are you fucking serious

[person in the late 1700s voice] and just when are you going to end feudalism? the holy roman emperor will just send hundreds of thousands of troops to quell your rebellions. we aren't getting anywhere like this, and haven't you heard the monarchs are adopting enlightened ideas anyway? there have been no successful capitalist states, all of the attempts have turned into failures or have installed a new monarch

Even Biden supporters want this motherfucker gone like what are we doing here?

It's interesting how Democratic Socialists and Anarchists make the same fundamental error but take it to the exact opposite conclusions. Both of them see the State as being devoid of class character: for DemSocs this means that the machinery of the Bourgeoisie State can be kept fundamentally intact and peacefully redirected towards the task of building socialism, while for Anarchists this means that the fundamental injustices of society are inherent to any form of State; not only must the Bourgeoisie State be destroyed but also any new State must be prevented from taking it's place.

They both fail to realise that the fundamental purpose of a state is as an instrument to resolve class antagonisms by allowing the dominant classes to exert power over the subjugated ones. History has shown time and time again that the Proletariat must built a state that serves their interests if they want to take and maintain power over the Bourgeoisie. A state created by Bourgeoisie interests will only ever serve the Bourgeoisie, while as long as there are antagonistic classes in society the Class that cannot or will not build a state in their interests will become subject to the one that does. Treating "The State" as some detached entity that only exists for it's own sake just won't get you anywhere

Are things ok on AliExpress???

"Rent should be no more than 30% of household income" is a really funny and roundabout way to say "property owners as a class are entitled to 30% of gross wages"

big if true

We need to start culling western journalists

We need to start culling western journalists

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

Rutland Street, Middleport, Ohio.

the mold room at work has mold soup now

This is different from Al-Shifa:

There are images of decomposed bodies wearing what appear to be scrubs... with their hands tied. Meaning they were executed while bound. I will not be sharing them because I'm tired of showing our martyrs' bodies to people.

A hexagonal storm with a diameter of 25,000 km raging at the north pole of Saturn.

Communists and anarchists will spend all day talking about abstract concepts and structures like capitalism and the state, but willfully ignore the very real, tangible curse placed upon me by the foul necromancer

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

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you know, the palestinians are the natives and the jews are just dropped in one day and started the conflict, right? Riiiight?

not what the quoted segment says, but if you have a problem with the arab population of palestine being described as "native" take it up with zionist activist vladimir jacobinsky, who said in 1923's "The Iron Wall":

“Zionist colonization must either be terminated or carried out against the wishes of the native population. This colonization can, therefore, be continued and make progress only under the protection of a power independent of the native population – an iron wall, which will be in a position to resist the pressure to the native population. This is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs…”

at any rate, i'm not really interested in the semantics of who is or isn't "native". that region has traded hands numerous times throughout history, it was canaanite land before the original kingdom of israel, the jewish population had already been displaced by emperor hadrian long before the arab conquest, which took place over a millenia ago. what's relevant isn't the semantics of who is or isn't "native", it's the relevant material injustices in the present day and the historical context which created those injustices, and within the context of the present day what's important is the mass displacement of the arab population as part of the creation of the contemporary state of israel, and the ongoing disenfranchisement, apartheid, and murder faced by the surviving palestinians.

Damn, if only that border with egypt would not be there, this would almost hold some water. Best part of this is that before the attack in october, there was a daily traffic of supplies and aid going to the strip from Israel, but not from Egypt, which again, still would not open the border, which would make the whole thing go away.

there was a daily traffic of supplies and aid going to the strip from Israel, but not from Egypt,

this is flatly untrue, the Rafah crossing with egypt was a major point of entry for aid both before [link] and after [link] october 7th, with the biggest obstacle recently being israeli bombings of aid convoys going through rafah [link]

also, yeah egypt has been complicit with israel in the genocide of the palestinians in a number of ways, what's your point? i'm not some huge fan of egypt or something. how is that a gotcha?

yeah, I think I'm not changing my mind just yet on this

yeah i don't really care about changing your mind. if i do convince you that israel is committing genocide against the palestinians all you'll do is go "wow based, rare jew W" so i don't really have an interest in trying to convince you of anything

i'm just interested in using you as a demonstration of how hollow the base of support for israel really is, how much of it is openly rooted in contempt for arabic/muslim people rather than any desire to promote the safety and wellbeing of jewish people, which i don't get the impression you're especially interested in.

I mean, do you think this made a point for genocide? In one of the most tightly packed places on the planet where Hamas is (or do you deny that?) using meatshield tactics and again, puts it's bases under and amongst civilian targets?

all of this can also be said about the taliban in afghanistan and yet the US estimates for civilian to combatant death tolls stands at about 1.1 to 4- now of course this is the US's estimate, and is likely massively underestimating civilian casualties since any nation/group's count of the civilian casualties will be way lower than the actual number- which is exactly why it's so notable that israel's own report of the civilian death toll is showing twice as many civillians as combatants, it's virtually unheard of for a group's own count to show more civilians than combatants killed.

That is not carpet bombing.

what do you think "carpet bombing" is.

AHEAD OF THE United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution. In 2012, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution granting Palestine the status of a non-member observer state. The diplomatic cables detail pressure being applied to members of the Security Council, including Malta, the rotating president of the council this month. Ecuador in particular is being asked to lobby Malta and other nations, including France, to oppose U.N. recognition. The State Department’s justification is that normalizing relations between Israel and Arab states is the fastest and most effective way to achieve an enduring and productive statehood. While clarifying that President Joe Biden has worked vigorously to support “Palestinian aspirations for statehood” within the context “of a comprehensive peace that would resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” a diplomatic cable dated April 12 details U.S. talking points against a U.N. vote for Palestinian statehood. The cable says that Security Council members must be persuaded to reject any proposal for Palestinian statehood — and thereby its recognition as a sovereign nation — before the council’s open debate on the Middle East, scheduled for April 18. “It remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian people is in the context of a normalization agreement between Israel and its neighbors,” the cable reads. “We believe this approach can tangibly advance Palestinian goals in a meaningful and enduring way.” “We therefore urge you not to support any potential Security Council resolution recommending the admission of ‘Palestine’ as a U.N. member state, should such a resolution be presented to the Security Council for a decision in the coming days and weeks.”