Scotland against racism, call to action (Bathgate)
re: uspol, well here's what I think about it
@timnitGebru Also I would like to add that I do not like any possible implications that Israel is directly calling the shots here with American lobbyists. It's the other way around and a message to the relevant powerful parties in the Knesset (like Likud), American interests setting the tune for them to dance. Convenient kinds of Israelis (like very racist IDF chuds) get brought in as showpieces for what are fundamentally American (nation-state) interests. Whether they be financial or apocalyptic.
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Too late for #Caturday, but please adopt pets, they all deserve to have a good life and you can make a huge change when you adopt.
I know people usually want kittens, but please, read what I've said in my previous post before making a decision. You'd make me the happiest person in the world if any of you reconsidered due to this post.
Please adopt and love FIV+ cats like they deserve. Same for old and other disabled pets.
uspol, well here's what I think about it
@timnitGebru The only reason is the US wouldn't invent the nation-states of China or Russia if they didn't already exist. The only countries congress has political will to enforce FARA against are cold war ghosts from the looks of it. It isn't exactly viewed as foreign when weaponizing Jewish identity has been government policy for a few decades now. There's coastal oil reserves involved, after all (disputed with Lebanon).
Certain US politicians (Trump and many others) have so much as outright said that American Jews are just supposed to become Israelis, with implications of treasonous behavior should we reject dual loyalty as an official line. For a certain US politician, it's their only official answer to "the Jewish Question"... Since actual coexistence is best seen by them as a temporary affliction, against their Christian tastes. America as a Christian nation, etc. A way to encourage us going away while trying to look good doing it.
@gkrnours @timnitGebru same organization, same conference, just a different building down the street from the area for Jews at AIPAC.
I finished reading "The No-State Solution A Jewish Manifesto" by Daniel Boyarin.
I know it is a good book, because it has prompted me to start reading from a scholar that helped inspire Daniel's modes of thought named Gil Anidjar. The kind of book that makes you want to read every extended footnote. I think my next read from Anidjar will either be "The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy" or "Blood: A Critique of Christianity". Maybe even both, but they seem kinda lengthy.
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anarchism, and the foreign
As an anarchist, if your argument is going to amount to "it is bad because it is foreign" am I inclined to believe that your internalized nationalist biases are relabeling a local issue to mark it as evil. Since in a nationalist framework, evil is always foreign, or composed of foreigners. So I am really disappointed when others resort to such shallow analysis, overlooking evil in their own backyard because it casts a shadow elsewhere.
To be clear: I'm not just talking about whatever the media currently considers foreign. I think the word itself as a political tool is only ever going to backfire if we want a world without borders. A world without exoticized and mythologized outsiders causing the problems instead of anything material and actionable. That kind of world is strategically incompatible with a better world to come. It is a world of chasing our own tails. What is foreign and the foreigner except people who will not be separated from us by walls should we get the chance to overturn things? How meaningless is that distinction, then? How nasty and counterproductive is it's connotation? Never worth invoking.
Scotland against racism, call to action
Stand Up to Racism #Scotland has called a national day of action on Saturday (10 August 2024)
Demonstrations in #Edinburgh, at Parliament, at 11:00; in #Glasgow, at George Square, at 11:00; in #Dundee, at City Square, at 12:30
Unite against the far-right!
Microsoft are homophobic prudes
So I’ve been using Microsoft Stream at work to auto-caption videos. Part of my job is quality assurance so I double-check the captions for errors.
One recent annoyance is that the captioning software censors some words, replacing them with asterisks. One word in particular that has been a thorn in my side is the word “nipple”. I have had to work on several BREASTFEEDING videos. Needless to say, I’ve been retyping in the word “nipple” a lot.
Come to today, I’m working on a video about transgender and non-binary folks. The speaker said, “There is no such thing as straight sex and gay sex.” Lo and behold Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to censor the words “gay sex”. “Straight sex” is uncensored.
I’m fucking livid, but I have no real way to contact Microsoft on this. But, mark it down and spread the word, Microsoft are fucking homophobic prudes.
@timnitGebru AIPAC is primarily a product of evangelical american christian funding? Why would it be a foreign agent?
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