Speaking of, are you aware of the problems that Russia has with its far right?

But if i do the reverse of this argument its whataboutism

And yet he has the nerve to call lemmygrad war crime enthusiasts. The hypocracy is off the chain.

Eat my entire ass and suck my left nut you piece of absolute fucking human waste. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

Listen, I’m not happy about the death of kids either, I’m just saying that revolutions are never, ever clean because oppressive violence breeds revolutionary violence and these people are angry and hopeless and you cant abandon the cause of the oppressed because of excesses. The oppressor has killed way more kids and will continue to if they’re not stopped. Like its really easy to talk from your high horse of privilege and judge revolutionary movements and tut tut but at the end of the day it comes down to what you actually care about. Because way more kids are going to be killed if the genocide of Palestinians isn’t stopped. And that includes Israeli kids because the Palestinians are going to fight back and they aren’t always going to be perfect victims about it. Israel can stop this at any time.

Youre talking a big game for someone whos never been enslaved (or held in an open air prison).

Listen, the children are victims (women get IDF training same as men though so lol) but they are victims of Israel. Dont put children on the front line of a settler colonial project.

The Hatians killed their masters. Was that wrong?

How are they not the best chance they have at not being genocided? They’re the only ones fighting to make it not happen lol.

There is literally no difference between oppressor and oppressed, you imbecile you, absolute moron.

Personally my stance isn’t so much that I think its “acceptable” as I think its “an unfortunate reality”. Revolutions are not clean, ever. Individuals involved in it do bad things. Holding the oppressed to the standards of having a completly clean revolution (impossible) is just counterproductive. I support the revolutionaries even if not every action they take is morally right. I dont withdraw my support for something that is good on the whole because of individual acts that are not good.

Its also worth noting that Israel chose to put civilians on the front lines of a settler project, and that this is kind of the obvious consequence of that. It can easily be argued, I think correctly, that they wanted this so they could look like the victims. Despite them being the oppressors.

the vast majority of cases Israeli operations don’t intend to harm civilians.

What’s the public health effect of legalized cigarettes vs, say, pot?

Communists are generally in favor of legalizing fucking heroin lol. ETA: Full drug legalization means full drug legalization. WE also want to treat drug addiction like a public health issue of course.

Are cigarettes being banned to provide pretext for cracking down on radicals or minority communities?

Hey what was Eric Garner doing when he was killed again?

I just don’t understand how a group of people who are all for drug legalization are suddenly supporting a policy like this (from a Tory no less)? Why are we suddenly in favor of drug prohibition? Am I missing something?

Cool things that leftists always support: making drugs illegal.

Cool things that have historically worked and not made things worse: Prohibition.

Like seriously what the fuck is this shit since when did we believe in making drugs illegal.

Its a knee jerk for them. They can’t help it.

kim jon um

lol

ETA: Also gotta love the “they’re looking to NORTH KOREA for help” as if this is an obviously and on its face evil bad terrible thing to do.

I don’t think assholishness is necessarily a bad thing, it’s value-neutral.

Really depends on the context ie who you’re being a dick to and for what reason.

Like we had a “dont be a dick to your comrades” rule for a reason, for example.

I’ve seen the backlash to “let people enjoy things” lead to some behavior I’d consider fairly toxic in its own right. I bring up the minors thing because they tend to be the most passionate about fandom stuff, and I see grown ass adult grumpy shitheads harassing them for liking inoffensive things. Which I think is kind of the source of that attitude.

“Let people enjoy things” for me isn’t about “don’t criticize things people like”. Its about “dont go out of your way to do targeted harassment towards people over things they like”. I mean there are obvious exceptions like streamers who streamed wizard game, but even things like that can cross into harassment.

Like, if you check my post history i’m literally currently dealing with a mod of a wrestling forum who’s so obsessed with bunny cop that he has alerted both his politics and how he moderates around that fact, and claims its because Judy is his comfort character. So OBVIOUSLY I think people can become to obsessed with their things and make it part of their identity in a self-warping way. And that those people can use “let people enjoy things” as a shield for that behavior.

But I think there’s a middle ground here because if you think “I’m allowed to criticize things” cant be used as a shield for toxic behavior as well, you’re wrong.

I wasn’t accusing you of it. We aren’t in DMs right now. It was a general statement about something I think is true, that people can use "criticizing things’ as a guise for assholishness and even bigotry. Not saying you’re doing that.

You should probably care about things like misogyny and harassing minors lol. Which is what my post was about.

Eh that depends. The reactionary ragebait Youtubers who do this should all be thrown into a pit together and I’m suspicious of anyone echoing certain talking points about certain media because of them.