Does this man have any actual opinions? He might as well be a skinsuit people fight over the privilege of wearing.
It really is Occupied Korea, isn't it?
Knuckle-dragging chauvinism from the Trump administration? Who would've thought?
21st century relevance
Bernie and AOC have lost what little relevancy their base once afforded them. About ninety percent of their former supporters have fallen into the Communist camp or are riding with Biden/Harris. The remainder which still attend their rallies boo them over their genocide apologia, and that's the only thing I've heard about either of them in literal years. "Relevance" to liberals literally means being absorbed into the Borg and forgotten. How frightfully bleak.
"Pleased to announce we're saving you hundreds this year by not paying the gas bill."
Ultimate Chad maneuver
Gaslighting the left while complaining about being gaslit by the left is a new one. Or maybe it isn't, idk...
Someone needs to tell these folks that they are not even ten percent as oppressed as they seem convinced that they are. I have never seen anyone else complain so adamantly about not being allowed in the country club from inside of the country club. Playing the victim in spite of everything is the only way their Final Solution to the Palestinian question can be parsed as a morally justified endeavor, so this angle has to be doubled down on even when it forces them to commit to this degree of humiliating stupidity.
Also lol at the people saying they're Indians. One hundred percent of the time, people claiming to be indigenous on Feddit are doing so to deny the genocide of "their" people or run interference for Zionism by framing it as a landback project, or in this case lying through their teeth claiming the antizionist movement shows apathy towards the plight of indigenous Americans. How incredibly absurd.
Europeans are not indigenous to Palestine. And while we're at it, the Boers aren't indigenous to Africa, and Puritan settlers aren't indigenous to Massachusetts. I can't believe this even needs to be said. Absolutely cursed thread.
Sometimes I forget that genocide is purely theoretical to liberals. We only ever are on the verge of another holocaust, we only ever show frightening parallels to Nazi Germany, and of course this definitely isn't who we are, we're better than this, etc. And then, there are a million excuses and explanations for when there IS fascism and there IS genocide, why this is all okay, acceptable, not our fault, not our business, they had it coming, it's not so bad, do you want Trump to win??? and so on.
I would only start to worry about looking like an edgelord/weeb/mall ninja with an actual metal sword. No one on the planet is going to get that idea from a bit of Kendo equipment. People might be confused why it's there, especially if you don't do Kendo, but just explain it to them if they ask. Or don't.
At some point, it's your house. Life has enough arbitrary bullshit to offer without worrying about things like this. Just hang it wherever you want, however you want. Act like you're the only person in the world when you do it.
How can anyone deny what students feel and experience?
The same way you can deny the feelings and experiences of any other person or group of people? Palestinians can tell you something about having feelings and experiences "denied."
I'm getting a "listen to x voices!!!" vibe from this whiny drivel. These people always have a certain "x" in mind you're meant to "listen" to. And if you don't "listen," you must hate everyone with the same adjective as "x."
Which is true. I DO hate zionists, fascists, settlers, murderers, rapists, thieves, and those who defend genocide. Sue me.
...many in the US and elsewhere alleged that the work was intended as propaganda against the US military.
Oh so he's based? Okay cool
He was voicing a concern shared across Taiwan since President Trump pulled back on America’s strong support for Ukraine and added insult to injury by humiliating its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the White House in late February. Now people in Taiwan are wondering: If the United States could do that to Ukraine to cozy up to Russia, will it do the same to us to cozy up to China?
If I was Taiwanese I'd be far more worried about being used in the first place, rather than being betrayed after being used.
"America is a shining city on a hill and if it isn't it's because of the Chai-knees commie party."
I love these people who skim through the work of actual scholars to find evidence for their own weird ideas and obsessions all while ignoring the data and conclusions of those actual scholars. Obviously, Simon Kordonsky does not say "Russia only has 60 million people in it," and there's no way the poster doesn't know this after reading his books and/or listening to his interviews and lectures. She just doesn't care.
Look at us now, rich and not communist.
Right, I'm always hearing about the booming Congolese economy, home to millions of happy, healthy, well-fed, amply-housed citizens with strong infrastructure and stable politics. I mean, it's 179th place on the Human Development Index for a reason, right?
Who does this person think they're fooling? Strong chance they aren't from the country they say they're from, IMO.
I live peacefully
I want to join NATO
you gotta pick one or the other
"It ain't perfect but there's no way it could be better and everything else is worse."
I want to surgically extract the Winston Churchill tumor from these people's brains. I'm worried about how little would be left, though.
"My grandpappy was a resistance fighter in occupied Berlin in April 1945 and HE said the Ruskies were all animal savages and that it's not too late to exterminate them if we just....."
"Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your family's experiences ;( you're so brave ironcrossubermensch1488"
If someone hasn't made an AI to crank out these sob stories, I'd be shocked. It's like clockwork.
CNN's Nectar Gan petulantly whines over destruction of CIA propaganda machine
One nationalist influencer called it “truly gratifying.” Another said he was laughing his head off. And a state-media editorial hailed the demise of what it called the “lie factory.”
Gratifying, indeed.
Need to organize, don't know where to start. Help?
Living in the States has me genuinely frightened. I'm not so naive as to suppose it's not always been rough, but it's clear we've entered a qualitatively different era. The moderate wing of fascism has died, and barbarism is all that remains.
I want to fight back in a substantive way, even if it's small. I want to participate in institutions which protect the vulnerable, myself included. I don't want to lock my doors and peek out the windows, but I know better than to engage in adventurist, individual "resistance." I also don't want to be in a social club where we sit and congratulate each other on having the right opinions. I'm past wanting to be on the "right side of history," where I content myself with personally disagreeing with the nightmare we live in. Something needs to be done; the window for taking action is swinging shut.
I have almost no experience in organizing. I've attended a handful of protests which mostly felt like a venting of frustrations for everyone there. I've
AP media vultures lament incomplete genocide, scold Hamas for existing
For all the military might Israel deployed in Gaza, it failed to remove Hamas from power, one of its central war aims.
"Many" Syrians aren't as enthusiastic about ousting Assad as they are about having livable communities...
Not all Syrians welcome the rebel victory, with thousands fleeing to Lebanon
Are First-Worlders really "complicit" in Imperialism?
World Systems Theory and related concepts often come up whenever people try to explain why Westerners are psychotic counterrevolutionary scum, etc. It's often suggested that white Americans in particular love third-world exploitation because it directly benefits those same white Americans. We might say "White Minnesotan Joe Cracker wants child slavery in southern Africa so he can get his cheap electronics." And yeah, that makes sense up to a point...
But Joe Cracker might not understand the relevant supply chain or even the basic composition of his smartphone. He probably doesn't even know about the existence of said exploitation, much less its nature or purpose. Maybe Joe Cracker WILL revolt without his cheap goods, but he probably doesn't actually know what goes into producing them or keeping the prices down. So what decisions is he making that render him "complicit" in the profiteering of some massive international corporation like Apple? Falling for their ads?
It's also worth poi
CNN staff thinks Germany's government is "normally stable," can't figure out where it all went wrong.
Germany’s governing coalition has collapsed after disagreements over the country’s weak economy led Chancellor Olaf Scholz to sack his finance minister.
Agent Cody Banks Goes Mask-Off, Hacks Kim Jong Un's Xbox Live
As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.
This article is indistinguishable from satire. I know that's cliche, but this is honest-to-god something someone here would have banged out in an afternoon as a niche joke. I don't have anything clever to say, you just have to read it.
Why NATO Is More Than Democracy’s Best Defense - Journal of Democracy
On its 75th anniversary, NATO should be celebrated for being more than the world’s greatest military compact. It’s an engine of democracy’s advance.
Oh God, my eyes.
Practical Marxism?
"Read theory."
We say this all the time. It's basically an expression, isn't it? It can be advise, bragging, scorn, mockery. It's all become a bit ephemeral.
That's not to say that people shouldn't read theory. Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement. Even so, isn't it a bit silly to suggest, even implicitly, that being a Marxist or communist boils down to a familiarity with the source material? If that's not book worship, I don't know what is.
I understand that this is, on some level, an accusation. I am suggesting that many of our communities are caught up in a somewhat liberal, idealist mindset. We all have an ideology, a set of opinions about the world which we express and propagate at the expense of our competitors. Can we seriously deny this is what we are doing?
If Marxism-Leninism is a science, there must be some technical aspect. What are we supposed to do in the world? How do we do it? And how do we know if it's working?
A Chinese pastor is released after 7 years in prison, only to find himself unable to get an ID - AP News (and a million other places)
A pastor in China has been released after serving seven years in prison. But The Rev. John Sanqiang Cao, who had studied in married in the U.S., says he's without any legal documentation in his country, unable to access even the most basic services without a Chinese identification.
This article, written by a Taiwan-based "sinologist," has been copied and pasted over several major outlets and a dozen other Christian clickbait news sites. The pastor in question is John Sanqiang Cao, and was charged with human trafficking upon returning from a mission trip to Myanmar.
I don't know anything about the validity of the charges he's facing, and I'm quite certain that IF the events alleged by the article are true, then this is a clear miscarriage of justice.
There is something very funny about this story appearing all over American media, though. As if ex-convicts in the US don't deal with very similar problems...
The agonizing literalness of Lesser-Evilism
At risk of beating the dead horse…
These god damn liberals keep harping over how Joe Biden is the “lesser evil” compared to Donald Trump, necessitating that we go out and vote for him come November lest our flawless democratic system give way to fascism. “Something something incrementalism purity test push him left do you want Trump to win???”
In 2020, it could be feasibly argued, if poorly, that Joe Biden was, in fact, the “lesser evil.” Donald Trump was the president, and Joe Biden was not. Given the dual assumption that Donald Trump was a “substandard” president and that Biden would likely be at least “standard” quality, this made some sense. But the cards are on the table now. All of our most fearful suspicions about a Biden presidency have been utterly validated, and that’s not even counting all the atrocities people scarcely imagined him committing or lacked the capacity to predict altogether. He is more evil than we could have possibly known.
All these same libs are now in a
After the occupation declares victory in Khan Younis, the IOF suffers a humiliating and deadly ambush... more details at 6 AM tomorrow.
Although details remain unclear, the language of the Israeli media suggests that the event is extraordinary.
Anyone else noticing that the Zionists tend to be a bit hasty in taking a victory lap?
Easily the stupidest article I've read in the past year
The vibecession is over: Americans are suddenly much more confident that the economy is doing better and less scared of a recession.
"Antisemitism" Vent Post
I try my best to be considerate and sensitive about criticizing Israel so as to not paint Jews in a negative light, but my patience is wearing so, so thin. I am extremely tired of having our sentiments and language policed by bad faith actors. The Zionists who won't shut up about how and when we're allowed to criticize and oppose apartheid, what words we're allowed to use and what arguments we're allowed to make, are not even remotely interested in protecting Jews from bigotry. They are just trying to deflect righteous anger away from Israel and onto the people who won't fall in line and support the colonial project, as evidenced by their itchy trigger fingers for calling everyone and anyone, including Jews themselves, rabid antisemites for opposing the indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza.
Do you describe Israeli settlers as violent? That's blood libel. Please ignore the definition of blood libel and please ignore the violent bigotry of Israeli settlers. Just shut up and listen to what
Protest Basics?
I'm planning to attend the march in DC on January 13, and I need some advice both on what to expect and how to prepare.
I am not a stranger to protests. I attended a few during the George Floyd uprising, some of which were quite large, but I have a feeling this one will be more massive than any I've participated in before. With that in mind...
What are the most common threats protestors will face? What steps should I take to ensure the safety of myself and others? How do we defend ourselves from cops, counter-protesters and other aggressors? Are there essential supplies or tools I should bring to this end? Is there anything I should not bring under any circumstances?
Are there any environmental hazards I should be aware of? How do we avoid them?
Are there conventions and strategies employed in very large protests that I should be aware of, so as to more effectively coordinate my efforts with those around me?
What are the tactics and methods of disruption used by cops and others lo
Seeking Transcript of Assad's Infamous Dec 18 Speech
I'm interested in the transcript, preferably in both Arabic and English, due to a comment Assad made about the Holocaust and who died in it. Namely, he allegedly says "there is no evidence that six million Jews died in the Holocaust." I'd like to see his words in black and white and verify this statement myself. If any Arabic-speaking comrades could assist me in the endeavor of obtaining a literal translation of this comment, that would be greatly appreciated as well.
Antisemitic Zionism
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3035303
We've all expressed immense frustration over being lumped in with Nazis and other rabid bigots over our opposition to apartheid and settler colonialism. The cynical attempts to crush opposition to Zionism by browbeating anyone who opposes the American empire with accusations of secret antisemitism can be seen both before and since October 7. It is somewhat ironic that Zionism, especially among evangelical Christians, is itself an unconscious expression of toxic and deleterious antisemitism from which they have failed to liberate themselves.
Among Evangelical Americans, a popular belief posits white Israelis as not only being indigenous to Palestine, a bizarre contortion of reality in itself, but as being the "chosen people" with a separate covenant with their god which guarantees a Jewish ethnostate in the "Holy Land." In the same way that their god promised the New World to white European settlers from coast to coast, he h
Colonial arguments that defeat themselves: A primer
From an early age, even during primary education, Americans are told that their country is exceptional. It's not clear what is meant when we are told this, since no explanation is given as to how we are exceptional.
In fact, most of American propaganda makes endless excuses for itself. "American slavery and genocide isn't all that bad, especially considering everyone else does it too. All land is stolen. You have to keep 'historical context' in mind when criticizing the United States. It's not fair to judge our actions by modern standards."
Without even deconstructing this argument, how it is filled with deception and misdirection, we can see a glaring hypocrisy. I thought we were supposed to be exceptional. Now you're saying we aren't?
This kind of self-destructive argumentation always emerges in regards to America's colonial underclass. When people discuss the annexation of Indian land or the enslavement of Africans, we are always told that the conquered and enslaved peoples we