GarbageShootAlt2

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Politics has been an ever-present and disturbing part of our lives since 2016.

Politics was ever-present before that, it's ever present in human society, it's just that some privileged middle class people choose to ignore it and largely succeed when their NPR ASMR isn't blasting them with "ORANG MAN BAD" every hour of the day to brow beat them into caring.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

privilege

Do you think that privilege comes from the enlightenment of our politicians? From the population as a whole just working harder than in other places? Is it perhaps conjured from magic? Or would you consider that it was privilege derived from the well-documented and brutal exploitation of the global south?

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

Compared to last election, several million were people who recently voted Democrat, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You are not intelligent or informed.

Going passed the disinformation in your first line.

lmao "It's disinformation when someone calls me unintelligent and uninformed". What happened, did you get tired of people telling you "that's not what ad hominem means" and reach for the next rhetorical pejorative that crossed your mind?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bernie is a bastard, but I think it's backwards thinking to blame voters rather than candidates. In a nominal democracy, it's the job of the candidates to appeal to people to get votes. If there is any merit to this idea, we must conclude that the failure was the Harris campaign for not generating the confidence needed to vote for her -- which is a very expected outcome when you're running as reactionary a campaign as she did, calling the wall a "good idea" and so on.

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

So long as you have an excuse not to read, any pretext is fine

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In most lemmy instances, the default feed is a mix of that instance's and popular threads from other instances. Participating in such a thread that you find spontaneously is therefore not anything resembling "brigading," even if other people on your instance also see it spontaneously and participate.

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

(I am excluding illegal settler communities here)

Israel isn't, you fucking idiot. There can be no removal of settlers unless we have the destruction of the state of Israel. That doesn't mean pushing Jews into the sea, that means the former Israelis who don't flee (as many will) are now living in a restored, non-ethnonational Palestine.

Palestinians don’t want people’s apartments!

Those in diaspora don’t want someone’s garden!

Broadly speaking, assuming they don't need to live under siege conditions, they want their land back. That's what movements like the March of Return were about. If it was your family's house, then whatever mockery of the human condition was built on it by settlers is logically also yours. Talking about stealing gardens is especially goofy since it's materially just a pile of fertilizer and dirt.

The fight is more about freedom than land.

This is such a convenient story because it lets you ignore all the historical injustice and Israel's role as a settler-colonizer and look only at what is happening right now -- Palestinians being penned in and bombed, where of course their first concern is not being bombed -- and make that the whole issue. Remove siege conditions and suddenly they aren't as concerned with their ability to migrate to Egypt, what a funny thing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

My comment was entirely drawing a line of distinction between the two. I don't know how I can make it more clear.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Shit, I thought I deleted it in time after I realized that I misunderstood your implication. I read the insinuation in the opposite direction, that if this is reasonable then Israel's evacuation orders are reasonable, because I've been so submerged in zionist bullshit lately. My apologies.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Who do you think the "someone else" is here? Are you so desperate to scream "But Trump!" at any specific criticism of Harris that you have discarded basic reading comprehension?

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