lil_tank [any, he/him]

Hey I think I remember it was on my thread!!

Looks like I was right in the end

Never learnt it in the first place

Yes I formulated my post in a way that might imply that pre-capitalist Europe was chill with Jews which is obviously false.

Thing is, in medieval Europe, the Christians were apparently dead set on eradicating everyone else during this time, Jews included but not only.

But, when Europe became more secular and the first republics were established, there was progress on that front, even for Jews. So what begs an explanation is why did we stop crusades, the inquisition, massacres of protestants etc… but somehow, only for the Jews, shit escalated to trying to “send them back home” and later literally kill them all?

That’s where I bring the nation-state. It didn’t invent persecutions, it modernized it. It prevented the liberal ideals of the republican revolution from taking grounds.

Edit : I’m realising that I’m getting lost in the details here. My point is, the existence of a people as a disaspora is fundamentally progressive and Zionism is robbing the Jews of what makes them a historical force.

Mr Chen says that it’s not just the authorities that have fallen out of love with finance workers, it’s Chinese society in general.

“We are no longer wanted even for a blind date. You would be told not to go once they hear you work in finance.”

Antisemitism was (still fundamentally is) systemic in Europe because of the formation of capitalist nation-states.

The nation-state seeks to establish a difference between people based on borders, in order to prevent solidarity between workers who share a way of life, and even sometimes a language, customs, a religion, despite being born across borders. It will use anything to both unite the people inside its border and antigonize the ones beyond, especially racism.

Jewish people, as a disaspora, as well as any nomadic people like the Romani, fundamentally challenge the nation state because they are united beyond borders. Therefore they became prime targets for persecution. People literally said shit like “they can’t be trusted because they have no country, no state”

So the origin of anti-Semitism is that Europeans though that the Jews being stateless was bad. So when the Europeans are trying to “give” Jewish people a state, they are in fact trying to “fix” them. Zionism is an attempt by the anti-semites to make Jewish people conform to their worldview. Zionism wants to get rid of the cosmopolitans, it’s a project of sending the Jews “back home” so they leave Europe and stop being a threat to the oppressive capitalist regimes. Zionism wants to erase what makes Jewish people special and progressive. Zionism is the death of Jewishness.

It could be better than Monaco.

Agree, because Monaco is cringe. Remove the colonizers, Palestine enters BRICS, and there you have it.

It means the chemicals don’t give a damn anymore and decided to go nuts

Tequila made me crash my car in the canal

Folie à Deux

I’m not even sure I’m kidding, htere are definite and steep class, racial, and cultural elements to outdoor recreation. Fuck, eugenics elements.

The cult of the body is reactionary and bourgeois. All bodily activity should be based on care, not performance. Only the privileged can devote time vainly shaping their bodies because they are jealous of workers who have to develop their muscles for survival. Pushing people to do sports rather than cultivating their minds is capital’s strategy to preserve itself. Strong bodies with weak minds make perfect reactionaries, weak bodies with strong minds can convince the strong bodies to become revolutionary instead.

Health is precious though, and exercising is good to fight depression, so listen to Mao and go make your blood circulate. Performance bad, care good

The bike infrastructure has DUTCH people riding it, therefore it can’t be good

I mostly watch series that already ended, just like I mostly play games years after their release. Reject the hype train, let time do its thing. Media that people still remember 10 years after is probably going to be more interesting than 90% of what is hyped today

Belongs to dunk tank imo

Lely deserved it

I stubbed my pinkie, millions must die

The Germans are perfectly capable of liberalism as long as they can do genocide

Mao Zedong (1901) (colourized)

POV you’re an Hollywood writer

Yeah obligatory reminder that there’s no clean way to kill