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[-] asg101@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago

Fucking USAians can't find anyone other than two doddering old fools to chose between to "lead" their country, but it's "The Best Democracy ®".

[-] huf@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago

not true, they also have doddering old fool whose brain was eaten by worm! AND MORE!

[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Plus (AFAIK) because of the shitty electoral system in the US, it's really hard to even get on the ballots. So it's not even like people who want actual change can vote somebody like West or PSL (Forgot the name of their candidate) because in half of the states they're not even on the ballot. Fucking great

Etit: hope not to start a struggle session, but is cornel west a good candidate? He seemed miles above recent mainstream US politicians to me (keep in mind I'm not Amerikkkan, fortunately)

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

He's not a good candidate but he is better than the others.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 5 months ago

An average rock have better political stance than mainstream US candidates.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

i'm not american either, but IIRC he has better stances on a lot of stuff than almost any other candidate, but also seems to support some patsocs or something like that? something fash adjacent.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

Then there's the guy who invented new torturing techniques in Guantanamo Bay

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago

Also even when we had total control of somebody's government we didn't set one up like ours. But a bunch of constitution literalists keep insisting what our founders did was perfect and an inspiration to the world. "Best Democracy strikes again!"

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

They love the Constitution's baked-in oligarchy, only rich white males had any power originally, and still do in reality.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Racist Christians calling Hamas antisemitic is fucking projection.

[-] Jew@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

Jews have always been safer living in Islamic societies. Christians have always been a bigger threat and more dangerous to the Jewish people, its not even close.

[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

One of the reasons that the Shoah was significantly less intense in North Africa was that there simply wasn’t a consistent, nauseating tradition of Judeophobia there like there was in Europe. Violence against Judaists did break out sporadically, yet even so one should exercise caution when comparing it to the anti‐Jewish violence under European Christendom, which tended to have more superstitious justifications.

Many Jews and Muslims allied against Axis imperialism, and the Axis’s anti‐Jewish propaganda was rarely effective in Africa:

“Overall, German propaganda failed.”^117^ The vast majority of the Muslim population in the whole region showed no reaction to German calls for religious violence, and the Islamic slogans of [Axis] propaganda had little resonance in religious circles and among leading ʻulama.^118^

[…]

In fact, many of the interviewees, now in their early 90s, reported that anti‐Jewish propaganda had no impact on Jewish–Muslim relations in this region. Overall, the import and character of European anti‐Semitism was alien and incomprehensible to the Muslim population. Despite long‐standing attitudes, both Islamic and traditional, that stigmatized Jews as inferior, the local population could not envision their survival in the bled without a Jewish presence, as Lahcen, a farmer in his late 80s noted.

(Source.)

Zionist historians exploit the fact that Haj Amin al‐Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, helped set up the Waffen SS Muslim divisions, Handschar, Kama and the Albanian Skanderberg. However, these divisions were so reluctant to participate in anti‐Jewish actions that they were sent to France for retraining, whereupon they promptly mutinied and attempted to join the French resistance, the only known rebellion of an SS unit. The Bosnian SS units played no part in the anti‐Jewish deportations, which were left to the Croatian SS and the [Third Reich].

(Source.)

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago

Liberals really love the idea of "civilizations" or religions clashing, it sort of sets the stage for their imperialism.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

ayup. Westernauts have been writing stories about this bs for, idk, 200 years? The "fall of rome" haunts the anglian brain vault like a wolf stalking the streets of 17th century Paris.

[-] NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

"Ancient desires". Damn, what's next? Is it "in their blood" or are they "genetically predisposed" to be like that?

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