#leftoids

[meow-meow777]

Leftoids be like "eat the rich!!! (not my fave e-celebs and pop stars tho!)".

[narukorankofan]

Jews are indigenous to the Levant

"Palestine" is a Greek/Roman exonym that the Arabs can't even pronounce correctly ("Filastin", "Falastin", etc.).

You don't take part in an international campaign to dismantle any of these countries but Israel. No-one is fooled by this shitty excuse.

Whose colony? What empire? Where is the metropole? What is being extracted?

I'm gonna tell you a secret.....

[dittography-direwolf]

I try to keep a grounded viewpoint (relatively, it's a crazy world) about why people do the things they do.

But sometimes it really is difficult to see any motivation from leftoids other than that they're genuinely evil and want to destroy everything.

[narukorankofan]

In most cases, complaints about the term Judeo-Christian come from leftoids whining about Christian allies not being to their liking (or/and just getting in their way of being the useful idiots of the Hamas and similar bomb throwers).

Posts by @jewitchry

[jocrude]

IT'S TIME FOR LEFTOID FAMILY FEUD! The first question is: Name a blatantly Anti-Marxist take that "Marxist-Leninists" can't stop repeating:

1. "As Leninists we understand the importance of the anti-imperialist struggle. Therefore, *blatant Kautskyism*

2. I hate social democrats! Also the country with the world's most important market economy is socialist because the capitalists are under control of the state.

3. There are times when it's acceptable for Communists to ally with the national bourgeoisie for strategic reasons, like when we tried it with Chiang Kai-shek, Suharto, and Saddam Hussein and nothing bad happened to us at all.

4. *The incomprehensible foamy-mouthed gibberish that comes out whenever Trotsky is even mentioned* (although tbh I kinda get why people who spend all their time arguing with Trotskyists would become so neurotic)

5. I'm a Marxist-Leninist.

6. Asking people to read theory is classist because the proles are a bunch of unwashed fucking morons.

[sap-woods]

well, why not exactly like south africa? why not like any other arab country where muslims and christians and atheists and hindus live side-by-side just fine? why not like the diverse western nations that finance your state's existence? what exactly about palestinians is so Inherently Evil And Irredeemable (bc that is honestly how you sound) that they would not have the humanity and morality to treat people like people?

it's always the same fear of the day after. white south africans are alive. white american colonisers are fucking thriving. same in australia, in new zealand. immigrants to arab countries lead entire lives there. why not like any of them?

What an exhausting, insulting question... that truly has nothing to do with anything I said. I was speaking about Hamas and leftists who support their aims to dismantle Israel, not the Palestinian people.

I have never said that it’s impossible that Muslims, Christians, Jews, (and Samaritans, Druze, etc.) will live side-by-side. They already do, in Israel. There is discrimination, but they do indeed live side-by-side. What I said was that it will not happen under Hamas rule. Which is an objective fact. The Gaza strip, by the way, is currently 98% Muslim.

I also never said that Palestinians are “inherently evil and irredeemable,” nor did I imply it. You lie in order to paint me, as an Israeli, as hateful. I am not. I spoke only of Hamas. Your conflation of a militant terrorist group with civilians is unfortunate. Hamas has proven time and time again that they do not have the humanity to treat people like people. I said nothing of the Palestinian people.

While I owe you nothing, I'll have you know that I am absolutely in favor of steps towards a peaceful solution and mutual recognition of both nations. I think it is outrageous that there are Palestinian detainees held without charge. I find the number of deaths in Gaza an unacceptable collective punishment. I am supportive of cultural and economic efforts towards reconciliation (e.g., bilingual Arab-Jewish schools and summer camps, joint activism efforts, organizations that promote dialogue and cross-cultural events, shared efforts to help victims of violence, cultural exchange and language learning initiatives). I think the current government is a disaster. I want to see a world where Jews, Christians, and Muslims—and Samaritans, Druze, and Baháʼís—live in peace together in that land. The fact that you saw me saying that Hamas would enact genocide if given the chance (which is true) and interpreted that as me saying Palestinians are “inherently evil” (which I did not say) is truly sad.

The reality is Hamas is not a resistance group. It is an Islamic ultranationalist militaristic dictatorship that has kept its citizens as prisoners by stealing international aid and running military operations to commit war crimes from under schools and hospitals. It is a terrorist group that rapes, murders, and tortures civilians, including children and infants. Peace in the region will not be possible without a demilitarized Gaza. Hamas rule is incompatible with peace. If you support Hamas, you support the violent expulsion or genocide of Israeli Jews from our homeland. You can (and should) be in support of Palestinian self-determination. This belief is also incompatible with support for Hamas. Israeli war crimes do not absolve Hamas's war crimes.

Another thing I find interesting is that you refer to a dismantled Israel as “another Arab country,” and in the same breath claim that Jews would continue to live there. I wonder, was it a coincidence that you failed to list Jews in your list of religions living side-by-side, or are you aware that there are very, very few Jews living in Arab countries today? In case you are unaware, the absence of Jews from the Arabian peninsula, the Mesopotamian region, and North Africa is a result of diasporic Jewish minorities fleeing, being expelled, and/or being ethnically cleansed. Prior to that, they lived with second class status (dhimmis) under Islamic rule. As an Israeli Jew, I cannot set foot in many Arab countries today. Is that your version of coexistence?

And let us be clear: The remaining ethnic minority groups do not live in peace in the Muslim-majority countries of the region. The examples are endless. The genocide of the Yazidis by the Islamic State. The Houthi persecution of Yemenite Jews and Baháʼís. The displaced Christians from the Syrian civil war. The Middle East is rife with examples of radicalized religious extremists being entirely incompatible with coexistence with minority groups.

Yet, in your list of co-existing religions, you picked Hinduism: a minority religion that, while practiced in some Middle Eastern countries, is not indigenous to the region. Perhaps you did this in ignorance. Perhaps it was an attempt to support your point that some immigrants and migrants can indeed lead reasonable lives in Arab countries (e.g., Indian expats in the Emirates or Saudi Arabia), as ethnic minorities with a homeland to return to. Needless to say, it's an irrelevant and feeble attempt to claim that religions currently coexist well in the Muslim-majority countries. As a whole, they do not.

Let's talk about your list of colonizers next. White South Africans being alive has nothing to do with Israel. White people thriving in the USA, Australia, and New Zealand have nothing to do with Israel. Those examples are particularly bizarre anyway, as, excepting South Africa, you’ve picked countries where the colony essentially remained in place and became the ethnic majority. But none of these colonies have anything to do with Israel, because Israel is not a colony.

Jews are indigenous to Israel. We are one of a small number of indigenous Levantine ethnic groups who call that land home. The word colony requires a context we do not have–a colony for what country? What existing country is expanding territory? We are a 4000 year old nation, many of us displaced by the Romans, and who, after 2000 years of oppression and genocide both in the diaspora and in our homeland, won our independence from the occupying force in power at the time: the British. We have nothing to do with European colonizers. You cannot colonize your own homeland.

Again, that does not mean I support the Israeli government or the IDF's actions. I fully believe Palestinians also deserve self-determination in our shared land. Our status does not change the Palestinian story. It does not undo their suffering. The situation in Gaza is untenable and an outrage. Our status does not change the inhumane conditions that Israel, along with other countries (like Egypt) have placed on the population of Gaza.

But Jews being indigenous to the region matters—because the context to understand Israel is not one of colonizer-colonized. Ours is an ethnic conflict in the context independence after a long history of many colonial powers (British, Ottoman, etc.), a wider political context of Arabization and oppression of ethnic/religious minority groups in the entire Middle East, as well as a global context of hatred of Jews and Arabs, and of Western meddling.

It also matters because it highlights the fact that Palestinians are our cousins—both because many Palestinians are likely decedents of Jews, Samaritans, etc. who were Arabized and forcibly converted Islam—but also because the Arabs are our cousins too. It is important to remember that this is an ethnic conflict, and not a situation in which one group can "go home." We have to find a way to coexist. Hamas is not that way.

Is “leading a life,” as you say, enough? Well, we wouldn't be able to, under Hamas. They have made that clear. But even if a Hamas-led state made room for dhimmi-status Jewish Israelis, then no, it would not be enough. (Remember, it is not even enough for many Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship to live under our state with full rights.) Self-determination is important. Maintenance of language and culture is important. Statehood matters, for both Palestinians and Israelis. I do not believe we are ready for a fully unified state. Perhaps we never will be. But whatever the solution, it is imperative that both people have self-determination in their homeland.

And be it a unified democratic binational state, a single federal government with autonomous cantons/states that govern themselves, a "two states, one homeland" two state confederation, a fully-realized two state solution, or any other solution: the violent—and yes, evil—Hamas regime can play no part.

[petrodragonicapocalypse]

some really extremely cows i saw today

[narukorankofan]

Ah yes, another Karen having been an idiot and trying to blame someone else fort it, an ambulance chaser trying to make money and the unwashed masses of Tumblr taken that dumb bitch's side.

[marshals-2]

They're really cooking up some interesting takes in the notes of that post

[dankxsinatra]

I sometimes hate living by my principles because there is a part of me that is happy that Nick Fuentes' address leaked and he's being harassed.

But there is also another part of me that is not really interested in seeing the escalation of violence and strife.

And then another part of me that finds it hilarious that a leftoid karen thought it was a good idea to go to his house and got pepper sprayed immediately.

[larval-entities]

one of the biggest forms of self-care on tumblr for me rn has just been blocking anybody misusing academic terminology whether i think i agree with them or not

[lordcephalopod]

I don't get the people who are upset the alleged CEO assassin isn't a leftist like...y'all realize that's actually lowkey good for us right?

They're constantly looking for every opportunity to accuse the left of being terrorists/scary murderers, I'm not a fan of giving them more fuel. Not to mention it seems like leftists accused of serious crimes like this tend to just wind up dead. Sounds like this guy has a powerful enough family I'm vaguely hopeful he'll survive to trial! We'll see.

And hey maybe I can be an uncharacteristic insane optimist and hope this will trigger some sort of class consciousness in the head-empty libertarian bro community. So many of these dudes have the same fundamental complaints the left has, but have come to just WILDLY shit conclusions on who/what's to blame and how to fix it.

The right likes to loudly put words in the mouths of the left about what we do/want. But we were pretty fucking loud here on a situation that's extremely lacking in nuance for them to spin. They're not going to be able to hide the fact that we're on the same side for this one.

I'm insanely curious to see how the right wing talking heads deal with this situation. They're terrified of the working class left and right realizing they actually have the same enemies.

[narukorankofan]

Epic clown-on-clown violence

Im losing my shit

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

comrade michał said that he supports prostitution and that it should apply to all unmarried women 😬that in a communist society every unmarried woman should be obliged to go on a "date with a stranger" once a month in "nice and civilised" conditions but "it doesn't mean that sex must happen"

then also added that he's "simplifying" by describing all prostitutes as women and all johns as men bc "in a communist society other variants will be present too ofc"

literally some babilonian bullshit 🙄

[chelzawesomesauce]

40 Years of Gaming by Dan Bull is such a funny song because the last lyrics are "Gamers, the world is ours. Now where shall we take it?" and then immediately the next year Gamergate happened, which is one of the foundations of the modern far-right reactionism that's actively seeking to genocide the LGBTQ community. Like, yep, this is the gamer's world alright. And we're all just living in it.

[recreationaldivorce]

fine i'll redownload telegram. i wanna see whats going on in the rnn channel