I get what you mean. Perspective makes it hard sometimes to not compare the third world experience to the grievances of those in the imperial core and not feel a sense of resentment. However, at the end of the day I don’t wish hardship on you or anyone.

I will admit I got a quite upset seeing your initial comment due to my own personal experience, and I apologize for coming across so hostile.

But I will maintain that, while your concerns are not unjustified, should you be deported, you will be at worst an annoying car ride/train journey away from seeing your friends again. As well as those places and things you have grown attached to over the years you’ve been an immigrant, and even your work, as due to the Schengen zone, you could even still do the same job and commute between the countries. And at worst, should you be totally banned from entering for whatever reason, your friends can still take that short ride over and see you.

For many deported people, like myself, especially those sent back to the global south, we are left economically crippled and have to start over with almost nothing, knowing that we will likely NEVER return to the life, people, and everything else we were made to leave behind.

Even thinking about it today, years later, makes me so irrationally upset and depressed, knowing I’ll likely never return and see my friends again, due to both the sheer distance, and the sheer economic unlikelihood of such a thing. I guess seeing these kinds of “first world” worries makes me feel a rage at the sheer injustice that I am subjected to, just because of where I happened to be born.

Mate… you would be deported from Belgium to the Netherlands… thats absolutely nothing. Take it from someone who’s actually been deported, you will never know the half of it.

And Al-Jazeera pretends to be pro Palestine while they’re just a state propaganda mouthpiece who’s main goal is to get Sunni Muslims to believe everything they say about regimes that “Oppress the true faith”.

As much as I would like to see it, I don’t report posts from them that don’t add “Sectarian Reactionary News Media” added in the title. Because unlike the new york times, there are a lot of outlets who, due to their coverage of the genocide, have lulled many people into thinking they are upstanding and should be listened to. Another example for this is just recently we saw middle east spectator reveal themselves to be Anti-LGBT when they commented on Zohran Mamdani’s position on pride. Do we now ignore, report, and block every single thing they report on?

It’s not the fault of the user who posts it, neither does it break a rule. I take no issue with your discomfort at CPGB being reactionary, I believe so too.

However it is not against the rules (as they are currently, I do think they could be improved) to post something they say, as long as it is not directly endorsing the party or it’s reactionary views. I don’t see that here.

I recall that this user has in the past made some pretty unhinged comments which suggest mental illness, I worry for their wellbeing.

I think the race brainworms have set in, my dear American friend.

I could say all those things about the BBC, the Guardian, etc

That is the point, you definitely can, and if we followed the rules the way you did, we’d be reporting every post made out of one of their pieces, that’s my point. We do not post anything with the assumption that we are uncritically endorsing everything that has ever been said by the source. And if we do so for some and not others, we give legitimacy to the ones we don’t try and ban from our discussions. If this is the intended way we follow these rules, I am much more uncomfortable with Al-Jazeera, Middle East eye, New York times and their ilk being seen as totally fair and productive to post articles from than whoever this small UK party member is.

I’m not sure why you want to report Al Jazeera, there is no rule against posting from mainstream media.

They are a sectarian, anti China, anti Shia propaganda rag that manufactured consent for the destruction of Syria and Libya, yet I see plenty of posts of their articles here, particularly about Palestine, and yet I tolerate it and don’t report people for making such posts, because I don’t automatically assume the people posting are trying to promote sectarian, anti China views.

Also how do you interpret the rule, do you take it as meaning “We don’t want people with such views to be a part of this community and spread their views” or “We don’t want people with such views to even be mentioned in this community regardless of why”?

Should we go and report any post from Al-Jazeera? Or any post that links to western state propaganda in general? Does that count as breaking the “Promoting anti-communism” rule? I think it’s a little much to go about reporting people for linking something somebody said, just because we don’t like the somebody who said it. I don’t see any explicit all encompassing endorsement of this person’s reactionary views anywhere in this post.

Germany should have been completely disintegrated after WWII. I think the Soviets made a mistake by creating the DDR, because at the end of the day it was still possible to re-unite and create what has effectively become the fourth Reich. Should have been split into like 5 different independent PRs/annexed by Poland/Czechoslovakia.

Almost always, laws which punish people for “More” or “higher percentage” intoxication have always disproportionally been used to harass and punish minorities, case in point, war on drugs. To trust cops to handle this kind of judgement when pulling people over is asking for disaster.

I don’t understand this “Adjacent” shit in US race category talk. What does it mean? That your “racial characteristics” match up more closely with one than the other? How does that work? Color? Skull diameter? Tolerance for spicy food?

More likely that cheating in this context would be finding out that the robots are secretly being controlled remotely by humans behind the scenes, battle bots style.

Fr, reminds me of batshit laws passed in the US to deliberately give cops easy ways to fill quotas and lock up minorities.

Where I live, people driving big busses are the #1 assholes causing traffic problems on the street. They treat the road like might makes right and bully people around constantly. Maybe it’s regional, but give an asshole a bus, and he’s just an asshole with a bus.

You will likely never hear from an actual Laotian, nobody there speaks English, I believe it’s one of the least English proficient places on earth. And on online forums like this, all you’ll get are history lessons and economic speculation from outsiders, unfortunately. No clue how things are on the ground there.

But they are trying to make people speak FRENCH, which is arguably worse and a war crime.

People have to remember that the US democratic party is practically a private business. They can, for whatever reason they want, simply decide to ignore the primary result and pick someone else. I would not put it past them.

A lot of Muslims you’ll see online, particularly on social media and on these political topics, are only in it for sectarian reasons, they are whipped up into such a frenzy by mostly comprador outlets like Al Jazeera and Middle East eye, that they genuinely would condemn pro Palestinian forces if given some stupid religious reason, as they did with the Syrian Arab republic, and as they very well may with Mamdani.

will my guide accompany me on board the slide to ensure I am not attempting to sabotage the state? If not, how can I convince them to?