Once our needs are satisfied, then our wants tents to escalate, indeed our wants become our needs.

-Michael Parenti: Reflections on the overthrow of communism

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  • I have a deceased a family member who was active in the resistance. I had a conversation about this topic with his relative, and she didn’t know it happened. I have never seen her as disappointed and angry as than.

    Lucky, he had a chance to kill a few Nazis during the war, and shoot a collaborator after the war that was responsible for the deportation of about 30 Jews. Couldn’t be more proud of him. Even after the war, he was critical of our imperialism, like in Indonesia and Korea.













  • Of course they do; they’ve been doing so since the onset of the genocide. I find it bizarre that people are celebrating all these crimes. When the colonial oppressor blew up all those pagers, many I know celebrated it as a strategic victory; don’t they care about all those innocent lives? They will even like the videos; what’s wrong with them?! I remember when I was growing up, we only had WikiLeaks, which featured such videos, but only the “strange ones” would watch them. Nowadays, this sort of horrific content seems so normalized. We truly live in a dark world…