thanks AV

More like porn is illegal, just like in half the US. Give it two years we’ll hear much worse about gay erotica artists being arrested in Texas and held without trial

Is this the Monday aid shooting or this another new shooting at an aid site today?

I dont think its insensitive, but I do think you’re missing the forest for the trees a bit with this part

the greatest enemy… is division itself

This was sortof poorly communicated on my part because its such a long winded concept but basically my original comment was an acknowledgement that the division was indeed the enemy but more specifically that the ruling class and those in power have consciously and intentionally placed these divisions with deadly accuracy in order to protect the meta interests at play.

For example, libya was a country in Africa mostly useless to america and had no real geopolitical weight in the global arena. When Syria sent suicide bombers to take down a commercial airliner the american government commited to a worldwide obfuscation of this fact because they were collaborating with Syria in military actions against other countries in the Middle East and needed to keep their appearance of impropriety at bay while they were publicly allied. So, at the behest of the american government, libya took credit for the bombings in order to create confusion around the investigation which was very clearly showing no evidence of Libyan involvement and extensive evidence of Syrian involvement. The original reporting of the bombing accused Syria of being the perpetrator, but due to America’s pressure campaign the findings were decried as inconclusive.

Decades later, while Syria was committing a genocide and no longer a public ally of the US, libya once again became a subject of the spotlight. Why? Because america was welcoming them into their alliance of course. Libya had “given up their WMD’s” (which they never even remotely came close to having) in exchange for being brought into the fold to fight the “evil regimes of the middle east.”

Now, one might wonder at this point: what about libya changed in those intervening decades? The leader of their terrorist state was a dictator named qadaffi, and the noble nation joining the coalition was lead by… the same guy. Objectively nothing about their government or country had changed except the fact that america now saw them useful to their perception management operations.

This is, again, a very poorly explained way of saying that what you percieve as division are actually carefully crafted splinters deliberately used to shatter the ability of anyone to accurately understand and describe the world around them. We are so constantly bombarded with sci-fi level propaganda and unconscious manipulation of narratives about the world around us that almost none of the things that divide people are even real in the first place.

Anti abortion politics was a manufactured astroturfed movement thought up by the highest levels of government and society in order to force a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. The tea party movement was a manufactured astroturfed movement funded by billionaires in order to foment a fascist resurgence within the country to destabilize the working class. Illegal immigration is a direct result of american foreign policy destabilizing governments around the world and creating refugee crises that are so large no other country could afford to absorb them and the anti immigration panic is a manufactured astroturfed movement designed by the highest levels of conservative power structures to manufacture consent for holocaust style death camps. These are all factually proven right wing psyops that have successfully destabilized the country and created all the division that is so visibly causing our society to collapse.

In all of these scenarios, there are specific actors and groups directly responsible for and consciously in control of the supposed divisions no matter what they may be. Left or right is a burlap sack over your head that you cannot remove but can turn 180 degrees in between waterboardings. Take the sack off and look at who’s holding the hose. It’s capitalists every time. Doing something that is inherently destructive to society and the world at large specifically with the intent of profiting off the now destabilized workers, state, or country.

This is long enough so I’ll try to wrap up. The real solution to divisions in society is by reducing inequality and the way to reduce inequality is by forcibly divesting capitalists from their capital and returning it to the people who produced it. All the divisions, all the wars, all the economic failures come from a single point and their entire game for the past 400 years has been to obfuscate that single point behind an led screen of shiny new things to get mad about instead of the people exploiting all of us for their own gain.

(The reference to libya is an example given in the documentary “hypernomalization” by Adam Curtis if you’d ever like to hear the story unfucked by my frantic desire to get this comment out lol Here’s the link if you’re interested )

It goes beyond literacy and education, the reality that people experience is completely manufactured. Hypernormalization of everything. Governments manipulating public perception of events and history has rendered most of the population incapable of even interpreting their own experiences much less the world around them. This is a problem much larger than reading levels or education, people are sleep walking.

Edit: russia being part of this conversation is not a coincidence

You dont understand its actually really important that I be able to ignore the genocide and operate as if it isnt happening otherwise youre purity testing me and I cant accept being called a bad person for handwaving it away. This is why “the left” is so divided, too many people hung up on the genocide. What happened to imperfect allies! /s

You see, we built this to bring jobs. The people in this community need good jobs and that’s why we came up with the idea of constructing a natural gas extraction plant here, for the community. They need good paying jobs and I think we succeeded in bringing them here. Yes there was a leak.

Strange. Does the press not have freedom in israel? The government controls their media entirely?

Weird way to end the article honestly

Lotta propagandists on lemmy weren’t good enough to be on the reddit/Facebook teams I’ve noticed

All great, no notes. Kill Tories is even better than up hamas imo

200 people being treated in a hospital along with a journalist you already attempted to murder? Human shields. Level the hospital.

Every single idf troop using a Gazan slave as a bullet sponge? Standard operating proceedure. Most moral nation.

Anyone claiming otherwise is antisemetic.

Any questions?

As usual you can thank Jim crow and slavery for it. Back when black people stopped being ownable property they had to be paid to do jobs but since the hard working white folk in town who had businesses didn’t want to pay black people for their work they invented a system where the freed men would have a job serving the customers and it was implied that if they did a good job you’d throw them a nickel. That was the workaround to having slaves that worked for you but technically got a “wage” from “tips” for good service. It eventually became so economically viable that it became an industry standard and now everyone gets to sell their labor to a company which externalizes the cost of paying the employee to their customers. American exceptionalism baby!

Yikes man do you not hear yourself? In Germany they dont declare tips as income, and they also dont require workers to survive off tipped wages. So what the hell is your point? “In Germany we pay workers to do a job” great for you guys.

In america we have systematic wage slavery and tip based service models are the lowest class of wage slaves. They dont even get paid a minimum wage which, in america, is below poverty. They exclusively make money from gratuities that paying customers “willingly” give them for their service and the company they work for “pays” them $2/hr. Tips paid on taxes already basically didn’t exist because most servers don’t declare their tips as income. (My entire family was raised by waitresses.)

This legislation legalizes people who arent service workers declaring any income as tips and thus avoid paying taxes on it. It’s a bad idea and fundamentally misunderstands the economic pressures making a policy called “no tax on tips” generally popular.

America chose the route of social security and a mandated minimum wage instead of the state seizing the assets of robber barons and returning them to the communities that were responsible for their success.

You can see today exactly how well that worked out for the working class: minimum wage is below the poverty line and hasn’t been a living wage since the 70s, social security is being undone, and the government regulations that mandated a standard of living for working class Americans have been entirely dismantled.

This is the result of leaving the power within the capitalist class and allowing them to get away with their abuses without punishment: they do it again as soon as they get the chance.

Great, now americans need to learn about necklacing

Why not? They’re not terrorists any more than the idf are. To that point, Nelson Mandela was designated a “terrorist” until 2008. Should we not hear what he thinks?

Arrested for “obstruction of justice” like was clearly stated in the executive orders handed down yesterday. Don’t play coy. They were coerced by threat of investigation to pass the ordinances.

It’s in the article but you probably missed it because they’re reporting it in passive language.

Cnn gleefully reporting on local councils being threatened by the state to force their immigration enforcement through a vote or be arrested

Who’d guess the cia deputy director would raise such a gullible piece of shit