GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
All they care about is their base
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
But it isn't the same as if the entire working class had a collective say in the capital, not just those who choose to and have the resources to pay in. It isn't the same as the workers of that company having a say in their working conditions, shift lengths, compensation, etc.
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
A better way to say it would instead be the inverse: "If you don't work for a paycheck, you probably hold enough capital"
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
They want a shutdown lol this idea that negotiating will avert it is silly since you don't negotiate for things you don't want.
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
Captured implies that the State didn't already function as a tool of capital
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
All this because Republicans in the US don't like that sending arms to Ukraine makes Biden look good to the general public.
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
I know, I was joking
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
Yes, although the US pulled itself back enough with some of FDR's reforms that it kicked the can down the road a few generations, whereas the Weimar Republic actually collapsed.
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
I know right? This quote in the headline makes her out to sound so tepid like "please mr president could you maybe be more confrontational against the fascists who want to kill me and my allies? 👉👈"
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 87%
Too busy trying to court centrist voters and uphold a dying status quo
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 50%
Nah if Trump was in office in the last four months there'd be open conflict across the Middle East with thousands of US troops bound for Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, etc
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 92%
What matters is perception and public messaging and that is currently one of a centrist president incapable of reigning in a foreign ally or continually calling out House Republicans for their shenanigans that put American lives at risk at home and abroad.
Conservatives have constant control of the conversation because they have zero qualms publicly stating how their political adversaries stand in their way. But instead it looks like Democrats trying to win Republicans support by adopting republican policies instead of bullying them into accepting the plan of the majority party of the upper legislature and presidency.
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
Such an idea is impossible anyways, because to ensure a benevolent society you need to incorporate the wide range of viewpoints and experiences of the people within it, something a dictatorship, by definition, precludes.
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 36%
Man if only someone at the DNC would see this...
EDIT: y'all I was being sarcastic
GivingEuropeASpook 7 months ago • 100%
They're banking on the 6-3 conservative majority being willing to use their power.
When organized labor is crushed, what comes next is never pretty (see: 1930s Germany).
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 100%
"We can afford anything when it comes to protecting our international position and pursuing national interests."
Unfortunately, international relations has never really cared about poors - if you study diplomatic relations they literally teach you that "human rights" wasn't even a concept to foreign relations between nation-states until the 20th century.
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 100%
I don't know how to confirm this myself but I have read and heard that before anything else, after it was known Hamas fighters were inside Israeli territory, the IDF first move militarily was to start bombing Gaza. No one can argue honestly that the IDF defends Israelis - its literally just the most reactionary of religious Zionists that they serve.
Secular Jewish Israelis? Nah they can fend for themselves for a few hours, we've gotta attack Palestinian civilians, says the IDF. And that's not even bringing up that 20% of Israeli citizens ARE ARABS, some of whom were also attacked in their homes in Southern Israel 10 days ago, but of course the same people calling Hamas human animals will go after them next (not to suggest they aren't already, only that Gazans face more immediate extermination).
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 96%
The impression I had gotten from interviews (Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Haaretz) was that Israeli civilian police were there and exchanged fire with Hamas but that it was HOURS before they came across any IDF personnel. I've been focusing on this less as the time goes on and the catastrophic situation in Gaza gets worse and worse, so maybe further sources have come out regarding the Nova Festival.
Regardless I would like to see consequences to the people who authorized a festival so close to Gaza in the first place...
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 100%
Of course the US can. It's so infuriating that it has the money and resources to spend in whatever it wants and instead it's using it to finance death.
Of course, I think she's probably saying this at the GOP more than as a personal interest in war, as we've been hearing people talk about America doesn't have the resources, which even if true isn't something you would say if you "love america".
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 92%
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted and replaced a post on X, the former Twitter, in which he mentioned Turkey’s calls for a ceasefire
God, they even KNOW what's right and then scramble to make themselves wrong
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 92%
Hope these are accurate! PiS's actions towards democracy and free press are sickening
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 100%
Well then he HAS made the college conservative if the studsnts are fleeing, opening up the space for their preferred students. Headline makes it sound like he failed.
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 100%
That said, the situation demands historical context – not as any kind of justification, but for the sake of clarity about the way forward.
I like the way of putting it, I've been struggling to find the words myself.
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 85%
Damn right when the premium plan is going up (at least in my country)
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 100%
I hope lemm.ee never defeds
GivingEuropeASpook 11 months ago • 100%
"Cmon, can't we all just hate queers in peace, together?"
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
There are a lot of people on the left who think that they oppose things by adopting the reverse of whatever Mainstream Media says or by unironically endorsing what the right wing fear mongers about.
For example, if the Mainstream media dehumanises Palestinians, then they should dehumanise Israelis back. Opposing Israeli apartheid is not only the same as supporting Hamas but not supporting Hamas means your don't REALLY care about Palestinian liberation.
Another example being that liberals and conservatives fear monger about how Palestianians all want to kill Israelis and anyone who supports the settler state, and so some people on the left adopt that as their actual viewpoint in order to "oppose" the right.
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
I can't think of a single successful revolution that didn't end up with significant civilian casualties
A gross oversimplification. Will civilians inevitably get got in the crossfire or be targeted by reactionaries during protests as part of the revolution? Sure. But there's a difference between that and seeking out and targeting a site without a military presence and civilians from more than just Israel.
Remember the Reign of Terror in France?
Not a good example to cite since that destabilized revolutionary france and helped create the conditions for Napoleon to rise to power.
Revolution is bloody and revolution leads to civilian casualties, but at its core it's caused by systematic oppression by the government and inaction on behalf of the population
Again, a revolution is bloody because of the people reacting against it, it doesn't have to be because your side decided to target civilians and perpetuate cycles of violence. The revolutions that created long lasting new paradigms didn't serve as vehicles to enact vengeance.
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
Both are crimes under various international laws, some people seem to think you fight one by committing the other
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
I get it, but it saddens me to think how many people might be around me both irl and online that would be alright with or even happy about the death of unarmed people of all ages and genders. Or that the people on the left in particular (since that's my camp) suddenly don't care about sexual violence if it's being perpetrated against someone they've decided deserved it or was a legitimate target because of social grievances
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
My side is the good side and therefore is justified in its actions! It can't do something wrong against those monsters!
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 95%
"Both are evil" rhetoric is often used to justify or obfuscate one sides crimes, and because on the broader scale, Israel unfolds destruction and death at a higher scale, so there's a lot of intense emotions from thise keyed into Palestinian struggle. That's why so many want you to pick.
It is important to remember Hamas ≠ Palestinians, and Israeli government ≠ Israeli citizens. Yes, they live in a colonial state, but Hamas doesn't care if they try to fight to change it or not, furthermore, most left leaning people are in colonial states or in former colonizing states so they are basically saying they think violence against them is justified too. Everyone should be aware of their privileges and work to dismantle the systems that create them, but that doesn't mean they need be killed in order to realize that!
It's ridiculous because you're absolutely right too, Israeli calling them all "human animals" and doing a total blockade of Gaza is a war crime, but so is what happened to Shani Louk. In the world I am fighting for, the people responsible for both would be held accountable.
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
Its cause they do it to non-Europeans in Gaza or stand aside while settlers in the West Bank do it
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
You can literally find Palestinian diplomats on BBC and AL Jazeera doing exactly that while placing it in the wider context of the 50+ year occupation and the fact that Israel is still the bigger military force in this
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 66%
Theres pointing out bias and theres making bad-faith accusations of motive with no basis
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
Yes, let's escalate the conflict further, surely this will save lives!
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
Very worried they're gonna level the entire strip without any regard to Palestinians civilians or even their own people
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 85%
Based
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
There are literally Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship
GivingEuropeASpook 12 months ago • 100%
Oh yeah because Hamas would totally just be like "oh okay nevermind"
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/7791489 > Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph: > > "The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."
Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph: "The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."
The headline should read something more like "Florida students to return to schools after fascist-overhaul of the curriculum" but that wouldn't be "objective" enough for NPR. Students will literally be watching Prager U Kids videos, require parental permission for a *nickname*, and be forcibly misgendered by even their closest, favorite, teacher as a matter of State Law.
Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4580386 > From the article, my emphasis added: > > "Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."
Sexualisation is hardly new - nor is it a dogma. A dogma is an insistence about certain things being unequivocally and unquestionably true - "sexualisation" isn't something that can be true or false since it's an abstract concept. **tl;dr: THE QUESTION:** what context am I missing in regards to sexualisation as a "new and odd dogma?" Why?
One of my favourites from Alan Fisher. Seriously, just one more lane bro!
One of my favourites from Alan Fisher. Seriously, just one more lane bro!
I love to see this sort of solidarity, but I wish it was the norm...
Sure, updating patients rights would help but how fucked is it that our system allows this by default in the first placd?