I have one that’s like a four leaf clover. It’s sick 👍

The differences are much smaller than you think. Sexual predators will often force women to get abortions, sure, but it’s actually just a manifestation of the same misogynistic impulse to control women’s bodies.

There are true believers in the anti-abortion sphere, so like your conservative evangelical types, but many others it’s just about controling women’s bodies and they don’t actually care about the fetus. Predators are the same, but want a different kind of control.

But sure, there are differences.

Oof, I don’t know if I’d remove anything either? There’s so much out there to read that I’d struggle making a concise list.

So on second thought, maybe actually Walter Rodney could be part of a separate introduction to decolonisation?

Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa would be a good addition to this list as well as his other book Decolonial Marxism. Both have audiobooks available.

They’re very helpful in understanding underdevelopment, dependency theory, unequal exchange, and the colonial mode of production which places and keeps superexploited labor as low as possible on the production chain either in primary production/resource extraction or in very basic secondary production, where then these resources are exported to the metropoles for further refinement.

The mass deportations will require internment camps to hold people until their trial is processed.

And what do you think will be done with the people in those camps? They’ll put them to work! Except even cheaper than the starvation wages they were getting before, because it’ll be pennies on the dollar like our other slave workforce of prisoners.

Welcome to America. Work sets you free.

Hitler famously kept Germany out of wars. 🤓

If we called it the Califlu do you think it would get red states to start masking again?

It would have been worse.

How long until that’s just made illegal?

That is not what happened.

Humans aren’t static. You don’t actually have these secret hidden likes AI can discover, instead, you grow to like the stuff that becomes familiar. You’re being trained.

Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks delves into this.

Colonized people can come to identify with the colonizer as a way to cope with colonization. This hollows them out inside and makes them turn that racism inward onto themselves, but they can be rewarded with an elevated social status by the colonizer.

There’s an unspoken implication that the 30% who are men all deserved to die.

It’s likely that a similar percentage of men are totally unaffiliated with Hamas.

Also, wild and vivid dreams.

only ever learned how to shoot compound bows. Sorry!

Settlers are still settlers, yeah.

Fanon’s point was that settlers can be reached by the decolonial struggle and join it. I’m reading Huey P. Newton’s biography right now and he actually has a similar observation about white radicals. The danger, of course, is that settlers will take over the struggle and sheepdog it into electoralism. I think the true role of settlers in the decolonial struggle must be subordinate to the colonized.

Fanon doesn’t go into the distinctions, per se, but I have my own.

Being bourgeois is always a choice and they can stop being bourgeois any time they want. Some are born into their material relations by inheritance, of course, but any business owner can get a real job whenever they want or could give up their ownership of the means of production to their workforce. Being bourgeois is not just something they are, it’s something they choose to do.

Settlers, by contrast, can only stop being settlers if they leave the settler colony. The ones that migrated obviously can just go back home, but what about their children? For a settler born on the settlement, being a settler is something they are and was never something they chose to do. If the child of settlers wants to stop being a settler, the only choice is to become a traitor.

I think that puts settlement-born-settlers into a distinct material position that can’t be related to being bourgeois.

Fanon actually talks about the role that radicalized settlers can play in the decolonial struggle. The settler can smuggle weapons to the colonized or hide fugitives in her residence because she isn’t going to be searched by the colonial occupation. Nothing to see here, just an ordinary French citizen!

Settlers is much more pessimistic, seeing settlers as inherently untrustworthy because of their material relation to colonialism. It essentially forecloses on the idea of settlers class traitors.

I don’t have to stare at large screen anymore!

Now I am free to stare at small screen. 📱

Wouldn’t this massively increase the value of people’s collections? Trump might pick up liberal supporters because of this lol

lemmy.ml is clearly the bunker pilled instance