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I used to be a pretty big Leftoid™️ but I was always pretty uncomfortable with the “pro Palestine” movement, something about the way other leftists talked about Israeli people felt very off to me. I think seeing people tear down the hostages posters (including pictures of kidnapped CHILDREN) was the final nail in the coffin that led to me walking away from that political scene entirely.

I mean if that doesn’t tell you that this movement is purely motivated by hatred of Jews and is not about human rights then I don’t know what will.

no like fr the way that a lot of people look at israelis -- there's no group of people on earth i look at that way. literally no group of people where i'd look at posters of hostages from that group and go "that's obviously genocide propaganda i'm tearing it down." certainly not any group of people where i'd watch a video of their house blowing up and hear a woman crying for her dog in the rubble and point and laugh.

i can't even imagine having that response honestly. i can imagine apathy sure but glee? over people suffering? looking at a whole nationality that way? there's no way

i think that has to corrode your soul. i mean how can't it?

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Couldn’t have said it better myself

My fave Mark Twain quote is the one about how history doesnt repeat itself, but it rhymes, and it is so so so accurate. For 40+ years the West chose to tolerate and appease the IRGC, the same exact way how it chose to tolerate and appease Nazi Germany, thinking that itd eventually pay off and that the irrational actors at the helm of these barbaric shitholes will magically fall into the Western ideological lines.

The results of this method were devastating in an inevitable WW2, when a millions of people had to die as part of the efforts to stop Hitler, who managed to conquer entire swaths of Europe without firing a single bullet, because Western governments wanted to appease him so much. If only we give him a piece of this country or that country, if only we strike one more trade deal with him. Surely, he will stop taking territories; surely he will stop threatening to exterminate us. The exact same thing has happened with the IRGC: if only we strike another deal, if only we let them develop nuclear energy, if only we gift them a boatload of money, surely they wont use it against us the way they constantly said that they will; surely they will suddenly start liking us and stop committing regional terrorism; surely they will begin to adopt our cultural values. Like what part of "theocratic fundamentalism" are people not understanding?? how is this so difficult to grasp??

These types of regimes dont see your culture as valid, they dont want to share air with you, they wont suddenly wake up and develop an appreciation for humanism. They think youre literally satan, they dont believe in your right to exist in a liberal world, they dont even consider your liberal values to be valid; they do not see you as their equal and they do not see you as a fellow human being. They constantly and very openly state these facts, then proceed to develop plans to get rid of you. They dont say these things for show, or to be dramatic or even to scare you, that would mean theres some rationale behind it. There is none. This is religious fundamentalism, hatred for the Western, infidel world and a very very deep, strong and potent emotional intertwining of religious and ideological belief, both of which do not align in any way shape or form with the secular values we fortunately developed during the Age of Enlightenment.

No amount of money, nice words, appeasement or hand shaking is going to change their minds, much like it didnt change the minds behind Nazi Germany. This dragged out appeasement in the earlier part of the 20th century led to the deaths of millions of people in an inevitable war, and this similar, 40yr old appeasement of the IRGC is also going to deal to devastating consequences, which, similarly to Nazi Germany, could have been far more minimized had it been nipped in the bud and not tolerated for this long. This was literally inevitable from the moment the IRGC completed their revolution, as WW2 was inevitable from the moment Hitler coup d'etat his ass into Supreme Leader. It rhymes in the most horrendous of ways and we are all going to see how the results will also rhyme.

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★ group grocery run

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It's weird how in the past 5 or so years the left's understanding of decolonization devolved into some kind of weird Nazi era eugenicist thing about how people's "true places" are something encoded in their DNA and no one in the history of the world should have moved anywhere and anyone decendent from people who moved at some point should be shot.

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For too many people, “antisemitism” is “hatred of Jews I can’t/don’t want to justify” and “antizionism” is “hatred of Jews I can and do want to justify”

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God damn it, I wish liberal and conservative women would wake the fuck up.

Hey, liberal women: GENDER IDEOLOGY IS DAMAGING TO US. WE DESERVE OUR OWN SPORTS AND OUR OWN SPACES. FAIRNESS & WOMEN’S COMFORT AND SAFETY >>>>>> MALE FETISHISTS’ FEELINGS. WOMAN = ADULT HUMAN FEMALE; LESBIAN = A STRICTLY SAME-SEX ATTRACTED WOMAN

Hey, conservative women: YOU CANNOT CLAIM YOU ARE FOR WOMEN’S SEX BASED RIGHTS AND THEN, IN THE SAME BREATH, SUPPORT LAWS THAT TAKE AWAY THE RIGHT TO AN ABORTION. THAT IS NOT HOW THIS WORKS. YOU DO NOT GET A PASS FOR YOUR HOMOPHOBIA AND BIPHOBIA, EITHER.

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Lmao

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“The whole world is cheering and wants you dead” yeah we know. It has never not been like that. Over 40% of the population openly call themselves antisemites, and the rest got their fingers on the keyboard, spewing anonymous hate on tumblr while swearing up and down they’re just antizionists. None of this is new. It’s not fresh. It’s not even clever. It’s tired, and it's been going on forever. You’re not making some bold statement. You’re just recycling the same old nonsense. You’re not sleek. You’re not new…. You’re just predictable.

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The antisemites are thriving because they’ve discovered that all they have to do to get you to hate any given Jew is to accuse them of being a Zionist. No reason needed, the fact that they dare to be noticeably Jewish is sufficient. And if Jewish people object to this, you can hit ‘em with the “I’m anti-Zionist not antisemitic” which is a magic phrase that makes gentiles accept any amount of Jew-hatred.

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if your reason for punching nazis hasn't always been defending & protecting jews then idk what the fuck you were doing. protesting bad fashion?? their haircuts?? it was "cool"?? like what was the intention

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Iran has also been selling drones to Russia to murder Ukrainian civilians– not that any of these people give a shit

just saw the video of iran bombing israel,, i had to stand up and APPLAUDDDDD

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Endgame was bad. Like “Last season of Game of Thrones” bad.

endgame is so funny to me bc they were like ‘a ten year culmination! a proper sendoff to the avengers! the perfect ending!’ and then it proceeded to give the og avengers the actual worst possible endings. thor spends five years locked in a shack and then leaves his people to become a space pirate, despite asgard being his number one concern. tony spent five years out of the public eye, did very little inventing, and then dies. bruce (who hates the spotlight) became a celebrity and has a “catch phrase”. natasha’s found family abandoned her for five years and then she dies at the bottom of a cliff. clint became a ruthless killer with no morality, killing hundreds of people. steve spends five years doing nothing except mourning someone who died of old age, then chooses a white picket fence instead of the picket line. like HELLO? 

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One of the tragedies of Steve’s character assassination is that neither Sam nor Bucky were allowed to mourn his absence. Unlike with Nat, where Yelena and Clint were able to lay bare their grief during Hawkeye. Nominally, Steve went to lead “the life he wanted”, and the narrative was afraid to open the can of worms around how uncharacteristically irresponsible that was. Hence neither Sam nor Bucky could discuss his loss, nor could they voice their own negative emotions around his absence. Not only were they not allowed anger, but they were also deprived of grief and bewilderment and regret. There was a Steve-shaped hole in TFATWS, and as much as the narrative tried to pretend it didn’t exist, the story was warped by its unshakeable presence.

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nah since marvel is trending again I’m going to say it again louder for the people in back — canon steve rogers would never have chosen an “idyllic 1950s white pickett fence life” because the only place that man belonged was a picket LINE. the whole point of his character was that his work was never done. there was always going to be another oppressor, another bully, another person who takes advantage of the underprivileged for him to stand up to. from the moment he gained consciousness he, a chronically ill son of a working class mother living below the poverty line, used his voice and his body to protect & fight for what he believed in. I’m not sure there was ever a time pre-super soldier serum where he didn’t have a black eye. he could put the shield down all he wanted but he could never retire from being steve rogers — someone who never once turned a blind eye, who never once wanted a “reward” for his work, who never once abandoned his friends. this isn’t up for debate. this is almost a century of comic book & film/animated precedent. he may have been a man out of time, but in his words “it’s tempting to want to live in the past. it’s familiar, it’s comfortable. but it’s where fossils come from”

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I'll never fall for that palestine bullshit. I remember *female* students in my uni calling the rape of Israeli women by the islamist crusaders western propaganda. Lefties are all over the internet calling for the rape and torture of women with "evil" politics. People compare the Holocaust, a genocide perpetrated by the nazis to exterminate Judaism that claimed the lives of millions of Jews, to civilian muslims being killed due to lack of shelters *fault of their own leaders*. They call Zionism nazism, as if Zionism didn't DIRECTLY resulted from the latter in an attempt for Jewish people to rebuild their properties and their very LIVES.

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Imagine someone saying this about literally any other ethnic or national group of people

144k likes on a post of blatant antisemitism and this somehow just keeps happening over and over again with barely a peep from the anti-israel crowd and i’m supposed to think this is just a few bad apples. okay man sure