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i was very skeptical of DuBois general thesis here, that the american civil war was won by black labor carrying out what is best described a general strike, and im now completely convinced of it. also reconstruction started as soon as a union general acknowledged a freeman refugee wasnt contraband

mold@phillymold.bsky.social

DuBois is so good

one of their unelected lifelong rulers say outright that he is their enemy who is fundamentally opposed to compromise and plans to use his position to fully assert his reactionary ideology and liberals respond with "ha! caught you red-handed being unprofessional!"

drove thru navajo nation a couple times and didnt see a single american flag flying. sure that was just a coincidence, since that was years ago and its only recently that someone would be suggest something as CRAZY as associating the "stars and stripes" with "hate", of all things!

mold@phillymold.bsky.social

this website is weird

in a just world the american flag & the union jack would evoke the same disgust response as the nazi flag. wtf is a "hate symbol" dawg, these are genocidal empires lmao

im not saying you need to seethe in rage every time you see a ubiquitous flag but if youre even slightly aware of US history you should have to wrestle with the fact it doesnt make you seethe with rage

i love analogies because in this scenario were supposed to assume its not an outrage the airline is serving meals of shit or that it is reasonable to accept a chicken meal from someone who offers you a plate of shit

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replies here: either bluesky is working as twitter methadone bc i dont remember ppl being this stupid on there & it makes me close out, or im just running into stupider people to the same effect, or theyre reasonably misinterpreting me & im disconnected enough to misjudge interpretation

mold@phillymold.bsky.social

and your rag wont make any mention of her anti-zionism

im not JUST being contrarian here: if you accuse a politician of being a treasonous insurrectionist fascist for years & years, and then the crime you finally celebrating charging him with is accounting fraud, a white collar technicality, it makes it look like you are completely full of shit

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EITHER book him on a natsec danger charge & fully detain him, come down heavy & unapologetic but professional & composed, OR put as much influence as possible into stopping lib media from acting like tabloids bc it only benefits trump, then try to actually win votes by being popular

im not JUST being contrarian here: if you accuse a politician of being a treasonous insurrectionist fascist for years & years, and then the crime you finally celebrating charging him with is accounting fraud, a white collar technicality, it makes it look like you are completely full of shit

i genuinely do not even know what democrats are playing at by pushing this stuff. theyre handing trump a reinvigorated cause & provoking a fight about rule of law at the highest level that they give no indication whatsoever of seriously engaging in, let alone winning

we need to destroy the united states of america

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

Any carbon dioxide removal (CDR) method that draws in a lot of air or water — like direct air capture or direct ocean removal — should consider the ecosystem consequences of drawing in a lot of insects, microbes, small animals, plankton, invertebrate larvae, and fish larvae, etc.

oh no how will i ever reconcile this with my love for reagan and the 80s! ive been owned!

Paul Krugman@pkrugman.bsky.social

For those saying that Americans are righteously angry because the level of prices is up even though the rate of inflation has fallen, a history lesson

agreed, if you dont understand why life is incredibly difficult for people because of jobs & (lack of) money, stop wasting everyones time by pretending you understand so yoy can lecture us about how actually we are empirically wrong because of a relative metric, its fucking embarrassing for everyone

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Stop trying to contort yourself into a pretzel so that you can feel sympathetic to the people who are saying everything is a nightmare. Most of those people aren’t suffering, they’re brainwashed by media or lying. By refusing to disagree with them you’re manifesting their delusions in the real world

ik its not about me yadda yadda w/e i have like 5 followers on here. but jesus christ the level of apathy, high-handedness & outright contempt for even just the demand for moral consistency being shown by majority of US rn towards palestinian genocide has me more politically jaded than ever before

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but most of the US is deeply familiar with israel, and if you werent before there have been perpetual protests & organization since oct7 trying to inform ppl of the broader context & stakes, & still an active genocide fully backed by the US is lower priority than someones opinion of fucking trump

it doesnt even feel like confused, bated breath out of fear of coming down wrong on an issue they dont understand but thats clearly important. that i would understand. but the general feeling is mostly just indignant annoyance at needing to worry about truth or have consistent principles

ik its not about me yadda yadda w/e i have like 5 followers on here. but jesus christ the level of apathy, high-handedness & outright contempt for even just the demand for moral consistency being shown by majority of US rn towards palestinian genocide has me more politically jaded than ever before

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but to see the same people who revel in their liberal mythologies of civil rights protests, shitty oscar bait holocaust flicks, etc., be so credulous of outright genocide apologism AT BEST & often fully supporting it in their own pathetic, pushover, holier-than-thou pearlclutching way

i already knew all this rationally, but it is so deflating and demoralizing to see this especially american bloodthirsty lethargy everywhere all the time. its one thing when its some truly distinct obscure conflict ppl are truly unfamiliar with e.g. tigray war in ethiopia, etc

ik its not about me yadda yadda w/e i have like 5 followers on here. but jesus christ the level of apathy, high-handedness & outright contempt for even just the demand for moral consistency being shown by majority of US rn towards palestinian genocide has me more politically jaded than ever before

like all in all the major shift in sympathy towards palestinians among US youth & the sustained, excellent protests are an unambiguously huge improvement over general attitude towards zionism even a year ago

got banned by that jbouie guy a while back for making a comment that i thought was defending his position but he called me a kremlin propagandist for calling the maidan revolution a coup lol. overall seems like a decent guy as far as New York Crimes writers go but come on

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liberals have endless tolerance for ambiguity when it comes to horrific conflicts anywhere else in the world but as soon as western media zeros & floods moralism about something they act like youre talking about ancient aliens if you suggest there is context

the way western press completely uncritically ran the "uyghur genocide" stories for years with only fucking hong kong tabloids & sketchy state department memos as sources, then become paragons of caution about genocide terminology for palestine where endless data is readily available, disgusting

got banned by that jbouie guy a while back for making a comment that i thought was defending his position but he called me a kremlin propagandist for calling the maidan revolution a coup lol. overall seems like a decent guy as far as New York Crimes writers go but come on

not suggesting anybody gotta spend a lot of time evaluating each comment but i didnt even insinuate anything resembling support for putin or the russian federation, & its not like seeing US backed coups for what they are is some fringe russophile opinion

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It will never not stupefy me that there exist people who sincerely, with some combined action of their heads & hearts, think that the number of Palestinian dead just sort of stopped at 30K for months, or who doubt even that number, who don't know how bombs or building collapse or starvation work.

gaza ministry of health has been entirely transparent to the point that even this absurd framing credits them for "corrected" numbers, meanwhile the entire healthcare infrastructure has been destroyed, am i wrong to assume deaths are being conservatively reported possibly by 10s of thousands?

obviously this article & person posting it are bad faith sociopathic genocide apologists, but really w/r/t the numbers coming out, wasnt it 20,000 reported dead 2 months in and then that count plateaued, im assuming bc there was no longer an effective means to report # of dead/missing reliably?

i do actually think the priority given to education about the holocaust in the US has been a net good in shaping many young peoples confidence in identifying & denouncing genocide, even if the emphases of that education has a lot of problems & leaves a lot to be desired

one of the biggest problems is the emphasis on gas chambers & camps as compared to the einsatzgruppen, latter of which is what most genocides look like: regular soldiers sweeping thru settlements, killing everyone & burning it to the ground, and calling that war

as much as its repeated that the gas chambers were a way of letting genocidaires depersonalize the massacres, leaves out the obvious facts that 1. genocidaires are as often as not eagerly involved in the slaughter 2. bombs & artillery are just as good at depersonalization

might be starting to actually believe in appointment by lots as an alternative to voting lol. whatever, compromise with a mixed system of elected reps/lottery reps, have some basic vetting process, idc. at the very least it would be funny

2 options i allow myself are procrastinate papers until 48 hours before theyre due, or start on them early & consistently work on them but expand the content and length of the paper so far that im still grinding to get it done the day its due

whats always funny abt attributing political sympathies/activity to "wanting to be cool", "virtue signalling", "trying to get laid" etc whatever, is you need to be already be very jaded to not just see that as, yeah compassion & a sense of justice are generally likeable & attractive qualities

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social

Today in condescending bullshit, Nate Silver thinks students are protesting genocide because it’s cool rather than because it’s moral.