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New policy: No more arguing with Christianists, especially the ones who think that missionizing is a good thing. Autoblock on sight.
EDIT: Addendum: Antisemitic atheists too.
Less a DNI, and more just an exasperated sigh at this point, yes, I vet new followers for my own safety and I will automatically block missionaries, Christian apologists, antisemitic atheists, antizionists, Nazis (WTAF are you following me in the first place?), and TERFs.
Sotomayor allows a revived $655.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority and PLO to stand as appeals continue.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday declined to halt enforcement of a $655.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in a lawsuit brought on behalf of Americans killed or injured in terrorist attacks in Jerusalem in the early 2000s.
The case centers on attacks by various Palestinian groups and individuals between 2002 and 2004 that killed several people and wounded dozens during the Second Intifada. The plaintiffs sued the PA and PLO under the Anti-Terrorism Act, alleging responsibility for the attacks.
Attorneys for the PA and PLO filed an application to stay the judgment with the Supreme Court in late July, arguing that the judgment became a “nullity” and “absolutely void” after earlier court proceedings years ago.
Sotomayor denied the request on Monday without referring it to the full court or providing an explanation.
The legal setback comes as the PA faces mounting financial pressure amid the fallout from Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Palestinian officials have warned that the suspension of tax revenues collected by Israel on the authority's behalf, coupled with worsening fiscal deficits and economic disruption, have deepened a financial crisis that is straining the PA's ability to fund government services in the West Bank.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs declined to comment. Newsweek has reached out to the defendants' legal representatives for comment via email on Tuesday.
The legal battle dates back more than a decade and stems from a series of shootings and bombings in and around Jerusalem between 2002 and 2004 during the Second Intifada. American victims and the families of those killed sued the PLO and PA.
The PLO was founded in 1964 with the backing of the Arab League and is internationally recognized as the representative of the Palestinian people. It is an umbrella organization composed of several Palestinian political factions and is responsible for conducting diplomacy and representing Palestinians in international affairs. The PLO signed the Oslo Accords with Israel in 1993.
The PA is a governing body established in 1994 under the Oslo Accords to administer parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Today, it exercises limited self-rule in parts of the West Bank and is responsible for functions such as education, healthcare, sanitation and civil administration while also coordinating on some security matters with Israel.
Following a seven-week trial in 2015, a federal court in New York issued a roughly $655.5 million judgment against the PA and PLO.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the verdict in 2016, ruling that U.S. courts lacked jurisdiction over the Palestinian entities. Two years later, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal.
In 2019, Congress passed the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (PSJVTA), a law designed to make it easier for American victims of terrorism to sue the PA and PLO in U.S. courts.
The legal landscape shifted again in 2025 when the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the PSJVTA in a separate case, Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization. Following that ruling, the 2nd Circuit reinstated the original $655.5 million judgment, in March 2026, concluding that the new law provided a valid basis for jurisdiction and allowed the previously vacated judgment to be revived.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs said then that the families welcomed the decision, saying it would allow “justice to be done," according to The Times of Israel.
The latest dispute reached Sotomayor in late July after the PA and PLO asked the justices to temporarily block enforcement of the judgment while they pursue appeals. In court documents reviewed by Newsweek, the attorneys argue that the appeals court decision to reinstate the judgment after the case was dismissed “was the first time an American court has ever held that a money judgment made without jurisdiction may be resurrected years after all appeals were exhausted.”
The Palestinian entities argue that the judgment should not have been resurrected years after it was overturned, while the plaintiffs contend that they are finally receiving justice after decades of litigation. The defendants note in the application for stay that “immediate enforcement of such a large judgment will destabilize critical government services Petitioners provide in the West Bank, injure innocent citizens, and jeopardize regional security.”
In court filings, the Palestinian organizations said: “The security, sanitation, and school services provided by Petitioners in the West Bank are hanging by a thread,” and warned that enforcing the judgment would further strain those services. A World Bank report described the PA as being in “deep fiscal crisis” and that prior to this ruling, “the total deficit [before grants] amounted to US$605 million in the first nine months of 2025.”
The appeal filing stated: “Respondents plan to enforce the judgment against clearance revenues collected by Israel, which is the PA’s primary source of income under the Oslo Accords.” Israeli clearance revenues, taxes and customs duties collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, are a main source of funding for the Palestinian government. The suspension of those transfers since 2025 has worsened the PA's financial crisis.
Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor and executive director of George Mason University’s Center for the Middle East and International Law, told Newsweek in an email Tuesday: “The next step would be enforcing the judgment, which would be difficult to do in the United States because the PLO maintains very limited assets here, specifically to avoid having them seized to satisfy judgments by terror victims.”
However, he said that “a judgment in the United States can be taken abroad, including to Israel and enforced there.”
What Was the Second Intifada?
The Second Intifada, or Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a period of Palestinian uprising and intensified Israeli-Palestinian violence that started in September 2000 and continued for years.
The uprising followed years of failed peace negotiations and growing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Many consider it to have been triggered by a September 2000 visit by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, accompanied by hundreds of armed officers to the compound housing holy Islamic and Judaic sites. The visit was viewed by many Palestinians as a provocation, while Sharon and his supporters said it affirmed Israel's right of access to the site.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding Haram al-Sharif are among Islam's holiest sites, while Jews revere the same area as the Temple Mount, the location of the First and Second Holy Temples.
The period initially included protests, clashes and civil unrest, and then further evolved into a prolonged conflict marked by frequent violence on both sides. Israeli civilians were targeted in suicide bombings, shootings and other attacks carried out by Palestinian militant groups. Israeli military forces launched extensive operations in the West Bank and Gaza that Israel said were intended to combat terrorism and restore security.
More than 1,000 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians were killed during the Second Intifada. It had lasting political and humanitarian consequences throughout the region. The 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh Summit produced a ceasefire agreement that is widely regarded as marking the end of the Second Intifada, although violence continued intermittently afterward.
Five Americans were killed in a 2002 bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem during the Second Intifada. Other attacks during the conflict, including suicide bombings and shootings, also killed and injured Americans.
Supreme Court Stay Process
When a party loses in a federal appeals court but wants to prevent the ruling from taking effect immediately, it can file an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay, which temporarily freezes the decision while additional appeals move forward.
Such applications are initially directed to the justice responsible for the federal appeals court that heard the case. In this situation, as the case arose from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the request was assigned to Sotomayor, who handles emergency matters from that circuit.
Sotomayor's order addressed only the request to temporarily block enforcement of the judgment. It did not resolve the underlying legal dispute or indicate how the Supreme Court might rule if the justices later agree to hear the case.
"Waaaaaaah we have to face the consequences of our actions!!!"
Maybe if you'd loved your own people more than you hated Jews, we wouldn't be here.
The legal setback comes as the PA faces mounting financial pressure amid the fallout from Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Palestinian officials have warned that the suspension of tax revenues collected by Israel on the authority's behalf,
Wait, excuse me? Okay, I was already aware that a huge part of the PA's financial problems root back to the fact that they prefer to spend their money on things like the Pay For Slay program rather than, y'know, infrastructure of any kind.
But I didn't realize that the PA was even depending on Israel to collect the tax dollars that the PA spends on terrorism against Israel.
What the fresh fuck!?
have deepened a financial crisis that is straining the PA's ability to fund government services in the West Bank.
"Government services in the West Bank?" Is that a euphemism?
“immediate enforcement of such a large judgment will destabilize critical government services Petitioners provide in the West Bank, injure innocent citizens, and jeopardize regional security.”
Wow, that's crazy. Maybe if you're that strapped for cash, the Second Intifada was a bad idea? Seems like you sort of shot yourself in the foot blew yourself up with that one.
More than 1,000 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians were killed during the Second Intifada.
Correct me if I'm wrong, both categories were killed primarily by the Islamist Terrorists, correct? Making this phrasing rather dramatically misleading?
The “Israel created Hamas” narrative is just Alex Jones “false flag” “9/11 was an inside job” rhetoric repackaged.
It uses the same manipulation of half-truths to remove agency from the perpetrators of mass terroristic violence and massacres, and place the blame on the country being attacked to vilify it, and incite further attacks against said country.
Osama bin Laden having US agency support in the Soviet-Afghan War in the 80s becomes “Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent” becomes “the CIA orchestrated 9/11”. Israel facilitating Qatari aid to Hamas becomes “Hamas was on Mossad payroll” becomes “Israel created Hamas” becomes “Israel orchestrated 10/7”.
It’s the same lie, with similar goals, just applied to a different conflict.
This argument literally doesn't make sense at all and it further explains how so much of what these people say is nonsense lol. Because let's assume that Israel did send money to Hamas and basically "created" them - according to these people, Hamas aren't terrorists, right?
They're the legitimate government of Gaza resisting 'by any means necessary' lol. So why would it be morally indefensible for Israel to send aid to another government? In fact those Qatari payments which did happen lol, Netanyahu legit sent like suitcases full of money fjdisfjisdf.
But I mean so what? Hamas are legit, right? Israel also handled their water, electrical grid, etc etc. Or could it be that your view of the conflict is literally just shouting nonsense until something sticks?
if Netanyahu funded Hamas then that means Israel was providing aid to Hamas this whole time. You can't have it both ways. Was Israel starving Gaza or were they funding Gaza's government including to civil servants and needy families?
If you view Hamas as the legitimate government of Gaza then Israel providing aid to them should be completely morally defensible. You cant pull "Netanyahu funded hamas" as a gotcha when ur entire political opinion is that Hamas = good guys, legitimate, Israel should be Greater Gaza and israel = bad guys who should all go back to poland.
Cos in that framework Hamas is the legitimate government of a sovereign state and sending them aid including to civilians, workers, etc, is perfectly fine. If you view them as terrorists then obviously this is a scandal. So which is it? Are they legitimate or are they terrorists?
same as it ever was.
“[atrocity] didn’t happen. if it did, it’s not as bad as they say. it was deserved, and we should do it again. actually it’s worse than they say, and it was a false flag, which just shows how evil they are, and we should do it for real this time.”
some of it can be explained by the fact these are often different positions from different people (or the same people at different times, as their (mis)understanding of the situation changes), but that doesn’t really explain why they would be able/willing to form a coalition together or have shared goals.
the bigger deeper explanation is that every argument is an ad hoc justification for the position they already have, that Israel is evil and needs to be destroyed. the exact details of the facts don’t matter as long as they point “the right direction”.
similar to:
hamas was doing the will of the people by launching the terrorist attack. the people justifiably want to resist the oppression by any means necessary. go go go kill kill. in the name of the people!
vs (and by vs I mean in the same breath)
the people are innocent and do not deserve war to be brought to them. they don't have anything to do with the violence of the conflict, they just suffer the circumstances and the losses
Found an interesting Twitter thread on some of the historical forerunners of the ""anti Zionist"" tropes and totalizing claims we're seeing in leftist antisemitism/antisemitism on the left today. The poster also has a more in-depth article up on their substack.
I really truly do not understand what it is about Israel/Jewish people that makes everyone loose any semblance of compassion or critical thought. Like I know Jew hate makes you stupid and I know it has always been like this. Maybe I can never really understand it because I am not Jewish, but it just boggles my mind. It's like everyone has a chip in their heads that activates when ever they see something or someone Jewish. Like vandalizing Jewish restaurants and calling them "baby killers", are you that stupid and dense? You really cannot introspect and see why that's fucked up? Or how everyone hates Gal Gadot because she's Israeli. Like ok, I thought xenophobia was wrong? I thought that was like progressive 101. Remember Trump's Muslim ban? We can agree that that is fucked up right? It's the mind chip, it turns of higher brain function when interacting with something or someone Jewish. Y'all don't punch Nazis, y'all like to pretend that you do. It's all about how yall want to be perceived. It's always been popular to hate Jews. Yall are just the latest morons to jump on the bandwagon. History will remember you as that.
every generation of antisemitism claims they're punching up, we're the scapegoats of, like, every era of western history since the creation of christianity. logic goes out the window when you convince someone they're punching up, that they're punching the opressors and not the oppressed. it's mob mentality.
it's so ingrained in christian society since its inception, that it's easy to convince people to keep hating us over and over again. just change replace the aryan race with replace the native population of palestine and bam, you have millions of supporters.
Incidents targeting Jewish New Yorkers and other groups have risen since Mamdani took office on January 1, with 205 anti-Jewish crimes confi
Jews are 10% of NYC’s population, 70% of the targets of hate crimes.
Jews were targeted in 70% of all hate crimes in New York City in July, according to NYPD data released on Monday, as the number of hate crimes against Jews and other groups continued to increase since New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office at the start of the year.
Since January 1, 2026, overall hate crimes were up 9.4% compared to the same period last year — from 329 last year to 360 this year.
Confirmed anti-Jewish hate crimes have increased 8.5% in 2026, with 205 so far this year compared to 189 during the same period last year.
The figure for this year amounts, on average, to an antisemitic hate crime in the city every 25 hours. Jewish security officials and hate crimes experts say that many or most hate crimes are not reported to police.
Jews have been targeted in 57% of all hate crimes in the city so far this year, according to the NYPD. Jews make up around 10% of the city’s population.
Hate crimes against Asians, Black people, and White people were down this year, while incidents targeting Hispanic people and Muslims, as well as crimes motivated by sexual orientation and gender, have increased.
Last month, Jews were targeted in 23 confirmed hate crimes, or 70% of the 33 total incidents in the city, a higher proportion than usual. The number of anti-Jewish crimes was 53% higher than the 15 recorded in July 2025.
Also last month, there were five Islamophobic incidents, one each against Asian, White and Black people, one based on sexual orientation, and one against an unspecified religious group.
Jews have been targeted more than all other groups combined every month for the past several years.
In some of the antisemitic incidents last month, a Jewish man was stabbed with a screwdriver on the Upper West Side in an attack in which an Asian man who is not Jewish was also injured; an assailant shoved a 64-year-old Jewish man to the ground while shouting antisemitic slurs in Brooklyn; and a suspect hurled bags of motor oil and feces at two synagogues in Queens.
“The work to uproot antisemitism out of this city is one that will continue until we see hate crimes come to an end in the city,” Mamdani said at a Monday press conference.
“I remain deeply concerned and very troubled by the unacceptable spike in all hate crimes, particularly driven by those targeting Jewish New Yorkers,” City Council Speaker Julie Menin said in a statement.
Menin is Jewish and has led efforts to combat antisemitism in city government.
Shootings, murders and other major crimes such as robberies and assaults are generally down in the city.
The increase in hate crimes is a challenge for Mamdani, who took office on January 1 pledging to combat hatred in the city, and has increased funding for hate crimes prevention.
Jewish leaders have repeatedly said that Mamdani’s anti-Israel rhetoric could stoke anti-Jewish animus in New York, which has the largest Jewish population of any city in the world. A number of prominent Jewish leaders and groups spoke out last month when Mamdani released a video calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” while acknowledging that as mayor, he lacked the power to arrest the premier when he comes to New York.
The prevalence of hate crimes is affected by a range of factors, many of which are outside of the city government’s control, such as broad social trends, national and international news, and the weather.
It's exactly the kind of active civic engagement and multicultural safe space Hipster Nepobaby Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, proud artistic collaborator with deranged lunatic Susan Abdulawaha are proud to preside over.
Under a new policy the administration is defending in court, low-income people with cancer, HIV, Parkinson's, and other life-threatening ill
Am I going crazy, or did Milo Rossi/miniminuteman just try and purge his channel of any sign he worked with Professor Dave?
He deleted his $200 donation comment too.
If he did, it's too late by my metrics, unless he starts putting in the work to undo the harm he did.
Show me a tankie with at least three of these characteristics:
Not a westerner
Somewhat healthy relationships with family
Has irl friends (esp unrelated to organising)
Has not told someone to kill themselves online
Proletarian employment unrelated to minimum wage retail, preferably physical labour
Employment and hobbies unrelated to bourgeois/petit-bourgeois artistic and academic circles (graphic design, theatre, comics, hyper specific ideologically saturated humanities such as queer studies [lol I know], literature)
Can go outside and talk to others without feeling severe anxiety
Knows at least three Jews they have not vetted to make sure are ideologically appropriate tokens lmao
Can come across Jews irl without getting the ick
Does not self-segregate away from other ethnicities nor tries to spin racial separatism as desireable
Is normal about non-whites and does not subject them to purity tests
Feminist, not “feminist” (ie protecting fellow tankie sex pests)
Does not advocate for violence as the first mode of action
Active within their community instead of just bleating online
Does not celebrate the death of civilians
Indifferent to insane transfem vs transmasc nitpicking
Open to the concept of compromise with liberals and centrists, not right wingers
Has not engaged in an online harassment campaign
Does not substitute “activism” for solving any mental health issues (hi comrade Emma!)
Does not support non-western imperialism (Russia, China, Iran) nor autocrats
“Commissar of Commissariat of Enlightenment”
every time jews explain nicely, politely, with sources, why you shouldn’t rape and mutilate us, golda meir turns in her grave
Golda said it better.
If you rape and mutilate us, you will die by the hand of the IDF. Simple as.
ok kids repeat after me
vinegar and bleach makes chlorine gas, which is highly toxic
ammonia and bleach makes chloramine, which is highly toxic
rubbing alcohol and bleach makes chloroform, which is highly toxic
hydrogen peroxide and vinegar makes peracetic/peroxyacetic acid, which can be highly corrosive
be careful about your cleaning products and dont get yourself injured or potentially killed ok
why it so dangerous to be clean
As someone who’s job is to handle chemicals like this, I need to state that this information is IMPORTANT. Plenty of people have accidentally injured or killed themselves at home because they didn’t know what kind of reaction certain substances have with one another. Play it safe and don’t mix chemicals.
Also don’t use bleach to clean up urine it’ll create chloramine bc of the ammonia in it and you can give yourself chemical pnemonia that way
Every time I see “helpful” posts telling people to mix these things while cleaning I cringe with my entire body.
reblogging in this time of heightened interest in disinfectants. please don’t get fancy
Pick one. Stick with that one.
There is something to be said about how everything bad I have read about Israel, whether true or false, can be said about Russia, and when I realized that, the double standards in how both have been treated are infuriating.
"IsRaEl BuYs EvEryOnE oUt!"
Meanwhile, Russia literally has people paid to spread disinformation on the internet and interfere with elections. We saw this in Romania and Moldova recently, and we also saw this back in 2016 when Trump first got elected.
"IsRaEl FaCeS nO cOnSeQuEnCeS fOr GeNoCiDe!"
Protests supporting the Oct 7 massacre literally happened on the day of. Russia, on the other hand, was still able to continue participating in international events like Eurovision up until the full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Let's talk about Eurovision for a moment: While there were criticisms of the contest organizers for allowing Russia to participate in 2014, the Russian acts never faced the same vitriol Eden Golan and Yuval Raphael did. Don't even get me started on how Georgia was disqualified from the contest in 2009 for mocking Putin for invading the previous year. Crickets were the result of that.
Even after the invasions of Georgia and Ukraine in 2009 and 2014 respectively, there was no vote held to decide if Russia could continue to participate. They only got kicked out after 2022. And the same broadcasters that refused to actually do something about Russia in 2009 and 2014 are now demanding Israel be kicked out for "vote manipulation", or stuff that a lot of other countries are guilty of doing, like advertising for votes. Even when Russia won the public vote in 2016, there were no calls for investigation of the votes, yet Israel's votes are suspicious despite it being allowed within the contest's rules to be able to vote for a song up to 20 times on a single payment method.
Let's not even get into the countries that cheated and were never kicked out. Or the Dutch sending a contestant who had performed in Russia after February 2022 to the 2024 contest. Said contestant was later disqualified the day before the grand final and I am not the person who will bet, but I will bet $1000 right now that Ukraine was the one who got him disqualified. Especially because they were never on board with him participating when they learned that he had performed in Russia in July 2022. And yet the Dutch have no problem demanding Israel be kicked out when they waited way too long to do this for Russia.
So if you ever see anyone saying the contest organizers were swift about Russia in comparison to Israel, just know that is bullshit.
"IsRaEl CoLoNiZeS!"
Have you seen a map?
You'd have to squint very hard to see Israel on that one. And this isn't even getting into Russia's use of ethnic minorities like Chechnyans, Buryats, Kalmyks, Yakutians, and so forth as cannon fodder for their war against Ukraine. A country does not become that big naturally. There is always something shady involved in the process of getting that big.
Sources:
Russia's use of disinformation and information manipulation
Russia’s Strategic Disinformation Warfare And War Crimes Cover-Up Campaign
How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt European election - BBC investigation
Russian propaganda: How Moscow uses disinformation in Africa – DW – 02/03/2025
PolitiFact | Four things to know about Russia's 2016 misinformation campaign
Police to increase presence across Toronto ahead of Oct. 7: chief | CBC News
A year in photos: How Oct. 7 caused turmoil and connection on New York City's streets - New York Jewish Week
Three years into full-scale war, Eurovision still hasn’t solved its Russia problem
Sport and Сulture: How Far Can Protests Against Israel Go?
Євробачення 2024, співака з Нідерландів Йоста Кляйна відсторонили напередодні фіналу
Ukraine: Suspilne on Joost Klein and his song about Russia! - Eurovision News | Music | Fun
“They pointed at some woman and said I’d been caught red-handed”: How Chechen security services honeytrap men into going to war
2 Years Into Ukraine War, Russia’s Ethnic Minorities Disproportionately Killed in Battle
Russia’s ethnic minorities disproportionately die in the war in Ukraine | PBS News
Russian ethnic minorities bearing brunt of Russia's war mobilization in Ukraine | CBC News (Side note: I will always swear by CBC News. They are excellent)
Older Russian Men and Ethnic Minorities Disproportionately Dying in Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine - Jamestown
Russia's Conquered Minorities Are Putin's Cannon Fodder in Ukraine War
Europe responds to EBU statement regarding Russia competing in Eurovision - ESCXTRA.com
I check ACLED's data semiregularly (they introducd logins recently though and i have an account but i don't like it) and typically Russia kills ~3x more people than Israel over a given time period. This has stayed reasonably consistent.
There's also a fair bit that can be said of China! China absofuckinglutely runs disinformation campaigns, China faces like no consequences for its current genocides against Uyghurs and Tibetans, China absolutely colonizes. here's a wikipedia article on the sinicization of tibet. i think there's a similar strategy in east turkestan/"xinjiang":
tldr china and russia have a bad human rights record but no one really seems to care??
Seeing excerpts from that Current Affairs article about how Israelis use EDM to deaden themselves emotionally so they can live with themselves as genocidal murderers (if you hadn’t encountered it before, yes really) made me realize that for a sizable (or at least loud) segment of the anti-Israel community is made up of people who believe that Israel is definitionally evil and therefore everything Israel has ever done is evil and done for evil purposes. I mean, how do you even begin to talk to these people?
I struggle with this. The desire to just call them stupid and turn away from them is really strong, which I know is not helpful in the least.
I'd have to ask, "Why? Why do you believe that? What led you to thinking that?"
Leading into "What benefits do YOU get by thinking that way?"
Ultimately I'd want to get into "Do you feel that your desire to be cognitively-lazy outweighs the real-world impacts of your words & actions have upon an already-marginalized people?" Which, of course, is an innately combative sentence that'd immediately tick people off... so it would probably be better to try to guide them into thinking about that for themselves instead of just blasting them with it out-loud.
Current Affairs is a vanity publication run by Nepobaby Nathan J Robinson, a manchild who dresses like Elton John fucked Colonel Sanders and took any vestiges of good taste with him. He chose the name because he thought it would sound sober and reasonable to incurious readers (He was unfortunately correct) but really it's just a clearinghouse for lobotomized left/russian symp Jew hating crap. He also union busted his own staff when they tried to unionize. Be sure to mention that, and the rich asshole thing every time you see this posted.
"We were fired by the editor-in-chief of a socialist magazine for trying to start a worker co-op," five fired staffers wrote in a letter pos
Here is Zenab Huriyah Ahmed, the author's instagaram. "Pakistanarchy"
Did you know they like Star Wars? Here's what the author had to say about Mizrahi Jews:
And places like the r/trueanon subreddit are being super normal about Da Joos with the article discussions
I feel like a good proportion of these people would intentionally set off fireworks around US military veterans’ houses to trigger their PTSD and feel righteous doing it
No. They'd just blog about doing it while cheering on more unbalanced losers into becoming mass shooters.
Yeah none of them have the balls to actually do something that antagonistic in real life, just talk about it online. These are the kind of people who curl into the fetal position at the slightest hint of disagreement, actual interpersonal conflict would kill them.
Gotta love how the gay rights, women’s rights, anti racism, anti classism, labour rights, islamophobia of this entire website go to hell when countries like China are concerned.
Is communism really all that important to you that you can ignore all the horrors these people are doing?
Is it that your propaganda of “communism good capitalism bad” really needs to be the only one heard, so the condition of workers in Shein and other companies is hindering you as you protest why communism gives labours rights?
Is your idea of every communist nation being utter utopia so fragile that the reality of horrors in that country really need to be muted?
I don’t know man, it feels to me that you guys are “putting your worldviews over people’s lives”.
That sound familiar?
The “left” in the USA has been breathtakingly hypocritical about the plight of Uighurs in particular, but you can see this elsewhere too (cough Ukraine cough), for years at this point. It’s giving “but the Soviets had good schools and women’s rights!” Tell me you are a braindead zealot without telling me you are a braindead zealot.
People need to start thinking critically for a change, and they also need to take a step back from their ideologies—whatever those may be—and start thinking in terms of actual principles, like human rights and justice and fairness.
The Left’s callousness when it comes to the Uyghur genocide still shocks me. There were 12 million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Their only “crime” was existing as a racial and religious minority group. We don’t know how many have been murdered because China is trying to hide any evidence of wrongdoing and so the information we do have is limited and often outdated, and probably does not show the full extent of the horrors going on.
But even what is confirmed is awful. They’ve put people in camps. It’s the largest mass in internment of its type since the holocaust. They are subjected to systemic rape, not as random acts of violence (which would be bad enough) but as a planned policy. They are also subjected to Forced sterilizations, mass surveillance, and slavery. Where are the protests? Where are the boycotts? Where is the outrage? Where is the basic human decency that should make anyone care about the suffering of these people - men, women, and children?!
Actual liberals and progressives who value human rights would care about this. But the far left is neither liberal nor progressive. They are a pro-authoritarian hate movement fueled by Russian and Chinese propaganda. That’s why they’re against Ukraine and don’t care about the genocide in Xinjiang, and why they constantly prop up MAGA and undermine Democrats.
The thing is a lot of internet communism isn’t about how to utilize the philosophy of Marx or whatever, it’s an edge lord’s attempt at filling a how void. Many of these people are ex-alt righters, and instead of deconstructing, they just kinda replaced the old radicalization with the new one.
And the new radicalization is not that different. Far left and far right or both fascism with only very tiny differences. There’s a reason the Soviet Union and the Nazi Third Reich were natural allies and worked well together to invade and divide up Eastern Europe while committing horrific war crimes and would’ve continued to work together if Hitler hadn’t betrayed Stalin.
#from what i've seen most self-described internet leftists#are just social conservatives that aren't christian-enough to hang with maga#they still want misogyny and racism and authoritarianism -- they just want it to be based on marx instead of the bible via @sick-sad-little-world
I'm still of the opinion that Identity Politics massively fucked over the Left, because you had a whole bunch of people whose intrinsic personal outlook was socially conservative get shoved into progressive spaces because they happened to be queer or other minority... and then, once there, started to redecorate the place to be more to their liking.
See, the more I research on this, the more I'm certain that political affiliation/perspective follows a bell curve in the human population, and cultural and environmental factors are what make the bell curve skew right or left in a given electorate/population at a given time.
But it's still a bell curve, meaning that any sub-population will still means you have people who are essentially biologically predisposed to a conservative or a progressive outlook and can only be shifted so far by that skew from where their own attitudes naturally fall.
And this isn't biological determinism or a "conservative/progressive gene" or any of that shit--this is how, across populations, people who tend to experience a stronger fear response or disgust response are more likely to identify with authoritarian or conservative ideologies... and it's so easily messed with that you can get people to shift more conservative on a questionaire by having a prominent reminder to wash their dirty hands in the testing room!
But the Identity Politics/"Queers/Minorities are Innately Progressive!" outlook meant that a massive number of socially conservative and socially authoritarian queer folks and minorities have been pushed into a progressive space that they are innately uncomfortable with, and have, as a result, been working to reduce their discomfort.
Biology isn't destiny, but it sure puts a thumb on the scale, and a massive chunk of propaganda methods are trying to figure out how to make the scales as lopsided as possible, by appealing to people's senses of fear and/or disgust in order to artificially inflame them.
IMO the issues aren't with THEORIES or concepts like the Crenshaw definition of Intersectionality in an academic setting. The issue is with treating it like some kind of gospel or D&D Character sheet to map privilege, because it gets incredibly weird and bigoted real fucking fast. (IIRC the most popular "Privilege Checker" sheet on here ADDED to your 'privilege points' if you were Jewish, and was treated as gospel and a performance of virtue and guilt) When anything becomes a faith/fandom/cult, especially all three, people will be marginalized and hurt and killed and a bunch of ostensibly empathic progressives will be cheering it along if they're the 'wrong sorts' just like their conservative or radical parents.
Can I still be a leftist if I’m a reactionary conservative
If stalin and pol pot can do it then you can too op.
Given that the Left is basically just a bunch of reactionary conservatives dressing their reactionary tendencies up in Leftist language, you'll fit right in.
