God forbid they act as if they (or anyone at all by your logic?) have some skin in the game.
Lol you have no fucking clue how many people I've provided relief to from cold hunger and desperation. Or how many lives the harm reduction supplies I've personally distributed have saved. I dare you to walk up to the people in my community talking that shit about the work my comrades and I do.
We're building on a decades long tradition of community self-defense and mutual aid, and you're just out here assuming that - because you can't imagine how a community might be really improved by the actions of a few people - there's no possible way for real people to do real work for their communities.
Be a better person, but also eat my whole ass and GTFO of this community.
I strongly disagree with this decision and the reasoning behind it. Blahaj is, in my opinion, the best place for this community specifically because of the strong moderation and policies of Ada and other admins here.
Lemmy.world is also the worst instance I can think of outside of the big three tankie instances. It contributes further to the centralization of Lemmy as a whole (since 196 has been one of the most active communities on the entire platform). In my opinion, the .world crowd's liberal and pro-colonialist/capitalist tendencies are a terrible fit for this community.
I'd have rather seen Blahaj defederate from .world than 196 move there, even if it meant less content and engagement. At least the cultural values of the community wouldn't have been compromised.
AARON BUSHNELL 1999-2024
"I will be no longer complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it is not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine. Free Palestine. Free Palestine."
I always get emotional when I think of Aaron Bushnell. He reminds me of so many of my radical brothers and sisters unable to live with the injustices so many accept as normal.
PS. I tried out the new alt text feature on Jerboa. Let me know if it has any issues!
A Palestinian lawyer wearing his official robes kicks a tear gas canister back toward Israeli soldiers during a demonstration by scores of Palestinian lawyers called for by the Palestinian Bar Association in solidarity with protesters at the AlAqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, near Ramallah, WestBank
Courtesy of @nando161@theblower.au
Alt text: a vintage looking agitprop poster featuring a winking black cat walking on its hind legs and carrying a box of matches on its back. The label on the matches says "L'Éclatante - Revolutionary Matches - All Cats Are Beautiful" and one match is lit with a large flame. The text across the top, sides, and bottom of the poster say "I burn with love for revolution and social justice - Mutual Aid, Self-defense, Public education, Care/Listening - Direct Action, Occupation, Strikes/demos, Sabotage - All against Oppressions"
Courtesy of @nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social
https://kolektiva.social/@nogodsnomasters/112968692123760615
Edit: found the original artist - @lokigwyn@mastodon.art
"For our communities to be safe from fascism, our streets must be unsafe for fascists" Spotted on a Bristol street sign, in advance of a planned far-right protest.
Courtesy of Radical Graffiti (@RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu)
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Its an encrypted keyring idk what they're talking about