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if this happened in Russia or Belarus we'd never hear the end of it with 'undemocratic' this and 'antidemocratic' that and the US would foment a coup over it with english-speaking 'influencers' and "NGOs"

Also I have no goddamn idea what the dude anchor said at the beginning lmao

why is john malkovich dressed up as lenin

yeah, and also I notice when talking about the kibbutzim that were hit, there is

1. a pretty dark and arbitrary conflation that "these were secular peace activists some of those people would drive Gazans to get healthcare" as if the same Gazans who got hospital rides were the same fighters who raided the kibbutzim, and also
2. that kibbutzim are treated like small rural collective farm communities with no strategic significance for an anti-occupation struggle, which even erasing the historical occupation context, that kibbutzim were settler-colonial projects backed by armed militias (which you shouldn't do); many kibbutzim are also often very very wealthy and even have big industrial manufacturing and high technology enterprises and large-scale privatized industrial agriculture. I think something like 40% of Israeli polity's agricultural food produce come from kibbutzim and nearly 10% of industrial output in general. And one of the kibbuttzim that was raided is the wealthiest kibbutz in the entire territory of Israel polity (I forget which one by name when I was reading up on it).

When looked at from this point of view, as an asymmetrical anti-colonial struggle compared to any other in history, this is aspect of the raid is all pretty banal and straightforward.

did.. did CHESS LIED TO ME?? (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ♚♗♞

thank god for the labels, I'd be lost otherwise

I mean yeah, depending on which way they were different, for sure. Material conditions and that. No baby is born fascist.

no, they don't think they will be treated equally; it is an inherent part of colonialism (from which white supremacy arose) to condition a projection of a 'reversed consequence' if power is let go by making the colonized subject into a 'dangerous' and 'unpredictable' embodiment of 'barbarity,' against whom the colonizer is instead a 'civilized' and 'rational' embodiment of 'good' in dialectical antithesis to it. It is where the ideological dynamic of 'civilizing the savages' comes from in the material relation of colonialism and its white supremacist expression in history (how European colonialism unfolded and reified its relations). ie. there is an underlying understanding in the white supremacist consciousness that "they want to do to us what we did to them or worse, and will if we let them" (the implication being, we can never 'let them,' meaning never give up vigilance and power over them, securing the colonial relation).

It comes out very obviously from white liberals in conversations about decolonization when they are pressed that they are not to and can not insert themselves into deciding 'how' the colonized 'should' carry out decolonization. There is a deep primal fear in this projection which dialectically necessarily grows out of the material relations of colonialism and colonization; as for there to be a colonizer there must be a colonized --- which inherently necessitates dehumanization and justifications for 'why' maintaining control and dominance over the colonized subject is "right," "natural," or "the only option." Which then cyclically reinforces the material relations to the material base --- land, resources, labor, means of production and subsistence and reproduction of labor. Cyclically because then every act of defiance and resistance against this colonial relationship by the colonized, in the perspective of this superstructural ethos, 'justifies' the claim of the 'dangerousness' and 'barbarity' of the colonized and so the colonizer's need to 'keep them under control'. As we saw it also with oct7 in Palestine. As we see in every uprising and riot of colonized people or major push against the structures and systems of their subjugation.

I recommend The Wretched of the Earth by Fanon for a good understanding of colonialism and decolonization and all its inter-relations.

The Yemenis also had the first communist-led government, the first socialist state in West Asia after they ousted the Brits and then won out over the Nasserists for power. There are still remnants in the regular people and in political actors of both socialist and non-socialist groups who were against reunification with the north just as there are newer trends and groups against foreign domination in general like and including the Houthi movement and other nationalist-islamic groups (over support of whom various left-wing and social democrat groups had their own splits over. A lot of different social trends and also different political factions with differing politics from that history, including some active secessionist groups involved in various sides in the civil-and-proxy-war.

Which all of this certainly doesn't help the region and its peoples which used to be occupied by the anglosphere stay out of the sights of, led by the US, the largest most violent empire in history whose interests shape global politics, as the apex of capitalist-imperialism grown to its highest stage in the form of global neo-colonialism. It's more of a neo-colonial involvement in an otherwise imperialist-driven regional power struggle for exploitation of resources (Southern Yemen was a big British Petroleum hub), inherited from the previous history, rather than a specific extermination plan of Yemenis in general. And in that it makes more cynical-bourgeois sense.

This is also all why the US previously, as always and many times in other countries and regions, sided with the royalists, compradors, jihadist fundamentalist terrorists, western-friendly regional imperialist powers, and general counter-revolutionary and opportunist forces against any and all Yemeni socialists and any and all national-oriented or geopolitical-rival-oriented social-democrats in every political struggle and conflict and civil war eruption they had. Unsurprising for the neo-colonials to target, alongside their regional imperialist allies, that which had previously for a century been a British colony.

And on world or

talking about bad events to say these bad events should stop so there aren't more bad events like it? wow, really low to push your agendas like that. dont you know you should never say anything to do anything smh

"They raided my condo and vehicle ... in west Phoenix with 25 heavily armed SWAT officers, and pointed a silenced assault rifle in my face."

they make sick jokes of themselves. pigs are such cowards and fascist man-children with murderous toys; trained to think they're super soldiers behind enemy lines. the dude was spraypainting "penis man" on buildings you doughy-soft hogs. In zero way does this, even from the perspective of regular bourgeois policing, indicate there is any kind of a threat that requires a goddamn military response in a swat team, as if he was spraypainting he has hostages and information that will lead to the arrest of hilary clinton. The authorities responsible for issuing and carrying out a swat raid on this, wanting to treat civil society like a war zone, should be in the same respect drumhead court martialed

"e-jihadists"

they don't even have an incisive enough view of the world or clever enough wit to be an effective court jester

is the drowzee from the pokemon,? I love himn

you're just describing Capital in general.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power

All capital is ossified value from past labor, which gave its "life" as labor to the expression of the value contained in its product, the realization of which occurs at the exact point the capitalist can parasitically extract its surplus which will be done; and when enough labor has been sucked up in large enough quantities, it is ossified as more capital upon which and toward the further augmentation of which, the 'next generation' of living labor will give its own 'life' just as all of the 'generations' of dead labor before it. It is no great surprise, then, that the capital of vulture capitalists in silicon valley are the same and function the same. As people have been saying online for a long time, under capitalism if you're not paying for the product, and the company is for-profit, you are the product (but more accurately, you are certainly producing the product).

As always in history, the question with new technology remains about its ownership, and the social relations in the societal organization in which it arose and exists. Just as the question is and has been the same regarding all of the other automated means of production which have been putting people out of work for 15+ years (but which much of the internet didn't care all too much about until it started now affecting petty bourgeois jobs and interests); which remains the same question as all means of production and subsistence. Its ownership, and the social relations in the societal organization from which they arose and in which they exist.

One of the first high-profile accomplishments of the technology was solving protein folding. There are a lot of incredibly good uses for machine learning. most of the rhetoric on HB about AI/machine learning amounts to actually-proudly-being what bourgeois histories used to shallowly say the Luddites were. Being spiteful about the technology itself over the most consumptive, superficial and limited, or reactionary expressions of it is like getting mad at the printing press for the publishers and publishing of the Protocols of Zion and Der Sturmer and their impacts, or at the combustion engine because of Hummers and private jets and the ecological impact of mass emissions. It is always with any new technological advancements in any industry/sector a question about the ownership and structural politico-economic incentives, and so its uses and for whose ends with what control, as it has been the case forever. And machine learning is an objectively powerful technology in computing, and in regards to data in which the organizing of and discovery of patterns in and extrapolating from and compressing over time could be said to be an apt basis of how human knowledge builds generationally in general.

It has never been the issue of the new technology in history, but its ownership and the material politio-economic incentives from the social organization of society, which dictate how it is used, developed, and furthered, to whose benefit and detriment. Nobody can or is going to be able "stop" the machine learning revolution in computing, which not only has powerful interests behind its development for many reasons but also has become an open source phenomenon so is never going "back in the box". And it is just as well, because it is just as no one was going to "stop" new machine-spinning technological innovations for textiles, or new types of combustion engine, or the development of new plastics, or different nuclear fission successes, etc. even with the harms that came from their ownership in the organization of the societies from which they emerged. It is just not how the history of human civilization and development of technologies in general has ever worked. And to make that the focus as many do on HB because of petty spite towards its most vapid consumptive expressions or the negative downstream effects and impacts of them in our current hyper-consumptive societal organization, and how its ownership heightens contradictions in capitalist social relations against labor (just as all technological advancements do and have, and as automation does and has been doing for 15 years but until it affected petty bourgeois jobs and interests no one online seemed to mind as much) is to wholly miss the reality of the situation and the real and necessary questions regarding it, which are the same questions as with all automated means of production, which are the same questions as the means of production and subsistence in general.

i always have to squint when trying to post mao so I don't accidentally costanza

nine eleven

god. the murals are one thing but being in a room like the main of the post would make me want to scream and vomit at the same time. I'm getting anxious and overwhelmed just looking at it. imagine that being the waiting room for the dentist. fuck.

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?