Has SOG stopped being trash on Israel yet?

Thanks I hate it 🙃

I don’t blame Presidents acting in their own best interests

Wtf of course I blame Presidents for acting in their own best interests when those interests are fascist!

But they do suck. Two things can be true at once!

More concretely: every president since forever has supported the creep of executive power, in particular Genocide Joe and Drone-bama. They allowed this shit to happen.

I’m with you, but you know you can let those fucking swears fly, right? 🙂

Edit: okay almost missed it, one nitpick:

killing people without adequate process

Nah I actually don’t think the US government should be killing people even with due process. Literally the last people in all of history so far that I want to be given power over life and death.

It should be seized by the government people and mercilessly decentralized.

Toss the homophobes into the sea and move on? Easy fix!

Library Genesis when it’s up and Anna’s Archive. Anna’s Archive’s database is a proper superset of the Library Genesis database but IMO Library Genesis is a little easier to search. For both sites, make sure you’re rocking uBlock Origin.

I don’t know much about TorGuard VPN, but it’s probably fine if it’s been fine for pirating other stuff. Books are on the order of 300MB for uncompressed scans or 3-50MB for books that are rendered directly to PDF, i.e. it’s not that much data unless you’re training the next ChatGPT. I pirate a lot of academic books as an autistic PhD student and I’ve had no issues 😆

Happy reading! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴🏴🏴

Meanwhile I’m disappointed in Canada for not being anti-America enough 😆

Software piracy is neither scandalous nor unethical. Information is meant to be free.

Death, death to the IDF.

Please elaborate what in my text gave you such an impression.

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Are we supposed to be very very horrified that 9 innocent people died in a plane crash?

Yes oh my God some of them were children

So, of course at least 5 %, possibly almost 10 % of Russian civilians are innocent, but out of the 44 adults that died, that is statistically about 2 to 4 people in the whole plane, plus the five children.

Of course the statistically average Russian isn’t completely blameless for supporting the Russia-Ukraine war, but that doesn’t mean they deserve to die in a plane crash!

Like the entire argument you’re making and the fact that you’re making it to argue against what I previously is what gave me the impression that your empathy is conditioned on where someone comes from.

That’s a lot of words to admit that your empathy for others is conditioned on where they come from.

Yeah and every time, nationalist turbo-libs like you will be there to voice your utter apathy for the deaths of innocent civilians because they are flying over land controlled by monsters with a different flag than the monsters who control your country, a flag whose subjects your country has told you to hate.

Nationalism is a fucking mind virus.

WTF are you on about?!? These are civilians! There were children on board!

Critical support for comrade food poisoning

Hell yeah RISC-V🤘

I didn’t say anything about political statements, I mentioned violent statements.

Politics is already violence. For example, even though no gunshots are going to be fired, millions of vulnerable US-Americans are about to lose their state medical insurance. What is this if not social murder?

Politics is systematic social violence, but it is structured in such a way that the systemic aspects are abstracted away from all individuals.

anyone who can’t express the latter without the former should, generally, expect to be censured (and censored).

I reject this notion. For example, I support stopping the IDF from committing the genocide of Palestine. Do I support stopping them peacefully? Of course it would be fantastic if we could peacefully get them to stop what they’re doing, but…this would have to happen immediately, since every moment of every day the IDF is continuously destroying Palestinians. Said differently: we could only afford to work at the pace of liberal democracy if that pace was immediate.

This should not be even remotely controversial!

Like be serious for a minute: would you have a problem if Jews living under Nazi regimes and their allies said “Death to the Wehrmacht”? Well with 80 years of hindsight of course you would now not have a problem with that. But since it’s happening now in Palestine and on a smaller scale than the Nazi Holocaust, you’re having problems with coarse violent opposition rhetoric because you haven’t successfully learned to apply the lessons of the Holocaust to current events!

Chanting “death, death to the IDF” is violent and inappropriate at a music festival. “Fuck the IDF” would’ve been fine though.

No it’s not. Mass music festivals are perfectly acceptable places to make political statements. This has been done for generations now, i.e. Rage Against the Machine.

And when we say “Death, death to the IDF”, we are accurately talking about the IDF like the monsters they are. For a scathing rebuke of respectability politics, I defer to this essay:

I am so fucking mad, sad, angry, and enraged at the actions of the elite and the hateful reality they’ve structured; that the only honest way to express my emotions is to wave a giant neon hatecock in the face of these hypocritical lying shitmongers. I don’t care if they hear me – they would never care, even if I was “respectable.” But they can’t fucking ignore me. They can’t fucking look away. They can only shake their head and claim, ever more shrilly as our world spirals deeper into shit, that “You’ll never convince a moderate with that language!” Fuck you. I don’t want to convince moderates. I want to fucking change shit. I want to inspire people, to get them angry. And if that offends you, if my anger, my emotions, my rage at getting fucked over, over and over and over again, bothers you? Take a step back, and think about what you truly value. Is it the messenger? Or the message?

Honestly, the fact that you are trying to pretend I didn’t tell you my background in an attempt to prove whatever point you are trying to make about me is humourous.

You told me that you’re Greek-Canadian, right? I genuinely forgot that you told me, sorry. Being Greek didn’t register in my 💩 brain as a visible minority group, but it absolutely is. I was also leaving open the possiblity of belonging to any other minority identities you hadn’t previously talked about without assuming cisheteronormative “defaults”.

whatever point you are trying to make about me is humourous

I wanted to move on with the discussion as if you could have been, but did not definitively tell me, that you were from a group which is a minority in Canada. Which you did and I acknowledge that now, and I simply forgot.

I stand by the rest of what I said. I’m gonna leave it here because this is already verging on unhealthy.