Samskara
@Samskara@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 2 days ago:
Exactly. The Chinese communists were barely fighting the Japanese. The nationalists did most of that. The communists were hiding out in remote areas during the long march. After the Japanese had left, the communists managed to beat the weakened Nationalists.
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 2 days ago:
The Zaptistas have their ideological base not purely in western anarchism and Marxism. Liberation theology and catholic religion plays a big role in practice. They also emphasize a mystical connection to the land (people of maize), so their ideology is adjacent to blood & soil nationalism in some ways. They also leverage lots of traditional power structures like family clans, tribal loyalties, and such.
They have been successful in a way as they are still around and actually have local government structures in place that seem to work. However the EZLN hasn’t succeeded in providing stability and security to the region. Economically it’s still one of poorest regions in Mexico.
The limited success of the Zapatistas is more a sign of the weakness and failures of the central government of Mexico. They have managed to build a somewhat functioning local government and militia providing security in a remote poor rural area.
Similarly to the Machnov anarchists in Ukraine, Catalan anarcho-syndicalists, they leverage ethnic nationalism for cohesion.
What the Zapatistas have achieved is admirable, but their model doesn’t transfer to highly developed multi ethnic multi cultural highly urbanized countries with disintegrating social bonds.
Western contemporary anarchists are mostly fringe and usually not well connected with traditional structures like family, ethnicity, nation, religion.
- Comment on Finally, a real name for your penis 2 days ago:
🧍♂️ MAN SWORD 🗡️
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 2 days ago:
Or buy ad space to play a short song.
- Comment on Lmao 2 days ago:
Also to launch big spy satellites into orbit.
- Comment on Lmao 2 days ago:
The main disadvantage octopi have is their antisocial behavior. The parents don’t raise and teach their young. They live in solitude. The only time they spent time together is for mating, after which they die.
Octopuses that can talk to each other, hunt in groups, and raise their young collectively would be pretty formidable. Even if they managed to get there, they would still be living underwater making the use of fire pretty difficult.
Children of Ruin is a great book that describes a civilization of octopus, if you want to explore this a bit.
- Comment on Lmao 2 days ago:
Poetry, fashion, art.
- Comment on Where can I get cursed like that? Asking for a friend. 2 days ago:
Have you tried?
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 5 days ago:
Do you support beating people with sledgehammers as a form of peaceful protest?
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 6 days ago:
There’s video of this incident.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 6 days ago:
Palestine Action beat a police officer on their back with a sledge hammer, fracturing their back. It was pure luck this wasn’t deadly.
- Comment on I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off 6 days ago:
Alternatively 1Blocker and Safari.
- Comment on This is your brain on drugs 6 days ago:
Research first. Use a scale. Sit down.
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 1 week ago:
The JCPOA wasn’t great and mostly kicked the can down the road. Trump made the situation worse because he made diplomatic efforts much more difficult.
The core issue is Iran‘s fundamentalist regime and their destructive desires and actions. That’s not Trump‘s fault. It’s an extremely difficult issue, that would have led to war sooner or later, without Iran changing their policies.
tl;dr Trump bad. Iran worse.
- Comment on This is your brain on drugs 1 week ago:
MDMA and ketamine are worth a try as well.
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 1 week ago:
You’re saying that as if Iran‘s elections are worth anything. The regime is very unpopular among the population. Many even applauded and celebrated the Israeli and American air strikes.
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 1 week ago:
Well the Iranian regime calls for the death and destruction of Israel daily and has for decades. They also have actively armed Hezbollah and others, as well as launched ballistic missiles at their cities.
This is some silly rhetoric. It’s core to their Islamist ideology. They mean it.
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 1 week ago:
Mossadegh wasn’t the perfect democrat, he’s often painted as in hindsight. How he dissolved parliament wasn’t exactly transparent, and his empowerment law gave him too powers of a dictator. His rule by decree wasn’t the most democratic either.
The Shah was a strict authoritarian, sure. However what the Islamists did once they gained power was far worse than the Shah. In the first year the Ayatollahs killed more people than the Shah did in throughout his reign. Iranians had more freedoms and overall better lives under the Shah than afterwards.
At the time the world powers cared more about stability, economic power, energy availability, spheres of influence than democratic rule. Remember that in the 1950s decolonization hadn’t really started yet. The British Empire was deteriorating, but still around and fighting for its existence. So they wanted to have friendly rulers in the oil rich countries in the region. Oil was increasingly the key to economic prosperity. The new kings all over the region (Jordan, UAE, Iraq, etc.) had been British allies against the Ottoman Empire back during WW1. Keeping these allies happy and in power was seen as essential for keeping influence in the region and creating stability.
It’s doubtful the British and Americans would have intervened in Iran, if they had not nationalized to oil industry so abruptly.
tl;dr western meddling bad, mullah regime worse
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 1 week ago:
The JCPOA (Obama‘s deal) wasn’t perfect and didn’t stop a nuclear weapon or nuclear enrichment for Iran. At best it delayed it for a decade. It also didn’t do anything about Iran ballistic missile program.
In fact the same year the JCPOA was signed, Iran built a big public clock counting down to Israel‘s destruction in Palestine square. It would reach zero the year the JCPOA ended. So much for their peaceful intentions.
The JCPOA only kicked the can down the road with the hope of a more sane government in Iran later on.
- Comment on What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is "workable basis on which to negotiate"? 1 week ago:
That’s a complete victory for Iran with better conditions and more power than before. The USA would never agree to this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t support any genocide.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I hope you post under every picture of a black person, if they are a criminal drug deale and gang member.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Do you do that for Sudanese or Chinese, etc. as well or only Jews?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Lemmy upvotes openly antisemitic ZOG-posting now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why do you have such an intense desire to sort these Jews into good or evil? Would you want to that with any other group?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Blaming Jews for antisemitism is antisemitic.
- Comment on Rough time to be a woman. ☕ 1 week ago:
Opiates make it harder to orgasm.
- Comment on At the park, and it's such a beautiful day! 😃 1 week ago:
Also keeps balls inside.
- Comment on She is a "working girl" after all 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 weeks ago:
Westsplaining is western leftists dismissing the lived experience of people from elsewhere, when it contradicts their ideological convictions.
Just a few days ago there was a pile on of several leftists, dismissing the lived experience of a Cuban living in Cuba. Happens all the time.