It’s incredible how: everybody lets them.
They know they won’t live much longer and they want to burn it all down on the way out. Why do we let them?
They have supporters, and they make everyone around them poor so that they’re tied down to their jobs to obey or face retaliation.
Unfortunately it seems that evil has a way of sticking around for way longer then you’d expect, kinda like weeds in your garden.
there are people alive today who think mccarthyism failed not because it was inherently flawed, racist, and wrong, but because they stopped too soon. until we are all free, none of us are free. hope for the future lies in caring for children and nurturing in them a better vision for the future than the present we’ve been given. we have to make propaganda that they will refine and pass on, too. there needs to be generational continuity about the importance of class solidarity across arbitrary differences like race, gender, inherited cultural origins, and sexual orientation
May I add to the important topics? I have thought the same thing, but the list isn’t complete without a generational continuity for scientific literacy and free-thought/skepticism as well.
We have to expect that there will inevitably be someone attempting to manipulate and hold sway over people of the future. Not a point in history exists without struggles for power, and in our own lifetime we’ve seen just how bad the misinformation can get. The future is going to be even more confusing. Solidifying the values listed above is crucial, but without also encouraging skepticism, humans will continue to be swayed by irrational arguments that appeal to basic impulses.
It feels like a lofty goal, I admit, but the best way to combat disinformation is to inoculate yourself against it. The more our children can understand the basic reasoning behind science, internalize the idea of “learning from mistakes,” and can recognize and dismiss logical fallacies, the better their chances will be to resist the con artists that chronically masquerade as “leaders.”
Evil will only last as long as Good let’s it. Evil people are supposed to be cut short or else they live for far longer than they should. Average conservative should have the same lifespan and sudden end as Andrew Breitbart.
Jews are white now? It seems they’re labelled however is most convenient for criticism.
‘White’ is a social category, not a scientific one. Who is white depends on who the majority of white people want to be white. In many ways the initial exclusion and then later inclusion of Irish and Italian immigrants in the US hinged on them becoming part of the system that oppressed indigenous and black Americans.
In that sense it makes complete sense that an Ashkenazi (European) Jewish man, whose parents were colonizers from Europe who moved to Israel, who is exacting a genocide on a group of people that are decidedly not considered white, might be considered white by other white people. There is certainly a history (past and present) of excluding all Jewish people from the category of whiteness, but blinding ourselves to the racism of the present, along with who is benefitting and who is suffering, is unwise.
You seems to say, that jew, being massively from north Africa shouldnt be labeled as white. Which is totally fair. Except jew isnt a color, there are black jew, and white jew. Black christian, and white one. Black muslim and white one.
Plus , you try to Straw man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man) this meme. It never assumed any religion of the 3 white men portrayed. Probably, none of them believe in anything but whatever further their agenda.
I feel like a lot of people missed your point- not just about Jews but the concept of “white” in general has been nebulous throughout history.
Irish people, Italian, greek… Pretty much all Mediterranean people. There’s been tons of conversations about whether Egyptians should be considered white, and which ones. The Nazi’s labelled the Japanese as “honorary Aryans”.
“White” is not based in anything physical or real. It’s a concept made up to exclude others and has changed based on who they want to include or exclude.
Exactly. I’m a member of a group that has often been considered nonwhite. Many on the left, on Lemmy or elsewhere, are unaware of how racist they are actually being. Some of course are actually racist, but I dare hope it’s only a few.
White is anything racists want to persecute at the time. If they have a use for you, sure, you can be white…for now.
This seems like it’s other way around, he is being considered white to target whites. Just goes to show how subjective that categorization is.
We need Family Guy colour sheets. I know that can cause people to become people of colour during summer if they have a tan but that’s the price we pay for the objective system.
Natanyahoo is definitely white…
I don’t know about non white jews tho, I bet there are at least some 🤔
Who told that all jews are white?
Netanyahu is of Polish descent.
And formerly a US citizen to boot.
Not sure that has any bearing on the topic tbh
Ashnekazi Jews not being considered white is a very, very old antisemitic canard dating at least into the high middle ages. OP and everybody else here should be well aware of this. This article explains it far better than could: https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/the-whitening-of-european-jews-and-the-misuse-of-holocaust-memory
Isn’t your point that we shouldn’t consider him white but now you’re saying that would be antisemitic?
My point is that bringing up the whiteness of Jews in general is already problematic. Whiteness in itself is already a problematic and nebulous concept used as a means of determining in- and out-groups and using it to describe the group who has probably the longest history of being considered both white and non-white is treading ground that’s favoured by racists. It’s like bringing IQ into the conversation. Can we just not do that?
The Supreme Court of the United States is not supreme. They disregard their constitution, and the law of the land. SCOTUS: Take off your robes, and wear the mantle of shame.
To be fair, Putin is trying to avoid a painful and undignified death.
All 3 are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uts36F_BvLk
Here is the theme song for this post.
Great song!
This is what came to mind for me.
Axis of evil.
Which one killed Kirk. I am taking bets.
This guy
Putin is not avoiding prison. Very moderate and thoughtful for Russia. Best leader of our times is a reasonable epithet. When you were told that Yeltsin was the result of perfect Russian democracy, you were told this because he was a corrupt CIA stooge. It’s only pure depraved lies to suggest that Russia is not conducting a defensive war in Ukraine.
Grossly inappropriate to compare Putin to other 2 genocidal crooks.
Слава Україні, геноцидний виродку.
As defensive a war as the one in Georgia and in Chechnya.
I don’t know the details of Chechnya enough, but Georgia was also a 100% defensive intervention by Russia. The result of yet another US demonic corruption of democracy (much much cheaper abroad compared to Israel gifts laundered back into US election control) where CIA managed to get current nazi Ukrainian mayor of Odessa (war criminal in Georgia) to be President of Georgia who immediately forced secession of regions of Georgia, just as the 2014 CIA coup in Ukraine did.
That Trump is an overt instrument of evil directed internally towards Americans, is the only change in US governance, as the US offering better support for Israel Zionazism and global domination was always its supremacist entitlement. Somehow, everyone here knows that the US is demonically responsible for manufacturing every war, except trust us this one time somehow, as the nice Ukrainian nazis the US put into rulership did absolutely nothing to provoke war on Russia.
Hahahaha
With totally evil black hearts
Don’t forget the handful of billionaires behind them.
But but…
Also remember that two of those elderly madmen were voted in.
They’re not the cause of their respective countries’ problems, they’re a symptom.
The tidalwave of misery they unleash unto this world is something their countrymen wanted.
Could you imagine how bad Harris would have been though?
Whatever you do, don’t focus on the sick culture at the center of America that caused this. It’s probably some minority group that caused it by not voting hard enough!
Sure that’s a problem. Also. Sit your non-voting ass down for actively allowing bad shit to happen.🤷
If you’ve gotta be convinced why not standing up to this before it happened was worth doing, you can convince the rest of us why you’ve got any right to talk at all. I’m sure when the perfect election comes along you can snipe it, but when real decisions are made
WE. CANT. COUNT. ON. YOU.
If the US gets a decent resolution at the end of this, it’s in spite of you as much as in spite of the R.
I voted Harris and I voted Biden, and I’ve literally never been able to have a discussion about how blaming non-voters is both stupid and nonproductive without someone coming in hot to unload their election related emotional trauma on me like you just did.
Check your assumptions about people and why they believe what they believe. Or just keep screaming at anyone that says your trigger phrase, it seems to be working wonders.
Cool.
If you can’t see how practical decision making works I don’t want to talk to you. Apparently you understand it, but still want to apologize for those who cant.
I don’t have to blame non voters, but I can honestly say screw them. 3 more years and change of this to teach that party against Orange Hitler a lesson for not being good enough. I hope it’s worth it and they don’t all get to take their cute blahaj stuffies to federal summer camp.
Edit: To be extra clear, I don’t blame non voters exclusively for this situation we are in, but I resent them for it, find it totally stupid, and don’t have a lot much sympathy for any consequences a non voter walks into.
If you can’t see how practical decision making works
You mean like the people in blue states who know their electoral vote is going to be blue no matter what? Or the people in deep red states who know it won’t be blue even if every Democratic voter in an adjacent state came over and voted blue? Even though it literally wasn’t possible for them to change the election outcome no matter how they voted?
Is that the kind of practical decision making we’re talking about?
Because that sure sounds like voting as a performative religious rite, and that shit is stupid. People in solid red states* were never going to win blue electoral votes, anyone insisting otherwise literally doesn’t understand how presidential elections work in the US. Same for anyone who thinks some leftist in New York was putting America in peril by voting third party.
* Except Nebraska, which splits its votes based on district rather than whole state only.
You’ve got options. You can vote swap, you can move, or sure you can bemoan the system, but let’s be real:
This is totally in no way what you or the other guy are arguing above. It would even be relevant if we werent such an obvious attempt at an out from the discussion.
The people no voting are not doing it as a fight against the electoral voting system. It’s smug ass, holier than thou, if I can’t vote for the perfect candidate I’ll take my ball and go home and trump (or whatever authoritarian may show up here or in any other country) isnt my fault.
Yeah, sometimes voting a performative ritual. If you show up and tell us how you justify not voting against tyranny when it’s got any chance of being the alternative to people getting shot and you still look like an asshat.
Actually the group of people who voted Trump in combined with the group of people who didn’t vote and decided that they were okay with being complacent with him getting power was a majority of Americans.
It’s funny how ‘people who didn’t vote because they felt disgusted by both options,’ ‘people who didn’t vote because they live in a red state and agree with Trump,’ and ‘people who didn’t vote because they live in a blue state and knew their electoral votes were going blue anyway’ get flattened into a single group that are to blame, and also synonymous with Trump voters. Yay, that’s so much easier and less scary than confronting the wild racism and fascism at the heart of America!
Could you imagine how bad Harris would have been though?
I’ll say it. I don’t/didn’t love Harris. I thought she threw Biden under the bus way too quickly. I voted for her and think she would have done 1000x better.
Yeah, that’s the spirit! Like I said, whatever you do, don’t focus on the sick culture at the center of America that caused this
It would have been the same as before, but have 4 years to actually prepare for better candidates… now you better be spending the 4 years preparing to die for your right to vote.
Minorities? Thats sounds RADICAL LEFTIST talk for IMMGRANTS! DEPORT them covefed!
Hey, don’t forget: both sides
Not sure if this sarcasm or not 😆
They all were, initially. Putin just has had time to cement his rule so much that elections don’t matter
with the help of rigging the election, and voter suppression. the one on the right, rigged his way in the first place.
These three played the American left like a fiddle in order to make it splinter and let trump get power back. What’s worse is Americans were warned they would do it
Well, Trump and friends rigged the election, so I wouldn’t say it’s what the countrymen wanted.
Uh evidence? Bullshit from people on the left is every bit as bad as bullshit from the right.
They literally just demanded Texas gerrymander. Also, the Supreme Court who was stacked conservative demanded Alabama redraw district lines for disenfranchising black people. Alabama refused, and it was such a pathetic cheat that their own side had to once again demand the draw lines fairly. The only evidence of election tampering is the kaleidoscope swirls that are the voting district lines in red states. It is stealing and cheating.
He straight up said it on camera like 3 separate times.
They did it legally through gerrymandering and said they were going to “fix the machines” before the election. I believe them. Trump even said months before the election to not worry about the votes, he’s got it covered or something like that. This was way before Biden got old.
Trump said this in the context of Christians who usually don’t vote. “Vote for me this once and you won’t need to vote again”.
Not like that really matters because of his other actions and also facts don’t mean anything anymore.
You’re right, but he said it in other ways as well. It had another shitty headline like, “People are concerned by Trump’s voting declaration.”
Ya I agree with you. He has stated his intentions in many ways through his actions. The problem is:
A right winger sees people misquoting him, makes a YouTube video pointing out how “silly the left is” by this technical misquote, and then an impressionable non political person goes ‘damn they’re right’ and now starts listening to Joe Rogan.
I don’t give a shit about a youtuber, they’ll make shit up if they do or don’t need to. I see the right wing as being ran by trolls at this point. Ya know, because they are. There are paid trolls here on Lemmy, I can’t imagine how bad youtube is.
Gerrymandering doesn’t apply to presidential elections.
Yes it does in some states. The people who were elected through gerrymandering have a say in who runs the election boards and what the election laws are in a lot of those states. You can bet your ass that they have charts upon charts laying out exactly which states and how they can do that.
I’m pretty sure the members of the US House of Representatives don’t have a say in who is on the election boards or state election laws.
Trump even said
You say that as if Trump were a reliable narrator.
True, true. I don’t think he meant to say this one out loud though. He wasn’t speaking at a rally, he was speaking to a fellow republican.
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This meme is not funny!
It’s factual.
Rich, white, old, conservative billionaires
Don’t forget homophobic, xenophobic, racist, misogynist, evil, and pedophilic.
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He already said rich
“Conservative” was the 4th word.
