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Trapped in the Capitalist system...
(music lyrics that reflects this)

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=P3S5sJw4Cy8

If you're invited for a free lunch, it might be because you’re going to be the dinner.

@RadicalGraffiti This is great example of how it CAN work AND NOT WORK at the same time...
and comments I think reflect the usage - which I'll list below to help realise how it's not clear or can seem clear while leaving it vague/borderline in other areas...

● can seem "inspiring"; like to revenge or shaft/fuck the opposing side

However this could be while using / leveraging the clearly ANAL acronym and graphic of 'up the arse' (somewhat clearly depicted- even if it is also shown as a breaking up of Nazis).

●Then making fun of Nazis IF it's true they wouldn't like to be called gay or bunch of homosexuals... so indeed it's making fun out of their straight/fascist sexuality (again if it's true Nazis / fascists don't tolerate homosexual people in their group or outside of it).

● Esmoustachu pasLeTempsDeCirer @ciredutempsEsme said it well to ask " could you explain to me how you see that as brillant first ?
(I think my answer will be related to yours)"... and Antifa International @antifaintl did an ok job to explain but could be a bit more expanded (according to me and welcome it).

Overall using this against that is already risky / troublesome and I'm not even sure why I like it exactly but as a list for me;

-maybe the humour
-maybe the graphic
-maybe the context of which group it's insulting and how it's done

All above could be interesting...

● And exactly the difficulty with these memes is no personal person to represent it often, so hard to "...take this up with the creator of the meme."

And that's the +/- of memes in general.

I concluded also that:

● 'Anti Fascists' who find homophobia funny Are Losers ( @RadicalGraffiti )

And...

The association between anal penetration and the fact of being a "loser" spreads toxic bias against anal sex.
This is why I can't like this sticker.
This is sad because antifascism is obviously necessary. But I prefer to keep my antifascism sex-positive, please
( @PierreC )

●Finally I think the poll was a good idea and could be done again to check more people's opinion... was previously by Esmoustachu pasLeTempsDeCirer @ciredutempsEsme

" It seems i misunderstood this as homophobic. Can you confirm ? "

? % Yes it's reappropriation
? % Non, it's homophobic
? % That's misleading at minimum
? % Other

@Miro_Collas Israel-Palestine Map picture + Text version of article from:

"Informed Comment Homepage"
https://www.juancole.com/2023/06/permanent-apartheid-reactivate.html

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Israel/ Palestine
Permanent Apartheid in Palestine: This is why Israel wants to reactivate E1 Plan

Ramzy Baroud 06/13/2023
Dr Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as E1.

Though Israeli construction in the East Jerusalem area has supposedly been halted under international pressure, the Israeli government has found ways to keep the plan alive.

It did so through constant expansion of the various settlements in the name of ‘natural expansion’, confiscation of Palestinian land and the ruthless yet routine demolition of Palestinian homes.

But why does Washington, Israel’s main defender and benefactor, oppose, at least verbally, the construction in E1, while turning a blind eye to illegal construction throughout the West Bank?

The answer lies in the fact that E1 will further expand the Jerusalem municipal boundaries, minimise any Palestinian demographic presence in the city (from the current 42 per cent to about 20 per cent), and prejudice any political solution that includes East Jerusalem.

East Jerusalem is a Palestinian city, occupied by Israel during the June 1967 war. It is recognized by the United Nations and international law as part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel should have neither legal rights nor jurisdiction there.

Washington, which rarely cares about the rights of Palestinians, is concerned that, without East Jerusalem as part of the political equation, any discussion of a ‘two-state solution’ will become forever obsolete.

In other words, the US is more worried about the political, not territorial consequences of the Israeli decision. Indeed, the US’s entire political program in Palestine and Israel is situated within the two-state solution template. Without it, Washington’s role would cease to serve any purpose.

This is precisely why US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, criticized Israeli settlements during his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on 5 June.

Though he covered the habitual US commitment to Israel’s security, describing it as “non-negotiable” and “ironclad”, he also warned against “any move toward annexation of the West Bank … disruption of the historic status quo at holy sites (and) the continuing demolitions of homes.”
Article continues after bonus IC video
Al Jazeera English: “Israelis resettle in evacuated settlements in occupied West Bank ”

These steps, and more, will “damage prospects for two states”, the cornerstone of US foreign policy in the Middle East.

Israel, on the other hand, is neither interested in a two-state, one-state nor any ‘solution’ to its military occupation and apartheid in Palestine. Instead, Tel Aviv is working towards a specific end, a formula of permanent domination, one that would satisfy its quest for ‘security’, demographic superiority and ‘defensible’ borders.

It matters little that Israel’s vision for its own border lines is largely inconsistent with international law. All that matters to the current, in fact, all Israeli governments, are the ‘national interests’ of the country’s Jewish population, whose future has been linked to the crushing of political aspirations and civil rights of the country’s native Arab, Palestinian inhabitants.

Jerusalem’s particular significance stems from two factors: one, its historical, spiritual, economic and administrative centrality to all Palestinians and, two, the fact that it has been the Holy Grail of Israel’s settler colonialism in Palestine for the last 75 years.

A quick look at the map of Occupied East Jerusalem is enough to explain Israel’s ultimate motive in the Palestinian city: Maximum land with an absolute Jewish majority.

For this to take place, much work has to be done, namely ensuring the territorial continuity between the massive illegal Jewish settlement of Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem.

Israel’s motives are not a secret. A long report by the Zionist Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs champions and illustrates Tel Aviv’s objectives in detail. The report warns against allowing “security and urban discontinuity between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, or the reversion of Jerusalem to a border-town status … that would preclude the city’s eastward development.”

The reference to ‘eastward development’ is particularly dangerous, as many illegal Jewish settlements have purposely been planted in various parts of the West Bank, all the way to the Jordan Valley for the sole purpose of linking them all up, thus dividing the West Bank into two main regions, south and north.

Considering the current administration and ‘security’ divisions of the Occupied West Bank, a major territorial division will deny Palestinians any sense of physical continuity, let alone statehood. In other words, apartheid will become permanent and, from Israel’s perspective, also sustainable.

As for the westward expansion, connecting Ma’ale Adumim to the so-called “metropolitan Jerusalem” through construction in E1 will help Israel resolve a fundamental component of its expansionist strategy. According to the Zionist Jerusalem Centre, such a merger will “incorporate both settlement and security as two vital, complementary components of Israel’s national interest.”

And, wherever there is Israeli construction in Occupied Palestine, there is always the destruction of Palestinian properties and confiscation of land.

According to the European Union Office in Palestine, in 2022, 28,208 illegal settlement units “were advanced” in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, compared to 22,030 in 2021. A higher number is expected in 2023.

As for Palestinian home demolition, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) paints a grim picture: in the first quarter of 2023 alone, 290 Palestinian structures in East Jerusalem and the West Bank were demolished or seized. This represents an increase of 46 per cent, compared to the same period of the previous year.

East Jerusalem has had a major share of this destruction, specifically 95 homes and other structures between 1 January and 28 March, according to the World Council of Churches. The outcome has been the displacement of 149 Palestinians. Among them, 88 children have been rendered homeless.

The price of Israel’s major plans in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank is not just humanitarian. It is essentially political, aimed at cutting off Palestinian communities from one another, isolating Jerusalem completely, and ensuring a Jewish demographic majority for generations to come.

Though Secretary Blinken tries to emphasise the danger of such actions to the two-state solution, the real danger lies in the fact that such measures threaten the very fabric of Palestinian society and the political future of the Palestinian people.

Israel’s quest to reactivate its E1 plan requires not just mere condemnation, but tangible and decisive action, especially as Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government is more unhinged than ever before.

The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor or Informed Comment.
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Via Middle East Monitor
Filed Under: Israel/ Palestine

About the Author

Ramzy Baroud has been writing about the Middle East for over 20 years. He is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author of several books and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com.

His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (Pluto Press, London).

@admin Mastodon VS. Meta Since I saw Mastodon chief in the past
●not really wanting to try using alternative links to Google YouTube (using Invidious for example)
● not try add more friendly google links at the same time as posting (could be users optionally and automatically done)
● not trying to block scraping by google etc (all posts seem harvested which is not what were here for) and a least a footer or header notice... If not legal notice should state this on behalf of users even as mini-option.

So yecars ago I understood priority or early stand was not so anti... but this was few years ago I asked and got some direct response on the above (not all list and may well be on the menu now as they will COME TAKE IT ALL- especially if EMBEDDED LINKS already link to them and they have it scraped so why not feed Google etc? ***Now*** the devs etc can see why not keep it totally seperate or encourage BETTER PRACTICES or else it will all get you eventually since nobody is learning better.
Just using Mastodon with Google links and making them money IS NOT ENOUGH as the practical world is or ethos I think which IS Mastodon somewhat. I could be wrong and outdated.
i dont wish "bon appetite" to big biz.