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  • But don't you get it? It's just a childrens party! We need racist figures to represent it!

  • We have this Dutch tradition called Sinterklaas which is basically our version of Santa Claus. Traditionally he is accompanied by Black Pete, a black person who is usually played by a white person in blackface. He looks like this:

    Needless to say that a white man controlling a group of black people who resemble slaves is controversial. In the last 10 years protests against black pete have really increased and as a result the vast majority of the country has banned Black Pete. They are now subsituted by Soot Face Pete as one of the origins of Black Pete is that he climbs through the chimney, hence the black face. Why the bright right lips, gold earrings and total black face were a part of it, is never answered of course.

    Childrens party saved, right? No. A handful of racists keeps haning on to Black Pete and some towns in The Netherlands (and Belgium) keep Black Pete during the parade of Sinterklaas. Action groups keep protesting Black Pete at parades and in recent years these protests have turned violent with mobs of racists attacking the protesters.

    This was the case yesterday in Yerseke, The Netherlands where protesters were intimidated, attacked, targeted with eggs and whatnot. Police did very little to stop the 'concerned' mob of racists.

    Bonus thing: some of the racist mob threw the sieg heil hand gesture but, in contrast with events in Amsterdam, no politican yet has cried antisemitism.


  • To prevent Hexbear's internal struggle from spilling over to here and derailing this thread as a whole, we will be locking it. A lot has been said already in the comments and we feel like we are involved in Hexbear too little to a) contribute positively and b) moderate reports that require knowledge on Hexbear history.

    I think I can safely say that we hope Hexbear manages to overcome their internal issues again.

  • EuropeanSocialists @lemmygrad.ml

    Our party joins a leftist coalition to govern in the city of Mons

  • Palestine @lemmygrad.ml

    PSG tifo tonight

  • Memes @lemmygrad.ml

    Internet when a woman says something online

  • EuropeanSocialists @lemmygrad.ml

    The final result is yet to come but it seems that we did not manage to become the biggest party by a great margin

  • EuropeanSocialists @lemmygrad.ml

    Tomorrow we will have municipality elections in Belgium, and we have a chance to become the biggest party in one of the most important cities

  • EuropeanSocialists @lemmygrad.ml

    PSA: Coming weekend will be time for Manifiesta, our party's festival in Oostende, Belgium

  • No my DuckDuckGo search was just weird I guess. Only links to Amazon and similar companies.

  • It can be that easy lmao

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml

    Is there a way to read Settlers online?

  • EuropeanSocialists @lemmygrad.ml

    PSA: you can still buy tickets to our party's festival Manifiesta in Oostende this september

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml

    Leader of the free world ladies and gentlemen

  • EuropeanSocialists @lemmygrad.ml

    BBC when literal Nazi's lose an election

  • EuropeanSocialists @lemmygrad.ml

    Ukraine fans just displayed a Nazi banner at the Euro's lmao

    www.google.com /amp/s/www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/26/7462762/index.amp
  • Based on what you see on Reddit it was the most heckin awesome protest against Putin and nothing else happened

  • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml could you please, for once, explain all your downvotes in Palestine related topics? It seems you are having some issues with Lemmygrad's stance.

  • when the school went under

    My God what a country

  • Echo chamber? Maybe. Toxic? No, not at all. It's actually very freeing to be able to discuss ML stuff more deeply instead of having the umpteenth lib/ultra/trot coming in trying to debate TANKIE MAN SQUARE ONE BILLION DEATH.

    This community has been nothing but supporting to me.

  • World News having the expected meltdown. No early weekend for people working in Langley.

  • The only thing the Western media portrayed him as was as an opponent of Putin. His nationalist tendencies were unknown to Western libs.

  • They should visit Basque Country where a lot of the corps are co-ops and such to see that it's not perfect either. You know, because working towards a goal will not always be perfect and depends on actual material conditions of your country, instead of some puritan fantasy.

  • Ah yes Azerbeidzjan attacking a Armenia Iran hybrid (???)

  • I don't agree with what Hakim said but it's not like he's the grand Oracle of communist theory. He's a young guy who grew up in a war torn country in which more than a million of his fellow countrypeople have been massacred by the west. A country that is geographically much closer to an ongoing genocide than the western country I am in right now.

    Of course religion isn't the main thing driving the Palestinians forward right now. But it probably plays an important role in a Muslim Majority country.

    What bugs me, though, is that many western communist nearly start foaming at the mouth the moment religion gets brought up, especially in combination with communism. Meanwhile we have actual religious majority countries being AES or resisting imperialism and it feels highly chauvinistic to discredit their struggle purely because they are religious. Once the first perfect atheist western revolution without violence and possible reactionary takes happens, we'll see. But my money is that our own revolutions, of they ever happen, will be far from 'perfect' as well.

  • It did according to Gregorian calendar. But the Russians were using the Julian calendar in which it would be the 25th october right now.

  • In an illegal dismantlement forced by The West with a subsequent capitalist shock therapy in which millions died and even more millions saw their quality of life decline drastically.

  • Yet to see millions of people around the world protesting for Israel but go ahead Economic. They never recovered from Lenin's burn it seems.

  • 40 non existing beheaded babies and a couple of ravers killed by Hamas