"Their terror attack" lol. My man, if the term terror attack was around in the 1940s, Hitler would have used it to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. And make no mistake- this is a ghetto uprising. If you don't want people to make a violent bid for freedom, don't spend decades torturing and murdering them in an open air concentration camp with no recourse. Simple.
Terrorist is buzzword that fascist states apply to people who stand up for themselves, who return even a fraction of the violence they are made to suffer every day. "Terrorist" is just "savage" with a fresh coat of paint. Every slave revolt and anti-colonial uprising in history has been tarred with the same brush.
At press time, a spokesperson for Boeing remarked that the company expects this to be the end of the matter if the investigators know what's good for them.
And good thing too. I don't want to think about how many newly- experienced western fascists would have come back home from a victorious Ukraine, or even just one that can keep it's air defenses up. It's one if the few upsides to this wretched meat grinder war- The hardened nazis who would ordinarily train allies in other countries (like fascist militias in the US) are now largely too dead to do so.
Some of Donald Trump's allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department's independence and turn the nation's top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters....
Genocide is not a lesser evil, it is the greatest possible evil. It is a moral event horizon, and you will not succeed in your efforts to convince principled communists to damn themselves to hell alongside you.
Why yes internet rando, I'm totally stockpiling weapons and have detailed insurgency plans, here is my address and social security number, give me a call and we can do militia stuff together!
Desire to be seen as champion of Global South drives policy tilt
Yes it's definitely not a reaction to the genocide, it's all just a devious power play by the scheming communists who are only trying to look good by checks notes not supporting a genocide.
This is like when weird internet fascists say you're "virtue signalling" by not being racist, except it's a media outlet doing it to an entire country.
The only reason we would ever do the right thing is for cynical posturing, so that must be the only reason anyone else ever does the right thing too.
For many Jews, Zionism signifies a connection to Israel. But a large number of student protesters see the violence in Gaza as a logical conclusion of the late 19th century ideology...
When slaves rise up and throw the master out of the house they built, the master's first instinct is to gather his friends and and crush the uprising before it's example can inspire others. If the former slaves want to keep their freedom, and if they don't want their sacrifices to have been for nothing, they need to secure the house, and quickly.
In 1917, the people of Russia cast off their feudal monarch. In 1918, America and nine other countries invaded Russia to fight for the czar, to crush the worker's uprising and restore the monarch to the throne. They don't teach us about it in school.
Here's a 2 minute bop set to a Parenti lecture that covers this. The basic fact is that a capitalist empire will never willingly surrender control of an exploitable land where labor and resources can be had for cheap or free, not without a fight. The lecture is at least 30 years old now, but has only gotten more prescient with the genocidal crackdown in Palestine against a liberation movement that threatens America's ability to control the region's trade through it's military outpost of Isreal. To make it even more relevant, there are communist groups like the PFLP fighting the IOF in Palestine at this very moment-this is all very much one struggle against economic imperialism, and against colonialism.
Just as an aside, we here in the capitalist west are authoritarian as fuck lol, we've just structured our systems of exploitation in such a way that it looks like a million separate companies fucking you over instead of an entire economic model fucking everyone over (and enforced at gunpoint), which is what it is.
Literal swastika-ass Nazis in Ukraine doing terrorism for a decade: we must arm these precious smol boys who are defending western civilization against the Russian orcs!
Literal fascists in Palestine doing a genocide against brown people: fuck your terrorist baby hospitals, there are no innocents in Gaza, bleed em dry and stack em high
Dipshits: Wow how could anyone think there's a racial component to this
Joe Biden and the US military industrial complex are currently helping Isreal commit a genocide out in the open, and that's your pick for 21st century Hitler? Tell me you don't think Palestinans matter without using the words, jesus.
This is like a new level of playing victim.
Britain's economy is three arms conglomerates in a trench coat and your slapdash schools and hospitals are currently in the process of falling over. The suicide rate is through the roof, people are freezing to death in the winters and the immigration gestapo are snatching people into vans to be deported to concentration camps in Rwanda. Your rivers are full of cocaine runoff and everyone's depressed. You people have been thoroughly immiserated by authoritrian capitalism, and now you're acting like Cybertruck guys, lashing out at anyone pointing out that you've been lied to.
Spare me this sanctimonious "Me and the Palestinians are as brothers against the imperialists" canard, Paul Ma'ud Dipshit. You fuckers caused this whole situation with your dumb shit "British mandate of Palestine", and now you want to extremely caucasianly hop in and claim the good guys. Your country still worships Winston "I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes" Churchill, the miserable drunken fuck who created the Bengal Famine, killed a hundred million people, and said of it "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. They will breed like rabbits, famine or no." Toad Hitler is your national icon, you depressed cryptocurrency peddling royalty-sniffers have negative business lecturing anyone about anything.
Yes, America did concentration camps in WW2. One more piece of evidence that the US government is an irreconcilable danger to everyone both outside and inside itself.
It's hilarious that you people think the mods of a random instance are a front for the Hexbear NKVD or something, as opposed to the simple explanation that what you call "Russian propaganda" is what we call "things the west will admit six month later."
Six months from now you'll be pretending you always knew Ukraine was a fascist shithole as you argue for the emergency conscription of Volksturm units to stop the Russian horde.
If even an actual invasion does not motivate a sufficient number of people to volunteer to fight for their government, then why should that government be seen as worth preserving?
Russia has arrested two Russian journalists on “extremism” charges in recent days, the latest moves in a continuing crackdown targeting independent reporters and media outlets. A third Russian journalist, with Forbes Russia, was charged with publishing what authorities called “fake news.”...
Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders ( www.bbc.com )
Israel's prime minister and senior figures with the Palestinian group are wanted for war crimes....
Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics...
Dead Florida dolphin was infected with highly pathogenic bird flu ( www.wfla.com )
Joe Biden Is Shipping Weapons to Israel Every 36 Hours ( jacobin.com )
Boeing whistleblower John Barnett died by suicide, police investigation concludes ( www.cbsnews.com )
Was banning human slavery an authoritarian decision?
Obviously it was a good thing that it was banned, but I'm just wondering if it would technically be considered authoritarian....
Ukraine was a magnet for foreign fighters. After 2 bruising years, many are disillusioned or dead. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Is this a crime? Thoughts? ( midwest.social )
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report ( www.theguardian.com )
A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found...
Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan ( www.reuters.com )
Some of Donald Trump's allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department's independence and turn the nation's top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters....
China is burning all its bridges with Israel ( asia.nikkei.com )
Medics Say Police Weapons Drew Blood and Cracked Bones at UCLA Protest ( truthout.org )
One witness said some protesters required not just a visit to the emergency room, but actual hospitalization....
Israeli tank fire kills five IDF soldiers in north Gaza ( www.bbc.co.uk )
The reported friendly-fire incident in Jabalia is one of the deadliest since the war began....
Biden Is Trying to Buy EVs Time With New Tariffs on China. It Might Not Work ( www.wired.com )
Facing Russian Advance, a Top Ukrainian General Paints a Bleak Picture ( www.nytimes.com )
How ‘Zionist’ became a slur on the US left ( www.theguardian.com )
For many Jews, Zionism signifies a connection to Israel. But a large number of student protesters see the violence in Gaza as a logical conclusion of the late 19th century ideology...
Nearly 75% of Climate Experts Blame ‘Lack of Political Will’ for High Chance of Future Warming ( www.ecowatch.com )
US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law ( www.reuters.com )
Banderagate at Eurovision song contest: "In social networks, some Poles were outraged by Jerry Heil's sweatshirt of one of the representatives of Ukraine with the inscription Banderaciaga. ( life.pravda.com.ua )
Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?
Macklemore - "Hind's Hall" (Video | 2024) ( www.youtube.com )
Why haven't you taken the bear pill? ( jlai.lu )
Tap for contextSome woman on the internet said she would feel safer spending a night in the woods with a random bear rather than with a random man
Why are many men growing beards again ? ( lemmy.ml )
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
Saving people is illegal ( lemmy.ml )
Ukraine corruption: Ruling party MP charged with embezzlement ( www.bbc.com )
Prosecutors allege the politician bought assets worth far more than his official income could cover....
Ukraine notified the Council of Europe of the partial suspension of some clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights and Freedoms in connection to recent changes in its martial law. ( www.euronews.com )
The western values Ukraine is defending are becoming more apparent by the day.
Russia arrests more journalists in intensifying crackdown on dissent ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Russia has arrested two Russian journalists on “extremism” charges in recent days, the latest moves in a continuing crackdown targeting independent reporters and media outlets. A third Russian journalist, with Forbes Russia, was charged with publishing what authorities called “fake news.”...