We are still going to have the start of the month “what can we improve or fix” type of thread, but considering what happened yesterday with Iran and Israel, and some members of the sub seeming to want change, I’m just here to ask what we should improve.

I use YouTube for a lot of educational content, but recently, even though I have shown no progress interest in any of it, YouTube keeps recommending me “libs getting owned compilations,” “woke sjw feminists have gone to far,” “gotta reload to keep shooting” etc. now it’s like half my Home Screen. How can I get rid of it?

I posted about this basically when it happened in a few other subs, but figured I would also post here. I want to know what everyone thinks about this, what the response should be from any side, things like that.

For context, and for those who have not heard yet, Iran has just started launching a drone barrage against Israel, that will likely take 7 hours at this point to actually reach Israel, if my reading is correct. This is a high escalation from before, as from a geopolitical standpoint, strikes via proxy are manageable in a diplomatic sense, Iran could claim that they do not fund these groups, or that they are acting on their own, and we cannot prove 100 percent they are lying, therefore most view a direct strike in response to proxy strike a large escalation. But by Iran striking directly via their territory, and without proxy groups, this marks a large escalation, one which we expected but still.

Iran will likely get counterattacked, Israel has already confirmed this is the case, and it will likely still happen even if Israel is not hit by a single drone. In war, intent matters just as much as the results, this is how things go. The only thing we can hope at this point is that civilians are not targeted, and that whatever loss of life is going to take place, is minimal.

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A very basic misconception about leftists is that we are opposed to capitalism because capitalism is unequal.

The liberal or conservative can attack this strawman and say, “you’re just jealous because your neighbour has a bigger house than you do.”

But socialists aren’t particularly concerned with the size of houses, outside of zoning discussions.

Socialists take an issue with the coercion and exploitation that is systematic throughout the capitalist system.

Sure, capitalism has a lot of inequality, but this is a liberal problem, not a leftist problem.

The fundamental goal of socialists is the liberation of the working class from the serfdom of wage-labour and rent, not the “levelling out” of inequalities.

I remember learning about this, but always struggle to find sufficient sources.

I feel like the answer is yes but I never properly understood why. It's probably because I'm white myself and don't have the full understanding but I'd really like to learn because it's one of the hardest parts of the anti-racism journey that I've been on that I've had to wrap my head around.

This is a genuine question and I'm hoping hearing from others will help me to understand.

*EDIT: in the title I meant is racism the strongest form of oppression OR is whiteness the strongest privilege