I don’t see the purpose, in a world where every major power has missiles and nuclear warheads. Even without that, armoured vehicles and air superiority are the next most significant in modern war, and infantry comes a distant third. I think we are long past the point that robotic infantry would serve any use.
I don’t know if this is true or not, just an anecdote I’ve heard from Dutch friends in the past, but it’s it true that there was some sort of archaic rule that only very recently stopped being enforced, where buildings could not be built taller than the church spire of their town?
The UK Parliament is literally part of the UK government… They participate, put up candidates for elections, and vote on laws.
To compare: the Sinn Fein party, another “separatist” party, from Ireland, does not send representatives to Westminster. They do not take part directly in the government that they’re aiming to becoming independent from, which is a more serious way of going about things than the SNP.
The Scottish Nationalist Party has a lot of members in the UK parliament, for example.
Kneecap is genuinely a fantastic time, I’ve got the feeling that their and Bob Vylans acts at Glastonbury are likely going down in history as one of the most important sets in punk music.
Great, just jump to baselessly calling it racism when I point out clear concerns about the Indian left, all without addressing any of my points. You don’t know the first thing about me, I’m not a westerner, an “Orientalist”, or anything of the sort. I’m an internationalist Marxist from the global South who expects more from India and Indians as a global South country. And am appalled and frustrated at the backsliding towards fascism that the country has been going through for decades. If you are an Indian (which there’s nothing wrong with being, JFC), you shouldn’t assume the entire world is out to discriminate against you at the slightest implication that your genocide supporting, fascist government is not receiving anywhere near enough principled opposition, especially because of its complicity.
You are Turk, Dominican, and a dear American? Is it true that you need to fill out your “race” on various forms over there? If so what do you say yours is when they ask?
However in India this is somehow upside down. This has a disturbing implication that the older people are the LESS reactionary group, which means that in a few decades, India will be MORE fascist once they die out.
As for the youth action you have listed, comparatively this is still shockingly little. I have yet to see anything on the level of even US and EU student protests against the genocide in Gaza, when India is arguably the second biggest ally to Israel after the US. That alone is so deeply troubling.
Damn, you are a Turk, as well a dear American? Hasan?
It seems quite disappointing that whenever I see pictures of these big marches in India with loads of red banners etc. It’s usually older adults and elderly. I’ve yet to see such action with a sizeable portion of the youth taking part, and that should be concerning. If the older generation is more radical than the youth, the already fascist and insane Indian society really has no hope left.
And Al-Jazeera pretends to be pro Palestine while they’re just a state propaganda mouthpiece who’s main goal is to get Sunni Muslims to believe everything they say about regimes that “Oppress the true faith”.
As much as I would like to see it, I don’t report posts from them that don’t add “Sectarian Reactionary News Media” added in the title. Because unlike the new york times, there are a lot of outlets who, due to their coverage of the genocide, have lulled many people into thinking they are upstanding and should be listened to. Another example for this is just recently we saw middle east spectator reveal themselves to be Anti-LGBT when they commented on Zohran Mamdani’s position on pride. Do we now ignore, report, and block every single thing they report on?
It’s not the fault of the user who posts it, neither does it break a rule. I take no issue with your discomfort at CPGB being reactionary, I believe so too.
However it is not against the rules (as they are currently, I do think they could be improved) to post something they say, as long as it is not directly endorsing the party or it’s reactionary views. I don’t see that here.
I could say all those things about the BBC, the Guardian, etc
That is the point, you definitely can, and if we followed the rules the way you did, we’d be reporting every post made out of one of their pieces, that’s my point. We do not post anything with the assumption that we are uncritically endorsing everything that has ever been said by the source. And if we do so for some and not others, we give legitimacy to the ones we don’t try and ban from our discussions. If this is the intended way we follow these rules, I am much more uncomfortable with Al-Jazeera, Middle East eye, New York times and their ilk being seen as totally fair and productive to post articles from than whoever this small UK party member is.
I’m not sure why you want to report Al Jazeera, there is no rule against posting from mainstream media.
They are a sectarian, anti China, anti Shia propaganda rag that manufactured consent for the destruction of Syria and Libya, yet I see plenty of posts of their articles here, particularly about Palestine, and yet I tolerate it and don’t report people for making such posts, because I don’t automatically assume the people posting are trying to promote sectarian, anti China views.
Also how do you interpret the rule, do you take it as meaning “We don’t want people with such views to be a part of this community and spread their views” or “We don’t want people with such views to even be mentioned in this community regardless of why”?
Should we go and report any post from Al-Jazeera? Or any post that links to western state propaganda in general? Does that count as breaking the “Promoting anti-communism” rule? I think it’s a little much to go about reporting people for linking something somebody said, just because we don’t like the somebody who said it. I don’t see any explicit all encompassing endorsement of this person’s reactionary views anywhere in this post.
Germany should have been completely disintegrated after WWII. I think the Soviets made a mistake by creating the DDR, because at the end of the day it was still possible to re-unite and create what has effectively become the fourth Reich. Should have been split into like 5 different independent PRs/annexed by Poland/Czechoslovakia.
But they are trying to make people speak FRENCH, which is arguably worse and a war crime.
A lot of Muslims you’ll see online, particularly on social media and on these political topics, are only in it for sectarian reasons, they are whipped up into such a frenzy by mostly comprador outlets like Al Jazeera and Middle East eye, that they genuinely would condemn pro Palestinian forces if given some stupid religious reason, as they did with the Syrian Arab republic, and as they very well may with Mamdani.
will my guide accompany me on board the slide to ensure I am not attempting to sabotage the state? If not, how can I convince them to?
Tell me Dutchman, is it true that Dutch people are among the least likely in all of Europe to wash their hands after they use the bathroom?
What does it matter? I was referring specifically to the usefulness of robotic infantry in modern warfare. Battles are won with air power, missiles and intelligence warfare, things you don’t really need humanoid autonomous robots to do.