WasteTime [none/use name]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023
  • WasteTime [none/use name]@hexbear.nettochat@hexbear.net•Tryin not to have a panic attack all day. How's everyone else doingEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Whenever you are ready I’d recommend you to start with a Debian based distro like Linux Mint, do a dual boot. It is great for beginners who are used to Windows, Linux has become far more user friendly than 10 years ago, now you can have a functional partition running with the most important apps in 30 minutes, no hassles at all. It only gets complicated if you want to dwell into nerdy stuff or run some very specific apps that are not native to the OS (there is always a way, though!). And Desktop Environments like Cinnamon, KDE or GNOME provide cool Graphic User Interfaces to allow a high degree of customization, just a few clicks and your desktop is looking beautiful, fast and comfortable. :)

  • WasteTime [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoAmérica Latina & Caribe@hexbear.net•Most Argentines I encounter have no clue what socialism is and it's infuriatingEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I wish I knew more about those countries, I’ve heard similar things happened starting at the late 80s. It’s almost as if they had a recipe for cultural annihilation, once you break the spirit of a nation all you have is atomized individuals highly manageable for foreign Capital.

    There is one particular story a good commie friend of mine likes to tell, he worked at several radio stations and in the music industry during the 50 to 70s period, he saw how the dictatorship governments applied censorship to Tango and Folklore as a tool to neutralize any subversive expression while allowing American record companies to take control of the market, distorting the artists work to make it “more marketable”, introducing foreign trends. That’s when I understood his distaste for rock music. Not all rock of course, but the bland, harmless and simplistic version of it.

    A lot of good artists had to exile the country and some took bad decisions giving in to the big records demands.

  • WasteTime [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoAmérica Latina & Caribe@hexbear.net•Most Argentines I encounter have no clue what socialism is and it's infuriatingEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Anyone else encounter this?

    Of course, the “This country is shit because socialism/communism happened” bullshit is quite common, most people have no political education, that culture was destroyed during the last dictatorship (76-83). Ask them when was the last time the socialists ran the country and they’ll confuse them for peronists, they can’t differentiate between ideologies. Next time ask them why did Peron incarcerated communists while he was in power. They won’t have a clue about what you are saying.

    Only a deeply ignorant population could have voted for Milei, as a candidate he promised he’d implement the same economic policies that have already failed a dozen times in the last 50 years. He expressed admiration for fucking Margaret Thatcher during a presidential debate, what else can be said after that?

    Argentina is the perfect example of a country where you don’t need to send your own soldiers to occupy and colonize it. First, destroy their syndicates, student movements and cultural expressions through their own armed forces. Then once “democracy” is back, cut funds to education, health, etc. and control the main news sources, finance NGOs, bribe their politicians for 2 cents. Flood the media with Hollywood crap and the worst mainstream music. Use mercenary “journalists” to reiterate the idea that it is all your neighbor’s fault and you are in constant danger, don’t trust anybody.

    The final product is an anglophile population with no roots, no memory and no collective identity who doesn’t have anything good to claim as their own. Their only hope is to migrate to Europe or USA. “The only way out is the airport” is a common saying.

    Argentina only exists in name, it is not a real country as it has no sovereignty (high dependence on US dollar, other countries prey on its waters for fish and its mountains for minerals, etc). Their bourgeoisie always has one foot on America/Europe and if things go to shit they are immune, they send their profits overseas without paying taxes. When they need to put some of that dirty money back the government forgives them by decree because it is desperate for USD. Also, American and Israeli embassies are de facto part of the government, is there anything else to add? Politicians visiting the embassy perform a long standing tradition.

    Football is the only means of expression left for fake national fervor and some pathetic semblance of collective unity, comprised of eleven multi-millionaires playing for FIFA and a mob of idiots who will raise their flag for the show, never for a real cause. It’s all a mock up. There is no real nation.

  • WasteTime [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•NYT headline today: "Antisemitic attacks" make you think there were physical assaults, but it is just mostly students verbally calling the state of Israel responsible for apartheid and genocideEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can find many quotes by zionists that are offensive enough as to belong to a nazi rant, and some of them are even from left wing zionists. It’s an anti-jew ideology that seeks to create the myth of a nation-state composed of white people, they don’t really care about religion or historical facts.

    ‘The Jew is a caricature of a normal, natural human being, both physically and spiritually. As an individual in society he revolts and throws off the harness of social obligations, knows no order nor discipline.’ ( Our Shomer ‘Weltanschauung’ , Hashomer Hatzair, December 1936, p.26. As cited by Lenni Brenner)

    ‘The fact is undeniable that the Jews, collectively, are unhealthy and neurotic. Those professional Jews who, wounded to the quick, indignantly deny this truth are the greatest enemies of their race, for they thereby lead them to search for false solutions, or at most palliatives.’ (Ben Frommer, The Significance of a Jewish State, Jewish Call, Shanghai, May 1935, p.10. As cited by Lenni Brenner)

    ‘The enterprising spirit of the Jew is irrepressible. He refuses to remain a proletarian. He will grab at the first opportunity to advance to a higher rung in the social ladder.’ (The Economic Development of the Jewish People, Ber Borochov, 1916)

    I contemplate with horror the future development of this race of (assimilated Jews of Europe) which is sustained morally by no tradition, whose soul is poisoned with hostility to both its own and to strange blood, and whose self-respect is destroyed through the ever-present consciousness of a fundamental lie.… This is the picture of the Jewish people at the end of the nineteenth century. To sum up: the majority of Jews are a race of accursed beggars. (Max Nordau)

    ‘The emancipated Jew is insecure in his relations with his fellow-beings, timid with strangers, suspicious even toward the secret feeling of his friends. His best powers are exhausted in the suppression, or at least in the difficult concealment of his own real character. For he fears that this character might be recognised as Jewish, and he has never the satisfaction of showing himself as he is, in all his thoughts and sentiments. He becomes an inner cripple, and externally unreal, and thereby always ridiculous and hateful to all higher-feeling men, as is everything that is unreal. All the better Jews in Western Europe groan under this, or seek for alleviation. They no longer possess the belief which gives the patience necessary to bear sufferings, because it sees in them the will of a punishing but not loving God.’ (Address at the First Zionist Congress, Max Nordau, 1897)

    ‘Before the emancipation, the Jew was a stranger among the peoples, but he did not for a moment think of making a stand against his fate. He felt himself as belonging to a race of his own, which had nothing in common with the other people of the country. The emancipated Jew is insecure in his relations with his fellow-beings, timid with strangers, suspicious even toward the secret feeling of his friends.’ Max Nordau 26, address at the first Zionist Congress, Basle, 1897

    And one quote from Theodor Herzl from when the jews got support from the general public during the Dreyfus affair, he went mad:

    ‘[French Jews] seek protection from the socialists and the destroyers of the present civil order … truly they are not Jews anymore. To be sure, they are not Frenchmen either. They will probably become the leaders of European anarchism.’

    Herzl alone is full of fucked up shit, it’s low hanging fruit.