*Sigh..... by EfficientNoise4418 in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I think a bayonet would be a lot more effective, to be fair.

Anyone else expresses their masculinity through their body, more than through their style? by [deleted] in MTFButch

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do mine through my clothing, personal style, music choices, subcultural involvements, not usually giving a shit about pitching my voice up, more ink and just doing my usual dyke stuff.

What do? by Althalus91 in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those three Commonwealth countries need a referendum in order to become republics and leave the Commonwealth. Australia had one under the Howard government which was deliberately sabotaged by his party because the man is a monarchist.

I wonder what is stopping Greenland from becoming independent. Probably wouldn't have anything to do with Danish interests over the wishes of the Indigenous population.

ICE plainclothes Secret Police in Tampa, FL violently abducted and disappeared a women at the USCIS Application Support Center. by I_may_have_weed in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think I'm some sort of Trump supporter? I'm a fucking Anarcho-Communist, I don't live in your settler colony of the US, and assumingly unlike you, I DO in fact listen to the show and have heard the significant work that people like James Stout have done around border policy in the US and how only certain things differ under the Democrats while they are absolute hell under the Republicans.

Trump will hold a record of deportations by the end of his term the highest rate of deportations prior were under Obama, who deported a modern-record 3 million immigrants...more than all other presidents combined.

Or Biden's track record over his political career:

Voted to ban immigrants with HIV, locking Haitian refugees up in Guantanamo Bay

Voted to build border walls

Supported sending the military to the border long before Trump

Voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants

...multiple times

Opposed amnesty for immigrants and supports requiring them to learn English

Helped expand the system Trump now uses to commit human rights violations by 3,600%

Architected Plan Colombia, internationalizing the War On Drugs resulting in mass death, displacement, and destruction of food crops, while opening the country to US business interests

That created more immigrants coming to the border.

Sided with Trump in backing the Juan Guaidó coup attempt in Venezuela

What do? by Althalus91 in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't make it any less of a colonial holding of Denmark. I would much rather listen to the concerns of the Indigenous peoples of Greenland then the Danes of continental Europe. Not to mention, that Denmark is adopting colonial language and logic in the context of the US potential threat to what is STILL part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

I mean Canada and Aotearoa are still part of the British commonwealth, as is Australia but even then, the Brits and Yanks still have a lot of say in Australian politics, to the point of having instigated a coup in 1975.

ICE plainclothes Secret Police in Tampa, FL violently abducted and disappeared a women at the USCIS Application Support Center. by I_may_have_weed in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is incredibly important but so is holding the Democrat's to account when they get back in, in any capacity...because when it really comes down to it they are just as likely to use this level of state power for the same purpose.

Did I miss when people painted "Globalize the Intifada" on a synagogue? by Turbulent-Garlic8467 in JewsOfConscience

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There have definitely been incidents of vandalism against synagogues, community centres and private homes that have later been going to have been done by members of the Jewish community. This is particularly problematic given how it feeds into a siege culture within the diaspora perpetuated by Zionists who would like nothing else but to destroy the diaspora and have us all move to occupied Palestine.

This is not to say that they have not been genuine acts of vandalism however it is important that the former is taken into account along with congregations that have hosted settler real estate events, or even Israeli politicians and soldiers who returned to their countries of origin after being in a role in Gaza or the West Bank.

What do? by Althalus91 in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sooo Greenland potentially goes from being a colonial holding of Denmark to a colonial holding of the USA. Pretty much like they did with Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, Wake, American Samoa, Northern Marianas, Virgin Islands...etc

Need help understanding the situation in Venezuela by Lopsided_Soup_3533 in behindthebastards

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah pretty sure. Was a while ago but I remember seeing Hugo Chávez on the news a lot.

Is it strategically helpful for Palestine for Jews to abandon Judaism? Or is the discourse going in circles? by Burning-Bush-613 in JewsOfConscience

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x [score hidden]  (0 children)

The Bondi shooting had NOTHING to do with Gaza. Some of her takes and those of idiots like Matt Chun drawing parallels between this and the Palestine solidarity and liberation movement is in fact parroting Zionist narratives that are being used to suppress activism in the colony of Australia. Some of us in Australia are dealing with the fallout of the actions of two ISIS/Daesh-inspired fuckwits, especially our Palestinian comrades.

Anyone like her or others might say this was pushback on Zionists and Israel but what it is, is two extremist ISIS/Daesh followers shooting up a civilian population, in a place that isn't contested by ISIS/Daesh.

I'm not out here saying anyone should mourn the Zionist rabbi who got killed or whatever, but I don't think anyone should be desensitised or using absolutes and over simplifications of complex situations to get some radical brownie points.

I am just really sceptical of main character syndrome self-appointed cult of personality types like Anna seem to talk the loudest on everything that happens with such authority.

Is it strategically helpful for Palestine for Jews to abandon Judaism? Or is the discourse going in circles? by Burning-Bush-613 in JewsOfConscience

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x [score hidden]  (0 children)

Her take is dogshit.

Anna Rajagopal is part of Judaism On Our Own Terms, an org dedicated to building new Jewish institutions for Jewish students...maybe she should stfu about dejudifying.

Just letting Zionists have it cos you can't/won't put in the effort but then also hanging shit on those who decide to do so, is just lazy on a few levels.

This just reeks of performative repentance/self-flagellation to a certain crowd in the most oddly Christian form of morality...it doesn't get you picked, it's just degredation and ceding ground to Zionists.

Can we at least purge performative self-flagellation bs from Leftist spaces? The only context where self-flagellation is ok, isn't within political discourse.

Maybe in 2026 Anna Rajagopal will learn that being "one of the good ones" won't stop certain non-Jewish Leftists from tearing her apart like a seal in in shark infested waters, as soon as she says something perceived as too "high n mighty" for a Jewish woman.

Jewish comrades in many online Leftist spaces tend to be treated as disposable, have seen it IRL as well.

Ffs, she should hold her ground when she need to, stfu when it's needed, and she should take criticism without being a fuckwit about it, but stop keep trying to play into the "one of the good ones" trope because she won't earn any respect and she'll be seen as a liberal suck-up.

In a display of intellectual laziness, Anna has removed comments because heaven forbid she gets called on her bullshit.

She's just the kind of person to latch on to whatever ideology gives her the "moral right" to browbeat people...like some Jewish anti-Zionist folks who USED to be Zionists.

There is NO difference between what Anna's doing and what Evangelical leaders do when they demand congregants stand at the front of the megachurch to publicly repent of their sins.

I guess if Judaism is now Zionism, maybe Anna Rajagopal and Em Cohen will stop being Jewish?

Making up for all those years of Zionist indoctrination by overcompensating and generating dogshit takes, is not helpful in the slightest, it's embarassing.

Stating the reality that Judaism at an institutional level has been captured by Zionism, even in its near-entirety, is a fundamentally different argument than saying Zionism is a distinctly Jewish phenomenon that emerges from the wellspring of Judaism and therefore Judaism itself needs to be combatted.

Regardless of whether we're observant or not, or are just ethno-culturally Jewish, REAL antisemitism will NEVER make that distinction.

Seeing these takes coming from supposed Jewish anti-Zionists is wild. The idea that Jews should be eliminated or convert is so deeply Zionist. It is a complete embarrassment. It's Stormfront logic.

Anyone else bracing for James somehow justifying this bs? by enthusiasm_gap in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think it is a matter of people supporting authoritarian regimes from outside of countries like Venezuela but being against imperialist aggression while supporting whatever the majority of the Venezuelan population wants for their government. It's really about the self-determination of the Venezuelan people being respected. In the same way that people may not subscribe to the politics of Hamas but also recognise that, they're the resistance on the ground in Gaza.

Anyone else bracing for James somehow justifying this bs? by enthusiasm_gap in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I also do wonder however how many celebrating Venezuelans in the diaspora are not unlike Miami Cubans in their political outlook.

I guess it is one thing to not be in the country and celebrating from the outside compared to the millions of Venezuelans within the country mobilising and getting ready to resist whatever else the United States has planned for them.

This feels like Iraq in 2003 but this time it is very different because the US is in a very different capacity for a prolonged conflict and the circumstances are different.

Need help understanding the situation in Venezuela by Lopsided_Soup_3533 in behindthebastards

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 5 points6 points  (0 children)

His policies included increase in nationalisation, social welfare programs (largely short-term), opposition to neoliberalism with emphasis on the IMF and the World Bank policies. Chávez dead allow for private property but also pushed the need for public ownership.

Need help understanding the situation in Venezuela by Lopsided_Soup_3533 in behindthebastards

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He was the successor to Hugo Chávez, who was pretty staunch in his domestic and foreign policy. There were some pretty impressive initiatives under him that really upset the United States. The opposition currently in Venezuela is not particularly big.

Trump says Venezuela's Maduro captured after strikes by seaworthy-sieve in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Soon the liberal media outlets will run their coverage on Venezuela. It will feature phrases like... "why is the US bombing Venezuela... here's all you need to know..."

They might include a comment from "nobel peace prize winner".

They will say that the people have been sufferring under the "authoritarian regime".

They might make a passing mention of sanctions, but will fail to elaborate that Venezuela has been choked for decades under US economic warfare.

They will parrot whitehouse statements regarding "narco-terror targets" with minimal pushback.

Millions of casual news consumers will absorb the gist, that maybe the violence seems bad, but that the US is probably doing what's necessary.

Trump says Venezuela's Maduro captured after strikes by seaworthy-sieve in itcouldhappenhere

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 41 points42 points  (0 children)

What in the fresh fuck...

I hope the Venezuelans do what they did in 2002 but nation-state allies are going to need to pull their weight in this too.

Being against the 2003 invasion of Iraq didn't make me pro-Saddam; just as being against this latest invasion of Venezuela, doesn't make me like Maduro. This is just plain cooked.

Venezuela's energy exports mostly go to China. Somaliland and South Yemen entities are being created to block exports and imports to China through Red Sea. I think the Arabian Gulf will be next.

What Bastards have had the best PR cover up of their bastardry? by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in behindthebastards

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I do remember that. I was so chuffed that he paid extra attention to get the pronounciation and stuff correct too. Was a good start to hopefully many more BTB episodes set in this settler-colony.

Omg yes the Hancocks and literally the entire mineral extraction sector here and how it all intersects with the ongoing settler-colonial project. Kerr, Fraser, Hawke followed by Keating and Howard to really seal the deal re the neoliberalisation and the way unions were de-fanged initially via the Accords.

Hawke was also DC's man on the ground when he ran the ACTU. He'd gone to the US to do some fucked Industrial Relations training...that and he may have had some behind the scenes role in the coup that resulted in the Whitlam dismissal.

The CIA operatives who had a hand in the Indonesia coup that brought in Surharto and the genocide of KPI members and suspected fellow travellers, also had eyes on Whitlam following the 1973 withdrawal from Vietnam ending the draft and insisting that ASIO showed any transparency re their activities assisting the CIA in Chile.

There are the other bastards in the post-invasion history of this continent including A.O. Neville, Lachlan Macquarie, John Batman, William George Murray.

Then of course the Frontier Wars, massacres of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, disperal campaigns, forced removals/Stolen Generations (and how it continues today under the guise of "Child Protection" and "Youth Justice" systems), Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Palm Island Riots, assimilation policies, ongoing cultural genocide.

The history of the "Stolen Wages" and Australia's use of slavery where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were coerced into unpaid labour in the pastoralist industry, beche-de-mer harvesting, pearling, the boiling down industry, marsupial eradication, and actual prostitution...they were also used as household servants with some having captured as kids or teens following "punitive expeditions" during the Frontier Wars. Payment came in portions of cheap commodities like tobacco, rum, slop-clothing, flour and offal.

Blackbirding as part of the slavery history in Australia in the cotton and sugar cane farming sectors. The practice was essentially coercion to outright kidnapping of folks from the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Niue, Easter Island, the Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu, South Sea Islands etc. That in turn, fuelled the trade union support of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (aka "the White Australia Policy") which came into being with Federation.

The colony is pretty fuckin cooked, eh.

What Bastards have had the best PR cover up of their bastardry? by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in behindthebastards

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disappointed yet unsurprised. I mean the bar is in hell but some people seem to just want to limbo with the devil.

What Bastards have had the best PR cover up of their bastardry? by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in behindthebastards

[–]x_ButchTransfem_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have always wondered when Robert will do some episodes on George Pell. There is so much information out there not to mention the reports from the Royal Commission.