[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

They’d rather have Biden lose to him than waste one of their up and coming stars on a fool’s errand.

Sure, but they could put Harris in there. She'd probably result in a less disastrous loss in the senate.

[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Well, he's achieved a lot, I mean, he beat medicare!

[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

A right thing. And not a very substantial one. But don't sell the UK short. The government might be despicable, but the massive marches in London by the people have been inspiring. The power of that crowd needs to be channelled into direct action.

[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

I’m pretty sure that the United States was founded on the principle of self determination

Self determination for who? For rich, land-owning, white males.

The US was founded on the same genocidal settler-colonialism as Israel.

[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Boycott HP: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

HP-branded corporations play key roles in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They are complicit in Israel’s occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid regime. They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.

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[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

Did the people downvoting this post even watch the video?

It's been a while since I watched it, but I think it'd be accurate to say the TL;DW is basically that we shouldn't care about 'left unity' if that means abandoning vulnerable people and reliquishing our deepest values. Essentially, if 'the left' doesn't deliver safety for us and the people we love, then 'the left' can suck it.

I would have thought people on an anarchism community could appreciate that, and if they don't, then they need to do some thinking, and maybe learn some history to see how anarchists have responded to demands of 'unity' and been persecuted in its name.

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Explanation: How the watermelon 🍉 became a symbol of Palestinian protest 🇵🇸

It's especially relevant now, because Meta (i.e. Instagram and Facebook) is hiding posts and comments containing the Palestinian flag emoji, and people are turning to using the watermelon emoji as a substitute.

As an aside, the Jordanian flag emoji 🇯🇴 and the Western Saharan flag emoji 🇪🇭 are visually similar enough to the Palestinian flag emoji to be good substitutes.

[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago

You probably just want to get on the email lists of local organisations (activist groups, minor political parties, union councils, etc.).

They will often cross-promote each other so you'll be made aware of other organisations through them.

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[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

It doesn't says by who until the 4th paragraph, information that should be in the headline

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It's not both sides doing the same thing. Israel has been displacing, brutalising and killing Palestinians for 70 years. Israel has a modern army, a modern air force, nuclear weapons and a functional economy.

Since 1948, Israel has taken the vast majority of the land and continues to chip away at what little remains to Palestinians through illegal settlements in the West Bank.

Gaza is an open air prison that Israel constantly surveils and bombs, controls who and what gets in and out and even regulates how many calories per day Gazans are allowed.

It's not both sides doing the same thing. It's a settler colonial apartheid state brutalising an indigenous people who are holding on for dear life.

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[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

archive.is usually works to remove the paywall: https://archive.is/lQVvD

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[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

We need to understand and dismantle the systems that produce them.

[-] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I feel compelled to point the author is hardly unbiased.

No author is unbiased. If you think they're unbiased it's just their biases are the same as yours or those of the status quo (whatever you might consider that to be).

I just don’t have it in me to accept anything at face value because someone says so.

Thankfully, you don't have to! You have a brain in your head, so you can read the arguments being made, think about them, and critically evaluate them. You can try to come up with counter-arguments, or failing that, look around for counter-arguments other people have made and critically evaluate those too.

The commenter above gave you sources for the quotes, so you can find copies of them and read the complete argument being made in those works.

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