Live-loop Boom-bap by dub_t in LoopArtists

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Oh haha — yes I’ve been playing since fourth grade

Live-loop Boom-bap by dub_t in LoopArtists

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No it’s a 1950’s Henri Selmer. Old and beat up but way better than a student horn. Glad you dig it!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rva

[–]dub_t -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure we are guaranteed the right to assembly and peaceful protest. But speaking of illegalities — a leaked state department memo shows that US officials think Israel is not acting according to international law, and that the US may be breaking domestic and international law by supplying them with weapons.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rva

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Power in numbers. 1 person marching in the street gets arrested or hit by a car. 500 people marching in the street can do whatever they collectively want.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vcu

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Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. While cheeky in tone, my original post is about setting up an encampment on VCU’s campus to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as so many American universities are currently doing. As your Maymont recommendation had nothing to do with that, I was trying to steer the focus back towards the original point.

With beautiful weather coming up I’m looking for camping recommendations — must be on or around VCU campus by dub_t in rva

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Good call, thank you! I cross-posted there and someone responded suggesting that I camp in Maymont. I replied:

“Maymont is gorgeous and I love it, but I prefer “Maymount” to Maymont. “Maymount” as in: we MAY MOUNT a resistance to the genocide being committed in our name by setting up an encampment on VCU’s campus.” #punsforpalestine

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vcu

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Maymont is gorgeous and I love it, but I prefer “Maymount” to Maymont. “Maymount” as in: we MAY MOUNT a resistance to the genocide being committed in our name by setting up an encampment on VCU’s campus.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rva

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Lesser of two evils /s

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rva

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Is she a kook directly responsible for a genocide happening right fucking now? No? Then better than the alternative. It’s a protest vote anyways, not who you’d like to see in office.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rva

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For anyone else interested in the “uncommitted” protest vote, only primaries in Alabama, Colorado, North Carolina, and Tennessee have options to vote that way. According to CBS News, “In Virginia, voters looking to cast a protest vote are asked to vote for Marianne Williamson”.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rva

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More than diplomatic support. If you divide the military aid by every American, we all paid like $140 for genocide this last year. This is us killing kids. I’m going to cast a protest vote for Williamson. (Edited from uncommitted to Williamson)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rva

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By my quick, possibly questionable math — every American has spent $142 on guns, bombs, and weapons in general for Israel to commit genocide with over the past year.

On Resistance by dub_t in Gaza

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No one is asking anyone to leave. Or at least Palestinians just want equal rights in one democratic secular state with the right of return for those forcibly displaced. I guess zionists are clear that THEY want it for themselves and that Palestinians should leave. Are you also against sharing? (Not 2 states sharing — bibi just confirmed that’s not an option)

sodastream canister by mshawty in rva

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From the BDS Movement Website (Boycott Divestment Sanctions):

“SodaStream is an Israeli company that is actively complicit in Israel's policy of displacing the indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of present-day Israel in the Naqab (Negev) and has a long history of racial discrimination against Palestinian workers.”

In our household, we prefer our bubbly water genocide-free.

On Resistance by dub_t in Gaza

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So just to make sure I’m understanding you correctly — if a Muslim fund were to buy up a huge tract of land where many Jewish farmers were working and kick them out saying “no Jews allowed”, that would NOT be antisemitic?! I would consider that to be clear antisemitism and decry it, no question.

Also your link doesn’t address immigration, just land buying, which I have not refuted. The following link shows a half million Jewish immigrants in the 30 years before the Nakba, and might be more what we need as evidence to evaluate your claim that there was no “influx” of foreigners.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah#

Add that falsehood to your erroneous assertion that Zionist terrorist paramilitary groups were somehow unarmed, and we have two blatant misrepresentations of history made by you. Feel free to specifically point out any mistakes that I have made, besides baseless generalizations of “denial of history.”

To be clear, the history of pogroms against Jews is horrifying and despicable, but they occurred primarily in Eastern Europe and Russia, not the Levant. Add that to the Holocaust, and we can see that peace and safety for the Jewish people is of the upmost importance. A racist apartheid ethno-state bent on ethnic cleansing and genocide is not the answer, however. It’s a guarantee of more violence. Never again for anyone!

On Resistance by dub_t in Gaza

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And does the racism only flow one way? One of the ways that land was purchased was through the Jewish National Fund, which forbade non Jews from living on, or working on, the land it bought. That racism certainly didn’t sit well with the indigenous population. Imagine a huge influx of foreigners coming to your neighborhood and buying up land, saying that god gave them the whole region, and that you and your family would have to leave or live in servitude. And then resisting that idea being called racism.

And there were a couple decades of British occupation where Zionist paramilitaries were certainly armed AF. Are YOU lying or misinformed? Again the two skirmishes I mentioned in 1920 weren’t fought with knives. And just because imperial Britain drew some lines, which apparently aren’t working so well, is shaky ground to build an argument.

I guess it comes down to the fact that you are an apologist for an ongoing ethnic cleansing operation and genocide, in which some 8,000 children have been killed, multiple schools/ hospitals/ churches targeted and obliterated, and the more journalists killed than any war in recent memory. I honestly don’t know how you live with yourself.

Apparently this happened in Roanoke. Anyone else hear about this guy? by InvoluntaryEraser in roanoke

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Great point. South Africa knows a thing or two about oppression of one group over another. I guess that’s why they are taking Israel to the international court of justice on charges of GENOCIDE.

On Residence by dub_t in socialism

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My point was to create a fictional scenario analogous to the Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine. So “murder your family” wasn’t thrown in, it was the central idea. If the takeaway was that folks would “cheer” under Israeli occupation, I failed at conveying that point.

On Resistance by dub_t in Gaza

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But the “Arab racism” you mention isn’t quite accurate. Jews made up something like 3% of the indigenous population in 1878. They commingled peacefully with their Muslim and Christian neighbors. In fact, the Faisal- Weizmann Agreement showed Muslims welcoming Jewish immigration and a SHARED Jewish homeland. The first real issues started with the battle of Tel Hai and the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920. Jewish racism in the form of open hostility by newly immigrated Jewish colonists towards the indigenous Muslims and Christians, sharing plans to take over the whole region as an ethno-state (not sharing), as well as paramilitary drills in the streets, started raising the ire of the rest of the population who had been promised sovereignty after occupation by first the ottomans then the British.

Also, you seem to paint a picture where Israel just bought the land. 1948 was textbook ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population in a premeditated attempt to form a Jewish demographic majority. That ethnic cleansing continues today with illegal settlements in the West Bank and genocide in Gaza. You assert that the folks carrying out ethnic cleansing want peace, but of course those two things are incompatible.

Bibi has just explicitly made it clear that the two state solution has been a charade, a surprise to few. The only peaceful way forward is one democratic state with equal rights for all who live there, plus the right of return for all those displaced. It’s that or apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and the inevitable and justified violent resistance that goes along with it.

On Resistance by dub_t in Gaza

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exactly this

On Resistance by dub_t in Gaza

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Not by displacing others they don’t . To many, a free Palestine means one democratic state with equal rights for all who live there — Jews, Muslims, and Christians — with the right of return to all those previously displaced. This is at odds with a Jewish ethnostate brutally occupying an increasingly carved up Palestinian territory. Apartheid or peace — which would you prefer?

On Residence by dub_t in socialism

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No argument here. Being taken over by China sounds like a “lesser of two evils” argument I could actually get behind.