-8k.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
      15·
      4 days ago

      Kinda skipped the party prep and decided to do it with my place of work. And now I see the sign of the party comrades and they are all so wacky and quirky and meanwhile here I come with : fuck you NVA, No to NATO, fuck you genocidal fucks. And I’m noticing some differences.

      I don’t want a quirky sign tbh. I’m angry.

  • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
    24·
    5 days ago

    German media is being disgusting again by celebrating the “martyrdom” of the israhelli hostages, while erasing palestinian suffering completely. They even mentioned controversies surrounding President Netanyahu and that “controversies” being - hold your horses - corruption. Hell I even heard that Turkey is the main sponsor hamas now.

    Complete genocide denial. What an abhorrent clown show .