• Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      this morning i saw videos of Palestinians in Gaza that had become disabled from the genocide competing in a marathon. their civilization deserves everything this world has to offer them. i can’t imagine what it takes to find ways to stay human in the face of this gross inhumanity.

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    ‘Luxury’

    Supporting beams are warped and at angles, floor is turf carpet over pavers, foldup tables

    I want to be locked in a room with this writer for 20 minutes with a tire iron and legal immunity

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        Yeah a lot of the recreation facilities were for the guards and administrators. Some kapos were given special privileges to use these places, but it was rare and heavily exaggerated by Holocaust deniers. Mostly, it was soccer fields and makeshift music halls the guards would use to entertain themselves with prisoners.

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      Nazis did actually make propaganda films of ghettos showing people were being “…treated humanely. They’re just sectioned off from the rest of us.” They’d unload people freshly deported to ghettos and film them with all their clothes. Then have them sit in “restaurants.”

      Once they collected footage of prisoners, they’d steal their stuff and throw them in run-down buildings. Footage was then edited and broadcasted to the rest of Germany with rhetoric like “These jews are living more luxurious lives than you, which is why the Führer made them downsize a little bit by moving them into less luxurious (but still luxurious) homes.”

      This was before they started sending people to death camps.

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    steal their aesthetic: all you need is 1) discarded cheap faux-putting green grass, 2) structural 2x4s wired to a generator out back that you can totally still hear from inside, 3) an almost surely AI generated wall-decoration hiding your scenic view of 4) an entire destroyed civilization with almost no targets of any sort left to bomb a la the DPRK circa 1953.

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    The same people mocking this as supposedly evidence there is no genocide will look at images of a thriving Xinjiang (the entire city/province, not just a close up of a makeshift cafe) and say that’s a genocide

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      “Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and socialists everywhere have admitted it millions of times — that this freedom is a deception while the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists and while capitalist rule over the press remains, a rule that is manifested throughout the world all the more strikingly, sharply, and cynically, the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example.

      The first thing to do to win real equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying up publishing houses, and hiring newspapers. And to do that the capitalists and exploiters have to be overthrown and their resistance suppressed.

      The capitalists have always used the term ‘freedom’ to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death.

      In capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion.

      In this respect, too, the defenders of ‘pure democracy’ prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement.

      —Lenin, Congress of the First Comintern

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      I don’t know about that, in my eyes the big error is placing journalists on a pedestal. Used to be they were seen as absolute filth, writing penny dreadfuls and junk for sloppy magazines, but these days it’s one of the few Hallowed positions.

      That and it seems like all journalists are “taught” that they have to be “objective” but they aren’t taught that it is impossible to actually be objective. And so they just kiss the feet of every western authority figure.

      The press is in large part victim to being full of young starry-eyed idiots who think they know what’s going on; middle aged jaded assholes who they know what’s really going on; and old ghouls who knows where their bread is buttered.

      In the current capitalist system I would want an actual free press - free from the censorship of government and capital. In a communist utopia I would want a free press, I think. In AES states I think it’s very good they don’t have a free press - noone does, but you know what I mean.

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        Nah, NY Post is one of the finest examples of “free press”

        Obligatory Lenin quote:

        The capitalists have always used the term ‘freedom’ to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death.

        In capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion.

        In this respect, too, the defenders of ‘pure democracy’ prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement.

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    “I don’t think you’re suffering enough. So making you suffer is good!”

    Solitary confinement. I want see these cackling demons see if they can keep their big smug grin after a week of total isolation.

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      I just want them dead so they cant hurt anyone else. No matter how much I hate someone, i dont want them tortured. There’s the cruelty angle but also the time and resources involved would mean we’re still treating these assholes like theyre special. Pit, grenade. Done