I have to admit that GIMP has me beat - I’ve taught myself plenty of progs (usually in a panic because I told the interviewer I could use it and therefore had to learn it real fast - that’s how I learned Illustrator, CorelDRAW and QuarkXpress), but I just can’t seem to get the hang of GIMP.
It’s just standard corporatese - if it’s not insulting your intelligence they’re not doing it right.
How would making the few happier at the expense of the majority be increasing stability and reinforcing the status quo?
Very simple… it’s literally recent history. FDR’s New Deal (for instance) enriched the white working class and thereby separating it from the non-white working class, making any kind of class consciousness in the US very unlikely and preventing a repeat of the labor movements that rocked the imperialist nations in the aftermath of WW1 and the subsequent Influenza pandemic. The Apartheid-regime in South Africa essentially did the same thing without bothering with all the liberal propaganda.
It worked. In both states, it created a white “middle class” that was loyal to the status quo - you can witness that loyalty in it’s full glory right here on lemmy.world. Neoliberals (as personified by Reagan and Thatcher) easily manipulated this loyalty to usher in the dismantling of New Deal-style Keynesian economics, leading to the deprivations you see in the US right now.
Making a small minority of people happier at the expense of everyone else is bad, actually!
FTFY - note I also removed your /s, as this is your actual belief.
makes is OK to talk of dismantling Israel.
It is perfectly okay - and necessary - to talk about dismantling Israel. It is even more okay to actually do it.
You cannot just dispossess a whole people of their land.
You mean… like was done by Israel since 1948? I’m going to guess you also think the Soviet Union tossing Nazi Germany out of western Russia was some “great injustice?”
It’s amazing how easily you liberals turn pro-colonialist at the drop of a hat. It’s almost like you’re no less right-wing than your (so-called) “conservative” cousins - you just need a different flavor of propaganda before you start shilling for the status quo.
You dehumanize people for existing in a social construct they have not created
And again - which part of…
Israel is a genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist project regardless of what government it has.
…are you still having a hard time comprehending?
It does not matter what this or that individual Israeli citizen’s personal feels are on the matter - it does not change the fact that Israel is a genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist project regardless of what government it has.
There’s nothing complicated about this.
so clearly no.
Which part of…
Israel is a genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist project regardless of what government it has.
…didn’t you comprehend the first time around?
Wishful thinking by men if you ask me.
His left wing credentials are a bit lacking.
No one in the US political establishment has any “left wing credentials” or ever has. FDR (and every other so-called “social democrat” then and now) are merely advocating for measures to make the status quo more stable and resilient - not for dismantling it (which is what an actual leftist wants).
Sounds like wishful thinking if you ask me.
Gen X didn’t rebel - instead, rebellion was packaged and sold to us by our corporate overlords and we were far too ignorant to even realize it.
They are all parties of “Law & Order…” whether they admit to it or not.
I highly recommend the book The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich for anyone interested in the history of female participation in the (so-called) “Great Patriotic War.”
It’s pretty riveting stuff.
I was planning on saying, “whatever” to this… but seeing the creepazoids pasted onto this community’s banner makes me feel like I should rather be apologizing to those who came after.
Pretending that hatred of pig is somehow a bad thing is peak liberalism.
hating on jews doesn’t seem unreasonable now.
Conflating Israel with Jewish people isn’t “white supremacy with extra steps” - it’s just plain ole’ white supremacism.
What you are alluding to is no longer activism
The libs on here are really good at demonstrating that they know absolutely nothing about activism in any shape, way or form whatsoever - but are still willing to feign expertise on the matter.
I guess heckling antifa from the sidelines back in 2016 gave you lots of practice in that, eh?
That is not what they’re saying.
This is what they said:
Activists don’t need the personal information of people they disagree with. Terrorists do,
This is not a case of somebody saying something smart but just wording it terribly. It’s no different than idots who spout “only cowards wear masks!” It’s something only somebody that has no familiarity with actual activism - ie, no familiarity with the actual stakes and risks involved in real activism work - would say.
That only counts for OC gas (pepper spray) - most anti-dissent chemical weaponry doesn’t contain capsaicin. Milk won’t do shit for CS gas, for instance. For CS gas, water is the only thing that works.
Considering how many different types of this shit there actually is and the fact that they can mix them up pretty easily regardless of what the law actually says makes a one-size-fits-all solution pretty difficult.
edit: did I just say a one-size-fits-all solution to this is difficult? Silly me.