PallasRiot

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2025-01-04 20:36:14 UTC

White supremacists in the US love to hide behind euphemisms of "protecting culture", but what culture are they talking about? When was the last time you saw Patriot Front sponsoring a cultural festival? Have the Proud Boys spent a lot of time learning and teaching traditional European dances? Do you think NSC-131 spends a lot of time trying to preserve traditional European-American foods and recipes? Do you think the Oathkeepers spend a lot of time researching and sharing the particular cultural beliefs of the different European-American culture blocs, the traditional folklore and linguistic differences and religious disagreements?
No, for the avowed white supremacist there isn't any such thing as cultural traditions other than master-subject relations. The only "culture" they care about is a mythic past of white rulership, male rulership, straight rulership, etc. They cherrypick cultural elements to create a tapestry of American authoritarianism that is as caustic towards actual European and European-American cultural traditions as it is to everything else.

2024-12-27 22:27:21 UTC

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Ultimately I think the government of Israel is probably conscious of the fact that a world that's less safe for Jewish people is probably good for Israel

2024-12-07 15:14:16 UTC

When you hear people talk about political demonstrations, what do you think it's a demonstration of?
It's power. And threat.
A demonstration is meant to show power and a willingness to use it by the populace. It's intended to be a threat that such power can be used in more disruptive ways if the subjects of the demonstration aren't addressed. To achieve that, you have to cultivate a belief among the intended audience that there is real risk, that threats can be followed through on. Demonstrations should be disruptive, and they should not shy away from more radical elements.

2024-11-13 14:35:52 UTC

You should never feel guilty for not being friends with people if they have terrible politics, because politics are not a special category of beliefs and actions that are silo'd off from the rest of reality. Politics are a reflection of the contents of your character, how you make determinations about moral and pragmatic issues, and what kind of society you want to live in. No one chastises others for not being friends with someone because that person is just an awful human being, but people want special permission to be awful as long as they call it politics.
It's fine to judge people by the content of their character.

2024-11-06 14:07:24 UTC

Of course voter suppression and the anti-democratic principles enshrined in the US system played important roles, but this wasn't close. Fascism was the more popular option.

2024-11-01 23:44:40 UTC

Lmao, a coalition of European Green Parties has asked Jill Stein to step down

2024-10-04 19:21:10 UTC

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I'd also point out that states paint the target around the arrow when their agents discuss violence: deaths of deprivation which can only occur under threat of state power aren't counted as violence. The homeless man who dies of a preventable illness isn't counted as a death of violence, but he only stays out of abandoned buildings because the police will beat him, his malnutrition is tied to the fact that if he takes food the supermarket throws away the police will beat him, his illness goes untreated because if anyone produces the medicine he needs who is not the company that holds the intellectual property then they risk being thrown in a cage, etc.
States obscure what violence is and how it is carried out, and then they claim that they protect people from violence, but it's a parlor trick.

2024-10-04 19:14:50 UTC

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We don't need to look to prehistory; societies like the Haudenosaunee and Igbo have been at times far, far less hierarchical while being technologically capable within their contexts. We can also look to organizations like the Black Army to see that hierarchy isn't necessary for complex organization and action on a large scale.

2024-10-03 12:32:36 UTC

In a way I think Jimmy Carter is a refutation of hierarchical thinking. He serves as pretty good evidence that power and office can't just be picked up and turned to purpose by a generally good person, that those who occupy positions of power within a hierarchy are also bent towards the purpose of power. He oversaw literally unbelievably monstrous acts as president because every single president does and will. The problem is not just that the wrong people are in power; it's that anyone is.

2024-09-23 18:07:51 UTC

Ok so at this point we've got what seems like some solid analysis on the pager attacks and unsurprisingly it's horrifying and involves numerous war crimes.
The attacks appear to have been carried out through infiltrating the supply chain for pagers and walkie talkies purchased by Hezbollah. This is itself a war crime; booby-trapping goods used by civilians is illegal for what I hope are obvious reasons. The communication devices were rigged with explosives that were detonated months later.
This means that there was no accounting for who would have these devices or where they would be. It could be reasonably assumed that the majority would be with Hezbollah affiliates, but even that isn't actually very targeted. See, Hezbollah wants to be a legitimate government, which means that they have affiliate organizations that do all sorts of civil services. This has meant that a lot of the people harmed by these attacks have been medical staff, emergency responders, etc. And of course because there's no accounting for where these would actually be, places like electronic repair shops also suffered explosions. Multiple kids have been wounded or killed, because again there was no way to know who would be hit. This was wildly indiscriminate, and while the overall operation seems to have been sophisticated, the attacks themselves were little more than indiscriminate bombings with an exotic backstory.
There isn't at this point reason to fear that Mossad or the NYPD can explode your phone by hacking or anything, but this does just thoroughly reinforce that Israel is a rogue state that will thoroughly infiltrate and compromise civilian infrastructure in third party countries in order to carry out terror attacks and commit horrific war crimes.

2024-09-16 18:32:02 UTC

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Also, why should that matter? You said that no other state has been founded as a refuge for people fleeing persecution, but that's obviously not true. Many states have been founded by people fleeing persecution, whether we want to look to the colonists that founded the United States or the Boers who formed various Boer Republics after fleeing the English or whatever else. The notion of a state as being founded by a persecuted group is one of a number of foundational myths that various states have used over time, often as an excuse to do the things that states do.

2024-09-16 18:26:10 UTC

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so what about "Boko Haram is the national movement of the African Diaspora" is incorrect then?

2024-09-16 18:24:51 UTC

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The end of the administration of the last governor of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay was like 80ish years before the Declaration of Independence. The American Founding Fathers made regular reference to the pilgrims, and we could go down endless rabbit holes of how the New Model Army and the radical diggers and levellers informed the politics of the 13 colonies.

2024-09-16 18:17:28 UTC

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Great, then you understand why your original post about Zionism was incorrect.

2024-09-16 18:16:35 UTC

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The United States was founded by people fleeing religious persecution, would you argue that anti-American sentiment is calling for the persecution of Christians?

2024-09-16 18:12:49 UTC

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How would you react if someone said "Boko Haram is the national movement of the African Disapora"?

2024-09-16 17:40:48 UTC

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Furthermore, the idea that Jewish-ness is necessarily inseparable from Zionism is actually wildly antisemitic. This idea would mean that Jewish identity is necessarily colonial and nationalist, and conflates ehtnic identity with national loyalty. It is just another formulation of the old "dual loyalty" trope, but with a supposedly positive spin.
If it wasn't useful for nationalist propaganda, it's an idea that's so obviously and virulently antisemitic that basically no one would tolerate it in polite society. It's only because of it's utility to nationalist propaganda that's even slightly obscured.

2024-09-16 17:28:13 UTC

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First of all, I'm antinationalist starting with my own nation. All states are unjust and should not exist, state power is an unjustifiable imposition on all people.
Second, Zionism isn't a national movement of "the Jews", it is a national movement of a variety of European peoples some of whom are Jewish. The history of Zionism is a history primarily of European Christians and especially British Christian aristocrats who have encouraged the formation of Israel as a colonial outpost. To say that Zionism is the national movement for Jewish people would be like saying that Rhodesia was the national project of all Christians; it's not just propagandistic and prejudiced against the people it claims to represent but it's also historically illiterate. Many of the people oppressed through Israel's colonialism are themselves Jewish, whether it's Jewish Palestinians who have lost land and life to settlers to the historic anti-Yiddish policies of Israel to the Jewish Africans who are disproportionately denied Israeli citizenship after serving in the IDF.
Zionism is simply another European settler colonial ideology, a white supremacist imperialism with fraught and murky relationship to Judaism that involves violently oppressing Jewish people alongside the many other groups that are demanded to be sacrificed at the altar of Manifest Destiny.

2024-09-16 12:58:49 UTC

We do not have the luxury of anti-Zionism being merely not antisemitic; our anti-Zionism must be totally integrated with ferocious opposition to antisemitism. Anti-Zionism that is not antifascist at its roots is fertile ground for conspiratorial theocrats and fascists.