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[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

But it’s not “traumatic.”

Never said it was.

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

We don't even have to bring in epigenetics into this. You spend your time oppressing and abusing those you seeas lesser than, that will carry over into your behaviour as a person. Infamously cops go home and beat their wives.

I mean, humans who work in slaughterhouses experience mental anguish and other adverse effects. Imagine inflicting that kind of pain to humans. I think even prison guards, who could somehow logically justify what they do, also experience mental health problems. No wonder many of them "break" and become abusive monsters. But then how can one be an abusive monster 9-5 and then "switch off"? One can't, it's now 24/7.

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

Precisely!

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

“People who are descended from people…” makes it sound like eugenics.

Perhaps I should have written "People who were raised by people that..."?

If you think people from Africa are worth less than people in Europe, then what motivation do you have to teach your kids the opposite? You may even keep your racism to yourself, but you can't change your actions. A little European kid notices that their parents don't hang out with anyone else but their own countrymen for example. That's enough for the kid to view everyone else as "the other".

So it isn't so much genetics, but what children are exposed to. If a parent small talks and laughs with random countrymen you see around, but then keeps it short with foreigners and doesn't have the same rapport, children pick up on that.

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But superiority and racism are something that’s taught.

Yes. And those Nazis or whatever who have kids, they're not educating them in racism every day? Doesn't even have to be "education" but just how they refer (or not refer) to other people. Children are very good at learning by watching. That is how we learn to live in society.

the woman who avenged Che Guevara was the daughter of a nazi

An exception that proves the rule?

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

you have to rebuild your social life from scratch or just put up with being surrounded by evil assholes.

Guess which one most people choose...

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the response

are we talking about wounded nervous systems and their consequences

Definitely this. It's one of the reasons why Nazis invented gas chambers, because they saw the psychological damage murder inflicted on their soldiers. They didn't want there to be tens of thousands of mentally damaged maniacs in their new Reich. So they had Jews from the camp lead other Jews into the gas chambers and they had Jews pull them out and stuff them into crematoria. This way the German soldiers would not witness/experience all of the horrors they were inflicting. But gas chambers are unique in history, all other times humans committed genocide or atrocities they did it "by hand".

Though these surely have some overlap, I don’t think they are quite the same

I don't think they're the same. But for example a slave owner, regardless of how they treat their slaves are still a slave owner. Their way of thinking, speaking, viewing the world will be passed onto their children, then that will probably get passed onto their children.

I can't think of examples in the West when people were forced to confront their past. It's always "oh, that was my dad/grandad, it has nothing to do with me".

You get a situation where people's thinking and worldview hasn't changed significantly, yet they believe they are somehow changed just because some time has passed.

 

If we all agree that a people can experience trauma on a large scale and that trauma can then pass onto the descendants, then the reverse must also be true -- a people who have inflicted trauma on a large scale pass that experience onto the descendants.

People who are descended from people from slave-owning and imperialist nations carry with them the scars of slave ownership, genocide, oppression. It shows in the way they act, speak, think. Their worldview is informed by their history as masters of "lesser people".

 

And as soon as HTS are done torturing people, I am sure we will hear all abouabout "Assad's torture city".

Meanwhile, the US has an actual torture city in Cuba lol

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Literal murder, and for what?

One woman on the train said that Mr Neely made lunging movements that scared her enough to shield her young child from him.

lmao. The murderer was just looking for an excuse to hurt someone.

Prosecutors said Mr Penny placed Mr Neely in a chokehold for six minutes, compressing his neck even after he stopped moving.

They argued that Mr Penny had acted "recklessly" by restraining Mr Neely for several minutes even after he lost consciousness.

"He's dying," said an unseen bystander in one passenger's video. "Let him go!"

A medical examiner ruled Mr Neely's cause of death as compression to the neck.

I wonder what the demographics and socio-economic status of the jurors was.

 

US officials have said they are monitoring the developing situation. "Our thoughts are with the French people fighting for democracy," said the White House Spokesperson, adding that any attempts by Macron to use violence to stifle the peaceful protests will be met with condemnation and heavy sanctions.

Meanwhile, in Bruxelles Ursula von der Leyen said that it is obvious the French people want change and freedom. "We have been worried by reports coming from France, the EU stands with the people of France and will do anything to help assist a peaceful transition of power", she said.

In cities across Europe people have come out into the street to protest against Macron, holding banners that say "Macron = murderer" and "ICC Trial for Macron now!" Countries bordering France have increased security on their borders and all European airline operators have temporarily suspended flights to and from France.

Many are saying Macron will not go without a fight, describing him as an old, sick man with nothing to lose, desperately clinging to power.

 

Notice how they write about Syria (a recognised state entity) defending its sovereignty and fighting Tukey-aligned rebels.

 

I can't wait for the inevitable "All of Russia's men are dead, the soldiers fighting for Russia are Korean. We did it reddit!"

 

Sunken cost fallacy.

 

I went through Trump's cabinet picks' stance on Ukraine. Only one person is pro-UA and anti-Russia, the rest are various degrees anti-UA, pro-RU. This leads me to ~~believe~~ hope that the aid to Ukraine from the US will stop soon after Trump becomes president, and soon after the war. HOWEVER !!! this does not mean that these people are "good" or should be supported, it's still a cavalcade of fascists, racists, nationalists, China hawks, bigots, Zionists, etc. !!!

I apologise for the poor formatting, the person's stance is in the spoiler below their name.

CABINET:

  • Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (obviously anti-UA, NATO-skeptic, became infamous after her support of Assad)
  • Matt Gaetz as Attorney General (anti-UA, he's actually on the myrotvorets list)
  • Marco Rubio as Secretary of State
    anti-Ukraine aidRubio's public statements on Ukraine appear to be very much in line with Trump's broad plans for the war — a swift end to it.
    Rubio's statements and actions have been very much geared towards negotiation and an end to the war rather than giving Ukraine what it needs to evict Russian forces from its territory.
    Rubio was among the 15 Republican lawmakers in the Senate who voted against the $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine, which eventually passed in April 2024. Its delay severely hampered Ukraine's fight against Russian forces.
  • John Ratcliffe for CIA Director
    China hawkAs director of national intelligence, Ratcliffe focused on space issues and on China, which he labeled as America’s primary threat.
    John Ratcliffe was one of the sharpest critics of former Attorney General Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
  • Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security
    anti-Ukraine aidRBC-Ukraine pointed out that Kristi Noem had opposed US assistance to Ukraine in the context of her potential appointment as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Doug Collins as Secretary of Veteran Affairs
    anti-Ukraine aidCollins balked at the suggestion the military aid would have saved Ukrainian lives and that "this money did not stop that." He later referenced the testimony of under secretary of political affairs David Hale, who in November said the military aid for was "future assistance ... not to keep the army going now."
  • Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior <-- only pro-UA
    pro-UA aid, anti-RUDoug Burgum (R) bluntly stated that the United States is “actually at war with Russia.” What is his take on the House not including military aid funding for Ukraine in the stopgap measure?
    When it comes to sending Ukraine military aid, Burgum points to Ukraine’s ability to have already taken “out a huge chunk of [Russia’s] capability,” adding, “I don’t call that irresponsible spending, I call that a bargain.” The Republican governor did add a caveat, though: “There’s no blank checks — there has to be accountability. We have to track every dollar.”
  • Lee Zeldin as Head of the Environmental Protection Agency
    all I could find on his stance on UA(doesn't think US should send troops to defend Ukraine
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Head of Health and Human Services
    anti-UA, geopolitic realist, blames NATO for war in Ukraine"He’s in Ukraine because he warned us he was gonna go in Ukraine if we put NATO in Ukraine, and the Russians, not just Putin, the Russian leadership have been warning us of that since 1992, when we promised we would never do that. ... And James Baker famously said to him, 'We will not move NATO one inch to the East.' Now we’ve moved it 1000 miles to the East, 14 countries. We put nuclear-ready weapons, missile systems, remain in Poland, 12 minutes from Moscow. So we could decapitate the entire soviet leadership in 12 minutes, and we walked away from the two nuclear weapons treaties unilaterally, we had two intermediate weapons treaties with Russia, and we unilaterally walked away from both. So we’re sending a message to Russia, you were the enemy, we are surrounding you and we’re going to put NATO everywhere. Russia has always said this, what you’re doing, is wrong, it is hurting our national security, it is hurting our sovereignty, but the one thing you should never do is go into Ukraine because if you go into Ukraine, we gotta get you out. And they have good reason for that. Russia has been invaded three times through Ukraine, ..."

WHITE HOUSE:

  • Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff (she was the head of Trump's campaign)
  • Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser
    China hawk, pro-NATO, pro-peace in UAWaltz is also on the Republicans' China Task Force and has argued the U.S. military is not as prepared as it needs to be if there is conflict in the Indo-Pacific region.
    Waltz laid out a five-part strategy to preventing war with China, including arming Taiwan faster, re-assuring allies in the Pacific, and modernizing planes and ships.
    On Ukraine, Waltz has said his views have evolved. After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, he called for the Biden administration to provide more weapons to Kyiv to help them push back Russian forces.
    But during an event last month, Waltz said there had to be a reassessment of the United States' aims in Ukraine.
    "Is it in America's interest, are we going to put in the time, the treasure, the resources that we need in the Pacific right now badly?" Waltz asked.
    Waltz has praised Trump for pushing NATO allies to spend more on defense, but unlike the president-elect has not suggested the United States pull out of the alliance.
  • Tom Homan as Border Czar (lol what a dumb title)
    can't find anything on UkraineBecause he's super into "border security" so probably doesn't have a stance on UA. probably an "against aid to UA until the border is fixed" type. Not pro-UA, probably couldn't find Ukraine on the map tbh and he probably doesn't care about Ukraine.
  • Stephen Miller as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
    anti-immigration, pro-USA nationalist fascistCan't find anything on his stance in Ukraine, probably doesn't think about or give a fuck about Ukraine.
  • Dan Scavino as Deputy Chief of Staff (Trump's former Goebbels, moving up in the world)
    Trump sycophant, anti-UA if Trump isScavino was the longest-serving aide in the Trump Administration. He remained as Director of Social Media until the end of Trump's term as president.

AMBASSADORS:

  • Steven Witkoff as Special Envoy to the Middle East
    ZionistHis selection, which requires Senate confirmation, was widely welcomed by Israeli officials who oppose a Palestinian state, a longstanding U.S. goal.
    Steven Witkoff, who was named on Tuesday as the incoming administration’s Middle East envoy, raised a vast amount of money for Mr. Trump’s campaign — including from Jewish voters after the Biden administration stopped shipping some bombs to Israel.
  • Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel
    pro-Israelthe right wing of Israeli politics has welcomed the president-elect’s appointment of Huckabee, seeing it as predicting another term of American policy highly favourable to their longstanding aims of holding on to territory in the West Bank and expanding settlements.
    The appointment was greeted with joy by two far-right ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich messaged his congratulations to “a consistent and loyal friend", while Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister, wrote "Mike Huckabee" with heart emojis.
  • Elise Stefanik as Ambassador to the United Nations
    changed from pro-UA to anti-UA now that Trump picked herNew York Rep. Elise Stefanik, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US ambassador to the United Nations, is now refusing to stand by her previous push for Ukraine’s NATO membership — a stance she once framed as critical to regional stability.
    Her office also declined to say whether she still believes Russia committed genocide in Ukraine, as she said in 2022.
[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who seriously listens to Zizek and bases their view of the world on him?

Many people do. But nobody "bases" their worldview on Zizek. He has made some important contributions to psychoanalysis and critique of ideology. One has to separate Zizek the philosopher, Zizek the politician and Zizek the pop culture philosopher.

 

These people are out of their minds.

 
 

b's analysis:

I doubt that he will be able to close down the war in 24 hours, as he had promised. I rather think that he will escalate it.

Trump will likely select (neo-conservative) hawks to run his defense and foreign policies. They will take all possible measures, even against Trump's declared will, to keep the war going. For them it is down to the last Ukrainian, then down to the last European - if only to show that the U.S. will never give up.

To cover for this Trump and his acolytes may well offer an immediate ceasefire. But that will not work.

The war will go on. Russia will have to, as Gordon Hahn predicts, cross the Dnieper, retake Odessa and threaten Kiev. Zelenski is unlikely to politically survive such a situation.

Only a direct intervention by NATO, could be able to change that trajectory. That however would likely expand the war into a global contest that not even Trump's hawks will want to pursue.

I am actually hoping Trump follows up on his promise of ending the war quickly, by stopping the weapons deliveries and money, and forces Zelenskyy to negotiate with Russia. Trump is a populist and I am pretty sure his staff is feeding him correct information on the opinions on the war: most Americans are cooling off it with a large number against it, Germany is in chaos, EU is out of equipment/ammo to send. It is obvious that the US needs to continue providing the bulk of the support, which Trump, if he wants to be popular, won't do.

Sounds ridiculous, but Putin just needs to offer Trump something good. lol

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Russia is so incompetent they couldn’t even defeat just one country in NATO, Poland

How do you know this? What are the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow?

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Remember when that Polish minister knelt at the Bandera monument?

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Goodbye any fear Europe had of Russia. They can’t defeat Poland much less all of NATO.

I think you'll find the war is in Ukraine, not Poland. Easy mistake to make for an American.

 

War is peace.

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