WanderingVentra @ WanderingVentra @lemm.ee

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You forgot to mention that the current captain is shooting one POC person a day while it heads into an iceberg.

And the first choice for new captain is the current first mate who by all accounts will not change course, and keeps promising to uphold the shoot a POC person a day policy. And you're acting surprised they're not getting popular support from that group.

Nah man, fascism is already here. If you, me, and the rest of the Democrats were willing to tolerate a genocide to keep a system enabling a genocide, then it can't be denied. We weren't delaying fascism, we just weren't the current target of it and because of that, you couldn't see it. We're all fucked but it's because of these exact attitudes that allowed dehumanization to be accepted.

“She could have at least called for a ceasefire,” Khan said. (Harris repeatedly called for a ceasefire during her campaign, including during her Democratic convention speech.)

Ah, it's just like being on Lemmy!

Oh great, this point again. They changed the meaning of the word ceasefire they were using. They tried to coopt the term into a meaningless one, while Muslims meant a ceasefire with actual effort and teeth behind it, meaning some sort of leverage, not the meaningless one of the Biden administration.

Keep in mind that Biden is still President and they completely ignored the letter they sent before about Israel having thirty days to change their human rights violations. So they clearly don't give a shit even though they don't even have to worry about reelection anymore so we can't blame that.

Ah, yes, humanity is the first and foremost thing to be respected, which is why LGBT Americans have been served to fascists on a silver platter as a protest vote. Peak humanity.

You can't feign outrage about people served on a platter when you did that exact same thing to people undergoing an active genocide. "First they came for the Palestinians, and I ignored them, because they're not white." Is that how the poem goes? You were willing to sacrifice an entire ethnic group so you can feel comfortable. Too many Americans were. Now we're all going to suffer together, and frankly, we're going to deserve it.

Oh good point.

What's the equivalent for the movie and TV streaming?

I've been looking for a mutual aid organization to join and looking into what it takes to get a gun in my state. Bleak, I know lol

People voted for her, and Biden, because they thought they could win the general, because they were "popular" during the primaries. Not to mention the whole media misrepresented his policies, attitudes, supporters, etc. It's very easy to convince people to vote against their interest with the proper tricks (which Trump as our current President-elect proves).

Thanks for your contributions on that matter btw. I appreciate you sustaining these other communities, even though I know it's not easy. I like reading non-news stuff lol.

I basically only use mobile apps, so I don't even remember what the desktop UI looks like. But if you say so!

This country doesn't prioritize education and then we wonder why people like Trump get elected.

Lol Is this going to be the Boston Bomber situation but the cop doing it instead of reddit?

Fog of war and all, so I'm guessing no one knows, but here's my take: This is more recent so it's probably more true that they haven't actually been fighting yet. IIRC those rumors before of them fighting has only been coming from South Korea and Ukraine. Ukraine, while I support them, clearly has a biased motivation to seem as outnumbered and out-gunned as possible to express a need to their allied nations to give them more weapons, and even to try to get them to join the war themselves. South Korea's bias is pretty obvious. Neither offered much physical evidence except I think a flag they found.

The US is also biased, but are a step removed, so I believe their intelligence on this topic more than either of those two until we get something even more recent and clear. Also it's hilarious to me imagining them being worse than Russian convicts lol.

Nice. I could totally see it. Andrew Tate stoic shit.

I agree. Whether I agree with them or not, they really have a way with words. The imagery of the right running their mindless subjects into a wall put a smile on my face lol.

Well, I've heard that he at least encourages people to go on beyond him and read things or organize IRL, so I think that's already a marked differentiator from the Democrats, who just encourage you to vote for them, and they'll have all the answers. I see people like him as like the state under communism. Useful up to a point, and then they can do something else. Until that time, critical support to leftist streamers and class traitors lol.

But, since my only personal experience is with people who have come from Hasan and I haven't really listened to him much myself, it makes it hard to agree or disagree, so I'll leave it there.

But I will say, your writing is a pleasure to read 😂

I'm kind of curious about this take. What do you mean?

I agree. It also kind of ruins how special and awe-inspiring that lightsaber seemed in the OT. It was like a sacred relic Obi-Wan had taken care of all these years. And then Darth Vader had one! Wow! It also showed his devotion to this "ancient religion" that the generals made fun of him for.

For reference, I don't watch him much at all so you probably know the specifics of his flaws better than me. However, I know people who have who weren't leftist before, and I appreciate that he's brought them into the tent and that he says things that they haven't heard other people say before. We still have tons of room for other people more left of him or more knowledgeable of theory than he is, but he's still a great intro to the leftist pipeline, or maybe a mid-point after like Jon Stewart or Jon Oliver, and I won't begrudge him that role. It's someone else's job to step up and be that next step. I won't blame Hasan that someone isn't more popular and more knowledgeable on theory. Maybe it's not his specialty, and that's fine.

Like for me, I started going left with Bernie, and now consider myself more left than him, but I still appreciate the role Sanders had in my life. Now, he's never going to say any theory and he's always going to shepherd people back into the capitalist system of the Democratic party. But, I won't hate him because he didn't travel left with me, I just shrug and say he did his job, and I appreciate his contributions. In other words, I don't think the world is better without his existing. Or taking the example of Lenin, he popped up during a sizable, albeit partly exiled, socialist movement in Russia, but still, he built on their work, their philosophies, their organizing, their clubs, with their students, their newspapers, etc. He surpassed many of them in terms of turning theory into action, argued with some vehemently, but it's not like they didn't contribute to the movement in the long run.

Hasan doesn't need to make that last step to power imo. He's doing his job where he is, helping ease some people out of the red scare mentality of the most propagandized nation on earth. Let's be honest, even if he couldn't lead some movement after making 60% of the country believe in socialism, it would be a lot easier for someone else to do so with that support. And that starts with entertainment and culture. Was it Gramsci who had the theory on the structure and super structure that effect each other? I think that's definitely true. There's a reason the US is willing to give movies free money for propaganda or let them use their vehicles. It enforces the cultural hegemony that will have to be broken, or at least chipped away.

People feel something is wrong, sure, but that can lead them to fascism as much as Marxism. And they're not going to read those books you mentioned because people are terrified to read those books or hear those ideas in the US, yet entertainment provides an acceptable way to be exposed to those ideas. People are identifying the wrong solutions or sources of those problems all the time, that's why Trump was elected.

I don't think all the push back is all parasocial, i just think some is that you're under valuing the power of culture and entertainment. The right has a pipeline that's working pretty damn well to slowly convert people from neocons to fascism, and it often starts with talking about their entertainment or being in the guise of entertainment itself (like with comedians, like Rogan, Crowder, etc). There's no reason the left can't have a similar path made up of multiple creators and media personalities, each on a step along the path. I think some are just critical of Hasan because he's the only one right now and no one else is picking up the slack, but I don't think that's his fault.

There's no alternative to Hasan right now in the left online space. Look at the top streamers on election day. They're all right-wing except for him. We're going to have to start with people like him, AOC, or Bernie if we want to move the needle in this country. Organizing 20 people in your local communist book club doesn't matter if your movement is constantly demonized in the media and never grows. I don't think some in the left seem to understand how important propaganda is, and yes, even online. Even Lenin worked on newspapers.

Not saying he's anything close to Lenin, but no one else is in the position to step up right now. It's going to take someone with enough money to not have to rely on mainstream media companies to say the shit he does, and the aesthetic to reach the Gen Z people and normies all the other guys are reaching. Other people can't afford to be kicked out of the DNC for talking to Palestine protestors like he was. Right now the only people I can think of on the left with any outreach are a couple niche podcasters and academics doing a couple YouTube vids.

Plus as far as I know socialists have always been fine with class traitors who join them.