potatoguy
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potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States61·5 days agoHere in Brazil, one person means one vote, no districting, no gerrymandering, none of this things, one vote for the president is one vote, one vote for your state senator is one vote, one vote for your deputy is one vote for them and their party (in this part it’s weird, but makes sense that the politician also represents their party, but creates effects like “party gerrymandering”).
Bolsonaro went into house arrest yesterday, so this could mean something.
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•Never underestimate the human capacity for screwing others overEnglish2·5 days agoThanks for the recommendation, just downloaded it and I’m going to read it at work hahahaha.
The Nazis literally did the first mass privatization of public services and dismantled social services in germany when they took power, I wouldn’t say they had some socialist elements.
Even the elements they brought in, that people normally call socialist, but are just social-democrat creations, was because of the appeasement for the middle class, not the lower class.
Itally did it too in the 20s, here’s a source for the german part: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00473.x .
Oh cool, i just copy the link from the image, both of our images have the same url.
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.English1·8 days agoWe can look at this from several ways, I like the more societal way of it, instead of “whiteness” being whatever someone wants it to be. Is someone treated in the same way as other people from a certain ethnicity? How people perceive them in everyday life (like going to the supermarket or how a cop will see them)? This is more reasonable to argue, as society is always over whatever bullshit some racist invented. With this we can argue from a sociological standpoint, like colorism, etc.
Did Richard Feynman receive treatment like a brown latino, an indian, an asian, a black person or a white person?
This is intrinsic to the question of racism and whiteness, not some vague “pale skinned” thing, and more in line with academic work, because IT’S MORE MEASURABLE, it’s based on real things people endure, and on this sense, the “pale skin” makes a complete difference, from the middle of the pacific to Idk, the moon, not some random thing. If you want, I can recomend some very good books about this topic, because arguing based on definitions that aren’t good starting points can’t go anywhere, we need to define things not based on some common sense deffinition, but on observable and logically sound things.
Angela Davis (for an anglisized point of view) is a good starting point, because she talks about gender too, it’s all related.
Edit: good starting point to understanding race and racism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.English1·8 days agoMy example included black jewish people (Ethiopian jews are NOT white in any sense of the word) and white jewish people.
There is no definition of “white” that you can guarantee a person will be white simply by looking at their skin color. Skin color can only exclude people from being white.
Exactly.
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.English2·8 days agoJewish people come from people who follow the religion, like ethiopian jews, who are persecuted and castrated in isreal, or arabic jews. There are a lot of different people in the world, being different ethnicities. Some jewesh people are white, some aren’t, based on the parents/cultures they are brought in.
There’s a clear sense in the general populace that whiteness is better, etc, and this is perpetrated from the eurocentric point of view, made for he whole world to “achieve”, even if it’s clearly bullshit, like indians (totally not because of the british (/s)) trying literally to wash their colours.
This doesn’t even make sense, because we’re all homo sapiens sapies, but who cares, some pieces of shit indoctrinated all societies with that crap to make more money (blacks and other ethnicities were seen as better at manual labour and violent, so it would be better to put them to work as slaves, not because of profit, but because of their inhereted bullshit i just invented).
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.English2·8 days agoI didn’t label european exploration as exploitation, polinesians did it too, like to colombia in the 13th century probably. I have said america to mean the continent, this includes south and central america, as in latin america “america” means the whole stretching land, not north america as people in the US and Canada think. They exploited and stole from us, they exploited us for too long.
Edit: I’m talking about the colonization, exploitation, slavery (taking people from this land and from africa to work on plantations, factories, etc), land stealing, etc, that only comes from literally war. This happened from the Indian continent, to Africa, to here (in Suriname, Guiana, Africa, etc, there is a lot of people from the Indian subcontinent, because they were brought as slaves from the Indian subcontinent).
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.English2·8 days agoIt was the exploitation of peoples that took them as only visitors, not conquerers at they thought of themselves. As hispaniola shown us and other places too. Might makes the right was justified for them, but not for the exploited.
Edit: whenever people thought of exploiting others and enslaving them, there only comes one time to do so, when overpowering and turmoil take over, as seen in america (the continent), india, africa, etc.
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.English291·8 days agoNot one race, nor any race is better, if you believe one race is above others, if you believe skin colour is predictive of anything, you are the inferior person over all others, because you are an idiot for believing bullshit. You’re not intelligent enough to get over propaganda.
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•Never underestimate the human capacity for screwing others overEnglish21·10 days agoCool youtube video describing capitalists controlling clocks to make laborers work for longer hours.
Yeah, minix, etc. I’m drunk, so don’t take my comments as anything serious.
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•Never underestimate the human capacity for screwing others overEnglish8·10 days agoShitty people having power over others under them, even the craziest things happened at that time, like rich people in victorian time paying to get to the poorest regions of london to experience poverty. All thanks to craptalism.
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto History Memes@lemmy.world•Never underestimate the human capacity for screwing others overEnglish211·10 days agoIt’s all about control, from the RTO mandates to controlling the clock on the city center square. (I’m drunk)
Just works should change from mint to cachyos, fuck around and find out should be gentoo, linux from scratch is you building it from literally nothing, not even torvalds do that (he uses fedora).
Should also have another one, the best:
OpenSuse Tumbleweed
I use it on my work machine, against all managerial shenanigans, truly the best distro.
Edit: I’m drunk, so I’m making the worst comments ever seen
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto Notícias@lemmy.eco.br•Marcos do Val pede ao Supremo para não ser preso ao voltar para o Brasil4·10 days agoSeria muito engraçado se ele fosse preso no aeroporto.
potatoguy@potato-guy.spaceto Palestine@lemmy.ml•[Photo] Palestinian man Adel Madi (27) starved to death by Israel6·10 days agoImagine being this psychopathic and pro-genocide. These people are coming to lemmy more and more to post the worst shit here, from racist memes to full blown genocide support.
Majority of people didn’t want him and don’t want him again, like with Trump, but only one of them got reelected.