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submitted 11 months ago by Nagarjuna@hexbear.net to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

Turning the global conflict meter and looking back at the audience like a contestant on the price is right

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nagarjuna@hexbear.net to c/earth@hexbear.net

When environmentalists know how to win, that's when we save the earth. Take notes. Let's win again in Weelaunee.

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submitted 1 year ago by Nagarjuna@hexbear.net to c/earth@hexbear.net

This is what raking climate change seriously looks like

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but please don't say that too much, we don't want to carry water for the CCP

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

This isn't even an anticapitalist text dump on my part, just basic US history and sociology. If you're drawing anti capitalist conclusions from it, that's on you.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The New People's Army, a socialist guerilla force in the Phillipines fighting against the Marcos-Duterte regime and for democracy, land reform, indigenous sovereignty, gay rights and worker control of the economy.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

It's both. Disney is a strong brand and going after it feels like an attack to people with strong positive associations. DeSantis lost the Disney adult vote and that's got to be whole portions of a percent of his base.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's worth looking at how that environment is produced too. There's a need for cheap labor in agriculture, laundry, hospitality and textile industries that dovetails well with the US's history of anti-mexican racism (grounded in the need to dehumanizing indigenous people to steal their land as well as the US-Mexico war).

By controlling people's movement through the border regime, we can make them willing to take sub-minimum wage jobs, while also keeping Mexico poor through lopsided trade agreements like NAFTA and low level insurgency achieved by escalating the drug war and flooding the country with weapons.

In this context of US oppression of Mexicans, it becomes necessary to dehumanize them to justify the violence. This is where fox news comes in. Hell, even CNN plays a role by creating categories of migrants some good and some bad, and playing them against each other while justifying border control (think about the rhetoric about dreamers vs drug smugglers).

To change this environment, we either need to undercut this propaganda by organizing white and brown workers together, or either take back control of media from big business or make our own media with similar reach.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Why settle for being slightly better than America when you could be just as bad?

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I liked that they followed electoral politics, helping me fulfill my sick, taboo desires.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

correct opinions

Smh fucking liberal

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

You failed the order following test.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Something that feels illegal but you can buy it in a gas station.

Super excited that my box of whippits just federated with your kratom

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

We're at the stage in humor where instead of telling jokes, we're conditioning ourselves to laugh at an increasingly horrifying reality.

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Yet again the social democrat pivots right once in government. Crazy how this keeps happening. It's almost like we need revolutionary change which electoral institutions cannot offer, even when staffed by committed abolitionists.

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Post the links in the comments so folks can explore them and give their own input!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nagarjuna@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net

There's been discussion of federation with Lemmygrad. I think this is probably a good call. I just want to know how the anti-sectarian rule would be enforced. Like, it someone makes an anti-anarchist post on lemmygrad.ml and it shows up on hexbear.net, would the moderators hide the comment on our end but not on Lemmygrad? Would repeat offenders be banned from hexbear.net even though they made the comment on a different iteration?

Same for one of the bigger anarchist instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone which has good leftist and trans content but also has regular struggle sessions about "tankies." It seems like federation with then would be a boon for both sites, but moderating the left unity rule would be a nightmare.

Also, another thought: would downbears from other instances carry over here?

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Nobody wants to work anymore, but Oregon's willing to do something about it.

God bless the Soviet State of Oregon

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