Those people look like they wouldn't hurt a fly, so innocent and ignorant. And then go to work for the military industrial complex, the mass media business and other big corpos (pharmaceutical, high-tech, oil, etc.) without even knowing the damage they are doing and the responsibility they have in the destruction of whole countries and the planet itself. It's a classic example of the "banality of evil", working as perfect cogs for the empire's machine.
Personally I have conflicted thoughts about them. I feel sorry for them but at the same time I wouldn't care at all if a bomb exploded over their heads if that means saving innocent people from their wretched acts. I don't tolerate ignorance and stupidity when the consequences are serious.
I don't expect working class solidarity from the people at the imperial core while they are still benefactors from my oppression, even if it is indirectly. They should already know that their luxuries are in great part a product of our exploitation and if they are ignorant about it it is not my fault, fuck them. The day I see them organized and giving substantial help to our struggles in the global south I might change my mind. They are not willing to give up their privileges in order to enact real and concrete international solidarity.
"Workers of the world unite" is a nice phrase, but call me when there are any American blue/white collar workers organized with Congolese cobalt miners or Mexican factory workers.
The same amount of money that can feed a Global South worker for a month is spent in a weekend to buy useless shit for fun by an average American/Western-European worker, the latter is not prepared to renounce to their treats. Maybe one day they won't be able to afford them anymore... I wanna see how they will react.
I haven't really done much with that laptop since it's so underpowered- even browsing many modern websites is asking way too much from it and you can just forget about Youtube.
To watch videos you can use the terminal, write "mpv [URL of the video]" and configure the player to a lower resolution if 1080 or 720p is too much for your hardware. That's what I do in my old laptop with antix, along with a lightweight browser like w3m or falkon. Sometimes I don't even use web browsers, I just check the channels I am subscribed to via the terminal with the application Newsboat to get the video links.
I have a few books on the waiting list (by Polanyi, Unamuno and Yuk Hui) but I keep getting distracted distrohopping to KDE plasma distros. I've already tried Kubuntu 24.10 and had some compatibility issues. The more I use Ubuntu, the more I understand why the glorious Linux Mint exists. I've also installed another partition with Fedora KDE just to play a little with non Debian based distros. Only time will tell if I go back to the always loyal Cinnamon Mint.
Linux Mint, Cinnamon DE, it's Ubuntu based but has a Debian edition too. Also, in its official webpage you can download it with other DEs like XFCE or Mate if you need more lightweight options. Super easy to install and most windows users adapt quickly to it.
What about Mitchell and Webb?
You can find many quotes by zionists that are offensive enough as to belong to a nazi rant, and some of them are even from left wing zionists. It's an anti-jew ideology that seeks to create the myth of a nation-state composed of white people, they don't really care about religion or historical facts.
‘The Jew is a caricature of a normal, natural human being, both physically and spiritually. As an individual in society he revolts and throws off the harness of social obligations, knows no order nor discipline.’ ( Our Shomer ‘Weltanschauung’ , Hashomer Hatzair, December 1936, p.26. As cited by Lenni Brenner)
‘The fact is undeniable that the Jews, collectively, are unhealthy and neurotic. Those professional Jews who, wounded to the quick, indignantly deny this truth are the greatest enemies of their race, for they thereby lead them to search for false solutions, or at most palliatives.’ (Ben Frommer, The Significance of a Jewish State, Jewish Call, Shanghai, May 1935, p.10. As cited by Lenni Brenner)
‘The enterprising spirit of the Jew is irrepressible. He refuses to remain a proletarian. He will grab at the first opportunity to advance to a higher rung in the social ladder.’ (The Economic Development of the Jewish People, Ber Borochov, 1916)
I contemplate with horror the future development of this race of (assimilated Jews of Europe) which is sustained morally by no tradition, whose soul is poisoned with hostility to both its own and to strange blood, and whose self-respect is destroyed through the ever-present consciousness of a fundamental lie.… This is the picture of the Jewish people at the end of the nineteenth century. To sum up: the majority of Jews are a race of accursed beggars. (Max Nordau)
‘The emancipated Jew is insecure in his relations with his fellow-beings, timid with strangers, suspicious even toward the secret feeling of his friends. His best powers are exhausted in the suppression, or at least in the difficult concealment of his own real character. For he fears that this character might be recognised as Jewish, and he has never the satisfaction of showing himself as he is, in all his thoughts and sentiments. He becomes an inner cripple, and externally unreal, and thereby always ridiculous and hateful to all higher-feeling men, as is everything that is unreal. All the better Jews in Western Europe groan under this, or seek for alleviation. They no longer possess the belief which gives the patience necessary to bear sufferings, because it sees in them the will of a punishing but not loving God.’ (Address at the First Zionist Congress, Max Nordau, 1897)
‘Before the emancipation, the Jew was a stranger among the peoples, but he did not for a moment think of making a stand against his fate. He felt himself as belonging to a race of his own, which had nothing in common with the other people of the country. The emancipated Jew is insecure in his relations with his fellow-beings, timid with strangers, suspicious even toward the secret feeling of his friends.’ Max Nordau 26, address at the first Zionist Congress, Basle, 1897
And one quote from Theodor Herzl from when the jews got support from the general public during the Dreyfus affair, he went mad:
‘[French Jews] seek protection from the socialists and the destroyers of the present civil order … truly they are not Jews anymore. To be sure, they are not Frenchmen either. They will probably become the leaders of European anarchism.’
Herzl alone is full of fucked up shit, it's low hanging fruit.