#political crap

[weedle-testaburger]

POINT AND LAUGH

[dougielombax]

Okay.

But is this genuine anti-imperialism and demand for decolonization? Which it ought to be.

Or is it just fanatical anti-Western idiocy, willingly turning a blind eye to Russian, Chinese, Iranian and other such prior and present shitfuckery and/or colonialism on their part, under the pretense of anti-imperialism, borne out of doctrinal posession and tankie brainrot?

Often operating hand in hand with denialism and revisionist thinking. With a touch of Ba’athist shitfuckery and other pan-Arabist crap as well sometimes.

Using anti-fascist rhetoric as a pretense to justify invasions and occupations of smaller nations like Ukraine or Syria. Among other such places.

Well.

Which one is it?

What do you mean I shouldn’t worry about how and why China and Russia got so big?

Don’t walk away from me, answer the question! How and why did it happen? Go on!

No I think I WILL worry about it! Don’t change the subject!

Seriously, am I the only leftist who notices this crap?!

At the least we can call it double standards. Or we ought to.

I mean come on!

And no I’m not saying this to justify or defend very real western imperialism.

My own country was one of the first victims of that kind of shitfuckery.

[wahroh]

While kung foo fighting . . .

[tail-feathers]

My Dad and all of his friends were of this generation. All gone now.

Even the civilization they gallantly defended.

My heart grieves so.

[naradreamscape]

At this point, the DNC's true colours, and that of the US empire as a whole, are on full display. In the DNC's case, it's the essence of neoliberalism, which is that everyone has a valid place in government and representation...so long as they are supportive of the rest of the upper crust's pursuit of monetary gains and power. It's a Girl Power sticker on an oil fracking apparatus, or Raytheon bragging about how many LGBT+ employees it has.

People have been lied to that the Palestinian genocide is valid in any way - the population has been lied about to seem "uncivilized", "selfish" for not wanting to hand over their natural resources to the West, or as a culture of antisemites - in reality, they are defending themselves from self-entitled, often broken Jews enacting Manifest Destiny, who are backed by an imperialist empire that smelled oil.

Meanwhile, regular Jews such as myself are terrified that the establishment of a "home" state will mean we will one day be deported there against our wills. We are also sickened by how Palestinian people are being treated, and see it as a revolting mirror of the way our people have been treated throughout history. If this were a genuine Judaic settlement, the Arabs would be our neighbors; there would be no walls between us, and we would have bought our houses and land fairly from the ones who tended the land before us. If there were no aggressive, invasive occupation, there would be no native retaliation.

And yet, I am constantly told I, a White Ashken whose ancestors have lived in Europe and North America for centuries, am more entitled to occupied Palestinian land because the homes already there are "just Arabs". The gruesome deaths of children are supposed to be excused because "they were just going to grow up into terrorists anyway". I cannot believe the things I have seen self-identifying Jews say over the past 10 months...to meet them halfway in their arguments would be to land in blatant xenophobia.

The occupation of Palestine is not being done for "Jewish safety". It is being done to satiate the imperial industries of the USA, using a shield of profoundly Islamophobic religious extremists. At this point, everyone needs to call out the occupation. I, an actual Jew, am begging you all to feel comfortable criticizing the occupation. No one is benefiting from this, aside from bigots of many shades. The USA is committing a genocide for natural resources. Way too many of my people are trying to find personal benefit from this mass exodus.

To mi haverim: Please read more about Palestine that does not come from state propaganda or far-right publications. We should not see ourselves as being entitled to "civilize" the Middle East, because given everything we've seen the IDF filming themselves doing, does any of that seem civilized? And if you are scared to speak out, please know there are so many fellow anti-zionist Jews out there who would love to hear from you.

Goyim of America: speak out against your government. Do not fall prey to antisemitic stereotypes, but know the colony only represents a small percentage of our culture, one that is equivocal to nationalist Evangelical Christians. Criticize the colony as you would criticize any other foreign state's actions. Criticize American politicians for wasting money on genocide instead of your state and municipal systems. This won't stop until we are all united.

[tilbageidanmark]

(All the other memes I’ve made..)

[daddy4princessonly]

My fault like usual

[maricelmontes0308-blog]

Free Palestine, but DON'T FREE EVERYONE..........

Free Palestine, but don't free SYRIA

Free Palestine, but don't free LEBANON

Free Palestine, but don't free YEMEN

Free Palestine, but don't free WESTERN SAHARA

Free Palestine, but don't free WEST PAPUA

Free Palestine, but don't free IRAN

Free Palestine, but don't free KURDISTAN

Free Palestine, but don't free UYGHURISTAN/XINJIANG

Free Palestine, but don't free UKRAINE

Free Palestine, but don't free BELARUS

Free Palestine, but don't free TAIWAN

Free Palestine, but don't free CUBA

Free Palestine, but don't free VENEZUELA

Free Palestine, but don't free SOUTHERN MONGOLIA

Free Palestine, but don't free TIBET

Free Palestine, but don't free HONGKONG

Free Palestine, but don't free AFGHANISTAN

Free Palestine, but don't free CYPRUS

Free Palestine, but don't free ALL GAZANS WHO WERE AGAINST HAMAS

Free Palestine, but don't free SYRIANS AND LEBANESE WHO WERE AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

Free Palestine, but don't free IRANIAN PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT AGAINST IRGC

JUST FREE THE ISLAMIC STATE OF PALESTINE, BUT NOT EVERYONE 😊😊

[yourfavanxioussunshine]

[terracebatman]

Barney Sanders for President in 2024

[weedle-testaburger]

ngl even from the other side of the pond i'm so anxious about the election i feel like i could be sick. i can't imagine how bad it must be for you guys. you're in my prayers, and so is the prospect of trump getting annihilated like he fucking well deserves

[dougielombax]

Rejecting one imperialist hegemony and embracing another (especially out of SPITE!) to look anti-imperialist is NOT anti-imperialism!

It’s beyond stupid!

Crank behaviour borne of contrarianism and doctrinal possession.

Yes…you’re abandoning and shaking off an imperialist yoke, that’s great….

And now you’re gonna start sucking up to Russia and/or China….

Or Iran…(fuck the MEK btw but that’s just tangentially related to this wider topic)

Or Turkey.

Or fucking whoever else pulls this shit.

Huh….

Tell me.

What’s so revolutionary about THAT???!!!!!!!

Nothing! That’s what!

Tankie shite!

No don’t give me that shite about “the revolution”, you’re treating that shit like the rapture or some other sort of hypothetical promised day and allowing yourself to be USED by other imperialists! And you KNOW it!

I’m a leftist myself and even I could see that shit from miles away!

Ive seen LOADS of examples of it in real life AND in fiction to boot!

Tell me!

Why would you do this?

Are you stupid?

I feel like I’m the only leftist who notices this shit for what it is and it drives me up the FUCKING wall!

Away with that SHITE!!!!!

(Now I’m no stranger to building political partnerships and finding allies, that’s fine. But you need to recognise when you’re being used!)

[dougielombax]

Reblogging the shit out of this!

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

[tail-feathers]

Dave is a national treasure. 😆

[naradreamscape]

The colony is apparently increasing its military budget significantly, which many of us are worried about, but that means the colony is about to have the same issue as the US where they have no money to actually care for the citizens nor infrastructure. They seem content to turn into a dead hedgehog - completely rolled up with all spikes erected, but decay on the inside. What matters most is defending those closest to the spikes

The backup reserves are close to drying up, too. While the US tends to take out loans from allied nations (i.e. Saudi Arabia, China), the colony only has the US. Nobody in the rest of the world wants to touch that poop. Once the money runs out, it runs out. The US is slowly self-destructing, but the colony is about to speedrun it

[dougielombax]

Given the time of year.

It has become abundantly clear that many people in Europe (not all of it but still) have learnt precisely fuck all from the last 80 years.

Their idea of fighting antisemitism consists solely of sucking up to Israel, all while allowing their own Jewish populations to be harassed and bullied by fascists, who they will also gladly platform and support at the same time.

At best.

At worst they’d vote the exact same descendants of those putrid Nazis into power without hesitation. Under promise of security and “tradition”.

Blaming any and all minorities for their problems. Again. Whether it’s Jewish people, Romani people, Sami people, Armenians, the disabled, neurodivergent folks, and so on. (Speaking as one of those (neurodivergent) I’ve seen a LOT of people all too quickly stop giving a shit about us)

80 years on, they’ve learnt next to fuck all. And they refuse to admit it. They’ll say that they have learnt, but most of them haven’t.

And they’d certainly do it all again without hesitating all because of the whim of some authoritarian shithead.

All it takes is the right bastard to win over the unthinking dullards with a kind smile and the right words.

This doesn’t apply to all of Europe. But a good percentage of it regardless.

I feel like I’m the only non-Jew who realises that much.

The only person in my country who realises that much as well perhaps.

Idk

And if they had learnt, then they ought to have at least done more to prevent future genocides which followed.

Such as the Bengal Genocide of 1971, the East Timor genocide, the Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka, the Anfal Genocide of 1988 in Iraq, the Bosnian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, the genocide of Yazidis and/or Assyrians (and other Middle Eastern Christians) by ISIS, the genocide of Rohingyas in Burma, and so on.

Among others.

At the least.

Just saying.