Yeah and he didn’t want to ally with the Russians to defeat his domestic enemies
mozz
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If Monty Python was airing propaganda against Margaret Thatcher’s opponents I would have said the same about them.
There is absurdism, and there is real dishonest politics with real impact. You can’t do the second and then act like it doesn’t count because X Y Z… well I mean, you can, you can do whatever you want, but it stops being absurdism when you get explicitly real with it, regardless of how funny a hat you’re trying to wear along with it.
There is such a thing as “too far left” in US politics. You could say that voting for anyone who will continue America’s support for genocide is unacceptable, even if the alternative is violent naked fascism. You could say that we should arm ourselves against the Oathkeepers and attack them physically if they come to our city. You could say that all police agencies are an open force for evil and should be abolished. Those are real things that people think, that right or wrong, I think someone could say are “far left” if a US presidential candidate started saying them.
School lunch and unions are not “far left”. Honestly, it might be good for the base, but I think all they’re accomplishing by saying those are “far left” is making “left” sound good to people.
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holocaust denier
Here's a good example of my holocaust denial, oops I mean the exact opposite of that, with citations and arguing extensively against denial of Israel's crimes in Gaza
Here's me calling out some Israeli propaganda being posted on Lemmy
More broadly, I am extremely in favor of humanity in the US's Israel policy. In fact, that's exactly why I don't want dishonesty creeping into the discourse about it, whether it's applied to any public figure or directly to me.
If it's alright with you, I'd like you to make all of my decisions from now on!
Will do. Here ya go:
Pick a lane. Either be funny and carefree, or else make a serious political point. I have to live here, so I care about dishonest propaganda that's designed to dishearten people from giving resistance to fascism, because it still could easily fuckin win, which would be a catastrophe here, and in Gaza, and in a bunch of other places. So stop doing that second thing, and then disingenuously hiding behind a facade of it being just the first thing and obviously harmless, whenever people treat it with the alarm and disagreement that it deserves.
You were supposed to bring fun to the internet hole
Not crap it up even more than it already is, which is already significant
- She / he isn't bombing any hospitals or that other thing
- Yes Trump wants to end democracy and yes it's a problem, IDK why anyone would think it isn't
Are you saying the guy who built a tank for himself and went on a legendary rampage through a civilian town wasn’t totally stable and right
I have no idea the justice of his cause. We love him because he was insane.
Who on earth is downvoting killdozer
disturbingly similar to George Floyd’s death
Except that the guy was actually doing something wrong (he allegedly locked two women in the bathroom with him and then tried to grab them), and wasn’t handcuffed and had been fighting them, and they were holding him down in a way that causes positional asphyxia which a lot of people don’t know about instead of deliberately choking him to death while a crowd of people yelled at them to stop.
Other than that it’s pretty similar
TIL that Strom Thurmond's son was a US attorney
Also notice that all the fighting people are away “defending” Donbas, which is why they can’t currently defend their own homes very well and lost their place to live
Sounds like it sucks to suck. Whenever you change your viewpoint on the legitimacy of armed conquest, lady, I’ll start giving a shit if they blow up your house and kill your husband. Reach out if that happens; in the meantime, fuck you.