I still hope I can whip the algorithm into shape eventually, I mostly stick with it because my choices of places for posting what I draw are just too limited to abandon it completely.

However, if you got no such attachment I will say that not bothering with it is the best course of action, the discover feed radiates so much smug liberalism someone should make a new unit of measurement for it akin to the units used to measure radiation. I feel like I got a near-fatal dose.

as much as I hate to admit it twitter was far superior to bluesky when I used it, on the second day of setting up twitter my “discover” feed was already exclusively artists, communists and photographs from socialist countries

now on bluesky I constantly press the “I beg you please show me less like this” button and when I make the mistake of going to the “discover” tab all I discover is brain-melting liberal smugness from some random folks like “Jon Cooper” blueskeeting #resist impact font memes or even outright US senators blueskeeting about how they are also #resisting Trump

I AM NOT AMERICAN, I AM NOT IN AMERICA, GET THESE GODDAMN YANKS OUT OF MY FACE, BLUESKY, I BEG YOU

i just found out that one of the artists i like is a gramsci-quoting karl marx-reading red to the bone communist, which is really nice to see

but they exclusively draw erotica (they are really good at it) so i can’t really share a link to their profile with anyone

😔

fun fact, at one of the universities in the region there was an ENTIRE event celebrating this 3000 hectare tumor, they brought out the american soldiers to visit as well, pictures of campus looked like military occupation photos

Thank you, I now wish to scream at the clouds after reading that.

We are very far away from the future where all join hands and sing the Internationale together. But the distance is not infinite.

An absolute legend made a song about our modern working class hero.

Titled: Deny. Defend. Depose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtf2I2jOpBE

Posting this in the music comm too.

SMH I was about to post this juicy new development. Since when were you so fast.

Holy crap I can’t believe that a Romanian hasanabi exists (with 1% of the audience but still 18000 followers for what seems to be a communist-adjacent streamer in ROMANIA is mindblowing). Currently checking one of his VODs and he seems to know some theory, I still can’t believe he exists.

That’s good to hear, I have a bunch of colleagues that kept talking about SENS being their only real option, this and SENS almost getting parliamentary power is indication that a growing number of people (out of the 50% of the population that bothers to vote) are getting closer to actual leftist ideas. SENS are no communists but everyone has to start somewhere.

If the reactionaries start shouting the slogan “AUR POT cu SOS!” I am afraid the coalition will become a foregone conclusion, no one could resist a slogan that ridiculous. It might even become the verse of a new manea.

Out of curiosity, how far away was SENS from getting the coveted 5%?

I just wonder what exactly caused the PCR to devolve into such a state as to allow Ceaușescu to gain control, was the party compromised from the start or was it some combination of unfortunate circumstances and conditions that led to him? If you perhaps know of a good book about the internal workings of the PCR please let me know.

The regional breakdown of the two candidates is pretty much a slider where the more urbanized a place was, the more votes went to Lasconi and on the opposite side the more rural a place was the more votes went to Călin. As far as chances for a military coup go I’d say it’s quite slim, but decades are happening in weeks here, so we can’t entirely rule it out.

Update on the Romanian elections, two of the losers made appeals to the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) to nullify the results of the first round of elections that put Călin (Independent, extremely dubious neolegionary who preaches an anti-war stance) and Lasconi (USR, the “we aren’t the duopoly” party) in 1st and 2nd place, one accusing Elena Lasconi of voter fraud, who barely went ahead of the PSD candidate by about 2500 votes, the other accusing Călin of campaign finance fraud.

A popular theory is that this is a blatant attempt by those embedded within the Romanian political power structure to nuke the two candidates, especially Călin, and replace them with the ones in 3rd and 4th place, Marcel Ciolacu of PSD (the do-nothing party, one half of the PSD/PNL duopoly) and George Simion of AUR (reactionary irredentist party).

It seems that the first appeal went through the court and now all 9.2 million votes must be recounted, but appeal number 2 was rejected. Now if the previously mentioned theory was true then that plan completely blew up in their faces because if Lasconi was thought to have slim chances against Călin in the second round then there’s no way in hell that Ciolacu would ever beat him if the recount successfully eliminated Lasconi from the race. Romania has officially entered some interesting times.

https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/politica/primul-tur-al-alegerilor-prezidentiale-a-fost-contestat-la-curtea-constitutionala-3022837?__grsc=cookieIsUndef0&__grts=57760325&__grua=f51bb482c660d0eeadd1f058058a2b35&__grrn=1 <- article about the appeals themselves

https://www.digi24.ro/alegeri-prezidentiale-2024/decizia-fara-prececent-a-ccr-de-renumarare-a-voturilor-in-presa-internationala-risca-sa-pateze-credibilitatea-institutiilor-3025203 <- article about the international reaction to the decision to make a recount

Oh it definitely resonated, while looking at the vote tallies by county something I noticed is that in every county on the border of Ukraine Lasconi never got 2nd place, almost always 4th or 3rd. Another thing is noticed is that Lasconi placed 1st only in the big urban centers of the country, away from all borders.

So much for a stagnant political scene, huh? I guess we’re finally seeing some movement.

My colleagues at UNIVERSITY have repeatedly called Georgescu both a legionary and a communist interchangeably, their brains are absolutely fried with anti-communist propaganda, but I sense that we, as communists in Romania, might be able to educate people on what communism actually is. If Călin ends up winning he will doubtlessly disappoint people on every promise, and he will be an example in living memory of what a legionary is, a miserable failure. I am not getting my hopes up just yet but people might actually get curious enough to at least read the manifesto.

Of course, I admit that this is wishful thinking bordering on delusion, but Romania is on the precipice of finally entering some interesting times, we must think of how to make the most of it.

Doamne, ăsta chiar e cântecul perfect pentru ocazie. Îl salvez în folderul de muzică chiar acum.

Thank you tovarăș for compiling and summarizing all the information about these despicable figures.

I wonder when an actual left wing option will gain traction in Romania, at least Americans had the ability to vote PSL, we still have nothing. Of course, a leftist organization won’t just materialize itself from nothing and come to save us all, people have to actually come together to build it, but people nowadays seem so thoroughly depoliticized and apathetic it’s tough to even imagine something like that happening. Whenever I strike up a conversation about how China has achieved so much (while carefully not mentioning the words ‘socialism’ or ‘communism’) and how our country could also achieve greater things I am always met with either “Like that’s ever gonna happen.” or “Romanians are too dumb and stupid for that.”.

While people dream of some nebulous form of change the status quo has completely robbed them of the ability to even imagine what a better future would look like, not to mention the drive to actually do something about it, it’s quite bleak. That is without mentioning that decades of anti-communist propaganda fueled and legitimized by the austerity and excesses of Ceaușescu’s leadership seems to have forever tainted anything even resembling left wing politics in Romania, so if we ever get any movement for change it will likely come from even more right wing, ultranationalist and irredentist parties with almost identical politics.

This election truly highlights how Romanian politics don’t even have a leftist undercurrent of opposition, but I would like to hear what you have to say, what’s your take on the future of left wing politics in Romania? Do you think material conditions would eventually get dire enough for people to start reading Marx and Lenin? Or are we doomed to a slow march towards AUR and eventually some modern day Iron Guard ripoff?

Looking forward to your Sunday posts if you decide to make them!

Me and my family also planned to spend our Sunday doing more productive things than voting, glad to hear that more people are doing so as well, this system is so blatantly illegitimate it does not deserve to be dignified with any amount time spent voting.

Also, I just listened to that manea from Tzanca Uraganu, I spent 5 uninterrupted minutes laughing at it.