They've killed somewhere on the order of 200,000 people so far, over the course of two years of almost unimaginable brutality. They're showing every indication that they're right on the verge of planning to double that in a very short time with an attack on Gaza City. You're not wrong but also this new thing is a very big deal on its own.
Like a lot of things, it works best when you can't really consciously tell that it's there.
An animation that's too quick to really register is fulfilling the brief and making the interface better, without cluttering up the user's conscious awareness. An animation that wants to slow down enough so that you can really feel that the designer put some work into this interface, and appreciate what genius they are, is no good.
I suspect that she means that Israel should be able to kill Palestinian families if they want to, and anyone who says otherwise is an enemy. Of course, she can't say that specifically, so she has to toss up strawmans about supporting Hamas's war crimes, or just say she "disagrees" without being specific.
It is a common framing. "Israel's right to exist" can be used by both sides as a way to reframe somebody into being some kind of monster.
This lady can say that, because some of the people Israel's been genociding are ready to do some genocide back at this point out of pure self preservation, anyone who defends those people in any way must disagree with Israel's "right to exist."
And, on the flip side, people on Lemmy can say that some particular user is a "Zionist" because they don't agree with destroying Israel. They are defending Israel's "right to exist," on stolen land and actively genociding its neighbors, founded as part of a Zionist project, and therefore, they are a "Zionist." I've seen people try to say Bernie Sanders or PugJesus is a Zionist for that reason for example. It's not even really wrong, I guess... anyone who disagrees with destroying Israel completely is, by one way of looking at it, a Zionist. It's just horribly misleading, which is why they like to make the accusation in that particular way.
Honestly I think the way Mamdani handles it is a masterful illustration of how to manage someone trying to paint you into a corner of things you didn't say: Put perspective on the issue they're trying to blow up into the whole conversation, define crystal-clearly what you actually do believe on that issue correcting them on what they tried to put in your mouth, and then forcefully make a case for what you believe and why it's right.
It is a handbook for resistance against a dictatorship, pretty famous among resistance movements worldwide because it was built on actual extensive study of what does and doesn't work in a whole lot of worldwide situations both successful and not.
This talks more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy
It is also here: https://archive.org/details/from_dictatorship_to_democracy_1306_librivox
If it makes you feel any better, they have done this before. And this time the people in charge are idiots. Look up Black Wall Street, the firebombing of MOVE headquarters, killing of Fred Hampton, all that stuff. This is not new. It used to be this way a lot of the time. It's just in a new form now, more systematic, with a ton of extra strengths and a few new weaknesses, compared to the way it came before. It's like Pennywise. I have no idea how this time will shake out, I am afraid a little bit. But it is beatable. My concern is actually a lot more about what is going to come after, than it is that all this shit show in its current setup is indestructible.
Still works for me. Are you on Tor / VPN?
Just say what's up. People like it. It takes a little bit of charisma to pull off, but the main obstacle with it is that you can't be trying to figure out some kind of compelling lie that you can tell so you can keep doing favors for your friends who are slaughtering human children, just whole stadiums full of little ones with their guts spilling out.
For most people in Washington, that's a deal breaker, so this kind of wildly popular election-winning formula is just off limits.
💔 Fuck the world
What team sports politics combined with legalized (and illegalized for that matter) bribery does to a motherfucker
See Rainbow capitalism as a very related example. Nutomic is right that identity politics are used to create division among the working class, because anything that can create division will be used to do so.
I mean that part is accurate. But abandoning whatever issue it is that is being used to create division is not the answer. They use all kinds of legitimate issues to create division. The solution is clearly to get rid of that whole concept where disagreement = division. Not to say that it's just "all good" if I think people deserve human rights, and you don't. We can still work together on some things, sure. I'm still going to give you hell about your bad point of view. A lot of people on the left seem to have this concept like it has to be a monoculture, like everyone has to see all issues of right and wrong and good and evil in exactly the same way, and if you don't see it my way, then you're a total shit and an enemy on purpose and I need to try to destroy you first before even trying to attempt anything against the right. And that tendency is one that the right absolutely loves to exploit, and they have wild success at it.
(Nutomic also in an extra irony takes it a step further, because his server will not just "divide" from you ideologically, but outright ban you if you try to say that some particular people deserve human rights.)
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I feel like once these guys get out into the street, it's going to be about 15% of them that really enjoy getting to finally live out their violent fantasies, and about 85% of them that are totally useless cowardly terminally online piles roughly in the mold of Pete Arredondo. Personally, I would really encourage them to use as many of these tactics as possible, and fill ICE up with as much incompetence as they can.