strypey

strypey, 2 hours ago

Wellington council are also looking at privatising what's left of the public's shareholding in the airport;

https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/10-11-2023/will-the-city-to-sea-bridge-survive-wellingtons-cost-cutting-spree

This is what happens when we don't have a progressive tax system that allows governments - local and central - to maintain public infrastructure without running huge budget deficits, and increasing public debt.

strypey, 20 hours ago

@paulhellyer
> I use various instances of Libreddit

The one you linked is now running Redlib.

A click on "code" at the bottom links to;
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Suggesting it and others are now running RedLib. Good to know such a thing exists.

@thomasbeagle

strypey, 20 hours ago

@paulhellyer
> I use various instances of Libreddit

A click on "code" at the bottom of that page links to;
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Suggesting it and others are now running RedLib. Good to know such a thing exists.

@thomasbeagle

strypey, 23 hours ago

I watched 7 Sharp recently. It was mostly promotion disguised as news. Not sure we're really getting bang for buck considering what gets spent making these shows.

strypey, 4 hours ago

"In turn the size and scope of government efforts to quash these protests is also unprecedented, now becoming evocative of Kent State in 1970. That’s the first thing that comes to mind when anyone proposes placing National Guard troops on a US college campus. Doing so would be a provocation and incitement for escalation, and that game plan appears to be unfolding."

#HScottProsterman, 2024

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/zionisms-expired-pharaoh.html

Also reminiscent of the provocation at the Sorbonne in 1968.

@JoshuaACNewman

strypey, 4 hours ago

"Judaism came first and has an obligation to take the lead in creating a new paradigm, of a monotheistic, biblically-rooted tradition that nevertheless stands for tolerance and human rights for all. Jews must recognize that the shelf-life of Zionism has expired. Also important is that Judaism is a religion, not a form of ethno-nationalism, despite former President Trump’s attempts to dragoon all Jews into the effort to censor free speech over Palestinian human rights."

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/zionisms-expired-pharaoh.html

strypey, 4 hours ago

"Our Judaism cannot be protected by the rampaging military of that state, for all that military does is sow sorrow and reap hatred – including against us as Jews.

Our Judaism is not threatened by people raising their voices in solidarity with Palestine across lines of race, ethnicity, physical ability, gender identity and generations.

Our Judaism is one of those voices and knows that in that chorus lies both our safety and our collective liberation."

#NaomiKlein, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel

strypey, 1 day ago

This is true of a lot of big budget movies and TV shows these days. Maybe because video games have been a much larger market for so long that a lot of genre screenwriters are cutting their teeth writing scripts for games, rather than linear video media?

strypey, 1 day ago

@nedhamson1
> Sanders hits back at Netanyahu

I wish Corbyn had front-footed the Palestine issue like this when the pseudo-liberals in UK Labour - and newspapers like the Guardian - were using similarly trumped up accusations of anti-semitism to knobble his leadership.

If he had, maybe he'd still be Labour leader Maybe the UK would have the option to vote in its first economically progressive government since Thatcher?

strypey, 6 hours ago

@Hyolobrika
> Does anyone have any copies of these videos?

Firstly, it's irresponsible to make claims like this without presenting the evidence yourself. Otherwise it's like me claiming you raid the graves of dead children and eat their organs, then asking if anyone has video.

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@nedhamson1

strypey, 6 hours ago

Second, nobody is claiming anti-semitism doesn't exist. Of course anti-semites are going to jump on the Palestine solidarity bandwagon and try to twist anti-Zionism into anti-semitism. We do need to push back firmly and decisively against this.

But as @adiz says, that doesn't change the fact that what the crypto-fascists in charge of Israel are doing is totally beyond acceptable, and must be stopped.

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@Hyolobrika @nedhamson1

strypey, 6 hours ago

It's also worth keeping this in mind;

https://mastodon.social/@LiberalEd/112346625445084598

@adiz
@Hyolobrika @nedhamson1

strypey, 1 day ago

@jsundman
> It's set in a world that's a mashup of Orwell's 1984 & Reagan's 1984 and run by an unholy cabal of fascist theocrats & pan-surveillant techbro transhumanists. I wrote it in 2008, but look around. It's about today

This!

strypey, 1 day ago

@feld
> LMAO this is based as fuck

Yup. For one thing, it totally ignores the difference between student-led movements, and those where students were recruited as foot soldiers by autocrats (Mao, Hitler). Of those that were student-led, it ignores their historical context and motivations.

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strypey, 1 day ago

The Paris 1868 insurrection, for example, kicked off when the cops ignored a centuries-old tradition of leaving uni campus discipline to the Procter. The cooperation the later stages of the uprising engendered between students and industrial workers had huge positive impact on French politics and society, for decades to come.

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@feld

strypey, 1 day ago

@feld
It's take on the Vietnam outcome is profoundly wrong-headed. The US students could not predict or control the future atrocities by the Khmer Rouge et al. But they certainly could know about the actually existing atrocities being committed by their own country's military, and that many of their peers were coming home in body bags. And as it turned out, that was something they could control.

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