[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

The most significant western governments still finance Israel's existence, that doesn't mean every single western person or even country gets along with Israel

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Poland is definitely The West too, honestly more than Mexico. It's basically a code for white nations and the vassal states of white nations.

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They ordered people killed or at least restrained who wouldn’t comply to them

This is what states do, they are tools of repression. You've basically limited yourself to reading from a subset of anarchists and no one else with this statement alone.

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 10 points 17 hours ago

Just removing veto power seems like the simpler solution (not that that would happen either)

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

How brief? A few hours?

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 9 points 17 hours ago

Not the person you're responding to

Obviously Israel shouldn't exist at all. It's not a diplomatically expedient thing to say, but it's the only real anti-colonialist answer because Israel is actively a colony. That doesn't mean expelling all the Jews from Palestine -- it might shock you to know there are non-Israeli Jews currently in Palestine -- but it does mean that the proper boarders for Palestine are restored and thus that there is no ethnostate (Jewish or otherwise). Recent additions to the Israeli colony (for they are always recruiting) can be sent back to their homelands. Many of them have been there long enough that they have no connection to those homelands anymore (including the more direct descendants of Holocaust survivors, etc.) and they can stay on the land that was Israel, but a lot of them are only there because they like the Jewish ethnostate thing and will therefore flee of their own will. That volume of people fleeing will probably incite still more to flee, but some will remain and they should be treated humanely and as equal citizens, prosecuting whatever crimes they committed but not being treated like subhumans the way that Israelis treated Palestinian prisoners.

The US is a much more difficult question because unlike Israelis being a minority compared to Palestinians, there are many more Euro-Americans, etc than there are Native Americans because the genocidal project of the US is much more complete. Inevitably some land, the land recently taken and some of the more useful land than what the Natives have been left with, should be returned to them, but obviously deporting all the Euros, etc. is neither viable nor productive, like how (to a much, much smaller extent) deporting all the Israelis is neither viable nor productive.

That said, separate from demographics and land rights, the US government absolutely shouldn't exist because it is terrorizing the world, including through proxies like Israel.

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

The claim the other person was making was very, very obviously not the absurdity you represent it as.

The residents of Palestine were peacefully coexisting Jews, Arabs, and Muslim descendants of the bronze-age indigenous people before the inception of Zionism by the British Empire in the early 1900s.

Nowhere does this say "were peacefully coexisting since the bronze age," it says "these populations that descended from groups there since the bronze age were, during some period of time prior to zionism, peacefully coexisting."

There are other problems with what you said, e.g. I wouldn't blame the indigenous Christian inhabitants for the Crusades, but I don't really want to get into this, I just want to point out that you wildly misrepresented your interlocutor.

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 9 points 18 hours ago

An arrangement where employees bargain collectively with their employer to have more leverage, usually collecting dues from members to help with things like strikes.

I think it's called a "sindicato" in Portuguese, though in English "syndicate" means something a bit different

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago

I mean, my suggestion is to look at any other histories of the two famines, including ones by rabid anti-communists, and you will see that there were many other factors (not that I expect a rabid anticommunist to talk about crop blights or kulak sabotage, but still).

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

I'm unimpressed. The US has crushed rebellions from its inception, famously including the civil war but also many other attempts, and I would say that the patterns of what some call the New Afrikan nation within the US to revolt, going solidly up to the 1980s or further depending on your interpretation, are perhaps the most important.

As some guy said, "Revolution is not a dinner party" and establishing and maintaining a revolutionary state requires its own violence. No Marxist says otherwise, as it is the famous quote of Engels: "The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist."

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that part is bizarre

The police said on Sunday that a knife had been recovered and posted a picture on social media. The next day, however, it posted another message saying the knife had been taken from the crime scene by an unidentified man.

Officers recovered a different knife from the scene, thinking it was the one that the suspect had been carrying, according to the Gothamist.

An NYPD spokesman told the news website that the knife they picked up must have been left behind by another subway rider.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93y74xl1wvo

So they just accidentally recovered some unrelated knife, thinking it was the suspect's knife, while failing to recover his actual knife that he charged them with. I don't know what the truth is, but that story is genuinely ridiculous.

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