icydefiance

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Close encounters of the racist kind is a good read. Here's the most relevant part:

Consider the H2 series “In Search of Aliens,” which, before its demise, promoted the work of Jan Udo Holey, a German writer whose antisemitic books have been banned across Europe. (Holey’s pen name, Jan Van Helsig, is a blunt Dracula reference, i.e. Jews are bloodsuckers.) The History Channel’s long-running series “Ancient Aliens,” meanwhile, features David Childress, whose books cite and build on the work of James Churchward, who promoted an ancient empire called the “lost continent of Mu,” whose “dominant race” was an “exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skin.”

The history channel is entry level nazi propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I'm american and work right next to a roundabout. It gets a pretty low amount of traffic but I still see people stop in the middle or go around backwards all the time.

That said, I see drivers doing the stupidest things pretty much everywhere, so the roundabout isn't exactly making things worse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Unionizing and striking are effective, but they'll stop being effective if they become illegal. They're already less effective than they should be, because of legal restrictions.

Protesting is only useful for getting in the news and convincing people to consider certain issues when they vote. They will never directly cause change.

And boycotting is just plain worthless. You'll never get enough people to join a boycott for large corporations to care.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it doesn't have any legitimacy, then the only option left is to assassinate people until legitimacy is restored.

If you aren't killing people, then vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Corporations love for you to be distracted with the methods that are futile.

That's why saying not to vote is pro-corporation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It doesn't presuppose that at all. The only way to get that option is shift the overton window to the left, and the only way to do that is to vote for the candidate on the left, even if they're not as far left as we'd like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Voting and calling representatives is a futile approach. They’re a distraction at best.

That's conservative, pro-corporation propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's pretty much it. Apparently the format optionally supports compression and even transparency, but last time I used paint it didn't do any of that, which is why the files were so massive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It is hurting people

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