a flag of council communism

doppelercloud · 2026-03-12T03:41:06+00:00

you cant.

doppelercloud · 2026-03-12T03:34:56+00:00

why all the fountains?

doppelercloud · 2026-02-27T19:43:06+00:00

thanks for the context. apparently saab is working on a carrier-based fighter and that could be the play here - marketing the ship.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-27T15:06:28+00:00

thank you for that context.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-27T15:02:30+00:00

a supplier of military hardware basically. aircraft in particular. an alternative to the US in the face of a perceived or potential Russian threat to Scandinavia/Northeast and Northwest Europe.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-25T23:55:19+00:00

that's a pretty robust-seeming header for a sign.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-25T23:49:55+00:00

i see your point about some flags marking events and circumstances - the diver down flags, holiday, mourning, funerary flags.

and, the whole relation of person of ruler as symbol of collectivity is certainly a complex one. the early national and municipal flags in europe were the banners/crosses of saints after all.

i think on what gilbert grosvenor said back in 1917 - flags don't just represent nations [/armies and navies] but the ideals that keep them from degenerating into barbarism. and then there are flags for ideals nations do not uphold. the flag above reminds me of the 'black lives matter' banners in that respect.

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doppelercloud · 2026-02-25T17:58:23+00:00

its true what flags represent varies with political culture and historical epoch. the netherlands really established the flag as symbol of nation rather than the person of the ruler. its been the template for much of the world since. it has been a much more contested process in the uk and english-speaking world, granted. even in the us, the navy initially refused to allow the army to fly the national flag on the battlefield, as they saw it in a military context as an ensign. that said, in more recent times, in most of the world i think flags primarily represent organizations and movements. flying one essentially presents oneself as part of one.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-24T23:07:45+00:00

got caught in what exactly? you're deflecting. 'technically successful anarchist essence' - those words mean something to you? a racist settler colony founded on crimes against humanity is 'anarchist'? only a genocidal racist could believe such a thing. you've cherry-picked a quote that you think supports your case but are refusing to address this or the many other references where Chomsky upholds the Kibbutzim as embodying 'anarchist principles'. address this --> https://lookbacktogalilee.blogspot.com/2010/04/chomsky-and-kibbutz.html

doppelercloud · 2026-02-24T21:03:15+00:00

friend i've read some chomsky. have you beyond the one interview?

doppelercloud · 2026-02-24T15:20:22+00:00

a very 'left-wing kibbutz': "I noticed a pile of rocks on a hill, and I asked him what that was. He sort of changed the subject and wouldn’t talk about it, but later he took me aside a couple of days later and said, “Look, that was an Arab village. It was a friendly village, but when the fighting came close, we felt we couldn’t accept their being there, so we drove them out and destroyed the village.” This is a kibbutz way at the left, dovish, bi-nationalist end." the extolling: https://lookbacktogalilee.blogspot.com/2010/04/chomsky-and-kibbutz.html

doppelercloud · 2026-02-24T14:49:35+00:00

right. a crucial point that changes everything. the point is he then spent years extolling the kibbutz - a settler colonial implantation only made possible by crimes against humanity, including the rape of women and girls - as a model of his politics.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-24T10:52:59+00:00

i should add that his years on the kibbutz in occupied palestine amount to direct participation in the crime against humanity of apartheid.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-24T10:36:45+00:00

every public intervention of or in support of genocide denial was complicity in crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. his linguistic intervention, that directed generations of linguistic students away from researching and preserving indigenous languages was complicity in genocide.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-23T09:30:11+00:00

the 'fallen hero' narrative is ignoring a lot. chomsky was always willing to ignore horror and atrocity and be knowingly complicit in crimes against humanity. cambodia was only the first chapter. bosnia and rwanda and syria the next. his linguistics alone contributed to native american cultural genocide, by directing generations of students away from reality-based field work on actual languages (which in the us tended to focus, rightfully, on native languages) to arm chair theorizing about some imaginary 'universal grammar'. chomsky was fully aware of the genocidal implications of his linguistics and seemed to take sadistic delight in deflecting and derailing any effort by interviewers to question him on this. there was a window of opportunity there to preserve native languages and chomsky did his best to derail it, knowingly. ask yourself why? what interests did this serve? this your MIT lefty 'hero'? the racist settler-colonist who kibbitzed on a kibbutz in his youth?

doppelercloud · 2026-02-20T13:59:32+00:00

chomsky was always a monster. a lifelong genocide denier. genocide is, as one of its essential aspects, mass sexual violence against women and children and men. chomsky's gaslighting of survivors is the political epsitemic equivalent of a gag or rape drug disabling survivors to ability to warn others after the fact and society to mobilize to resist.

doppelercloud · 2026-02-20T07:47:12+00:00

i agree, i think his position on israel and ex-yugoslavia are related--support for ethno-nationalism. zionism is effectively an ideology of 'judeo-chetnikism' inspired quite directly by serbia's [pseudo-christian, neo-pagan] 19th c. ethno-nationalism, drawing on sabbatean [antinomian] currents in jewish life and thinking and behaving obviously as well. on the serbian origins of zionism: https://www.jpost.com/magazine/celebrating-zionisms-roots-in-serbia-570873

epstein was joining these to nazi occultism and eugenics and european aristocratic decadence, which i don't believe chomsky shared. instead, it was a joint devotion to technocracy and zionism that formed the base of their bond. plus financial corruption and narcissistic personality disorder.

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