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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That makes sense haha. Same on the too lazy to check. I could have checked rather than commenting in the first place lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love China IL, but had no idea Hulk Hogan was in it. I guess he must have been the dean?

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

Maybe I'm too autistic, but I think we're all interpreting the meme differently here haha. Maybe that just means it's not a good meme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I don't think it's at all appropriate to say that "sending weapons to anyone is a joke in comparison to past actions" when those weapons are actively being used for genocide. We should not be excusing any level of active harm out of numbness from past atrocities.

We can look at the whole picture and denounce the US war machine as colonialist and imperialist, but the wording you used there, the way you're trivializing a very real aspect of the war machine, is dangerously close to genocide apologia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From reading about PieFed's moderation tools linked elsewhere in this thread, seems like the solution to that is already built in more explicitly for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll start by saying that I don't totally disagree with your points. I think a simple blanket statement like "don't vote" is wholely harmful, and only serves to perpetuate apathy and further oppression.

That said, the message here is plainly more than calling for people to abstain from voting. Its a call for militant direct action, which electoralism serves to pacify.

I don't think I can express it more eloquently than the author, and I don't think that a particular excerpt can do justice to the point, but this part seems salient.

This doesn’t mean simply abstinence or ignoring the problem until it just goes away, it means developing and implementing strategies and maneuvers that empower Indigenous People’s autonomy.

One person devoting their time, energy, and organizational capacity to liberation can do more to help their community than any number of people voting for a lesser evil chosen by the oppressors.

The point is not to dissuade leftists from voting, it's to persuade them to take action. In the case of Indigenous Action that isn't a vague call to action either. There's active resistance in need of material support on Turtle Island currently.

 

Voting is Not Harm Reduction An Indigenous Perspective February 2020 – www.indigenousaction.org

Zine format printable PDF download: Voting is Not Harm Reduction Zine-FINAL-PRINT (9.8MB)

"When proclamations are made that “voting is harm reduction,” it’s never clear how less harm is actually calculated. Do we compare how many millions of undocumented Indigenous Peoples have been deported? Do we add up what political party conducted more drone strikes? Or who had the highest military budget? Do we factor in pipelines, mines, dams, sacred sites desecration? Do we balance incarceration rates? Do we compare sexual violence statistics? Is it in the massive budgets of politicians who spend hundreds of millions of dollars competing for votes?

Though there are some political distinctions between the two prominent parties in the so-called U.S., they all pledge their allegiance to the same flag. Red or blue, they’re both still stripes on a rag waving over stolen lands that comprise a country built by stolen lives.

We don’t dismiss the reality that, on the scale of U.S. settler colonial violence, even the slightest degree of harm can mean life or death for those most vulnerable. What we assert here is that the entire notion of “voting as harm reduction” obscures and perpetuates settler-colonial violence, there is nothing “less harmful” about it, and there are more effective ways to intervene in its violences."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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A Palestinian lawyer wearing his official robes kicks a tear gas canister back toward Israeli soldiers during a demonstration by scores of Palestinian lawyers called for by the Palestinian Bar Association in solidarity with protesters at the AlAqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, near Ramallah, WestBank

Courtesy of @[email protected]

https://theblower.au/@nando161/112957566753126494

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is this just based on the player core or are you using a character builder app? Pathfinder generally provides a lot of flexibility in terms of which builds are viable. Without pulling out a book to check, I suspect that the "key ability" is more of a suggestion than requirement.

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Alt text: a vintage looking agitprop poster featuring a winking black cat walking on its hind legs and carrying a box of matches on its back. The label on the matches says "L'Éclatante - Revolutionary Matches - All Cats Are Beautiful" and one match is lit with a large flame. The text across the top, sides, and bottom of the poster say "I burn with love for revolution and social justice - Mutual Aid, Self-defense, Public education, Care/Listening - Direct Action, Occupation, Strikes/demos, Sabotage - All against Oppressions"

Courtesy of @[email protected]

https://kolektiva.social/@nogodsnomasters/112968692123760615

Edit: found the original artist - @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Idk I think we should normalize being mean to cops.* Maybe if they were berated everywhere they went instead feared, fewer people would want to be cops.

* this is obviously bad advice for many people in many situations. Cops can and will ruin or end your life with little or no provocation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You don't have to be nice to cops. And they can't legally arrest you just for being mean.

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

The one dandelion leaf really pulls it all together

 

Alt text: a destroyed city filled with speach bubbles all saying "stop your bombs" and Kamala Harris in the foreground with "I'm speaking" in large text along the bottom.

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We keep us safe (files.catbox.moe)
 

"For our communities to be safe from fascism, our streets must be unsafe for fascists" Spotted on a Bristol street sign, in advance of a planned far-right protest.

Courtesy of Radical Graffiti (@[email protected])

https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/112923951012946615

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Shut It Down (kolektiva.social)
 

Palestine Action says its activists early on Tuesday invaded Elbit Systems’ highly secured Bristol research and manufacturing hub, using a prison van to smash through the outer perimeter.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/06/palestine-activists-crash-prison-van-into-elbit-research-hub/

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Alt text: a screenshot of a microblog post with the text "you walking down an alleyway with a gram of weed in your pocket, who would you rather catch you?" Below are two pictures side by side. One of Kamala Harris and the other of Batman.

 

"Tenth text in the series commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising. This time, the author gives relevance to the concept of the non-binary “otroa” of Zapatismo because it focuses on the other, the external, the discriminated, in order to establish a political definition from that place."

 

Land back

 

Thought I'd contribute something other than memes here.

I don't expect there's anything new in this article to most of the people here, but Margaret Killjoy's blog is always a joy to read.

 

As the title says, I'm looking for a private tracker with a good sized library of 1080p AV1 encodes. I'm on LST.gg and there's a handful of uploaders and encoders there that have given me the opportunity to upgrade some of my library to AV1, but I keep hearing about how great AV1 is for anime and there isn't really any anime in AV1 there. An anime specific tracker would be great if they have a decent amount of AV1, but I'm also interested in general cartoons and live action TV/movies.

I have access to a MAM's invite forum and have a well established ratio on several trackers, so once I know where to go hopefully I'll be able to get in.

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