Mega-thread of Palestine, climate, and labor protests around the globe - Nov. 30
Mega-thread of Palestine, climate, and labor protests around the globe - Nov. 30from MiniMia (who was arrested, need to find out more about that.)
syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11563734…
#FreePalestine
#Palestine #LaborSolidarity #EndFossilFuels #news #politics #USpol #UKSpol #ClimateAction
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Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/27191517
I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.
But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.
I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.
I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.
But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.
Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time
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US whistleblower exposes Biden administration’s Israel cover-up
US whistleblower exposes Biden administration’s Israel cover-up
Whistleblower Steve Gabavics tells Marc Lamont Hill how the US dismissed Israel's killing of an Al Jazeera journalist.Al Jazeera
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What distro do you install on other's computers?
What distros do you install on your mom's, sister's, buddy's, etc machines?
My go-to has usually been Mint, but I wonder if there is a better set and forget, easily understood distro to install on the computers of those who will rely on you for support.
atomic distros would probably be a good option, but it seems that same disk dual boot is a no no, and that can be a deal breaker.
I'm thinlink QoL, for me, that is.
400+ installs in the past four years - discarded/donated business laptops that get fixed, cleaned, upgraded with cheapest SSDs and donated to predominantly tech illiterate users.
99% is ubuntu lts + ansible playbook that removes snap, disables A TON of update naggings, installs flatpak, coupla apps and systemd timer to autoupdate all flatpaks. this is the only thing that has low support requests, everything else we tried (mint, debian, fedora) has a disproportionately higher support request frequency (reinstalls, wifi, fix this, remove that, etc).
I totally could adapt debian to be as good or even better (fedora with the bi-annual versions is right out), but one of the important caveats is the user being able to install it with minimum hassle if needed and that just would not be doable.
I'd urge everyone ITT to look at the thing through the user's eyes and not get lost in "no true scottsman" fallacies. the goal is to convert a user over, not to demonstrate how cool you are. once they know what's what, you can sell them on fedora and atomic and whatnot, but not as a first step.
I don't use ubuntu, have it on none of my stuff, and wouldn't go out with you if you do. but it's presently the only option for beginners for use on laptops that has a semblance of a modern desktop OS.
I'm not looking for a date, but this made me curious. Would you elaborate?
I don't use Ubuntu and wouldn't go out with you if you do
White House unveils ‘media bias’ tracker
White House unveils ‘media bias’ tracker
The Trump White House has launched an online tracker targeting news organizations accused of publishing “false and misleading stories”RT
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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Breaks Community Rules
In that people report on Russian media posts all the time, this isn’t remarkable. But the story is true, and the irony of it being about the latest new US propaganda organ isn’t lost one me.
Against Decay, We Build: DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol
This is DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol:
Not a token, not speculation.
It’s infrastructure, deployed on Ethereum mainnet.
We’re watching the same pattern everywhere:
Postal systems collapsing.
Parcels lost, broken, stolen or seized.
Increased surveillance, ID requirements, more decay.
Less reliability, less privacy, less dignity.
The institutions that were supposed to protect our right to communication are failing, even though privacy of correspondence is guaranteed under UN Article 12 and ICCPR Article 17.
So instead of being stuck in surveillance and Inefficiency-As-A-Service, we have to build parallel systems immune to centralized control.
Systems by us for us, in the spirit of the Fediverse:
community-powered
decentralized
permissionless
protocol, not platform
no corporations
no bosses
no surveillance
no extraction
DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) is not a token, not a scam, not a VC product, not a walled garden.
It’s a rail, an open delivery settlement layer anyone can build on.
What it does:
Every parcel is an NFT with a lifecycle
Escrow is automatic, trustless, and transparent
Anyone can create an NFT-Parcel
Anyone can carry parcels while they’re already on the move
No fleets, no gig exploitation, no “shadow wages”
Zero extra CO₂, use the movement people already make
Protocol fee is immutable (0.5%), so nobody can rug / extract
Privacy is natively built in.
Fully MIT-licensed & open-source
It’s not a startup.
It’s not a marketplace.
It’s not a company.
It’s the peoples infrastructure for physical logistics.
Because if we want a free world, we can’t outsource critical communication infrastructure to decaying governments, surveillance corps, or gig economy parasites.
If you want to understand the philosophy behind it, here’s the full manifesto + artwork:
Medium:
medium.com/@ekarlsson66/dede-t…
If you want to poke around the contracts:
DeDe Protocol GitHub (MIT):
github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-p…
DeDe Quik-Start Templates GitHub (MIT):
github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-t…
No pressure to “like crypto.”
DeDe is just a tool.
Use it, fork it, ignore it. All up to you.
More decentralized civilizational fundamentals, means less dependency of collapsing control systems.
We must have working alternatives when the centralized systems break down.
Against decay, we build.
That’s the spirit of the fediverse.
That’s the spirit of DeDe.
GitHub - pablo-chacon/dede-protocol: DeDe Protocol, Neutral, Trustless Settlement Rails for P2P Crowdshipping
DeDe Protocol, Neutral, Trustless Settlement Rails for P2P Crowdshipping - pablo-chacon/dede-protocolGitHub
Fedex and UPS deliver almost anywhere, and can do insured packages. Here in the U.S. there's also the postal service, which also can deliver across a wide geography, beyond that of the U.S. borders. These cost a trivial amount of money and if one has a post office near them, they can pay with cash and avoid revealing their identity.
It sounds like you want people to use a form of cryptocurrency to pay a stranger, whichever stranger comes first, to deliver a physical package, then paying the deliverer once the package is accepted, using that same cryptocurrency.
Even if the protocol doesn't track or identify anyone, if the ledger is available for anyone to see or even if it were limited to package deliverers, a tracking mechanism would be trivial to create.
This does not guarantee any level of security for the package, only the payment, which is only theoretically secure because I haven't taken the time to check.
If it somehow took off as a solution people needed, once a package is put on the chain, there could potentially a mad free-for-all of deliverers, all fighting tooth and nail to get that package.
The entire trip delivering would also be fraught with dangers potentially, as deliverers who weren't fast enough might simply rob or kill the winning deliverer, take the package, then deliver it themselves. If they wanted to...
If the payment for a package is high enough, one might wonder just what was so important to warrant such a payment. Drugs? Guns? Biological weapons? Black market organs for transplant? Actual cash money?
Don't forget that computational costs electricity, which costs the environment until the world gets off of fossil fuels. Potential users would have to ask themselves if the package delivery is more important than climate change.
This sounds like a way to try and make crypto money, for doing absolutely nothing, by inserting crypto into a market that doesn't need it, to do a job already handled just fine by companies that already have the infrastructure in place, with no real problem being solved that needs solved.
What problem does this solve? How does this make package delivering any better?
Thanks for the thoughtful critique. Some clarification to help:
DeDe isn’t trying to replace FedEx/UPS/USPS.
DeDe is not a platform or an app.
It’s a protocol, closer to TCP/IP than Uber.
It handles one function only:
escrow -> pickup -> dropoff -> finalize
Everything else (matching, identity, trust, messaging, routing) is off-chain, by design.
That separation is what preserves privacy and prevents metadata leakage.
What problem DeDe actually solves
Not postal logistics, those require fleets, warehouses, and fixed infrastructure.
DeDe addresses the centralized crowdshipping model used by Uber/Doordash/Amazon Flex:
• zero privacy
• centralized control
• data extraction and surveillance
• wage manipulation
• platform lock-in
• mandatory identity
• opaque matching
DeDe gives communities the same underlying mechanics of crowdshipping
without a corporation in the middle collecting or exploiting sender/carrier/destination data.
No tracking, no identity, no metadata
Parcel NFTs only encode:
• parcel ID
• escrow amount
• lifecycle state
No names, addresses, routes, timestamps, or identities.
All sensitive information stays off-chain.
DeDe doesn’t broadcast parcels, seek couriers, or coordinate delivery.
It only settles funds trustlessly.
No token, no speculation
• no governance token
• no staking token
• no inflation
• no “earn crypto for nothing”
• no VC angle
Ethereum is used strictly as a neutral, permissionless escrow layer.
In short
DeDe is a tiny, open, neutral settlement rail for P2P delivery,
just infrastructure communities can use or ignore as they like.
Regarding environmental footprint:
Blockchain environmental impact depends on how electricity is produced, not on the existence of computation itself.
Electricity demand has been rising for decades, long before blockchains or AI, and will continue to do so.
If critical economic infrastructure depended on abundant, cheap green power,
it would create a strong incentive for energy producers to scale sustainable sources faster.
The largest investors in green energy today are still heavily tied to fossil fuels,
so shifting economic incentives can help accelerate the transition.
Have Nvidia drivers on Linux gotten worse over later generations?
I just saw the GamersNexus benchmarks and I wondered to myself, why do they have so many problems with Nvidia on Bazite? I've used PopOS with my RTX 30 graphics card and I've essentially had performance parity with Windows.
Do you guys think they misconfigured something in the background or do you think that the driver has just gotten worse? What are your experiences?
I’m on Arch, with Hyprland as my Window Manager. I use an RTX 3070.
For Wayland specifically, the driver was next to unusable for a while. I jumped ship from Windows in Sept. 2023. Beginning with driver 560 iirc, it got a lot better, plus their engineers pushed a lot of changes across the Wayland ecosystem to implement explicit sync support (a net positive, but before this, Nvidia was too stubborn to implement implicit sync, so bad screen tearing was unavoidable). Also there’s been a slow migration to using the GSP processor on newer cards. They claim it can improve performance, which may be true, but I also recently learned it helps them keep some more parts of their code closed-source, which is likely why it’s required to use the open source kernel modules.
At this point, though, it does feel very smooth and I can play games like The Finals at competitive framerates!
But relative to my performance under Windows, it’s still worse, mainly in average framerate. Like others have said, DX12 games seem to be hit hardest. I sometimes have to run lower settings to compensate. Also, if my VRAM gets filled, Xwayland apps all break, so I have to be very careful with higher quality texture quality especially.
Anyways, to answer your question, I think an average gamer doesn’t notice the degraded performance, without benchmarking or comparing framerates back to back— it still runs pretty smooth and framerates are still pretty high. If they aren’t happy with it, they’ll drop quality settings or resolution, just like they’d do under Windows.
Israeli forces carry out attacks in Gaza, breaching ceasefire
Israeli forces carried out attacks across multiple areas in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in breach of the ceasefire agreement, according to Wafa news agency.
Israeli troops conducted intense shelling and aerial attacks from helicopters east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza. Israeli warplanes also carried out six air strikes east of Rafah, in southern Gaza.
In Khan Younis, Israeli forces shelled a house in the town of Bani Suheila. There were no immediate reports of casualties in any of the attacks.
I'm new to lemmy, came from reddit. What's the lemmy etiquette like? How different is it from reddiqutte?
I'm new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don't know anything about lemmy etiquette and don't want to do anything bad
thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind 😁
Yes, but a new user needs to know the instance they join has pros and cons. Like another user stated, they joined .ml after lemm.ee closed and didn't know why several communities they had subscribed to weren't showing up.
Let's be real for a second, lemmygrad, .ml and. hexbear are well known for blocking and being blocked on Lemmy. Users should know Lemmy isnt like reddit where each user can potentially see 100% of content, it's dependent on your instance.
Lemmygrad an Hexbear sure. Nobody will recommend those as servers to start off.
.ml however is a pretty general server which is federated very broadly. It's not a bad place to start off.
Ukrainian terror plot to bomb gas pipeline outside Moscow foiled – FSB
Ukrainian terror plot to bomb gas pipeline outside Moscow foiled – FSB
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a Ukrainian-sponsored terror plot to bomb a major gas pipeline in Moscow RegionRT
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Türkiye condemns alleged Ukrainian attacks on tankers
Türkiye condemns alleged Ukrainian attacks on oil tankers
Türkiye has said that alleged Ukrainian drone attacks on tankers threaten the safety of navigationRT
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Morbidly curious how many Ukranian attacks on random countries it will take for US liberals to admit they've been had. My prediction: infinity attacks on other countries or one single attack on the US.
While I'm here, I'd like to officially put down my prediction for 9/11 Two: This Time it's Banderites
Explained: How an Indian-origin entrepreneur 'borrowed' $500 million from the world's biggest asset manager
Explained: How an Indian-origin entrepreneur 'borrowed' $500 million from the world's biggest asset manager
International Business News: Discover how Indian-origin entrepreneur Bankim Brahmbhatt faked invoices and clients to borrow over $500 million from BlackRock's lending arm, leading to his companies' bankruptcy and a major financial scandal.TOI Business Desk (The Times Of India)
Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization
Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization
Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in the western German city of Giessen as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization is set to kick off its founding conventionThe Associated Press (ABC News)
Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39661142
Sat 29 Nov 2025 14.47 EST
The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to the heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s recent statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.In a statement, the Venezuelan government said Trump’s comments are a “colonialist threat” against their sovereignty and violate international law. The government also said it demanded respect for its airspace and would not accept foreign orders or threats.
Trump on Saturday, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”
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Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed
Sat 29 Nov 2025 14.47 EST
The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to the heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s recent statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.In a statement, the Venezuelan government said Trump’s comments are a “colonialist threat” against their sovereignty and violate international law. The government also said it demanded respect for its airspace and would not accept foreign orders or threats.
Trump on Saturday, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”
Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed
President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’José Olivares (The Guardian)
Does anyone have banking app recommendations for Australia?
I just got a message on my app forcing me to agree to let the app look at when I scroll and scan what apps I have on my phone, in the name of "preventing hackers" which kinda sucks. Any banks that actually respect your privacy in Australia? or does anyone have tips to make banking more private?
Yes I know graphene-os has sandboxing, no I'm not buying a new phone.
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39660377
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.
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They happen to have more oil than any other country in the world, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/ve…
Venezuela has the world’s most oil: Why doesn’t it earn more from exports?
Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, more than five times more than the United States.Mohammed Haddad (Al Jazeera)
... which is more evidence of Trump's pathetic nature
USA is a hydrocarbon exporter . We literally extract & refine more than we can use, snd sell the excess at profit.
This doesn't get USA more oil; it removes a competitor from the market.
Fucking gas station run by the mob
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39660377
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39660377
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html
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TBH this isn't entirely on trump since obama/hilary put this guy in power with a fash coup.
The exploitation of latin america is a "bi-partisan" plan.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/…
Memories of a Honduran coup
How the events of 2009 in Honduras shaped my worldview.Belén Fernández (Al Jazeera)
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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html
Gaza 'stabilization force' fails to launch as nations unwilling to commit troops: Report
Gaza 'stabilization force' fails to launch as nations unwilling to commit troops: Report
Several nations that previously committed troops to the US-led occupation force have 'backpedaled' amid fears they will have to kill Palestiniansthecradle.co
cool-retro-term: a terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
GitHub - Swordfish90/cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display... - Swordfish90/cool-retro-termGitHub
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoysJason Burke (The Guardian)
Dominican Authorities Arrest Journalist Ralph Laurent at Santo Domingo Airport
Dominican Authorities Arrest Journalist Ralph Laurent at Santo Domingo Airport - Haiti Liberte
As we go to press on the morning of Nov. 26, Dominican authorities have been holding a popular Haitian-American journalist in an immigration detention facility for almost three days without charges, although he is a U.S.Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
A 76-Year-Old Gamer Plays Much Better Than Most of You, Takes Out an Entire Opposing Team in Counter-Strike
A 76-Year-Old Gamer Plays Much Better Than Most of You, Takes Out an Entire Opposing Team in Counter-Strike
A Russian Twitch streamer delivers phenomenal gameplay in the shooter Counter-Strike at the age of 76.Johanna (Mein-MMO)
Venezuela denounces Trump’s airspace remarks as ‘colonialist threat’
Caracas has denounced United States President Donald Trump’s announcement that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be considered closed “in its entirety”, as tensions between the countries escalate.
In a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said Trump’s statement earlier in the day amounts to a “colonialist threat”.
“Venezuela denounces and condemns the colonialist threat that seeks to affect the sovereignty of its airspace, constituting yet another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people,” the ministry said.
Trump had written on his Truth Social platform on Saturday morning: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY”.
Venezuela denounces Trump’s airspace remarks as ‘colonialist threat’
Venezuelan Foreign Ministry slams US president’s ‘colonialist threat’ amid weeks of escalating rhetoric from Washington.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
Tunisia arrests prominent opposition leader to enforce jail sentence
A prominent Tunisian human rights activist has been arrested in order to enforce a 20-year prison sentence, following a mass sentencing of government critics in a controversial trial.
Chaima Issa, an activist who took part in the 2011 protests that ousted longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was taken by police on Saturday afternoon at a protest in the capital, lawyers said.
On Friday, dozens of opposition figures were sentenced on appeal to prison terms of up to 45 years on charges of "conspiracy against state security" and "belonging to a terrorist group".
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Solus 4.8 Released
General Epoch jump In October, we made the jump to a new epoch, the final chapter of our “Usr-Merge” saga. With the new epoch, we started using a new package repository, named Polaris, after the North Star. This unlocked our ability to remove “Usr-Merge” compatibility symbolic links from packages, update our systemd package, and more.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •He's right in that the hatred and oppression of the outgroups has been exported to the third world. But this is not quite the same purpose that the outgroup served under Nazi Germany. The outgroup served some material benefit in work camps during the war but this was not it's main purpose.
The main purpose was to direct the failures of capitalism to a scapegoat. To unite the nation under fascism and nationalism so that as the material conditions of the working class continued to decline the hatred would further be directed at that group.
And, while the US is definitely directing it's xenophobia in a way similar to this, it is not being done by the same group that wants healthcare and high speed rail. The group that wants healthcare and high speed rail barely has any influence in American politics.
I think BE has this take because he spends far too much time arguing with liberals that have no understanding of Imperialism but do want "better things and not worse things" and so attracted to DSA candidates and that movement.
There is no class consciousness in the US. And BE keeps arguing for a new political party while at the same time criticizing an organization who's main material benefit is not in electoral politics. DSA is a stepping stone for education. It is not that movement. If you're reading this and at all think you are a leftist, then chances are, you started that journey with Bernie in 2016. Bernie is a SocDem Zionist. He's not what we want. But he was a stepping stone for many people that grew up in their politics to realize that "the left" is not the Democratic party at all.
It's why he doesn't talk about PSL at all but spends all day critizing DSA. If he promoted PSL instead of DSA I would take his criticism more seriously. If he was offering an alternative I would take his criticism more seriously. He has good criticism that a lot of leftist will nod their head and agree with. BUT, he is serving the purpose of inaction. He is giving leftist a place to reasonably decide to just not do anything and maintain their doomerism. Whether this is his intention or not really doesn't matter. Whether he sometimes mentions vaguely what should be done instead does not matter. His viewers are consuming his content to serve the rational of their own inaction.
PSL is essentially exactly what he wants people to be doing. They focus on material support and improvement at the community level and run political candidates as a means of exposure. But I don't think he actually cares. I think he enjoys being critical more than he enjoys being helpful. If he wanted to be helpful he'd offer analysis on why DSA is able to get mass political exposure by running political candidates and why PSL fails to do so. That would be a good video and would better serve to introduce his viewers to an alternative.
PSL needs more leftist. But we're not getting any more of you showing up because you watched a BE video criticizing DSA. You know you just sit at home instead.
geneva_convenience
in reply to wheezy • • •He does though. It's because the DSA is part of the DNC and they work with the same DNC consultants. The DSA poses no threat to the duopoly because it's part of it.
If you want a hillarious 1:30 hour debate with a DSA member I recommend this youtu.be/tQJqyrb7vFk. Watch a few minutes of the start of the debate and then skip to the middle for the content
- YouTube
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •He does not and has not actually talked about PSL or anything outside of the electoral politics of DSA. He literally only mentions them in the context of the electoral politics. Nothing else.
I think the fact that people think the debate was "hilarious" is more telling of the people that enjoy BEs content for that type of slop. The DSA guy was literally just a normal guy talking to someone that spends their life critizing people online. No normal person is going to moved to the left if every leftist they meet acted like BE. I'm sorry, that's just the world we live in.
It's the same reason why when BE talked with Hasan on Noah's Livestream he spent the whole time agreeing with Hasan and backpedaling on a lot of his criticism. He has some good criticisms of DSA. But even in that debate when the DSA member brings up PSL BE does not even recognize it. Like, I don't think he actually has a good idea of what these organizations like PSL and DSA are actually doing outside of their electoral politics. And he either completely avoided talking about PSL or literally didn't even know what the DSA guy was talking about. Either way, he's not someone to get a good takes from for leftist organizations in the US. He's great on other things. Especially his old content. His video on the American genocide of natives as a blueprint for Hitler. That video was absolutely top tier.
But he just does not care to talk about organizing outside of criticism of electoral politics. He will gesture to it as a "do more" statement. But that's not at all the purpose of his content or what people get out of it.
Every time the DSA guy tried to point to anything outside of electoral politics BE would literally just redirect it back to it; and mock any local organizing as "book clubs". He understands Imperialism, he understands history, he is great at many things. But as far as useful criticism of leftist organizations; he's essentially acting as a doomer with very little constructive advice.
geneva_convenience
in reply to wheezy • • •I partially agree. Orgs like PSL or Greens do indeed offer alternatives and he doesn't talk about those much. Even indepedents like Kshama Sawant don't get any mention. In that you're completely right.
But his criticism of DSA remains completely valid. It serves as a limited hangout to prevent people from joining other organizations and is designed to not get anything done. When he calls the DSA a book club he's not exaggerating and he gives plenty of good examples.
Local organizing is irrelevant when the organisation refuses to use power when it has it.
wheezy
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •What example of the DSA having power and refusing to use it are you referring to? I would not say any single candidate that came from the DSA being elected and captured by the Democratic party is an example of the organization.
The idea that a candidate like Mamdani will not "play ball" once elected to do everything they can to get the bare minimum of their policy implemented is silly. No one with a brain isn't expecting this. His goal is some form of positive material changes for those he represents. The point is to associate the left with material changes that improve people's lives. That's all electoral politics under a bourgeoise dictatorship will ever be.
For someone that should understand the limitations of electoral politics under a "liberal democracy" (something BE should know) he is absolutely obsessed with only looking at American leftist through that lense.
And it's just the result of him being a content creator. He is focused, ironically, on the liberal idea of activism because that's the view that most Americans (even so called leftist) view the lense of change from. Which is just not Marxist in its analysis in the slightest. Which is not something I think BE has ever claimed to be. But he seems to have captured a group of leftist that seem to think he is.
geneva_convenience
in reply to wheezy • • •The DSA is probably at its most powerful moment ever right now... So they have decided to endorse DNC establishment ghoul Hakeem Jeffries instead of his DSA challenger Chi Osse.
BE also doesn't tell Americans everything should be solved through electoralism
Saapas
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •"I want my workplace to have better working conditions"
"Fucking Nazi!"
lol
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in reply to Saapas • • •To finance the free busses.
Do you think the West did slavery because it was fun or something? Exploiting others is massively profiteable.
Saapas
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Just logging that I don't think sharing random takes by internet people is a great use of this comm. I appreciate the one large post of analysis in the comments, but I'm not convinced people are making it here (7 upvotes vs 99 on the OP atow), and I'm not sure sharing the short take to vaguely dunk or vibe with is useful.
I'm considering blocking the OP to improve my feed (just to match content I want; this is certainly not report worthy), but would appreciate hearing others reasons for wanting to see this post first.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Even this framing sanewashes the Nazis.
The actual Nazi party delivered none of this while gutting government services and selling services (like the post office) off to the lowest bidder.
The term "privatization" was coined in order to describe what the Nazis were doing in Germany
geneva_convenience
in reply to MajinBlayze • • •No, this is false. The Nazis were fighting for benefits for their in-group. They did not get the benefits, of course.
Turns out when you're willing to throw others under the bus, leadership will gladly do the same for you.
Why do you think they called themselves National Socialists
MajinBlayze
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Because it was a good rhetorical strategy to gain power?
Does it matter that their first acts once they gained power was to kill actual socialists and communists?
Does it matter that working conditions worsened for German people even before the first shots of WW2 were fired, as they ramped up productions to prepare the war machine?
I'm sorry, it's just historically inaccurate to describe the actions of the Nazi party as even potentially beneficial to the German people.
We see this in fascist movements today as well. Even under "white supremacy" there's no advocacy for anything that would actually benefit white people, it's just grievance politics against out groups.
geneva_convenience
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •That seems entirely unrelated to anything that I'm saying.
Maybe, if they were extremely disingenuous, one could make the argument that the Autobahn, which is still in use today, Materially improves people's lives, and that this refutes my point that the nazis didn't advocate for the material interests of the German people. Maybe.
But it was also not necessarily built for that. (War production benefits from internal infrastructure as well)
But that doesn't impact the overall character of what I'm saying.
Look, liberals are wrong to support a genocide abroad, full stop. Liberal (and conservative, of course) politicians should face trial at the Hague for war crimes committed.
You (or here, BadEmpanada) don't need to lie about the Nazis to make that comparison.
geneva_convenience
in reply to MajinBlayze • • •The end goal of Nazi Germany was to improve the lives of the in-group at the expense of the out group. In America the spoils of imperialism also don't end up in the hands of the peasants. But the peasants will support it as long as the government will give them some treats in exchange.
You should look up what the inspiration was for Nazi Germany.
madjo
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Oh I didn't know that Zohran became mayor of Israel.
Last I heard was that he had become mayor of NYC, and even the Palestinians living in NYC will be able to ride the free bus in NYC. So again, who is the outgroup?
geneva_convenience
in reply to madjo • • •Last I heard Zohran Mamdani was telling people to vote for top AIPAC recipient and massive Zionist Hakeem Jeffries who supports murdering the out-group (Palestinians) so that the in-group (Americans) could get free busses.
Is this really so difficult to understand or do you simply not want to understand it?
Randomgal
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in reply to Randomgal • • •Socialjusticewarrior
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Isn't that what countries are supposed to do? Prioritizing taking care of their own population first? Does that make me sound like a nazi? I dont think so...
Also, the nazis werent really into what youre talking about anyway, youre just making stuff up..
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