[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

JustZ is a kahanist troll and you're not going to get any reasonable answer from them. Here they've made up out of whole cloth an entire theory based on a bad faith interpretation of a common phrase to find a way to blame the victim.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

You're in c/fuckcars buddy. Read the room.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

She doesn't need to support an embargo. All she has to do is to say that the US is going to follow its own laws. As a former prosecutor, all she has to do is be the law and order candidate.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

My kid loved it.

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Go check out your local bookstore. There's plenty of minecraft chapter books already. Movies are a natural next step. In fact, Jack Black read the first audiobook in the series. It's pretty good.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Does that include Israeli Americans? Because I don't think it does.

Edit: unless they happen to be you know left wing ones protesting apartheid. Then they're fair game.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

Are you actually claiming there was no media coverage of the murdered hostages?

There is a very good argument that the role of non mainstream news sources, like the Intercept, it to shed light on the news that mainstream media doesn't raise.

If the CNN was blasting 24 hours the news about this American being shot, I'm pretty sure the Intercept would not bother either.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

It wouldn't be such a tired cliché if Americans were not insisting on ownership of "football" without the qualification "American". Nobody makes fun of Australian rules football, Canadian football or Gaelic football, because they don't claim the generic term football to the exclusion of what the vast majority of the world calls football.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The difference between a democracy and an authoritarian nationalist state is the commitment to truth. The pretext that the descendants should be shielded is actually very very toxic. It is precisely what Germany has very honourably refused to do. People should know the truth about their ancestors. This applies to descendants of victims and to descendants of criminals equally.

If there is an actual reason to not do this right now, the government should give a different but short timeline. They could say that they will keep the records secret for 2 more years for example. We can then argue about the timeline, but the underlying principle holds: in a democracy the truth should come out.

That said, I am not convinced a shallow propaganda victory like this even matters. There is nothing new the putinist state would actually be able to say that it hasn't already.

Edit: and in fact, by keeping the records secret, the putinist propaganda machine wins even more, because they can (a) say whatever they want about the content of the secret files (b) can say whatever they want about the extent of the files, and (c) can claim that the Canadian government is complicit in covering up for Nazis. Keeping the records secret gives control of the narrative to Putin hands down.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Oppose war crimes, ethnic cleansing and potentially genocide = "satisfy the peanut gallery" and "optics".

There's something wrong with your moral compass, buddy.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

Border guards successfully repel incursion with minimal casualties.

FTFY

[-] [email protected] 104 points 2 days ago

End femicide!

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Discussions about scarcity and anarchism that I've seen online seem to always talk about "scarcity in the large", i.e. how does an anarchist society allocate production, food, labour, materials etc.

I've a question about anarchism and scarcity in the small. Say, a really nice location, eg. a breezy location in a very hot climate, or the room with the nice windows in the community centre, or Bag End at the top of the hill. Say, an anarchist community has decided to use the location for purpose X, but a minority wants to use it for purpose Y. Maybe an even smaller minority wants to do Z, and a bunch of other people have their own little ideas about how to use it. Some are transient and could be accommodated (you get it on Tuesdays 5-7) but others might not be ("our sculpture project needs to dry out in that specific spot for the next 4 months, we know it blocks the view but it's the only place the breeze hits just right!") or could be contradictory (the siesta people vs the loud backgammon players can't both use the spot at high noon) or antagonistic (the teenagers who want to party late vs the new parents who need quiet for the babies). And dis-association doesn't really help here because that's the nice spot for many kilometers around or there is literally no way to create another beach for our small island community because that's literally the only place on the island where sand exists, so we can't just off and leave. (* Many of these examples are imagining a hot summer in an anarchist Greece, sorry it's almost August.)

It looks to me like a simple non-life-and-death scenario like this could potentially completely poison and destroy a community and in the face of that it would be the little death of anti-authoritarian organizing. Like yea, when life and death matters are at hand, anarchists will band together and conquer the bread. But petty small-scale little shit where it's managing annoyances and small grievances, I don't think non-authoritarian decision making can solve. And I suspect it's crap like this that has killed off many intentional communities and experiments or made them veer away from non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian organizing.

Have anarchist thinkers seriously thought of this?

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Submitting for this truly astonishing quote:

" Landlords in Quebec, however, feel they need to catch up to other provinces as Quebec is still one of the most affordable places to live in the country, said Jean-Olivier Reed, a spokesperson for the Quebec Landlord Association (APQ)."

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23000968

Incapables de trouver du travail en français au Nouveau-Brunswick, ils pensent partir au Québec

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The Armenians called, they are asking how the Assyrians and the Pontic Greeks are doing.

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The amount of whining is phenomenal. Shut up and pay your taxes.

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