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davel, 12 hours ago

The Hasbara-in-Chief is still pushing the debunked mutilation and rape allegations.

• White House walks back Biden’s claim he saw children beheaded by Hamas
• “Between the Hammer and the Anvil” - The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé

davel, 14 hours ago

Einstein may have supported Labor Zionism, until it betrayed its purported socialist principles.

Labor Zionists played a leading role in the 1947–1949 Palestine War, and had a dominant presence among the leadership of the Israel Defense Forces for decades after the independence of the State of Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Zionist Left: The ‘Pacifist’ Arm of the Nakba

davel, 17 hours ago

“All they know is McDonald’s, charge their phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip, and lie,” she added.

davel, 19 hours ago

archive.today, otherwise known as archive.is & archive.md & archive.ph & archive.li en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

I use it when Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox fails me. In fact BPC itself makes use of archive.today in some cases: github.com/search?q=owner%3Abpc-clone+archive.tod…

davel, 19 hours ago

You spelled bell¿ngcat wrong.

davel, 1 day ago

That fortunately reveals nothing. I’m not a fan of asklemmy questions that are phishing/doxxing expeditions, whether intentional or not. I’ve removed some such posts in the past.

davel, 1 day ago

Aren’t you glad you updated your post title now, @yogthos? :P

Yemeni sources indicate that the departure of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS Gravely from the Red Sea is part of the preparations for the coming assault.

davel, 1 day ago

Given that the Global North largely defines authoritarianism as alwaysthesamemap, I don’t think we do.
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davel, 1 day ago

Native Americans are still getting the shaft, so the US is still a settler-colonial state. It’s also the sole global neocolonial empire*, and Israel is its unsinkable aircraft carrier in West Asia. As Biden has said for decades, “Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.”

*It’s funny how NATOpedia tries to project debt-trap diplomacy onto China. The US has over 750 foreign bases around the world, while China has one anti-piracy port in Djibouti.

davel, 1 day ago

Netanyahu will just be replaced with another genocider in a long line of genociders, stretching back to the Nakba. If you try letting up on the genociding like Yitzhak Rabin, you’ll just get whacked and replaced.

davel, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

We should demilitarize the police, but that on its own won’t change the system. At Kent State it was the National Guard that shot and killed students.

davel, 4 days ago

This reminds me of David Rees of Get Your War On and My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable fame who moved on to Artisanal Pencil Sharpening in 2010.

davel, 5 days ago

I don’t know where you grew up, but this sounds like “southern hospitality.” I’m a gen-x New Englander, and it always creeped me out because I suspected it originated from slavery, and it seems I was right: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_hospitality

davel, 5 days ago

I don’t think that kind of thing is unique to the South nor its link to slavery. In a larger scope, it’s a deference to class hierarchy. George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia, talking about his experience in socialist Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War:

Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said ‘Señor’ or ‘Don’ or even ‘Usted’; everyone called everyone else ‘Comrade’ and ‘Thou’, and said ‘Salud!’ instead of ‘Buenos días’. Tipping was forbidden by law; almost my first experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for trying to tip a lift-boy.

davel, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Disregard what Liar in Chief Biden says? All the time. White House walks back Biden’s claim he saw children beheaded by Hamas

Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel

Washington Post Fact-Checker Gives Up on Recording Biden’s Lies

I judge him by his 50 year track record, not his words.

davel, 4 days ago

Again, jesse-wtf

davel, 4 days ago

How did this escalate to tone policing and fascist-jacketing? smdh

davel, 5 days ago

slave labor in xinjiang

Oh no the CIA-backed terrorists got job training, the horror. lemmy.ml/comment/8175413

The actual slave labor is in the United States, thanks to the 13th amendment.

davel, 5 days ago

It’s true, China Has Billionaires.

Income inequality rhetoric ignores that a class can reap the benefits of work via public investment (e.g. a bullet train), even if bosses make more as individuals. Working Chinese people are seeing the fruits of their labour despite billionaires and inequality. To recriminate them for not demanding more is recriminating the virtue of patience.

In fact, much of what passes for “socialist” idealism in the West turns out to be a mirror image of bog-standard liberal-capitalist entrepreneurship propaganda: “I will be my own boss! I will run my own business!” This idealism appears unaware that the necessity of management is foisted upon us by logistics, not capitalism. Denial of this reality results in fantasies of perfect synchrony between perfectly autonomous anarchists.

The “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” dream, embraced more by pundits with cushy lives than working people, also reveals a dark truth: western “socialists” have some awareness that a more equal world will mean losing first-world privileges. They cannot conceive of things getting better steadily and slowly, with hard work. And so they are forced to denigrate the Chinese road of self-sacrifice in favour of leisure-driven utopianism. The reality is that the victory of the working class over the capitalist class will usher in an era of hard but rewarding work, as opposed to hard work without reward.

United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding

davel, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

basically zero labor laws

You have no idea what you’re talking about, like at all. Even shitty Wikipedia says they do.

davel, 5 days ago

Fascist punks fuck off!

davel, 5 days ago

Are you kidding me? iPhones and most smartphones and laptops are Chinese products. The vast majority of high speed rail in the world are Chinese products. The Tiangong space station is largely Chinese products.