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[birdplushie]

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind

[that-house]

partially-managed mental illness is so fucking funny i'll be sitting around doing my job and suddenly think "wow i hate myself" and immediately get confused because, like, that's not TRUE! i love myself so much. who are you to talk to me like that

[tamamita]

the problem with liberal zionists is that they're just mini-ben gvirs

[tamamita]

See, lib zionists claim to hate the likes of Smotrich, Ben Gvir or Netanyahu, but will never ever condemn them for their war crimes. It's this kind of dishonesty that makes them far more repulsive.

[benefitscrounger]

at this point i don't get why they won't just drop the act. even Israelis themselves are no longer pretending to care about 'peace in the Middle East', or putting on the faux progressive mask that kept liberals in the west compliant for so long. they've become so consumed by their genocidal hysteria that it's now impossible to pretend that zionism is anything other than a form of racial supremacy and domination of the indigenous peoples it deems racially inferior, but liberal zionists somehow think, what, that we can't see this? that we can't hear and read what Israelis really believe? that they aren't proudly and gleefully posting their crimes and atrocities for all the world to see?

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[txttletale]

it is beyond cruel that venezuela is now a US colony for all intents and purposes and the US still continues to wield sanctions against it to the detriment of the nation's poorest and most desperate people even in the aftermath of an earthquake that's killed thousands

[hotvampireadjacent]

U.S. senator ro khanna was recently detained by the IDF in a trip to Palestine.

Rep. Ro Khanna says he was detained by the Israeli military and settlers in the West Bank

A representative for Khanna, a California Democrat who is an outspoken progressive, said the confrontation occurred Wednesday in the middle

Usually the Israelis roll out the red carpet for American politicians. Wonder why they had a problem w Mr. Ro Khanna

[our-lady-of-haymakers]

It's really awesome how a vast majority of self-identified liberals conceive of liberalism as this smol bean birthday boy ideology of Let's All Get Along Together and frame it as this brave and kind yet tragically neglected voice of empathy and reason rather than, y'know, the dominant ideology of the capitalist world system that has caused countless wars, overseen colonialism and settler colonialism and neocolonialism, eviscerated state systems to create free market carnage, toppled countless popular governments through interventions on trumped-up charges of illegitimacy, and produced a climate catastrophe of near-apocalyptic proportions by putting its hands up while corporations torch the world.

And in the face of all this, and the inevitable rise of fascism from the material conditions created by the liberal world order, the liberal can say with complete earnestness that what we Really Need is a return to the good old days of liberalism where everyone was niceys and the slaughter and cruelty and meanness was confined to the global periphery and the slums and the villages rather than interfering with our sacred rituals of treat consumption.

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

every conversation on here increasingly feeling like this tweet

[handweavers]

one of the many problems with 'listen to x voices' rhetoric is that in order to be in the diaspora & gain citizenship in the first place your family often has to conform, to some degree, to western policy regarding our home countries & then those are the most plentiful voices in the west who talk about our countries. they will try to convince you that this is "the true voice" of the people of that country but they will gleefully advocate for foreign interventions that result in the widespread destruction and looting of their home country + they will position themselves as the greatest victims in all of this. but they clearly do not view the people back home with any kind of genuine solidarity or kinship only as pawns in their own personal narrative (revenge for an imagined alternative life back home, one where you still owned land or a held position of power there) and an opportunity to seize power for themselves. & then people in the diaspora develop a complex when people back home don't like them and don't agree with them & start claiming that everyone in the home country is brainwashed and the only way to free them is by invading and bombing everyone. they don't even view their cousins and family back home as real people, in this type of person's mindset simply by coming to west you are made real in a way that the rest of the world is not, it's sickening. and i know this song and dance very well like i'm in the western diaspora and the amount of ppl i meet who position themselves as progressive people but on the topic of foreign policy re: the home country sound like they work for radio free asia and are on the cia's payroll and chomping at the bit begging canada and co to bomb their country of origin is completely insane & if you even try to push back against this you're socially ostracized. same people will do land acknowledgements and then shun you for not supporting our government warmongering overseas it's just maddening

[bebsi-cola]

you've got to stop thinking about things like gender or sex or nationality as immutable facets of a person that determine who they are forever, and instead see them as a way to explain a vast and complicated web of social and cultural ties that influences a person and which is influenced by them in turn

[byjove]

Yet another American forever war on the Asian subcontinent. I am so sick of the news focusing on the flimsy ceasefire negotiations that the U.S. and Israel immediately violate instead of the environmental and human aspect. It’s not going to be over soon, the U.S. and Israel do not want it to be over soon, they want to do as much damage and exploitation as possible.

[leviathan-supersystem]

The Navy’s presence in the Caribbean has not reduced despite the Iran war.

But the long deployments take a toll on the crews and Marines, who had planned for a normal rotation and are now months past their initial scheduled return home.

“You don’t sign up for an easy time, you know any deployment is going to be uncertain,” said Joe Plenzler, a retired Marine Corps officer. “But extending deployments like this, when it feels really open-ended, that starts to bleed into retention. How much more likely am I able to convince my family to do another enlistment and stick with it?”

incredible that the best liberals can do at criticizing Trump's illegal and unprovoked aggression towards Cuba is "but what if laying in wait to slaughter Cuban citizens with impunity mildly inconveniences our death squads???"

[segamascott]

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[byjove]

I do believe that a not insignificant portion of the (specifically cishet male, not that other demographics are not capable of inflicting harm but this demographic is the most common statistically) population are sex pests in some capacity but I also know the reason politicians keep having sexual misconduct scandals is because sexual predators flock to politics. It isn’t random. It isn’t because soooooo many evil people love to levy rape allegations against men in their prime. It is because people who love the sensation of having power over others seek out careers where they can do just that. Law enforcement, armed forces, religious leaders, politicians. These are also careers where they know they will be able to use their power to avoid the social ramifications of their actions and silence the voices of their victims. Of course it happens over and over and over again and of course no one does anything about it, the system is designed for them.

[animentality]