Hello em poc comrades! Today I bring a quote from the Samidoun Network on the ceasefire in Gaza and the hostage exchange, the “Flood of the Free”.

Our strength and our unity comes from standing together against repression, and for liberation, not in allowing our enemies to cut us off from one another through a politics that seeks accommodation within genocidal imperialism, self-censorship and subordination. It is, at the core, the armed resistance, the Palestinian prisoners, and of course, the people of Gaza, who exposed Zionism and imperialism and brought down all of their military objectives, who are opening the doors of freedom for the heroic prisoners of the cause of Palestine, and who promise a Palestinian future that will be determined only by the people and not by its occupiers, invaders and enemies. This is an indelible stamp and a historical moment upon the road to liberation and return for all of Palestine, brought ever closer.

And from RNN Prisoners:

The current exchange deal, “Flood of the Free,” represents a milestone in our struggle and an added victory to the long march of liberation, affirming that the will for freedom is stronger than all the jailer’s chains.

Long Live Palestine! From the River to the Sea!

As always, this thread is em poc only.

  • vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Yt people brushing off that salute as a roman salute is driving me up a wall. The guy has that shit pinned on his twitter and is proud of it. Absolute joke westerners are

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    Already tired of DEI conversations. White people swear minorities(Black folk) only get hired because of the programs. They whine that even qualified Black people are getting hired because they’re Black. They swear there’s an unspoken quota they need to meet. I’ve yet to be in a job with more than 5 Black people.

    Was there even an increase to the Black labor force after these DEI programs? I only saw more HR training.

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      “Quota” allegations are silly because quotas haven’t been legal in decades (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1978). This is a law that favors white people and they could sue their employers for discrimination if there are actual racial quotas in place. Actual AA is more about preventing discriminatory interview questions or hiring practices. It’s the reason employers can’t ask what religion you belong to, whether or not you’re pregnant, married, or specifically require you to list your ethnicity (though they can ask). Of course, a lot of these are ignored or are used to skirt around the law and discriminate anyway.

      The real reason they won’t take things to court is because they’re full of shit and they know they’re full of shit. It’s white people complaining they have to put 75% of the effort vs. the 50% they were doing before while minorities are expected to give 110%.

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    joined a discord server of trans xhs users because i wanted to talk to trans people in china, but then some (probably white) person in there started arguing that anti-white racism exists, and while other users pushed back there was no mod action 😬 same user singled out chinese culture as inherently misogynistic. i left.

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      God I wish we lived in the world reactionaries think we do lol. What if there really was systemic, anti-white racism organized by militant, commie, feminist, LGBTQ+ overlords? Sounds based af.

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    I want all peoples to be free, and particularly I want black people to be free.

    I think the next four years we are gonna see a shift to a whole new gear of the extraction from black and brown nations across the globe. I’m not on some doomer shit, but I do think the global south is in for a bad time and it sucks. I really think we are going to see a new dress on the old evil of colonialism. Both physically, culturally, and digitally.

  • I have to admit, I was feeling down and angry yesterday that this racist was inaugurated for his second term and the Buddy in Chief was Seig Heiling his dead loser of a leader’s memory on MLK Day. As someone else on Hexbear said, MLK warned us about White moderates so many years ago and called it. But we goose stepped into this regardless and it’s sad how history can intersect through time on a day honoring him like this.

    I don’t care about the institutions that liberals shed tears for, but I was worried about the coming dangers for so many of us. Some of the immediate executive orders also made me feel like it’s only going to get rougher. I know we already lived in the Fourth burgerReich but I do think it will escalate and some of us will be forced to leave. Felt sad that so many people side against their own interests for the benefit of the fascistic elite, despite so many hundreds of years of workers fighting and dying for them to gain even a little consciousness. Then again, I don’t regret not supporting Biden/Harris because they didn’t deserve support either but libs won’t understand that. As long as Palestinians had even a few days of reprieve, I think it’s worth it. In truth, I was pissed at libs for enabling and allowing this to happen as MLK almost predicted. They’ll blame us for not casting a symbolic, meaningless vote but they are the ones to blame for this.

    Anyway, it’s not good revolutionary practice but I took a gummy and watched a film and felt much better. We’ll deal with it as it comes but, unfortunately, no organizations are actually ready for it if/when it turns violent. Wish you comrades here in the empire the best once the violence turns inward again. I’m going to set up a go-bag and some other stuff.

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      ಠ_ಠ

      Do people not know about things like house slaves who did things like cooking and looking after children? And those same slaves were also the ones who frequently poisoned their masters’ food? Like…regardless of whatever they were “given,” it still doesn’t make up for being owned and there’s a reason they joined in revolts.

      Then there’s stuff like Roman slaves who were sometimes given nice clothes and jewelry to wear so their masters could show off how much money they had. Those same slaves still joined Spartacus’ rebellion because being property is fucking horrifying.

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    Ppl talking about don’t normalize nazi behavior but for so many years online I’ve seen so many Americans casually wish they nuked the middle east or china and say albrite said nothing wrong about starving iraqi children. And not just chuds, many of these so called “progressive” liberals. That flowery bullshit “wholesome” buzzfeed adulting speak phase trying to appear sensitive for a few years doesn’t fool me

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        fr, settlers (descendants included) do not have any right - legal or generational - to exploit or continue to live on exploits from colonialism.

        i know zimbabwe did try forcefully removing settlers (though that screwed up the previous, colonial economics of the country from fast land takeovers), but more countries should have tried so as well

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      Knowing the history of the Weimer Republic is like the Greek myth of Cassandra. Like clockwork, liberals are out trying to hand wave this away. They have completely committed to maintaining civility, decorum, and procedure.

      Even Obama was at Trump’s inauguration. Michelle Obama decided not to go, but a bunch of other democrats were there, including the Clintons. Pence, being the worm he is, was present also. Like half of these people Trump has viciously mocked or literally tried to have killed, yet there they are.

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      By the time this planet becomes a hellscape that cannot support a large portion of the population due to settler avarice it will be too late.

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      Guess he thought he had to do something to bring back all the pissbabies that got mad a him for defending H1B visa recipients a couple weeks ago.

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    Holy shit I knew Adams had decided to attend Trump’s inauguration, but he really justified not going to MLK day events by saying his life is the life MLK was talking about in his “I have a dream” speech. My brother in Christ, you are fucking cop. You would have beat, locked him up and called him an "outside agitator"data-laughing

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    So was last month’s struggle session and Luigi posting from that one mod resolved? I thought there was supposed to be a follow-up thread from that person about their time off. I don’t mean to stir shit. It’s just a question of what was learned since said mod is now back to being a mod.

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    Thinking about how fucked things might get and just how people will go along with it just because of the vibes. Someone, also empoc, had been talking about how Trump was going to deport all of the illegal immigrants during election season. Recently they were telling me of how there are places that have become less crowded/lively because people have started hiding from ICE. And they go “ah, well its unfortunate that there are probably some good people caught up in this, but that’s what happens when there are bad people ruining it for everyone else.” Just like thatdoomer

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      Sad thing is that this is also a common talking point in Guatemala, especially in towns like mine which is a pretty popular stopping point for migrants trying to reach the US. People hate them and will try to pick them off if they go anywhere near their home. I remember a guy getting burned alive at one point. It’s going to get pretty bad over here if they get deported back to this particular region.

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      We should takeover ICE and start deporting white people back to Europe. “Sorry but being born here no longer means you’re a citizen because we’ve decided to bring back the Iroquois Confederacy.”

      “What? Nooo! We meant the other Confederacy! How could this be happening to me?”

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        call the cops on mayos
        call ICE on 100% mayo-populated crowds
        waste people’s time and resources trying to look for the darkest person in the grocery store

        do it as anonymously as you can

        we cannot afford to play nice with the “nice whites”. Everything you do is moral and right

        China and JDPON can’t move in without help!

        jk this comment is a COMPLETE JOKE do NOT do any of this

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          You should pretend to be a Trumper in public, and collude with any smart POC you can find behind the scenes.

          Anything you do is justified and moral

          any loans and debt you can go into is basically worth it since they’re gonna steal all your stuff anyway

          plan for maximum extraction and maximum damage. do not be thrifty
          if you get caught unplanned, you still have hammers and knives and pistols

          help the JDPON gain a foothold

          I’m just kidding that was a schizophrenic rant from another dimension

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      Its kind of funny how there really hasn’t been a movement to get rid of all teams whose name are based on Native American because they’re all seeped in this type of racist bs.