Those metal plates look very vulnerable to cheap metal etching solutions. Which is fucked up because you can get etching fluid in spray cans, so somebody could probably prepare a good stencil in advance and they'd have the thing done real fast.
Yeah I've been half-arsed job hunting and so have had to go on linkedin a lot over the last couple of years and I've seen so many professionals posting under their real names and photos promoting the plight of Gazans, it has been quite astonishing and encouraging. So yeah I suspect the old zionist tactics aren't anywhere near as effective anymore.
This has been a really stimulating chat, thank you. :)
Good point. "Afghan" being on the list was my mistake, I was adding names of groups as they popped into my head and that one slipped through despite being a national demonym and not an ethnic group. "Iranian" is a national demonym too, but I've commonly seen it used to refer to ethnic Persians.
Yeah I was just trying to list nationality labels rather than ethnicities without putting much thought into it, thinking of examples we're used to using and hearing that don't raise the "is this some nazi shit?" eyebrow. Didn't intend to make a point about your use of Afghan, I just got to thinking about it in the context of my country and how there shouldn't be an ethnic implication when referring to a fully colonial nationality.
when a comrade is imprecise with language in a clearly non-malicious way and zionists (including gentile zionists) try to exploit that to shift the focus from genocide of Palestinians to feelings of Jewish people, it's important to reject that reframing wholly. Minor imprecision of language, even when it sounds bad and even when it's not coming from a Palestinian, is no excuse to pivot away from the actual issue at hand, though zionists love doing so.
Good point, we're carrying water for Israel when we police the speech of well meaning comrades. There's a deeper thing here with taking things in good faith that goes well beyond the scope of this discussion, but I'm glad you made this point because it's such a waste of time and good will when leftists start spiraling with each other over semantics.
I feel that it's often fairly easy to spot actual antisemitism fairly quickly. There's a common idea I see people state that antisemites are very sneaky, but I think that's not the case in the overwhelming majority of cases.
Agreed again. They aren't clever or sneaky, as a rule, just disingenuous and all that shit Sartre pointed out about reveling in ridiculousness and rhetorical game playing.
It's difficult, while being jacketed as an antisemite is so risky in society, to just shrug off those accusations and stick to the points, but perhaps that's in flux too. Maybe simply refusing to play defense and ignoring those accusations is appropriate more often than we're conditioned to think.
Sorry for the delayed reply. Been struggling to find the right way to respond to this, but I agree with your perspective.
My intuition is that there's an important distinction between labels that primarily denote nationality vs labels that denote ethnicity (and another distinction again for religious labels like Muslim.) Identifying somebody by their nationality (eg Afghani, Iraqi, etc) shouldn't necessarily imply ethnicity - except often it does, at least rhetorically, to the exclusion of diverse ethnic groups that exist within a nation. But none of this is actually useful except to try and untangle why a subset of these group identity labels "feel icky" or something. A racist does not care about precision and there are many people who, to take my country as an example, intend to imply "white" when they say "australian."
(edit to add:) Jewishness is a tricky thing since it does not fit neatly into a single category. But Zionist and Jewish Israeli are both terms which mean exactly what I intend them to when I use them. If an argument I make using those terms is attacked as anti-semetic at least I have a fighting chance at defending myself.
The conclusion I'm circling around, I think, is that there's an ambiguity and imprecision in language that is easily exploited and zionists take full cynical advantage of it. Where this becomes hard to combat is that these arbitrary rules / conventions that benefit zionists are (in the appropriate context) necessary to distinguish anti-zionist speech from anti-semetic speech. The game is rigged, either you play by the rules, which benefit of zionism, or you ignore them and create space for bigotry.
I can only settle on the idea that I (we) have to continue to be precise with our speech and essentially meet Zionists on their terms when speaking from a place of relative privilege compared to the people being oppressed, but we shouldn't let other privileged people take advantage of the ambiguity to ignore and/or co-opt the voices of people oppressed by Jewish supremacists.
By staying precise (israeli rather than jew, jewish person rather than jew, etc) we hold ground against bigotry and make our arguments a little bit harder to ignore. I don't think it's hypocritical to say that the people directly oppressed by Israel should not be expected to tread as carefully, since the context of their speech is very different to our own.
It's fucking maddening though. Propagandists for Israel willfully (gleefully, imo, tbh) play semantic games and misinterpret critical speech in the most bad faith way possible.
yeah before my friend died from neglect (thanks america, let a thousand luigis boom) he was on so much fent, he had fentanyl lollypops and patches and shit.
that was before it became so widely distributed on the black market. the best way to combat fent would be to let the heroin market rip again IMO.
Bitwig runs very well. The only "issue" with Linux is that you might need to either choose a distro that ships with a solid audio system and low latency kernel (ie any media or gaming / "studio" oriented distro) or you make those changes to whatever regular distro you choose.
Oh the other issue which is more serious is that some VSTs can be annoying to run on Linux.
I'm just a hobbiest tho and have been enjoying bitwig for a while on a regular shitty mint install without problems. IIRC you can get a time limited trial for the basic 16 track bitwig with a subset of its included instruments and sample packs for free, which I definitely recommend cuz it's quite different even to ableton let alone anything from steinberg or NI.
Yeah but it'll be funny watching them try.