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  • Being pedantic with the meme are we?

    The point is that we need to break that piñata.

    The "what" is the primary message of the meme. The "how" is up for debate. We can do it the nice and easy way, institutionally and orderly, with wealth taxes that are punitive enough to undo the obscene degree of inequality. Or we can do it the hard way with guillotines. Obviously I much much rather prefer the first, I would indeed like to keep my hobbies and walk my dog. So the patricians better go along, because the plebs cannot be blamed if they end up with no other option than violent revolution.

  • Well, your toothbrush is gross and your toes smell like canola oil.

  • And shitty communists go around purging other communists in kangaroo courts and show trials.

    Shitty communists impose cults of personality and destroy workers democracy.

    Shitty communists also refuse to learn from a century of shitty communism and still cling to old categories as if they have any meaning today. I mean you can stan Robespierre all you like but in the end of the day, the 1871 Commune was never going to be run by 1789 Jacobins much less fucking bonapartists.

  • We don't need an age/authority framework to have a discussion.

  • Call me old fashioned, but language matters. And if you scroll through this thread you will see that OP is pretty much using it as a campist slur, not ironically.

  • We used to critique whig historiography, maybe we need to critique whig linguistics too. "Westoid" reeks of campism, that's not something to just accept and move on.

  • The point of the Latuff cartoon is valid, I just really dislike the smell of the word "westoid".

  • Indeed but Israel is not copying those. They are not stealing Palestinian kids and raising them to be Hebrew speaking Jewish Israelis.

  • Left out Apartheid South Africa.

  • The United States of America after the Cold War.

  • At this point: sure whatever, leave me alone.

  • "Everytime I drive on the highway there is always some random male driver that tailgates me."

    When you read that, do you understand that "all men tailgate"?

  • Sir, this is a Wendy's. You're in a memes community and you're demanding an empirical study with statistical significance.

    judgment about a whole nation

    Repeat: there is a difference between exists and forall. I'm not judging "all Germans".

    (I do have however very strong opinions about the German state, media, and political class, and its despicable laws, positions, and biases, but German official genocide denialism is a different discussion.)

  • In logic, there is a huge difference between existential and universal quantification.

    Now, if you find reason to self identify as the "random German" that's your own choice.

  • That's... Buddhist philosophy. Holy shit.

  • No, this is strictly shit posting and subtooting to vent frustration. I'm not going to make a bunch of random Germans into targets. I usually try to engage in good faith and help change perspective. Targeting people like that would be counter to that.

  • I hear you! Wish I had been more careful with the phrasing

  • The earliest opposition to Zionism by necessity were Jews because that community is where those original discussions happened.

    And Jews still are the biggest critics of Zionism! There is nothing inevitable about Zionism becoming the expression of Jewish self-identity. Zionism became the dominant model for Jewish self-conception because the other models, such as Bundist Doikayt, were exterminated in the Holocaust. In that sense, Jews rediscovering extra-Zionist Jewishnesses is a reaffirmation of the breadth of the Jewish experience that was stolen by the Nazis!

  • My meme is an expression of my own experience that a bit too often when Israeli apartheid and genocide come up on lemmy, invariably some German user pops up and starts shifting the discourse to victim blaming the Palestinians. That's not "all Germans bad", just like when we criticize American users for making every single topic be about Democrats and Republicans, we are not saying "all Americans bad". I complain about a tendency, not condemning an ethnic group.

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Featured

    Why is there always one?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    We are not reading old public domain books because it's not profitable

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    Are Gazan gofundme (and similar) profiles legit?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml

    So a US Green Card is half way to the moon?

  • Europe @lemmy.ml

    Germany Wants to Rewrite its Holocaust History

    www.hauntologies.net /p/germany-wants-to-rewrite-its-holocaust
  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Turns out we’re finally at a point where the BBC trust us on live tv!

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Bringing GREAT BANDS

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Wrong Amazon burning, Wrong Ice melting

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    The IHRA definition is routinely weaponized to silence and persecute pro-Palestinian voices

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    What text-to-speech application do you use?

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Remember kids: better a pig than a fascist.

  • Lefty Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Without refugees wanting to come Here, how can Here be special?

  • Europe @feddit.de

    My Berlin speech on Palestine that German police entered the venue to ban - and whose publication here led to my being banned from Germany! - Yanis Varoufakis

    www.yanisvaroufakis.eu /2024/04/13/my-berlin-speech-on-palestine-that-german-police-entered-the-venue-to-ban/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml

    Can I boost a Mastodon post to Lemmy?

  • Europe @lemmy.ml

    How is the war going? — Mid July 2023

  • Europe @lemmy.ml

    Communism has deserted the banlieues

    unherd.com /2023/07/communism-has-deserted-the-banlieues/
  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org

    How to Make a “Safe Folder”

    www.thenation.com /article/society/trans-kids-texas-safe-folder/