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  • Ukraine Crisis

    US to Africa: Kindly drop dead from starvation so we can win our proxy war I mean you're only black people who cares lol:

    In mid-May, the United States sent an alert to 14 countries, mostly in Africa, that Russian cargo vessels were leaving ports near Ukraine laden with what a State Department cable described as “stolen Ukrainian grain.” The cable identified by name three Russian cargo vessels it said were suspected of transporting it.

    The American alert about the grain has only sharpened the dilemma for African countries, many already feeling trapped between East and West, as they potentially face a hard choice between, on one hand, benefiting from possible war crimes and displeasing a powerful Western ally, and on the other, refusing cheap food at a time when wheat prices are soaring and hundreds of thousands of people are starving.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/world/africa/ukraine-grain-russia-sales.html

    "We, however, will continue to buy the oil and gas we need #BLM".
  • Leftist forum

    Until, or unless you can show that there were credible threats emerging from Parler, I don't see any reason to shut it down. I think it unlikely, credible threats would be discussed on an internet notice board, and this is just people - either testing the limits of free speech, or blowing off steam. If there were credible threats, where are the arrests of these potential terrorists? No, this is closing down right wing spaces - in accord with the left wing, politically correct, cancel culture playbook.counterpunch

    You think it unlikely and yet it appears to have happened.

    https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20454504-eduard-florea-case

    We'll probably see more of it over time now that Parler is working with the FBI to provide information on its users. It isn't known if people, who have been arrested through other methods of identification, have been users of Parler and what they posted there. Investigations take time, which answers your "where are the arrests? "; they're under way and not necessarily being identified through Parler data.

    The idea that these people are just innocently testing the limits of free speech or blowing off steam is a curious interpretation of calling for assassinations and violence.

    This is blowing off steam:

    Jesus Fucking Christ I can't FUCKING UNDERSTAND why people can be so fucking dumb and stupid. All politicians should go to hell and fuck of and die.

    This isn't:

    On January xxx we need to start systematicly assasinating #liberal leaders, liberal activists, #blm leaders and supporters, members of #nba #nfl #mlb # mainstreammedia anchors and correspondents. I already have a news worthy event planned.

    The fact you can't or won't tell the difference worries me.
  • Systemic racism in the US: Why is it happening and what can be done?



    I don't live in america so i can't look from a white persons perspective there. I don't think that white people necessarily see themselves as privileged, they just exist in whatever comforts that were given to them, and the majority of white people are not racist today. White people are making a change and have been trying to make a change if you look at people like Abraham Lincoln and his decisions. There are even successful black people today and there has even been a black president. If Martin Luther king lived today he would be joyful over how far black people have progressed and how much freedom they have been given in society.

    The issue today is probably less about the color of your skin, and more about the structure of capitalism society which thrives on indifferences and it's all just a chain reaction since the time of slavery.

    Theoretically, if every black person in low class society set their goals on making a better life for themselves in an honest way they would probably succeed. Unfortunately that's not in every black persons mindset.

    It's great that white people are showing solidarity to black people with #BLM hashtags but it also overshadows white people that has suffered the same fate of police brutality, which probably make these protest more about showing solidarity to black people and their suffering in low class society than actual police brutality.

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