and I said I agree with, why are you getting all triggered?
Oh, sorry. Must have missed that clear-as-day sentence, clearly.
and even children despite what the zionazis claim. zionists lying, who would've thunk.
I feel like "the rest of the world does not care enough because it’s all happening too far away" is a bit disingenuous, as there are civil movements and protests against Israel's actions in Palestine around the world. Some "faraway" countries like South-Africa even filed the original ICJ/ICC case against Israel for acts of genocide in December 2023. I think it's the nations who are for Israel, but most of them haven't represented the actual will of the people for a long time. Of course the US being Israel's closest ally is quite a deterrent against any government with a spine (among other geopolitical skullduggery), so alas.
"IDF allegedly killed Hamas commander in cafe strike that killed or wounded at least 41 civilians, including 3 journalists and 2 athletes, as well as children and families gathering for a birthday party", but you'd never hear BBC utter those words, now would you? Shameful, absolutely shameful. Also the "Hamas commander" in question is a son of an already killed Hamas commander, and also Israel claims to have used aerial surveillance to "mitigate the risk of harming civilians", so in other words they knew there were civilians there including children. The absolute scum of the earth.
this what is called a thought terminating cliché, everyone. look it up while you look up something like "debunking every anti-communist argument" on youtube or something. Edit: actually fuck that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché & https://youtu.be/MjwL1mSrPLA
yeah, not going to argue against that. but then again it's completely unrelated to my comment, so
If you want to end wars on earth you have to kill yourself if you're participating overthrow capitalism ftfy
Not quite yet, though I wouldn't wait on leaving the country if I were there and of any personae non gratae
You best start believing in corporate dystopia stories, Ms. Turner... You're in one!
Yes, capitalism can only serve the capitalists, and maintain a (highly relative) peaceful environment (not counting the subjugated peoples and areas in the global south atm) in only the most auspicious of times. And even then the system will inevitably shit itself and die every few years or so and must be resurrected by national intervention using said nation's taxpayers' (=working class) money. So the system is fundamentally flawed, which has never and will never "work" insofar as the working class is regarded.
Indeed the US is in quite dire straits, having replaced its national industrial capacity for outsourcing to countries with cheap labor, and also positioning the US dollar as the world currency, thus having the leverage to force dissenting nations to either go bankrupt or accept its imperialism. Now there is no industrial capacity in the US and its populace (completely understandably) not wanting to do two or three full-time jobs just to afford housing and groceries, neverminding everything else you need to live in there (like health insurance, so you best hope you don't get sick ever), just to bring the industrial capacity back at minimum wage. And now the administration is driving out the only ones willing to do the manual labor at minimum wage, the immigrants; while being willfully ignorant to the fact that the entire nation's history is that of immigrants, as most of the natives died on the Trail of Tears or were otherwise killed off and cordoned to reservations.
It seems that there are only bad tidings afoot for the USian worker, having also been brainwashed since birth into the impossibility of communism. Doom and gloom.
So the USA is turning into a fascist military dictatorship because of capitalism and misinformation campaigns swaying voters etc. etc. How do you (as a USian or not) view what is going to happen in the immediate-to-near future regarding civil liberties & disobedience, especially the current secret police and/or ICE (just getting a big, beautiful budget increase to unbeforeseen heights); and also thinking civil war and outside intervention?
For me, the current situation seems hopeless for the state. The bipartisan system is in its core a laughable excuse for an actual functioning democracy (then again are there any real democracies in the capitalist world?), as both parties are controlled by the same organizations and lobbyists, with governmental administration occasionally changing hands from one to the other only to unmake what little "progress" the currently "progressives" had made last time they were in the administration, forming but a pittance of what the people actually want. But the current administration seems to be too much akin to the Italian fascists or the German NSDAP of yore, and its attempts to control all media too see-through for some, who mostly seem to be in the bluer (richer and thus more better off) states. I think this stark divide between the population will be the force that rips the nation apart, as most people in the bluer more progressive states probably aren't as big on the secret police appearing unmarked and unannounced and armed, ready to take people away to concentration camps in undisclosed places in foreign nations in unmarked vans as the people of the redder and more conservative states seem to be.
So the question becomes how will the people react? Civil disobedience probably sounds nice right up until they start gunning those disobeying down, and deploying the National Guard and Marines against them (which I think might be unconstitutional there? not sure though because it happened already). The US Armed Forces apparently have 1.3 million active members (without a draft mind you) and even though there are people in this group who aren't as morally bankrupt as the administration is atm, I think they'd still have enough members positioned around the world in enough places that there isn't a single force in the world to oppose it willingly and easily. I bring this up because if (or when) push comes to shove and the civil disobedience in the blue states becomes too much for DJ Dump and his christofascist capitalism buddies, and they start driving their military might against their own people with increasing force, who will be there to come in to save the (non-militant minded) people? I think the US administration would consider this a declaration of war, and respond to it as such. So as I see it the US is on a surefire highway to the danger zone to Civil War part II: Electric Boogaloo, and in the end will either rip itself apart or pull the entirety of the western (NATO) countries to war with it. So thank god my country just got in! Wouldn't wanna miss this one, boys!
Anyway post your prophecies on the manifesting destiny of the US below, we'll eventually see who got it right.
"We assure you" uhhuh, sure buddy
I tried killing myself with my insulin a while back, but chickened out basically 'cause that shit wasn't tranquil. Nor have the times I've had diabetic ketoacidosis (where one's blood turns acidic etc.) been tranquil neither. Sure once you lose consciousness it gets real calm and silent, but up until that point every cell and fiber of your entire being is screaming for life, and those screams are all you can hear as your blood hums in your ears drowning out everything external. And then there's the horror also.
But yeah, I wouldn't call any of the times I've almost died peaceful.
oh hey it's the manosphere influence!
An imperialist USian rebublican spouting uncitated drivel against Russian imperialism based on anti-communist sentiments and criticism of the USSR, arguing against nazis existing in Ukraine.
Yeah, kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out! But then again WWII was just a bunch of capitalist imperialist powers trying to save their income from other capitalist imperialists, so there's that. Minus the USSR (and maybe some others?)
There's a typo under Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse:
This allows you to have more of a “journey” to Drcaula’s castle
I love the smell of an amount of microplastics in my brainmatter that is equal to a plastic teaspoon in the morning. Smells like burnt toast.
Moi. Osaako kukaan täällä ohjata minua mihinkään Suomalaiseen natsitutkaan? Tässä joku aika sitten oli näitä epäpaikallisia natseja jotka samalla n. viiden henkilön porukalla liikkuivat kaupunginkirjastosta toiseen pitämään säälittäviä lukupiirejänsä, mutta tästäkin kuulin vain kaverilta ohimennen. Nyt rupesin miettimään onko Suomen sisäistä informaatioverkkoa olemassa jo, kenties samantyylistä kuin Telegramissa oleva Israel Genocide Tracker tms., jota pitää silmällä jos sattuvat lähistöllä tapailemaan?
Edit: "Natseilla" tarkoitan siis äärioikeistoa/persuja.
Hello all,
So I have this old Samsung RV520 laptop. You can see the specs there. I've installed and reinstalled a few different linux distros on it for the past 12 years or so, the last one being Arch (btw) which is what I use as my daily driver on my main desktop as well (by the btw). But I really don't need this laptop anymore, so I was thinking I'd give it as a birthday present to my friend's son, who turns 2 this month. It would be used as a "media station" to basically just play kids' videos from Youtube.
The problem is that I basically need to install an extremely windows-like (or otherwise simple) distro on it, because while my linux-fu is somewhat high level, my friend uses windows daily so system maintenance must be simple. Ubuntu is for me the obvious choice, but I'm not sure if the laptop can even run it anymore :D of course the HDD in it is also 16 years old and I'm pretty sure I'll upgrade it to an SSD before set up. So, taking all this preamble into account, what would you recommend? Some Ubuntu-derivative, pure Debian, maybe even Arch with linux-lts? Give me your thoughts!
Narri N. (they/them) @lemmy.ml I have a trauma-based personality disorder, which sometimes manifests itself in episodes of often uncontrollable bouts of verbal violence. I prefer to direct this to people on the internet (as opposed to actual people), as I don't wish to be violent towards people I actually care about.