Chana [none/use name]

America is the home base of global capitalism and the global violence it exports, including both military and economic violence. America is why you see childrens’ deaths livestreamed from Gaza, it is why there is genocide there, and it is why if you try to fight back against that genocide you are put on lists, harassed, and worse. Repeat ad nauseum for virtually every war and mass dispossession. When nations try to free themselves from this, even while maintaining capitalism, they are targeted for vilification and destruction by the US through its myriad apparatises.

For example, Venezuela has been targeted with media vilification, military threats and coups attempts, and broad civilian-targeted sanctions because they nationalized segments of their oil industry to use to fund projects for their people and to diversify their economy. Capitalist relations remained. With the US doing its best to destroy the Venezuelan economy, any failures are highlighted as a failure of “socialism”. With the US doing its best to promote opposition political factions and murder current leadership, efforts to oppose this immediately receive bad faith accusations of dictatorship while unelected opposition figures get to control Venezuela’s foreign reserves. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans die every yeae from this US-impossd regime and it all comes from simply attempting to use one’s own resources to benefit one’s own people rather than serve the balance sheet of bankers in New York.

If you want justice, you must hate America. If you don’t hate America, you make excuses for injustice or even contribute to it, like our ex-military friend in the comments that can’t do any amount of self-criticism over dedicating much of their life to the death and deprivation machine for domination of other peoples.

Where were they used?

But insofar as I was part of the big stick that enabled speaking softly to succeed, yeah I’m proud of that.

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” is a reference to Teddy Roosevelt and his military-backed coups, invasions, and threats to control and disrupt Caribbean, Central American, and South American countries and people. Teddy Roosevelt himself was deeply racist and did his best to finalize anti-indigenous American genocide campaigns.

The kind of things you helped with, just not written about correctly in the history books yet.

So, which wars did you assist by “cleaning”?

provocateur

Genocide apologist.

And to be honest, you also have a few users on your instance who make similar hyperbolic statements in the other direction.

Which hexbear users are justifying genocide?

So, no, I’m not planning to demod him over some inflamed rhetoric about events that happened 80+ years ago.

Nazis doing genocide.

I have removed the offending comments though and I’m satisfied he won’t poke the bears in their own den again.

And perhaps most importantly, he won’t be enabling Kittyroll to get herself into trouble again.

Are you confident he won’t justify genocide again?

I think tolerating Nazi apologist mods is a bad look for an instance for anarchists. Apparently this is controversial.

2 days later and this genocide apologetic user remains a mod of several communities at their home instance and two db0 communities.

I mean I would not be surprised. I’m not assuming they’re cool with it but it would not be very different from the “anarchists” irl that have threatened fellow lefties at actions, concocted fake abuse stories, pedaled extreme orientalism against China and wishing for war with them.

Always remember than at least 50% of Western “anarchists” are just angry and poorly politically educated liberals who read 3 pamphlets and nodded, “yeah”. They don’t deserve the label of anarchist and are not motivated by empathy for the oppressed, but wield it selectively as a cudgel to bully those who get in the way of their personal self-actualization, which is often just talking shit and spreading rumors about things they have never investigated.

Hey anarchist nexus come get your genocidal fascist sympathizer.

Media companies oppose left candidates. Left candidates threaten the material interests of the owners of these companies, the ad buyers, the people who fund think tanks and establish or otherwise embed in academic programs like journalism schools.

The remainder is non-left candidates. These are people who work in those interests and therefore receive media support. For example, Reform UK gets inordinate neuteal or positive media coverage as well as volume compared to even the greens who are not much of a threat to capital.

These mass surveillance laws are a reaction to an failure in this overall apparatus to control thought and speech re: Gaza. They want to track and suppress and oppress information and speech that runs contrary to ruling class interests. The ruling class is heavily invested in the genocidal settler colonial project of “Israel” both literally with piles of cash and politically-strategically as a means by which to control and profit from political destabilization in parts of the Middle East.

Their explicit statements about why they want to do this are just a lie, a pretext. They are not personally or politically invested in protecting kids, lol. These are the people that protected Jimmy Saville and impoverished and made food insecure huge percentages of UK children.

You should read the rest of the thread to get an understanding of why surveillance and deanonymization is being pushed. It is not to solve some real issue to the benefit of the public, it is a response to the failure of the media systems of control to control narratives.

Your claims about a “healthy democracy” are fairy tales. That’s propaganda about how it works, not how it works in practice. The UK has its current Prime Minister due to a series of coordinated media campaigns against the previous leader of Labour, for examlle, with an internal purge using bad faith claims following his removal. No element of that was democratic and none of the UK governments have been popular for ages.

Question why so-called democracies only produce unpopular governments. Why don’t the parties align with popular interests in reality? Whose interests do they align with?

I don’t, sorry

I think if you asked the people whattl they voted for none of them would say it was this. And yet it is still set to roll out.

Makes you wonder what liberal democracy really means doesn’t it?

We probably can’t because the political formations that need to be organized take years to develop and grow. Namely, socialist organizations. And the ruling class and its political class lackeys already go after those as well, so it will be full of struggle. But it is the only real path forward for any kind of actually democratic system and is worth pursuing ASAP.

If you use a flatpak it may be possible to set the proxy using the http_proxy env variable when launching it.

Stay safe, friend. If you are part of any serious and thoughtful left orgs this is a good time to analyze strategy vs. risk and whether it is better to lay low.

The last time I borrowed a Netflix account every show or movie would start at 1080p and then negotiate itself down to like 240p over 3-4 minutes. I have a very fast connection that can stream 4K just fine elsewhere and Netflix’s settings were set to high quality. They are just cheapskates that throttle based on your account patterns.

Great job! I’ve always avoided Surfaces because the guides to running Linux on them are always like 30 pages long.

The only part that matters re: leftism is to think about how you want to handle crackdowns, which is less about which bank you choose and more about infosec. For example, don’t use your personal bank account for spicy business. Use cash if you can and some third party (even a company or non-profit) to shield your personal financea from governments freezing accounts. And if you develop savings, consider having an emergency fund with a different bank in a country that is unlikely to cooperate with freezing your assets.