TheOubliette

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[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A stunningly ignorant and antisemitic comment.

Jewish leaders? I assume you mean Israel, which despite that entity's propaganda, cannot be conflated with Judaism.

Russia does not have a dictator. It is a capitalist oligarchy much like other counties, and they keep Putin as their face because he is good at what he does. With the support of the bourgeoisie and lsrge teams of bureaucrats and oligarchical functionaries, he can and will be replaced and there will be a full continuity of policy. Russia also has little historu of "trying to Annex Ukraine". The area now known as Ukraine has been occupied by a number of nations (the territory was much smaller and constantly bullied by Poles and Lithuanians), but Ukrainian national identity, and its current borders, is something largely created within the last century at the behest of the USSR. Ukrainian national identity and independence was created by the inheritors of the Russian Empire, the Bolsheviks.

China, like any state, engages in "population control", but this highlighting it as such - including the telltale sign of a Redditor brain Winnie the Pooh reference that nobody else actually cares about - is ignorant chauvinist orientalism. China is also not engaging in minority segregation. Quite the opposite.

The US, similarly, does not have a monarch. It is also run by the bourgeoisie, it is the global epicenter of the global haute bourgeoisie. Everything there happens with the consent and often prodding of that class and most political "change" is the result of fights between its members. The legislative branch could toss out, e.g., Trump, whenever it pleased, legally. Does it refuse to do so because Trump will send his knights to kill them? Because they hold land titles only at his pleasure? No, it is because they are all beholden to the same masters, the people who actually sign all of the checks, produce all of the media, and control production.

The "spats" in the Middle East are a continued Western-backed genocidal bombing campaign on Yemen, the only country in the region outside of Iran doing anything in solidarity witg Palestine, and a Western-backed Daesh/HTS takeover of Syria that makes Assad look like a kitten. Also very friendly with Israel, antagonistic to ethnic minorities, and belligerent towards Hezbollah.

India is trying to start a war. It already occupies Kashmir with massive troop levels. Taking land may be part of the plan, but their goal is really to weaken Pakistan and feed into Hindutvas via kneejerk nationalism.

The US was already the old Reich, history just whitewashes it. The US was the Third Reich's biggest political influence. The US is premised on genocide, chattel slavery, and shifting tides of racism and marginalization to scapegoat and exclude to serve capital. Terrorizing Latines has a long history, this is a revival. The US bourgeoisie creates a contradiction, which is that it creates an economic underclass of largely latine immigrant workers of precarious legal status in order to hyperexploit their labor but then scapegoats them when eveyone else inevitably hits an economic diwnturn. Marginalization has always been used for this dual purpose in the US. Eugenics has been here, it is just whitewashed with racialized poverty being treated as "normal". Death camps and work camps have been here, slowly ramping up over decades. The current volume actually isn't that high compared to the last decade. It has been this bad, they just don't put the spotlight on it.

Please educate yourself before speaking.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

The country in question never denazified, it just banned Nazi aesthetics. The underlying practice of scapegoating and war and anticommunism were never dealt with. Nazis were kept and promoted in positions of power. There, the holocaust is taught as something focused solely on Jewish people, ignoring the systematic killing of communists, Roma, LGBTQ+, and slavs. Germans are taught to feel proud of their shame towards Jewish people and that are now experts at it, gladly admonishing anyone that, say, does not conflate Judaism with the genocidal apartheid settler colonial ethnic supremacist project known as Israel. This, of course, means that Germans remain deeply antisemitic, just with new aesthetics that, rather than scapegoat Jewish people, pigeonholes them into a violent project against brown people that must be supported at all costs.

Of course, there are Germans that do properly reckon with this history and are coherently against antisemitism and settler colonial genocide. They are the subject of this state crackdown, the state itself being an eager lapdog for US empire, happily complicit in yet another genocide.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The silly appeals to fallacies and then ignoring basically everything I say is super debatebro.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is this the second or third recently?

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The information is in the thread you are replying to. And no, you actually don't, becauae what we are discussing is your paternalistic liberal response to others refusing to donate to a transphobe and then your leaning on debatebro fallacy misunderstandings when I explained what was wrong with it.

If you can't self-criticize and adapt then just don't respond.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why do I need to prove a negative? Get your fallacies in order! I also recommend against relying so much on trying to identity fallacies, as we are not exactly engaging in formal modus tollens here and what I am saying to you is intended to get you to critically engage with what you are saying, not be an unassailable treatise on resistance that covers every eventuality.

Societal liberalism reinforces the status quo, or I should really say, reinforces capitalism, and that tends to mean reproducing oppressions that can be leveraged by capital. Even the existence of reactionaries who marginalize others is often in the interests of caputal. "Don't blame the people firing you for losing your job, it must be the immigrants doing this to you! Hey, don't complain about your life, at least you're not [oppressed group]" These serve very practical functions for disunity among people that could otherwise find common ground against the interests of capital.

The liberal tut-tutting of what is supposedly ineffective opposition is part of this as well. It comes from op-eds from ghoulish warmongers, those complicit in genocide, and a political class invested in you not actually aligning against oppressors in any meaningful way. Notice the complete lack of action from yourself in doung anything about this transphobe. Just pushing against those who do. Ask yourself what role you are playing.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

How it came together is that Houthis started taking out jets from aircraft carriers and the US ran home, being unable to implement their only remaining military strategy: bombing brown civilians with impunity.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Monarchy and fascism share some characteristics but the things that make fascism what it is don't originate from Monarchism or a revanchism for monarchy in any sense. When fascism qua fascism arose in Europe it was a separate formation from monarchists, for example, who still existed in substantial numbers in those countries back then. Instead, fascism arose from declining material conditions in countries that were losing imperialist status, such as losing colonies or having large foreign debts after World War I, and this situation - and "solution" - were both highly capitalistic. Fascism recruits from the petty bourgeoisie for its foot soldiers at the behest of factions of the haute bourgeoisie.

Capitalism is proto-fascism. Fascism, to the extent that it exists beyond World War II, has often been reinvented for crises of capitalism, whether domestic or imposed through imperialism. And who did the fascists take so much inspuration? For the Nazis, it was the United States, a bourgeoisie democracy (capitalist) premised on genocide and slavery.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Rejecting someone that aligns with oppression is a great way to build against oppression, actually. Do you think Jewish Germans should have donated to the Nazis to build up "good faith" with them? Surely if they just acted like, "good Jews" they would have been spared, right?

This logic is typical status quo liberalism that tells you to tut-tut every oppressed group for not fighting back "the right way". Of course, liberals have never succeeded using the methods they suggest, so this really amounts to telling the oppressed to shut up and die. This talking point is promulgated so that you and others will refuse to work in solidarity with the oppressed. Don't let yourself be manipulated this way.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

You have certainly met a trans person if you've met, say, 100 people. You just didn't recognize them from their appearance or voice, either because they are closeted or because they convinced you they were cis from their appearance and voice. Presumably your country is so oppressive towards trans people that they are too afraid of being out, there are no trans events for you to attend in solidarity, or you are just making excuses for reactionary positions.

Trans visibility is not just in the United States. Out and self-identifying trans people are visible around the world, including the two largest countries, China and India. You can't visit either imperialized county without meeting someone that is self-identifying themselves as trans. And one of those countries is run by a communist party.

These responses just sound like a reactionary unwilling to self-crit. And I don't see much in the way of any alt accounts: the people criticizing thoss non-apologies and continued ignorant statements generally don't have any replies.

Do open self-crit and try to learn from those who know better.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

There are many out there and it's a challenge for me to recommend a specific order and set because I would want to think about tailoring it for a given person or audience. China is a large and multicultural country, the target of immense negative propaganda, and has an oft-ignored history of being colonized that is an essential part of the story. In another comment I recommended Wemheuer as a competent liberal historian, but that was only for the topic of famine when Mao was chairman, a counterpoint to Dikötter. Reading Wemheuer alone will give an incomplete picture and will be embedded with the author's capitalistic and Western biases, so I then recommended reading Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts as a contextualizing piece and an introduction to a more appropriate historical, economic, and ecological framing of famine in China and other colonized and imperialized countries. But really there is a ton to read and I don't know which parts you would be most interested in. If you give me some direction I can recommend some works.

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