This is a thread specifically for the war, not a general megathread (use the pinned /c/genzedong thread for that).

Please keep related news in this thread rather than making separate posts. Remember to include sources and avoid spreading rumours.

Previous megathread

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    29·
    16 hours ago

    Now, that people have been agitating against the US empire actions in Iran, lots of agitators will find this attitude from pro imperialist Westerners that Sony Thang synthesised here:

    There is a specific American psychological condition with no official name.
    It is the condition of a person who genuinely believes their country has, on balance, been a force for good in the world, and who will experience any evidence to the contrary not as information, but as a <personal> attack.
    You are not arguing with their politics when you present them with history.
    You are threatening their personality.
    Their goodness is not separable from their country’s goodness.
    Their innocence is national innocence.
    Their pride is imperial pride.
    It has all been fused together so completely that historical fact functions as personal accusation.
    This is not an accident.
    This is the deepest mechanism of imperial culture.
    Make the citizen and the empire one psychological unit.
    Then any critique of the empire feels like an assault on the self.

    And people defend their selves with everything they have.

    Source -> https://xcancel.com/nxt888/status/2047340650346233980#m

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      10 hours ago

      In void of an actual personality the empire itself becomes the personality. This is the height of the identity crisis that capitalism fuels; the annihilation of the individual and the community at the same time, leaving people aimless and isolated. They have no group to look toward and nothing internal to analyze. They become shells, empty husks, worker drones. They adopt the empire as their child and strive to protect it with a parental love. They have nothing else. Capitalism robbed them of community, broke up and scattered their family, and has even withered away their sense of self. There is only the country now.