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[–] ComRed@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

centrists ally with the far right

As is tradition.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf

First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is [assaulted] and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and "interrogated," all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been distilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons flll up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: "How strange! But never mind-it's Nazism, it will pass!" And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This basically more eruditely says exactly what I started thinking when I read this post. That imperialism is a self-reinforcing loop that seems to make imperialist countries' citizens into worse people.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

That imperialism is a self-reinforcing loop that seems to make imperialist countries' citizens into worse people.

I will never get over a neo-liberal post some idiot made about how it was okay for Algeria to be colonized because of Algeria's culture; he was upset his (Bi?) Algerian girlfriend was suddenly speaking up against the French colonization of Algeria, basically deciding she was too foolish to understand what she was saying; he mocked the idea that the Algerians fought for freedom because Algerian culture isn't a free culture.

The reality always at the end of the day is the colonized will never verbally convince imperialists to leave them alone, you have to force them out; Viva the Haitian revolution, viva the Cuban revolution, viva the Irish revolution, viva the South African revolution, viva the Zimbabwean revolution, and so on

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have:

  1. Nothing better to do than read this post

  2. Much fascination with this post

But I'm feeling such a crippling laziness I can't read this right now; this post looks like something I'd enjoy greatly, and I hate that I'm feeling too lazy to read it (might be cause I had a very heavy, greasy lunch, so could be it's knocking my senses out)

I need to come back and read this later

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

As someone with similar executive dysfunction let me encourage ya: it looks like a lot but it reads smooth and simple.

[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Restore UK wants remigration which is ethnic cleansing and a crime against humanity.

I honestly, unironically believe the UK is beyond saving.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

why did they leave eu again?

[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Because Farage convinced people that it would stop immigration.

Unfortunately the average voter has a shit memory span so they’re falling for the exact same grift again.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

The only opinions allowed by the UK media are:

  • We must do fascism, it only failed before because we didn't do enough.
  • No, that's too cool and definitely would work. We will do a little fascism to get a taste for it.
  • Don't we all just hate the parking in Exclusive Upperclass Neighborhood? Ever since I got back from my yacht trip with the CEO of Elbit, and started my new vitafit buddho-kundalini V2.0 meditation stack, parking has just...

Anything else is simply too childish to print.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

what farage promised, labour and eu parliament delivered

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which was extra dumb when you learn that the UK was never part of the open-border Schengen Zone in the first place, bc the EU allowed them to have an opt-out. So they had strict border & visa controls the entire time they were fear-mongering illegal middle eastern refugees coming in from the rest of the EU

And like in the 2015 EU Refugee Crisis, Germany received over 2 million migrants in a single year, while the UK only received 1/3 of a million, and the large majority of the UK's weren't even from the middle east!

[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I specifically remember that Farage’s original targets were Poles, Romanians, and other Eastern European people. He is doing the exact same grift except against a different group now.

[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

eu-cool eu-cool eu-cool -> barbara-pit

eu-cool eu-cool eu-cool -> barbara-pit hitler-detector

eu-cool eu-cool eu-cool -> barbara-pit

We'll need 37 centuries of humiliation on the euros

[–] pongo1231@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Fuck Stalin for not marching all the way to Lisbon

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Holy shit the comment section. I have never opened a twitter comment section so saturated with Hitler particles.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

how do you like them european values, eh?

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

on one hand - it's twitterino, on the other - euros voted for these guys in large numbers, so it's exactly who they are.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It would be cool if liberals would look at this and etch it into their brains permanently as "the consequences of liberal democracy"

[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

liberals will look at this and say "What do you mean? This is great!"

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, unity. Ah, bipartisanship. If anything, this is bad for those on the Left for not being civil 😮‍💨

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

The liberals are the "centrists".

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/06/17/eu-parliament-approves-strictest-ever-migration-law

The “return regulation” is the bloc's toughest shift in migration policy in decades. It is considered controversial as it would allow EU countries to set up deportation centres outside the bloc, known as return hubs, through agreements with non-EU countries.

These hubs could serve either as transit facilities, where people await return to their country of origin, or as locations where migrants remain for an extended period, potentially without a time limit or guarantee of onward return. Only unaccompanied minors would be exempt from the measure, while families with children could be transferred to the hubs.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

geordi-no concentration camps inside europe

geordi-yes return hubs in libya and turkey

[–] Sebrof@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Holy god the comments on that. We live in the worst of ages sadness-abysmal

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Centrists allying with Fascists?!?!?! shocked-pikachu

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

“One more step to the right bro, and I promise bro, we will have utopia, bro. Come on, bro. Just one more right wing government.”

[–] DasRav@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

The center is much more to the right than we would like. Not because it is halfway between left and right, but because the left has so little representation. Social democrats voted for this, there's even a couple of Greens who voted for this. The only ones who voted against completely as a bloc were The Left (Well, there was an abstention/Absentee there, but I don't know the story)