Ah yeah i guess the indigenous people don’t matter when it’s not whities displacing them even if they’re doing literally the exact same thing. Im sure the indigenous people loved all the sugar plantations

Im pretty sure white people were settling the Americas before the Han started to immigrate to and settle Taiwan

“Nazis were good” isn’t the point of this post

me, when my base assumptions involving no research line up with reality:

I mean did something happen that made them do that? Usually it’s the west killing all the people who read theory

get to know your neighbors AND learn how to trust and be trusted.

My strategy is to just dump my nuts on the table and tell you my whole deal, with many death to Americas sprinkled throughout, and if you don’t find me trustworthy or are mean to me then well f you i’ll go rant at someone else

It’s really cool learning about stuff like the Mohawk Valley Formula and how it’s been known about as an overtly articulated strategy for like a hundred years now and they still do the exact same shit to discredit and disperse movements against their interests

and even knowing their fucking playbook doesn’t help us simply because a solid majority of the population is conditioned to have their eyes glaze over, seeing nothing, when told about the tactics that are literally at that moment being used on them

Nobody here has any influence over their country doing anything

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they aren’t saying the modern worker has it just as bad as other slaves, they’re talking about institutionalized forced labor.

I’d also like to mention that anarchists and socialists have, for a long time, criticized wage labor under capitalism as being more exploitative than literal serfdom i.e. kropotkin’s “shame on the feudal baron” quote. Serfs giving up a quarter of their crop was seen as barbarous, but wage laborers give up the entire value of their labor and are paid only a pittance for it

dawg, wage labor under capitalism is literally slavery with more steps. If your ability to survive is predicated on your ability to sell your body for a wage, you are a slave, and anyone arguing otherwise (you, in this case) is wrong. If you refuse to work and your refusal is met with homelessness and starvation, that is no less coerced labor than if I held a fucking gun to your head.

Also your initial statement of “workers have rights, slaves have none” is just so fucked and wrong from multiple perspectives. Slaves have historically had rights, not every form of slavery is “north american chattel slavery” where they’re treated like livestock. And, again, what difference is there from a “right” won through violence by a union and rights won by slave revolts? There isn’t any

check the post here

I can’t think of a worse example for the utility of using AI to improve animation than some slice of life bullshit. This just looked like someone wasted their time (or would have, if they were doing actual work) remaking scenes with equivalent quality animation. Honestly idk what’s even “famously bad” about the original

Okay, when people had to literally arm themselves, fight and die for the right to a union, and then to rights those unions fought for i.e. the 8 hour workday, do you not see the similarity between those literal armed struggles and slave rebellions

Stupid is what it is, there isn’t enough room for ammo or to physically reload all those cannons. what a rube

Reading Harlan Ellison and thinking “i could make a mouthless screamer”

I was reading a file last night that mentioned a landline for human traffickers in Ukraine and when a victim didn’t meet them where they were supposed to they got threatening text messages in Hebrew

Apparently some fucking squirrel or something chewed through the harness holding my O2 sensor on the engine or whatever, so the O2 sensor doesn’t work, so i couldn’t pass an inspection and then I just haven’t had the fucking money to follow through with trying to get it inspected in my new county (which doesn’t require emissions inspections) or anything, knowing the entire time that my car just gets more and more fucked the longer it sits there

I have a car that’s been sitting in my driveway for a year now and it’s really fun when i start to think about stuff like this

okay but you see, you’re a liberal for not understanding that it was an act driven by cruelty and imperialist interest before the USSR fell, especially when they literally say that’s the fucking point of it

Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are:

1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent).

2. There is no effective political opposition.

3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence.

4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate.

5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba1would only serve his and the communist cause.

6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship.

If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation, and overthrow of government.

State Department, Memorandum, “The Decline and Fall of Castro,” Secret, April 6, 1960

like, how much clearer could it be that the U.S. are the bad guys here, literally cartoonish villains monologuing about their evil plan to fucking starve people because it’s the only feasible way to end the communist government, which they seek to do for the express purpose of imperialist profit

You said you’re “not a liberal” but like, come the fuck on, either you are a shitlib who thinks communism is evil (and thus, no evil is too great to commit to destroy communism) or you’re one of the dumbest motherfuckers to ever live. Which is it? Actually, I’m starting to think it’s both. I’d bet cash money you think communism = evil authoritarianism because they “starve their own people” and, simultaneously, being privy to the information that the people are being intentionally starved by the west has literally no impact on your perception of that

I bet you support regime change in Venezuela for the same reasons despite multiple U.N. rapporteurs unanimously stating that it’s U.S. sanctions that are starving people