That Nicholas Sanders guy is not just a copsucking reply-guy troll, he's also pretty big into genocide and wants to argue with you about whether or not the dead kids in Gaza count as one.
@msquebanh Hrmm, I was not aware of the 2nd account; I just know he shows up in my friend's replies once every 2-3 weeks fronting left, but arguing for largely liberal positions. He also likes to lead with VERY insulting condescension and then cry about language when folks tell him to FRO.
(To be clear, I blocked that account after the very first reply in MY mentions; but that isn't particularly special - I do that a lot.)
@AnarchoNinaWrites Yup, that's how that douchenugget rolls around here. I became aware of 2nd account because he sealioned a mutual's post about doctors, nurses & medics being murdered by IOF. Immediately blocked it. Fucker is a misogynistic jerkface too.
As a related aside; I'm NGL, I actually LIKE that there's a much more internationalist perspective out here on the fedi, because like I dunno if you've noticed, but the place I'm from is currently rolling around in overtly fascist ideology, mainstream or otherwise, right about now and some of you people from places that aren't openly getting your Reich on are helping to keep me from absolutely tossing my spaghetti.
Stolen and reposted because "no alt text" which is especially relevant when you're trying to get a message across to everyone with your posts. Inclusion isn't a buzzword my dude.
Unrelated to anything important but I follow several people who post in multiple languages and I honestly don't understand why "seeing a post I don't understand" is an actual issue for people - almost always, English-speaking people. Maybe the post isn't for you? Maybe if your curiosity must be satisfied, you can just dump that shit into Google Translate like I do at least 3 times a day? But it really says a lot about YOU that this makes you angry/frustrated.
I mean generally I just assume you folks don't rate violent imperialism and colonialism very highly in your calculations because you genuinely have no idea what we're doing out there, half a world away. I guess that's my polite fiction that gets me through the night.
But when the pictures come out, and you're still defending this shit, that forces me to realize that you're absolute fucking monsters and at that point I dunno what business we have together. None that I can see.
@AnarchoNinaWrites If I may: I think they think it is a fairytale. One told at night that they don't believe could ever happen and are too run down/tired/trying to survive to ever examine...
No, they would never hurt black people in our country...
No, they would never bomb other countries for no reason... or worse to steal their stuff
No... they would never do it
Until it is them. Then they see, it was truth. It was real. And now... it's their turn.
@AnarchoNinaWrites I honestly think the only reason they care about fascism here is because it risks subjecting white people in the U.S. to the state violence the U.S. has always exerted on brown folks in its imperial pursuits. It’s kind of telling that they still can’t put it all together.
Or maybe they can, but realize on some level that their status could impacted by the U.S. being anti-colonial. Either way, there’s no excuses to not know better at this point.
I didn't pay attention to who shared this on my timeline, and I'm sorry for that, but this was one of the better things I've read in years - it's about neorealism, misogyny, reactionary thought and why the popular Three-Body Problem series and its "Dark Forest" hypothesis are feeding into a rightward shift towards authoritarian/hyper-masculine ideology in China and abroad (including here) and man, it's a banger. The author nailed that shit:
Lol, the media calling Cop City a "public safety training center" is some of the most dishonest fascist nonsense I've ever heard in my life.
It's a murderpig playground. There's not safety, they literally already killed a protestor. There's no public, it's literally just cops. You maggots are how the nazis happen.
@coffeepine People have a real hard time believing me when I say "I do not care if you understand" because Americans say this a lot, but don't mean it. The thing is, I really don't. I don't use social media for the same reason most other people do.
And fwiw, I'm absolutely not being prickly with you or whatever, I know you know this by now. But folks are astounded when they find out it's not important to me at all if they understand the subtoots.
Only in a mainstream media devoted to covering up for fascists, could we still be reprinting Alito's bullshit excuse for why "his wife" was flying an upside down flag in solidarity with the Jan 6th 2021 attempted fascist coup, AFTER its been publicly revealed that Alito also flew an explicitly Christian Nationalist flag at his vacation home, ALSO associated with the coup
Dawg, it's your job to report AND analyze the news; reprinting fascist lies when you KNOW THEY ARE LIES is not journalism
I don’t know if I even have to read articles like this anymore. Wildcard the date, search and replace Alito/Kavanaugh/Thomas and add rightwing bullshit flava of the day.
Kavanaugh hasn’t been in the news for multiple cycles, I guess he’s due. Him or Barrett or did they send her to the kitchen to cook yet, because, you know, that’s how this shit works.
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
I mean, you were not "hoping for a discussion." You were in my replies to defend Roh by bringing up that some white queers are bad too; I saw you coming a mile away and didn't give you the time of day.
Politely, the middle of an ongoing pogrom against trans people, primarily trans women, across the entire Pig Empire, is not an appropriate time to have a discussion about why some transfemmes are bad/racist. Nor is it an acceptable reply when I'm talking about false accusations from a transphobe.
For clarity, because it came up; this picture is just cropped funny - the soldier is sitting on what appears to be a children's chair with very thin legs that you can't see in the photo. It's definitely not a photoshop, it was reported in the Times of Israel (a paper that is no friend to Palestinians) and the IDF/IOF has said they're investigating. You can find better versions online, but again - not in major western newspapers because we're all in on covering up for a US-backed genocide.
I've repeatedly been urged not to point out that Babka users are running a low-key propaganda op to attack critics of a genocide because "emotions are pretty high in the wake of October 7th" and I've tried my hardest to comply.
But if you're still saying things like "Zionists means Jews" and "calling it genocide makes you a racist liar" at this point, months and hours of video later? You're making clear choices ppl have a right to hold you accountable for.
@lonerfanatic
I'm Jewish (culturally not religiously) "Zionist" does not mean "Jewish" many Jews are organizing and taking part in the protests. Most of the standard anti Semitic assholes are pro Israel in this instance anyway, because the right loves a good slaughter.