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#Israel|s Angriff auf den #Iran jucke laut Christoph Ruf in Deutschland kaum jemanden – schnell habe man sich bei uns an Krieg als Mittel der internationalen Politik gewöhnt. Unser Kolumnist kritisiert den zunehmenden Militarismus in der Weltpolitik. 👉 nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191921.…
Israel hat nun auch den Iran angegriffen. In Deutschland juckt das kaum jemanden. Schnell hat man sich bei uns an Krieg als Mittel der internationalen Politik gewöhnt, findet Christoph Ruf.
Iran’s defense ministry has vowed to “break the back” of the Israeli regime and continue with its retaliatory military operations against the Zionist aggressors.
Marxar de Whatsapp (per evitar els anuncis personalitzats) per anar a Signal ja és un pas però els servidors de Signal son AWS d'Amazon ❌. És marxar del foc per caure a les brases. On no et cremes i no hi ha perill de que puji la temperatura és amb #DeltaChat:
- Molt fàcil de fer anar ✅ - no demana número de telèfon ✅ - servidors federats i a Europa ✅ - xifrat per defecte, persona a persona, i en els grups ✅ - programari lliure ✅ - muntar servidor propi ✅ - móbil i PC sincronitzats ✅
he mogut família i amics a Telegram, després a Signal i ara tinc la meitat de la família ja a DeltaChat. 😅 Costa però confien en el meu criteri, saben que recomano el millor per a ells.
Según he leído aquí, al final no hubo acuerdo en lo de Signal y Amazon: "Según las fuentes consultadas por Business Insider, la idea de la adquisición de Signal finalmente se desvaneció, ya que AWS no vio una propuesta de valor única para el cliente junto con la enorme base de usuarios de la aplicación, y no podía justificar la valoración inflada que en general tienen las empresas populares de software. La actual estructura legal de Signal también podría haber dificultado una adquisición, y su creador, Moxie Marlinspike, no es fan de las grandes empresas tecnológicas. "
⛳️Un proyecto de campo de golf y viviendas amenaza la Marjal de Pego.
📢Centenares de pegolinos protagonizaron una jornada de protesta masiva contra el PAI Pego-Golf, que pretende urbanizar 160 hectáreas colindantes a un parque natural.
Adoro la jornada de verano (en mi trabajo es intensiva de mañana, y una hora menos al día) y a la vez me da la sensación de que podría mantenerse todo el año perfectamente. No me parece que cunda menos.
Ahora mismo una diputada de Junts diciendo en la radio que "Catalunya no es España" por el bochornoso espectáculo que están dando en el Congreso. La de JUNTS. La de CIU. jejejejje La corrupción en Catalunya de CIU siempre ha sido más de Circulo Equestre y Eyes Wide Shut.
Just came across this video taken by someone from the city I grew up in Turkey (Adana), showing Iranian missiles flying to Israel. A reminder of how close this whole conflict is to us. instagram.com/reel/DLBMYYntSy0…
I know it hurts, and is almost unbearable, but we can not stop talking about the genocide that is taking place in Palestine. Israel is killing them at the food distribution stations. This food stations are becoming death traps. It's so evil.
I'm sure there are some young MAGA boys that currently feel uneasy about how sudden and weird the pivot onto Iran has been who will be swept up by this, impressed 💀
Everyone returns to email in the end. We are there already. #whatsapp wants you to add your email to secure your account ... despite all the nay sayers and numerous well funded attempts and claims to kill #email not even WA can do it. #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc are about deep collab between people, projects and operators to evolve email from within. It is not just about SMTP and IMAP and MIME and OpenPGP which are all exchangeable and can be improved ... Which we set out to do. Cheers.
@madkiwi @brazel you are both of.course correct. Whatsapp very likely wants email addresses to improve.meta's tracking machine accuracy and reach, and sell it under "for your security" because it sounds much better.
Anecdotal evidence technology is interfering with children's ability to learn to read. Anecdotes from elementary school through college. Allegedly the trend began before AI, so it's not a consequence of AI, and it's not because of covid because the trend began before covid as well. Smartphones and tablets began affecting childhood before AI showed up. But the trend is allegedly being accelerated by AI because AI can read for you and you can talk to it, so it is removing the need to learn to read.
@Wayne Radinsky grades could be the purpose, or learning. I think the goal is determined by the student, no? If the student has a goal to get into the best possible university, then grades are the goal. If the student wants to learn new things, then learning is the goal. If the student wants to make as much money as possible, then dropping out of school might be the goal... There is not a single goal to education.
Hernan, Wayne has expressed his opinion a couple times about this. I suspect he was in school districts that were unusually grades oriented, as well as him being unusually reactive to authority.
I went to many school districts (family traveled a lot), and my memory is that most teachers were more learning oriented and less grades oriented, exactly opposite of what Wayne experienced. And of course what you said, that students goals play a big part of the experience.
@HernanLG education may not have an goal post-facto, but it's purpose for the state is to guide youth into maturity and keep up basic functions of society like birth rate, households, consumption, and work. Any education in our state-paradigm has to keep its effectiveness above this bar, wouldn't you agree?
grades could be the purpose, or learning. I think the goal is determined by the student, no?
No. I ran the experiment. When I was in college, and I wasn't learning anything (whether it was because of "learning" gobeltygook or just doing huge amounts of busywork from which neither I nor anyone else was learning anything) and complained, I was labeled "disobedient" and "troublemaker" and treated with unbearable hostility. The notion that I had the ability to unilaterally override the system's goal of "grades" and substitute my own, "learning" (even though "learning" is ostensibly the whole purpose of the entire institution) is laughably, completely wrong. No, students do not have the ability to override the goal set by the institution, and that's grades.
If the student has a goal to get into the best possible university, then grades are the goal. If the student wants to learn new things, then learning is the goal.
If one wants to learn new things, then one should not be in a university! There are bookstores and libraries full of books. There are online open-source textbooks. There's Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias. There's Wolfram MathWorld. There's a magic search engine called "Google" (and others) one can use to find educational materials on just about any topic imaginable. There are online education systems like Khan Academy. There are apps like Brilliant.org and Duolingo, which teaches languages. If you don't know what to search for on a system like Google, you can ask a chatbot like ChatGPT what to search for. (Sounds weird, I know, but try it.) One can ask chatbots like ChatGPT to act as one's tutor (though beware of inaccuracies).
Maybe 100 years ago, if you wanted knowledge, universities were the only place you could go and everyone there (or almost everyone) was a genuine knowledge-seeker. In the world of today, if you seek to learn, why would you ever go to a university? With such vastness of knowledge available so much more cheaply? The only justification is to obtain the credential. Everyone (for all intents and purposes) who goes to university today is a credential-seeker.
If the student wants to make as much money as possible, then dropping out of school might be the goal…
Probably not. Statistics on large populations show people with college degrees make substantially more average. Sure, if you're Mark Zuckerberg, you make more money by dropping out, but there's only a handful of Mark Zuckerbergs and millions and millions of regular people. For regular people, a college degree, actually not so much a money maximizer, but essential destitution insurance.
Wayne has expressed his opinion a couple times about this. I suspect he was in school districts that were unusually grades oriented
Nope. I went to Denver Public Schools for K12 and the University of Colorado at Boulder (aka CU Boulder) for university. Totally normal schools. If these school districts were "unusually grades oriented," other students would have been affected, but it was only me.
as well as him being unusually reactive to authority.
It was only me. "Unusually reactive to authority" I suppose is one way to put it. From my point of view, the question was, why are all normal people so automatically obedient to authority?
I think I told you before how about 2 years after I was forced out of the school system (for disobedience) I met this young woman who was a college student (at UC Davis), majoring in biology. And for some reason I asked her these general, open-ended questions about what her college experience was like. I expected her to describe her daily struggle to be obedient, forcing herself to do her homework, forcing herself to obey the commands that are called "assignments" or whatever but are really commands that must be obeyed. But her experience was nothing like that. There was no struggle to be obedient, and in fact she didn't even think of school in "obedience" terms. She actually liked the system. She liked how someone else had broken down a body of knowledge and figured out a system for learning it, and on Monday we do this, on Wednesday we do that, on Friday we do this other thing, and all she had to do was "jump through the hoops" and everything would work out great for her. She actually liked the "hoop jumping" system. I had never considered before the possibility that such a thing was possible before. I thought other people who did well in school were just "tougher", "grittier", better at forcing themselves to be obedient than I was. I never imagined people existed for whom the obedience struggle was entirely non-existent.
That was what led me (over the last 30 years) to develop my theory of extrinsic motivation. For people who are extrinsically motivated (or sufficiently extrinsically motivated -- their extrinsic motivation level exceeds some threshold -- and in my mind, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation are independent personality dimensions, but I'm going to skip that explanation for now), they don't experience any loss of agency in school. They want to make money doing some profession, they work backwards from there -- they need a college degree in X major (ideally from a prestigious school), to get the college degree they need good grades (ideally "A"s and a high GPA) in various classes, to get their "A"s in those classes they need to do what the teacher says -- and oh how helpful it is that the teacher simply tells you what you need to do to get the "A"s, and all you have to do is whatever you're told. So people don't feeling like they're "being obedient" or like they've lost agency -- they're following their step-by-step plan to acquire extrinsic rewards ("A"s, high GPA, degree, high-paying job). People don't feel "hoop jumping" causes loss of agency because they want to jump through the hoops because they want the rewards for doing so. "Playing the game" is another expression I've heard a few people use (like my aunt who has a PhD). When I was in school, I didn't treat it like a "game". I treated it like my purpose for being there was to learn how to become a competent engineer and I took it very, very seriously. I spent my weekends in the math library while other students were getting drunk at frat parties. They have degrees and I don't. They understood they were there for the grades and the degree -- the credentials themselves are what matters (extrinsic motivation), not becoming a "competent engineer" (intrinsic motivation).
If the goal is to learn, in some classes, there won't be a problem. But in others there will be, because no learning is happening. There's some sort of imitation learning going on -- "learning" gobbeltygook or doing a lot of robotic busywork. In this situation, what you must do is STFU, do what you're told, get your "A", and go on with your life. You can't complain. You can't fight the system. You're one person, and the system is thousands of schools in hundreds of countries with millions of students and teachers and administrators, thoroughly embedded within all the other major institutions of society such as the employment system. The system is vastly bigger than you. You can't complain and change anything. You have to STFU and obey.
When you say
I went to many school districts (family traveled a lot), and my memory is that most teachers were more learning oriented and less grades oriented
to me this just sounds like, you're a normal person with extrinsic motivation levels above the critical threshold, so you didn't experience any problem.
Hmm, I was motivated with both a deep curiosity about the world (intrinsic) and intentions to get credentials (extrinsic) in the process of learning. All my teachers did their job about as i expected, and i learned a lot, much more than if i just read books. Much like that lady you mentioned.
What you might be missing is an appreciation of constraints. Sometimes constraints enable a process. You seem to view constraints only as limits and impedance since you framed your argument in terms of "obedience".
Alicia Juarrero, a philosopher, wrote a whole book about this idea. Here she is discussing the idea in a video interview:
Constraints, Context, Complexity, Culture and the OODA Loop | Alicia Juarrero
Or this video, i don't recall which interview is better:
Alicia Juarrero on Context, Constraints, and Coherence
The US-Israel war on Iran; how the interests of aggressive imperialism, in the name of "communism" and democracy are served , especially in Türkiye. neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2025…
Una consulta a mastodon. Alguien sabe si existe algún colectivo que haga algo parecido a @vamonosjuntas pero para aplicaciones de mensajeria? Estamos intentando hacer una migración con varios colectivos, personas individuales,.. y en general veo que hay un problema para elegir la herramienta y dar el salto de Whatsapp/Telgram a Signal/matrix/xmpp por falta de conocimiento o miedo a que se de el salto y luego no haya nadie. Igual si se hiciera de la misma forma sería más sencillo. #vamonosjuntas
La #désinformation n’est plus une simple dérive ou une erreur d'appréciation, elle est devenue un outil de gouvernance. Quand l'État perd sa légitimité et s’enfonce dans la #corruption, il n’a plus d’autre recours que la #manipulation systématique. Les institutions, ces prétendues garantes de la vérité, ne sont plus que des machines à mentir. Loin d’être des entités neutres, elles sont désormais les artisans d’une #falsification à grande échelle, distillant des #mensonges savamment calibrés pour maintenir un contrôle total sur la population. Le mensonge est leur #politique, la vérité leur ennemie. Et face à la montée de la contestation, à l’éveil d'une population qui ne croit plus aux discours officiels, ces institutions n’hésitent plus à tenter de censurer ce qui échappe à leur emprise. Les réseaux sociaux, les sites alternatifs, les journalistes indépendants qui osent briser le silence et révéler la réalité, sont attaqués sans relâche. On les accuse de "fausses informations", de "désinformation", alors qu’ils exposent la vérité nue, celle que les chaînes d'information et les journaux subventionnés tentent d’enterrer.
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Mais c’est peut-être l’ #Iran qui cristallise le mieux cette inversion. #Israël frappe un consulat à Damas, viole la souveraineté d’un État tiers, tue des diplomates et c’est l’Iran qu’on accuse d’escalade. Quand Téhéran répond, avec une précision chirurgicale, en ciblant des bases militaires, les #médias s’enflamment et crient à la "Menace contre la paix mondiale", à la "Provocation" ou à "l'Attaque massive". Sans aucun rappel du contexte, ni aucune symétrie de discours. Israël frappe des #civils et des #enfants et c’est simplement normal. L’Iran répond, alors ça, en revanche, c’est inacceptable ! C’est ici que le #mensonge atteint sa forme la plus achevée. Ce n’est plus un récit, c’est une grammaire. Une grammaire de la #domination. Un langage où les agresseurs sont des victimes, où les défenseurs sont des menaces, où le réel n’existe que s’il peut être capitalisé politiquement.
Tiens tiens... J'en peux plus de cette clique intouchable.
Pas de #prison ferme : l’addition finale est allégée pour #François Fillon . L’ex-premier ministre a été condamné mardi à quatre ans de prison avec sursis, cinq ans d’inéligibilité, une amende et des dommages et intérêts pour l’emploi fictif de son épouse à l’Assemblée.
<<StGB 140 Belohnung und Billigung von Straftaten in einer Weise, die geeignet ist, den öffentlichen Frieden zu stören, öffentlich, in einer Versammlung oder durch Verbreiten eines Inhalts (§ 11 Absatz 3) billigt, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu drei Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft.<<
>>VSTGB: §13 (1) Wer einen Angriffskrieg führt oder eine sonstige Angriffshandlung begeht, die ihrer Art, ihrer Schwere und ihrem Umfang nach eine offenkundige Verletzung der Charta der Vereinten Nationen darstellt, wird mit lebenslanger Freiheitsstrafe bestraft. (2) Wer einen Angriffskrieg oder eine sonstige Angriffshandlung im Sinne des Absatzes 1 plant, vorbereitet oder einleitet, wird mit lebenslanger Freiheitsstrafe oder mit Freiheitsstrafe nicht unter zehn Jahren bestraft. <<
Nur mal kurz dagegelassen, angesichts der vielen Leute, die hellauf begeistert die Angriff auf den Iran Biligen, Bejubeln, oder gar Fordern Deutschland solle sich daran beteiligigen. Gibt ja auch Bundeskanzler, die Verbrechen der Aktion als "Drecksarbeit für uns alle" gutheißen. Und Antisemitismusbeauftragte die für einen völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg werben.
Very moving to hear Amjad Al-Rifaii from Nablus talk about the current situation in the Wesr Bank last night. 3 things stood out: 1. Navigating gates and checkpoints for hours a day 1,300 gates now in WB). 2. That he used to believe in the two state solution; not anymore. 3 And: the problem is Zionism, not religion. “We all believe in the same god, we are all brothers.”
Thanks to Eastbourne’s Emmanuel Church for hosting (always hard to find a venue for PSC events).
Ja, ein großer Teil der Prignitzer Bevölkerung hat die AfD gewählt, aber die Mehrheit unserer Mitbürger wünscht sich ein demokratisches und tolerantes Miteinander, damit wir alle von dem guten wirtschaftlichen Weg, den unsere Stadt in den letzten Jahren eingeschlagen hat, profitieren. Dazu trägt der Tourismus in unserer Region einen großen Teil bei.
Das stimmt.
Aber mein Stream ist auch voll von Meldungen über Trupps von Vermummten, die mit Messern und Latten und Baseballschlägern Leute aufs Korn nehmen, die gleichgeschlechtlich Händchen halten, bunte Haare haben oder sonstwie nicht in spießbürgerliche Schubladen passen.
Und die gerne Urlaub machen möchten ohne sich krankenhausreif schlagen zu lassen.
Und da helfen keine Apelle, das ist wie Terror wirkt.
I watched a YouTube video of someone using Vibe coding to make a game with AI. 45 mins in and it was running but spewing out error after error. The presenter finally went in an fixed the errors by hand requiring a lot of time and knowledge. I watched the whole thing like someone staring at a traffic accident.
Trump is demanding Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in his latest rant on social media, one day after he posted that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
La jefa de la diplomacia europea rebaja las expectativas de las medidas que se pueden adoptar en el marco de la revisión del acuerdo de asociación UE-Israel al recordar que, por mucho que propusiera cuestiones ambiciosas, no saldrían adelante ni en e…
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While the Israeli attack on Iran dominates the headlines, Israel has been accelerating its campaign of mass killing in Gaza. Israeli soldiers have repeatedly gunned down people lining up for food as they stand on the brink of starvation.
Solidarity Against ICE and the Entire State Apparatus
The devolution of Black politics has never been so evident and could not happen at a worse moment. While the crisis of legitimacy accelerates, and provides opportunities for movement politics, many Black people have declared themselves to be uninterested in political engagement or even worse, to be in solidarity with state oppression. Social media is replete with examples of Black people declaring that they don’t care about genocide in Gaza, or that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has nothing to do with them or even that they are glad other people are targeted for deportation.
The city of Los Angeles, California is now the focal point of resistance, and while there is Black solidarity within the coalition protesting ICE raids and Donald Trump bringing in the National Guard, there is also a strange resistance to acting in solidarity with those who are specifically targeted in this phase of state repression.
There is a great deal of confusion about what Black politics should be. The confusion continues because Black politics, the assertion of Black/African people’s human rights here and abroad, was killed off by repression, the influence of money in politics, years of right wing indoctrination, and the presence of a neo-liberal, imperialist Black man in the office of the presidency. The result is that the people who once were most likely to be at the very least skeptical of the state’s motives are now in support of some of its worst acts.
Entertainer Azealia Banks not only declared , “I’m a Zionist,” but felt compelled to add , “No black person should be supporting Palestine.” Ms. Banks attempted to explain away her inexplicable comments by asserting that all Arabs are racist and therefore undeserving of any solidarity. Even if that broad generalization were true, why would it mean that a genocidal state would be acceptable to her or to anyone?
Banks is one of the worst examples of this dubious narrative, which says that Black people should only be interested in themselves because all Arabs are supposedly racist or all Latinos are racists or because other groups have not been in solidarity with us, or because ICE isn’t raiding them. It is difficult but necessary to clear through many levels of misguided thinking if we are to find our way out of a dangerous morass.
The same forces that destroyed the liberation movement have convinced many Black people that effective political engagement is limited to voting, when in fact voting is the least effective means of bringing about change. Numerous studies have shown that voters don’t get what they want even when their chosen party is in office. Of course, bourgeois democracy delivers a revolving door of democrats and republicans who alternately fall out of favor with the public only to market themselves anew and periodically switch places so that the duopoly can take turns raising hopes and then failing the public over and over again.
We see Black people claiming that their vote for Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or Barack Obama is akin to movement organizing when nothing could be further from the truth. The claims that Black people shouldn’t be involved in the fight against genocide or ICE because we have all fought so hard often amounts to nothing more than people having voted for a democrat in a presidential election year. The duopoly confidence game causes people to be angry because they think their quadrennial trip to a polling place amounts to more than it actually does.
The lack of historical knowledge is another factor in the encouragement of apathy. “No one helped Black people.” “Why should we care if someone else is deported?” “They’re stealing our jobs.” The prevalence of discredited American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) and Foundational Black American (FBA) ideology leads to hostility even towards Black immigrants. The site of masked ICE officers making violent arrests elicits nothing more than a shoulder shrug from the masses who think their situations are not linked with those being victimized.
At the very least, one would think the admonition warning against cutting off one’s nose in order to spite the face, would be kept in mind. Black people should know better than anyone that police, whether local or from ICE, are the enemy and that we should never applaud their actions, even if we appear not to be the target.
As for anti-Blackness among other groups, discernment is important. There is anti-Black racism among groups who are not white and it isn’t difficult to find examples. But that should not mean support for arresting people when they appear for immigration check-ins as they have done for years or that we shouldn’t feel repelled by ICE agents seeking entry to school buildings, dragging people from work places, and arresting U.S. citizens in the process. Black immigrants are always targets and are easily swept up in a racist system.
But there is also a lack of understanding about immigration itself. Immigration secures a class of disposable labor for capitalists, which is why people from all over the world are admitted to the U.S. If immigrants take what Donald Trump referred to as “Black jobs” it is because that is what the ruling class wants. It is not an accident that entire industries rely on immigrant labor. These same capitalists want a race to the bottom. If they don’t have migrants coming to the U.S. to work, they will leave the U.S. in search of even cheaper labor, and find ways to emiserate citizen workers even more than they do now. That dynamic is a constant, and no one should be fooled into thinking that Black workers would benefit even if every immigrant returned to their home country.
There is a mistaken belief that the fortunes of Black people from the U.S. would improve if others disappeared. Such conjecture is completely ahistorical. Yes, we must wage our own battle but what and who are we fighting? Our enemies are racism and capitalism. There is no reason to believe that mass incarceration, gentrification, or low wage work would disappear if global south immigrants were to leave the U.S. Our situation was not better before they arrived, and thinking that corporate, capitalist parties would somehow offer up something different is not borne out by any experiences Black people have had.
Donald Trump’s actions and his persona are different from other presidents, and that is a problem, but not just for the obvious reasons. It is important to remember that the Democratic Party’s allegiance to its oligarchic class, and its determination to vilify Trump instead of doing what their voters want, led to his return to the white house. It would be unfortunate if the only conclusion reached about this crisis is that we need another Democratic Party president when that party’s fecklessness led to Trump’s second term in office.
The lesson to be learned is that US Black people must understand that every phase of repression is a danger to us. We have no choice but to be in solidarity with all oppressed groups as we struggle for a new system altogether. This is better than finger-pointing about why the democrats failed to win the presidency. Democrats have cut the safety net, increased military spending, created a prison industrial complex, deported millions, and promised their capitalist sugar daddies that they will do everything in their power to keep people in a constant state of precarity. There must be no confusion about who our enemies are.
The ADOS and FBA (American Descendants of Slavery and Foundational Black Americans) movements have gained influence by advocating for reparations exclusively for Black Americans descended from U.S.
Solidarity Against ICE and the Entire State Apparatus
The devolution of Black politics has never been so evident and could not happen at a worse moment. While the crisis of legitimacy accelerates, and provides opportunities for movement politics, many Black people have declared themselves to be uninterested in political engagement or even worse, to be in solidarity with state oppression. Social media is replete with examples of Black people declaring that they don’t care about genocide in Gaza, or that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has nothing to do with them or even that they are glad other people are targeted for deportation.
The city of Los Angeles, California is now the focal point of resistance, and while there is Black solidarity within the coalition protesting ICE raids and Donald Trump bringing in the National Guard, there is also a strange resistance to acting in solidarity with those who are specifically targeted in this phase of state repression.
There is a great deal of confusion about what Black politics should be. The confusion continues because Black politics, the assertion of Black/African people’s human rights here and abroad, was killed off by repression, the influence of money in politics, years of right wing indoctrination, and the presence of a neo-liberal, imperialist Black man in the office of the presidency. The result is that the people who once were most likely to be at the very least skeptical of the state’s motives are now in support of some of its worst acts.
Entertainer Azealia Banks not only declared , “I’m a Zionist,” but felt compelled to add , “No black person should be supporting Palestine.” Ms. Banks attempted to explain away her inexplicable comments by asserting that all Arabs are racist and therefore undeserving of any solidarity. Even if that broad generalization were true, why would it mean that a genocidal state would be acceptable to her or to anyone?
Banks is one of the worst examples of this dubious narrative, which says that Black people should only be interested in themselves because all Arabs are supposedly racist or all Latinos are racists or because other groups have not been in solidarity with us, or because ICE isn’t raiding them. It is difficult but necessary to clear through many levels of misguided thinking if we are to find our way out of a dangerous morass.
The same forces that destroyed the liberation movement have convinced many Black people that effective political engagement is limited to voting, when in fact voting is the least effective means of bringing about change. Numerous studies have shown that voters don’t get what they want even when their chosen party is in office. Of course, bourgeois democracy delivers a revolving door of democrats and republicans who alternately fall out of favor with the public only to market themselves anew and periodically switch places so that the duopoly can take turns raising hopes and then failing the public over and over again.
We see Black people claiming that their vote for Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or Barack Obama is akin to movement organizing when nothing could be further from the truth. The claims that Black people shouldn’t be involved in the fight against genocide or ICE because we have all fought so hard often amounts to nothing more than people having voted for a democrat in a presidential election year. The duopoly confidence game causes people to be angry because they think their quadrennial trip to a polling place amounts to more than it actually does.
The lack of historical knowledge is another factor in the encouragement of apathy. “No one helped Black people.” “Why should we care if someone else is deported?” “They’re stealing our jobs.” The prevalence of discredited American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) and Foundational Black American (FBA) ideology leads to hostility even towards Black immigrants. The site of masked ICE officers making violent arrests elicits nothing more than a shoulder shrug from the masses who think their situations are not linked with those being victimized.
At the very least, one would think the admonition warning against cutting off one’s nose in order to spite the face, would be kept in mind. Black people should know better than anyone that police, whether local or from ICE, are the enemy and that we should never applaud their actions, even if we appear not to be the target.
As for anti-Blackness among other groups, discernment is important. There is anti-Black racism among groups who are not white and it isn’t difficult to find examples. But that should not mean support for arresting people when they appear for immigration check-ins as they have done for years or that we shouldn’t feel repelled by ICE agents seeking entry to school buildings, dragging people from work places, and arresting U.S. citizens in the process. Black immigrants are always targets and are easily swept up in a racist system.
But there is also a lack of understanding about immigration itself. Immigration secures a class of disposable labor for capitalists, which is why people from all over the world are admitted to the U.S. If immigrants take what Donald Trump referred to as “Black jobs” it is because that is what the ruling class wants. It is not an accident that entire industries rely on immigrant labor. These same capitalists want a race to the bottom. If they don’t have migrants coming to the U.S. to work, they will leave the U.S. in search of even cheaper labor, and find ways to emiserate citizen workers even more than they do now. That dynamic is a constant, and no one should be fooled into thinking that Black workers would benefit even if every immigrant returned to their home country.
There is a mistaken belief that the fortunes of Black people from the U.S. would improve if others disappeared. Such conjecture is completely ahistorical. Yes, we must wage our own battle but what and who are we fighting? Our enemies are racism and capitalism. There is no reason to believe that mass incarceration, gentrification, or low wage work would disappear if global south immigrants were to leave the U.S. Our situation was not better before they arrived, and thinking that corporate, capitalist parties would somehow offer up something different is not borne out by any experiences Black people have had.
Donald Trump’s actions and his persona are different from other presidents, and that is a problem, but not just for the obvious reasons. It is important to remember that the Democratic Party’s allegiance to its oligarchic class, and its determination to vilify Trump instead of doing what their voters want, led to his return to the white house. It would be unfortunate if the only conclusion reached about this crisis is that we need another Democratic Party president when that party’s fecklessness led to Trump’s second term in office.
The lesson to be learned is that US Black people must understand that every phase of repression is a danger to us. We have no choice but to be in solidarity with all oppressed groups as we struggle for a new system altogether. This is better than finger-pointing about why the democrats failed to win the presidency. Democrats have cut the safety net, increased military spending, created a prison industrial complex, deported millions, and promised their capitalist sugar daddies that they will do everything in their power to keep people in a constant state of precarity. There must be no confusion about who our enemies are.
The ADOS and FBA (American Descendants of Slavery and Foundational Black Americans) movements have gained influence by advocating for reparations exclusively for Black Americans descended from U.S.
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Parmi les inventions les plus effroyables de notre temps : la fausse action humanitaire utilisée pour commettre de véritables massacres. Une nouvelle scène d'épouvante a eu lieu à Khan Younès, au sud de Gaza, ce mardi 17 juin. Une vidéo diffusée par un gazaoui montre le sol couvert de cadavres dans des flaques de sang, certains mutilés.
Statement of the ILPS US Country Chapter The International League of Peoples' Struggle US Country Chapter and Southern California (SoCal) vehemently denounce the militarized attacks on migrant communities in Los Angeles and around the country, where …
you should have watched the whole video with context..
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00:00:44 "iran can be taken. i would never take the military card of the table and it's possible that it will be used, because iran can not have nuclear weapons, but you gotta exhaust other possibilities."
Watch Donald Trump warn that Pres. Obama will start a war with Iran because he can't negotiate, is weak, and wants to win re-election.Trump's remarks about I...
I have not posted on FB in a long time. Just 1 thing here or there. Today I carpet bombed my TL. It don’t matter that FB might suppress my reach. I do it just as much to lift morale of like minded people as to meme the shot outta my wokenitized (woke hypnotized) family 🤣🤣🤣
Israel hat den Iran angegriffen. Wer das verurteilt, verteidigt nicht gleich auch das Mullah-Regime, sondern vor allem die iranische Bevölkerung, deren Schicksal als Kollateralschaden hingenommen wird
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Reposting this from Mohammad Hureini:
My neighbor Yusef Nawaja from the village of Susya was brutally attacked by Israeli extremists settlers !
These systematic terror attacks against my community is a policy carried out by the Israeli government that granted these milita full impunity to drive us off our land !
"When Israeli warplanes struck #Iran this week — violating Iranian sovereignty in a brazen act of aggression, killing scores of civilians alongside top military commanders and nuclear scientists and inviting Iran’s equally indiscriminate retaliatory strikes — Europe’s leaders didn’t condemn the attack.
They perversely endorsed it and condemned Iran for the attacks on its own territory."
"The German foreign ministry went a step further and actually 'strongly condemned' #Iran for “an indiscriminate attack on Israeli territory' — even before Tehran launched its missiles in response for #Israel’s attack on its territory — while fully endorsing Israel’s actions."
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11:09 UK's Ambrey: An incident occurred 22 nautical miles east of Khor Fakkan near the Strait of Hormuz, unrelated to the security situation. english.masirahtv.net/news/355…
Und während #CDU / #CSU, #SPD und #Grüne weiter unverändert Waffen an die rechtsextreme, in Teilen faschistische israelische Regierung liefern, und #Israel's imperialisische Angriffskriege und den #Neokolonialismus ermöglichen, halten die bürgerliche Presse und Linksliberale konsequent die Klappe und stellen damit so offen ihren gewaltigen #Rassismus zu Schau. Sind ja nur Araber / Muslime!
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz dankt Israel für den Angriff auf iranische Atomanlagen und Militärziele. Die Operation sei ein mutiger Schritt – und ein Dienst an den westlichen Verbündeten.
You mean late, but better late than never. I never did look too closely at the gory details of the gossip, but I started to notice missing stuff because so many instances defederated fosstodon. So.
I've been putting it off myself. Been hoping the new leadership would cause it to be federated again. But obviously that has not happened? Guess I'll have to rethink my procrastination approach.
New leadership is doing a really poor job. Some nazi asshat posted his manifesto on all sorts of random topics including the past Fosstodon mod situation, misrepresenting it, then replied to himself asking to be a mod on Fosstodon. They made him one.
well to be fair, once it was pointed out, new leadership also started complaining that people were too mean to them and should be more tolerant of hate speech, so
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