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hey what is up with this single frame from the video for X Gon Give It To Ya

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seeing a lot of comments like this from the “too young to remember an election before 2016” crowd and as ever it goes to show that usamericans don’t consider foreign people humans. the Obama administration spearheaded over 500 drone strikes and opened up concentration camps to genocide migrants. when you say shit like this, you’re saying “ahhhh remember when i didn’t care about all the crimes of the american empire? good times”. incredibly callous, privileged behaviour.

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this pride, i learnt about the Palestinian trans woman Oscar Al-Halabiye, dancer and resistance fighter against the israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. she named herself Oscar after Lady Oscar from the "The Rose of Versailles", a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda.

her story is documented in Cinema Fouad(1993). zionists use pink washing to reinforce their genocidal terrorist narrative when queer Palestinians have been fighting against the occupation since the very beginning. you can watch it here with english subtitles. long live the intifada!

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this is a Nazca ceramic vessel from the ica region of Peru made anywhere between 200 bce and 600 ce but don't you feel like you could log on to any website today and see this face as someone's avatar. pre-Columbian rantsona

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AP is saying she lost by 5 million votes. which means even if all 2 million third party voters had voted for kamala harris (which would never have happened because of the libertarian party & RFK to be clear), she still would have lost.

instead of blaming leftists and palestinians for voting third party, you should be blaming the democrats for running a trash campaign. a campaign based in genocide, ethnic cleansing, cracking down on the border, children in cages, endless war with russia, endless war in korea, endless war in SWANA, the promise of war with china, refusing to actually defend (let alone protect) trans and queer people, and the list goes on. the democratic party is actively contributing to the rise of fascism in the united states, and they have been for 50 years.

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One of my favorite genres of insane Terminally Online Right Wing posting is *sees a pretty woman* "I am a gay pedophile"

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He really fucking went for the throat with this one lol

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idk if you're still doing the hot take thing but Donald Trump is not a fascist and I'm tired of people cheapening the concept because they came across a not that unlikeable reactionary who sometimes panders to the farther right and filofascists. The US simply is not in a position that a fascist group can use to take power. They might have more or less influence, more or less permeability, but none of that makes Trump a fascist

I remember pre-2016 liberals used to always say that communists abused “fascist” as an insult for anyone they disagreed with and now they and the liberal left do the exact same thing. Trump is basically a Reagan era Democrat, and his worldview (if we could say he even has one) is that of a business reformer. He thinks of countries like businesses and his approach to the U.S. is almost exactly the same as his approach to businesses in the past. He wants to streamline the country and make it more competitive with others on the world market and in the military, he sees the existing model of finance and military occupation-based world empire as unsustainable and uncompetitive.

He’s not against the concept of rule of law, he just thinks the law is a basic framework that’s meant to be bent and twisted by those in the competition who can do it. That indicates an avenue of liberalism that can lead into outright fascist “might is right” and Social Darwinism, but the way Trump expresses it it’s well within the bounds of liberalism.

If they knew what fascists actually are and knew where to look to see what they think, they’d know that a lot of fascists see Trump as basically a sheepdog and are very suspicious of him. Especially after January 6th when he abandoned a bunch of them to the Feds, they know he doesn’t really care about them except as a mass of people to throw at elections.

I’ve been saying it, but Trump’s charismatic authority over the Republican Party ironically keeps the fascists in check even while he makes space for them on the fringes of the GOP. After all that’s what a sheepdog does, though I don’t think Trump is consciously sheepdogging since fascists aren’t politically relevant or challenging enough to the Republican establishment anymore to need a sheepdog.

A lot of even self proclaimed communists take liberalism as just the default on some political spectrum and think liberal = good, so they think it’s crazy to consider Trump a liberal or say that liberals depend on rule of law. Rule of law depends on the basis of force and domination of course, like Marx said “between equal rights, force decides.” But the contract arrangement still matters as a difference from the outright organicist and unitary approach to political rule typical of fascism.

In the U.S. the factions of the ruling class and their petit bourgeois mass bases are still united around the existing two-party system and its foundations in legality and legal contestations of who gets to lead. What’s more likely to happen than Trump becoming a dictator or whatever is that both parties will continue to empower the Executive and Judicial branches as they’ve been doing for over a century now and within the framework of a decaying liberalism they’ll create a state that’s increasingly divorced from the electorate. In the future if a fascist movement is more successful at feeding off of discontent and the breakdown of political representation, they’ll have a chance to capture this ready-made bureaucratic state and convert it relatively smoothly into a more fittingly fascist form. But this kind of outcome is just as, if not more, likely if Kamala wins lmao

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genuinely hilarious

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a person who "can't imagine" why anyone would vote for trump (or a third party) is a person who is very deliberately committed to never imagining anything, which is to say a liberal. right-wingers love to imagine - they imagine things all the time, and then get scared by their own imagination, and that's part of why they behave that way. not liberals. liberals post the lyrics to "imagine" by john lennon on facebook and then they simply don't even do it

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remember when i said every presidential election comes down to the absolute most checked the fuck out people in the country

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