[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would presume that they are talking about the federal bill Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Shab-eh-nay Band Reservation Settlement Act of 2023 and one in Illinois. If I'm understanding this correctly, after over a 100 years the Potawatomi band right to sovereignty as guaranteed by a 200 year old treaty is being debated in both the US congress and Illinois congress.

Reading in to this makes me want to go to a protest in DeKalb county as according this NBC news

Many residents who live next to the park oppose the plan, fearing construction of a casino or even a hotel would draw more tourists and lead to a larger, more congested community.

“Myself and my family have put a lot of money and given up a lot to be where we are in a small community and enjoy the park the way that it is,” resident Becky Oest told a House committee in May, asking that the proposal be amended to prohibit construction that would “affect our community. It’s a small town. We don’t want it to grow bigger.”

I'd want to tell them "Land back and I'll go away."

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

I suspect that trauma is being a tool of reactionaries to create more reactionaries. Imagine starving and having the media tell you it's because of X-men (lgbt+, other race, other religion, ect). European elites told their citizens that god was punishing them because the Jews in the 15th(?) century, so the Jews were expelled. Over time the elite began to realize they could escape judgement for poor leadership and remain unquestioned as long as there was an "other" they could blame and punish. The leadership did not wish to be judge, so the leadership found a scapegoat.

During the rise of industrialization through capitalism, they need more scapegoats, so they found more. By indicating to people that wealth and private property were signs of good morals, they were able to claim a moral high ground in the eyes of the traumatized. So by spreading this logic in areas where the population hadn't yet recovered from a shock, they are able to spread fascism. Lots of countries have dealt with trauma without turning fascist. Trauma can absolutely help create fascists though.

Trauma to create fascism is basally a few steps:

Step 1:

Man made trauma, economic, drug wars, colonization, slavery, cyclical capitalist crisis, war, disease

Step 2:

Blame the poor, or other, and flaunt wealth, so they know that the holder of the wealth is the good guy, not a thief.

Step 3:

Tie aid for recovery to demonstration of fascists ideas so that only fascists can thrive.

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

DSA communist paper says communists should join DSA. In other news red flags are indeed red.

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 3 months ago

There are few people more dangerous than fascists who have read Marx. How do we survive her presidency?

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 months ago

Didn't Biden say the same thing?

She is a cop, the other guy's a criminal.

Jill Stein and Claudia De la Cruz are the only candidates worth considering.

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago

I know that, you know that. It was absolutely disgusting.

However most people didn't really seem to care, and the language was a bit less genocidal.

Fewer people took a closer look because they just don't care about Ukraine. Americans are much more interested in Israel.

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Americans also care more about it. So they do a bit more research. There's also the shear scale of it, the whole Russia/Ukraine thing also has a crazy complex history, not quite as simple as maybe don't support genocide.

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

We cannot be free until Palestine free. This the reason. The oppression of Palestine is the blueprint for oppression around the world.

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Wiping out a military group is not the same as attacking civilians. Destroying military capability can bring peace, bombing civilians does not. Idf is military and its primary purpose appears to be the destruction of the Palestinians.

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I have yet to ascend to the level of Durga.

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Most people can agree the back to africa movement was racist response to racism, right?

Is it my imagination or are there some similarities here?

[-] MarxOverflow@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I can't remember a time I didn't know a Jewish person, or one treating me poorly. Jewish people gave me food when I was hungry, and friendship when I was lonely. I'm pretty sure the first person to alert me to what isn'treal was doing was Jewish person who didn't support it, that was a long time ago though and I can't remember who it was. Muslims I've meant seem decent too.

No one wants to see loved ones hurt, so remember compassion is a super power. Many Jewish people have settlers in their family that they can't justify hating. Bloodshed no matter how justified shouldn't be celebrated. It might give rise to hope but hope is only the possibility of improvement.

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