Today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells ...
The ukrainian wasn't even banned outright. The IOC even offered a lot of concessions, he would have been allowed to wear the helmet before, during the medal ceremony, on the podium, basically everywhere except during the actual run. He disregarded all compromises.
I'm gonna keep saying this to my "fellow" europeans: whatever is going on in the USA is gonna happen to us next. They're pushing the far-right parties all over, they have our economy in a stranglehold, there is no escape from US politics. You can shut your eyes and your ears all you want, we are part of NATO, we are the vassals of the empire, when the ship sinks we either get a lifeboat or go down with it and our elite seems to be hell bent on going down with it.
"I'm tired of yankee politics"
Tough shit, guess how tired of "yankee politics" the iraqis are. The afghanis are. The palestinians, the venezuelans, the colombians, the entire fucking world. You haven't seen anything yet. The american soft power is waning and they are gonna need somepeoples blood to maintain their order. If the rest of the world manages to throw of their yoke, guess who's left.
This goes doubly so for germans, Merz is already importing Palantir, but I'm banned from feddit_org and it most likely would fall on deaf ears regardless.
It seems a weird and very specific label applied to people of a very particular skin colour and heritage, to avoid using the word black, even though that’s not, on its own, a racist term. It’s just a descriptive visual trait, like tall, thin, white, muscly, gaunt, etc.
I would look at how african americans label themselves. How white people label them is irrelevant to the discussion imo.
Gnome with paperwm is goated. The best DE is the one I don't think about where everything is always "there". All I ever really want is a bunch of windows in an arbitrary non-overlapping arrangement and some energy/bluetooth/network gizmos. I do not want to use menus. Ever.
Today, in a symbolic act, Iranians set fire to the flags of Israel and the United States, as well as an obelisk and a statue of Baal—which they described as a symbol of Satan—in various cities across Iran in response to the release of the Epstein documents.
Not true for christians either. There is the holy trinity, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit but they are seen as different expressions of the one god, not three gods merged into one.
I'm not that deeply versed into it, the "sun" analogy gets used a lot nowadays, but sabellius himself was excommunicated for supposedly opposing trinity or something idk I don't really understand it tbh
Oh I've been dialectical about my faith in many ways. I grew up in a majority muslim country so having to "defend" or rather explain my faith has been at the core of it from the very start. Synthesising two theses gives me great joy and so I definitely understand your point about having to irrevocably change it. Creationism, The bible as the word of god being the two largest, LGBTQ+ acceptance of course and some other ones likely. I'm currently on the Jesus was not a vegan bend. This one is pretty tough I've gotta say 😅
My latest hypothesis is that in certain instances, “dead/death” referenced spiritually dead (eating from the tree of life, dead bury the dead), and the reason his teachings not being for those who didn’t understand the parables is because those people had hardened their hearts (empty cups), and hadn’t done the spiritual work (being spiritually alive) to understand.
Oh yeah, that was one of the things that got resolved to "hell" is not a place, but more of a state of being, or rather not being anymore. How atheists view death.
Well the "Jesus is not a vegan" is of course a bit of a caricature. More broadly, genesis talks about giving "mankind dominion over animals" for example. God drowns all the animals except two for mankinds sins? Seven if they're "holy"? Being kinda speciesist there bestie... Not to mention the hell did those animals that got drowned do?? But the thing I'm most hung up on atm is after Jesus death him appearing at the shore and telling his disciples to cast their nets on the right side, them murdering a christillion of fish and coming to shore to Jesus already having the fire to roast them lit. Got me going "Not my savior 😤" in only a half-joking way to be real.
Mahmood Mamdani, father of the newly elected mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, shared how he was introduced to Marx:
I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?”
I said, “I haven’t met him.”
Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”
“Wow, what happened?”
“No, no, he died long ago.”
I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”
“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”
I said, “Sounds amazing.”
I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.
I live in germany. The stickers I see are "bring them back home", "never again" with some AI slop of a young redhead in prison looking at an old person through bars both in striped prison suits clearly an allusion to the jews murdered in the holocaust, FCK HMS and some other assorted pro-pissraeli ones. I don't think I have seen even one in support of Palestine. Ever. In the past years, it's always been like this. I am never giving germans the benefit of the doubt and I am born one. There is centuries worth of history to back me up on this. The whole denazification was a sham, Death to Israel includes Death to Germany. Morgenthau was right.
you just want to close your eyes and ears at the people presenting facts and instead feel righteous when they're being rude to you because you don't engage with the topic at all.
but the video gives a rundown of several ways in which arabs are systematically discriminated against. You literally refusing to watch it is not my problem.
Ok yeah sorry i have seen some graffiti that's true. In migrant heavy areas. I don't want to give too much of my location away but the areas I regularly go to are populated by the gentrifying left. They're plastered in stickers but never pro-palestinian ones.
I am respecting your time by talking to you instead of deflecting you to a stream of videos, I would hope you reciprocate that…
No you aren't. You simply aren't, you expect me to write an essay debunking stuff that others already have and don't engage with what you're given. It's a ludicrous claim to make when you're just claiming that "there is no discrimination of arabs in Israel[sic]" but expect me to debunk that at length and with sources.
If you're actually interested you can look the stuff up. You can independently verify the claims made in the video, they show the articles they're getting the info from. It's not my job to educate you, if you're actually interested in how israeli apartheid works you can look it up you've been provided the means to do so. Watch the video, it's better than anything I could write here. It for sure is better researched and sourced than any internet comment I've ever seen. I don't understand why you think a lemmy comment would be more reliable than a youtube video... Why in the first two minutes they name one of the laws that you can look up.
What do you think they would mean if people said “Death to Rhodesia” or “Death to the 3rd Reich” if they were still around? What do you think people mean by "Dubul' ibhunu"?
Yeah it's call for the destruction of ameriKKKa, genocidesmany, the Occupation Regime of West Palestine and the Nazi-American Treatlerite Organisation among other nations and such entities. I don't know what you're still confused about, it's a call to end genocidal regimes not to perpetrate one. You're just being willfully obtuse.
Because pissrael is a settler colonial apartheid regime committing a genocide. It cannot be reformed into something better, it started as a settler colony and now it's a settler colony propped up by the US as a forward military base. Even if there was a path for reforming it (there isn't), the moment pissrael no longer commits violence the US pulls the plug as it no longer as use for it and the whole thing collapses anyway. "Death to pissrael" is a call for the death of apartheid and an end to the palestinian genocide.
Yeah, guess how nazi germany got defeated. Or the vietnamese colonial powers, or chinese colonial powers, or algerian colonial powers, or south african apartheid, or korean colonial powers, or cuban, or zimbabwean colonial powers, it really seems like all these settlers and colonists understand is violent revolt. It's not my fault the only countries standing against western imperialism and it's many many genocides are the ones you don't like. I wonder why that is?
Edit: Still curious about your thoughts on "Dubul' ibhunnu".
I have no doubt that they have a zero-tolerance policy for being anti-zionist.
They don't to be clear, at least in name they will even proclaim to be anti-zionist. But they will censor anything they think the german government deems antisemitic, while simultaneously allowing zionists unless they become too hateful. They keep arguing about german law but there are a couple reasons why this makes me doubt their intention more and not less:
a) they don't know that's what the law says, it's their interpretation of it. Maybe don't pre-emptively comply with cops?
b) if the cops want you gone, you're gone anyway. Doesnt matter how clean their boots got licked.
c) host in a better country if you actually disagree with that law
d) the law doesn't mandate you allow zionists on your instance. So why aren't they getting banned on sight but only if they take things "too far"?
They will censor almost anything past "I'm willing to call it a genocide", that is anything that can be done to stop the palestinian genocide. For example, an armed resistance of palestinians is the absolute minimum. You're not gonna get liberation from colonialism without armed resistance history is rife with proof of this. But the only faction putting up any such resistance is of course Hamas, which is banned in Germany and so any calls to help the armed resistance is subject to censorship. (As a side, I don't think anyone in the west knows anything about Hamas. All we are fed is hasbara about them and we know most of it is false from how the hostages got treated by members of the resistance and how they got treated by "their own")
Just as a showcase to where the focus of these "antizionists" are, go back to the page and:
Ctrl+F "pal": 15 hits Ctrl+F "israel": 47 hits Ctrl+F "arab": Phrase not found
They are very very concerned with what will happen to the settlers, and much less so with what happens to the indigenous people. Some people still won't call it genocide, others are talking about how settlers should be allowed to live there if they have moved there more than 30 years ago, even if illegaly, while simultaneously being worried about the palestinian joining "terror" (aka armed resistance) organisations and want to limit influence from neighboring countries (aka cut off aid!). These people very much do not understand that the palestinians are in a fight for their life, that no colonial oppression was overthrown by peaceful means, that only armed palestinians can guarantee peace and safety from pissrahelli right-wing death squads like the IOF. Their racism, worrying about armed arabs and merely wanting to curb the worst excesses of the apartheid regime, is so deep ingrained it does not get questioned.
And why isn't that xenophobic comment not subject to mod action? Does no one of the downvoters think it worth reporting, or do the mods not think it actionable?
But it just makes me wonder, what if you are just pro-palestinian? Are these two the same? Can one advocate for the freedom and well-being of Palestine without calling for the dissolution of the jewish state?
I think this very much is like all the other settler projects. You can't be pro-jewish and not anti-nazi, you can't be anti-apartheid without being anti-boer. The right to return is a minimum of the demands that pro-palestinian voices should demand imo but I don't think this is possible while pissrael as an entity still exists. I shared this video on pissraeli-apartheid before, I think it's very illuminating and a good showcase in how the discrimination of arabs is very much baked into israeli society. It's not an aberration, it's the norm. It is an ethnostate, it's name alone is testament to this. You will not find equal treatment of jews in "the aryan reich" and you won't find equal treatment of arabs in "Israel".
Edit: as an aside, if I were on dbzer0 I'd also not vote for a complete defederation but the original proposal, blocking of the communities that censor antizionist views. This way the discussion about zionism can involve fedditors, potentially radicalising a few, without having it subject to zionist moderation. But I'm not so it doesn't matter as much what I think.
They are willing to censor almost anything that goes past "I'm willing to call it a genocide", that is anything that can be done to emancipate palestinians. I do not think you're gonna be able to post about arming palestinians for instance. The moderation has an objectively zionist bias, which they readily admit, saying that the laws of their instance's host country force them to. However they also allow open zionists as long as they don't openly call for genocide (which no interpretation of the law forces them to).
I don't think engaging with them on their turf is going to lead to a lot of radicalisation of germans as you will have to keep tip-toeing around what is deemed acceptable speech and what isn't. They're also fairly loose with the banhammer should someone step a toe outside of the norms of "civil debate". So you'd have to have to argue about e.g. the cruelty that Hind Rajab was subjected to calmly or you're banned. Which I would argue is even worse as it reduces the lives of the people that are subject to these horrors to a debatable talking point. You gotta understand that for almost any german "palestinian" is an abstract term. This is
Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.
all over again. Just replace "uyghur" with "palestinian" and "xinjiang" with "israel". And what "china bad" translates to in this case is "israel bad". This is where their "antizionism" ends. Because past that the zionist propaganda kicks in, and the zionist propaganda in Germany is heavy. edit: expanding on this, they see "israel bad" like a club and are looking at who to strike. Seeing that a lot of zionists are jewish they will then turn on the antizionists to "protect" these Jews. And thus they will tone done from "israel bad" to "what israel is doing is bad" and look for reformist approaches. Two-statesism, sanctioning the entity etc. And thus the focus is completely moved away from the indigenous and on to settlers. How to counter this, how to keep palestinians in focus, humanize them and their struggle, I don't know. Anti-arab racism is very high and subconcious among the liberals. It's even higher among the conservatives but more concious, they are not that relevant to the ongoing discussion. Although you will see some right wing tropes get adopted by the so-called left-wing like "imported antisemitism" or "headscarves need to be banned from schools".
I'm gonna not gonna argue for complete defederation, because as someone who has to live in Germany I've gotten very very doomer about getting germans to stand against "jewish supremacy". I mean I am a german so I guess it's technically possible, but I grew up in Turkey so to me muslims are not an abstract concept, who knows what my biases are. Certainly not me. But I'd advise for the blocking of the communities proposed. The fedditors can still be argued with if they post on neutral ground, but arguing with them on hostile ground is imo not just a complete waste of time, but getting banned from there will make all your comments after that invisible to them. For instance no fedditor will read this comment because I am banned from the instance.
Because slogans are not meant for a complete and nuanced overview but a rallying cry. And the zionists keep twisting all of them around. "Palestine will be free" gets twisted into "free from jews", "Globalize the intifada" into "globalize jewish genocide" etc. we can't have zionists dictate what we're allowed to say. Someone getting pissed off at antizionist slogans is only showing their colors.
Between the river and the sea there is Palestine. The division of palestine into areas of various states of occupation is of no matter to the slogan. All of Palestine, west palestine, the westbank and gaza will be free. Free from occupation, free from apartheid, free from the random terror of the right wing militia known as the IOF. Our focus is on the palestinians, their right to return, their right to a free life, their right to govern their land.
The fact that people still think of the settlers first, that any call to action is first seen as an action against the jewish population in palestine and not as a call to action for the oppressed population of palestine (regardless of denomination) is not our problem. The west keeps projecting their centuries of rabid antisemitism on a population that lived in coexistence with the jews of the land. Until there were violent settler jews who sought to throw them out. Who kidnapped native jewish children to raise them in their settler jewish society (see lost generation of mizrahi jews), who fanned fans of division in other countries so the jews there had little choice but to become settlers (see how they "rescued" jews threatened by the holocaust), who preferred jews of a certain skincolor (see forced sterilization of ethiopian jews).
I'm not saying you are pissed off, but who sees us talking about palestinian liberation but only hears "jews this, jews that" and gets pissed off has their own problems to sort out.
The people who want to "kill" everyone are the settlers. Not the indigenous. Quite frankly it's as ridiculous as the constant fear of "white genocide" that the afrikaners kept harping on about during the struggle against apartheid
Can we put this debate about an obvious misunderstanding to rest already? I believe
antonim acknowledges that it was accidental. I don't think they have any malicious intent. And I don't think they think you have any either.
Since I posted enough clear evidence of the Twitter profile being a fascist, OP commendably deleted their thread.
The whole point of antisemites hiding behind antizionism is to make antizionism sound antisemitic. You accidentally posted a fascists tweet. You used a very common phrase that became a somewhat obscure meme among fascists. This triggered a false positive alarm. You deleted the post because it was giving off bad vibes (and you won't see me break a lance for the fedditors reaction to that, it was wayyy off base) and antonim correctly identified it as a false positive alarm.
(edit: sorry about all the "You" sentences in the previous paragraph i don't mean be accusatory)
Their main post is about what they perceive as a knee-jerk reaction to fedditors, to which I would say it's not out of nowhere and I've posted at length about it in a reply to them.
That’s my personal experience with feddit and its zionism, and consequently I’ve ended up suspicious of some of Lemmy users’ standards regarding this whole matter.
They're not suspicous of you but why some lemmy users were ready to throw down with the fedditors so eagerly over what antonim perceived as a very clearly objectionable post.
This post isn’t specifically about my post though,
right, but it's kind of what this comment chain seems to have devolved to. Idk, maybe I'm off base or misunderstanding something, I'm having a hard time with words today it feels like, forgot my meds as well apparently lol.
I'd still consider that characterisation fatphobic. Depicting zionists as undesirable using a picture of a person that prominently features their fatness is likely to be hurtful to fat comrades.
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[Video] Swiss TV commentator covers Israeli war crimes during their Olympics bobsled run. Questions why they are allowed to compete. ( files.catbox.moe )
Fuck lemmy. Im done.
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Iranians set fire to the flags of Israel and the United States, as well as an obelisk and a statue of Baal which they described as a symbol of Satan in response to release of the Epstein documents.
Today, in a symbolic act, Iranians set fire to the flags of Israel and the United States, as well as an obelisk and a statue of Baal—which they described as a symbol of Satan—in various cities across Iran in response to the release of the Epstein documents.
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Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws ( www.theguardian.com )
Laws to be introduced this week include up to two years in prison for distributing, displaying or reciting prohibited phrases to harass or offend