Reading the comments, it really does feel that most tankies are demagogues and roleplayers.

Isn’t Rand Paul that demagogue who was lying about taking horse tranquilizer for COVID?

Head dev of Lemmy (he actually spends most of his time supporting russian and Chinese propaganda) claims that North Korea is a great place to live.

He also supports the killing of Ukrainians and the extermination of Ukrainian culture and identity and is a huge fan of russian genocidal imperialism.

It’s all documented here:

https://sh.itjust.works/c/meanwhileongrad

White-washing genocide, supporting authoritarian regimes and ethnic cleansings, making comical, truly degenerate claims (“North Korea is a great place to live and there is a BIA conspiracy to discredit manpig leader”) has nothing to do with moderation practises.

We both know you and other tankie roaches are merely engaging in online roleplay. You almost don’t speak any other languages and have never lived in another country.

And yet you constantly chimp out with ridiculous claims and clear demagoguery.

Even your chimp outs against what Americans call liberals is performative and stupid.

As if the Diva person knows Chinese or has ever lived there (or even visited).

If it was russia or China starving people in Gaza, tankie roach would claim that “genocide isn’t happening”, “the BIA is seeding fake reports about starvation!” and “this is the best deradicalization program in history!”.

What a bunch of lying, disgusting degenerates.

They are going to take him out.

Where do you see Felix (or the poster you refer to) claim that all Jews are responsible for the actions of Israel?

I think you dug yourself in a hole with a reflexive, uncritical accusation of anti-Semitism.

Although to be fair that seems to the primarily MO of a large portion of individuals/institutions that bring up anti-Semitism.

Yes, the “boy who cried wolf” idiom comes to mind.

I can understand the German media (histrocial factora) and the US media (corruption with respect to Israeli interests), but why are media resources are so uncritical about alleged claims of anti-Semitism?

Sure, I addressed that, although maybe I wasn’t clear. The point about wanting to remove diplomatic recognition of Israel is just an example.

In other ethnic/cultural groups, it is possible to be ashamed of a big element of your group that happens to be systematically evil. This is not discrimination or prejudice.

I really do think anti-Semitism is starting to lose its meaning.

The title and framing is misleading.

There are other comparable examples with indirect cultural (even ethnic) links where no one in their right mind would call it anti-[ethnicity/relation/culture/social group].

Honestly, anti-semintism is way over used. There is of course real anti-semitism, but these days it is increasingly becoming a polemical device to try and shut down legitimate criticism and actions.

If you want your country to drop diplomatic recognition of Israel, is that anti-Semitism?

I would argue it is not anti-Semitism. If you have any connection (ethnic links, multi year exposure) to a country that has suffered from colonialism, you will have a different perspective.

Opposition to “British Burma” is not discrimination or hatred of UK. It’s wanting to manage your own country.

I have zero trust in Trump and generally I think he is a corrupt hoodlum, but I do wonder if putin treating him like the ignorant American that he is rubbed him off in the wrong way.

In addition to recognizing Palestine, all countries should drop recognition of Israel and recognise the presence of Israelis in Palestine as being illegitimate.

The Israelis will cry about anti-semitism, but I think more and more people in the world recognize this trick and are not going to buy it.

Corbyn is a genuine committed supporter of russian genocidal imperialism!

He is the perfect example of preformative and retrograde western “leftism”.

He is essentially signalling to other pro-crime Americans: “if you go after me, you will never get a chance to steal and benefit from corruption!”

Dark humour, but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Israeli use some variation of this.

I believe we are already seeing Israeli propganadist trying to bring up polemics about how Hamas is genocidal in order to distract people from the real genocide done by the Israelis in Gaza.

Yes, that would be smart and just move.

Both far right and centre right.

The primary enabler of Israeli crimes is the American public. Not every single person of course, from my time living in the US, both the local far right and centre right are complicit.

Realisticly, the best way forward would be to end the recognition of the Israel colonialist regime, ban all economic, logistical and communication links and start catching and prosecuting war criminals.

But for most countries, this is not possible, since America will annihilate you economically if you take such actions.

And the responsibility for this lies with the American public. And this includes the centre right.

The Israelis are increasingly getting to the point where collective responsibility would be a justified approach to their systematic mass killings and abuse of civilians.

But you do take any scepticism of A16Z as an immediate sign that one is a “purity obsessed leftist”. This is not reasonable.

OK, so you are saying that I started lying in this thread, I actually believe substack is full of Nazis, but I decided to temporarily back down from this view in order to try and “win” this discussion.

You can agree that substack is not full of Nazis and it’s a viable platform, while also recognising that they are an American tech company that received money from a VC firm that is commited to authoritarianism, corruption and criminal schemes.

What’s your logic here? I am genuinely curious.

You are ranting against “left orthodoxy on purity”, yet you yourself are demanding acceptance of A16Z specifically.