• NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    it's not genocide, it's a war against hamas -> those weren't innocents, they were secretly hamas -> all palestinians are hamas -> this shit

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      As usual, the libs have created an impossible to escape rhetorical hole. They can't criticize this except to point out that's it's racist, which can easily be countered by leaning on the consensus that even the idea of Palestinian freedom and autonomy is antisemitic. They've already made this particular racist act completely acceptable by spending several decades acting like Jewish and Palestinian lives are mutually exclusive. The libs also can't critique racism in general because then they have to act like tankies and critique how capitalist power is maintained. They can say racism is bad, but they can't say why. Rightwingers will just say it's good, and the reason it's good is because it punishes the scapegoat.

      Sorry. This is just a small brain dump. I occasionally see some new aspect of the complete irrationality of the environment I'm living in and I want to articulate it. In this case it's the constant assertion that like capitalism, there is no alternative to Israeli violence in Gaza.

    • da_gay_pussy_eatah [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I don't believe Mark Wahlberg would take a role like that, everything else he does is too fedposting. Unless, what, was the senator Vietnamese or something?

      • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        The Senator was corrupt and working for oil companies, and made Wahlberg's character unknowingly complicit in war crimes, which made him mad.

        Note that it's not because of the war crimes, but because of the corruption, that Wahlberg's character does what he does

        • Rom [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          The Senator was corrupt and working for oil companies

          Haven't watched this movie but I take it they present this as the exception rather than the rule?

          • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            it's not, really. he's sort of the untouchable head of the snake in the movie conflict, but it portrays an organization with deep military, intelligence community, and private security ties engaging in mass murder and assassination to maintain profit.

            after being cut loose from some military black op, Markus Mark becomes disillusioned with the US and is a weirdo living in the middle of nowhere for years until he gets pulled into a conspiracy / frame as a lone gunman. the movie is about him on the run and trying to get clear of it all.

            it's not a brilliant achievement in film, but it's pretty fun action conspiracy flick about one guy with uncanny ability to survive dog shit scenarios and fire a rifle long distance in a very bleak world. it's got a buddy-cop angle to it, because he pairs up with this junior/nobody FBI guy who is torching his career by questioning the line gunman narrative.

            I totally endorse it as a fun pop corn movie. has a few banger lines and some cheesy ones.

            the "still got the shovel" line always makes me laugh

  • Kuori [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    another serving of fascism so soon? but i can barely choke down the last...

      • Kuori [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        geordi-no trains of ANY kind

        geordi-yes subcontracting uber and lyft drivers to cart people to the camps

        • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Love too be hailed as a job creator for inventing a gig economy app for prisoner transport sharing

      • BigHaas [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        What did you think that border fence was for eh?

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Its difficult to pinpoint when WWIII began. Scholars at the Lenin-Zedong Historical Institute have put forth various arguements for diffferent dates. Many tend to consider the Russian Federation's recognition of the Donbas Republics and the ensuing proxy war with the US Imperialist Order. Some counter that this conflict began with the Euromaiden coup in 2014 and perfer to use this date.

      A different faction, while acknowledging the importance of the Ukrainian Proxy War (of 2022 or of 2014 as mentioned is its own seperate debate) Many Historians prefer the 2023 Gazan uprising and the subsequent horriffic reprisal carried out by the US client state of Israel, who had been carrying out a policy of apartheid against the native Palestinian population so extreme that Gaza earned the epitaph of the "Largest Open Air Prison in the World."

      While scholars may disagree about the date. They, like we all, honor the sacrifice of these various peoples' against the US Imperialist Order which led to its downfall, and the eventual creation of the better world first envisioned by Marx and Engels we all enjoy today.

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          High Priestess Nerra Chelsea of Church of Hillatology (a post collapse cult in the ruins of the US Imperium's political capital of Washington D.C.) says all of humanity was doomed by Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2008 Democratic Primary to an obscure late Imperium figurehead named Barack Obama. None of the surviving primary sources, or subsequent histories of the era available provide any context that might shed light on this deeply held belief of the cult.

          While there have been attempts to rehabilitate and assimilate Hillatologists and members of other post-collapse cults, they largely seem to prefer the confines of the exclusion zone, violently fending off attempts to provide hunanitarian aid. They seem particularly violent and aggressive toward attempts by volunteer Cuban physicians to provide free healthcare. Their screams of "How are you going to pay for that?" confound volunteers, and perplex researches.

          "We may never understand the meaning behind their obscure beliefs and seemingly nonsensical chants." An authority on post-collapse cults told us. "Something has been lost."

        • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Yeesh, Americans are always trying to center themselves around everything...

          It was obviously when prince Harry and his trollup left the royal family.

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    1 year ago

    ” This is the most anti-Hamas immigration legislation I have seen and it’s well deserved.”

    Re. Ryan Zinke (R-Wannsee)

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      This is the ratchet effect of the two party system at work, this is how the system has worked for all my life but I think it's finally reaching a breaking point