homoludens @ homoludens @feddit.org

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I guess that depends on how you define terrorism. Some definitions require the actors to be individuals or subnational organizations - so the scale of Israel's actions would make it something else. But other than that: yes.

Why do you ask? I haven't seen anyone defending Israel's actions (and the US support of it) in this thread, so I'm not sure how that adds to the discussion.

That does not make Hamas any less of an terrorist organization.

Why would we uninstall France?

Okay, who spies on me when I use e.g. Signal?

So he admits he has lost the plot?

Yet another Gang Of Four

Harvard called Noem’s action “unlawful.”

I wonder who has better lawyers when this goes to court - the Trump regime or Harvard. 🤔

This “guide” is a bit of a joke made out of frustration.

Fun fact: if you were born before 1990, your birthday is closer to West Germany becoming a sovereign country than it is to today.

nobody on the top really believes their own ideology

Source?

But the perception of being silenced

They are constantly invited to talk shows, news interviews, get frontpages of national magazines etc. and they are still convinced they are silenced.

The article talks about income (the headline seems a bit confusing), the wiki about net worth?

Also: be careful who you vote into office.

Even if that is "the propaganda" (which I have not seen in this thread btw): your counterproposition is not to dispose of the whole one-dimensional "which atrocity is worse" bullshit, but instead formalizing it by speaking of tiers and arguing that the holocaust wasn't that bad. That's dehumanizing, has no value at all (it's not like a "tier 2 genocide" it somehow more okay) and instead opens the doors for Nazi apologia and antisemtism and derails the discussion.

I don't know how else to say it, but: the unique aspects of the Holocaust are what makes the Holocaust unique.

Making up "tiers" of mass murder or genocide is dehumanizing. There is no point in trying to compare these atrocities - except of course if someone wants to say e.g. "Well, the holocaust wasn't that bad".

You need to provide sources. For example: most Germans knew about concentration camps and the mass murder (source).

a fascist state in its infancy

It was "refuse to leave their post" ;)

I doubt that it will stop the fascists if the good guys quit though.

"Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group." Wikipedia (content warning - prominently displayed picture of a lynching victim)

I know the US is different than Europe, that's why I mentioned my POV.

And I still don't really understand it, because the numbers are really very different. Oklahoma City (without the metropolitan area) is about as big as my as my hometown Bremen. We just had protests because our chancellor-to-be collaborated with the fascist party - we were about 1500 people, with about 24 hours notice. Big protests are up to 25000-50000 people. And as you said, other protests in the US were way bigger.

So I don't think "time for preparation" is an important factor, especially as it is not really a surprise that Trump became president and is doing shitty things. Unless protests in the US are more complicated for some reason I don't see yet?

From an outside perspective, I would guess it's more about work culture - people being burnt out, no protections from getting fired. This might lead to less of a protest culture culture overall maybe. Which is also weird, because the US also has seen some very well known and successful protest movements.

Bonus: current Hollwood movies always seem to make it a point that the protagonist is very much trying to not get involved. I wonder what that says about the (current) culture in the US.