acargitz
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Remember folks: non violent resistance doesn’t have to peaceful. Case in point.
Excellent :D
Don’t pretend this is the opinion of the average Canadian.
Nobody said that. Don’t get defensive here, buddy. The point is exactly that our elite is pretending to be virtuous, while balls deep in the situation. Pitfalls of liberal nationalism and all that.
Unions are a tool of the working class in the class struggle. Not sufficient for socialism, but kinda necessary.
You know what that’s called, right? It’s class consciousness. When people’s power fantasies are union organizing, that implies there is a degree of cultural hegemony going on and that’s pretty neat.
34·1 day agoSure but the Right feeeeels like it hasn’t and the vibes of the Right are always more important than reality, so take that leftoids.
2·2 days agoNot pork though 😏
No souvlaki for you.
Turkey has a standing, legislated Casus Belli threat against Greece excercising its rights under UNCLOS. It claims “grey zones” in the Aegean and wants to revise the sovereignty of Greek islands, including inhabited ones.
The two countries haven’t been at war but the threats of war have been a staple for decades
No, they weren’t? It was 1952, 3 years before even the Cyprus conflict started.
11·2 days agoYou’re wrong saying that it’s a non-story. If you’d asked the question ten years ago, it wouldn’t be a third. The news is that this possibility has been born. That’s big news.
52·3 days agoOK edgelord.
As we now live in the era of actual fascists, it’s inadvisable to throw around the world as a term of disparagement. The Carney Liberals are conservative but they are not fascist.
Nah man, I’m not attempting to paint us as anything, I’m just trying to remind us that we can be a bit …touchy (can’t blame us of course) and we should be gentle to our natural allies down south.
Exhibit A from a couple of days ago, with 12 upvotes right here in /c/canada:
until they remove their leader every American should be treated as an enemy. Because if he isnt dead they are all compliant.
That’s a gross mischaracterization of what she’s talking about.
She’s talking about the phenomenon (which I’ve also observed) that sometimes Canadians and Europeans shit on anti-Maga people online for being Americans. She explains that resistance in the US differs due to a bunch of reasons. She actually expresses appreciation for international allies who offer support and solidarity, and she highlights that such encouragement is crucial for anti-Maga activists in the US which is in contrast with braindead takes that Americans “deserve” Trump.
She points out that the things we hear outside the US are filtered by the US media and we’re not hearing about the many acts of everyday resistance (see also her follow up video). So she urges us to consider what actual allyship looks like: it involves asking what kinds of support on the ground anti-Maga activists need, rather than pooh-poohing them for not being …performative (the “do a little dance” framing). She also points out that fascism is a problem we ourselves also have, and she ends with calling for building solidarity and mutual support.
Her point is extremely important. Instead of shitting on 350 million people for having a shitty government, we should be building alliances and organizing trans-nationally. The fascists are doing it already, so sticking with just elbows-up alone isn’t going to cut it.
Did you even watch the video?
Not confusing anything. In between Lausanne and the decolonization of Cyprus, there is zero tension between Greece and Turkey. Once decolonization from the British started, the rest was a deteriorating cascade, and yes, the history is basically as you describe it. But at the time of NATO accession (1952), the countries had enjoyed 30 years of basically the best calm they’ve ever had.