• wifom [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Anyone who uses 'tankie' unironically is not qualified for serious political analysis

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Three kinds of chuds:

    Those who support Israel because they can point to that when you call out their obvious antisemitisms

    Those who support Israel because they kill Palestinians

    Those who support Israel because they think it's a place they could deport Jews to

    • Woly [any]
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      4 years ago

      You forgot: those who support Israel because they think that they, Christians, will somehow end up in control of Jerusalem.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I tend to overlook Christian Dominionists because they aren't a relevant thing in my country. And because i still struggle to wrap my head around the fact that such people actually are politically relevant in the very core of the empire.

  • domhnall [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    “[tankies] who support Israel”

    Smells like op in here.

    • richietozier4 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      GenZedong has a bot that says "Israel has no history, only a criminal record" but go off op

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Stalin himself briefly supported Israel- lots of debate why. Soviets provided the necessary votes at the UN for statehood, and eastern bloc provided most of the Hagganah’s weaponry. It may have been the easiest way to kick the British out of their mandate.

      • Hawke [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There was also this period where Israeli leadership were socialist in a way? Someone mentioned here noted socialist Einstein almost became a zionist leader but the Israeli socialist party was chauvinist I think?

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      They probably just thought a black flag was cool, cuz adding rose emoji, globe emoji and black flag makes no fucking sense, at least in my understanding of what those symbols represent to terminally online leftists.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Pretty sure anyone with a globe emoji is a neoliberal and every other symbol they add is just a variety of different things they're infiltrating and fucking with in order to fuck discourse and sow confusion in the masses.

        Neoliberals are the hegemony, they win by maintaining the status quo, this is maintained best by ensuring nobody else gains traction and you do that best by sowing deliberate confusion.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Word

          "But we are the good guys sweaty, we allow gays to exists, unless they are poor tho, or living in a satellite state where our pawns in power don't like gay people existing"

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I think awareness of this strategy is exceptionally important. We can eliminate the intentional confusion and political illiteracy by making people aware that it is a liberal strategy to create it in order to maintain the status quo.

            Once a person is aware of it as a tactic the only response people will have for it is to seek out non-liberal sources to compare notes on. This will lead to many more educational opportunities and as soon as people start realising they get more sense out of the left and learn far more about the world from us things will start moving ahead rapidly.

            • RNAi [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              It's hard when they have Mr Twitter itself in their side, and it's even harder when real twitter-famous people fall in those mud pits.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I think they meant Israel supports the US so that's why tankies hate it. Which is the other way around but that's the closer this person came to something resembling a truth so

  • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, Israel supports the US. I have a really good knowledge of politics and history.