If you are expecting to read my usual Left Coast column, I tell you now that you will be disappointed. I write, today, from a place of horror—about the massacre unleashed against civilians in Israel this past week, and about the morally cretinous bloodlust reaction some who fashion themselves as being on the “left” seem to have experienced in its aftermath, but also in despair at the ghastly collective punishments being unleashed from the air on Gaza residents by Netanyahu’s far-right government and the Israeli military.
  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Now explain to me how, in good conscience, one can build a movement to oppose police brutality and racism in one country and, at the same time, glory in the killing of 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in another?

    smuglord "Yeah, riddle me this, 'leftists': How can one oppose a state-sanctioned system of racist violence and oppression, while also opposing a state-sanctioned system of racist violence and oppression? ✔️mate!"

    Also, "unfathomable number of children" is at most, still less than 3 months of gun violence in USA. So pretty strong inconceivable vibes on that.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Hahhahahaa the police get training in torture and interogation from Israeli occupation forces. They use illegal sigint technology developed by israeli tech firms. They fly drones prototyped and tested in the skies over Palestine. They throw the same chemical weapons as Israeli cops. HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        The "knee on the neck" technique that Derek Chauvin used to murder George Floyd also likely came from the IDF's training.

        • Helmic [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          And don't forget Cop City will be used to train Israeli cops to lynch more Palestinians too. All cops are bastards.

        • privatized_sun [none/use name]
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          9 months ago

          https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-did-israeli-secret-service-teach-floyd-police-to-kneel-on-neck

          The Labour leader Keir Starmer sacked a member of his shadow cabinet, Rebecca Long-Bailey for sharing the article, which Mr Starmer said “contained an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory”.

          The Morning Star piece alleges that those attending the 2012 conference “learned the violent techniques used by Israeli forces as they terrorise the occupied Palestinian territories under the guise of security operations.”

          The article does not explicitly claim that Israeli forces taught American police to kneel on a person’s neck at the conference.

          We merely trained cops to dehumanize our ghettofied racially oppressed subjects, we're not fascist!