join_the_iww [he/him]
Russia supports Hamas; Ukraine supports Israel.
This in particular stands out as extremely questionable, if not just outright false.
Netanyahu and Putin have been fairly friendly for a long while, and Israel has in many ways sided with Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 (continuing diplomatic relations with Russia when many countries broke off with them, not sanctioning Russia, not sending weapons to Ukraine, etc).
Both Ukraine and Russia have formally condemned the settlements, and Israel has gotten butthurt about it in both cases. Russia is somewhat more aggressive about reaching a two-state solution and making concessions to the Palestinians than Ukraine is, but it’s not a huge difference.
It’s fairly complicated, but overall I don’t think either Ukraine or Russia can be said to be more supportive of Israel (or of Palestine) than the other one is. Israel has a lukewarm relationship with both. There are no strong contrasts to be made here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine–Ukraine_relations
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Ukraine_relations
Don’t be so jaded about it. There’s a lot of horrific stuff they could do.
- amendment that states that heterosexual marriage is the only legitimate type of marriage
- amendment that gets rid of birthright citizenship
- amendment that reverses the Immigration Act of 1965 and implements racial & religious selection criteria for immigrants
- amendment that bans abortion nationally
- several amendments that would be aimed at making the education system more conservative, like:
- bringing back (Christian) prayer in public schools
- voucherizing school systems
- banning “critical race theory”
- putting strict ideological restrictions on teachers and college professors
- amendment that bans progressive income tax (i.e. in order for an income tax to be legal, it has to be a flat tax)
- amendment that bans gender-affirming treatments for trans people
One memory that sticks out to me is, I was reading some comment thread about like unemployment or something, and somebody wrote a comment that was something like the following:
“Republicans dream of a country where everyone is their own small business owner, but that’s literally impossible to achieve because then there wouldn’t be any workers. Capitalism needs workers.”
Suddenly a lot of things about the economy started to make more sense. I became a socialist not long after that.
I think it was an r/politics thread, strangely enough
The only appropriate response to this passage is: :yes-chad:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Black Panther is the obvious one
fuckin can’t get my shoe to come off wtf
Some of the more class-pertinent ones:
- Average respondent estimated that 26% of Americans have a household income of over $500k. Actual figure? just 1%
- Average respondent estimated that 36% of Americans are in a labor union. Actual figure? just 4%
Conclusion: the average American way underestimates the magnitude of labor exploitation in this country.
