PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don’t be alarmed; that’s normal.
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…but the world is fucked up though… and tbh, the United States and its hegemony has had a lot to do with it unfortunately.
So please continue hating the police as an extension of the Coke brothers
Like we can agree to disagree on everything else but please I beg you don’t lump me in with the Koch Brothers 😭😭😭
The police protect the Koch Brothers from the consequences of their actions. I’m against the Koch Brothers. I literally hate them and all the other capitalists who openly make our world uninhabitable. As an anarchist, I am anti-capitalist and anti-State.
I dare not imagine what sort of world you imagine we live in
One run by the capitalist class…I thought I made that pretty clear in my response.
jaywalking
Jaywalking is actually an excellent example of a bullshit, made-up crime that the police currently use to harass black and brown people, and was invented to help capitalists make the United States into a car-centered hellhole.
Sorry I’m just so thrown off, what made you think I’m pro Koch Brothers? I want to make sure I don’t do it again even by accident 😭😭😭
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was bornEnglish29·6 hours agoDeath, death to the IDF.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto Memes@lemmy.ml•But yet the DPRK is still "a threat to world peace"? Interesting 🤔😁English10·6 hours agoI’m surprised that there are countries we haven’t bombed 🙃
It absolutely does. By “good” cops, I mean those who follow protocols and are generally nice to the people they lord over.
When I say ACAB, I am not necessarily weighing in on the individual character of all police officers (although often they do suck as individuals). What I mean is that the role that cops play in society is evil. The police are here to impose the will of the capitalist class on the working class every single day. Even if they follow protocols while doing it, even if individual cops rarely do “the right thing”, even if the “good” cop in your head or your social network or family is otherwise an excellent person outside their police work, all cops are still cops and therefore categorically evil.
ACAB includes “good” cops because the police are a categorically evil institution.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrestEnglish273·2 days agoWelcome to Fascist America (which always has been a racist, classist shithole that served as an inspiration for fascists).
Brought to you by
conservative votersbillionaires.Maybe next time
don’t stay home or vote 3rd partywork within your communities, build alternative prefigurative systems in the here and now, and learn how to defend yourself, the people you love, and the community from the monsters who control everything.
ACAB includes good cops
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Passenger plane with 49 people onboard crashes in Russia’s far eastEnglish13·2 days agoPlease elaborate what in my text gave you such an impression.
Previous reply:
Are we supposed to be very very horrified that 9 innocent people died in a plane crash?
Yes oh my God some of them were children
So, of course at least 5 %, possibly almost 10 % of Russian civilians are innocent, but out of the 44 adults that died, that is statistically about 2 to 4 people in the whole plane, plus the five children.
Of course the statistically average Russian isn’t completely blameless for supporting the Russia-Ukraine war, but that doesn’t mean they deserve to die in a plane crash!
Like the entire argument you’re making and the fact that you’re making it to argue against what I previously is what gave me the impression that your empathy is conditioned on where someone comes from.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Passenger plane with 49 people onboard crashes in Russia’s far eastEnglish18·2 days agoThat’s a lot of words to admit that your empathy for others is conditioned on where they come from.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Passenger plane with 49 people onboard crashes in Russia’s far eastEnglish19·3 days agoYeah and every time, nationalist turbo-libs like you will be there to voice your utter apathy for the deaths of innocent civilians because they are flying over land controlled by monsters with a different flag than the monsters who control your country, a flag whose subjects your country has told you to hate.
Nationalism is a fucking mind virus.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Passenger plane with 49 people onboard crashes in Russia’s far eastEnglish149·3 days agoWTF are you on about?!? These are civilians! There were children on board!
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Pope Leo On Gaza: "It Is Time To Stop This Slaughter"English1·6 days agoAs someone else pointed out, I acknowledge that the original article is second-hand information about a private call, so it really doesn’t matter to be precise in that exact scenario. So strictly speaking, I jumped the gun.
However… since then, Pope Leo has come out with a public statement:
My critique now applies. He calls it a “war” and a “conflict” here, and a “slaughter” in the private phone call. None of these are sufficient or even necessary (PDF warning) for genocide to occur (although they most certainly are occuring!). His refusal to use the word “genocide” is deliberate. If he had even a quarter of a spine, he’d be calling it a genocide. He’s literally the literal Pope! He has the power to do this!
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Pope Leo On Gaza: "It Is Time To Stop This Slaughter"English42·7 days agoThis was second hand from an internal call, not an official statement. Even in an internal call he used the more graphic word “slaughter” rather than “violence” or “killing”.
Good catch. I agree with you here.
This is action, which you have to admit is far beyond the bare minimum of flapping lips.
Not for a man as powerful as the head of the Catholic Church. He could do more.
I disagree with organized religion as a whole but I am not going to bad mouth a group that was housing 600+ people in their church, including elderly, disabled, and children.
Yeah I really meant to yell at Leo in particular because IMO he’s kind of a moderate (compared to Francis). Good point.
Pope calls his Cardinal in Jerusalem, not to tell him to stop his aid deliveries out of a concern for safety but to convey that they need to work harder to “stop the slaughter”. Again, that’s more than the “bare minimum”.
Again I think that for such a powerful man, this is the bare minimum. For example, go to the church himself instead of sending his people.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Pope Leo On Gaza: "It Is Time To Stop This Slaughter"English73·7 days agoYeah I did. No mention of “genocide” in the article or its sources, just a “slaughter”.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?English164·7 days agoBecause besides powerful Republicans, powerful Democrats are also implicated (e.g. the Clintons).
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Netanyahu suffers food poisoning, to rest for three days, his office saysEnglish98·7 days agoCritical support for comrade food poisoning
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Pope Leo On Gaza: "It Is Time To Stop This Slaughter"English2111·7 days agoIt Is Time To Stop This
SlaughterGenocideI like how he didn’t even do the bare minimum
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgto News@lemmy.world•Closed: Trump Admin Officially Shuts Down the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized ServicesEnglish920·7 days agoNo he’s not. He’s doing what the United States does exactly as it was designed.
The United States always has been an exclusionary, racist, classist, sexist, and LGBTQ-phobic settler-colonial project. The principles patriots claim to be the governing values of the United States are in opposition to the reality of the project.
If patriots want to actually create a society based on their stated values, then the United States needs to be dismantled as a prerequisite. Put simply, the real values of the United States are the maintenance of capitalism and white supremacy. If your values are even slightly in opposition to that, then the United States will crush you once it begins to notice your presence.
But in order for patriots to actually live their stated values without contradictions, patriots need to throw off the chains of their own patriotism…which lays bare the fact that so many remaining patriots actually do secretly like the openly oppressive parts of the system that they would otherwise claim to hate in polite company.
More like when I wake up at literally any time
Edit: read the meme as “wake up past 9am” for some reason. Probably because it’s like 3am where I’m at 🥱