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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
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The state of the world is violent and oppressive and profoundly unjust. Violence is systematically used by the powerful against the powerless. Categorically renouncing violence will only allow the present state to continue.
Liberation and equality have never been won without at least the clear and present threat of violence. Power concedes nothing without a demand, the rich will never allow you to vote their affluence away, a riot is the language of the unheard, etc.
You can dislike violence and also see a specific, principled, and limited use of it as a necessity to move to a better world. If you claim to dislike violence but in practice mostly oppose the revolutionary violence done by the underclass, you make yourself a useful idiot for the powerful, and in effect you throw your lot in with the oppressors.
You haven't said anything I would disagree with, yet you are wrong. Y'all are cheering not a revolutionary violence
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The violence of Hamas is the weak targeting the strong. To every extent possible, it does not target or harm the helpless; it primarily seeks the wherewithal to bargain with; it seeks military targets first and foremost; hostages are treated charitably as opposed to the settler colony which habitually uses SA and torture on the people it abducts to gratify its wrath. Watch the testimony of Oct 7 survivors like Yasmin Porat; listen to 51 Days or any other rigorous account of the experiences. What is happening is a fighting back against the oppressor until the oppressor's privileged position becomes untenable. Fighting against a military occupation by a fascist ethnostate is revolutionary by definition. Outside of the West, nobody has brainworms about Hamas; they are seen as freedom fighters regardless of their religious/political persuasions.
The violence of Iran against Israel is remarkably restrained, and defensive in nature.
You are being unrealistic by expecting a standard of nonviolence, and you have the hypocrisy of living in places where you are ultimately a beneficiary either of successful revolutionary violence, or of colonization, or both. Nowhere on Earth was self-determination won without bearing arms.
You are contradicting yourself