Hitchenista

Mostrar el mal, hacer justicia Recordemos la escenificación del Asalto al Palacio de Invierno organizada en Petrogrado el 7 de noviembre de 1920 (1), para conmemorar el tercer aniversario de la Revolución de Octubre.

"En Gaza y en Cisjordania, en Ucrania, etcétera, el crimen se presenta con orgullo como lo que es, un crimen enorme. Los medios tenían razón al calificar la destrucción de Gaza como el primer genocidio televisado."

Slavoj Žižek, miembro cofundador de DiEM25.

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For a few years now, I’ve been concerned not only about some ideas from those who oppose me, but also, to a lesser extent yet worth mentioning, I worry about certain opinions from my allies.

IRL, Billionaires have more than enough to feed everyone for free without their fortunes even getting dented. Zuckerberg can fire the most performing employees who are not Zucking up to him. The best arguments they have are plainly counter-factual.

The Voldemort they don’t name but champion daily is the Trickle-Down Theory—according to this, you can’t distribute to the have-nots but must give more to those who already have for them to finally decide to "create jobs".

They’re collaborators of a global regime, and I ran out of patience.

I'm finally fed up with the smarmy intellectuals —always lenient towards the right and "self"-critical from the centre to the left— who come to tell you, explicitly or implicitly, that Trump's or Milei's cruelty is a necessary evil.

Go and bugger off.

"... o en nuestro pensamiento ético, estamos dominados por el relativamente pequeño número de personas... que comprenden los procesos mentales y los patrones sociales de las masas. Son ellos quienes mueven los hilos que controlan la opinión pública."

Edward Bernays, "Propaganda", 1928

"Un gran número de seres humanos deben cooperar de esta manera para vivir juntos como una sociedad que funciona correctamente. ...En casi todos los actos de nuestra vida cotidiana, ya sea en el ámbito político o empresarial, en nuestra conducta social..."

"La manipulación consciente e inteligente de los hábitos y opiniones organizados de las masas es un elemento importante en la sociedad democrática. Quienes manipulan este mecanismo invisible de la sociedad constituyen un gobierno invisible que es el verdadero poder gobernante de nuestro país."

YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains Andrew Wakefield is Still a Lying Piece of Crap

Andrew Wakefield, the fire-starter of the Anti-Vaxxer movement, is likely responsible for more deaths than Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot put together.

Good recap video by Professor Dave:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZBe...

You can almost hear the awkwardness of those Rabbis of the Neturei Karta, or any other Theist for that matter, saying "God will make justice of it".

If your god won't lift a finger, we should. And if he "acts through us", does that account for the injustice and horrors too?

We are supposed to believe the Heavens remain arms-crossed in front of the horrors of Gaza, or acting in "subtle", meek ways, as it went on during the Holocaust.

If this doesn't prove that God does not exist, I don't fucking know what will.

If the zeitgeist of incipient techno-feudal fascism proves nothing else, it proves that it is not nearly enough to wait for public demonstrations to stop them. We need to also buttress the rule of law and liberties with stronger checks and balances.

And I'm talking worldwide, not just the US.

Si algo demuestra este tiempo de tecno-fascismo en que vivimos es que no basta con esperar que el pueblo en la calle los frene. Tenemos que poner *además* contrafuertes legales e institucionales que les hagan más difícil en el futuro romper el estado de derecho y la libertad.

This means the Tecno-Feudalists are sucking up the last drops of blood out of the middle class and they'll move towards their next victim until there's nothing but them and a scorched Earth.

"But Hitchenista, you sexy and cursed scribe," I hear you say. "who are they going to sell their AI subscriptions if we go into a global recession?"

They are already offering Luxury subscription of 200 bucks a month. This means they aim for the lower-high class, the cryptobros, the new small rich.

The good news is that this is a lie, they won't replace us all with AI, not even most of us, not in the long run.

The bad news is that they'll try anyway, and by the time they rehire, there will be a lot of desperate, jobless people. Oh, wait, that already happened.

This is to have us complacent while they (try to) replace jobs and social functions with text-prediction machines that do not really feel, understand or empathise.

The AI-Optimist Corporate Schpiel wants us to "accept the death of Knowledge Work" and embrace "Wisdom Work", while at the same time, they tell us ChatGPT scores higher than humans in bedside manners and empathy (but it's only phoney flattery).

Milei must go. Now.

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Slavoj Žižek, filósofo: “La sabiduría es lo que más odio, es una absoluta estupidez conformista” El pensador esloveno, siempre polémico y políticamente incorrecto, considera que los viejos buenos tiempos de la socialdemocracia liberal son historia. En una

"Los viejos buenos tiempos de la socialdemocracia liberal pasaron. Las reglas han cambiado. No podemos hablar de un mundo mejor, sino de supervivencia colectiva, de continuar con algún tipo de vida normal, con libertades, en un estado de emergencia." Slavoj Žižek.

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YouTube video by Nigeria Info FM #Borderlines: Europe's Gaza Exception: When Human Rights Don't Apply with Yanis Varoufakis

Europe's Gaza Exception: When Human Rights Don't Apply - wtih Ireti Bakare-Yusuf on #Borderlines Nigeria Info FM www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7aI...

There's an embedded ideology in this rhetoric, to have the grandma without healthcare and miserable pension worry about princesses and kings, it's a form of feudalism: We live and breathe for the privileged.

They can always come and undo the deal. Destroying is always easier.

Depending who you are, you might think one is a expansionist destruction to seize the territory and the other is the inevitable outcome of a necessary war.

Whichever way, you have been coopted by stupid propaganda. Both are an invasion into someone else's home, and IT WON'T END THERE.

Depending who you are, you might think one is a fascist murderer and the other is a leader justified to his actions.

Whichever way, you are a sociopathic useful idiot.

Both are genocidal butchers.

One of these is an Ukranian kid, the other is Gazan.

Depending who you are, you might be ignoring or denying the one's suffering and pitying for the other.

Which ever way, you are a hypocrite. Both deserve your outcry.

Gaza Facts 02:

Palestinians are more closely related, genetically speaking, to ancient Israelites than European Israelites. So when the latter engage in hatred towards the former, they are being, strictly and necessarily, antisemitic

www.haaretz.com/science-and-... .

Gaza Facts 01:

Jews are not to blame for the genocide in Gaza, any more than Arabs or Muslims can be blamed for ISIS or Hamas.

It's the Likud. It's Netanyahu, it's the state of Israel. Many Jews oppose it. Get it straight once and for all.

I was often reminded by (sadly, former) pro-Israel friends that Hamas was motivated by a messianic, destructive religion. This is hard to contest, but the same could be said about Israel and the Likud's grassroots. From Illan Pappé, an Israeli academic:
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