despite_velasquez
@despite_velasquez@lemmy.world
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 6 days ago:
That’s so historically inaccurate I’m amazed it’s got so many upvotes. Let’s go through the SA case:
- the ANC’s armed wing insignificant and largely ineffective throughout the struggle (Mandela himself acknowledged this, and that the MK was largely symbolic).
- MK sabotage campaigns never posed a genuine military threat to the apartheid state
- By the 1980s, most MK leadership was in exile, imprisoned, or neutralized
Apartheid was successfully brought down in SA mostly because of huge international economic sanctions and divestment, mass civil disobedience and labour strikes (read about the United Democratic Front’s campaigns), and the moral delegitimisafiom of apartheid through Non-violent resistance.
Same with the US: people love to point at the Black Panthers, but they were systematically destroyed or marginalized (so ineffective besides vibes). The Civil Rights Movement succeeded precisely because it maintained non-violence even when met with brutal repression.
I maintain that anyone that encourages violence, especially online these days must be a glowie. Want to be radical and revolutionary? Stop paying your taxes lmao.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 1 week ago:
Non-violent protests work because it really highlights the brutality of the oppressor in contrast to the moral righteousness of the protestor. It’s a public opinion tool.
However, the moment you move into the arena of violence, all of this is null and void. The only question is: who has the bigger guns? That person will win.
In this case, whatever you think of the moral standpoint of the two students, the ICE-banner student has the optics in their favour. They can claim (and have in the video) that they’re peacefully protesting and exposing the violence of their oppressor, opressor that resorts to violence at the slightest disagreement. Truth doesn’t matter anymore, everything is about optics (look at the DOJ FFS).
Good on the kid I guess, but this same admin called in the National Guard because Big Balls got jumped. Ggwp
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Every time I’ve been in trouble, people went out of their way to do a good thing for a stranger they had no connection to.
People are the problem
Words of someone that rarely leaves their house
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The “alpha-male” era manosphere enjoyers don’t care. This meme is basically ammunition to say “see, we need to end universal suffrage” to their communities
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I do deradicalisation work with men I find IRL or online, I think there’s a better way for men, but they’re actively pyoped into voting and acting against their own interests.
Can’t express how many of them (at least in my country) point to memes like this as “see, feminism just wants to shame men, it’s not about equality, I’m gonna vote for (insert Christofascist that wants Handmaiden’s Tale IRL) because he ‘stands up for my rights’”.
The creeps that you mention don’t care that you’re mean to them, they also can’t be convinced to change their political stance, they’re irrecoverable misogynists.
Unless you plan to form an armed paramilitary of radfems (which would be cool), I see yelling about “triggered men” as a pretty bad political strategy, because it alienates exactly the guys that are on the fence and could be convinced to abandon internalised misogyny and become feminists. Feminists already don’t get triggered by this, creeps don’t care.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 week ago:
Naporitan is my favourite Japanese food
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 week ago:
There’s PF Chang in China, but it’s branded as an American restaurant lol
- Comment on ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him. 3 weeks ago:
Why are you surprised? Do you really believe the Dems are an opposition party besides aesthetics and vibes? Lol
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 5 weeks ago:
Varoufakis explaining how Eurobonds and IMF were fucking over every European taxpayer in order to bail out banks that made risky bets with Greece was quite based.
I just wish he’d stick to economics, his geopolitics takes are quite bad
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 5 weeks ago:
This is increasingly possible, I’ve seen people fab their own chips at home
- Comment on Reitti v3.1.0: A year of self-hosting my location history (1.1k stars and 46 releases later) 1 month ago:
This piece of software was exactly what was missing for me after leaving the iOS ecosystem. This is great!
- Comment on AI behavioral analysis on factory workers, every step is monitored including attention detection from facial expressions 3 months ago:
It’s more likely that AI will become a middle, or upper manager than a floor worker.
Humans are still very cheap to work with, especially if you gut worker protections
- Comment on Hundreds of Instagram accounts push graphic real-life violence to millions, CBS News finds 3 months ago:
Meta returning to their roots it seems
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 3 months ago:
For me, this documentary was the missing piece when trying to answer: “why does it seem like, in most liberal democracies, despite the revolving door of governments and parties in power, nothing changes”.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 3 months ago:
This is basically one of the core arguments of HyperNormalisation, that post-collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has become too complex to change, so the West has kept itself stable through managed outcomes, predicting and avoiding risk. Anti-depressants are thus used to stabilise and manage emotions of individuals, pacifying them in the face of civilisational collapse
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 4 months ago:
I’m finally migrating from iCloud Photos to Immich next weekend. I finally have my NAS setup going