• TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    I think you should qualify for MAID => "you should kys because you're insane"

    Just so we're clear. It's a blue check lib so he tried to say it politely by referencing Canada's goulish innovations in mental healthcare

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    "People who watch Hasan are subhumans and should receive euthanasia"

    -- someone doing moral grandstanding, somehow

  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    I’ve noticed libs really love saying that Ansarallah has “slaves”. Wtf are they even talking about, I’ve never even seen the most extreme neocons claim such a thing until now. They fought Saudis and Libyan militias who do use slaves though. They are an anti-slavery force

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      The source of this claim is this Saudi newspaper: https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/1810456/exclusive-houthis-restore-slavery-yemen

      Guess who's been bombing children in Yemen for the last 10 years? Yeah, the fuckers who wrote this shit. It's not credible at all and the people regurgitating it should be mocked and bullied relentlessly for saying it.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          6 months ago

          But isn't not submitting to the glorious rule of the House of Saud and continuing with resistance the real slavery?

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          6 months ago

          Yeah because it's on par with the Ukrainian news propaganda. It's war propaganda and lacks any credibility at all.

    • oktherebuddy
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      6 months ago

      Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

      https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels

  • KimJongGoku [comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Which one is it, are they pirates because they are just opportunistic robbers with no higher goal or are they terrorists because they are fighting for a political agenda? At least workshop what spooks libs most before commiting to a narrative

  • Tommasi [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    I didn't watch the interview, but from what I understand the guy isn't even a Houthi fighter or anything, but a regular Yemeni teen who had his picture taken on a captured ship once.

    Deranged reaction.

    • Sinistar
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      6 months ago

      He's a little more active than that, going out to captured boats, talking to captured crew members and fighters, and vocally supporting the Houthis even if he's not a member.

      Still, if he wasn't pro-Palestine, the people currently calling him a terrorist would be calling him a citizen-journalist.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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    6 months ago

    Even if you hold the position that they're islamist pirate ninjas from space or whatever why is it they're not allowed to speak? I don't see many people crying and shitting over every other horrible person who's ever been interviewed on a wide reaching platform.

    Like there's not this level of anger when they interview BTK for the 99th time is there?

    (I do not hold the position that these people are equivalent but the rhetoric around this guy makes me believe that others do)

        • jaeme
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          6 months ago

          Can we get much higher~~~?

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        There's rightwing conspiracies about Islam being a lunar cult, so all we need is the "ninja" part

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins

          Assassins originated from the word “hashashin”, a Muslim group that killed while high on hashish

          • Sinistar
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            6 months ago

            In hindsight it's pretty wild that one of the largest game franchises out there started with a game where you literally played a Muslim terrorist.

            • booty [he/him]
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              6 months ago

              None of the random americans that were the target audience could figure out what assassins creed was actually about so it skated by

          • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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            6 months ago

            There's a couple of clever clues you see. You may notice that Islam uses a crescent moon as their symbol. As a white guy from Mississippi, I have cunningly figured out that this represents the moon. Which means that they worship the moon, just like us X-tians worship the cross.

            • voight [he/him, any]
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              6 months ago

              Liberals will try to convince you that Muslims summoning the moon to crush us all in a big ritual is of no concern

              Show

              • Mindfury [he/him]
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                6 months ago

                turns out Nintendo did depict Muhammad one time and no one really noticed because they were too busy arguing that OoT was still better

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      I promise you they won’t say this about their grandpappy watching Tucker Carlson and Fox News which have more of a material effect on reality than Hasan lol

  • btbt [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Choosing to spend my time screaming and crying about someone who is countering my extremely myopic and western-centric understanding of the world because of how smart and good at decision making I am example 123456789123456789123456…

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    Bruh the very existence of MAID becomes a means of normalising the advocacy for genociding groups of people in society.

    I'm sorry to people that rightfully think it should exist but locked to terminal illness only. I am against that too, because of this shit. I'm against all of it. Despite the fact there are clearly actual instances where people need it as a dignified way out. Can't have shit under capitalism.

    • Sinistar
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      6 months ago

      locked to terminal illness only.

      tfw Canada would classify "poverty" as a terminal illness ohnoes

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        I fucking hate that this program has done this to me because I have genuinely seen a lot of very very good people go out painfully when what they wanted was to do this. Pratchett in particular said a lot of things that hurt and gave me my original position of supporting the need for it.

        But I just can't. Because these fuckers will kill everyone for a dollar.

      • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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        6 months ago

        Yup. From the ruins of our "universal health care" (which never covered mental health in the first place) and lacking disability services, the government is building up MAID for people with only mental health conditions... "We'd rather kill you than make your life worth living"

        i think it's really scary that, as the same time the health systems (and everything else really) are crumbling, the government is making MAID more accessible, both in terms of where it is offered and who is eligible. it's the only area of our social programs that the feds seem to care about investing it.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Canada did the Mitchell and Webb "kill the poor" sketch but for real.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      I hate so very fucking much that this had to be the single fucking thing the Trad Caths were right about.

      "Unhinged drivel...The drive of capitalism will force initially compassionate Euthanasia increasingly down a path corrosive to the dignity of human life, much like abort...even more unhinged drivel"

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    They say sick fuck as if I won’t embrace it. I am an absolutely huge sicko and I’m glad to see these glorified neocons say it

    Also has anyone ever seen The Unabomber and Hasan Piker in the same place at the same time

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    This loser's profile is him just tweeting shit about Destiny and hyping him up while badmouthing anyone against him, so pretty much any leftists.

    He does a lot of criticism towards their appearance when he looks like what a dumpster smells like. Guy needs to shave that pathetic stubble he calls a beard and maybe shower once in a while. That will probably fix his problem with the type of women he keeps posting about.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      Lol what’s with destiny type natoids and complaining about women? Usually they try to have some “progressive” spin to it but it comes down to “woman bad!”

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        6 months ago

        The type of natoids that watch someone like Destiny and post NAFO memes have a lot of overlap with redpill types.

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    6 months ago

    okay ngl this is like the third houthi pirate i've seen and they all seem hot?