Between this and the fake news comm, I’m rethinking trying to get comrades more involved on this site. Like, it’s just embarrassing and too much trouble to have to explain “oh yeah those really active comms that appear completely indistinguishable from reactionary trash are actually just ironic.”

The fact that all of these “jokes” could be posted on with complete sincerity makes me suspect a lot of this content isn’t even ironic. I mean, if I was a reactionary trying to cause trouble for a leftist community, creating and participating in these kinds of comms is exactly how I would go about it.

Yeah, it was such an odd film. I really wanted to like it because it looked good and it explicitly called out the West as the unmistakable bad guys, but there was just so much that needed to be completely rewritten to work.

I’ll add to your list of bad,

His reply is somehow even more ridiculous:

I’m honestly just embarrassed for how profoundly naive this grown adult man is.

I’m going to tell the next zionist I argue with to stop being such a “stick in the mud”

Fauda? More like “Found out”

That’s a fair point, it’s just hard to not be pessimistic when the same city is still spending $2 billion on their police budget and $29 mil to a private company for tents to house migrants (instead of just expropriating some unoccupied office buildings).

I’m not against spending large amounts of time, effort, and money on planning and executing reparations, I just have very little confidence that it can be done under liberal democracy without it turning into some market-based, means-tested program that is most certainly not reparations, all while other systems of harm are still being funded by several higher orders of magnitude. I will word my criticisms better in the future so as not to come off like I’m criticizing the very idea of planning and distributing reparations.

I apologize for not being more careful with my words. I do believe in race-based, direct cash-payment reparations, I was just being flippant at the idea of liberal democracy spending $500k + a year of deliberation just to likely end up with a means-tested program, and then I was taking the position that such amount of money would be put to better use literally just being given away rather than being burned on consultant fees or w/e (but I recognize that such a giveaway would still not be reparations).

But even that was ignorant of me, because:

But on Monday, the [Evanston] City Council passed — without any opposition — an expansion of the program to provide $25,000 in no-strings-attached direct cash payments for those eligible. Black residents who lived in Evanston during a 50-year period of discriminatory zoning laws and their direct descendants receive priority for eligibility.

So maybe there’s hope for this Chicago program, as well. Again, apologies for my flippant comment, I meant to direct my criticism solely at liberal democracy historically doing poorly-implemented, means-tested “assistance programs,” not the idea of doing reparations itself.

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No that’s literally what they’re doing

Ald. Stephanie Coleman (16th Ward), the chair of the Chicago City Council’s Black Caucus, said the subcommittee is likely to be part of the City Council’s Committee on Contracting Equity and Oversight, which is led by Ald. Emma Mitts (37th Ward). That panel will meet for no more than a year, and then transition to a full commission, Coleman told WTTW News.

Edit: I’m going to go back on this specific criticism, as has been pointed out by other commenters, this committee has voiced their intentions to model their program after Evanston, which began with means-testing assistance but had a 2nd phase which instituted “$25,000 in no-strings-attached direct cash payments for those eligible. Black residents who lived in Evanston during a 50-year period of discriminatory zoning laws and their direct descendants receive priority for eligibility.”

There’s still plenty to criticize around the inefficiencies and contradictions of reparation attempts under liberal democracy, but I don’t want to direct my ire at efforts that actually accomplish some material benefit, at least if and until they demonstrate failure. In other words, we should agitate these efforts to do it correctly, and clown on them if they end up with some means-tested liberal nonsense, but not clown on them for attempting it all.

smdh I was talking with my buddies about 💊Dr Mario 💊 and my parents confiscated my phone

They’re literally sending aid (that may or may not be able to get past the West’s blockade)

You’re laughing. Hamas is plotting to lace all of this year’s Halloween candy with cyanide, and you’re laughing

He’s just mad the state dept redirected his paychecks to biden’s israeli aid package

The site this seems to be from also defends these quotes with, I kid you not, comparing his advocacy of ethnic cleansing to Washington’s owning of slaves, as if it’s OK because “Other country’s founding leaders did bad stuff, too, but that doesn’t mean those countries are all bad!” which only makes sense if you are either a baby-brained liberal or literal ghoul

These are the same people that were updooting Biden parroting the “40 dead babies” fake news all last week. Every week, r*ddit liberals just shake their head like an etch-a-sketch to make room for the newest bit of propaganda spoon fed to them racist MSNBC talking heads.

Sweet Brandon

The only roller coaster these zionists should ride is the euthanasia coaster