• DankZedong
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    432 years ago

    Here I am, once again, to say the following

    Fuck Mark Hamill utter useless piece of shit. Absolutely no independent thought in that head of his.

    • DankZedong
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      312 years ago

      His Instagram post is FILLED with people calling him out, though. Say what you want about the media and the governments, but at least the majority of people seem to be on the right track this time.

        • DankZedong
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          272 years ago

          I guess it’s better than the constant SLAVA UKRAINI thing. Plus with this much outrage it may be easier to set up counter protests.

  • albigu
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    412 years ago

    One particular thing about the Yankee “love” for indigenous people is that they effectively believe that indigenous people are dead or aren’t part of their country any more. That means they can go on and on about how much they care about indigenous history, say they want to protect indigenous landmarks but don’t ever talk about the currently living indigenous people fighting for their land and rights, or their many imprisoned comrades. This is true for other American settler states too.

    This is why they’ll post black and white pictures of long dead leaders (challenge: have them name those leaders and their nations), but if you ask them about AIM or even living leaders like Peltier they’ll think you’re making things up. If Israel manages to somehow stablish themselves in the Middle-East to the level the the US did in North America (highly doubtful), they’ll celebrate “Palestinian Peoples’ Day” the exact same way.

  • QueerCommie
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    302 years ago

    the shared story of America

    Indigenous heroes are not and would not want to be part of your colonizer history. It’s more offensive to call them “American” than to not honor them with a holiday.

    • @Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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      82 years ago

      Amerikkka is great at incorporating the people who operated in spite of its genocidal empire into its national mythmaking. It’s insidious as fuck and I hate it here.

    • @SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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      162 years ago

      Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time he’s done something like this. He has also shown support for the Ukraine war and did some weird zoom call with Ukrainian soldiers, in the background of the soldiers was the blood and soil flag bare for everyone to see. I can find a screenshot if you’d like.

  • ButtigiegMineralMap
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    252 years ago

    Not so fun fact: Native Americans make up less than 3% of the US population. And that counts people with Native American heritage (like white people who are 1/8 Cherokee and tout that as them being “POC”). That ain’t a Shared History, that’s oppression and domination followed by decades of humiliation and discrimination.

  • Muad'Dibber
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    222 years ago

    Not a nation of immigrants, but of colonizers / ppl who answered resoundingly yes to the following question: “want some free land, all you gotta do is kill some Natives ppls for it?”

  • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
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    182 years ago

    To Americans liberals its easy to “support” and “love” indigenous peoples, because they never could posse an existential threat to white landownership of the continent. Radlibs and libs will love you as long you are defanged and dying.

  • Black AOC
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    182 years ago

    Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two conflicting ideas simultaneously.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      52 years ago

      Is this from Spec-ops: the line? hell yea. I love when the loading messages stopped being gameplay tips and became aggressive at the player

  • Bloops
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    132 years ago

    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    -Jean-Paul Sartre

    • @ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      102 years ago

      Feels a bit iffy to use a Sartre quote, especially as he was a vitriolic defender and supporter of Israel. Not to mention a general piece of shit human who supported pedophila.

      • @cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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        42 years ago

        Sartre was a tool, a creep, a pedophile, but in this instance his quote makes sense. But as I type this, I agree it feels really disgusting to use a quote from him.

      • QueerCommie
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        12 years ago

        Sartre’s not too bad. He’s an undialectical comrade, and he defended not promoting the notion that gulags were evil. He had some interesting philosophy. Obviously Israel shouldn’t have been supported, but the USSR supported them at the time and it wasn’t as blatant then.

        • @ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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          He was very bad. He considered himself an “unprincipled Maoist”, then claimed he was always an anarchist, he opposed the Soviet Union, and that’s all before you get to the very VERY long list of issues with his political beliefs and philosophies.

          That’s before getting into the bizarre justifications and desires of pedophilia.

          • QueerCommie
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            12 years ago

            I don’t think he opposed the USSR, he just wasn’t a tankie. He’s a bit all over the place, but I still have some respect for him. I still gotta read a lot of his stuff.