• Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      I'd say it counts as fascism. Manifest destiny was the beginning of modern fascism which itself evolved from european imperialism. It was imported back by Germany and Italy where we all know what happened, but then that strain of fascism made its way back westward through things like Operation Paperclip. Immediately afterward it was injected into the Middle East in the form of the birth of the settler colonial project known as Israel.

      There it became a test bed for all sorts of new tools of oppression, but what that has done has also bread a strain of revolutionary resistance that is probably the strongest we have ever seen. It's like they are fucking around and creating the revolutionary equivalent of antibiotic resistant bacteria (yes I understand the problematic implications of comparing people to bacteria but it is the best analogy for what I am trying to get across that I could think of).

      I wish I could say the continued support for Israel is shocking, but I was in high school back in 2001 and I remember vividly being called a terrorist sympathizer for not wanting to nuke Afghanistan.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    1 year ago

    "Opinion mine"

    Yes your opinions make you deserving of being thrown in a mineshaft.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I believe he is indicating that he is an opinion mine, and therefore that an interested party can harvest materials via pika-pickaxe in Minecraft

    • ᦓρɾιƚҽ@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It's usually required to be put into your social media bios when you work for big companies (by said big companies). I used to be told a few jobs ago I had to have it on my profile.

  • the_kid
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    1 year ago

    when you're definitely not a Nazi country

  • buh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Breakfast connoisseur

    So quirky and epic! nerd

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    It's bizarre to see Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis so blatantly proven correct by the very Israelis themselves.

      • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The major theme of the book was how Gregor's treatment by others changed after changing into a human-sized bug. The book itself was a metaphor for the dehumanizing effect of being looked upon like a bug, vermin, or parasite. While I don't recall if the book specifically pointed it out, in popular art he's depicted as a cockroach.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I mean, he only ever interacts with his immediate family and no, the species is never specified because it's not really a concrete fantasy setting as much as a protracted nightmare.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          The reading I've always gotten is Samsa was already a bug, even when he was human. His first thought after becoming a bug is if he'll catch the train to work on time even though he should have other priorities. He's already been dehumanized and in fact he found some solace in being a bug. He made friends with the housekeeper who gave him milk, his family started working again, his sister would play the violin.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    It fits really well that he's his own special brand of "Tommy need drinky" breakfast connoisseur.

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    • NotErisma
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      10 months ago

      deleted by creator

    • ᦓρɾιƚҽ@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Compare them to settlers who invaded indigenous Americans etc., stress how it's clearly wrong and atrocious, mention how the racism against and dehumanization of brown people is completely ignored and this is a public approval of genocide being committed against them. You can save stuff like this to show them clear examples of dehumanization, alongside their statements calling Palestinians animals.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      People who got a three thousand year old history of bloodshed and genocide confused with a deed to the houses of people currently living north of the Sinai Peninsula