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And perhaps the most interesting implication in all of this: this international, loosely connected network of secret gentiles are portraying Jews in the best possible light by behaving as caring, humanitarian, antiapartheid peace activists… whereas ‘real’ Jews oppose a ceasefire, support the forced separation between Palestinians and others, and prevent aid from reaching them… I’ll let you draw your own conclusions from that one.

Remember how liberals always act when they interact with someone to their left who criticizes them:

1. Being surprised that they aren't as far left as possible.
2. Pretend that their position is actually still more liberatory than their critic's.
3. Undermine the criticism by derriding the critic as having an ulterior motive.
4. Gaslight the audience into believing that the leftist position is an idealistic pipe dream and the liberal position is as far left as a "sane" person should go.

So apply it in this context:

1. Deny that Jewish anti-Zionists even exist because that's an oxymoron or a paradox.
2. State that Jewish anti-Zionists are reactionary because Zionism is progressive somehow.
3. Call the anti-Zionist opposition fake Jews or opportunists/clout chasers.
4. Conclude that settler colonialism is as good as it'll ever get; that apartheid is Good, Actually; and that you have to be an impostor or self hating Jew to believe otherwise.

249 years of genocide: I sleep

coming up on 250: RESIST FASCISM

I'm from a similar context, I don't consume Mexican media anymore but I grew up watching el Chavo del Ocho. Also had Mexican friends and teachers growing up.

Maybe in Spain and Argentina? Everywhere else, ustedes is the default. The formal vs informal distinction is only for the singular tú vs usted (and tuteo is getting more and more common over time so tú is also becoming the default).

We got ustedes and vosotros!

I gotta buy some indulgences, I put an AI generated Hamas Garfield in that edit of the Kinkade painting I posted yesterday

@WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net was looking at the Satisfactory subreddit and saw these comments, had me with some whiplash

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure that you can geolocate an image off of a lot less info than what would be available from a wide-angle landscape photo. You probably could do it algorithmically if you have a topographic map of Yemen and some way to extract topographic data from the image.

Nice to meet one of my fans. Truly, it was an honor to make the other 9.

What I mean is that when capitalists need rapid accumulation of capital and not long term political stability, they opt for fascism. Colonialism and primitive accumulation are the mirrors of fascism, they're the aspect of capitalism that's found on its temporal (as in primitive accumulation as the pre-history of capitalism) and spatial (colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy) boundaries. When capital has a mandate to accumulate the largest amount of surplus value it can possibly get, with either low possibility of labor rising in the opposite direction (or a high risk, which paradoxically pushes capital in the same direction, to salvage what it can and destroy labor as much as possible), it resorts to abandon its human face.

That's not the point being argued at all. Linus Torvalds is a bit of a lib (though he has said some cool things over the years, not enough to outweigh his attitude towards Russian maintainers); the Linux community is itself full of libs. I've learned to live with that. I accept that. Why must you be a little piss baby about the Lemmy community having lots of communists when we all can clearly see it was made by communists to make sure there was a space for communists to exist online?

Liberalism is itself not practical (liberal ideology taken to the rational extreme of practicality and efficiency is just fascism) so the trick is to become selectively aware of the fact your worldview means nothing can ever change when people want to change something you like. I mean, seriously, apply her thought process to any political issue.

Trans rights in 2005? Oh, sorry, it's hopelessly impractical and because most women don't support trans rights we'd just be alienating them; we need to be practical and compromise with the transphobes so we can get things done.

Climate change? Degrowth and net zero is not a practical path, it's simply never gonna happen. Most car owners don't support mass transit so these utopian urbanist ideas are just shrinking the coalition. The left has once again chosen a doomed cause.

Socialism? Worker ownership of the means of production isn't realistic. Most shareholders and landlords just don't support taking their property away. The left needs to let go of these tangential issues that have no future.