idk what anarchists you’re around but all the ones I hang out with are vocally pro Iran even if they dont approve of the Ayatollah on principle - but yh I’d take mls over liberals any day of the week - I feel part of it is that anarchists aren’t a solid block so while some may block shipments other might fight against what they see as oppression that on a geopolitical scale can result in helping colonial forces - idk we’re all imperfect so I hope we can recognize that and through different means still continue to erode imperialism instead of fighting with each other at the benefit of colonizers
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yeah that’s fair - but I feel they serve different purposes?
like I see anarchism as a form of counterbalance to state power irrespective of where it is - without needing to be dogmatic
as in undeniably Uruguay is materially much better now than its ever been (while still being at the peak of it’s colonial project even under socialist governance)
same with Bolivia giving relative power to indigenous peoples while improving living conditions even under a corrupt government
neither is perfect but vastly better than western powers seizing their resources and wage enslaving their populations - same goes for other socialist Global South countries
and yet I see the value of anarchist “purity” criticism in that it should continue to challenge all governments when the time is right - even socialist ones - as at the end of the day we all want a stateless society - and until then I dont see why anarchism and socialism can’t strive to achieve that through productive structural tension?
bro wat - I’m yet to see a socialist party group turn up to an anti-fash protest and put themselves in harms way to protect vulnerable groups instead of standing on the side lines selling political newspapers and dipping out as soon as their leaders decide they’d like to go home
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United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as shops warn it's being stolen to orderEnglish
2·15 days agoI knew the BBC was a shithole but the thousands of comments arguing that the problem is not enough people being thrown in prison for stealing chocolate is wild - Thatcher really cemented that individualistic brain rot…
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Political Videos@lemmy.world•Raised to Destroy Israel — Now I Live There as a Jew
3·1 month agoPropaganda isn’t just about true vs. false - it’s about framing. And the pattern across your posts is consistent: Israel has “legitimate security interests,” yet Palestinians “fucked up” and are an “uppity group” that by “being uncompromising has cost them dearly” - as if the occupied are responsible for calibrating how much dispossession to accept. Your whole argument boils down to - they were invaded by Zionists and they lost so they should just stop fighting and accept whatever scraps Israel gives them
You’ll hide behind “Palestinians deserve a better life” but that’s how atrocity apologia always works: you don’t have to deny it, you just have to make it sound reasonable.
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Political Videos@lemmy.world•Raised to Destroy Israel — Now I Live There as a Jew
6·1 month agoSure you can dismiss this video as a propaganda piece featuring a traitor to the Palestinian cause. However I find this a fascinating peek into a reality, that’s rarely seen.
This is an actual propaganda piece by an explicitly zionist organization made up from current and former IDF personnel.
https://idsf.org.il/en/about-us/
OUR MISSION We are a Zionist, security-based movement, whose aim is to position Israel’s security as the top national priority, in a manner which ensures the sovereignty of the Jewish people in their homeland for generations to come.
Our understanding of Israel’s security inherently includes actively countering antisemitism and anti-Israel propaganda, recognizing these as direct threats to the legitimacy and security of the State of Israel.
To achieve this mission, we have established a diverse movement led by women and men, senior officers from all branches of the defense forces, researchers, academics, as well as civilians from throughout Israeli society. We are focused on spreading the message that Israel’s security, including the fight against antisemitism and anti-Israel bias in all their forms, must be a determining factor in State policy.
Building power in our proto-branches hasn’t been without its challenges. Hundreds of members in Bristol and Islington alone have signed up, but we can’t connect with them because HQ won’t give us their data. Around 60,000 people – more than have been members of a UK socialist party since the second world war – have been paying dues for months, and proto-branches have no access to that money nor clarity on where it’s going. We’ve tried to make contact with HQ to advertise meetings, grow the branch and support members, but received no response. The Grassroots Left slate we’re standing on will change that on day one, delivering members’ data and money back to them, rather than hoarding it at the top
Two competing slates have emerged: The Many, backed by Jeremy Corbyn; and The Grassroots Left, backed by Zarah Sultana, on which both of us are standing.
The Grassroots Left has endorsed both Corbyn and Sultana as co-founders, because this is not a clash of personalities between the two, as some believed it was last summer. This is about resolving a political and ideological difference about what the party should be. Do we want Your Party to be a top-down imposition of Labour 2.0? Or do we want it to be a democratic, member-led, socialist party capable of bringing about the systemic change we so desperately need?
hmm sounds rather divided but would be interesting to see
you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs | APNIC BlogEnglish
2·1 month agotldr;
Set that minimum TTL to something between 40 minutes (2400 seconds) and 1 hour; this is a perfectly reasonable range.
I like that this meme implies women and enbies write immaculate code and never regret what they’ve written before 😎
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Fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com•/r/BuyFromEU: "Let's settle the Reddit alternative discussion: Lemmy doesn't need to “beat Reddit”, it needs to feel effortless"English
4·1 month agoactually I do think aggregated sublemmies would be a good thing for engagement and content discovery - it seems silly that there are 4 different communities all about the same thing (eg buyfromeu)
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Global News@lemmy.zip•US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leakedEnglish
21·2 months agoa very respected Arab leader
you mean the guy who was caught taking £1bn in bribes from BAE for the Al-Yamamah arms deal? the guy who reportedly funded Fatah al-Islam terrorists in Lebanon? the saudi intelligence chief nicknamed “Bandar Bush” because he was so deep in the pockets of the American war machine? that’s your credible source on Palestinian leadership failures?
sorry I don’t have time to go point by point why you’ve presented a very one sided story that conveniently omits the main reason why Arab states feel reluctant to support the Palestinians - the fact they’ll have to go against the US empire and its buddies which economically and militarily outcompete them - your posturing around how its the Palestinian authorities fault they can’t have allies under an active occupation turned genocide just shrugs away responsibility from the ones that have real power onto those that have extremely limited options of resistance.
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Global News@lemmy.zip•US-led Gaza plan to force Palestinians into dystopian re-education camp leakedEnglish
63·2 months agothat’s a whole load of words to victim blame and say the Palestinians brought this upon themselves and that they deserve everything they’ve gotten and that it could be worse since their main “allies” are doing “worse” genocides in other countries so they should feel lucky…
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Just Post@lemmy.world•To Every American Who's Sorry (from the Greenland subreddit)
3·2 months agohuh? that’s literally not the point of apologies? they’re explicitly about taking responsibility, acknowledging harm done, expressing genuine remorse and committing to real actionable change.
the issue in the OP is when people say “I’m sorry about the orange cheeto - I didn’t vote for this you don’t deserve to be treated this way” - this is useless and performative and serves to mostly make the person apologising feel better.
instead a real apology would take ownership and commit to action: “I’m sorry I didn’t do more, and here’s what I’ll do going forward (mobilise, organize, agitate, etc)”
and even then it might still not make a difference and people might still hate you but we don’t fight fascists to win or to feel better about ourselves but because they are fascists…
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Funny@sh.itjust.works•Where did you think they were coming from?English
1112·2 months agoyou’re right - there isn’t - both are equally disgusting












I mean that’s not new - tech companies will still advertise “coffee on tap” as a perk to work for them