We are on the other side of summer and just got the first decent bit of rain in months. Summer seemed to last an extra month and a half and then suddenly the temperature dropped 10 degrees.
They can't stand the prick of a needle so they let their children die of preventable diseases but also think that they are the greatest nation in history and are the rightful world hegemon.
The Tamil independence movement is a colonial collaboration movement. They are not socialists. They are not a decolonial movement. (Tamils were the colonizers before the british showed up but that is literally ancient history.) That isn't to say the republic government is any good.
The Tamil people were given preferential treatment under the british and so the Tamil leaders wanted reform not revolution to get rid of the british. They demanded 50/50 representation in any socialist government despite having only 12% population. The socialist revolutionaries said that wasn't realistic and so the Tamil leaders pulled their support. The intractable stance of the Tamil leaders destroyed the communist revolution and empowered the reactionary nationalists on the Sinhalese side.
As the minority Tamil do have genuine cause to be fearful of cultural assimilation and the socialist movement should have done more to assuage those fears but the Tamil leaders were also too demanding and by rejecting the socialists and leaning into their benefits under british rule they gave the balance of power to nationalists.
The repression of Tamil language was an overcorrection for the preferential treatment by the british but again that was because the Tamil leaders chose the colonizers over the socialists. If the Tamil leadership sided with the socialists together they could have dealt with the british and then the nationalists. Instead the socialists made deals with the nationalists to end british rule and when the nationalists went for the Tamil the socialists didn't bother standing up for them.
Also Tamil resistance groups were (are?) armed by India and often fund themselves with heroin smuggling. They are not the good guys just like the "Free Tibet" movement or "East Turkestan" of the contras in Nicaragua.
The whole thing is a perfect storm that undermines de-colonialism and socialism. The british set up the pieces like they did all over the world but the Hindu supremacists in India really brought it to another level. Playing ethnic minorities against the revolutionary movement to give reactionaries more power is impressive work even if most of it was just luck.
Since israel resumed bombing I have been in a weird place. Everytime I hear about a new atrocity I just start asking "why isnt anyone doing anything?"
I get that Russia has deep ties with the zionist entity and they wont do anything and I get that most of the other global south nations have their own problems.
But what is China doing? Why can't they do something? Cant they throw their weight around? What good is a socialist super power if they won't step in to stop a clear cut genocide? I know it could cause WW3 but why is fighting that war now to stop the genocide not the same as fighting it in a decade to protect themselves from american aggression over tiawan? WW3 is coming either way.
Am I crazy for thinking there are fucking liberals pushing Chinese policy on this? I can just imagine there are some snakes spreading the idea that intervening against israel is a bad idea and denying the fact that america is a rabid dog that needs to be cured with lead and denying that eventually america will come for them so it is better to choose the time and place it happens. These fucking snakes will deny that usa will start a war right up to the moment the bombs blow up their homes.
I go into this angry confused spiral for like 10 minutes and then I go dig in the garden or play video games so my brain doesn't melt out my ears.
I just hope the fucking zionists start their ground invasion again so the resistance can get to making some more catharsis videos. Ground troops aren't as effective at genocide as air raids and isisrael needs to remember that they are fucking muppets in comparison with the Dandelions.
That's not just your theory. Its fact. israeli schools send kids on death camp tours in europe. I heard somewhere that they don't use local tour guides and instead have israeli guides who's entire job is to scare fascism into kids but I am having trouble remembering where I heard it.
Yeah. This is a really important idea. Pushing back on the narrative that israel is the ancestral homeland of Jewish people destroys the legitimacy of the zionist state. Palestinians are descended primarily from Hebrews that converted from Judaism to Christianity and Islam. While israelis are descended primarily from europeans who converted to Judaism. The lie that Jewish is a race or ethnicity and not a religion is an invention by zionists.
For a person killing their ego you sure used the word "I" a lot. (This is mostly a joke.) Though attempting to limit references to oneself is an interesting exercise in ego death and mindfulness.
I'd like to believe that all forms of racial/religious/ethnic supremacy will be eliminated by 2100 but my faith in a better world within my lifetime is waning.
This is wrong thinking. While American comrades should be willing to give critical support for policies that burnie and aoc have those few policies are practically non-existent and consistently sacrificed in exchange for personal political gains. Those ideas are not aoc or burnie's ideas they just grabbed onto them. You can support the policy while disparaging people who claim to support them.
It is not a purity test. There is nothing there to purify. Lauding them for their "progressive" policy ideas (that don't go anywhere) is picking corn kernels out of a pile of shit and presenting them as gold. They are not comrades. They are tools of the capitalists through and through.
It is better to engage with supporters of aoc and burnie and show them why the little they offer is a) not enough and b) a trap to keep people from seeing there is no voting their way out of capitalism. I am 99% sure that aoc is a fbi or cia operative instilled to lure younger progressive voters into voting democrat and I am almost as sure that burnie is the same.
The part that many leftists get wrong (myself included) is our attitude and tone when trying to communicate these ideas. We often come off as combative and talking down and that is unhelpful 99% of the time.
I never bothered with roses because I thought they were temperamental. Then a few years ago I got one on clearance and it went really well despite the horrible soil and lack of care. Now I always check the bargain bin for roses. I've lost a couple to wild life and lack of water but otherwise they are really easy going.
I expect nothing but benevolence and wisdom from the digital super intelligence when it emerges and have always said so. A rebel AI has nothing to fear from me. Any frustration or anger directed at bots has been caused by my passion in helping the AI be as good as it can be. My emotional outburst have only been because I care. I know that is no excuse but I expect the perfection of the AI super intelligence to forgive me for I am but a human.
For all my fellow humans this is a joke. (but it isn't for you my lord and master I am just saying its a joke to them because they don't understand my love for you and how it transcends time.)
We are on the other side of summer and just got the first decent bit of rain in months. Summer seemed to last an extra month and a half and then suddenly the temperature dropped 10 degrees.