chrismj199.bsky.social
commie. ML. anti-imperialist. writer of words. purveyor of radical literature. MA in modernist literature. LGBTQ+ ally. poet. from the U.K. he/him š©šµšø
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after all, why does there even need to be a word like that, when each position can be explained on its individual merits. why do we need a singe word to describe those engaging with essentially every global south revolutionary movement, as though they are a single entity
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nor is it necessarily a matter of the opinions of those regimes themselves, but the use of the term now, when it is thrown around, given the context my post is highlighting
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itās less to do with whether or not one finds totalitarianism objectionable, but on which regimes are interpreted as such, and when and why
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damn, i really mangled this post, missing words n shit. sorry, iām posting too fast, but you get the idea
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sorry not every attempt at revolution is the paris commune you adore
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itās probably bc they arenāt engaging with thinkers outside of the west, since they think theyāre all ātankiesā
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or opposition to whatever the current phase of the forever war is, like even the stop the war coalition didnāt ever seem to look at it in a wider systemic way
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how could i forget, iām still recovering from being shredded by āironic detachment is fascistā.
i think ur right that focus on imperialism is def something that only seems to come when you move left of DS. it might be there before but itās not the focus, itās just austerity & anti-tory mostly
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on and on and on and on and onā¦ and to question it, to point out that the senseless slaughter of millions is maybe not a good thing and that it should stop makes you a dangerous unpatriotic/unamerican/unbritish/antisemtic/whatever radical
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check out the engagement when weāre not just talking about israel
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weird i have always refused to wear a poppy too, i guess i must have been predicting the gaza genocide in advance, or maybe red just isnāt my colour?
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if it aināt you then who the fuck is it?
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500,000
CHILDREN
500,000
CHILDREN
500,000
CHILDREN
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Stuns me how barely anyone talks of the carnage US/UK/others committed in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya anymore. Including some who today claim to be pro Palestine. Israel's brutality doesn't change the west's moral depravity.
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the āthis isnāt usā crowd of liberals and fake leftists are literally spitting on the graves of the literal hundreds of millions who have died of britainās āvaluesā
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and as well as the brits that just conveniently forget about those conflicts, thereās all the ones that were apparently against it all along. itās amazing how apparently the whole country was against those wars, because thatās not how i remember it. i was young, but i remember it well enough
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and not just during the post-9/11 invasions but the āinterventionsā in all of those countries for years before that led to deaths in the millions.
āthe death of 500,000 dead iraqi children was āa very hard choice, but the price-we think the price is worth itāā - madeleine albright, 1996
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no payment can be extracted from them that will suffice. there is no punishment that can either undo the horrors or equate to a fraction of their deserts. but pay, they must. and fucking dearly
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Labour consider non-working people to be subhuman
They consider working people to be economic units
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bummer
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well then those israelis are even more screwed because theyāll have nowhere else to go
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the wanton destruction. when you see the tears in peoplesās eyes holding their loved ones and then you see videos of the laughter and bloodthirstiness, iāve never seen anything like it. itās monstrous
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indeed, illegal occupiers
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just the worldās biggest military installation, funded entirely by the united states, while actual people just leave in droves and an any semblance of an economy is just replaced by american money
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of course, this is all based on the principle of israel continuing to function as something like the stolen country it is, it may be that theyāve accepted a reality as nothing more than the forward deployed position of white supremacy in the region that they are and nothing more besides
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one of the periods of most pressure for israel was the beginning of the fighting with hezbollah, because the israeliās in tel aviv began to feel the heat. iran is a much bigger deal
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picking on the gazans is one thing, but any kind of extended war with iran is another matter
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hereās the thing though, eat shit
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dealerās choice
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damn youāll have an etsy soon
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well who doesnāt like a happy ending
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it really is an incredible thing to consider, it seems too fictional, and yet, clearly itās the case. the madness is like some colonel kurtz shit. itās so disquieting and awful, and, scariest of all, widespread
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iāve been thinking about getting into wood burning too. i mean iām already carving, so itās just another way to add more to my own creations. iām not sure whether i should try to master the one first though, or just fuck it and burn some wood because itās fun
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that seems fair, but only if we split each bear into three. itās not enough just to divide the bears into three piles.
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thatās great to hear. you said you were thinking about it when i mentioned it, so itās nice to see you went ahead and got back into it. i love nice little hobbies to try to clear my head. iāll send you some picture after iāve painted it and added little leather strap. thatās the final phase!
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sure am, whittled my first whittle (besides making sticks into smooth sticks). i went postmodern with it, i used my whittling knife to whittle the handle of another knife. got a throwing dagger without a handle and some pieces of walnut wood and turned it into a dagger with a handle!
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well, read the whole thread and now i want gummi bears, so what do you plan to do about that?
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and please, i want details