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This and war in Ukraine have made me realize how exactly the holocaust happened. When I was little I was always so confused as to how something so horrible could’ve happened, but history is repeating itself and it’s not so surprising anymore.

What I am still shocked about is how so many people, seemingly good people, become blood thirsty so goddamn fast but it does prove how the holocaust came to be, and the fact that nobody can see how it’s happening again is truly astonishing.

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ukraine and Israel dropped a big cinderblock on the gas pedal of the car named "Liberal racism". I don't think I could imagine liberals getting this overtly racist this quickly just two years ago

[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The end of the world is soon

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 57 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I may be a pessimist, but I honestly think socialism does in fact have a chance

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I agree, the way I see it everyone now is just being honest about who they are so at least the sides are clear. Ever since the Ukraine conflict, it's been clear that western libs won't ever see certain people as equal and human.

Libs should thank the Palestinians, they don't have to fight the urge to be racist anymore. They can just call them vermin in polite society now.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My hope is mainly that while the west is hurtling towards mania the west is also actively mismanaged and having its influence decline.

China are the rising power and they seem a calming influence

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yep, that's it. And when the west devolves into fascism, it's up to its people to fight it.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm not convinced that they won't just kill us for trying. As lenin pointed out in state and revolution the revolutionary potential of a country is hampered by state security forces and the west has a lot of that and a lot of surveilance.

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Bolsheviks did it where it was literally illegal and there were constant gendarme raids. We’ve got a shot, the western left’s just in pitiful disarray on average right now. We have it easier in many ways we just have to be strategic and build dual power. The Palestinians avoided mossad intelligence we can do similar here.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

The Russian state was under strain from their use of feudalism, WW1 and the famines. It was a different situation

It is important to consider what you are up against. The western left's disarray is also linked to CIA funding to our more contentious tendencies as well

[–] TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 11 months ago

Oh, they will, no doubt. But I'm in it for the long haul at this point. No turning back.

Sure. They've got one of the most advanced and powerful military and surveillance states to ever exist. But that does not mean they are invincible. To me it is not a matter of if we can take them down once we have the organization. That seems quite likely. To me the hard part is if we can get that organization in the first place, given our less than empathetic, less than determined, less than intelligent population. Not to dehumanize, just saying, lots of Americans are clearly really dumb.

We're very close to that fascism we speak of being applied broadly to every working class citizen and not just the minorities as it is now. That means it's time to get to work, and to be prepared for a very bumpy, painful, and potentially liberating ride.

I know we can do this.

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Gonna be honest, I myself feel super unprepared physically speaking.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago

Classical track of: their leadership and military is evil -> hate government not the people -> atrocity propaganda -> they all support their evil leaders -> dehumanisation -> kill them all

In case of Ukraine war they went from zero to Hitler in like 3 months, now they did it in 3 days.

[–] rubpoll@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well at least that's one less contradiction

[–] roux@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago

I can't fucking wait either.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Did msnbc really broadcast that?

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 11 months ago

Here’s some info from OP:

I couldn’t find any video footage but if I do I’ll be sure to link it.

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

I'd like to see the clip

[–] TheOtherwise@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Someone on Twitter linked this (time stamp 32:00) Morning Joe segment, I don’t know if it’s the exact moment OP was talking about as they have yet to confirm.

[–] TheOtherwise@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago
[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do we even really have to censor their handles?

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Those in the screenshot are comrades. I’ve seen people censor and not censor so I kind of gamble whether I do or don’t. In this case I blocked their names and pictures out because they’re comrades. If it’s chill for me to post uncensored then I will.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd keep them censored. They're openly speaking in public already but advertising their names on a platform they didn't choose to speak on will open them to vitriol from a wider audience than they might expect.

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

That’s my viewpoint to a T.

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you post on Hexbear’s Dunk Tank, it’s required to not censor.

I censor if I respect the person otherwise if it weren’t for a bad take or in the case there is no publicly accessible link to the post for dunking.

If the takes aren’t bad, I would see no reason to not censor though because we would be supporting it…?

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s a more grey area, and opens the site up to liability problems. It’s best not to risk it, it’s a simple easy fix and we don’t lose much by not knowing their names.

[–] darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

First off: OP of course can do what they want with their screenshots. And I understand if the poster is in fact someone OP knows and not wanting to so easily lead people back to their own twitter presence. But let's not censor ourselves needlessly based off fears that have no basis in reality.

However, it's a pretty white area. There is no meaningful legal liability from reposting publicly available, consensually posted content that has no copyright and iron-clad fair-use arguments for the purpose of comment, parody, educational use, etc. Effectively zero risk anywhere in the west to screenshot and comment on something posted publicly online (outside of stuff that breaks national security laws, grave intellectual property violations (think posting the coco-cola secret recipe level stuff), and child sexual abuse imagery) as it's widely understood posting online in public is doing so in an open forum and inviting this kind of response. It's only if the commenting, opinions, sentiment, speech itself violates the law that you have a problem and then it has nothing to do with not censoring or anonymizing names.

Once you've accepted the risk of non-pre-screened user-submitted content such as pictures, text, you're already putting yourself in as hot of water as you end up in by allowing usernames to be present. I mean lots of reddit subs and other places used to straight up drop doxx posts on people connecting their online identities together and back to their real life ones, I saw a few on cth back in the day about prolific annoyances and I never heard of anyone dragged into court over that.

The key to avoiding liability is timely good faith removal of potentially infringing content upon receiving a valid legal request. It's only persistent, flagrant, heavily repeated, demonstrably willful violations over long periods of time that have in the past successfully created liability. The biggest examples of successful online lawsuits I can think of include the gawker one which had to do with spreading revenge porn essentially and continually harassing a guy and not backing down when asked. There were numerous off-ramps that if gawker had backed down earlier they would have survived even a high-powered lawsuit like that. You really cannot get got for this stuff without being warned and ignoring the warnings.

I mean half of social media is reposting content you don't own from others. We live in a society where random jerks with a camera can go around in public, get up in people's faces with a camera, insult them, antagonize them, harass the shit out of them for views and clicks and there's little that can be done with someone doing that for antagonism under the guise of "social experiment" while harassing and plastering someone's face and name all over. I mean if this were a legal issue the web would look a lot different.

Now, you can potentially, hypothetically get in hot water if people on your website organize harassment and break laws to do so but that has nothing to do with showing usernames and importantly pretty much has to be a continued pattern of harassment and inaction after repeated notice. If people are saying "PM me for their info" and you're allowing it as people talk about harassment, bomb threats, whatever, then you could be in trouble censored names or no. But just showing something someone else voluntarily posted to a public space online? Nah. And we don't I think have a problem with users here harassing people to my knowledge even in an internet bullying way (correct me if I'm wrong of course). So the solution is not allowing a culture where people accept that, fostering one where people cry fed-posting and report such things before they can go anywhere and be used as evidence of anything.

I'd be far more worried about the potential for all the "in minecraft" comments that I sometimes see than anything near this. Like the Palestinian situation has people heated and I've seen some stuff that really makes me worry for the person posting it because of the heat they could bring on themselves.

Now if the people in the screenshots were breaking laws or in danger from the security state by spreading around what they'd been exposing or saying, or if their words could be construed as slander, there's an argument there. It doesn't apply here but there is one. That said, doing that won't protect most people who break serious laws, they need good opsec in the first place.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Jesus. You must be bored at work.

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Posting while at work is the only (marginally more) ethical form of posting

[–] darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

What are you talking about? Posting is my job. Xi mostly pays for dunks and spreading propaganda but I can usually pad my numbers out with some other things and they don't notice and pay just the same.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago

Part of it is to create and push a code of morality on your populace, then control the narrative so that way your side is always doing what's morally good, and the enemy is doing whatever is morally bad. That's why media control is so tight. Not just news, but every facet of entertainment reinforces our prescribed education of an artificial worldview. I could write a book on the anticommunist indoctrination put into children and family shows, and then those demographics start learning from one-sided history books, and then they're exposed to biased news and propagandic documentaries. And that's just the "neutral" liberal shit that's considered progressive or inclusive, enlightened, pacifist, etc. When you get into the hardcore shit like conservative media, military propaganda video games, etc., it's even more apparent.

I found the mask off racism with the Russia thing a shock, but I was expecting it with Palestine. I grew up with this shit during the Iraq War and War on Terror. I thought we'd learned, but the anti-China shit was obnoxious. Then with Russia. Then Iran. By the time it's gotten back to Palestine, I've come to realize that it's never about a specific group being targeted. It's about ensuring a specific group stays dominant, and cutting any others who dare oppose them down. They all pretend to care about human rights until the oppressed fight back, then they only care about colonizers and tyrants.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Still waiting on a clip.

Not saying the MSNBC pundits would push back on someone saying that, but even in 2003, the lib media was smart enough not to say the quiet part out loud (except for Ann Coulter and the like)

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I found this from the morning joe show (time stamp 32:00

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Damn those are some POS. Not even “both sides bad” anymore, just “israel =totally innocent Hamas = literally evil”

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think that's only vaguely similar to what is in the OP. She starts her statement with "I want to emphasize what he said before", was there another version of this statement from the other person?

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I probably should’ve specified that I got that link from someone on Twitter who went looking for the clip OP was talking about, so I put it here as it’s the only video I’ve seen so far that might reference what OP said. I’ll have to keep looking.