Legally: if any other countries recognize it.

Morally: no country is real. Nationalism is a mind virus.

I didn’t say anything about political statements, I mentioned violent statements.

Politics is already violence. For example, even though no gunshots are going to be fired, millions of vulnerable US-Americans are about to lose their state medical insurance. What is this if not social murder?

Politics is systematic social violence, but it is structured in such a way that the systemic aspects are abstracted away from all individuals.

anyone who can’t express the latter without the former should, generally, expect to be censured (and censored).

I reject this notion. For example, I support stopping the IDF from committing the genocide of Palestine. Do I support stopping them peacefully? Of course it would be fantastic if we could peacefully get them to stop what they’re doing, but…this would have to happen immediately, since every moment of every day the IDF is continuously destroying Palestinians. Said differently: we could only afford to work at the pace of liberal democracy if that pace was immediate.

This should not be even remotely controversial!

Like be serious for a minute: would you have a problem if Jews living under Nazi regimes and their allies said “Death to the Wehrmacht”? Well with 80 years of hindsight of course you would now not have a problem with that. But since it’s happening now in Palestine and on a smaller scale than the Nazi Holocaust, you’re having problems with coarse violent opposition rhetoric because you haven’t successfully learned to apply the lessons of the Holocaust to current events!

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Chanting “death, death to the IDF” is violent and inappropriate at a music festival. “Fuck the IDF” would’ve been fine though.

No it’s not. Mass music festivals are perfectly acceptable places to make political statements. This has been done for generations now, i.e. Rage Against the Machine.

And when we say “Death, death to the IDF”, we are accurately talking about the IDF like the monsters they are. For a scathing rebuke of respectability politics, I defer to this essay:

I am so fucking mad, sad, angry, and enraged at the actions of the elite and the hateful reality they’ve structured; that the only honest way to express my emotions is to wave a giant neon hatecock in the face of these hypocritical lying shitmongers. I don’t care if they hear me – they would never care, even if I was “respectable.” But they can’t fucking ignore me. They can’t fucking look away. They can only shake their head and claim, ever more shrilly as our world spirals deeper into shit, that “You’ll never convince a moderate with that language!” Fuck you. I don’t want to convince moderates. I want to fucking change shit. I want to inspire people, to get them angry. And if that offends you, if my anger, my emotions, my rage at getting fucked over, over and over and over again, bothers you? Take a step back, and think about what you truly value. Is it the messenger? Or the message?

I’m hoping for a solarpunk anarchist future

No lol. Even attempting to be a dictator would go against my core principles. We don’t have to agree on everything or even a lot, but “dictators are bad actually” is one of them.

Exactly, that’s what a neoliberal echo chamber like R*ddit does. It reinforces neoliberal monoculture. So it’s not shocking that, when I leave that neoliberal echo chamber, the world seems a lot less neoliberal.

IMO Lemmy has revealed that people around the world are more left-leaning and class conscious than I thought back when I was on R*ddit.

All the content is on the extremist-side, enforces attitudes perfect to embolden class wars …

Yes, unironically and openly, I support and advocate for class war against the capitalist class. The capitalist class wages their class war against the working class every single day in every single facet of modern existence. It’s well past time we start fighting back as an exercise of our own individual and collective self-defense. Class consciousness should never have been controversial, and it is only controversial because it encourages people to challenge capitalism.

… and young people (no doubt the majority of people here) aren’t worldly enough to know the difference.

You don’t need any political knowledge to know my positions. I am literally an anarchist, and I have said so loudly and often. Like me, most of these “extremists” are open socialists and communists and will readily tell you their views and ideologies (many of whom I emphatically disagree with from their left, but I somehow suspect you would consider me just as “extreme”, namely for challenging the utility and inevitability of capitalism).

Where’s the trove of knowledge? The awesome positive hobbies? If it’s around, it’s all drown out by the manipulative noise.

Yes, it is a shame that capitalism drowns out all our hobbies, all our positive experiences, everything so completely that we need to waste so much bandwidth drowning out the manipulative noise peddled by capitalists on almost every other platform.

It’s full of AI-generated political memes and comments.

I don’t recommend completely blocking yourself off from politics forever, but if you really need to take a temporary break like everyone deserves, I recommend making an alt account with all political communities and posters blocked. But keep in mind…you might be done with politics, but politics is never done with you. In particular, capitalism is never gonna ask your permission to use and abuse you.

And really, this is a special case of the fact that you need to curate your own feed. Some other social networks do this for you in ways that compromise your privacy and, frankly, brainwash people into accepting the neoliberal monoculture.

As is good ole 'Murican tradition, blowing shit up nothing of value to capitalists 😈😈😈

How about US-American? Since there were other countries with the term “United States” in their name, and Mexico is officially the United Mexican States.

Like I’m American but I would be literally thrilled for America to be relegated to the dustbin of history.

I wish all Americans capitalists, the US government, and their vassal States to stop making everything about America.

Evidence?

Music production. It would have taken years after finishing recording school to even begin to break even, let alone make minimum wage, let alone make a living wage. All the entry-level gigs were one-time unpaid things.

I haven’t fully given up on music production forever because I’m too fucking stubborn, but I’m not making it my full-time job.

Cry, poop, or do other newborn stuff. But what else do babies actually do? 😆

“From a purely chemical standpoint, (plutonium) is about as poisonous as lead and other heavy metals. Not surprisingly, it has a metallic taste.”

Considering their track record and political and cultural hegemony, considering the constant brainwashing of children, the conditioning the US government forces on children to accept and defend capitalism, colonialism, racism, and any other oppression so long as it’s conducted under the star-spangled banner…the US government is literally the last people on the face of this cursed planet that I want to be deciding what is or is not appropriate for minors…or anyone for that matter.

Don’t worry I have an easy card game for you

Who are you and how did you get one of my forks? 😆

You can’t judge these people ideologically based on their public statements, political structures that back candidates are the only thing they are accountable to

You’re 100% right but it’s just… it’s hard sometimes not to try to find patterns in the noise. But it is just that…noise.