Greenleaf

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[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just incredible instincts on the part of these administrators. If I ran a college and I wanted to protestors to go away, I would just let them camp there and never bring police into it (but pressure local news to just ignore it).

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

lol Biden is going to explicitly talk about the protestors as to why he’s not going to forgive more student loans, and democrats will be totally shocked when no one under 30 votes for them.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Learning an “incomplete” history

Kinda like how in many US states, students only hear hagiography about the “founding fathers” while slavery only becomes a relevant topic in the context of causing the civil war. Then black folks disappear from American history for a century while students hear all about “how the west was won” and a couple big world wars. Then some black folks protested, the Civil Rights Act was passed, and now everything is totally equal and fair and racism has been defeated so there’s no need to revisit anything.

When it benefits them, reactionaries are all about “nuance” and “context”.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

From Rybar:

The French conservative media @lesalonbeige reacted to the exhibition of trophies from the SMO, including French weapons, in the Victory Park in Moscow:

"#Macron and other Western leaders took billions of euros from the pockets of European taxpayers so that Western tanks could roll through Moscow.

But there's a catch."

michael-laugh

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I’m with you but I would also consider voting for a dedicated anti-imperialist in any party. But currently that kind of politician doesn’t even exist.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think you’re wrong, but a couple things to note:

1.) Given the narrow margins of victory in swing states, even a relatively small number of potential Biden voters staying home can swing the election.

2.) Do not underestimate the power of a label sticking to a president. I saw this happen to W in his second term. Of course most young people weren’t actively against the Iraq invasion and thus hated W. But eventually, this notion of “Bush lied, people died” seeped into the collective conscious of younger Americans, and any association with W became absolutely toxic. If Biden loses, it’s not from people like us who frankly weren’t going to vote for him anyway. It’s going to be from very casual voters who may have voted for Biden because they didn’t like Trump or whatever, but now that Biden is associated with actively supporting a genocide, voting for Biden feels “uncool”. And you only need that to affect a relatively small number of people to influence an election.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

One of the few axioms from my libertarian phrase that is actually kinda true: “when democrats and republicans agree on something, the rest of us are getting screwed”.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Besides the obvious, it is absolutely pointless asking Americans this detailed of a question about foreign policy. Like 90% of Americans barely have any idea about what’s going on other than maybe some vague notion of an “Israel-Hamas War”. This question may have well as been asked in Hindi, it would be just as incomprehensible to most Americans. So the obvious slant in the wording will direct most people to answer a certain way just because it sounds nice.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

One more example (among countless others) of how if the pro-Palestinian protestors did what the Zionists do, there would be desperate pearl-clutching about it on MSM for a week. But when Zionists do it there’s nary a peep.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

A white boomer with an NYPD shirt in Los Angeles, no less…

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

Yep, that’s the one. Someone else also DM’d me a link to Reddit. I’ll post my photoshop in the morning.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t want Trump to win and would never vote for him, but if Biden wins then any hope of trying to push the US government to be a little less genocidal towards the global south in general and Palestine in particular will be gone for a generation. There will have been zero consequences to openly murdering men, women, and children in Gaza. Lose to Trump and the democrats will be faced with the fact that support for literal genocide cost them the election.

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