#expansionist

[mercoglianotrueblog]

‘Slaves Don’t Fight’: AfD’s Weidel,Germany

#pacifist cos cannot defend himself=#snowman hoping for longest possible winter

#US,global #empire half isolationist half expansionist

#NordStream elimination act of #war

#slaves aren't involved in #master' wars

#DE does't need #EU

#eager abt war=#farce

https://salvatoremercogliano.blogspot.com/2025/01/slaves-dont-fight-afds-weidelgermany.html?spref=tw

[mvmnbnv]

Vi before seeing the banners outside

Vi after

Sis is mad bro...

[asharaks]

not to sound like a redditor but this game having incredibly laboured and poorly integrated gender politics while perpetuating the series' unbelievable racism is. woof

[thedragonagelesbian]

you would think that harding & varric potentially being operatives for the organization that restored the templar order to its full authority would have interesting implications for their dynamics with a mage rook, but that would require us to care about what happened in the literal prequel to this game, so..............................

[chronurgy]

It's the modernization it's the mechanization it's the way the old world has to die for the new world to be born and by killing gortash you've slowed it down but you haven't stopped it because ideas can't be stopped and the industrial world that will destroy your way of life is coming and you can't stop it by killing him any more than the luddites could stop it by smashing up a few factory machines

[bravest-notts]

i spotted vax peering over the edge of my ottoman while we were playing dnd, so my DM made this (while still running a fight no less)--

"Meow do you want to do this?"

[tricoufamily]

stayed in a marriott for a business trip which if you didn't know is the main inspiration for the villareal hotel business so every time something was shitty i was just like this is classic jacques

[my-pjo-stuff]

I thought the shit Riordan pulled with WW2 was the worst call he ever made in his series, then I found out that the guy CANONICALLY HAD CAMP JUPITER FIGHT FOR THE FUCKING CONFEDERACY DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

[sleepy-bear-tm]

They're so pretty man wtf

[mangled-by-disuse]

talking to friends about The Horrors, specifically the Trumpian Horrors, and, like

the more I consider it, the more I think that the best thing we outside the US can do - for ourselves, for the world, and for America as well - is to just holler to the fucking rooftops that AMERICA IS NOT THE WORLD.

By which I mean:

we do not let politicians, media, and our own social circles convince us that American issues are the only issues worth discussing;

we challenge politicians, media, and our own social circles on the politics of appeasement;

we challenge ourselves on the assumption that laws passed in the US affect us directly, and we do not place ourselves in American shoes;

we focus on our own shit. Not because it's more important, but because we need to remember that it still exists. Our eyes cannot be on the USA while the legislative and political rights in our own countries are eroded from under us.

we look to the rest of the world. We get used to viewing people who don't look like us, talk like us, or even like us as an equal and crucial part of the political landscape.

WE ARE LOUD ABOUT THIS. In politics, in activism, in social contexts, in our own assessment of our own politics, we remember and hold up that America is NOT the centre of the world, and that American hegemony is NOT inevitable.

This is not because I'm trying to undermine American struggles. This is because the Trump administration is strengthened and bolstered by every other country that chooses to suck the cock of American supremacy in the desperate attempt to maintain the last remnants of the old imperial order.

It is up to everyone in the world to challenge that, and to say: yeah, this fucking sucks, and we want America to be better, but we don't need America.

There are other markets. There are other allies and potential allies. There are other global powers (Personally I think we should try to dismantle global powers entirely, but, you know, one battle at a time) and there are other political shifts.

So much of the current rightward swing in the UK, at least, is directly modelled on MAGA to the point that it's the same movement, to the point where the branches of that movement feed power and influence to one another. You know what has consistently been one of the more successful tactics? Fucking reminding people that they are not, in fact, offering solutions to the problems Britain faces, because these are American solutions and we are not America.

idk it feels stupid to say this. it feels stupid to have to point out that Not Everywhere Is America, and it feels even stupider to think that this is something that needs pointing out to the systems of power. But the more I think about it, the surer I am that one of the tentpoles of American power, and therefore of Trump's power (in the US as well as beyond it!) is just... the willingness of so much of the world to say: yeah, sure, everything is America.

WE ARE NOT AMERICA.

AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE TO CONTROL US.

idk. maybe it won't change shit. but maybe yelling that at international power structures loudly enough - making noise about issues that are not American, focusing our efforts outside America, challenging American supremacy on the global stage - is, in fact, the most useful thing we can do.

[gothicprep]

Don’t forget the ones that have a raging hatred for you because your take on the guy that lit himself on fire for Palestine

that was actually nuts. that didn’t make life better for any palestinian, and I guess it’s a faux-pas to point that out.

[thisismenow3]

Jews are not Israel. Israel is an expansionist government committing genocide. There are people both Jewish and not in the country who dont support this. I see too many people backsliding into open anti semitism. And I say backsliding because the way it happens is similar to how people can’t just focus on what’s wrong with Trump and republicans, they have to call them fat, probably self hating queer, etc. Its an ‘ends justify the means’ mentality I think. But the ends never justify the means and part of that is how you go from overly focusing on one form of Zionism (the right wing Christian version that supports reactionary movements in Israel and strife everywhere) to saying all Zionism (even though some forms are merely about permanent safe space for Jewish people) to then saying certain kinds of Jews are the problem to then saying shit like they deserve to be attacked by Hamas and we can’t let a Jewish man be Vice President. Some of y’all were always this but some of y’all are too committed to ends justify the means, here’s a villain I’m allowed to do anything to and your old self would be appalled at what you’re saying and doing now. And some of it is based on whataboutism.

“Well, what about all these Jewish people here who refer to Israel as a Jewish state and say supporting Palestine is antisemitism? They say criticism of Israel is anti semitic!” Yeah, some people suck, but the way they suck is immaterial to your own bigotry. Your example is just someone who is wrong, and your response is to denigrate a whole demographic of people? A whole ass group just for the sins of a few people? Sounds kind of like the bullshit line the Israeli government is trotting out to justify what they wanted to do anyway.

The fuck man

[flora-bigs]

Oh no one in particular, just an abstract girl! But I'm open to suggestions...

what if a cute chubby clown.......

[bijoumikhawal]

I saw a dumbfuck post about how the only realistic options are that Palestinians or Israelis commit total genocide (what's going on now stupid?), they keep fighting until another country takes over and treats them both badly, or ~both sides forgive each other~ and how the last one is the only good option, and I wanna break that down but like. Lemme just say realistically immediately after the creation of a Palestinian state what will probably happen is 1) many Israelis will leave because they won't want to live in a state where Palestinians have nominally equal rights, and many of them have been indoctrinated to believe Palestinians are rabid 2) many of the Israelis who do stay will still hold economic privileges over many Palestinians and will as such hold sway in the government alongside Palestinians that have managed to build wealth and the popular resistance leaders that survive to see a Palestinian state

[hussyknee]

You are right on every account in that tiktk reblog tags, except for one thing. Putin maybe didn't veto humanitarian corridors, but he sure did shell them. Several times.

Oh. I knew he'd sabotaged them somehow but I forgot how. Hard to keep track of all his war crimes. I didn't mean to imply that he was better for allowing one, just that he knew how to play the optics better, which is what I meant by "how is Biden WORSE at spinning a narrative than Putin". I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I was giving him any credit whatsoever.

Also I started out by saying that the previous Israeli governments colluded with the US and conceded to ceasefires so that they could pick civilians off one by one while the US played up their PR by playing the mediator. I meant that context to be carried into Putin's actions too but I realize that wasn't obvious. The man only tries to look like he's playing ball if it serves his agenda better.

Imperialists are all like that tbh. If you want to know the difference between a fascist and an imperialist, it's that the fascist thinks too small.

[ovisiphorus]

Why are you people pestering some random from the Global South what to do about our election? You people are too fucking stupid to live. How can I trust you guys to make informed choices in the primaries and general?