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Exhibit A from a couple of days ago, with 12 upvotes right here in /c/canada:

until they remove their leader every American should be treated as an enemy. Because if he isnt dead they are all compliant.

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acargitz @lemmy.ca 22小时前

That's a gross mischaracterization of what she's talking about.

She's talking about the phenomenon (which I've also observed) that sometimes Canadians and Europeans shit on anti-Maga people online for being Americans. She explains that resistance in the US differs due to a bunch of reasons. She actually expresses appreciation for international allies who offer support and solidarity, and she highlights that such encouragement is crucial for anti-Maga activists in the US which is in contrast with braindead takes that Americans "deserve" Trump.

She points out that the things we hear outside the US are filtered by the US media and we're not hearing about the many acts of everyday resistance (see also her follow up video). So she urges us to consider what actual allyship looks like: it involves asking what kinds of support on the ground anti-Maga activists need, rather than pooh-poohing them for not being ...performative (the "do a little dance" framing). She also points out that fascism is a problem we ourselves also have, and she ends with calling for building solidarity and mutual support.

Her point is extremely important. Instead of shitting on 350 million people for having a shitty government, we should be building alliances and organizing trans-nationally. The fascists are doing it already, so sticking with just elbows-up alone isn't going to cut it.

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acargitz @lemmy.ca 22小时前

Did you even watch the video?

acargitz @lemmy.ca 22小时前

Turkey is partly a European country. If you only took the population of Easter Thrace, it would be the second most populous Balkan country, behind Romania and ahead of Greece. Istanbul is the largest city in Europe by population.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 23小时前

Follow up video: You don't know what REAL resistance looks like in the US. So let me tell you.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 23小时前

Hear that "whoosh" sound? It's the sound of my point going over your head.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 1天前

Vance (a) would not be able to play the "drunk master" game (b) does not have the political capital of Trump.

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acargitz @lemmy.ca 1天前

25th amendment justification right there.

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acargitz @lemmy.ca 2天前

Meanwhile China is performing the exact pivot to renewables that needs to happen. When an authoritarian state is more positive for the future of humanity, Europe needs to quit the excuses and answer seriously. Saving the soul of democracy requires seriously muzzling capital and its capacity for destruction.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 2天前

Right? Imagine an Appadurai premiership instead...

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acargitz @lemmy.ca 2天前

One thing I've noticed with Lemmy is that it feels way more like a social bookmarking and commentary platform. I see fewer posts that are "original content" here than for example Reddit.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 2天前

And at the end you get a craving for deli food ;)

acargitz @lemmy.ca 3天前

This is literally an interview with two Americans who work in Canada.

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acargitz @lemmy.ca 3天前

Why are these migrants leaving their countries I wonder.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 3天前

What a ridiculous thing to say. And what a stupid way of doing politics. This is exactly how the Zionists are losing the antisemitism narrative and you want to flip it over and push this to the Palestinians. Just like the Zionists fall on their faces by conflating Israel with Jews, you are trying to conflate the Palestinians with Hamas. What a profoundly misguided thing to do.

The millions of Palestinians who do not want Hamas to be the leader of anything do not owe your little fantasy narrative anything. And the millions upon millions of people who have been protesting the genocide do not owe an oath of fealty to some right wing Islamist faction anything.

It's really telling that your last few posts have been about NY progressives not cowing to your campist fantasy. You'd rather attack the few holdouts of progressive politics in the US and see them become internally divided and fail. You'd rather align with the Right to harass Mamdani with cheap shots that make you look like the pure ideologue than to actually do the quiet institutional work that will actually position the anti-apartheid movement better.

Your moralistic pronouncements "if you do that you don't do that" that make political positions sound like personality failures are silly and ridiculous. What a stupid thing to say that if someone doesn't support your favourite Palestinian faction they are pro genocide. What arrogance. You personalize and normalize vitriol in politics, you make it toxic and discouraging to anyone disagreeing with you. Go cosplay 19th century German academic invective style all you like but this isn't how any of this works.

The genocide will not end because of whatever Hamas does. The genocide will end when the anti-apartheid movement in Zionist bases of support succeeds in cutting off that support. And if you think support for Hamas is how you do that, well boy oh boy.

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acargitz @lemmy.ca 4天前

As far as understanding the kinds of thinking and preoccupations in the European military establishment goes, this is an extremely informative discussion.