This, like the tariffs on EVs, shows the US would rather people died than lose even a smidge of influence.

But the Gaza government agencies are run by the political arm of Hamas? I don't understand how that makes it lib?

My favourite bit is when Wikipedia itself is like "the 10,000 claim was made by one dude who basically instantly retracted it and claimed the still unplausibly high number of 2,000".

Also, the Tank Man photographer talks about the protestors throwing molotov cocktails and beating police officers to death.

And the whole "China pretends it didn't happen"...they have official death estimates. 300 people. The US have their own estimate. 900 people. But no matter the number, it was much fewer than the protest leaders had hoped for.

To quote one of the protest leaders "What we actually are hoping for is bloodshed, the moment when the government is ready to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes" - Chai Ling

By the way, that person is alive and well running a firm that fires people for not praying at work.

Or, hear me out, restoring native ecosystem is in itself anti-colonial. This is the weirdest whataboutism I've seen in a bit.

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Oh sweet summer child, no.

This led me on a deep dive of the banned Palestine conference in Germany and I found Yanis Varoufakis' speech.

"How much Palestinian blood must flow before your, justified, guilt over the Holocaust is washed away?" - that line hits so hard

Honestly thought this is where it was going

I think we read different articles:

This person was not allowed to SHARE the things written. That's not a thought crime.

"Romance" is such a crap term! She was writing porn. Likely with minors. I'm involved with a lot of authors, some also write porn open-door spice, and the only things that get Google bans (from what I've been told) are kiddie porn and extreme gore.

While the dangers of handing your documents to Google can't be overstated, don't sympathise too much with this person.

EDIT: y'all know she was only blocked from sharing, right? She did not lose access to any of her work and no one has the right to demand a middle man for their content.

Scenario: Jack draws some heinous CP cartoon. He wants to share it with Alice. He asks Jill to hand it to Alice. Jill says "I am not handing this to anybody." Should Jill be on blast for censoring Jack?

Scenario 2: Jack draws some middling soft-core porn. He wants to share it with Alice. He asks Jill to hand it to Alice. Jill says "I am not handing this to anybody." Should Jill be on blast for censoring Jack?

I don't think this can be answered on here. There's too much propaganda and psyops, and quite simply, I doubt anyone on here is from Syria!

I do not like authoritarianism, so that's a no from me dawg, but if Assad's rule is that big a threat to the Empire of America then maybe? But that's about as deep an analysis as any non-expert forum (i.e. lemmy) can give you imo.

EDIT: some research - like the ideology of the coup, dislike hereditary regimes. It's really not an easy one to balance out imo

none of these people are redeemable

That was you.

Which led to someone else replying:

Statistically speaking there probably isn’t a nicer country if you were going to do a Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Well goddamn! That's insane! Thanks for the source.

However, I'd still argue collective punishment of the (up to) 6% is still wrong. And the idea that they 94% are somehow too far gone to be changed is defeatist in the extreme!

I'd also argue that no one is inherently fascist or unsavable. Brain washing can be broken. Calling for the deaths of roughly 9m people (as some of the others in this chain have done) is inherently wrong and plays into the reactionists hands ("they'd do it to us if they could so we need to do it to them").

EDIT: On top of that, I want to highlight the date: November 10, 2023. The poll was conducted a month after Oct 7th. I would be interested to see what the polls say now.

Can I get a source for that number? The amount of Israeli propaganda when you try to search it is insane (jfc NPR) so can't find anything concrete.

I dunno...the company I work for has a Tel Aviv office and there's an Israeli on my team. We are always talking about this shit, how disgusting it is, how he got a black eye at the last protest for daring to call Muslims people, etc etc.

There is a large amount of fascists in Israel - it is a European colonial state after all - but painting everyone with the same brush is not it, especially people that were born there and are trying to make it better for everyone. Like any large group, they are not homogenous and portraying any group as homogenously evil is dangerous to the extreme.

I'd suggest reading some of the "New Historians" to get a sense of the wide range of people that live in the colony known as Israel. Ilan Pappe is a good place to start imo.

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Disagree. Liberals will always betray the left in favour of capital.

And the moment Labour looks even a little bit more progressive, bam! Psyops media campaign!

We are trapped in class warfare and democratic means of escape have been removed.

Side note: had the sudden realisation that Corbyn is the first person I can remember that was directly discredited because they must be "hamas".

Well, Castro actually talks about that as well.

He argued it was important to be the child of a bougie, not a grandchild so as not to be desensitised through normalcy (note: every example given above were the child of "success", not the grandchild.)

This is basically the argument Castro makes in "My Life" as to why revolutions tend to start with someone that is a descendent of the capitalist class (Castro - father was a plantation owner; Lenin - father was a state councillor and appointed to the hereditary nobility; Mao - father was a moneylender and one of the wealthiest farmers in the region)

Seems they're talking about...military power? If so, GFP has the UK at six:

US Russia China India SK UK

Can we not? Hereditary rule is not better.

Songbun is not better.