Vocal participation in a genocidal system is endorsement of it. You can’t tell people to vote for one of the parties of Capital one year and then suddenly tell people that actually it needs to be overthrown and think that’s going to happen 5 years later.

At some point you have to commit to it being “broken” (actually working as intended of course) and organize based entirely on the fact that it is and can not be supported in any way whatsoever. We’re long past that point with the “lesser evil” party currently committing genocide.

Successful revolutions in the past have used elections primarily as a way to show the size of the movement, never by endorsing a party of Capital. Specially not one committing a genocide.

put sanctions on Israeli settlers

To pretend like it’s not state-supported settler colonialism and just an individual thing, and he even walked that back lmao. You’d expect the supposed “lesser evil” candidate to do the bare minimum of stopping all relations with “israel” when it’s committing a genocide in full view of the world.

freeze military aid to Israel

Biden bypasses congress to send weapons to the israel faster

(this one and a “why voting is a bad idea if you are a left wing person” video) the logic of which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if you take it at face value […] With no particular other solutions to offer

Easy to tell you didn’t even watch the video lol

• But What Can Do?

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The answer is to organize, since you don’t seem to have the patience to watch a video, seeing as how you put it through fucking chat gpt lmao. Why are you trusting shitty LLMs with political stuff?

Can’t get away from shitlibs even on Lemmy it seems lol

Good fucking video

From the comments:

So there is such a thing as Occidentalism but it’s not the yin to the yang of Orientalism as some may think. Most often, it takes the form of irrational hostility towards the West. Things like rejecting well researched truths presented by Western academia solely on the basis that it’s Western. I’ve been highly critical of this in my videos, as it obfuscates “anti-colonialism,” with anti-Western bigotry in order to get away with it. Occidentalism as a stereotypical view of the West, however, doesn’t really exist as a perfectly symettrical counterpart to Orientalism.

The reason why it’s mostly a one way street, and non-Westerners are generally better at representing the West than the other way around is because the West is currently the hegemon of this planet, in terms of cultural soft power. Therefore everyone around the world is intimately familiar with the generalities of Western culture because everyone is exposed to it.

The average Iranian who lived in Tehran all their life can tell a British accent is distinct from Scottish, and we do associate Received Pronunciation British with “posh.” They do know the organ is a church instrument. Typical Western associations are well known to the average Iranian in Tehran.

At the beginning of the video, my uncle and I mention Mozart and Ketèlbey, Western Classical composers, and the musical form of “alla turcas,” and “Baroque music”. That’s because every musician in the world knows Western music and its genres, styles, composers, etc. But it may take you months to find a single Classical Western musician who knows the names of Sheydā, Dimitrie Cantemir, or who know what the terms “peşrev” or “kalofonía” mean, and what musical forms they refer to.

All musicians around the world can play Western music. We all do chords, harmony, play the piano and guitar; we all know and are familiar with Western music theory. Only a tiny fraction of Western musicians learn any music theory outside of their own. There’s a reason why Western musicians are the only ones who call their form of ethnic music “Music Theory,” whilst everywhere else, even between them, people preface their music theory with the cultural specifier like “Iranian music theory,” “Japanese music theory,” etc. I’m aware that this presents a rather unflattering picture of the West, but please understand that this is not a consequence of us non-Westerners being oh so wiser. Not trying to portray Westerners as inherently bad or evil. If we were the current cultural hegemons of the planet, we’d be just like that. In 500 years, if China or Brazil become the next superpower, they’ll be the ones generally ignorant about other cultures whilst everyone else knows about them. Average Westerners aren’t ignorant by default, they simply naturally embody the traits of a region with hegemonic global cultural influence, and we non-Westerners are simply luckier than them because unlike them, we all grow up listening to both our music, and Western music.

TLDR: everyone in the world knows that Madonna exists. Most Westerners have no idea who Fairuz or Shajarian are. That’s just how it is due to the current geopolitical context. But that’s just this context. In 500 years, if Central Asia becomes the next cultural hegemon, they’ll be the exact same.

JT just can’t miss

• The American Dream Is Alive. In China.

I mean yeah, any successful socialist revolution will naturally seek good relations with the most powerful socialist state of all. Doesn’t really answer their question though.

With the USSR overthrown, virtually all mainstream media now is capitalist propaganda. And the capitalist class obviously would not want the working class to prefer a system where workers are in power.

As always, liberals’ “support” for national liberation movements only extends to words, if even that.

They’ll gladly support genocide in practice while capitalism gradually decays into fascism, as they’ve let happen in Europe in the past.

“The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative.”
- Malcolm X

Vocal participation in a genocidal system is endorsement of it. You can’t tell people to vote for one of the parties of Capital one year and then suddenly tell people that actually it needs to be overthrown and think that’s going to happen 5 years later.

At some point you have to commit to it being “broken” (actually working as intended of course) and organize based entirely on the fact that it is and can not be supported in any way whatsoever. We’re long past that point with the “lesser evil” party currently committing genocide.

Successful revolutions in the past have used elections primarily as a way to show the size of the movement, never by endorsing a party of Capital.

Organize. Endorsing a genocidal party won’t stop them from committing genocide.

Which just means “tolerating” the capitalist exploitation of workers.

It’s why liberals always passively “tolerate” the decay of capitalism into fascism as is what happened in Germany and Italy, and seems to be happening in the US. They oppose socialist revolution against the capitalist state, because fascism does not harm Capital.

"…the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ ”
- MLK

deleted comments are complaining about pronouns

Hexbear being based as always

• What Exactly is Liberalism? (no, it’s not about being “woke”)

• What is Socialism?

• The Problem With Harm Reduction: Why Liberalism Won’t Solve Anything

Conservatives are conservatives because they’re completely politically illiterate lol; of course they won’t use terms like “liberals” and “socialists” correctly.

Conservatives are liberals too, i.e they support private property and capitalism, even if western conservatives like calling anyone not far-right liberals.

The liberals that don’t support israel are left-leaning radlibs, and those are clearly not the majority of Reddit users as the last few months have made clear.

Socialist instance bringing up socialism 🤯

Hexbear is a leftist-unity instance of mostly socialists, communists, and anarchists.

Most people on Reddit are liberals (just look at how pro-israel Reddit is right now), so naturally alot of people migrating from Reddit didn’t like it.

That’s mostly been lemmy.world libs in my experience

it’s just bridge between Africa and Asia and nothing to do with holy land

Correct. That’s why zionism’s founder proposed colonizing it, and why the br*tish supported its colonization.

It being an important place or whatever in some religions probably made manufacturing consent a bit easier.

Religion is a consequence of class society and a region’s material conditions. Seeing anything entirely through the lens of religion is not very materialist.

This. I used to associate everything with religion after leaving islam, and realizing it’s merely a consequence of class society was a key trigger for becoming a socialist for me.

Ironically, by trying to see everything through the lens of religion during that time instead of thinking materially, I was still stuck in a religious mindset even after supposedly leaving it.

Critical support to spez

You probably shouldn’t be accessing a linux distro’s website from mobile but yeah the site does look weird and amateur

Windows 11 is what finally got me to permanently switch over to Linux too lol