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Even Noa Argamani is saying that Israel is lying. Hamas didn't shave her head, they didn't break her arm, and that all her injuries were from Israel's indiscriminate bombing.
For anyone curious, Noa Argamani testified in front of the UN. I'll link the video here.
Around the 4:40 mark she even talks about being trapped under rubble due to Israel's bombing and how Hamas rescued her life despite the bombings. She talks about her disappointment in hearing how Israel didn't fight to free the hostages and took their time reaching a ceasefire.
I just know the Zionazis are having the hardest time spinning this. Between Argamani's testimony and the other hostages literally kissing Hamas on the forehead, they have no leg to stand on.
In the very same sentence, she talks about how the same bomb that Israel dropped on her, killed a hostage she was with.
Remember Israel spent a year lying about how Hamas treated her, how they were torturing her, and killing hostages. All for the actual hostages to refute all those claims in front of the UN.
WE. NEED. TO. STOP. BELIEVING. ZIONISTS
damn that's a lot of antisemitism for someone whose handle is don't do antisemitism
(psst: the vast majority of Jewish people are Zionists under at least one definition, and anyone who means any other definition needs to use a different word. actually everyone who isn't Jewish should use a different word, just to avoid conflating "everyone who believes all Jewish people should get to live in safety, and those who want to live in their ancestral homeland should have that option" with "the specific people in Israeli government who speak for Israelis in the exact same way the US Felon-in-Chief and his fellow national-treasury robbers speak for Americans".)
Fuck all Zionists regardless of their pathetic ass definitions, it's all settler colonialism at the end.
Actually, I feel that a blindspot that's shared by basically all westerners due to their experience of the economy is the fallacy, currently unravelling at an alarming pace, that the posession of stores of(nominal) purchasing power is Essentially The Same as having productive capital. These things are not the same and it's why the US's attempts to reindustrialize are failing and also why attempts create a war machine for supporting Ukraine have largely failed
could you explain this a little more, irt the usa trying to re-industrialize? my understanding is that the USA can't compete with other countries in the realm of manufacturing because of the cost of labor. i thought the relative wealth of American citizens was the main reason for manufacturing moving elsewhere
that's the cited reason for US deindustrialization starting in the 90s with free trade agreements, but it's not a singular issue; it builds on itself.
assuming you can find a company willing to make the capital investment to hire people in the US to fill manufacturing jobs, you are still dealing with
• none of them are trained for the specific job
• the vocational schools that would have trained them have shrunk probably around 80-90% in the last 30+ years
• there are no domestic managers with expertise in the field
• the actual facilities for manufacture have either been converted to other use (probably housing) or simply abandoned since then
• the sources of working expertise you could try to import are mostly foreign (bad if you are a "America First" racist) and worse yet, from "enemy nations" (bad if you are a "we are at war with China already" liberal)
• all of these problems are also prevalent in your support industries (machine parts, industrial chemicals, facility and shipping materials)
in short, the project of "US reindustrialization" doesn't just need to spend more on pay but to invest capital that would probably make up a large % of the amount originally spent to industrialize, and a government such as it has, dedicated to market supremacy as a concept, is utterly incapable of disciplining capital enough to force that investment.
We can look at the struggling, well-funded attempts to manufacture silicon chips in the USA as a case study of the above 😔
Roughly a third of the U.S. semiconductor workforce is approaching retirement, according to McKinsey.
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In Engles' Principles of Communism, he writes that the slave is not considered as a member of society, and thus has a relatively better existance than a proletarian. I don't seem to understand his reasoning there. It seems counterintuitive that the condition of a slave would be preferable to that of a proletarian. Could you help and explain why Engels made that claim? Thank you
He says it right in the same section:
The individual slave, property of one master, is assured an existence, however miserable it may be, because of the master’s interest. [...] The slave is outside competition; the proletarian is in it and experiences all its vagaries.
He did not say that a slave necessarily has a better existence than a proletarian, but that they "can have" a better existence by means of being sheltered from competition and the risk of poverty and unemployment.
Frederick Douglass echoed this sentiment when he wrote that "experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other." As a former slave himself who escaped slavery and became a proletarian, he was in a unique position to reflect upon both modes of existence. While he never would be one to diminish the value of freedom compared to slavery, it was clear then as it is now that the abolition of slavery was not the be-all, end-all of emancipation more broadly.
Karl Marx would write to Lincoln in 1865, congratulating him on his reelection and affirming Marx's belief that slavery as an institution was a fetter on the progress of the working class and that its abolition would further said progress. Neither Marx nor Engels considered slavery to be preferable to free labor, they merely acknowledged the unique elements that distinguished the proletariat as a class from slaves.
I pray that not a single zionist fuck gets to know peace ever again
do yall know what zionism is
This is zionism.
This is zionism.
This is zionism.
No, those are assholes and racists. There are assholes and racists in every ideology. They definitely do not represent zionism.
Local individual shocked to find out that everyone associates the racist asshole movement, started by notable racist asshole Theodore Herzl, with racists and assholes.
The Zionist movement started by Theodore Herzl was a movement to create a land for Jews. That was the base. Now the base is to keep an already created country on the map. What you see in the picture is Kahanists, created by a rabbi named Kahane who was awful and racist and bigoted. I'm gonna repeat it again, there are racists and assholes and crazy people in every ideology, people who take it to the next level of insane, but they do not stand for Zionism as a whole.
The Zionist movement started by Theodore Herzl was a movement to create a land for Jews.
Really now, so if Theodore Herzl represents the Zionist movement, then you have to concede to the fact that he indeed believed it was a settler-colonial project:
You are being invited to help make history. That cannot frighten you, nor will you laugh at it. It is not in your accustomed line; it doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor, not Englishmen, but Jews. But had this been on your path, you would have done it yourself by now. How, then, do I happen to turn to you, since this is an out-of-the way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial, and because it presupposes understanding of a development which will take twenty or thirty years.
-Theodore Herzl's letter to Cecil Rhodes, the British empire-builder and key figure during the British expansion into southern Africa, also known to have founded Rhodesia.
Curious, why would the founding father of the political zionist movement write a letter to well-known pillager, imperialist and colonizer Cecil Rhodes, the man who was famously known to have founded a colony in Zimbabwe & Zambia?
As for the racism, he definitely was.
"We should there [In Palestine] form a part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism. We should as a neutral state remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence."
-Der Judenstaat
Do you have any good positive statistics about the succeseses of socialist states? I need some numbers to pull out when people bring up the big scary numbers when trying argue that communism is historically a force for good.
It usually depends on what is being argued in the first place. Statistics are notoriously malleable and easy to take out of context, and whenever you're arguing based on statistics you need to make sure you're first in agreement as to the relevance and reliability of the statistics to the argument at hand.
That said, my two go-to papers when it comes to providing general statistics in defense of socialism when arguing with liberals are "Capitalism, socialism, and the physical quality of life" by Cereseto & Waitzkin, 1986, and "The true extent of global poverty and hunger" by Jason Hickel, 2016. Both are by Western researchers, both are published in Western journals, and both use Western economic data, which provides liberals with little opportunity to dismiss them as fraudulent.
The first paper by Cereseto and Waitzkin directly compared socialist and capitalist nations at similar levels of economic development, showing that socialist nations consistently outperformed capitalist nations when it came to metrics regarding the physical quality of life. That is, socialism is demonstrably superior to capitalism at feeding, sheltering, clothing, and providing medicine for its citizens, and even Western data sources confirmed this.
The second more recent paper by Hickel is a scathing critique of post-Soviet liberal narratives regarding the supposed progress made by capitalism as alleviating poverty and hunger worldwide. It demonstrated specifically that the UN's claims regarding progress towards the Millennium Development Goals are based on manipulated statistics, and that the neoliberal economic policies imposed on vulnerable nations by imperialist powers via the World Bank and the IMF have only worsened poverty and hunger. Hickel also shows how the UN and Western liberals have tried to launder China's successes at alleviating poverty into successes of global capitalism despite China's socialist development model being rejected by those same liberal institutions in favor of neoliberal economic policies that have been proven ineffective.
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before naruto confessed:
after naruto confessed:
anything literally perhaps some of your favorites for now
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Here’s to us here’s to love
Stay, stay, stay
Rebuilding
The worst shift
The moon will sing (I loved you like the sun)
Deception
Sunspots
Swoon
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou an idiot? / and Julian is the moon
Give us our daily ramen
Don’t bang the babysitter
Healing the broken
Under the spray
Off the coast of Australia Macroctopus caught the shark, wrapped all its tentacles around it and soon released it. Most likely, he scraped all the parasites off her.
The octopus
this is how sharks stay smooth
Bro the cuttlefish and everything else checkin it ou
There we go
Never in his wildest dreams did Hitler ever dream of murdering as many people as the average anarchist frequently fantasizes about killing.
While the USSR definitely struggled with a whole range of social issues throughout its existence, the conscious attempts to break the oppressive systems of Capitalism put it far in advance of anywhere in the Imperial Core and it's crazy how many Left Libs try to use contemporary culture war rhetoric to frame the Soviets as especially "problematic". Like the USSR never completely resolved the Russian empire's legacy of conquest and colonialism, and various forms of racism and ethnic chauvinism persisted right to the end, but a conscious effort was made to give dignity and self-determination to the various oppressed nationalities and it shows.
This manifested in countless small ways; from dying languages given new life by cultural initiatives and the free circulation of media to the millions of once marginalised peasants and nomads being given access to the education and industry needed to participate in the modern world as equals. But it also manifested in big dramatic symbols that could almost be written off as tokenistic if it weren't for the broader context of clear genuine effort. Like a lot of people forget that Stalin was a Georgian; a people brutalised by Russian Imperial expansion. And yet this member of a conquered and oppressed minority not only rose to the highest position in the nation, but did so as a widely beloved figure whose legacy lives on to this day. And this happened decades before the US even had its first Catholic President.
Like Proletarian rule won't automatically end all systems of oppression but it's the bare minimum prerequisite to doing so in a meaningful way; even flawed and ultimately failed Socialist experiments were able to attack these systems in a way that puts the most powerful and "progressive" Capitalist nations to shame
do you have any ficrecs? (That aren’t ur fics bc I’ve already read them and loved them all and I’m in need of more fics to heal my emo heart)
ive made a fic rec post a while ago here!!!
but heres some more that werent on the first one hehe
A Hostage Situation - KinomiAkai
Sasuke engages in some kidnapping. (There’s also poetry involved.)
stupid romantic things - sanguinedawns
Sasuke’s mouth loosens around the edges, “You actually enjoy knowing it, huh?”
“Yeah,” Naruto rubs the nape of his neck. “I don’t know, I like knowing what you ate, what you did, all that. Is that weird?”
“No, it’s quite nice. No one has been this attentive before.”
(Naruto loves a challenge so it makes sense he doesn’t turn down this one. Lucky for him, Sasuke’s been on his side all along.)
cold hands & mistletoes - moonwatcher
“We aren’t really dating. And I just said the benefits. You won’t be alone for the holiday.”
Naruto grumbles. “Why do you care so much about that?” his voice holds this uncanny softness and Sasuke tilts his head a little.
“No one should have to be alone for the holidays.“
not complete but worth checking out!
unfuck the world - uchihag
One last summer party, one harmless hookup between strangers, two worlds colliding.
Neither Sasuke (the university’s new, mysterious transfer student) or Naruto (student body president) have a clue how quickly this one casual hookup will throw their lives into utter chaos.
And how could they possibly guess they’d meet again so soon — this time on opposite sides of a devastating feud between a dying clan and the government that decimated it?
your future’s a machine - freewaffle
“The Uchihas as a collective had been a threat, shunned by the village and suppressed by the council. A single Uchiha, however, could be a novelty. Under the right tutelage, he could be the perfect weapon.” Konoha attempts to craft the last Uchiha into their tool, and in doing so sows the seeds for its own destruction.
the bad in each other - freewaffle
Team Taka take advantage of Pain’s invasion to attack the council of Konoha, and inadvertently reshape the course of history.
I do not remember them staring at each other for such a comically long time
Vest Patterns // Knit Knit Goose
