it’s all been psychos since it was founded in 2002. it has gotten worse though now that all pretense that they do anything worthwhile or useful has been eroded

they’re a complete joke. more of the same shit as back in the 1800s when the british tried to justify their way of eating as being superior to the people they were colonizing, only now it’s white meathead influecers bulging with muscles they got from taking HGH that they won’t admit to saying our paleolithic ancestors ate mostly meat (they didn’t. our paleolithic ancestors ate meat ~1 time a week)

this is all just more of the same rewriting of the past, ignoring science, and trying to plunge the future into a modern dark age

effectively yes. this is a riot control device called a pepper ball charger. it launches paintball shaped and sized balls filled with what amonts to tear gas. the idea is to pelt crowds with them causing respiratory distress. it is a good idea when dealing with police to be prepared to deal with this by having on you:

• eye protection, the bigger the better
• well fitting n95 or kn95 masks
• water bottles
• protective gloves for your skin

optionally you may want to have:

• spray bottles with water
• salene solution

there are other things you’ll want in your kit, but these are the basics for dealing with pepper ball chargers

Dogbert. Your most active user who got instance banned. They do that all the time and you gas them up.

hasn’t seen the police form a defensive circle to protect nazis

and 2020s internet is a shocking direct parallel to the nazi mass media mechanism in the 1930s and 1940s.

more like our SS to NSA’s gestapo. though neither ane 1:1 comparisons to either. the real point our current point in the timeline is Dachau is already set up and popplated. like… we’re at around 1938 or something

this is the problem rooting a system of ethics in an authoritative morality. morality is socially assigned where as ethics are derived based on reaching consensus. whether or not something is morally right or wrong is nearly indistinguishable from whether or not something is legally allowed or disallowed. the Israelis have been programmed for 80 years to believe that theirs is the most moral army because their interpretation of the torah tells them it must be so. the nazis believed they were right, and so did the americans and british they were drawing inspiration from.

much better to focus on ethics derived on features of what it means to be human and what dignities we must all have respected as we navigate the world

this has also been the case for prior genocidal projects

if you think all of .ml is out of line, do what the rest of us do and instance block. however you are saying something completely out of alignment with any of what the rest of us can find and are absolutely certain you’re correct. all the rest of us are asking is that you direct us in a way that helps us understand where you’re coming from. Trump is chummy with dictators, but specifically nuclear ones. i don’t recall him ever palling around with Maduro. it seems to me that the US military has kidnapped him

oi BBC:

that’s some outright loser behavior

don’t think of MAGA/Trumpism as a political movement. it’s a death cult

so much appeasement happening in the world right now

i’ve had good luck with Brave Star and Gustin

that will never be on the ballot. the active socialist position is to vote for the least worst candidate with a chance of winning and organize on the margins to build the strength for a robust insurgency movement that can break the system and make a new one. organizing under hyperfascism is much more difficult than under neoliberal fascism. it’s why big businesses switch to supporting overt fascism in times of decay. yes, the calculus is a little different if you’re in a winner take all location with a heavy majority like maryland, illinois, or idaho. in those locations, go ahead, vote 3rd party to send a message that america isn’t homogenous or a binary. or spend your day organizing on the margins. but you have to understand that the most votes a third party candidate ever mustered was 18%, and that candidate was a right wing libertarian with some very concerning views on race.

election day is all about finding a way to make the other 364 days of resistance continue to be possible. they’ve become much more difficult under the republican controlled apparatus

this 100%. i’ve been shot by rubber bullets on 6 separate occasions as the police made protective circles around nazis to make them safe. even at those free speach zones, bring everything you need to diffuse riot control equipment just in case things get weird because they just well might.

our militarized police forces LOVE kettling people, beating them, and pepper spraying them. come prepared even if you think the protest you’re going to is safe

if you’re american seeking to flee now even if you yourself are not in danger, you are participating in a neoliberal colonial project. stay and help your vulnerable neighbors. you will do more to help venezuela and queer people by staying put, getting active, and studying groups like the zapatistas than you can by going to a future vassal state

it pisses me off. class solidarity should not be gated by international borders. it’s fine to focus your energy where you can apply it, but the idea that an imperial power should be allowed to dominate another country because it’s their sphere is bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South

not my defitition. and by the generally understood definition, Syria is not in the north and is surrounded by other countries also in the global south. where are you demarcating north? the equator? because it’d be better to think of it as being around Russia’s southern border, or around the Mediterranean sea based on how the countries of the global north treat the global south

Syria is absolutely part of the global south. you know the global south is primarily about economic exploitation and not geography, right? and good for you knowing these things. but most americans aren’t keyed into all this at all