masquenox

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

When was this nationalist hokum ever in date? Nationality has always been a piss-poor substitute for actual cultural identities... that's the whole reason classical liberal nation states had to be forced onto people through state brutality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What about confronting it's colonial present? Last time I checked, the colonialist world order that underpins the wealth of the Global North hasn't ended.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many haven’t fully come to terms with it.

No... they haven't. Colonialism is not the past... it's the present. And the Netherlands still benefit from it to this very day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can’t easily point on who‘s the good and who’s the bad.

Hint: It's always the side perpetrating genocidal settler-colonialism that's the bad-der one (by far), okay?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

they only ever say positive things about Donald Trump

Sooo... it's just another right-wing astroturfing project.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If the Palestinians had received a quarter of what Ukraine has received in the last three years Israel would be no more. I certainly don't have a problem with that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Maintaining a settler-colonialist state in the face of people who aren't just armed with spears takes a lot of money, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (36 children)

Was this lecture aimed at me or someone else?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regulated capitalism. Prosecuting corruption.

Right, regulate capitalism... by regulating the capitalists that have all the money and can buy the regulators any time they feel like it.

Sounds legit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but we do owe them an apology once all the information is out.

No - we don't owe a serial killer an apology if turns out they murdered ninety-nine people instead of a hundred.

the polite thing to do is apologize for thinking badly of them

No, there is nothing "polite" about "apologizing" to a genocidal settler-colonialist state.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They don't bat an eyelid when you accuse Israel of being an Apartheid-state - it's like water flowing off a duck's back. Call Israel a kapo state, however, and they lose their shit. That they can't ignore.

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