There’s 3 great resources.
One is Abby Martin’s Empire Files. It shows raw the attrocities of Israelis.
The other is Max Blumenthall from the Grayzone. He is very good at speaking about Israel’s oppression.
There’s also the Electronic Intifada, which is very good at analyzing Palestinian misery.
I think after the war in Ukraine finishes, BRICS will be evolving more and more quickly. Part of that will probably be the induction of Turkey in BRICS. If that happens, then there’s a very serious possibility that the US-Turkish relations will be coming to a head. That could escalate into a series of events (which might also involve Greece), where Turkey exits or gets expelled from NATO. Turkey being the second largest military force in NATO, its exit might create serious internal issues.
Furthermore, in the very likely scenario that Israel comes out as a loser in its current insanity, that would weaken NATO’s position even further.
In the meantime, if Russia achieves a significant victory and territorial expansion, Europe will have to find a way to co-exist with its neighbor. Western European countries will be hesitant, but eventually they’ll try to reinstate diplomatic and trade relations with Russia, particularly after experiencing a long recession and inability to sustain themselves by importing expensive fuel, steel and other things from the US. They’ll have no choice but to turn to the much cheaper Russian and Chinese (and perhaps decolonized African) solutions. That would mean further divergence of European foreign policy from US foreign policy.
Eastern Europeans are a kind of wildcard, but at least some of them will decide that the new NATO is not enough to support them in a conflict, so they’ll try to lower their belligerence towards Russia and normalize relations as well. Especially if Western Europe seems to be getting along with Russia, nations like Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, maybe Czechia and Poland as well, will be moving closer to Russia.
The US might try to influence the situation in the opposite direction, but unless they do something drastic a la Nord Stream pipeline attack, they won’t really be able to stem the tide. Their only other realistic option is to stoke a (proxy or limited) conflict between US and China, which will drag Europe alongside the US. And even then, it will just prolong the final outcome.
You should probably aim for labor law then.
I’m guessing harbormaster Nielsen and the Politiken editor have found that gas for heating their homes this coming winter is getting to be a lot more expensive than it used to be.
I was really expecting that the people honoring Nazis by erecting statues for them and naming streets after them were not Nazis. (Neat wiki article, be sure to check the Talk page too)
Remove the red X and use it as a Queer Communism symbol. Be sure to thank the creator for the inspiration.
What they are really saying is “Stop genociding yourself Hamas”. Quintissential victim blaming.
Oh what a surprise…
It is mostly a Western phenomenon. The worst of it is in the US and UK. Less so in the rest of Europe, but still exists. It’s mostly propagated through the internet.
So I’ll probably gather some hate for this post.
Putting the shitty reactionary channels aside (Critical Drinker and Think Before You Sleep are borderline fascist; dunno about the other two), I will say that there’s a point to be made here:
Liberal establishment is actively attempting to insert feminism, “wokeness”, racial issues, etc, into everything they do, including media. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’d say on it’s own it’s a good thing.
Many such efforts are done very badly, and end up backfiring. Bad writing, hamfisting the message, messing with established canon, etc, are destined to create backlash in the audience. A lot of the reaction being generated here is caused by the inability to mesh message with story. For example, 1960s Star Trek was well written, and its messages were widely accepted by most people (except in very extreme cases). The more recent Queen’s Gambit was universally praised, because it had excellent writing, despite boasting a very strong female lead and centering on men attempting to control women. On the other hand, even a half-decent show like Jessica Jones will generate controversy, when every single male character in the show is shown to be an asshole, whether their screen time spans multiple episodes or only happens for a few seconds. That’s just not good writing. But when most people’s brains notices this stuff, they don’t immediately blame the writing, but rather resort to more instinctive accusations.
Because of #2, reactionary channels such as Critical Drinker, are having a field day by producing content that combines disaster porn and persecution syndrome with true-sounding criticism of such films and series. Thus, they are able to accumulate a critical mass of subscribers and spread their reactionary fascist propaganda to people who are largely not politically educated. Bad efforts to spread an otherwise good message have always been and always will be hurting the cause rather than helping it. When you were just getting into communism, have you tried telling your friends about it? So many times that they started shutting down every time you brought it up? This is the same effect on a larger scale.
Because the message is coming from liberals, the way it’s presented is also liberal. That means there’s a serious lack of context and thought in the way it’s presented. Usually it ends up being coated in layers of moral superiority and snickering, which makes things even worse.
A bunch of grifters are taking advantage of this wave of progressiveness to make money. For example, you have companies who specialize on “woke consulting”. What these companies do is that they come in to production companies of various media and tell them “Oh this thing you are producing doesn’t have enough equality in it. Pay us so we can tell you how to fix it”. And when the company doesn’t pay, they’ll use sockpuppets, bots, and other social media manipulation to generate “controversy”, which then plays badly for the upcoming release, and the producers end up paying to make the problem go away. As audiences are becoming aware of this, it’s making things worse, by giving credence to the idea of a “woke agenda trying to control our culture”.
At the end, perhaps creating controversy is exactly the purpose here. The “culture wars” might be nothing more than an orchestrated effort to direct eyes, ears and brains away from inequality in real life, climate change issues, wars, corruption, the failures of capitalism, the ever-expanding totalitarianism of the West, etc etc. Moreover, slimes like the Democrats are taking advantage of these “wars” to score cheap political points without actually doing anything tangible.
Sorry for the long rant. I didn’t mean to initially. It just got out, because I’ve had these thoughts milling in my head for a while now.
And just to be clear, these channels can go fuck themselves.
What do you mean who I am?
I’m not asking to dox yourself, but to identify if you already have other accounts. So have you ever posted here from lemmy.world?
Can I ask why that’s an issue?
I think we should allow the community to continue to post reactionary electoralist nonsense from clickbait tabloids because it drives the capitalists crazy
Capitalists don’t care. Capitalists commodify everything, so us giving them clicks is profit for them.
whenever they find out that people are actually reading stuff that doesn’t fit the main narrative when it comes to shitty US politics.
I wouldn’t call performative theatre clickbait articles to “not fit the main narrative”. If you were posting from actual resistance sources, that’d be a different story.
And since most people on Lemmy think that I’m a Russian troll, trying to avoid the front lines, it makes them more suspicious and angry, and may actually force them to actually think about the bullshit they say for once.
Their paranoia is such that it is making them lose their minds, so we may as well let them know that they haven’t won in their fight to thwart conversation and true choice.
So why not create this community on Lemmy?
Can you explain why it’s not a good fit, or what I should be posting there in order to better fit the theme of Lemmygrad?
I think people are explaining quite well why it’s not a good fit. Lemmygrad is a leftist space and we like to keep it that way. Your account is suspicious. You are posting shit sources.
Could you please answer the questions posted throughout this thread? Like:
Who are you? Do you have other accounts?
Why would a 15-hour-old account be creating 3 communities?
Why are you creating the same communities on both Hexbear and Lemmygrad (and who knows where else)?
Perhaps it’ll help deconvert liberals attracted to it.
It has 3 posts by the creator/mod and 2 comments by other people. So on that regard, it’s too early to tell how reactionary it’ll get (though the Daily Mail posts don’t help).
At this stage, if it bothers you too much, you can always block it, to stop it from appearing in your feed.
On the other hand, the creator’s account is 14 hours old at the time I post this comment, which is suspect. They have already created 3 communities. 1 is the community in question. The other 2 seem to be dedicated in promoting socialist causes in the current US elections. There’s 2 possibilities to explain this: Either this is a current Lemmygrad member/lurker who decided they wanted to set up some election communities, but decided to do it using an alt. Or this is a sockpuppet account who is setting up communities where elections will be discussed and they are positioning themselves to control the conversation and insert their own propaganda. The possibility that this is a genuine new account who decided within a few hours of joining Lemmygrad to create 3 new whole communities, is quite remote. I also find it suspicious that each community has posts from sources that would be sympathetic to the ideologies of who they think will be using those communities.
Therefore, my vote would be to reserve judgement until the creator account is investigated.
I can’t be bothered to go digging for it, but there was a comment chain about USSR occupying Poland and someone said they did biological experiments on Polish people, in collaboration with Nazis, and that’s how we got diseases like covid. Probably a crazy one, or I’m misunderstanding some form of sarcasm.
The comments are like an overdose of shit reactionaries say.
You’ve got people doing the “Russian man drunk” stereotype. You have people saying how Putin stood up to greet king charlie, and that’s supposed to show UK is the dominant force in the world. You have the usual “Putin dictator” crowd. People blaming the holocaust on the Soviets signing the NAP with Nazi Germany. People blaming the Soviet Union for the pandemic. You’ve got some uber-Christians praising Trump and Mike Pence (who apparently delivered a speech at this thing). The circus never ends.
Something something… monopoly on violence… something something
NAFO has turned out to be a scam just a few months ago.
Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked ‘Oh, you aren’t even ripe yet! I don’t need any sour grapes.’ People who speak disparagingly of things that they cannot attain would do well to apply this story to themselves.
Aesop
“It is a violent and racist program, where people pretending to be violent ICE officers got to hold guns and fire them in role-play situations where agents pretended to be immigrants,” said Ian Head, Open Records project manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) a legal center advocating and defending human and constitutional rights.
It’s as if the US government is training and arming white racist gun-toting militias. Curious… Hmmmmm!
By the way, it’s worth looking at the presentations linked by the article. Especially this one:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1768KW4pKjW1HGF8qEz5mwT0ncwiXH13b/view (go to slide 20 and read on)
And this one:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hR8m3j1zffTn5fkdZj4YR-mWV07wmxn_/view#page=4
“Ain’t nothing racist about being racist. In fact, it just creeps me out being in the same room with you, you racist pigs!”