The Quuuuuill

Then why crush the existing Ukrainian self governance of the Makhnovshchina?

“Tsar Alexander made it all the way to Paris”

This quote was recorded by his interpreter, V.M. Berezhkov

hi. cultural inheritor of the jewish identity here. a genocide in my name against my semitic cousins is antisemitic in that the core value of my jewish identity is standing against opression. to say that my identity is meant to be a particular form of oppressor is hate towards the jewish identity. that is how i read that other comment. yes. words do have meanings, and those meanings matter, and you have to look at them and take them on instead of just ignoring them like your comment did

who would i be without long thoughts no one asked for.

but i realized there was value to making my stance explicit and i used your comment as my excuse 😉

what point do you think this proves? you think this genocide being part of a larger war initiated by the side committing the genocide makes it okay? because that’s how this reads. i do not endorse hamas or any of their actions, but that does not justify killing hundreds of civilians every day for 2 years. nothing does. and israel being a settler colonial project also does not in any way make this fine, that’s completely absurd

i’m not sure i understand, but i am north american. the reason i posted this is there’s a particular set of people on here who believe everything done by the usa is bad (a form of black and white thinking that’s frankly quite understandable) therefor any country that accepts aid from the usa must be evil (a form of black and white thinking i can absolutely not endorse) and any country that undermines US imperialism must be good (another form of black and white thinking i can absolutely not endorse). this crowd is frequently on lemmy saying that russia’s genocide in eastern ukraine is:

1. not really happening and is a fabrication of the cia controlled western media
2. if it is happening, is limited to a few troops acting against their commander’s orders
3. if it is widespread, it’s not really a big deal because talking about it is just a distraction from the genocides in Gaza and Sudan (though they usually don’t bring up Sudan, they only want to talk about Palestine. and they certainly don’t want to talk about the latin american genocide or the |uygher genocide)
4. if it is a big deal, it’s ultimately not russia’s fault, it’s simply what war is and russia must commit to war in order to bring about communist utopia everywhere through a process that can only be described as “somehow”
5. if it is russia’s fault, it was simply an understandable miscalculation any country could have made
6. if russia did intend to commit genocide against the Ukrainian people, it’s because all Ukrainians, yes all of them, even the anti-zionist jewish ones, are nazis

this particular crowd will say the most absurd shit like that spelling Kyiv “Kyiv” is russophobic. i don’t know how you can even hold that position. Kyiv is a living community filled with people who spell it “Kyiv”. when they ask that news outlets spell it “Kyiv” instead of “Kiev” it’s because they live there. it’s the name of their city. it more accurately portrays how the people there think of and pronounce the name of the community they are part of. calling that russophobic is like saying the fact that the first english colony in north america is spelled “Virginia” now instead of “Firginia” is anglophobic.

anyway. i try to point out to people that my enemy in this global system of terror is not strictly speaking russia, or the russian people, or even really the kremlin or putin. these are all entities that are complicit in the actions of my true enemy, but i am, just like everyone, complicit in the actions of my true enemy: colonialism. i unfortunately have a very solid understanding of the ravages of colonialism. my family arrived in the united states fleeing genocide in the old country. i live on stolen land in a community whose history is primarily centered on the extractive exploitation of petrochemicals. i do not see russia’s actions and see liberators. i see more of the same. i see my enemy: colonialism.

so i speak. i name what i see for what it is in hopes that others will begin to understand that our global system of terror provides us no pure allies and no single individual entity to blame. colonialism was not brought into this world by the usa, china, or russia, though all three are engaged in it in order to further their aims of control. no people will ever be made whole by the black and white thinking that any of the empires are their true ally or true enemy. in fact, black white thinking is a tool of our opressors. it makes us easier to manipulate.

Google killing inbox was what radicalized me to that the entire business model of big tech is bullshit

it was when russian controlled territory was at its greatest extent. they are advocating for that russia should control eurasian territories all the way from the pacific ocean to france. it’s a very specific russian territorial claim that dates back to josef stalin and puts their full imperial aims on display

anyone familiar with the american history of manifest destiny (aka the colonial genocide of the native american peoples) will recognize both what russia is doing, and the map of ethnic peoples in russia. czarist russia, the soviet union, and now the russian federation, have all been engaged in an imperial colonial project. the russian treatment of the Ukrainian people has been extraordinarily similar to the united states’ treatment of the Cherokee and Iroquois nations

so. you were right. i was a bit too dismissive, with my above comment, i think. i still stand by it though for why people and bots are acting in this particular way. but i’ve noticed an interesting pattern where an account will mostly act normal but every once in a while go on a completely unhinged run

yup. oracle bought sun microsystems and promised to keep opneoffice going while firing everyone working on it or shifting them to other “higher value” projects like java. so then the people who had loved working on open office founded the open document foundation and forked to libreoffice. oracle then rushed out a couple shitty open office versions before donating it to the apache foundation for a tax break

i’d probably direct people to Joplin

the system is worse than broken, it’s working exactly as intended. the best solution? get out and meet your neighbors. talk to them about how they hate their bosses. tell them about things people are doing to undo this rigged game. don’t at any point claim yourself to be a leftist. just offer to help them out of their nightmarish material conditions

i don’t hate white people, but i’m also not obligated to defend myself from baseless accusations. i said i would block you if this conversation continued in a non productive manner, and look at that! it did! you accused me out of the blue of hating “whites”, provided no evidence to back up your claims and then demanded that i deny your claims

e: in case it wasn’t clear i did block you

k. your methodology seems flawed as i don’t even know what i’ve said that was racist. i’m open to listening as antiracism is a core value of mine. so maybe work on that for the future

what the fuck is wrong with you? you accused me out of being a nazi out of fucking nowhere and now you’re telling me to kill myself. what are you doing? go to therapy

it seems like you’ve just decided i believe something i don’t based on flimsy evidence and a misguided assumption that everyone who gives you feedback on how to coalition build more effectively is a fascist. it’s weird and unproductive to fighting fascism

wtf!? what are you talking about? nazis all deserved to be punched, and i argued earlier today that we have to keep the pressure on to release the epstein files. but it’s completely off topic here. poland is not engaging in distracting from the epstein files they’re engaging in defending themselves from the imperial world order that’s been assisting in obfuscating the epstein case. you are literally working against your cause right now

it’s so out of pocket i don’t know how to deny it other than say “that’s wild”

you’ve just accused me of hating “whites” out of nowhere. it’s a weird thing to do and i think you’re weird for doing it and if this conversation keeping going like this i’m gonna block you because this is unproductive to any conversation to deconstruct hate

that’s wild, but okay

propaganda works