WhatWouldKarlDo

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[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 4 days ago

I haven't played it yet, but in a similar vein, Squad 22: ZOV is a recent Russian game that depicts the Ukraine war. The American response was also quite predictable. Although it is heartening to see a number of steam reviewers calling them out for review bombing it.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 days ago

Immigration opponents say the crackdown will translate into more and better-paying jobs for native-born Americans.

As a native born of Turtle Island, I would like to wish all these native-born Americans a nice big "Fuck you."

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Odd. It works fine for me on Android and Desktop Linux Firefox. Perhaps Apple specific?

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

On the Ukraine front, Russia is definitely still winning. You can check the maps yourself for the high level. I'm not sure where these 10s of miles are that they advancing, but I don't see it on a map of Ukraine.

On the lower level, the Ukrainian armed forces appears to just barely be holding on. Most of their true believers are dead, and they are increasingly relying on people that they kidnapped. They are taking massive disproportionate casualties, and as we can clearly observe from NATO panic, Russia is winning in the materiel war as well. This is a war of attrition, and Russia is decisively winning. Hell, even the messaging from on high has changed from saying that Ukraine is winning to Ukraine can still win if NATO just sanctions a bit more and sends more guns. This is also not working, and NATO knows that they cannot keep up with even their existing pace forever.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, she's not wrong. This is exactly how the US has behaved since its inception. It really is the American way. And the US regime really does need to be confronted.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm honestly not sure that there is a plan. It's just racism with a side of exceptionalism. The idea is that the great and powerful US military can bomb anyone they want with impunity, so long as they aren't a nuclear power. And with the meerest hint of possibility that Iran might become a nuclear power soon, it's a good time to go bombing again. They've been talking for years about how much they wanted to.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Is this how the Israelis feel? Tense?

I work with one. She whined about being afraid to the whole company.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

I love the claim that invading another country is always wrong, followed up by saying that we should not support Germany in WW2. The whole argument is built upon nonsense.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 month ago

It's only been a couple of weeks since the anniversary of the start of the white terror, which killed tens of thousands of Chinese dissidents. I must have missed the news remembering that.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 months ago

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake

-Napoleon Bonaparte

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 months ago

Trump wants them to stop fighting and allow the US to start digging for Ukrainian minerals. The Russians keep winning in clear defiance of this goal.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 months ago

Americans don't know that there's a world outside of the US. They genuinely believe that the world will cease to function without them.

 

"We know that bad guys can walk through the same doors that are supposedly built for the good guys,"

The US government is now on the side of encryption. Hilariously, all it took was big scary China tapping their communications with their own backdoors. I love how it's portrayed as a good thing that's been corrupted by the evil Chinese.

 

One more disillusioned by the lies.

Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began. Members of civil society have refused to respond to my efforts to contact them. Our office seeks to support journalists in the Middle East; yet when asked by NGOs if the US can help when Palestinian journalists are detained or killed in Gaza, I was disappointed that my government didn’t do more to protect them. Ninety Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That is the most recorded in any single conflict since the CPJ started collecting data in 1992.

 

I found this wonderful post from the white house THREE DAYS AGO in my (very late) daily history post about the NSA.

“I found that the use of Chinese surveillance technology outside the PRC and the development or use of Chinese surveillance technology to facilitate repression or serious human rights abuse constituted unusual and extraordinary threats to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I expanded the national emergency to address these threats.”

 

November 3 is the anniversary of The Greensboro Massacre in 1978 North Carolina. On this day, peaceful protesters were murdered by neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.

When The Communist Worker's Party (CWP) planned the parade, their parade license was only granted on the condition that they not bring weapons. Despite the questionable legality of the request, they agreed to the condition in order to push the paperwork through. They then posted flyers and advertisements for the parade calling for the expulsion of the Klan. Meanwhile, the Nazis and the KKK prepared for action with the aid of police informants.

On the day of the parade, the police were told to arrive at the rally point at 11:30. The fascists arrived shortly before, and immediately started shooting at the assembling protest. A few CWP members had sneaked handguns with them, and returned fire. The gunfight lasted less than 2 minutes, but it left 5 anti-fascists dead, and another 9 wounded. 2 reporters were wounded, and only 1 fascist was wounded.

The police arrived shortly after. Of the 10 cars in the fascist convoy, they stopped only one, which was carrying a dozen men. Then of course, they started arresting CWP members.

Of course, this story ends like most. The fascists were charged, then acquitted by all white juries. The police were found to be colluding with the fascists on the day of the incident, as well as before.

In 2004, they had a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" re-evaluate the event. They decided that "both sides" contributed to the violence, the CWP by saying things like "Death to the Klan", and they "Should be physically beaten and chased out of town", and the fascists by being forced to shoot at them in return. They noted that the police knew about it, and were notably absent.

In 2009, the city issued a "statement of regret".

In 2015, they installed a marker acknowledging the massacre happened. Two council members opposed it.

In 2020, 41 years later they finally apologised. Two council members still opposed it.

 

This is a great editorial I came across today about the history of the UN declaration that Zionism is a form of racism. It's a bit on the old side, but still very relevant today.

 
 

When I try to browse it from lemmygrad, the newest post is a 10 month old post. But when I view on hexbear, it has recent posts. Is this a bug or intentional?

EDIT: If this is the wrong place to ask, could someone please direct me to the appropriate place?

 

Yesterday in the Tienanmen Square post, someone mentioned to me that US atrocities are taught and remembered by the US population. In light of that, I thought it would be fun to do a series of This Day in History posts with a brief blurb on whatever vile thing that the US did on that day in the style of western reporting on China. I would like to continue these until I get bored/busy/hungover (as Karl would do), or the US somehow fails to do something awful on any particular day.

Today is the anniversary of the Los Angeles Rebellion (also known as the Watt's Riot) which happened from August 11 - 16, 1965. A brutal traffic stop of an unarmed young black man sparked thousands in the black community to rise against the oppressive racist regime. 14000 soldiers were called in to squash the fledgling rebellion, and after 6 days of urban guerrilla warfare, the fledgling rebellion was crushed. Government propaganda framed the issue as a riot, and little was changed. However, the black population continues to fight for equality against the authoritarian government to this day.

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