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Yeah they were chased/jumped into the canal in the old side of the city. Well deserved IMO

Amsterdammer here. I was not present in the fighting but local sources have shared what happened.

In short, the Israeli hooligans including some off-duty IOF soldiers were attacking locals and stealing Palestinian flags from peoples windows. Also chanting about death to Arabs and a bunch of other racist shit.

Finally the local activists and mixed youth (including many many non-left) had enough and started taking them on physically because they were sick of the disrespect.

The cops arrest and beat these locals while protecting the Israelis. Meanwhile you've all seen the propaganda crying anti-semitism.

They literally brought it on themselves. Fuck them.

Just piggybacking to reiterate the sad truth of this comment, the Dutch have lost their effing minds and IMO are even more self-righteous about "Muh-kraine" than the USAmericans. Both in regards to the politicians and also majority of the people I've talked with about it. It's fucked.

Seems to me the endless onslaught of propaganda during Covid broke so many people's brains to the extent that they are seeking out more propaganda because they literally don't want to think for themselves at all. Hell I'd be surprised if many people on Lemmygrad continued to "follow the science" on Covid since Ukraine started as results from that worldwide experiement are finally starting to come out (instead of just the number models). shrug

I had just started getting deep into using Vim a couple of months ago and it continues to impress me in it's usefulness. Shame to hear that the creator has passed on.

RIP to a great one, pouring one out for Bram

Solidarity comrade.

There’s no amount of psychoanalysis that can cure a trauma caused by the material reality of a patient. You can give them coping skills, you can make them understand certain aspects of their psyche, but cannot advance any further without improving the material existence.

Exactly. This should be a repeated opening statement for anyone getting into therapy whether as a giver or receiver. Too often it's treated as some mystical "science" whereby all of the patient's ills can be therapized away with just enough inner effort (and money!). I've had many traumas to deal with and at the end of it all the singular thing that helped me the most was solving my basic material needs. Thankfully I came to the same realization as your statement on my own (after much introspection) before getting pathologized and needlessly medicated. I reailze there are people who may need the medication and all, but I'd wager that they are not the majority of people who end up there.

And 80%+ of the Collective West's citizens will buy it, just like they bought Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Ukraine since 2014. It hurts my sensibilities. Some of the most intelligent people I know buy this shit, every fucking time. Clearly deep knowledge in one area doesn't matter much when it comes to spotting admittedly obvious patterns of propaganda. Sigh...

Can we start calling him Pagliacci?

Bless the Parenti family and the personal assisstant too!

Apologies, for some reason I didn't get a notification for your comment but @[email protected] described the gist of it well :)

And the greedy parasites are so ill-informed of their own system they don't even realize the unescapable inevitability of the capitalist model: eventually profit will become 0. They can't hide behind "externalities" forever, despite their efforts.

Well they have enough of the Ukranian diaspora in Canada they could probably form a brigade... :-/