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both-sides

[-] [email protected] 101 points 2 years ago

such a weird hill to die on

says the person claiming it's immoral to have babies

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kelly Americar

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bazinga

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Watch out folks, they've got ~~conference rooms~~ unofficial police stations here and they're ~~cyberbullying anticommunists on Zoom~~ threatening American citizens. We know because the US Justice Department and Meta told us so

Other posts by the network have referenced how “racism is an indelible shame on American democracy” and how the US committed “cultural genocide against the Indians,” according to a Meta report in August. Another post claimed that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “riddled with scandals.”

This whole long-ass article is a work of art

archive link

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You know how capitalist rags talk about Communism as an infectious ideology that can subvert the mushy minds of marginalized people, rather than being a natural response by thinking people to the material conditions they're subjected to? This episode is about that

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"I wanted my kids to know me," Jobs told Isaacson. "I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did."

Bro chose his legacy over his kids and spent his last days cloying for validation of that decision rip-bozo

Acting like he's some fuckin' migrant worker forced to leave his family to get them what they need to survive smh

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I wanted to outline my understanding of the West's relation to Zionism since it's been on my mind a lot lately. I'm interested in feedback for any details I might have wrong or lacking context.

So, we have Christianity being born out of Judaism and then being syncretized into the Roman Empire, which propagates its version of Christianity throughout its territory as part of its imperial structure. The empire wanes and leaves behind the politico-religious concept of Christendom or "the Christian world".

By the time that capitalism became Europe's dominant mode of production, Western Christianity was largely separated from Eastern Christianity and thus Eastern Christendom, and was relatively united under Catholicism. Importantly, papal bulls had established the Doctrine of Discovery, which set out instructions for (implicitly Western if I understand correctly) Christian countries to cooperate in the mission of subjugating and Christianizing non-Christian peoples. Even as the Reformation birthed Protestantism and wars were fought within (Western, but this is the last time I'm going to note that distinction) Christendom, the Doctrine of Discovery was mainly respected as something like property law among European Christian nations, including Protestant ones.

Notably, Europe is white as hell and the people they colonized were not. Through various means including pseudoscience and theology, European colonial powers reinforced their ideology with a new system of racism that would become the white supremacism we can recognize today. Tied in with the notions of Whiteness and Christendom, Europe (including the Russian empire in this instance) also forged the variety of antisemitism that would ultimately be advanced by the Nazis.

To this day, the successor states of former European colonies including the US cite the Doctrine of Discovery as their root source of legitimacy. This is reinforced by white supremacist ideology outrageously insisting indigenous peoples had no "civilization" in the first place, so that instead of unjustly plundering the world, the White Christian West was merely building civilization where none had been before. It follows the same racist reasoning, then, to claim that disparities in wealth between the West and its colonies were due to intrinsic differences in peoples and/or some need for a people to "mature" for generations under Christianity.

By the early 1900s, antisemitism remained homogenous across the West. Most notably it helped fuel the rise of Nazi Germany, which left the US in a privileged position to capitalize on WWII and centralize bourgeois power under its own flag. Still homogeneously antisemitic, the West, led increasingly by the US and witnessing the deterioration of the traditional colonial relationship, determined to concentrate much of its Jewish population in Britain's colonial territory in Palestine. The status of Jews as non-white was leveraged both to drive Jews out of the imperial core and to encourage an impression that they could only become and remain liberated by forming a "homeland" in the fashion of the West. This both gratified antisemites by voluntary deportation of Jews, and solved the problem of holding on to an increasingly unprofitable colony.

The present result would seem to be a near-universal Zionist stance within the Western bourgeoisie (which is the bourgeoisie in the global sense) and its institutions, and an Israeli ethnostate that is nominally Jewish but is in fact syncretized with White Supremacism as evidenced by their treatment of black Ethiopian Jewish immigrants.

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Farm owners or workers mother fucker?

big-honk OWNERS OR WORKERS MOTHER FUCKER?!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1008490

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Farm owners or workers mother fucker?

big-honk OWNERS OR WORKERS MOTHER FUCKER?!

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God I wish I was him

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There's only one way to get Shrek OC without putting in any effort, and it must be done

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago

“AMLO is liberal trump”

biden-the-thing I'm right here, man

[-] [email protected] 103 points 2 years ago

the horrific Hamas October 7 anti-Jewish pogrom

That is a wild way to frame an attack from within a ghetto against the nation that starves them in a ghetto

[-] [email protected] 80 points 2 years ago

WHAT

THE FUCK

[-] [email protected] 131 points 2 years ago

"Your voice, your perspective, your experience," replied the Vice President. She continued, "your words, your breath, your opinion." After a brief, awkward silence she went on, "Your analysis. Your education, your mind, your thoughts, your description. Your prose. Your story. Your creativity. Is it hot in here?" the Vice President asked the room.

VP Harris proceeded to drink a full water bottle without pausing and asked her aid for another. Once she had opened and drank most of the next bottle the Vice President asked, "Where was I?"

This marked the end of the VP Harris' scheduled appearance, as students began filing into the room for their regularly scheduled Political Science class.

[-] [email protected] 95 points 2 years ago

Brigading is when I get ratiod

[-] [email protected] 133 points 2 years ago

In response to a comment explaining that neither ship was Chinese:

And this is why China needs to stop being gigantic bullies and jerks in those waters. It leads to tensions where even routine stupid collisions in very crowded waters are instantly assumed to be hostile actions. If this had been a Chinese ship that had been struck, the Chinese would have instantly reacted the same way and they would have started howling for blood before the facts were known. Until China dials down the aggression, this area is a powder keg that they have created and sparks are flying every day. Today's mishap was another spark and everybody is lucky that the shooting didn't start. It's up to the Chinese to stop this and dial back the tension.

edit: wow, the China trolls are out for this comment! Sorry, kids. Have a nice afternoon.

michael-laugh

[-] [email protected] 87 points 2 years ago

We have to be careful with the way we speak if we don't want to alienate people. So: Will we deny reparations to black and brown people, or will we deny them to people of color?

[-] [email protected] 150 points 2 years ago

I've used ✊ as a certain flavor of "fuck yeah" before

✊🏻 hits wayyy different than that

[-] [email protected] 106 points 2 years ago

I’ve seen their brigading on lemmy communities before. They will also serial downvote anything they don’t like.

data-laughing

[-] [email protected] 85 points 2 years ago

The important part is that we failed the right way

[-] [email protected] 87 points 2 years ago

Whomst in our midst has not knowingly funded a genocide? Cancel culture is so out of hand

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