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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

Palestinians in the West Bank literally live under military occupation, are not protected by Israeli law, and are tried at Israeli military courts. And Arab Israelis are still broadly discriminated against in an Apartheid system that's internationally recognized as such. Just one example: Jewish neighborhoods are required to be built with bomb shelters, while Arab neighborhoods have no such requirement and it must be requested for a shelter to be built; in practice, they are almost never built. That's why casualties from rocket attacks on Israel are disproportionately Arab Israelis. And that's the situation for Arab Israeli citizens!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Time to build the DSA missile silos!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's June 24 and Zohran Mamdani has resurrected Stalin from his grave.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah I absolutely agree which is why I said it's only a technical difference, not to mention it simply doesn't matter as mayor of NYC. He's a good lad.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago

Mamdani isn't even mayor yet! Such crybabies.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (42 children)

It's a bit tomato tomahto. In theory, if Israel recognizes equal rights for Palestinians, then that's great and it would be a one state solution. In practice, that will never happen as long as "Israel" occupies Palestine. So if he was running for a position where his beliefs about Occupied Palestine actually mattered, I would want him to be pressed on how he thinks Israel should become a country where equal rights for Jews and Arabs are upheld, because that's the difference between liberal zionism and antizionism (liberal zionists would be happy to just wait for equal rights to materialize from nothing, antizionists believe in resistance and overthrowing the occupiers).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I am illiterate so I don't know what a writeup is, but Ben Norton made an excellent 1 hour video explaining the entire context. He breaks it down into 8 main reasons and explains why Trump bombed Iran:

  • Maintain US hegemony in West Asia (aka the Middle East)
  • Destroy the anti-colonial Axis of Resistance, making possible the total colonization of Palestine
  • Prevent Iran from ever developing nuclear capabilities
  • Overthrow or at least weaken Iran’s independent, revolutionary government
  • Scare other countries in the region that may seek to move away from the US and the dollar (especially the Gulf monarchies)
  • Preserve the petrodollar system, ensuring global demand for the US dollar
  • Destabilize BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, divide the Global South, and disrupt the multipolar project
  • Break up the Iran-Russia-China partnership, with the ultimate goal of isolating Beijing

So, answering your previous question in the thread, he thinks it's both about oil and geo-strategy. Both are incredibly relevant here and are inseparable to the essence of the conflict.

edit: Linked it in a comment below, but I'll link it again. Here's the Brookings Institute's Which Path to Persia? which explains exactly why and how the US should engage with Iran to protect imperialist interests.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is it likely for the Republican candidate to just drop out?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (51 children)

Well he is a liberal zionist. I don't think it really matters, and I don't know if I would say anything different to him were I in his position (I don't think it would win a lot of votes to say "I would make use of the armed forces of the NYPD to assist Hamas with doing 1000 more Al Aqsa Floods"). Not to mention he will probably have to be fighting the state government on everything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Trump wants domestic industrial growth come hell or high water, so raising American oil export revenue is probably one of his aims.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago

Not gonna be happy until he pleads guilty at the revolutionary tribunal.

 

Here's a little gaming effortpost for the treat piggies matt

PoE story summary for those unfamiliar

Wraeclast is a dark fantasy world with several fallen empires that each fell victim to an event called the 'cataclysm' that made people go insane, causing the fall of those empires. The game is set some decades after the Purity Rebellion, an event in which various rebel groups from the periphery of the Eternal Empire banded together to defeat Emperor Chitus, a despotic and corrupt ruler who was experimenting on people with virtue gems. The emperor's thaumaturgist, Malachai, retreats into Nightmare by sealing himself inside a beast in the north, where he hopes to achieve immortality.

The game starts when you, an exile from Oriath (island nation off the coast of Wraeclast and host of the Templar empire) embark on a quest for revenge from the High Templar Dominus who exiled you. After defeating him, and his successor Avarius, the exile continues on to slay the gods which broke free after Innocence's (God who was inside the High Templar) death. The exile then continues to get exponentially more powerful and defeats Kitava, god of hunger/corruption, and triumphs over their present day cataclysm.

Often, discussions of PoE's story remark on the themes of liberation and how surprisingly progressive it is, especially for a game with a hardcore gamer chud audience. The cast of exiles includes an indigenous slave who is exiled for killing his masters, a lesbian hunter exiled for shooting a noble who told her to stop hunting in his property, and a himbo duelist who also murders a noble in a duel for insulting him. However, the campaign's arc is much more reactionary than revolutionary or liberatory, and the game ultimately reinforces a Nietzschean 'ubermensch' archetype with the latter half of the narrative. Furthermore, I argue that the power fantasies of the ARPG genre are predisposed to bend in this direction.

Nietzsche is all over PoE. The historical empires of Wraeclast were all condemned by their search for immortality: the Primevals, the Vaal, and the Eternals, all doomed to fall because they wanted to last forever. The Templars are no exception. The exile's role in the Templars' fall is then to become the cataclysm, the punishment for their hubris. The repetition of the same history, eternal recurrence, and the failure of humans to surpass their vices is Nietzsche. These empires each became Nietzsche's 'last man,' haunted by greed and decadence.

Therefore, the liberatory arc of the exile who overcomes historical oppression, kills their master, and becomes free must be understood through the lens of will to power, in contradiction to a Marxist conception of class power. This is the story of an exceptional individual's triumph of will: the Marauder begins as a slave throwing off his shackles, but when does he liberate the rest of the Karui? By killing Kitava, overcoming the basebess, a moral victory, the Marauder is not liberating his people: he only liberates himself.

This general attitude is actually apparent all throughout the second part of the campaign. God is literally dead and we have killed him, now the conflict is against vices represented in the form of other gods.

Then we can generalize this criticism to the ARPG as a whole. The player slays masses of mindless enemies that do not put up a fight; they're morally inferior, aesthetically inferior, basically bugs. As much as Mao tells us that reactionaries are paper tigers, to depict some kind of revolutionary or liberatory struggle as Gigachads slaying the cringe bugs is ahistorical. That's just not how it works. The power fantasy, as an archetype, limits our understanding of class struggle and the mass movement.

Further reading: Actually Existing Fascism

 

Not sure I should've voted for this guy, but my ballot's already cast shrug-outta-hecks

 
 
 

You're telling me they made a whole platform to do hate speech in, and they're keeping Israelis from making accounts? That's like banning Sinatra from karaoke night!

 

Camarada Stalin, yo estaba junto al mar en la Isla Negra,

descansando de luchas y de viajes,

cuando la noticia de tu muerte llegó como un golpe de océano.

Fue primero el silencio, el estupor de las cosas, y luego llegó del mar una

ola grande.

De algas, metales y hombres, piedras, espuma y lágrimas estaba hecha esta

ola.

De historia, espacio y tiempo recogió su materia

y se elevó llorando sobre el mundo

hasta que frente a mí vino a golpear la costa

y derribó a mis puertas su mensaje de luto

con un grito gigante

como si de repente se quebrara la tierra.

Era en 1914.

En las fábricas se acumulaban basuras y dolores.

Los ricos del nuevo siglo

se repartían a dentelladas el petróleo y las islas, el cobre y los canales.

Ni una sola bandera levantó sus colores

sin las salpicaduras de la sangre.

Desde Hong Kong a Chicago la policía

buscaba documentos y ensayaba

las ametralladoras en la carne del pueblo.

Las marchas militares desde el alba

mandaban soldaditos a morir.

Frenético era el baile de los gringos

en las boîtes de París llenas de humo.

Se desangraba el hombre.

Una lluvia de sangre

caía del planeta,

manchaba las estrellas.

La muerte estrenó entonces armaduras de acero.

El hambre

en los caminos de Europa

fue como un viento helado aventando hojas secas y quebrantando huesos.

El otoño soplaba los harapos.

La guerra había erizado los caminos.

Olor a invierno y sangre

emanaba de Europa

como de un matadero abandonado.

Mientras tanto los dueños

del carbón,

del hierro,

del acero,

del humo,

de los bancos,

del gas,

del oro,

de la harina,

del salitre,

del diario El Mercurio,

los dueños de burdeles,

los senadores norteamericanos,

los filibusteros

cargados de oro y sangre

de todos los países,

eran también los dueños

de la Historia.

Allí estaban sentados

de frac, ocupadísimos

en dispensar condecoraciones,

en regalarse cheques a la entrada

y robárselos a la salida,

en regalarse acciones de la carnicería

y repartirse a dentelladas

trozos de pueblo y de geografía.

Entonces con modesto

vestido y gorra obrera,

entró el viento,

entró el viento del pueblo.

Era Lenin.

Cambió la tierra, el hombre, la vida.

El aire libre revolucionario

trastornó los papeles

manchados. Nació una patria

que no ha dejado de crecer.

Es grande como el mundo, pero cabe

hasta en el corazón del más

pequeño

trabajador de usina o de oficina,

de agricultura o barco.

Era la Unión Soviética.

Junto a Lenin

Stalin avanzaba

y así, con blusa blanca,

con gorra gris de obrero,

Stalin,

con su paso tranquilo,

entró en la Historia acompañado

de Lenin y del viento.

Stalin desde entonces

fue construyendo. Todo

hacía falta. Lenin recibió de los zares

telarañas y harapos.

Lenin dejó una herencia

de patria libre y ancha.

Stalin la pobló

con escuelas y harina,

imprentas y manzanas.

Stalin desde el Volga

hasta la nieve

del Norte inaccesible

puso su mano y en su mano un hombre

comenzó a construir.

Las ciudades nacieron.

Los desiertos cantaron

por primera vez con la voz del agua.

Los minerales

acudieron,

salieron

de sus sueños oscuros,

se levantaron,

se hicieron rieles, ruedas,

locomotoras, hilos

que llevaron las sílabas eléctricas

por toda la extensión y la distancia.

Stalin

construía.

Nacieron

de sus manos

cereales,

tractores,

enseñanzas,

caminos,

y él allí,

sencillo como tú y como yo,

si tú y yo consiguiéramos

ser sencillos como él.

Pero lo aprenderemos.

Su sencillez y su sabiduría,

su estructura

de bondadoso pan y de acero inflexible

nos ayuda a ser hombres cada día,

cada día nos ayuda a ser hombres.

¡Ser hombres! ¡Es ésta

la ley staliniana!

Ser comunista es difícil.

Hay que aprender a serlo.

Ser hombres comunistas

es aún más difícil,

y hay que aprender de Stalin

su intensidad serena,

su claridad concreta,

su desprecio

al oropel vacío,

a la hueca abstracción editorial.

Él fue directamente

desentrañando el nudo

y mostrando la recta

claridad de la línea,

entrando en los problemas

sin las frases que ocultan

el vacío,

derecho al centro débil

que en nuestra lucha rectificaremos

podando los follajes

y mostrando el designio de los frutos.

Stalin es el mediodía,

la madurez del hombre y de los pueblos.

En la guerra lo vieron

las ciudades quebradas

extraer del escombro

la esperanza,

refundirla de nuevo,

hacerla acero,

y atacar con sus rayos

destruyendo

la fortificación de las tinieblas.

Pero también ayudó a los manzanos

de Siberia

a dar sus frutas bajo la tormenta.

Enseñó a todos

a crecer, a crecer,

a plantas y metales,

a criaturas y ríos

les enseñó a crecer,

a dar frutos y fuego.

Les enseñó la Paz

y así detuvo

con su pecho extendido

los lobos de la guerra.

Frente al mar de la Isla Negra, en la mañana,

icé a media asta la bandera de Chile.

Estaba solitaria la costa y una niebla de plata

se mezclaba a la espuma solemne del océano.

A mitad de su mástil, en el campo de azul,

la estrella solitaria de mi patria

parecía una lágrima entre el cielo y la tierra.

Pasó un hombre del pueblo, saludó comprendiendo,

y se sacó el sombrero.

Vino un muchacho y me estrechó la mano.

Más tarde el pescador de erizos, el viejo buzo

y poeta,

Gonzalito, se acercó a acompañarme bajo la bandera.

«Era más sabio que todos los hombres juntos», me dijo

mirando el mar con sus viejos ojos, con los viejos

ojos del pueblo.

Y luego por largo rato no dijimos nada.

Una ola

estremeció las piedras de la orilla.

«Pero Malenkov ahora continuará su obra», prosiguió

levantándose el pobre pescador de chaqueta raída.

Yo lo miré sorprendido pensando: ¿Cómo, cómo lo sabe?

¿De dónde, en esta costa solitaria?

Y comprendí que el mar se lo había enseñado.

Y allí velamos juntos, un poeta,

un pescador y el mar

al Capitán lejano que al entrar en la muerte

dejó a todos los pueblos, como herencia, su vida.

 

Mods take this down if it's too close to JAQing off territory.

Are they meant to be used like any other set of pronouns? What's the possessive form?

trans-heart hexbear-non-binary

 

This is the only correct way to do true crime slop tbqh, actually solid research and presented with the gravity the subject matter deserves.

 
 

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