I understand that white supremacy and the history behind it is its own unique dynamic, but so are other forms of racism. There have been numerous ethnic cleansings in Africa that didn’t involve white people, the Armenian genocide was perpetrated by non whites, balkanization, the Indian subjugation of kashmiris, the frankly bewildering levels of racism between various Asian ethnic groups, we can keep going but I feel like that is sufficient.

Your characterization of the genocide in Palestine is not only wrong, but also bordering on racist itself in the wildly inaccurate generalizations you make of the Jewish/Hebrew diaspora. We could go into the history of the Hebrew people, because their history as victims of racist, religious, and ethnic violence disproves your entire point. They’ve been subject to so many genocides and ethnic cleansings throughout their history that our modern conceptions of racist violence are largely informed by their history. White people weren’t the only ones subjugating Jews. Judaism predates the existence of whiteness as a concept by millennia, so how exactly am I wrong?

You know racism is ubiquitous globally right? Americans and “westerners” don’t have a monopoly on prejudice

Pedos don’t get a pass, neurodivergent or otherwise. I’m neurodivergent and this shit is gross and predatory. The only thing autism has to do with this is him thinking it’s a good idea to display his problematic proclivities on a t-shirt. At least girls now know to keep their distance, assuming this isn’t fake

Eh, don’t hang with sketchy people, keep off moncrief,.myrtle, Emerson, and 103rd and you’re fine. Typical street smarts rules apply

A lot of first wave and early norwegian black metal bands were essentially proto-NSBM. Nazis have been a part of black metal for as long as it’s been around. For a long while black metal had a reputation for being full of fascists

It’s the cheapest, largest city in Florida, situated on i95 and i10, with ports, railways, and an “international” airport. Relatively close to Tallahassee and Orlando, and has a population just shy of 1 million, with a solid amount of those being working age, even more if you consider the metropolitan area (1.7 mil). On paper it’s a solid pick to establish a presence in one of the most populous states in America. There’s just one problem though, it’s Jacksonville lol

Fr though, Jacksonvilles alright. It gets a bad rap but there’s some really nice places around town, with more popping up every day and lots of nature if that’s your thing. I’ve been working in jax for 10 years and living here for 8. It’s more of a home to me than my hometown

Always weird when Jacksonville pops up on lemmy

The apples you buy in a grocery store are, on average, about 6 months old. This is because we basically figured out immortality for apples

Catholics and Protestants are both Christians, Catholicism is pretty unified in doctrine, and Protestants are a large group of very diverse denominations of Christianity. When I was forced to go to church, my pastor would often joke about Baptists forming new denominations over differing opinions on drape colors. Outside of those two groups, there are tons of other flavors of Christianity. Off the top of my head you’ve got Mormons, Greek Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, jehovas witnesses, and Oriental Orthodox

Take them to dinner first and see if y’all click

And Jeffrey Combs is in my heart ❤️

Just had to deal with this last semester. Get a user agent switcher plugin and change your OS to windows, it should work for everything but proctored tests. You’ll likely have to go in person for those

Libs will do anything they can to avoid understanding anti-electoralism

45-55 depending on how hard the burn out aged you, in conjunction with the aforementioned studio

Prepare? I’m poor lol

Leftism is a pointless rhetorical crutch for the politically illiterate, it doesn’t really exist. It’s a loose, essentially worthless grouping of a bunch of diverse ideologies that have little in common outside of being generally anti-fascist and not liberal

This is a coup

Good news! They’re already there

Best we can do is plastic in the brain. Take it or leave it

The state and capitalism are a set of intertwined manmade abstractions that we live under and within. They provide a set of incentives for certain behaviors (competition, “hard work”, the nuclear family, etc), and discourage others with the threat of violence (organizing, cooperation, diversity). Under capitalism and the modern nation, the people at the bottom are given just enough to keep the majority of us from revolting, in tandem with the threat of becoming “less than human” (eg the homeless). Those in the middle/management class are given slightly more to reinforce the myths of the system while ensuring the loyalty of this group to the status quo. Those at the top live lavishly and reap the benefits of everyone below them, they own the means and they call the shots. It is a disadvantage for those at the top to have compassion or empathy for those below them.

The system was built to simultaneously select for selfishness and corruption, and instills those values in people who don’t already possess them as they progress up the chain. I’m not saying that it’s impossible for people in positions of power to act altruistically, I’m saying it’s not really built with that in mind and it encourages behaviors contrary to altruism. That nuance is important. Hierarchical systems are fragile, and we’re witnessing the system breaking in real time. Why should we reinstate a system that will inevitably wind up putting everyone in a similar situation again? Shouldn’t we be looking for alternatives to the state and capitalism?