• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    6 days ago

    The attacker at Berlin Pride might be a Muslim so right wingers who also want to kill lgbtq+ people are coming out of their dungeons to defend us

      • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
        8·
        6 days ago

        It’s just so pathetic man. These same people probably made a comment the same day about pride being shoved down their throats.

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    I finally put a blue light filter on my tablet and…

    Holy shit, this really works. I can feel a difference. I am not sure how it did the trick but I am not over-stimulated or having migraines right now…

    Wow…

  • Jeanne-Paul Marat@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    6 days ago

    I’m not pro-zohran by any metric really [social democrat, auto dismissed], but I dont really get the criticism of him not arresting netanahyu.

    1.Hes a mayor. He can’t unilaterally recognize the ICC. And he can’t really arrest a foreign head of state, and even then what would the charge be? The only thing would maybe be delivering him to an embassy that recognizes the ICC? Then what? Idk

    2.if we push past this and say “oh well ge could just do it anyway,” he’d probably be arrested and deposed immediately, and that might be best case scenario. Worst case scenario people start shooting each other when there’s no way he or the progressive forces in America would win.

    Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a defense of anything else. But I just don’t get this one bit.

    • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
      71·
      6 days ago

      We can absolutely criticize him because of three facts:

      1. He explicitly promised to arrest Netanyahu on his campaign trail.

      2. He affirmed that he would indeed arrest Hamas members in accordance with ICC warrants if they were in New York.

      3. New York City currently holds the legitimate President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, in captivity. There is already precedent in the US for illegally arresting world leaders, it wouldn’t even be a first.

      All that aside the real problem is that he lied about something he is either unable, or even uninterested to do, purely to signal to the growing anti Zionist sentiment in the US and use it as an easy way to score votes. I think it’s frankly disrespectful and a little gross to use a genocide as a means to get positive press and not follow through on your promises once you get what you want.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yeah

        But tbh?

        If Mamdani did any of that

        He’d be toast and probably deported to Uganda.

        • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          6 days ago

          Then he shouldn’t lie that he would do it just to convince people to vote for a Democrat. It’s a failing of both him and electoralism in general.

          • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Yeah, that’s just America political culture

            If they wanted us to vote

            They wouldn’t currently be taking the right away from folks

            • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              Honestly, I think they’re now taking that right away because of people like Mamdani winning against establishment politicians.

              Yes, Mamdani will get worse as time goes on, I know that, but they don’t want people in high places like that, especially as this global conflict develops further.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Doesn’t matter to me

        Obama promised a lot of shit and did none of it

        He did worse, even

        Mamdani promised to protect anti-Zionist speech

        He did in the very beginning of his administration (in a very Zionist city, mind you, or at least with a strong Zionist connection and influence)

        Cuomo had to go (I can’t imagine the Cuomo brothers having more influence and the Democrats acting like nothing is wrong with that picture)

        And he effectively got rid of him

        Mamdani has so far disappointed…

        …But frankly, I expect that of most politicians.

        I would rather have someone that pisses off both the libs and the conservatives than another AOC (where everyone is literally just “fake-mad” about AOC).

        Edit: had to actually edit and change a name there because I was distracted when I typed this and saw the error later

        • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          6 days ago

          If anything what you got is pretty much another AOC in Madani. It’s the same every time with these “progressive” US politicians. Also I don’t think Obama is a great comparison, he didn’t position himself as a radical socialist. The purpose of characters like Madani, AOC, Bernie etc. is to take all radical energy in the country and steer it back into the established capitalist political system.

          • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Cori Bush was much better than Mamdani, I’m sorry, dawg

            Every one of “the Squad” is not there any more.

            AOC is because she was and is rich and well-funded.

            Even her backstory is made up and exaggerated.

            She is there.

            The other “Squad” members aren’t.

            I would rather have a fluke like Mamdani than a psy-op like AOC.

            (anyway, whatever, Mamdani will disappoint, I already know this lol but I will take NYC traffic today than what is before lol)

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      This isn’t much different from when libs were crying about South Africa not arresting Putin.

      Arresting a sitting head of state sets a dangerous precedent that no country wants to set. It’s part of why the ICC is a joke in the first place; nobody’s going to enforce these rules except the people who have the power to escape the consequences, like the U.S. for example. It’s unrealistic to expect anybody to follow through on these “arrest X leader” threat. There’s no incentive to do so and every incentive not to.

    • star (she)@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      62·
      6 days ago

      the criticism ive seen more is: he should do policies that he can actually do (eg. ban zionist funding / investment), instead of posturing about policies he cannot do

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      5 days ago

      1. The NYPD have been deputized by federal law enforcement in an anti terrorism task force. They 100% have jurisdiction. As the mayor he appoints the commissioner and he could choose a commissioner who would get it done.

      2. In the process of deposing a mayor and installing a new mayor who would then install a new police commissioner there would be plenty of time for Mileikowsky to be transferred to the Hague.

      We shouldn’t be hating on mamdani for being a liar, fraud and spinless wretch. He is a liar and a fraud and a spinless wretch but that is because he is a democrat. This is not a reason to hate him, this is a reason to hate the democratic party and anyone who would run under their banner.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Frankly, I am pro-Zohran

      If liberals and Zionists keep wringing their hands about him or whatever

      Then fuck it, I am not reformist, I still want revolution, but fuck, I will defend at least some of the good he does, idk…

      • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        5 days ago

        But has he really done anything good or has he just said a lot of shit and maybe made a few bandaid solutions to systemic problems?

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    11 days ago

    I went to visit Chethams library in Manchester because Marx and Engels used to study there and their study corner is still there. I expected to be probably the only one hyped for it (it is a 70 min tour of lots of things after all) but multiple people nearly RAN to the booth as soon as we saw it lol. They had books on Engles for sale as well and they were all gone after the tour. Sometimes I’m surprised to see other commies in the wild.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    12 days ago

    Have a wonderful week, everyone! Also, we are doing a reading of This Soviet World over on Hexbear, the thread started today on c/soviet, so if you haven’t read it yet it’s a great chance to start!

    As always, communism will win.

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    8 days ago

    everyone should be aware of the upcoming/ongoing infiltration campaign as remarked by marco rubio.

  • PawsomePan [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    11 days ago

    The web being full of liberals is never a great thing but at least it usually doesn’t prevent me for watching entertainment videos. For some reasons though I have encountered quite a lot of videos with crazy claims in the last two days. Your typical “communism requires following a leader without questioning them” or “Stalin committed atrocities” or “Cuba is a dictatorship” and I even got a bit of “Sweden is true socialism” and “people in Finland are happier than in China, therefore the Finnish system is better.”
    I have no idea how this happened, I wasn’t even watching anything overtly political, but it was a bit infuriating.
    What do you do when you are in a bad mood comrades? Me, I like to write stuff.

      • RedPartisan@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        10 days ago

        Using a local client is much better. Like PipePipe on Android. It’s not as smooth an experience as it used to be since YouTube sucks, but it’s still preferable to a public Invidious instance in my opinion. Selfhosting a private Invidious instance could be a solution too, I don’t have the money to selfhost stuff so I can’t comment on it though.

    • RedPartisan@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      10 days ago

      Doesn’t Finland have a significant suicide rate? And also a lot of Neo-Nazis?

      Anyway, social media platforms seem to tend to form a balance between ragebait recommendations and normal recommendations to get you to spend as much time in them as possible. If you follow a lot of things the solution is RSS. If you stick to a few corporate platforms anyway the solution is third party clients that filter out the algorithmic stuff if possible.

      I try to distract myself when I’m in a bad mood. Mainly play video games while listening to some podcast. Neurotypicals may struggle with doing both at the same time, or maybe not, I don’t know.

  • almalexia@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    I saw where Trump announced he’s running again, and I just wish he would have done it later so I wouldn’t have to see an endless barrage of liberals saying that “It’s illegal” and how “congress will stop him”.

    Also I am putting my prediction up of a Trump win in 2028.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    When I was at Tishʻa Bʼav service a few hours ago, the Rabbi made no mention of the pogroms of 1917–1923 (but did mention the 1929 Hebron massacre as well as the Oct. 7th incident). When I asked him after the service why he omitted these events, he justified it on the grounds that mentioning every anti-Jewish atrocity would have taken too long. I then said that that era was very significant, and he brushed it aside saying that Tishʻa Bʼav is mostly about the destruction of the Temple anyway. (Although the service spent only a little time on the Temple.)

    I know that asking for some recognition of the Palestinians—beyond mentioning the ‘Arabs’ behind the Hebron massacre—would have been an ‘outrageous’ demand, but I would have at least expected the clergy to mention the largest anti-Jewish massacre before the 1940s. I sent the Rabbi an email about the subject, but as I was rushing I carelessly left in the part where I wrote, ‘While most Herzlians insist that the Shoah was so unique that it was incomparable to anything else in history, it would be utterly baffling if they explicitly included this catastrophe as something else incomparable to the Shoah, which is possibly another reason that they almost never discuss it.’ If he ever reads that email then I get the feeling that he is not going to take that comment lightly; it would be so typical for me if I received an extreme reaction.

    I can’t say that I was satisfied with the service, but oh well; it wasn’t for me. If it makes somebody sleep easier at night, good for them.

    ETA: The Rabbi replied to my email with this:

    Thank you for sharing. I am not sure I would call it a photo-shoah, but it was certainly part of the larger history of anti-Jewish violence in Europe. And you are right, it deserves more attention.

    I’m surprised that he overlooked my potshot. Maybe he was unsure how to interpret the word ‘Herzlian’.

  • TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    10 days ago

    “Never invade Russia, you fools.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War

    Scientists wonder whether the October Revolution was an example of Russia invading itself or merely a transformation of Russia. Research is ongoing.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    10 days ago

    Was noticing how Lego stuff in a store was almost entirely sets based on popular media (such as Harry Potter or Minecraft). I can’t remember too well if Lego was always like that, but I think to a degree it was at least because I remember getting some Star Wars sets as a kid.

    Anyway, it got me thinking about the way capitalism chases whatever is the big thing and tries to siphon every bit of value out of it that it possibly can. It fits very well with the AI bubble. Also fits with how even a thing like Black Lives Matter could get co-opted and turned into money-making. Capitalism is pretty shameless about that. If people will buy it, somebody will try to produce it and sell it. And sometimes, if people won’t buy it, they’ll do marketing campaigns to try to convince people that they should. But the path of least resistance is to chase the coattails of something already popular. You just make something derivative enough that it’s legal, or make some merchandising deal for a popular IP, and sell away.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      9 days ago

      Lego used to have its own IP. They had original sci-fi space stuff, some medieval knights and bandits, pirate stuff, some mildly offensive indigenous islanders, cowboys stuff, modern era lego city, and modern space stuff, Underwater sci-fi, Egyptian stuff.

      I think star wars was the beginning of their decent into pop culture.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      8 days ago

      Lego wasn’t always focused on major IPs, however the company began teetering on the verge of bankruptcy in the 80s and 90s so money ran dry to create novel sets, which only exacerbated the cycle of decline. The only factor that prevented a complete collapse was the partnership with Star Wars which single-handedly saved the company, and pushed Lego to adopt an IP centered approach.

      The company did have several independent IP such as Chima, Ninjago, Atlantis, and Bionicle, but the company was aquired by private equity firms in the early 2010 and those IP were tossed in the trash as children were no longer seen as an effective target market. Now, the company primarily targets individuals in the 21-35 age bracket, and seeing as that group enjoys Star Wars, Harry Potter, and so on, the company goes all in on those IP.