«Aceptan unos de otros, y de modo indiscriminado, sin comprobación, las noticias (…), así de negligente es para muchos la investigación de la verdad»
Tucídides
"Os declaráis bajo el mal
tan postrados y tan yertos,
que habláis lo mismo que muertos
a los que todo da igual.
Y ante seres tan pasivos,
en mi corazón se entabla
la cuestión de ver si habla
con los muertos o los vivos.
Tan resignado, tan manso..."
Miguel Hernández.
@pedroagbilbao 2/2. «destruir las grandes corporaciones tecnológicas, los fondos de inversión y todos los grandes instrumentos de dominación capitalista no hay nada que hacer».
Aún así creo que sólo una idea más radical que esa (requeriría bisturí), permitiría una oportunidad a la humanidad.
@pedroagbilbao 1/2. "Lo que pasa es que Rusia se puede defender". También China.
Esta "Operación militar especial rusa en Ucrania" dará los resultados temporales esperados, pero si aquellos países, los que pueden, no tienen claro o no quieren (sigue)
@JorgeRiechmann Las mayorías sociales son básicamente idiotas (en el sentido clásico griego). Me gusta imaginar a esos griegos corriendo a Atenas a reclamar cuando los persas devastaban sus propiedades.
¿Culpables? Bueno, de La Boétie no los deja por inocentes, aunque habrá casos.
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Oh humans, what are you doing??
This autistic young man between 16-18 years old was euthanised in Holland because he was joyless and terribly lonely.
Poor,poor boy, instead of adults loving him and helping him, they chose to kill him instead.
@emiliopereziu No creo que sea inutilidad sino perfidia.
Esos dirigentes sólo pretenden enriquecerse aún más. No importa el mal que puedan causar en tanto su cuenta corriente siga engordando.
Una organización proxeneta ha vaciado de niñas un centro de menores para prostituirlas, no ha quedado ni una. Han desaparecido todas. ¿Podemos hablar de esto, por favor?
¿Sabéis lo que es violencia?
Violencia es tener a una familia sin ingresos, haciendo una gincana de papeleos, durante meses, para cobrar un subsidio o una ayuda del todo insuficiente.
Violencia es que las trabajadoras de este país, aún con dos trabajos, no lleguen a fin de mes.
@jordievole Reivindicativo será en tus mundos de sanatorio donde los *hombres* que van a orgías a follar a pelo puestos hasta las cejas son el peak de la subversión.
Pero, bueno, Jordi, tú corre a llamárselo a tu novia y a tu madre, en plan gesto romántico de sábado. Payaso.
"It's possible to oppose this war AND oppose the Iranian regime. You can denounce BOTH."
Sure you can. But you shouldn't.
You should not do this. You should not be a pro bono Pentagon propagandist in the middle of a US war of immense consequence. You should not do the hasbarists' job for them. Make them do their own job themselves.
This war already has a huge number of propagandists screaming "REGIME BAD" at the top of their lungs in order to ensure that the slaughter continues. You don't need to add your voice to the chorus, and you shouldn't. You should not help them manufacture consent for more human butchery. You should be using your voice solely and exclusively to end the butchery your government and its allies are inflicting on human beings.
All your "REGIME BAD" sloganeering accomplished was paving the way to the carnage you see before you today. Your self-righteous denunciations of the Iranian government failed to expand the rights of a single Iranian woman or LGBTQ individual. All you accomplished was helping to grease the wheels for a war of unfathomable horror, ensuring that all Iranians now live under more fear and misery than ever before.
If you live under the western empire, you have an ethical obligation to use your voice responsibly in that context. You don't get to just irresponsibly feed into an active war propaganda campaign by regurgitating the same regime change narratives about an empire-targeted government as the US and Israeli governments, and then pretend this doesn't make you culpable for the consequences of your actions. If your words help grease the wheels of the war machine, then you bear partial moral responsibility for what the war machine does with your assistance.
You don't get to just pretend that responsibility doesn't exist. The families who are being torn apart with the help of your pro bono war propaganda efforts do not care about your anarchist or Trotskyist "all tyranny is equally bad" political philosophy or how good your virtuous purity posturing makes you feel about yourself. All they experience is the consequences of your actions.
As a westerner, your one and only duty is to oppose the depravity of the western empire. That's your only job. Don't lean out the window of the Empire of Perpetual Bloodlust to wag your finger at empire-targeted countries in the global south. It's obnoxious.
Curb the murderousness of your own government and its allies. THAT'S your job. If you get your job done, THEN come talk to me about how bad and wrong some random government in west Asia looks to you. Until then, shut the fuck up and do your job.
If you are Vietnamese and "shocked" by me comparing Khamenei to Hồ Chí Minh, ask yourself very simply:
Shocked by what exactly?
That he led a country demonized by America?
That he refused to kneel to Washington and Tel Aviv?
That he chose sanctions over surrender?
That he was called a monster by the same media that once called us "gooks" and "communist aggressors"?
You do not have to love Iran.
You do not have to agree with everything Khamenei ever did.
But if you grow up on stories of Điện Biên Phủ, of the Trường Sơn trail, of B52s over Hà Nội, and then you find yourself instinctively defending the narrative of the very empire that napalmed your grandparents, you should pause.
Hồ Chí Minh and Khamenei are not identical men.
Vietnam is not Iran.
Our paths, cultures, and systems are different.
The comparison is about something else:
Both led countries that refused to be obedient clients.
Both were marked for destruction by the same empire.
Both were turned into caricatures so that bombs and sanctions would look like "justice" to Western audiences.
Both paid, and made their people pay, a huge price to hold a line against a global system that prefers compliant oil monarchies and comprador elites.
If you can understand why Uncle Hồ accepted isolation, bombing, hunger, and demonization rather than hand Vietnam back to France and America, you already understand the logic of why Iran chose resistance over humiliation.
If that logic looks noble when it is Vietnamese, but "fanatic" when it is Iranian, then the shock is not moral. It is colonial.
You are uncomfortable that someone placed our own symbol of resistance next to a man your enemies told you to hate.
So instead of interrogating their propaganda, you defend it for free.
We do not honor Hồ Chí Minh because he was perfect.
We honor him because he refused to sell our future for comfort.
Khamenei, for his people, played a similar role: a leader the empire could never buy, who chose to live and die under siege rather than kneel.
If that comparison offends you, fine.
But be honest about why.
Is it because you truly believe no nation has the right to resist empire the way we did?
Or is it because somewhere along the way, you started seeing through American eyes which struggles are "legitimate" and which are "terrorism"?
As a Vietnamese, I will not let the country that slaughtered ours dictate which other nations are allowed to fight back with dignity.