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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38392350

TLDR: Any liberals and centrists cringing about how Charlie Kirk's assassination hurts his family's feelings completely ignore the real harm of his championed policies.

For example, his anti-abortion policies have forced numerous parents to carry deformed babies to term just to watch them die after birth, to go into sepsis and almost die just to get a medically necessary abortion.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34844393

GDF argues that Zionist lobbying e.g. AIPAC is the main historical reason for US support of Israel, and not Israel's usefulness to the US as a military base.

He bases his argument on the influence of the Israel lobby forcing the Nixon, Johnson, and Clinton administrations to prioritize Zionism over American and US capitalist goals.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/42175495

Making this video was deeply personal for me. I've moved over 30 times in my life; over a dozen of those moves were before the age of 18.

For the last three years, my wife and I have been in limbo after getting priced out of our home. We're living in one rented room; our whole life is crammed in a 10x10 box with no real end in sight. Tens of millions of people in America have it way, way, worse than me.

But we can end this!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27634801

Israel and Jews are treated in the West like special snowflakes, and that we need to seek support, approval, and permission from Jews to denouce Israel's crimes. Ultimately this wastes energy and distracts from the goal of justice for Palestinians.

Should we have asked 'Aryans' and Germans for permission to destroy Nazi Germany? No! Should we have asked whites and Britons for permission to destroy apartheid South Africa? Obviously not.

So why do we ask Jews and Israelis for permission to destroy Israel?

TLDR: Foundings Zionists agreed with and worked with Nazis, seeing themselves as supporting the superiority of the Jewish race the same way the Nazis did so for the Aryan race.

Both movements used the same techniques:

• Palestine was Jewish lebensraum, and was stolen with the same techniques as the Nazis
• both touted fake 'socialism' (e.g. kibbutzes) while actively working with their preferred capitalists to further racial superiority

Zionists were rather indifferent to the Holocaust, and spent barely any resources on saving Jews from it. Zionists explicitly wrote that they wanted to save only those most useful to future Israel, and not all the other weathless Jewish rabble.

Only after the Holocaust ended did they start touting it to support Israel.

TLDW: The Nazis massacred hundreds of thousands of Warsaw residents and razed the city to the ground, even as they were retreating from the Soviets.

Israel's treatment of Gaza is exactly the same.

A lot of people view this rise of fascism as a some as a sort of fundamental opposition or reaction to the liberal or neoliberal order under which we're living. You know, it's like do you want fascist Trump or neoliberal Kamala? That sort of thinking […] seems to me to be both individualizing—like making fascism into something fascist ideologues do rather than like a constellation of features which make up a fascist society—but also kind of undermines the various continuities between neoliberal societies (and liberal ones) and fascist ones. And it's in this context that Clara Mattei offers a really important intervention which clarifies these important continuities.

Specifically, Mattei highlights how austerity as a form of authoritarian state practice functions to rebalance the capital relation in favour of capital, and in doing so paves the way to Fascism in the early 20th century.

The book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo181707138.html

Prolewiki has an excellent write up of why Russia is not (yet) an imperialist country that I will quote below.

In certain circles, there have been attempts to paint the Russo-Ukrainian conflict as a war between two imperialist countries, the United States and Russia. Similarly to the above Chinese example, this is incorrect.

Unlike the western powers, Russia does not have any capital monopolies that control the world market or supply chains. Russia having Gazprom and an extraction industry doesn’t mean they are imperialist. The essence of imperialism is monopolistic on a global scale, which is precisely why Russia is not imperialist, not whether they have capital generally. A perfect example of monopolies that share the world amongst themselves is the West, specifically the United States in their control of the WEF, IMF, World Bank, and UN Security Council, allowing the western powers to enforce this dominance through jingoistic foreign policy, embargoes, and hindering the development of other countries. Neither Russia nor China has anywhere close to this level of global power through finance capital.

Russia lacks finance capital and division of the world's resources. It only has 4 of the top 100 corporations in the world and 6 of the top 500. 82% of Russian exports are raw materials, including 58% oil, 11% metal, and 6% food. In 2017, Russia imported $106.2 billion worth' of machine goods and only exported $12.8 billion. Russia does not have any of the top 100 corporations in terms of capital export, and most Russian capital export is capital flight to tax havens. Russia only controls 0.7% of the world's wealth and has much less wealth per adult than the United States ($8,843 vs $336,528). Russia has intervened militarily in other countries such as Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria, but not to seize natural resources like imperialist countries do.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5780257