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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

"Fight back against the murderer? But that would make me as bad as them!"

[–] astraeus@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 hours ago

brainrot from superhero slop written by amerikkkans

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 hours ago

What metaphysics does to people.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

"If you were a slave, and I was your master, and the only way for you to be free was to strike a blow that would kill me, what would you do?"

-Kwame Ture

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago

Hits incredibly hard. Rest in power.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Fighting against your oppressors makes you no better than them, so just close your eyes and think of England.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 hours ago

Oh silly me, I forgot /s

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 11 hours ago

Not really, violence of the oppressor is lawful so is not as bad as the violence against it, and it shouldn't be fight using violence but the system that validated the oppressors violence.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Free Palestine.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Liberals are hyper exposed to the latter and sheltered from the former.

Check the Cuba coverage right now. We're getting wall to wall #SOSCuba tier hysterics, while the devestation of the blockade and the threat of a military invasion goes fully unreported.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, good point. Thankfully solar and other supplies are being given to Cuba in large quantities, but this is a return to special period style intentional misery.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Thankfully solar and other supplies are being given to Cuba in large quantities

That's news to me. Was just listening to a podcast interviewing a local Cuban journalist, suggesting help was not - in fact - on the way.

Incidentally, Belly of the Beast does some excellent domestic Cuban coverage. But everything they are reporting suggests these supplies have not been forthcoming, on account of the military blockade of the island. Like, you cannot sail ships into and out of the major harbors (shy of outright smuggling or armed escort).

Much like with the Gaza Blockade, there are ongoing efforts to build political pressure by assembling relief and directing it at the island. There's no reason to believe it will actually arrive.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's a bit of both. Aid is being blocked, but is also arriving. It's helping, but the embargo itself is still causing shortages and deaths.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

These appear to have arrived before the US tightened the blockage in earnest. Their plan was for a 2 GW combined installation, of which this represents maybe 1%.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A flotilla from the US just arrived recently. Cuba's electrification and adoption of solar is slowed by the embargo but it's also something that is happening and is making an impact.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What they're doing is laudable. But these boats are tiny compared with what the Cubans need to survive.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

Sure, my point is that the rise in solar is a good thing and that this is benefiting the Cuban people. Not that it is capable of fixing the problem alone.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Luigi did nothing wrong.

Usually though violence does more harm than good to the cause, and the people who partake in it usually care more about LARPing as a revolutionary than actually achieving revolution.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Kinda. There's an important difference between revolutionary violence and adventurism. In Palestine, it's existential and necessary.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It was also, seemingly, counterproductive in Palestine. Sure more countries have on paper recognized Palestine and there is more awareness of the cause, but practically nothing has improved.

Then again, there's not really any action I can think of that they could've taken to improved things in Palestine.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

It's the last option they have, and it largely has been working to undermine Israel's existence. Settlers have been fleeing at enormous rates and now Iran is destroying US and Israeli millitary structures, accelerating that.

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago

Painfully true