empire is empire. sometimes you find yourself on the historically vindicated side. often you don't.
NightRose
@nightrose.bsky.social
Transportation planner in Salt Lake City. [🌹] DSA [🍊🥂] Brunch Caucus [🏳️⚧️🐝🕍📤] Transsexual Deseret Doikaytnitse. Opinions my own.
the USSR had its moments of sponsoring liberation but was fundamentally an imperial project like the Russian empire before it and Putin's Russia after it
finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres@yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 8h agoidk its just. striking to me that the thing giving so many leftists pause in thinking about the soviet union is always the trials and purges and never any of the national minorities deliberately exterminated or forcibly relocated.
idk its just. striking to me that the thing giving so many leftists pause in thinking about the soviet union is always the trials and purges and never any of the national minorities deliberately exterminated or forcibly relocated.
treating voting like a privilege that can be lost instead of a right and duty of all citizens casts a bad light on the whole system
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 12h agoAll prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
the other thing is that a lot of gentiles, from what i can tell, simply do not understand that asking a jewish person, even an anti-zionist, to never interact with members of the community who are in fact zionists, is really fundamentally antithetical to the nature of jewish communal life
i mean yes, but that only makes it more important for us as anti-zionist jews to set up and maintain communal institutions that aren't in hock with israel. there are more than enough of us that we should be able to overcome the institutional inertia of hillel, the conference of presidents, &c
Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · yesterdaythe other thing is that a lot of gentiles, from what i can tell, simply do not understand that asking a jewish person, even an anti-zionist, to never interact with members of the community who are in fact zionists, is really fundamentally antithetical to the nature of jewish communal life
Brazil is strongly indicating that just beating the fascists at the ballot box is not enough. You have to ensure that the cancer of fascism does not return again. Hungary’s model may be better - put them *all* in jail and rip out their support structures root and branch.
sort of feels like every election everywhere in the world is divided equally between a faction of normal people a faction of open evil fascists and gets decided by 5% of the voters who are kicked in the head and completely lose their memory of anything that's happened every two weeks
George Pearkes@peark.es · 19h agoFirst results in the first round of the Brazilian Presidential election are in. Lula trailing but looks like the south is reporting faster which skews towards Bolsonaro. That said, prediction markets think this looks good for Bolsonaro (that has signal, unlike prior to vote counting).
bleak future ahead for brazil. something must be done with the growing global fascistic movement if we want any future worth anything
It is a very big risk to pin all your hopes for the future on elections in a time when an increasingly powerful and reactionary ruling class is backing far-right candidates with everything they've got. Let's organize so we can keep fighting no matter how the elections go. crimethinc.com/Brazil2026
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 18h agoBrazil is voting today, and while the presidential election is likely to go to a runoff — the results are a clear and significant shift to the right since the 2022 election and set up Flávio Bolsonaro very well to oust Lula in the October 25 runoff.
man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time
George Pearkes@peark.es · 19h agoFirst results in the first round of the Brazilian Presidential election are in. Lula trailing but looks like the south is reporting faster which skews towards Bolsonaro. That said, prediction markets think this looks good for Bolsonaro (that has signal, unlike prior to vote counting).
And without socialism, liberalism degenerates into... our present situation.
*screaming off the top of my lungs* SOCIALISM IS AN EXTENSION OF LIBERALISM. WITHOUT LIBERALISM SOCIALISM WILL DEGENERATE INTO HORRIFIC AUTOCRACY
Wandering Hoo@wanderlib.bsky.social · 24h agoNot having a liberal/socialist split makes the (US) American Left vastly more sane than most of its international counterparts
I remember when there was hot debate within DSA about this kind of thing, and even the advocates for the anti-Zionist resolutions went out of their way to claim that this wasn't what they wanted to happen.
Jack@jhol95.bsky.social · yesterdayPretty dark day for the party when the motion looks set to pass despite opposition from MPs and former leaders practically begging not to do this. Crank takeover is complete and the party is lost for now.
Not having a liberal/socialist split makes the (US) American Left vastly more sane than most of its international counterparts
new wolfenstein looks like shit
A24 accidentally and unwillingly becoming one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in America by being the only people who are aware that highbrow liberals spend more money than anyone else
W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2d agoThe first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
I think, more than a lot of things, this whole Gellar thing reveals how fucked up a world in which reputation and the ability to gain attention are some of the most valuable forms of capital.
The path to The Revolution doesn't run through organizing. It runs through Panera Breads of America.
Asa Kong@othinasakong.bsky.social · 5d agoI was trespassed from a Panera Bread recently for screaming at a bunch of pro ICE old people that they should go home and off themselves and I don't regret a second of it.
video of actual Israeli atrocities against Palestinians occupies the same central position in these networks as actual child pornography does in QAnon in that it is both the primary target of condemnation and the primary source of the sexual excitement which drives the movement
פינחס יוסף מונד@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWell, I now have more than my gut feeling. It turns out that two recurring accounts have been doxxed ages ago: they are Mark "Enoch" Peinovich and his co-host whose name I forgot 2/2
the idea that immersing yourself in gruesome violence is a technique to build empathy is something which everyone who has ever studied the subject will tell you is not just false but 180 degrees removed from the truth.
I don’t know. I don’t fucking know. Right now I just think it’s more important to keep things focused on how systemically fucked it is that someone can admit to sexual abuse and deal with only a semester suspension versus whether a guy should still be able to make online content without pushback
One of the things that unsettles me the most about the whole Jacob Gellar situation is how much I relate(d) to him. More than basically any other Cis Dude on the planet. Nerdy, gregarious Jew who thinks a lot about video games and social injustice and the nature of consciousness.
Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...
What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming
Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...
epiloguegaming.com
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
