bigger threats to her community’s safety. she is willing to send aid to people who tolerate the insidious presence of bigotry if it means the people who loath bigotry are still alive tomorrow to fight bigotry

What I am about to say is effectively a power upvote, but this is in direct alignment with what my Ukrainian friend who fought in Ukraine’s civil was has to say about these things. She hates Azov’s integration but in this current moment still finds herself sending money to United24 because even though she once sat on a rooftop with a rifle, she feels that the best way to keep her sister alive is to support the national army that once tried to de-legitimize her resistance and integrated her enemies.

The way she’s put it is that her objection to the far right militia’s was that they were fundamentally bigots and she cannot abide racists. The russian army presents in her home a foreign occupying imperial military which in many ways is bigots, racists, and then more insidiousness on top of all that. I haven’t really talked about her here on lemmy for a long time because it gets exhausting being told she was a CIA asset

i’m always excited to recommend it! there’s probably nothing more influential or more driving to my ethical-political outlook on the world than her and Carol Gilligan. it is not strictly speaking an anarchist text but it is extremely influential in modern anarchist circles.

it’s also SUCH a departure from so much prior male driven philosophical examinations of ethics, and it really opens some eyes about what becomes possible and how the world can be different when people with hegemonic privilege shut the fuck up and listen for a minute. it made all that time i wasted studying philosophy in college worth it haha (by my senior year when i met my philosophical mentor i was feeling really depressed and jaded about what a waste of time studying philosophy had been as i was facing the prospect of never having a well paying job and not knowing what to do about how fucked the world is all the time)

also to piggyback, does anyone have any good books about effective propaganda i can recommend to people? i know the basic pattern and put into practice:

1. identify something about your audience
2. give them something to agree/identify with
3. associate a positive message with what they agree with
4. create mass presence of this messaging so they see it everywhere
5. wait for someone to give them in person verbal confirmation

but i lack any concrete published theory to give to people to read if they’re interested in changing 21st century minds

Mutual Aid - Dean Spade

Ethics of Care - Virginia Held

i don’t understand how that negates the utility of a mobile app that presents this information. also i’m not saying to get rid of the server-client paradigm, not sure what you’re talking about

status. part of the impetus of the development of piefed was a frustration with how the lemmy devs treated people who tried to get onboarded to help with the development of lemmy. i can go into more depth about how this is a reflection of how the lemmy devs see the world, but i don’t necessarily feel like hashing all that out when i have bigger fascists to fry

phone apps can’t use activity pub as that’s a server protocol so if you want a good mobile interface you generally speaking need a rest-y api that an application can query. yes, lemmy and piefed both feature PWA frontends that can be installed to your homescreen, however on older phones this can be an extremely suboptimal experience as PWAs tend to require more RAM than native apps.

wildly unhelpful, @[email protected] . you’ve jumped straight back into reinforcing false binaries. i agree that the person you are replying to is in the wrong, but caping for authoritarianism is NOT OKAY.

you could just leave it at that a foreign occupying nation enacting an extraction economy on a people is wrong, immoral, unjust, and doesn’t bring anyone closer to liberation. instead you “pray for [someone’s] oppression”

i’m going back to blocking you and this community, but i’m going to ask you this. what do you want the world to be? just a bunch of campist fighting so long as you get to attack some liberals? enjoy. i want no part of it. i want to build a better world from the ashes of the old rather than renewing past mistakes.

accelerationism, making things worse for people, does not bring us closer to liberation. working and organizing into a robust movement of the people does. we cannot be free as long as we’re all just picking which imperial dictator’s to support rather than working together to burn them all down

i think he sucks, but i don’t think it’s good he’s gone. this hasn’t brought venezuelans closer to liberation. the opposite, in fact. i think the people celebrating just aren’t familiar with what a foreign occupying extractive economy does to a people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_War_Home

If anyone is interested in how ICE is just imperialism turned inwards (one of the definitions of fascism) I recommend this book

Would you be fine with me calling you “sis?”

The notion of “everyone is ‘dude’ or ‘guys’” supports a patriarchal hegemonic understanding of the world

this is the problem rooting a system of ethics in an authoritative morality. morality is socially assigned where as ethics are derived based on reaching consensus. whether or not something is morally right or wrong is nearly indistinguishable from whether or not something is legally allowed or disallowed. the Israelis have been programmed for 80 years to believe that theirs is the most moral army because their interpretation of the torah tells them it must be so. the nazis believed they were right, and so did the americans and british they were drawing inspiration from.

much better to focus on ethics derived on features of what it means to be human and what dignities we must all have respected as we navigate the world

this has also been the case for prior genocidal projects

this 100%. i’ve been shot by rubber bullets on 6 separate occasions as the police made protective circles around nazis to make them safe. even at those free speach zones, bring everything you need to diffuse riot control equipment just in case things get weird because they just well might.

our militarized police forces LOVE kettling people, beating them, and pepper spraying them. come prepared even if you think the protest you’re going to is safe

if you’re american seeking to flee now even if you yourself are not in danger, you are participating in a neoliberal colonial project. stay and help your vulnerable neighbors. you will do more to help venezuela and queer people by staying put, getting active, and studying groups like the zapatistas than you can by going to a future vassal state

it pisses me off. class solidarity should not be gated by international borders. it’s fine to focus your energy where you can apply it, but the idea that an imperial power should be allowed to dominate another country because it’s their sphere is bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South

not my defitition. and by the generally understood definition, Syria is not in the north and is surrounded by other countries also in the global south. where are you demarcating north? the equator? because it’d be better to think of it as being around Russia’s southern border, or around the Mediterranean sea based on how the countries of the global north treat the global south

Syria is absolutely part of the global south. you know the global south is primarily about economic exploitation and not geography, right? and good for you knowing these things. but most americans aren’t keyed into all this at all

• the women’s war in syria
• liberation movement throughout africa seeking to erode neocolonialism
• the origins and collapse of congolese independence work that was disrupted by the CIA leading to the current civil war
• who the opposition to Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is

there’s all sorts