Also, I'm getting increasingly done with the football (soccer) world in The Netherlands. One of the players of the women national team said she'd love to be a manager in men football and some talking heads are saying that it would be ridiculous to have a female coach at a male team. Like, Sarina Wiegman won two European Championships and two second places are the World Cup. Surely she can be a better manager than many male trainers. The football world is sick.
I do but I don't think they will abandon the current strategy, especially with the far right gaining nearly 1/3 of all the votes at the moment. It's important to steal as many of their voters I guess.
I will probably try to organize a more underground group for when shit hits the fan (which, looking at the state of things, will probably happen).
Main focus is non parliamentary things. We try to influence people in the workplaces by having our members set up groups at their place of work. We often stand at factory gates in the early mornings to talk to the workers starting their shifts. We operate in local action groups who tackle local problems. We run several different free healthcare clinics. We do exchange projects with for example Cuba and Palestine.
There's lots of things we do, but I feel like they are not the main focus right now. I get why, elections can be important. But I feel less inclined to tell people to just VOTE!!!
Our party is focussing hard on the upcoming elections next year and even though I see the importance of it, I don't feel the urge to invest too much energy in parliamentary politics. And that's mainly what we seem to do right now.
It sucks, because it's really hurting my motivation right now.
We have a housing crisis, energy crisis, sky high inflation, increasing poverty but no, IMMIGRATION is supposedly the biggest concern of the Flemish people...
Almost 1/3 of the population in Flanders would vote extreme right Vlaams Belang according to today's poll 🫠🫠🫠 we really are going to see openly fascist European governments soon.
Because people have emotions, lol. Especially on an online board, anonimously. I would never let emotions control my party work. But I do hope I'm allowed to just yell something when I'm frustrated at thing, to ventilate.
I understand why China does this and to some extent I even agree with it. And the same goes for their two state solution, and I probably shouldn't have called it weak and disappointing. But sometimes I just want to vent.
I don't think anyone here will stop supporting China of Xi over this. And I understand the relations Kissinger had with China.
But on a personal level I am glad this waste of human life died. I just wish it was 60 years earlier. Many of the South American and Asian comrades our party works with saw this man as the devil turned human and for this day I will join them in celebrating his death, however childish it may seem.
Apparently Fujimori got released today lol