CW: There is some mention of torture and other human rights abuses

CW: There is some mention of torture and other human rights abuses

Btw this is absolutely not negotiable, if you support genocide or fascists you will be banned.

Tbh for a Neoliberal he wasn't that bad, which is still absolutely horrible

Okay so I'm showing off a bit here because my husband gave me the coolest book ever for Christmas. It's illustrated by N O Bonzo, and every illustration is something beautiful.

Of course, the full text is always free online, and it's one of my favorite books to recommend. An audiobook version is also free on YouTube. I used to listen to it when I was walking or longboarding. Just a warning though: Some of the verbiage he uses to describe indigenous groups is dated and offensive to most readers now. It's obvious that his intent is to combat the notion that was pervasive amongst his contemporaries that these were "lesser evolved" societies, but ... it's been a hot minute since I've read this, and the offending language has really stood out to me this time.

With that being said, I still feel like recommending this to people, and especially to those who still cling to the idea that anarchism or communism could never work due to "human nature," which is something that I've heard a lot. That's why I chose the quotation I did as the post title -- it really sums up the most important point of the entire text, in my opinion.

The foreward to this edition is excellent and provides some further context, and if there's enough interest maybe I can share some excerpts in the future.

Anyway, this book also has illustrations like this:

With little blurbs describing examples of mutual aid in action.

And the margins of the text are also illustrated:

I want to get some colored pencils so I can color while I'm sitting on the bus lol

Anyway, I'm done showing off. Thank you for indulging me.

The concept of mutual aid is so important to understand, and once we start to grasp how it looks, I feel like we can recognize examples even in our own neighborhoods and communities -- in spite of the fact that we live in systems that encourage competition! Just think what we could accomplish without these oppressive systems in place!

This knowledge should give us hope.

To all Comrades here:

Donald J Trump is now officially the 47th president of the United States of America, once again the white house is under the thumb of a tyrant. Its incredibly easy to give up in this wave of fascism and despair, I'm here to tell you don't. We may have lost this battle but the class struggle will never end so long as the working peoples of the world dream for a better tomorrow. We can organize, we can protest, we can fight back, and in the end we will win. Find a local resistance group, if there are none make one, create support networks, and utilize the things we have that they never will (compassion, community, and true unity despite us not all agreeing on everything). I believe in all of you and wish you all safety in the coming future.

• kittenzrulz123

The Party of Complicity

The Republicans have become the party of fascism. In the run-up to this election, the Democrats established themselves as the party of complicity with fascism.

What does it mean to acknowledge that Donald Trump is a fascist, and yet do no more than urge people to vote against him? If indeed, Trump intends to introduce fascism to the United States—if, as he has explicitly promised, he will round up millions of people (“the largest domestic deportation operation in American history”), put the military on the streets to suppress protests, and use the court system to attack anyone who opposes him—then limiting oneself to merely electoral opposition means welcoming fascism with open arms.

When fascism is on the way, the appropriate thing to do is to organize underground networks of resistance, as Italian and French anti-fascists did in the 1920s and 1930s. The appropriate thing to do is to prepare to resist by any means necessary. Anything less is complicity.

Beefing up the institutions through which the fascists will enact their policies is complicity. Normalizing violence against the people that the fascists intend to target is complicity. Turning over the communications platforms via which people share information is complicity. Discouraging people from the kind of tactics one needs to fight against a fascist regime is complicity. Over the past four years, the Democrats have done every single one of these things.

The Democratic party leadership is already prepared to coexist with fascists, to be ruled by fascists. They would prefer fascism to another four years of tumultuous protests. Having a more authoritarian party in power gives them an alibi—it makes them look good by comparison, even as they are the ones channeling people out of the streets and paving the way for Trump to carry out his program.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18309994

Stop stress eating & go exorcize! Start organizating locally, build mutual support with like minded people. Build resilience & don't give in, our strength is with in our selves not the political class, not the state, not the corporate elites, our selves. Act like it.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16537189

Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

The Generals’ Plan was presented to the parliament last month by a group of retired generals and high-ranking officers, according to publicly available minutes. Since then, officials from the prime minister’s office called seeking more details, according to its chief architect, Giora Eiland, a former head of the National Security Council.

Israeli media reported that Netanyahu told a closed parliamentary defense committee session that he was considering the plan.

Eiland said the only way to stop Hamas and bring an end to the yearlong war is to prevent its access to aid.

“They will either have to surrender or to starve,” Eiland said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re going to kill every person,” he said. “It will not be necessary. People will not be able to live there (the north). The water will dry up.”

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When asked if the evacuation orders in northern Gaza marked the first stages of the “Generals’ Plan,” Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said no.

“We have not received a plan like that,” he added.

But one official with knowledge of the matter said parts of the plan are already being implemented, without specifying which parts. A second official, who is Israeli, said Netanyahu “had read and studied” the plan, “like many plans that have reached him throughout the war,” but didn’t say whether any of it had been adopted. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, because the plan isn’t supposed to be discussed publicly.

On Sunday, Israel launched an offensive against Hamas fighters in the Jabaliya refugee camp north of the city. No trucks of food, water or medicine have entered the north since Sept. 30, according to the U.N. and the website of the Israeli military agency overseeing humanitarian aid crossings.

Despite making massive mistakes and not being able to explain myself (autism sucks sometimes) I have not forgotten about this community. I hoped that by stepping down it would being this community back, looking in retrospect I was extremely mistaken and for that I apologize. In the near future I am willing to retake my spot as the head moderator (with community approval).

To clarify: I am requesting community feedback from anyone who wants to bring back this community

Israeli anti occupation activist Jonathan pollak telling the story of the murder of the American citizen today during a protest against the settlements on the land of Beita / Nablus

Courtesy of @radicalhaifa@kolektiva.social

AARON BUSHNELL 1999-2024

"I will be no longer complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it is not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine. Free Palestine. Free Palestine."

I always get emotional when I think of Aaron Bushnell. He reminds me of so many of my radical brothers and sisters unable to live with the injustices so many accept as normal.

PS. I tried out the new alt text feature on Jerboa. Let me know if it has any issues!