Six sided devops engineer and baseball fan
I am also @Quill7513@slrpnk.net, but this is my primary and more active account. The slrpnk.net account is for ecology and lemmy.world stuff
https://keyoxide.org/BAF9ACFBBA5B9A51A680D77CEF152DAE039C5CF5
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A terror state is a state that controls its citizens through the use of terror. A terrorist state is a state that then inflects that terror out into the rest of the world in an act of expansionist imperialism. So… Yeah. It’s internal. Because I was talking about internal use of terror to control a citzenry
Posting to wikipedia because it’s the most expedient even though it lacks a lot of the context of how the Indian government has been cracking down on tribal people in Northern India for the past 10 years
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Ah! Thank you for the clarification. I’m glad you always know what’s going on in the metafediverse
the lemmy nsfw admin had previously asked if anyone was willing to take ownership of the instance because it was too much mental overhead to moderate a space that could sometimes get dicey and be legally liable for what was hosted on the server. there were no takers. the fact that this admin has been silent leads me to believe that this was not an active choice and instead something away from the keyboard led to this, be that legal, personal, or mental concerns that took priority over something they already felt no one would take on based on previously asking
See @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s better explanation of the situation here: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/comment/3354654
school funding coming from property tax
EDIT: I fired that off quick while I was in the middle of something and failed to explain how this acts as a system of oppression and white supremacy. Schools in high income neighborhoods have better schools because they have more access to resources. Properties in good school zones have higher property values because families with the money to buy homes in those neighborhoods want their children to receive a good education. This creates a circular feedback loop in which people who already have access to more resources are more likely to receive a high quality education. The students from lower income school zones are not dumber. They are simply being strangled by a system that wants to gate them from achieving academic and financial success.
that’s the great trick of white supremacy! it lets the capital class convice the working class to work against their own interests
functionally, the global north’s oligarchs all support eachother’s agendas. Ukraine is nominally part of the global south based on economic pressures. largely, the liberal position of western europe is to stay out of it to avoid retaliation. this is, of course, a fallacy. russia is an aggressor. no one can be made safe by ignoring their threat and waiting for it to go away. the same can be said for the so called united states, china, and india. but largely europe doesn’t want to intervene on the side of the colonized in a colonial war because europe benefits from colonialism more than it doesn’t
especially when the purge is EXPLICITY about a hierarchical society pitting the working class against itself to enact the enforcement of the wealth hierarchy on itself
western libs are smarter than global consensus, bear in mind. really, what it is, is they’ll say anything so long as the money keeps moving.
the reality is of course that terrorism is any act that is intended to modify public behavior through widespread fear. here’s some examples of terror states:
i’m POSITIVE there’s more, and i’d even be willing to hear arguments that every nation today is either a terror state or subservient to a terror state.
I’ve seen a weird number of people blaming Microsoft for this today, and an even weirder number of people making fun of people saying this isn’t on Microsoft
as in all authoritarian regimes it depends on how you look and where you are. keep your eyes up and your head high