it sounds kinda ambiguous at first but the article is a pretty good read imo. it depicts the “perfection” that is used to display victims n gaza and which (imo) was used against them when people fought back. The western leaders and press used this to switch from “tragedy” to “rightful counterattack” instead of understanding the horrendous situation in its entirety.

Very cool! Thank you. I just found that exact book recommended by others as well. I’ll have a look.

From my understanding, israel was put in the region by western colonialist powers through force and would have no legitimacy whatsoever. Correct me if I’m wrong.

After what happened in gaza and and other places, the whole population of israel must be tried for genocide and individually sentenced, based on their participation, same as citizens and heads of states of other countries worldwide.

Since the palestinian people can not live peacefully with unconvicted warcriminals (who would?), the situation in gaza and all other surrounding areas must be stabilized by someone who only cares about the oppressed (who always are the only ones that matter) and then, the future of the region must be determined by all people who live there and nobody else.

This may mean a one state solution but it is only for them to decide and western intervention is out of the question from that point forward.

I just saw a text saying something along the lines: “concentrations camps, as seen by the soviets and germans” and it shook me. Even natopedia does not list the soviet union as users of concentration camps. Is there any good ressource to refute such a stupid claim?

I dont think prison is an appropriate term. Although the prison system in the US is arguably a gruesome torture industry, this has much more similarities with the german concentration camps. The chaotic, inhumane housing of masses of people in the worst of conditions with no regard to human rights and sometimes even active participation in torture and murder.

Btw concentration camps were (in the beginning) not where they primarily killed people. They detained them under very similar conditions and a lot of them died there a most gruesome death but they had “Vernichtungslager” as well which had the primary use of industrially killing men, women and children, burning them and or burying them (sometimes alive).

This is fascism. There are no two ways about it. We are watching the beginning of another reich. Capitalism is pulling out the knives.

Its schroedingers everything outside nato. Russia is both completely incompetent but will overrun germany tomorrow (not joking, thats how german fear media argues). China is infiltrating the whole world with infrastructure that is both supporting terror regimes and too cheap to last a week, same as their engineers being slaves and building the most advanced buildings in the world.

I could go on for days. I recently dropped out of the brainwash machine and i’m regularly speechless of the mountain of lies.

Is there any literature on how the west was able to build this manipulation empire?

For the most part, he’s not wrong to do so. Unlike in most other administrations where the president’s office is a tightly-controlled environment with only a select few top aides given so-called “walk-in privileges,” Trump’s Oval is the center of his world of friends, confidantes, advisers and employees who often mill about nearby in the West Wing, even when they might not have much to do there.

I mean, sure. Thats totally normal, right?

Awesome! I run a luanti server (essentially open source minecraft).

Asking for a friend: how much were you joking about the mlpd?

There’s a new law which is supposed to come. Something about registers. It creeped me out so hard I didnt read all of it. Wife said they are starting with addicts who wer stationary “for their own benefit”. Well, that worked great in the past.

In germany they are starting to track disabled people btw. Not giving me the creeps at all. /s

Another noob here but lemmyist for years. Recently saw the light. I do see rightwingers of all kinds pop up (not here) rn in what I perceive to be strategic opinion shifting either with reddit-radicalized “centrists”, paid actors or bots. A lot of them have zero posts, some have only anti china, anti russia posts and are 4 weeks old and the mods wont do anything.

With palestine discussion escalating, I assume they’re mass manipulating to manage lemmy’s political stance. Most obvious is the outright manipulation on feddit.org with outright propaganda being pushed, which is kind of on par for germany though.

Just sharing my recent exp. Not trying to make a particular point. :)

I really appreciate this comment. It basically puts my general direction into words. I have constant discussions with healthy white folks with a bachelors degree and nearly six figures who say socialism is a nice idea but… It makes my skin crawl. I have lived through starvation and homelessness. it is incredibly hard to stay friendly in the face of such privilege.

You’re right. Its not a new model. That doesnt make it less stigmatizing imo. Example: autistic people are a lot more prone to stress induced mental health issues. This shifts the view from the capitalist murder machine to people who are “vulnerable”. That is the capitalist problem. Individualizing systemic issues. Industrial exploitation shouldnt exist, people who cant deal with that arent vulnerable, they are sane.

And no, imo people dont have to have a preexisting condition to fall prey to high tech emotional manipulation. Such tech should not exist.

Well, someone who is diagnosed with a mental health thing obviously counts as preexisting condition.

but interacting with a bleeding edge manipulation bot imo has no real known vulnerable groups.

it hasnt been scientifically examined before, which is its own clusterfuck.

Tldr: everyone has “preexisting conditions” if you throw untested malicious programmes at them. Its like saying a company has preexisting conditions to get hijacked by ransomware. Or a person has preexisting conditions to getting kidnapped.

It is individualizing a systemic issue.

“They’re walking wall street bankers onto the ice”

I dont see a problem wit this.

Everyone has certain traits. There are no “preexisting” conditions as binary things like a missing leg. Its more like a weak point in the spine that wasnt that bad but when they overextended it, it went bad. It would be kinda ableist to lable people who push these labels on people who cant handle literal manipulation machines.

Humans should not use AI unless absolutely necessary. Same as regular tv, gambling, etc. All this stuff is highly dangerous.

You just broke my brain. Thanks for this. :)

And another banger. Thank you for this on point explanation. :)

I dont know if I find this funny. Its a naked capitalism thing. It breeds lonelyness and even profits from its treatment - not its cure of course, dont be naive. Its basic empathy to understand this stuff imo.

It does however make me wanna do things to entitys that is written down in certain books and bears significant penalties.