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Confession: until a few weeks ago I thought crypto-fascist was just a fascist who liked cryptocurrency.
Wait it’s not?
Edit post googling: well fuck me now i know
Took me a while before I figured that out too
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So there’s news circulating around about “Russian hackers” bringing down Lithuania’s government online resources. Which normally would just be whatever, but earlier this year an amendment was made to NATO’s rules, equating cyberattacks with physical attacks. So this could, in theory, trigger Article 5.
Nuclear war because some Lithuanians can’t submit a government form online.
Yeah… With a senile warmonger having the biggest nuke arsenal in the world, and a reactionary fuck having the 2nd… This could end badly.
And it doesn’t look like anyone even cares to try and stop them.
My country is being terrorized by farmers that block highways, intimidate politicians, destroy nature and intimidate everyone that disagrees. Off course they’re funded by big agricultural companies.
They’re mad that they need to cut down on (mainly) their livestock because it destroyed our nature and prevents stuff like houses being build.
It’s like watching a mini fascist coup (though I fear it might become an actual fight). Their actions first were every once in a while but they’ve been ramping up the intensity the last couple of weeks, resulting in daily action that shuts down large parts of the country. They’re also threatening to shut down the food supply and worse.
Inb4 my country will have a Stalin moment soon lol
I’ve been seeing these farmer’s protests for a while, but as an outsider I just assumed they were protesting for better working conditions or wages, is it really just a corporate tantrum?
It’s mostly because the government and the farmers have been pushing the nitrogen problem forward for decades now. The farmers are the biggest producer of nitrogen because of their livestock. The nitrogen is now fucking up nature and other sectors that have nitrogen limits (construction of houses is postponed for this reason, and we have a shortage of houses).
For years is has been the ‘problem of the next government’ and now it reached its max. As a result, many farmers now have to cut their amount of livestock in half in order to get below nitrogen limits. This influences their profit and now they’re mad (while they could have made changes for decades now). As a result, they are now protesting and terrorizing. Most of the farmers are exporting their stuff so it’s not like we need them for our own food.
The protests are financially backed by several big agricultural firms. It’s not a left wing, better workers’ conditions type of protest. It’s about capitalists losing their profits and getting mad.
This is the general story behind it, basically.
thank you for the info, as someone who has been exposed to so many farmer’s movements I sometimes mix them up.
True, there are many based farmers protests going on as well At first I had sympathy for the farmers here as well when they started protesting years ago. But a somewhat justified protest quickly turned to terrorism in the name of corporate profit. For decades profits were the only thing that mattered to them and now they and the government are fucked. And the companies behind them are showing a textbook case of how companies turn to fascism in order to secure profits.
Brasil moment
India?
The Netherlands
Got it. I’ve only vaguely heard some strange things about farmer protests over there. Something about a group of them bringing some trinket’s to a politician’s house as a subtle “We know where you live” intimidation gesture, or something like this. Could you tell me more, please? As I understand it, Netherlands is quite important for the EU, agriculture-wise.
We’re a huge exporter, mainly livestock. It’s mostly the livestock farmers that need to change their ways and they’re the majority of the protesters I think.
Some of them actually declared war on the state and are visiting politicians at their houses.
Thanks
In my country water is being rationized, almost 50% of the water is lost before it reaches households and industry, we privatised water in the 80s. All a coincidence.
One of my coworkers just randomly said he read an interview of Kissinger and he called him a wise man.
Needless to say I’m now under arrest for assault.
Just assault?
First try at installing arch linux and i failed, will try again tomorrow 😢
There’s word that several countries have stopped oil production, i.e. Ecuador. Is there any discussion about that? What’s happening?
I know someone currently in Sri Lanka. They and 2 friends in Germany with relatives there want to start a fundraiser so the one on sight currently can buy some local families basic supplies for a couple weeks.
Anyone has any ideas how to use the funds more effectively? Because of shortages just they reckon buying goods might just lead to them running out even faster, so it kinda helps some people in the short term but might even aggravate it in the long term.
Just skimmed through ‘Modernity and the Holocaust’ by Zygmunt Bauman. I had some high hopes for the book, as it should analyse how the Holocaust was not a one off crazy event but rather a product of society. It sounded very good.
It started with a fucking Orwell quote, but I gave it the benefit of the doubt. I read a few pages but it was 1) pretty dry and 2) it seemed to lack a sort of complete analysis of (capitalist) society. Rather, it seems the whole book can be condensed to ‘human nature bad’. It also bases things off of Milgrams’ famous ‘human bad’ expiriment. An expiriment that has received a decent amount of criticism over the years.
It also seems to lack a complete marxist-type analysis. Maybe I’m spoiled with that after reading so many theory, idk.
I don’t know if I’ll continue tbh. If anyone here has read the book, let me know what your opinion on it is.
Remember how people in the DnD and Lord of the Rings communities were arguing over whether or not Orcs were a racist concept? Well, a thought occurred to me today: I think the fact that Azov nazis have normalized referring to Russians as orcs, as in murderous subhuman barbarians, has kinda proven the point on that. People were just waiting to have someone they can refer to as a lesser being without an pushback.
