MidnightPocket

While Israeli's are on the front lines of the expansion and preservation of western interests, and therefore actively committing unspeakable horrors reflexively, the rest of us living within the sphere of western hegemony should not feel like we are much better than the Israelis - while they are the weaponized vassal which is at the end of the chain of imperial brutality, we share in their machinery of imperial exploitation. We cannot distance and absolve ourselves from our own nation's participation in Israel's genocidal mania.

I write the above not to shield Israelis from the retributive justice that they deserve, but to thwart our base compulsions to escape into a focused criticism of Israel rather than organizing against our own governments which enable the acts of terror perpetrated directly by Israel. Even after the fall of Israel, if we do not confront our own ruling class by means of revolution, there will be another militant vassal of western empire in our future.

I've got a few personal archives of it going due to the same latent fear. Would be a terrible loss for knowledge production/agit-prop.

The astro-turfing of tank man that is glomming onto this is gross

We're aiming to normalize vigilante executions for so-called "straight" marriages. Honestly, that might have to be a stretch goal; we are confident that we can obtain death sentencing with due-process for this depraved act, at least.

weak aura

Time to swap overlords, vassal state.

real "the police investigated themselves and found that their was no wrong-doing" energy

This just looks like a tutorial for a coding language that can't actually be used to compile anything into machine code.

This would be the programming equivalent of creating and learning a language that no one has ever spoken. Perhaps similar to learning a language spoken by a fictional population.

This is where I am and I also feel what @iByteABit@hexbear.net has commented with below.

I am a person who can, at times, donate to people in need. But, at a point when it became overwhelming, I had to block the comm (and feel like shit for doing so) and prioritize in-person, local donations over the mutual aid comm. Here is my reasoning for what it is worth:

-The frustration of seeing people shouting over people who clearly need the financial assistance more. This is not to say people cannot ask for help without being in extreme danger, in fact, I don't want to imply that at all. The people "shouting" began to prey upon empathetic posters with guilt-trip, ALL CAPS, calls to action based on dubious urgency. They would aim to eclipse other members who contribute more to the site, who are less sensationalist, and I'd argue more at-risk. Can I prove any of this? Nah, of course not. But, any decent comrade shouldn't be trying to drown out his other comrades in need and they assuredly shouldn't resort to emotional manipulation to do so. We're all ~~socialists~~ liberals here, we're empathetic to a fault. There is no need to emotionally manipulate in order to be heard. Just tell us what you need and be respectful to your fellow comrades with your posting-etiquette. For this reason, I am in favor of limiting the intervals that members can ask for donations with new posts/threads. Bumping or whatever can occur within a mega thread or something. Updates on the situation should occur from the poster in the thread that already exists, otherwise. Spamming the comm with bump threads is just spam that, as others have stated, leads to an emotional-manipulation arms race that ultimately causes high-empathy, generous comrades to get overwhelmed and block the comm. It is my belief that a socialist legitimately in need would not resort to these tactics to begin with and so I am highly skeptical that the posts I'm referring to aren't just some fascist ass-clown abusing goodwill as a hobby and directly harming legitimate comrades in the process.

-The frustration of not being able to reliably, anonymously donate to the people I want to help. Many times when I attempted to help, the medium with which assistance was requested either failed to process because the institution itself thought I was being scammed and blocked in a paternalistic manner from the recipient or I became sketched out by the platform I was being asked to use. I don't intend to dox myself when I want to help people and I don't want to have comrades in need feel unheard because they are using platforms that don't allow for international/anonymous donations. For this reason I am in favor of a mod-sanctioned and organized method to reliably donate to the people in need of assistance.

-The frustration of seeing the communities limited resources be essentially on retainer for just a few charismatic members. Asking for an indefinite subsidy can only serve to limit available resources for comrades experiencing unexpected emergencies. I realize that this line of thought may lead to dubious, theatrical "emergencies" becoming widespread in an effort to "compete" for the communities resources; this is why there needs to be moderation that curtails such emotional manipulations. For this reason I am in favor of anyone seeking indefinite subsidy to be required to set up a patreon or GoFundMe for some basic transparency to protect other comrades in need. In this golden-age of scamming - I really fail to see why using a payment platform is undesirable for both people in need of help and those seeking to help. The concept of "anonymous charity on the internet" is painful naivety.

All I'm hearing is that HIV/AIDS came from Fort Detrick, too.

Plus losing the domain temporarily

Plus Axis of Resistance setbacks

The site will ebb and flow and that is fine.

Sam Harris, Rachel Maddow, Thomas Sowell, Pol Pot