#/pol/

[noxiatoxia]

I saw your post about Americans constantly justifying what america did to japan courtesy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the camps and how its not genocide. like im pretty sure Dresden and Hiroshima and Nagasaki counts as genocide because America knowingly dropped the bombs on innocent civilians o purpose. im glad Germany and Japan lost the war given what they did but the.bombings were one of America's most evil actions and civilians aren't numbers, they were fucking people

It's sadly something we see commonly in History, and I don't know why. Maybe it's easier to live with yourself and your cause if you convince yourself that ALL people of a certain nationality are evil...?

We see it time and time again. It's okay to kill Russians, they're just as bad as their government, look what they're doing to Ukraine! It's okay to kill Israelis, they're just as bad as their government, look what they're doing to Palestine!

So on and so forth.

I never understood it, ever. The blatant lack of logic in such hatred I guess is hard to understand. People cannot separate civilians from their wicked governments. People are just needlessly violent.

The world is a complicated place so there really is no clear cut right and wrong to, say, a group of people standing up to their oppressors. Does being oppressed legally give someone the right to take the life of another? Does "one side" suffering loss at the hand of the "other side" justify them doing the exact same thing? Is substituting civilians in your violent protest because you cannot reach their government the right thing to do, when the other option is doing nothing at all, and abandoning your own life?

Humanity, war, life, and death are complicated both logically and morally. It's why I hate the people who like to pretend there's a clear cut "good guy" and "bad guy" to any given geopolitical affair. Because there isn't.

In any case, I speak on the topic of those same people with these black-and-white ideals then turning around and, shocker shocker (to nobody) having a very black and white outlook on the people involved. (i.e., "Japan did horrible things, so it's civilians deserved to be bombed.")

[thedetectivechmilewsky]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Kaplan at MMFA:

Users of a far-right 4chan forum have shared the website for former President Donald Trump’s grassroots canvassing effort, Trump Force 47, hundreds of times, a Media Matters review has found. 4chan’s far-right “politically incorrect” message board, commonly known as “/pol/,” is a hotbed for white nationalist and racist content and harassment campaigns. The board played a major role in spreading the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, and it was the birthplace of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee launched Trump Force 47 in May to engage “tens of thousands of new volunteers across the country to participate in a neighbor-to-neighbor organizing program hyper-focused on mobilizing highly-targeted voters.” Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign describes it as the “official army of volunteer neighborhood organizers working together to defeat Kamala Harris and the far-left liberal democrats.” Volunteers, including in swing states, can seemingly be involved with neighborhood canvassing, poll watching, and other grassroots activities. Users on 4chan’s /pol/ message board have been promoting the organizing effort. A Media Matters review found that since Trump Force 47 launched in May, the URL for the site of the effort has been shared on /pol/ more than 350 times. These posts included messages pushing extremist rhetoric, which have been repeatedly shared. One included the lines “BAN THE TRANS,” “DEPORT THE HORDE!,” “AUDIT THE FRAUD,” “HANG THE RIGGERS,” and “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” (a reference to a white nationalist campaign popularized on the forum).

[...] Trump Force 47’s URL has also been shared in other far-right online spaces, like among QAnon figures and users on the far-right forum TheDonald. Far-right media figures, including Roseanne Barr, Jack Posobiec, and Rogan O’Handley — who have promoted QAnon, pushed various conspiracy theories, and spread misinformation, respectively — have taken part in Trump Force 47 training events. Posobiec’s trainings were reportedly “touted as a way to ‘receive insider insights from Jack Posobiec on the campaign’s efforts.’”

4chan’s /pol/ users have shared the link to Trump Force 47 at least 350 times to gather up canvassing efforts for Donald Trump.

[howl224tgeundying]

[dirt-goth]

As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.

[zanephillips]

CARLOS CUEVAS Merlí. Sapere Aude 1.01 "Sapere aude"

[tenth-sentence]

A 2018 analysis of 160 million archived visuals showed that far-right trolls on the internet were highly effective in spreading racist and anti-Semitic memes from fringe forums like 4chan's /pol/ board and the subreddit /The_Donald to more mainstream platforms.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[idiopathicsmile]

begging the voting population of u.s. citizens on tumblr to vote this year, and specifically to vote in the way that most practically ensures trump doesn't win, not out of a liberal centrist "don't you hate the orange man hoho" impulse, but out of love and fear for the many, many, many marginalized populations whose lives will be concretely worse under a second trump presidency, out of paranoia that the current architecture of our american quasi-democracy will not survive a new formalized attempt at dismantling it, out of having done the research that no matter what you think of biden literally every stance of trump's is noticeably more disastrous.

i hate that these are our only two practical choices right now but hating it doesn't do anything to change the fact that these are our only two practical choices right now. a trump victory will also almost certainly send the mainstream democratic politicians scrambling even closer to the center; that is historically how the democratic machine reacts to defeat! which absolutely sucks, but the best way to lay the groundwork for progressive policies in the future is to start as far from zero as we can.

i am begging you: vote biden, and then protest every fucking thing he does. make that old man's life miserable. just please, please, please don't burn down your own country to try to make a point; who materially benefits from that?

[scottishcommune]

In the spirit of encouraging resistance to the fascist upsurge, Heckle presents eyewitness testimony from a comrade of ours, Joe, who took part in the anti-fascist counter-demonstration in Bristol on Saturday 3rd of August. By their quick thinking and tenacious courage, Joe and his comrades blocked a horde of fascists from breaking into a hotel housing asylum seekers and committing a pogrom. Read all about it in Joe’s own words below.

[raspberry-gloaming]

Doctor Who Christmas special 2024: Joy to the World

[noxiatoxia]

lbr good chunk of people put "cis" or "white" in front of a noun (white woman, cis lesbian, etc) to justify misogyny/homophobia bc they know they can get away with it cuz its #cool to hate on others for things they cannot control like race and gender as long as said thing is the majority. so its the perfect front. cmon say it with your full chest i have mad respect for people who dont beat around the bush. if a 4channer can do it you can too i believe in you ❤️

[aces-and-anime]

Finally some good fucking UK news! Ferrets are so much better than lettuce Liz

[iww-gnv]

New York lawmakers proposed three new bills last week that would make it difficult for wage theft violators to conduct business in the state. The legislation would bolster the power of state agencies to crack down on wage theft by stripping violators of their liquor licenses or business licenses, as well as issuing stop-work orders against them. The legislation was prompted by reports of rampant wage theft against New York workers, including two investigations published by Documented and ProPublica. The stories revealed that more than 127,000 New Yorkers have been victims of wage theft during a recent five-year period, but that the New York State Department of Labor was unable to recover $79 million in back wages owed to the workers. The stories were based on an analysis of two databases of wage theft violations obtained from the U.S. and New York Labor departments. The databases provided previously unreported details on how much money had been stolen from workers and also shed light on which businesses had committed wage theft. “We knew from our conversations with labor and from our constituent service caseload that wage theft is a chronic problem,” said Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation. “We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York state until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year. Having this reporting as a tool set us up to put this package together and focused our attention on” the capacity of the Department of Labor. The legislation — dubbed the “wage theft deterrence package” by lawmakers — includes three bills, which are co-sponsored in the State Assembly by Assembly members Kenny Burgos, Harvey Epstein and Linda Rosenthal.

[is-today-the-uk-general-election]

NO.

Today is not the day of the UK general election.

There are 30 days remaining until the UK general election.

Parliament has now been dissolved.

You have:

Under 15 days in which to register to vote.

Under 16 days in which to apply for a postal vote.

There are:

14 days 16hs 59min left to register to vote (deadline 23:59 18 June 2024).

15 days 10hs left to apply for a postal vote (deadline 17:00 19 June 2024).

22 days 10hs left to apply for a proxy vote (deadline 17:00 26 June 2024).

22 days 10hs left to apply for a Voter Authority Certificate*.

*Only required if you do not have suitable ID, or you no longer resemble your ID photo, or your name as per your ID does not match the name on the voter register.

[world-love-government]

How to dismiss hate, racism, and discrimination with humor

Perhaps one of the most mainstream ways racism, discrimination, and hate can be justified is "if its funny" - Is this a problem in society? Many people would say yes. The theory goes something like this: So long as its amusing/entertaining/funny, I can get away with acts of hate, discrimination, and racism. Is this just a fixed condition of the human race and its consciousness, when we can get people to laugh at something/someone - its damned to be, its fixed to a label of "invalid" of "dismissed"? If this is the case - what can society and people do to fight back when this mode of thought is used to express hate or violence? Are there some truths or laws in human or social psychology that we can rely on? These are the kinds of questions we have to ask ourselves in the fight for social justice against hatred, racism, and discrimination.

Imagine an African-American male with a high-pitch voice. Imagine a group of people laughing at him, on a daily basis, however denying the charges of racism. After all, they're not laughing at him on the basis of his race, they're laughing at him on the basis of his voice. What we must realize in social justice as a retort however, is ultimately sensitivity to identity.

Yes while you may laugh at an African-American male with a high pitch voice because they sound funny, its impossible to deny you knew he was African-American. If you knew the person was African-American, that by itself demands for you to make a choice relative to racial equality or discrimination. It's the humor of the voice that allows for racism and discrimination to dismiss harm against and validity of race.

This is especially in the case of racism and discrimination carried out on a regular basis, or repeated basis. When racism is dismissed by humor on a regular/repeated basis, they must acknowledge that racial identity to be invalidated. It must be dismissed or invalidated by conditioning the same message over and over again. You will note the same route of logic in all cases: I'm not laughing at their race, I'm laughing at their high-pitched voice. This is true, but what's also true is that you knew their race period, in most likely cases of racist humor. It's ultimately these oppressed and discriminated racial identities that already experience challenges and difficulty in society; your laughter doesn't help. What I often draw a comparison to are the Good Samaritan Laws.

If you're aware of a racialized/oppressed identity suffering/being picked on, you have a choice to make. You can help, or not. It reminds me of that final seinfeld episode where instead of choosing to help the (fat) guy getting robbed, Seinfeld and company decide to laugh at him instead, recording the entire event for their own personal entertainment. Is or was the final episode meant to be predictive about the rise in political correctness for society? The television show throughout its lifetime dealt with a variety of topics that gained attention of various interest groups in the 90's. Were the writers of the popualr television show sending a message to the audience about what to expect in the future?