They interviewed people affiliated with US state-funded propaganda groups who dole out money to exactly such folks. Some live in Waahington, DC, which is a bit on the nose, but I suppose this helps them act as props near tourist areas for poorly-attended protests.
Where did you find your link?
Also I don’t see anything on that link suggesting what you’re claiming.
The Xinjiang they don’t want you to see is someone being walked in cuffs?
US whiteness is a social construct that serves to justify and reproduce marginalization: white supremacy. It started out excluding the Irish, Italians, the Spanish, Slavs, etc and shifted over time in order to maintain anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity. So it is far from just one thing and is simultaneously very recent. It would be best described as a culture of domination and capitalism, being a product of the US’ industrialization and then economic subjugation of the planet. Whiteness is about who you are better than and how entitled you are to a good life, or at least one better than non-whites. White culture is tolerating and even engaging in genocide so long as it is against non-whites. White culture is trying to pretend oppressions don’t need justice on any timeline that might inconvenience a white person. White culture is jingoist. The image of a warlike America has a white face.
As white people were largely drawn from European immigrants, they sometimes have watered-down elements of culture from “the old country”, Americanized to the point of being unrecognizable. Those elements were usually watered down because their immigrant ancestors were not considered white at the time so they tried to hide or erase identifiable cultural elements. Name changes. Modifications to food. Going to the whiter church. Skipping traditional holidays.
And of course, much is just white supremacy under capitalism. Processed industrialized foods. Commercialized holidays and events. Workaholic myths of paths to success. Everything cheaper or subsidized to their benefit and treated as an entitlement. National chauvinism and racist warmongering. Colonizer mindsets.
I didn’t conflate antizionism and antisemitism - you conflated Zionism and Judaism and I criticized you doing so.
You should read what I wrote again.
Bill Gates? The Epstein guy?
A stunningly ignorant and antisemitic comment.
Jewish leaders? I assume you mean Israel, which despite that entity’s propaganda, cannot be conflated with Judaism.
Russia does not have a dictator. It is a capitalist oligarchy much like other counties, and they keep Putin as their face because he is good at what he does. With the support of the bourgeoisie and lsrge teams of bureaucrats and oligarchical functionaries, he can and will be replaced and there will be a full continuity of policy. Russia also has little historu of “trying to Annex Ukraine”. The area now known as Ukraine has been occupied by a number of nations (the territory was much smaller and constantly bullied by Poles and Lithuanians), but Ukrainian national identity, and its current borders, is something largely created within the last century at the behest of the USSR. Ukrainian national identity and independence was created by the inheritors of the Russian Empire, the Bolsheviks.
China, like any state, engages in “population control”, but this highlighting it as such - including the telltale sign of a Redditor brain Winnie the Pooh reference that nobody else actually cares about - is ignorant chauvinist orientalism. China is also not engaging in minority segregation. Quite the opposite.
The US, similarly, does not have a monarch. It is also run by the bourgeoisie, it is the global epicenter of the global haute bourgeoisie. Everything there happens with the consent and often prodding of that class and most political “change” is the result of fights between its members. The legislative branch could toss out, e.g., Trump, whenever it pleased, legally. Does it refuse to do so because Trump will send his knights to kill them? Because they hold land titles only at his pleasure? No, it is because they are all beholden to the same masters, the people who actually sign all of the checks, produce all of the media, and control production.
The “spats” in the Middle East are a continued Western-backed genocidal bombing campaign on Yemen, the only country in the region outside of Iran doing anything in solidarity witg Palestine, and a Western-backed Daesh/HTS takeover of Syria that makes Assad look like a kitten. Also very friendly with Israel, antagonistic to ethnic minorities, and belligerent towards Hezbollah.
India is trying to start a war. It already occupies Kashmir with massive troop levels. Taking land may be part of the plan, but their goal is really to weaken Pakistan and feed into Hindutvas via kneejerk nationalism.
The US was already the old Reich, history just whitewashes it. The US was the Third Reich’s biggest political influence. The US is premised on genocide, chattel slavery, and shifting tides of racism and marginalization to scapegoat and exclude to serve capital. Terrorizing Latines has a long history, this is a revival. The US bourgeoisie creates a contradiction, which is that it creates an economic underclass of largely latine immigrant workers of precarious legal status in order to hyperexploit their labor but then scapegoats them when eveyone else inevitably hits an economic diwnturn. Marginalization has always been used for this dual purpose in the US. Eugenics has been here, it is just whitewashed with racialized poverty being treated as “normal”. Death camps and work camps have been here, slowly ramping up over decades. The current volume actually isn’t that high compared to the last decade. It has been this bad, they just don’t put the spotlight on it.
Please educate yourself before speaking.
The country in question never denazified, it just banned Nazi aesthetics. The underlying practice of scapegoating and war and anticommunism were never dealt with. Nazis were kept and promoted in positions of power. There, the holocaust is taught as something focused solely on Jewish people, ignoring the systematic killing of communists, Roma, LGBTQ+, and slavs. Germans are taught to feel proud of their shame towards Jewish people and that are now experts at it, gladly admonishing anyone that, say, does not conflate Judaism with the genocidal apartheid settler colonial ethnic supremacist project known as Israel. This, of course, means that Germans remain deeply antisemitic, just with new aesthetics that, rather than scapegoat Jewish people, pigeonholes them into a violent project against brown people that must be supported at all costs.
Of course, there are Germans that do properly reckon with this history and are coherently against antisemitism and settler colonial genocide. They are the subject of this state crackdown, the state itself being an eager lapdog for US empire, happily complicit in yet another genocide.
The trade unions are calljng for one then
Nationalists will so long as they can wrap it into their logic of domination. That is surely why Modi et al thought they could start an all-out war.
Organizations vary massively by region, but if you oppose this war I recommend getting plugged in locally, especially if there can be any kind of tie-in with the May 20 planned strikes. That is probably the most powerful action that could be taken against war, though not at all an easy one.
As always, don’t reveal any personal info online, e.g. telling me/others your locale! Stay safe and organize carefully.
The silly appeals to fallacies and then ignoring basically everything I say is super debatebro.
Is this the second or third recently?
The information is in the thread you are replying to. And no, you actually don’t, becauae what we are discussing is your paternalistic liberal response to others refusing to donate to a transphobe and then your leaning on debatebro fallacy misunderstandings when I explained what was wrong with it.
If you can’t self-criticize and adapt then just don’t respond.
Why do I need to prove a negative? Get your fallacies in order! I also recommend against relying so much on trying to identity fallacies, as we are not exactly engaging in formal modus tollens here and what I am saying to you is intended to get you to critically engage with what you are saying, not be an unassailable treatise on resistance that covers every eventuality.
Societal liberalism reinforces the status quo, or I should really say, reinforces capitalism, and that tends to mean reproducing oppressions that can be leveraged by capital. Even the existence of reactionaries who marginalize others is often in the interests of caputal. “Don’t blame the people firing you for losing your job, it must be the immigrants doing this to you! Hey, don’t complain about your life, at least you’re not [oppressed group]” These serve very practical functions for disunity among people that could otherwise find common ground against the interests of capital.
The liberal tut-tutting of what is supposedly ineffective opposition is part of this as well. It comes from op-eds from ghoulish warmongers, those complicit in genocide, and a political class invested in you not actually aligning against oppressors in any meaningful way. Notice the complete lack of action from yourself in doung anything about this transphobe. Just pushing against those who do. Ask yourself what role you are playing.
As a capitalist company, their goal is to maximize profit. Their previous marketing and products were intended to increase their monopoly position. Now they are trying to take more profit based on that monopoly position. Every large company tries things like this.
How it came together is that Houthis started taking out jets from aircraft carriers and the US ran home, being unable to implement their only remaining military strategy: bombing brown civilians with impunity.
Reactionary nationalism has no place on lemmy.ml
Hindu nationalists are very inspired by Israel and want to mirror it as an oppressive ethnostate. They align completely on using islamiphobia to do so, as well, right down to the slurs they use.
Hindu nationalists currently control Indian national politics.
Monarchy and fascism share some characteristics but the things that make fascism what it is don’t originate from Monarchism or a revanchism for monarchy in any sense. When fascism qua fascism arose in Europe it was a separate formation from monarchists, for example, who still existed in substantial numbers in those countries back then. Instead, fascism arose from declining material conditions in countries that were losing imperialist status, such as losing colonies or having large foreign debts after World War I, and this situation - and “solution” - were both highly capitalistic. Fascism recruits from the petty bourgeoisie for its foot soldiers at the behest of factions of the haute bourgeoisie.
Capitalism is proto-fascism. Fascism, to the extent that it exists beyond World War II, has often been reinvented for crises of capitalism, whether domestic or imposed through imperialism. And who did the fascists take so much inspuration? For the Nazis, it was the United States, a bourgeoisie democracy (capitalist) premised on genocide and slavery.
Automation is just using technology to replace human labor, so yes. The exact mechanism doesn’t change that. “AI” is a buzzword but LLMs have replaced human labor already in various ways even though most of the applications are hype / BS. For example, it has certainly taken a bite out of stock images and product graphic design.
Individual capitalists must seek out automation because reducing labor cost without decreasing productivity means a higher profit for them. Capital in aggregate seeks automation because it disciplines labor, means you can threaten and mistreat labor more easily. In that sense “AI” is serving the same purpose as historical automation even when it fails to substitute labor as a productive aspect. Companies can threaten their employees with “AI” that doesn’t work and they can rebrand firings as layoffs using media discourse that overhypes “AI” on their behalf, it is part of the PR universe.