FUCK ISRAEL

a little louder for the people in the back

what’s more is this line of thinking does work for israel, not against it. israel wants the world to think that they, and they alone, speak for people who look like me

no. you’ve just crossed the line past anti-zionism to being uninformed on who pulls the strings in geopolitics and equating zionism to judaism. broadly speaking, lemmy is mostly anti-zionist with the exception of a couple instances (this one in particular i have some issues with which i won’t get into here)

i have yes. this is all evidence of the transnational oligarchy that fundamentally operates to support white supremacy abroad

America has been a surveillance state since 2002. also America controls Israel, not the other way around

it did. this tweet is about a month old

ultimately our two party sytem needs to be undone before you can make a choice between anything more than the lesser of two evils. any two party system will ultimately operate as a single party system with the only real difference being who participates in selecting the party officers. as such, the democrats act as the neo-liberal fascists and the republicans act as the hyperfascists.

my personal stance has been that i don’t really trust anyone who can’t set aside the little bit of effort it takes to participate in electoralism to participate in insurgent politics. at the same time, i don’t trust anyone who has faith in electoralism to do what’s necessary to participate in insurgent politics. the most dangerous faction in the united states is the same one Dr King and Malcolm X warned against: the non-actor. the non-actor makes a big stink about how both parties are the same, but also won’t take up arms.

Malcolm X said by the ballot or the bullet. but way too many people take that to mean they should wait patiently for someone else to fire the first shot and then think about getting involved. insurgent politics require mass participation and we’re not even to the point where we have enough engaged people to shift into more radical forms of non-violent protests like sit ins and strikes

how? the people of the global south to my experiece see their role in the world to act as responsible parties to the land they are indigenous to. the people of the global north, be they 1st world or 2nd world, have invaded this land, don’t respect its laws, and have claimed it as their own. this is what is meant by stolen land. it’s not a blood and soil thing where the land belongs to the people via bloodright. it’s more accurate to say the people belong to the land, be that indigenous american relationships to turtle island or the concept in palestinian teaching that they are seeds.

i’m ready adjust my stance, but your notion that landback movements to return people to their stolen land and allow them to manage their society based on their relationship to the land being anti-left, or even fascist, strikes me as very odd at best, and possibly paternalistic at worst

Redefining political violence has been a tactic of authoritarianism for many decades. It starts with only ever pointing out one kind of political violence (ie, the right does violence, the left does violence in response, only the left’s violence is covered). Then comes treating lesser violence from one side as a greater form of violence (ie, the right is using grenades, the left is using boxing gloves). Finally comes what you experienced, the elimination of freedom of expression on the grounds that speech leads to violence, even if what you’re calling for is just a slightly weird form of propaganda to invoke thought rather than any kind of violence.

I say all this in the hopes that someone on a different part of the scale somewhere can recognize the signs early enough to do something

really makes you think how valuable teh surveillance state can actually be making a case against Luigi Mangione when it can’t find a an old lady whose family is cooperating

abortions are sometimes life saving interventions. they have become criminalized in a widening number of locations

i am but one American so the sample size of what i’m seeing is limited, meaning the value of what i am saying is limited. we’re a little pre-occupied right now to care about icey slidey sports. there’s even a major part of me that was only paying attention to hockey second hand since my retiree motehr was telling me about it. she was disappointed Canada lost. she sees Canada as a nation of brethren separated from us by an imaginary border and our unlawful regime as a threat to all of the things she loved about the country we called home for 4 years in the 90s.

Trump’s mom’s story is… interesting and also tragic. it’s largely an exploration of how unhealthy power dynamics can break a person. she came to america broke as shit and worked as a housekeeper in Fred Trump’s estate. immediately she thought he was handsome and wanted to get with that, and was absolutely certain she’d found her handsome prince to lift her out of poverty. they eventually were wed, and the details surrounding Fred Trump approaching her family are murky but… it seems to me he thought of himself purchasing her like one of his development properties. once she gave birth to her first son, she wasn’t allowed near him. her second son, Donald, she swore to be close with, but she didn’t have the power in the relationship to get to be close with her son.

Fred felt that her feminine influence on his sons risked that they wouldn’t grow up to be the strong men he needed to run his burgeoning real estate empire. Donald’s older brother coped with the pressure by drinking himself to death. then Donald, the spare, became the main bet on who would run the empire.

it’s all so fucked. i’d much rather be broke as fuck and close with my mother

coal -> oil -> natural gas -> rare earth minerals and uranium

they won’t allow us to consider any possibility seriously that will reduce the importance of pulling things to make water hot out from under the surface of the earth

and what’s more, this rural/urban division is being deployed across the world to shift the whole world authoritarian

“yeah but Donald Trump said he doesn’t know anything about it”

generally speaking, people do file the proper paperwork if it doesn’t put them at immediate risk of expulsion back to whatever they were fleeing in the first place (which is the most common outcome of applying for legal residency after “illegally” “crossing” the “border”). once you file the paperwork the usual turnaround time to get legal residency or citizenship is 10-15 years.

absolutely. there wasn’t any prescribed spelling for anything until i think it was the mid 1800s. and dictionaries are meant to be descriptive of the language as it is, not prescriptive of what it should be

little secret: Florida isn’t as different from the rest os the US as people think. it just has a different law about journalistic reporting on police reports than the rest of the country which makes their police blotter easy fodder for hack comedians who don’t know robbing a gas station with an alligator in florida is the same energy as robbing a wawa with a badger in Pittsburgh, but the latter isn’t reported by default

i don’t think you can be appalachian and midwestern, too. i think an argument can be made that the midwest is the mississippi and great lakes watersheds without mountains north of the missouri compromise line