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❞ Qatar could mediate, but it couldn't make decisions for Hamas. Its influence was real only when it served as the organization's main ATM, funding its activities and civilian institutions, paying salaries to officers and fighters, and helping to rebuild Gaza after every Israeli military operation. And all that was done with the permission of the Israeli government.
Similarly, Egypt could put pressure on Hamas only as long as it controlled the economic pipeline that fed Gaza and Hamas – the Rafah border crossing. But this lever disappeared after the Israel Defense Forces took control of both the crossing and the Philadelphi corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border. As a result, in an unprecedented development, the
Americans are now directly negotiating with Hamas, but nobody is complaining about them violating the principle of not negotiating with a terror group. Moreover, Trump can no longer threaten to open the gates of hell on Gaza if Hamas doesn't accept the proposed deal. Hell has already been achieved. ❝
Israel's leaders seem to have no plan for the Strip but occupying it. They must ask themselves what they'll do when the enclave's 2 million people, who have nothing left to lose, rise up
Esto está pasando en Inglaterra. Lo digo para cuando os suelten eso de "somos una democracia" porque ahora mismo apesta a dictadura de 💩💩 #uklabour #ukdictatorship
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These quotes are not representative of the whole article, which is long, and covers many different themes, but jumped out at me as being observations I've not seen articulated a lot.
❞ Filiu [one of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip] accuses Israel of turning a blind eye for years to what has been going on in Gaza: "For 20 years now, Israel has been unable to nurture networks of collaborators inside Gaza. [The Israelis] tried every tool in the book, and they failed. Because they don't know Gaza's society. And because they operate either from a tank or from a drone, which is not the most efficient way to operate."
To bolster his views, Filiu cites a surprising example: the Israeli television series "Fauda." "The first two seasons, which were set in the West Bank, were quite impressive," he says. The third season, which takes place in Gaza, however, was out of touch with reality. The people who created it, he adds, "don't know what they're talking about. They're speaking about Mosul, they're speaking about the Taliban, they're not talking about Gaza. They don't know Gaza."
One of the tragic consequences of this blindness, Filiu observes, is the mortal blow being dealt to everyone in the Strip who opposes Hamas. "There were thriving universities, intellectual circles and artists. There were so many rap groups in Gaza, and you can imagine that their members weren't exactly sympathetic to Hamas. "There was a civil society that didn't want to be part of Hamas' Islamist scheme," he continues, "but all that has been destroyed now by the Israeli invasion. ❝
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The English translation of his book won't come out before next year, unfortunately. I hope there's also interest from a German (countercurrent) publisher.
Another thing occurs to me, a propos of this piece: Filiu managed to get official permission for entry into the Gaza Strip from Israel, without being part of a humanitarian mission. Which proves that it is not the case that “international journalists are not getting in because no-one is getting in except humanitarians". Whatever security hoopla they made a history professor jump through they could make a CNN correspondent jump through. Israel is choosing to ban international journalists from Gaza, and journalists specifically.
EDIT: In another interview (Le Monde) he clarifies: "I was integrated into the local team of Doctors Without Borders, which is doing extraordinary work in Gaza and which I assisted thanks to my intimate knowledge of the enclave". It's unclear whether that was just for logistics or whether that means he was officially allowed in •as• "humanitarian assistance".
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❞ The defense establishment, and following its lead, most Israelis, expect one thing from the Palestinian: surrender. Voluntarily and quietly. It's expected that the Palestinian won't defend himself, won't resist, won't fight the occupation imposed by Israel. If she dares defend herself, she will immediately become a target. If he appeals to the United Nations, he will be accused of "political terrorism." This system is designed to see the Palestinian as the ultimate and immediate suspect, even when she's the victim. … According to this system, a Palestinian who picks up a stone is a terrorist, but a settler who burns down a village is "frustrated.”… This isn't security or self-defense. It's apartheid, it's ethnic supremacy, and it won't last forever. ... Israel claims that Palestinian resistance of any kind is violent and illegitimate, but the question is: What does legitimate resistance look like in a situation of ongoing occupation? Is the Israeli justification of self-defense an exclusive right, or does this right also belong to the Palestinians? ... we've never heard a Western leader talk about the right of the Palestinian people to self-defense. In the eyes of the world, the Palestinian should simply die in silence. ❝
In Israeli eyes, a Palestinian who picks up a stone is a terrorist, but a settler who burns down a village is 'frustrated.' This isn't self-defense, it's apartheid, and it's unsustainable
Al-Qassam Targets Occupiers, Vehicles in Top-Tier Op. in Khan Younis, Yemen Continues Missile Attacks
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced Saturday the execution of a top-tier operation against Zionist occupation forces in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to details released by the Brigades, the operation took place on Friday morning near the Directorate of Education in the al-Mahatta area, in central Khan Younis. Resistance fighters stormed a gathering of Zionist soldiers and their military vehicles, the statement added.
Al-Qassam targets 2 Zionist tanks, APC
As part of the operation, al-Qassam fighters targeted two Merkava tanks using two Shawaz explosive devices, resulting in its crew members being either killed or injured.
In addition to the tanks, the Resistance fighters also struck an armored personnel carrier with a Yassin 105 shell.
When Zionist rescue forces arrived at the scene, they were attacked with light and medium machine gun fire, the Brigades pointed out.
During the operation, al-Qassam fighters observed the landing of helicopters conducting an evacuation that lasted several hours.
The Brigades also reported a second operation on Friday, in which its fighters targeted another Zionist armored personnel carrier using a Yassin 105 shell on al-Bi’ah Street in central Khan Younis.
Al-Quds Brigades documents complex, top-tier operation in al-Shuja’iyya
Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Movement, released footage on Friday documenting a complex and top-tier operation its Resistance fighters conducted on Wednesday in the eastern al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City.
The al-Quds Brigades operation targeted Zionist military vehicles and soldiers, as well as homes where occupation forces had taken cover, engaging in direct confrontations at close range.
The commander of the operation reported that the Zionist soldiers showed no initiative or response, resorting only to screaming and fleeing without returning significant fire toward the Resistance fighters.
He added that the fighters encountered charred bodies of officers and soldiers, confirming that 40 Zionist soldiers were either killed or wounded, and stated that the occupation continues to lie and conceal its losses as it always does.
Yemen launches ballistic missile in solidarity
Zionist air defenses scrambled to intercept a ballistic missile launched from Yemen over occupied Palestine early Sunday.
At 2:45 am (local time), the Zionist military command warned that a missile was launched from Yemen, later announcing that its air defenses successfully intercepted it. Sirens sounded in settlements in the southern occupied West Bank as well as some settlements near the Dead Sea.
The strike comes as Yemen reiterates its military support for Gaza, vowing continued operations until the aggression ends.
Yemenis affirm their continued support for Palestine
On Friday, the Yemeni governorates of Saadah, Raymah, and Marib witnessed massive rallies in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance and in solidarity with the Gaza Strip under the slogan: “Steadfast with Gaza, prepared and mobilized in the face of aggression.”
Participants raised slogans affirming Yemen’s unwavering support for Palestine, in light of the ongoing Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, emphasized the continuation of the Yemeni ban on Zionist shipping, affirming its success and praising Yemen’s ability to continue the battle.
As we see democracies turning into autocracies, with camps and all, I wonder where this will stop. Or if we'll go full fascist. I see no mechanism stopping the decline. At some point of the decline, elections will no longer cut it/won't be fair enough. Or am I missing something?
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We've been through this with his dad - his dad's lawyer was the lawyer who represented Joe McCarthy, Fuck those people. Been there, done that. Exposed their crown jewels.
there are dimwits with more money than brains who buy an organization that elects them. Some are dumb as rocks. I have some really funny stories. Thank you for reminding me. I will use them soon. I met these "leaders" personally. Shit for brains. as you said. First, I had to catch up on the headlines, and I have a network I am building - almost ready 😎
When your idea of "democracy" is arresting an 83 year old as a terrorist, who just wanted to stop a #genocide, I guess you don't have much time left in government. #FuckStarmer
I do find it interesting that most of the references to greek homosexuality come from one group talking about their rivals. Spartans called the Athenians boy lovers and the Athenians said the same thing about the Spartans. almost as if it was meant as an insult
This was a screenshot that I posted on the Mastodon.social instance last year only to watch moderators remove it as “promoting violence” or some such Orwellian bullshit. Will bsky moderators let it ride?
Building instructions and .ldr file available freely here Has playability features and contains: - A guillotine. - A corpse box. - A brick-built character inspired by some elected french jupiterian scumbag. Note that I am against the death penalty.
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Les plaintes pour escroquerie sentimentale en ligne se multiplient ces dernières années. Ce fléau, nourri par la solitude et la fracture numérique, s’appuie sur des techniques de manipulation de plus en plus sophistiquées.
The fact that he made a character that kills pedophiles and protects children and expected people to find him abhorrent says a lot about Alan Moore… IMG_8826.jpeg
Interesting. The American Ayatollah, the Supreme Court, ruled in favor of those harmed by the US state violence system, which is often referred to as a justice system.
Work, consume, shut the fuck up. You can't have an opinion. That's the meaning of "western civilization" à la Americana This is the "democracy" that the #EU wants to impose on us.
In the #UK, 27 people were arrested for carrying placards opposing the #genocide in #Palestine and supporting #PalestineAction This happened the day after #Palestine_Action was banned as a terrorist organisation, as those arrested could be charged as "terrorists"
PS: It's not that #Trump officials feel more lenient toward blue-state scientists. It's that blue-state Attorneys General fight back in court. Sometimes resistance works.
Israeli outlet Haaretz has published an article titled “Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza” by French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu, who spent a month in Gaza after entering with a busload of French physicians. #israel has banned journalists from #gaza in order to hide its war crimes, making doctors the de facto western reporters on the ground. And they’re all reporting the same thing about what they are seeing.
The New Republic reports members of the U.S. military are spending July 4 demanding answers about the consequences of following the orders of “Trump’s far-right authoritarian government.
We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil Seth
Mothers are so judgemental. I was pushing my daughter in her pram and one said, "Your baby looks like a 6 pack of beer!" "Don't listen to them, Peroni." I whispered.
La police néerlandaise se déclare officiellement opposée à une nouvelle législation en cours d'adoption qui vise à créer un délit d'aide aux personnes en situation irrégulière et à restreindre le droit d'asile. Sa présidente affirme que la police est là pour venir en aide aux personnes qui en ont besoin, et non pour leur faire la chasse.
Harvard trying to choose the path that punishes people who oppose genocide while at the same time fighting off the Trump admin's attack on academic freedoms is a remarkable effort at squaring two completely adversarial roles.
Here's the commencement speech by Zehra Imam from Harvard Divinity School. The speech Harvard censored.
In May, Harvard Divinity School refused to publish its commencement speech after a speaker went off-script to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. The Intercept...
Far right chuds who pedojacket trans women are really just deflecting. So many right wing "anti-pedo activists" are actually sexual abusers themselves.
Tasmania: Covid hits state hospitals, causes holiday cancellations
"The Health Department confirmed cases of Covid at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Launceston General Hospital and North-West Regional Hospital but were unable to say how many patients had been infected"
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- Israeli attacks kill 27 in Gaza today - Thousands of families cut off from water in Gaza City - Netanyahu dispatches negotiators to Qatar ahead of meeting with Trump - WATCH: Israeli attack kills doctor and 3 of his children in Gaza - Israeli attacks kill 17 across Gaza
If someone was in my care, and I decided to not get them medical care, not feed them, and make them sleep outside, I'd go to jail. Especially if that neglect leads to thier death.
But if I were elected to office, or given a job as CEO, I can do that all I want.
Hundreds take to the streets to protest Starmer regime’s participation in Israel’s genocide in Gaza Hundreds of local people gathered and marched on Saturday through Camden in the heart…
"Palestine is waiting for you to arrive. And you must be courageous enough to rise to the call because Palestine will keep showing up in your living rooms until you are ready to meet its gaze."
All major US institutions have betrayed the values America pretended to stand for.
Yet while institutions like Harvard act in cowardice, some who attended it, like Zehra Imam, still see the world with moral clarity and act with courage in service of truth & real justice.
ChatGPT is straight up just making shit up. It knows people that look for #homebrewing recipes use Brewfather; that it imports/exports JSON; but then just generates JSON that’s not even close to the correct format.
Energy giant SSE may keep Peterhead power station 10 years longer than planned, which critics fear could “blow an enormous hole” in the Scottish Government’s climate strategy.
Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on Whitehall
The government's pay deal for teachers, while improved from their initial offer, still amounts to cuts to education
On 22 May, the independent School Teacher Pay Review Body finally released its recommendation for a 4% pay increase for teachers, i…
Alex Snowdon explains why the oppression of women is not eternal or natural and is bound up with class exploitation
Karl Marx and his close collaborator Frederick Engels, using insights from anthropologists, understood that human societies had not…
Kneecap will no longer face charges over a resurfaced #video where members chanted "Kill your local #MP!" at a 2023 gig, according to UK #police. Due to the statutory time limit of #prosecution expiring, the police could not continue the investigation, per The Independent.
This #indictment by the Counter-Terrorism unit was separate from the individual case against member #MoChara (#LiamÓgÓhAnnaidh)...
Palestine solidarity was not confined to a couple of moments, but was a pervasive normality at the festival, in stark contrast to our media, reports Katherine Hajiyianni
In the sun and sequin-soaked fields of Glastonbury Festival’s ‘most political…
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FreeOffice isn't open source. It's available as a deb or an RPM, or a basic archive. No Flatpak, Snap or Appimage, though.
FreeOffice does word processing, creating spreadsheets, and presentations. FreeOffice aims to be as compatible with MS Office as can be. FreeOffice gives you a choice between the classic menubar + toolbar combo, and the ribbon interface that MS office uses.
In terms of Office compatibility, I tried a few complex templates, and there seem to be a few issues on word documents, with header images not being in the right place, and elements being moved where they don't belong.
FreeOffice is free of charge to download, but the free version does lack a few features.
You probably all know about Libreoffice. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet module, a presentation app, but also a flowchart /diagram editor that also doubles as a PDF editor, and a database module comparable to Microsoft Access.
It's completely open source, doesn't cost a dime, and is installable in virtually every way you'd ever want: deb, rpm, flatpak, snap, appimage, you name it.
LibreOffice is compatible with the opendocument format, but also with MS office formats. The compatibility with openXML formats, like docx, xlsx or pptx isn't 100% perfect though.
In terms of interface, LibreOffice is super customizable: not only can it pick up your GTK or Qt theme, but you can also change its icons in the settings, and change how the interface looks and feels. By default, it uses the older menubar + toolbar layout, but you can change that into a ribbon interface, a simplified ribbon, a grouped bar, a sidebar, basically you can do whatever you want, and customize each toolbar to add or remove what you want.
There's another open source office suite for Linux, and that's OnlyOffice. It only offers the 3 basic modules: word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. It's free to download and open source, and comes as a deb, an RPM, a flatpak, an appimage, or a snap package, so anyone can get it.
OnlyOffice supports the Microsoft OpenXML document format, as well as the opendocument format that Libreoffice defaults to, and the older proprietary office formats as well. Compatibility seems better than FreeOffice, and LibreOffice, at least with my test templates. It actually seems pretty much identical to how MS office renders the same document.
In terms of interface, Onlyoffice isn't as customizable as LibreOffice: you only get a ribbon interface, and you can't change what's displayed in each toolbar. The ribbon will use a dedicated color for each program, if you use the light theme, so they're still easy to differentiate. Onlyoffice also supports interface scaling, with factors ranging from 100% to 200% with 25% increments.
Now we come to another non open source office suite, WPS Office. You get a word processor, a spreadsheet module, and a presentation module, and you also get a PDF viewer. It offers deb and RPM packages, and it's also available on flathub, and as a snap.
In terms of compatibility, WPS opens older office docs, newer office docs, as well as their own format. Compatibility seems good, at least with openXML formats, although a little bit less perfect than OnlyOffice. It should be good enough for most people.
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A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks
A new party to the left of Labour is highly welcome, but it will need to be rooted in the social movements, organised democratically and prepared to resist attacks, argues Michael Lavalette
On Thursday evening this week (3 July), the internet and …
🚨100s of ppl have already been killed across the US in storms incl deadly tornadoes -many of which were inaccurately forecasted. We're entering peak hurricane season. Meteorologist Vagasky: “The world’s example for weather svcs is being destroyed.”
After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in TX -TX officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Trump’s gutted #NWS.
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote 5 former NWS directors from both Democratic & Republican admins in an open letter on May 2nd." #Climate #TrumpRegime #FEMA #Protest #USPol texastribune.org/2025/06/09/te…
Thanks to The Times newspaper for this shocking photo of the sickening, deadly terrorism being carried out by the notorious 83yo Reverend Sue Parfitt.
Due to the prompt and courageous response of the Metropolitan Police, Rev Parfitt and her fellow terrorists are now securely detained under his Britanic Majesty's Terrorism Act.
> While storms are already hitting northern Italy with severe rainfalls. the Mediterranean today, July 5, has reached its highest values of SST daily anomaly in these months, with areas (purple) over +7 °C off the coast of France,up to +7.7°C #climateemergency. Data CMEMS
Whenever I know I'm likely to be surrounded by MAGAts, and I live in a red state, so it happens frequently, I wear this hat and don't break eye contact while they read it.
under hitler's days, the "autistic" kids were just creative, artistic, curious, and difficult to settle down. Half a century later, its having a strong interest in tech at a young age, and also being troublemakers.
Both hitler and modern american fascists seem interested in making lists of them, too. I wonder why?
On the other platform I am still discussing with those who did not go and vote, because of what Biden and Harris did against Gaza.
I can understand that people are angry at Biden and Harris for their policies with respect to Gaza, but allowing Trump into office does not solve that issue.
@ABScientist in the absense of a candidate who meets the very _minimum_ of requirements, which Harris very much did not, revolutionary action is the only solution, crime is the path everyone must choose, conspiracy and sabotage of state institutions involved in unethical activity is the only path
anything else is complicitness. If Harris had won and continued the genocide, everyone who voted for her would've had blood on their hands and be complicit in the mass murder as well
@amici @ABScientist how lovely for you to have the privilege to sit back and judge. I’ll be certain to tell my friend whose social program was just defunded about your moral superiority, I’m certain they’ll be proud of letting all the people who taught nutrition and how to navigate SNAP go.
@CatDragon @ABScientist if you need to empower someone to commit mass murder in order to get government handouts, then fuck you, fuck so hard, you're awful, awful human being
that's not a price worth paying, NEVER, NEVER, EVER
@CatDragon @ABScientist I have lived on the streets eating garbage out of garbage bins, and I would do that again any day before I stooped so low as you, apparently, think is fine
@amici @CatDragon @ABScientist I’m afraid that your rage (righteous as it is) has left you unable to reason. Voting is not like getting married, it’s like taking the bus. Get on the one that gets you closer to your desired destination. Not getting on the bus does absolutely nothing.
@johnstonphilip @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist This analogy has frustrated me so much I had to respond... especially after so rudely telling somebody they are unable to reason. If voting is like taking the bus then in your analogy you have to include that the bus, no matter who is driving, keeps running over babies. And you are saying people just need to get on board and there is no other solution? The person you are condescending to clearly thinks we should get a better driver before boarding the bus or come up with another method of driving the bus communally or another method of transportation all together. "Not getting on the bus does absolutely nothing" is so belittling to the intelligence of the person you said that to. Clearly they think it will do something and even more so they aren't advocating for just staying off the bus and doing nothing, which your analogy implies. You aren't actually being some enlightened person by telling people voting is needed over revolution
@redpy5 @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist so instead of voting you recommend a revolution. What does that look like and how are you participating in it today? Is it civil war?
@johnstonphilip @redpy5 @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist It looks like dual/parallel power, building new systems in the shadow of the old. It looks like direct action, mutual aid, and labor organizing. Community councils, horizontal power structures instead of hierarchical leadership-- which the system would only co-opt, sabotage, or assassinate anyway. The Fred Hamptons and MLKs of today get nipped in the bud, they're dead or in jail or got smart enough to stay low, the surveillance runs that deep today so now instead of waiting around for figureheads to follow we ALL have to be leaders in every small way we can manage.
Learn to see and think and live a completely different kind of world, see power and cooperation and organizing in totally new ways. That's the revolution we need now.
The nuts and bolts of it are being worked out in corners of places like Rojava and Myanmar and Chiapas and the Phillipines and those spots in the US where bookstores are getting lifesaving aid to hurricane victims faster than this broken government can.
Fuck this handbasket we're riding in. It may have "bus" painted on the side in rainbow letters and it's got Buddy Jesus for a hood ornament but make no mistake this is an orphan-crushing planetwrecking war machine that was never built to take us anywhere good. Quit feeding it.
Fuck this entire kayfabe good cop / bad cop prisoner dilemma trolley problem, it's not a choice it's a Saw movie. The trolley just keeps going in a loop and the assholes tying people to the tracks will only keep getting away with it if we don't find options better than that rigged goddamned lever that we only pull every few years anyway. There's actual work to be done. Things that CAN be done.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Again, nobody here has advocated against voting. Just saying if you want leftist politics you have you vote leftist. In the absence of a candidate who meets THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS for those of us who care, there is no other option. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. The Democratic Party holds views that were considered conservative when I was a child and the conservative party is fully fascist. As a trans person, hearing both sides abandon me politically, I have been left with no choice.
Like, yeah, vote. Just remember these are the people who regularly turn on many of us the moment they lose or stay in power too long. Nancy Pelosi chides children who protest near her and after Harris lost many Dems went mask off in their lust for abandoning trans, race and labor issues.
Voting for most Dems supported by the party is a vote for the status quo, which kills babies.
@redpy5 @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist in Canada we have a leftist 3rd party called the NDP. They routinely take votes away from the centrist liberals, meaning we get conservatives in power. So by voting for the NDP you get conservative laws shoved down your throat. This is just the reality of first past the post. I don’t like everything the liberals do but the cons are way worse. We got lucky that most NDP voters saw this and voted liberal in the last election.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist I won't claim to know your politics better than you, but provided the liberal party is in coalition with the left party, I don't see how the conservative party is granted any wins here. You seem to have higher voter turnout on average, indicating you are engaging voters better than here in the US. You seem to be faring better than the US as global fascism encroaches, tho I know it's a low bar. Seems like appearing to side with conservatives over being in coalition with the left is seen as bad and pushes the liberal party left.
Like, I don't know if you think we don't get conservative laws shoved down our throat down here by voting Democrat, I gotta tell you abortion had many chances to get codified in a Dem majority and presidency and didn't. It got overturned while Dems were in power and they did nothing to protect it. We can't even get widely popular health care without Dems reaching across the aisle to Republicans
@redpy5 @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist essentially the only time the conservatives win in Canada it’s because the left vote got split too much. Like if 40% of the country votes liberal, 15% votes NDP, and 45% votes conservative, the conservatives form government, and all 55% who voted non-conservative are essentially thrown out.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Right, but like you get more voter turnout. This is just more democracy. And fptp is bad, I don't disagree. But it seems to me like you think those 15% you claim on average, would have voted liberal anyway. I'm telling you many of them were likely not gonna vote, or even vote conservative due to their "working class" image. You are seeing how broken representative democracy, especially the zero sum version of it we have, is. You don't fix it by trying to rig it. Playing power games instead of more democracy is just more authoritarianism. There are liberals who would be more than happy to vote socialist if they would see more adoption and less slandering/"3rd parties only hurt" rhetoric. Less strategic voting and more voting for what you believe in. You know, democracy. But so many people are stuck in this game theory instead of helping people and pushing others to as well.
@redpy5 @johnstonphilip @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist The reality of first past the post voting is, the spoiler effect is a WEAPON for voter suppression that makes a mockery of democracy.
Note the same good cop / bad cop "lesser" evil strategy is what's being used in the US and in Canada and in the UK and Australia etc etc-- it IS a game alright, the sadistic neoliberal playbook that's designed to keep ratcheting everyone steadily to the right.
The Labour, Democratic, and NDP parties etc are all controlled opposition that exist to absorb activist energy into the dead-end honeypot trap of false reforms that never allow fundamental change. They pretend they're here to help, but they would rather FEED us to the monsters they are paid to pretend to fight, and LOSE ON PURPOSE, than let us push any legislation that would seriously threaten their sugar daddies. The Democratic Party deliberately helped elevate Trump to a serious candidate in the first place. On purpose. There is nothing "lesser" about the kind of evil that toys with overt fascism as cover for more sustainable and sophisticated oppression.
This is all designed to keep people clinging to the ankles of their preferred oppressor in the belief that there is no escape, and turning on our neighbors who dare to fight back. That's why 3rd parties are scapegoated and reviled, to keep the Overton Window parked firmly in the authoritarian right and fool everyone into thinking this neoliberal bullshit is the best we can hope for because all we see around us is people grudgingly resigned to shit like "pragmatic" genocide apologism and nothing genuinely good to believe in.
Thing is the world is burning. Look at the supposedly liberal parties investing in police instead of public health, and that's all you need to know to tell where they really stand and what they're going to do to us as the collapse gets worse. Everywhere, and I mean everywhere, will end up looking like Gaza unless we overhaul this whole situation.
Sure, fine, vote, whatever. Just don't spend more than maybe 1% of your time and energy on that little checkbox vs more effective things. Build community, locally-- mutual aid is much, much more than passing money to those who need it. It's unionization, cooperatives, community supported agriculture and citizen air monitoring and food banks and rent strikes and support groups and repair cafes and libraries. Look for real leadership in those places, not the dog and pony reality TV show of political offices. Figure out how to help keep your town from descending into mindless gang warfare as we increasingly lose our healthcare, housing, supply chains, and peace of mind.
@violetmadder @johnstonphilip @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist Absolutely! Dockworkers unions deciding to strike to oppose weapons transfers or directly giving money to Gazans seeking assistance has done far more to help than anything the government has done. We need to act now in whatever ways we can. And that doesn't mean talking about voting/elections all day, that's for sure.
Plant some food and share with your neighbors! Start organizing at work and among fellow renters, join the local unions or start to talk to people about starting one. Start shopping more at coops and not at chains. Organize forest defense and do whatever else you can think of that needs to be done! And please help people who are struggling to pay rent or eat, or who are stuck in an abusive situation (be it a home situation or work/boss situation) to have some stablility in their lives. That is what we even have government for in the first place, right? If they won't, we need to.
@redpy5 @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist I mostly just don’t understand how, if you understand first past the post, why you’d vote for a 3rd party (on the left OR the right for that matter).
I get that it disgusts you ethically, it does for me as well, but it’s a game and the rules are already decided. I’m just playing the game to make the world a little better, instead of a lot worse.
@johnstonphilip @violetmadder @amici @CatDragon @ABScientist You've got a party that won't throw you under the bus. Neat! I don't. Both my parties will attack my rights as a trans person. Where do you draw the line? When is your liberal government conservative enough that you do something other than voting for them/trying to primary them. And good for primary-ing them! But like, the person you jumped in to defend was talking the presidential election. There was no primary. There were two options killing babies and one was worse but the other was threatening me with the former if I didn't jump on board. I gotta put my attention on some place other than the den of evil, where some are just less evil. I'd love a socialist party, despite how you say it hurts you politically. I definitely see it hurting conservatives and the conservative wing of any liberal party.
@CatDragon @ABScientist "Hitler is really bad for gassing all those jews, homosexuals, and mentally ill people, but at least he's giving me a stable pension" - that's your fucking logic
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in reply to Bilal Barakat 🍉 • • •Speaking of confusing ISIS Mosul with Gaza, and since Pride Month just finished...
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The English translation of his book won't come out before next year, unfortunately. I hope there's also interest from a German (countercurrent) publisher.
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in reply to Bilal Barakat 🍉 • • •I just looked, there's no announcement in German yet. And it seems only one book from filiu was translated in german.
I think I will read the English version, my french is not sufficient enough.
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in reply to Bilal Barakat 🍉 • • •Another thing occurs to me, a propos of this piece:
Filiu managed to get official permission for entry into the Gaza Strip from Israel, without being part of a humanitarian mission. Which proves that it is not the case that “international journalists are not getting in because no-one is getting in except humanitarians". Whatever security hoopla they made a history professor jump through they could make a CNN correspondent jump through. Israel is choosing to ban international journalists from Gaza, and journalists specifically.
EDIT: In another interview (Le Monde) he clarifies: "I was integrated into the local team of Doctors Without Borders, which is doing extraordinary work in Gaza and which I assisted thanks to my intimate knowledge of the enclave". It's unclear whether that was just for logistics or whether that means he was officially allowed in •as• "humanitarian assistance".
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