• Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    I dont oppose donald trump because im a democrat or a liberal.

    I oppose donald trump because im not a fucking psychopath.

    Opposing donald trump is so obvious, so common sense, such a bare-minimum, fundamental-level, being a human 101 position that if it isn’t immediately self-evident to you after learning the basic facts, your problem is, much, much deeper than whatever ideology or bias or prejudice you might happen to have. There’s something wrong with you as a person.

    • mad_lentil@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      Even most of the conservative politicians in the US seemed to take this approach, until he started winning (read also: liberal politicians failed to counter his right-wing populism).

  • anticurrent@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    According to a recent pen state uni poll, 80% of Israeli society support the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza. If we follow the reasoning in this post, the Israeli society is kinda locco ◑﹏◐

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      Either that, or the psychological abuse techniques that militaries do to turn normal people into obedient soldiers are effective. Israel has compulsory military service, so nearly all of the population of the country went through it. That’s how they get that 80% support.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    I mean… I’ve been saying similar stuff for a while. I’m not on anyone’s side specifically. I live far enough away to not be affected by the situation and for my opinion to have no affect on the situation. Simply put: it’s not useful for me to have an opinion, so I don’t have one.

    HOWEVER: I always have and always will oppose the unnecessary death and cruelty happening. Doesn’t matter where, or who, or when… If some group is killing another group, I don’t like that.

    The only good reason to use violence on a global stage is to stop violence; aka self defense. Like what’s happening to the Ukraine, as a simple example. The Ukraine is well within their right to defend themselves and their land from a foreign invader. I am opposed to the Russian army marching across international borders and seizing land by killing whomever tries to stop them and/or whomever is there. Not cool. I dislike Russia’s actions there. I don’t dislike Russia’s or Russians, I don’t have a problem with any individual person. I have a problem with the decision that was made at the highest levels of government to invade.

    Same thing here. I could not care less which side is comprised of what people’s of what culture or religion… I just don’t like that one group is invading/bombing/killing the other. I have no animosity towards those defending themselves, trying to not get killed…

    I don’t know why everyone needs to make every opinion on the matter a question of race, religion, or whatever. I don’t care, just stop murdering eachother.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    This astrology grifter is phony AF. She suddenly became political a few years ago by promoting the invasion of ukraine. Peak russian asset.

    Notice the implied anti-semitism and missing zionism. It’s a pattern.

    Please don’t promote this crap just because it sounds “good”. Free Palestine.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      This astrology grifter is phony AF.

      Ad hominem. Doesn’t invalidate the words above.

      Notice the implied anti-semitism and missing zionism.

      I noticed no implied anti-semitism. I noticed explicit criticism of the Israeli government.

      Please don’t promote this crap just because it sounds “good”.

      True. Promote it to highlight the genocide that is currently occurring.

      Free Palestine.

      Agreed, but I suspect yours isn’t genuine.

      • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        “She suddenly became political a few years ago by promoting the invasion of ukraine. Peak russian asset.”

        Is it an ad hominem when you include the rest which explains the claim made you excerpted?

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Yes. Any attacking of the messenger to deflect from the message is ad hominem.

          And trying to move the attention from Israeli genocide onto a tangential topic is called forum sliding.

  • vorb0te@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    I only know her from claiming there will be no Russian invasion while it already had begun. Later, she is peddling Russian propaganda. Moron.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    One thing I’ve noticed is that many people will accuse you of supporting genocide if you say anything positive about Israel (and by that I mean anything not explicitly negative), or fail to condemn anybody who has failed to condemn Israel, or if you don’t spit immediately after saying the word “Israel”. Same if you point out that the Biden administration in November was actively negotiating the ceasefire that went into effect a day or two after Trump’s inauguration, even as people were calling Harris a nazi and refusing to vote for her because she was “complicit”. It’s like people expect world politics and diplomacy to operate at the same speed as meme outrage.

  • Genius@lemmy.zipEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    You shouldn’t blame Zionism on a mental illness. Zionism is a choice to be awful.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      I think all fascism is a mental illness.

      Luckily, there is a treatment, as demonstrated by one of its most famous sufferers. It can even be self administered!

      • Genius@lemmy.zipEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        I didn’t say it was faith either. It’s not mental illness or faith.

        • Zink@programming.devEnglish
          19·
          2 days ago

          To be fair the OP didn’t call it mental illness either. They said something was wrong with them as a person.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Are bad/lacking morals a mental illness? Seriously, at what point do we draw the line? It’s a curious topic.

      • Genius@lemmy.zipEnglish
        15·
        2 days ago

        No, they’re not. When psychologists become the arbiters of correct morality and pathologise disagreement, society is fucked.

        You’re thinking of what happens when good people make the rules. But what if people like Freud were in charge of calling certain moral values illnesses? We already have enough problems with things like homosexuality being called a mental illness. What if Trump Derangement Syndrome were in the DSM?

    • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      That’s not what she does. Being a bad person or even being a psychopath is not considered a mental illness.

      • Genius@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        In a certain sense you’re right; psychop*th is Greek for “suffering soul”. It’s supposed to just refer to the abstract idea of mental illness. But in practice, it’s a slur against ASPD. And even if that weren’t the case, using the Greek word for mentally ill person as an insult is disgusting behaviour.

  • Vazz (He/Him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Isn’t being against war and genocide the same as anti-imperialism? I hate how saying “War is bad” has become so controversial and extremist.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    I think there will be consequences for Israel’s crimes, just not today.

    Israel is destroying its reputation and its future with its current actions. Yet no power in the world can stop them today, because they have waay too many weapons.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      I think there will be consequences for innocent Jews who have nothing to do with the Israeli genocide. This sort of behavior gives ammo and a perception of legitimacy to antisemites. Israel is making things harder for Jews worldwide for years to come.

    • mad_lentil@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Have there been consequences for the United States’ or Canada’s genocides against Indigenous peoples? Not really.

      People can just get away with things unless you make them pay for it.

      EDIT case in point, 200 years from now we could be celebrating the jewel of democracy Israel, while “acknowledging its troubled past” but you’re still doing this over the bones of the people your predecessors slaughtered. I’m not even saying it wouldn’t be genuine, like people today in the US and Canada bemoan the actions of previous colonizers. But the fact of what happened remains immutable. The slaughter happened, and the people who committed it accomplished their aims. They got away with it.

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I think there will be consequences for Israel’s crimes, just not today.

      Possibly, but that won’t help the dead kids. The focus must be on stopping the genocide as quickly as possible. Finding and punishing the perps can wait.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.worldEnglish
    119·
    2 days ago

    This will be a terrible mark on human history. When the world watched as internet personalities sailed into Gaza to provide aid. When we did nothing as women and children starved to death before our eyes.

    Who will be ignored next?

    • Gorilladrums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      2 days ago

      Who will be ignored next?

      • Sudan
      • Myanmar
      • Armenia
      • Afghanistan
      • Tibet

      These aren’t next, these are already forgotten even though they’re catastrophes. Hell, even Ukraine is being forgotten even though it’s one the biggest wars in 21st century. When India and Pakistan looked like they were about to go to war, this Israel/Palestine war was also pushed to the back of people’s minds.

      I think this is the just the nature of humans. People want to think they’re noble and righteous, but they won’t actually do anything, and the moment a new war starts they’ll move on to that because it’s new and we have short attention spands.

        • Gorilladrums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          You are entirely correct. People like to think the war is over, but it’s still very much on going.

      • untorquer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        I think it’s media bias and sensationalism. It happens when journalism has a profit incentive and is owned by 4 or 5 oligarchs/ultra-wealthy.

        • Gorilladrums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          I think that’s a contributing factor, but I don’t think it’s the only one. We live in the age of social media where anybody anywhere can post anything at any time. Anybody can be a journalist and post pictures, videos, or give live updates as events are happening. In fact we have a lot of people like this from just about every conflict in the world who give us updates just about everyday. Despite this, things like wars are still treated as trends by people. When the fad gets old, people get bored and move on to the next new thing.

    • EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.spaceEnglish
      83·
      2 days ago

      My entire school life there was so much pontification over what “you” would do during segregation or the Holocaust or slavery?

      Turns out my entire family would grow a toothbrush moustaches and start painting vegan landscapes while I kept working because the cost of living rises more than wages and I long for the reprieve of death.

    • CriticalThought@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      Who will be ignored next?

      I hate to say it, but there hasn’t been a time in modern history where there weren’t women and children starving while the rest of the world did nothing.

    • AreaSIX @lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Jesus, how much have the Zionists modified that Wiki article? A text supposedly about how Israelis dehumanize Palestinians repeatedly starts by reciting the issue with Palestinians and Muslims dehumanizing Jews? This is the first mention of the details of dehumanization:

      “Among Palestinians, Israelis have been referred to as pigs, dogs, and bloodsucking vampires, while in Israeli discourse references to Palestinians as savage animals and or repugnant critters has also been attested, and at least once, protesting Gazans have been described as mere ammunition weaponized by their “cannibal” leaders.”

      And this is the first paragraph under “Background”:

      “Even though Jews, like a number of other religious minorities, Christians included, were accorded protected status in Islamic societies, the use of abusive stereotypes was not uncommon, some of them were grounded in Quranic and early scholarly traditions.”

      Is this about Israeli dehumanization of Palestinians? WTF? Let’s always start by reciting how Muslims maybe kind of deserve it, or maybe bring the dehumanization on themselves.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      No but you antisemites just dont understand! Exterminating the hamas people is the culture of the jewish people¹. So really, by stopping the ‘genocide’, youre actually doing genocide against a proud 5000 year old culture! Youre literally hitler, who was actually just an innocent tool duped by hamas btw.

      ¹those weak subhuman diaspora ‘jews’ may try to mislead you about that. Clearly this is just internalized antisemitism.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Because western ideology is ultimately ultranationalism, they will always support their country against others.

  • Charlxmagne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    You’ll find this kind of bs from every extremist faction, “oh you support Gaza, immigration, human rights and welfare, you must be a woke tankie communist” and “oh you’re not an anti-capitalist far-left anti-money extremist commie tankie, you must be a dirty fascist” basically a summary or american politics🤦‍♂️ 🤡

    Edit: the downvotes are just proving my point lol I’m literally saying the exact same thing said in the screenshot. There’s not just two opposing extremes there’s nuance to things, don’t fight stupidity with stupidity, just cause magas fascist and extreme doesn’t mean I should go find the equally opposing extreme.

    I don’t disagree with Trump just cause he’s Trump, I disagree with his actions and the bs he says, and based off of those actions I think he’s a knobhead and do not like him. When he pardoned Ross Ulbricht I didn’t say, well it was done by Trump so it was evil. Do I think he did it for his own personal motives or gain and votershare? Yes, but I do believe he deserved freedom, and Trump did it for the wrong reasons.

    Americans don’t get it’s not the centre of the universe sometimes.

    • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I’m including a link from a news report released yesterday at the bottom of this comment.

      I’ll save you from actually clicking on it and watching this horrific video, and just let you know, it’s a 5 yo girl in Gaza trapped in a burning building after it was bombed by the Israeli army. The building is a former school the girl had been sheltering in along with her parents, younger sibling, and several others.

      She screams in pain as she desperately tries to escape from the flames, and people outside scream for help as they watch her running around inside. Luckily a fireman was able to help her escape, but she was horribly burned and lost her entire family. The reporter later finds her in a hospital several weeks later, trying to recover and crying out for her mother.

      If you still feel from that description that ignoring what is happening right now is acceptable or you’re pretending it can somehow be justified in any context, you should make yourself watch the video. Keep in mind this is one of countless stories like it.

      It’s extremely disturbing because what’s happening is literally extreme and should make any human capable of empathy uncomfortable. It’s easier to ignore it and pretend it’s not happening, but that’s always the case with genocide.

      If watching the video and knowing all of this still changes nothing for you, then you should also know you are literally showing callous and unemotional traits associated with psychopathy. That’s not BS, it’s a fact of reality.

      https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010207629/gaza-israeli-strike-palestinian-girl-silhouette-fire.html

      • Charlxmagne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        BRO, did I not say I was staunchly against Zionism. I explicitly said that, I mentioned how in the screenshot the person making the post said that she isn’t against Israel because she’s a communist, anti-Jews, anarchist or far-left, but because she’s against genocide. Fuck Israel and Zionism but not Jews, I could not make that any more clear, I’m saying extremists always believe that when people disagree with anything at all they automatically believe they are extreme in the opposite direction.

        • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          I replied to your original comment before you added the additional information, and apologize if I misunderstood. Just going by your shorter original comment though, it seemed like you were arguing that OP pointing out the fact that ignoring/taking a neutral stance/downplaying or denying that what is happening right now is psychopathic, is somehow itself an extremist stance to take.

          Just to be 100% clear, absolutely fuck antisemitism, but OP’s post doesn’t say anything remotely antisemitic.

          The argument is simply that regardless of politics, identity, history, or anything else, as humans, knowing what is happening to other humans in Gaza right now in this moment, we can’t acknowledge reality and pretend that it’s anything other than genocide.

          That shouldn’t be an extreme opinion, but somehow people will repeatedly argue that it is.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I agree with all this but I feel like Americans are the last people who should lead such a movement. To so many of us, the ones your country has raped and destroyed without apology, i roll my eyes at Americans calling for the end of colonization, genocides and war. It’s like you guys think if you go hard on this war, it will forgive all the centuries of genocide. My people were treated like refuse by Americans for decades, then without apology or reparations , white American kids are now preaching at my indigenous ass about privilege and genocide.

    You can’t even call out the hypocrisy or you get hated on. I’ve never experienced as much hate and racism towards my culture from the left, as I have this past 2 years. You expect that shit from the right, but the American left went insane this cycle too

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      The people that treated your people like refuse are not the same people as the ones protesting against atrocities.

      Lumping a whole population together and stereotyping them is wrong, no matter who you’re targeting with your stereotypes.

      • Katana314@lemmy.world
        English
        2·
        1 day ago

        It certainly gets complicated when America is such a melting pot, and it’s consistently the white overlords who engineer those atrocities.

        And yes, many, but not all, of the white underlings choose to give them their full support. As a white underling throwing them the middle finger, I have no idea why.

      • mathemachristian [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        Some leftists and others fall back on the old stereotype of powerhungry Reds who pursue power for powers sake without regard for actual social goals. If true, one wonders why, in country after country, these Reds side with the poor and powerless often at great risk and sacrifice to themselves, rather than reaping the rewards that come with serving the well-placed.

        For decades, many left-leaning writers and speakers in the United States have felt obliged to establish their credibility by indulging in anticommunist and anti-Soviet genuflection, seemingly unable to give a talk or write an article or book review on whatever political subject without injecting some anti-Red sideswipe. The intent was, and still is, to distance themselves from the Marxist-Leninist Left.

        …

        Purging the Left of communists became a longstanding practice, having injurious effects on various progressive causes. For instance, in 1949 some twelve unions were ousted from the CIO because they had Reds in their leadership. The purge reduced CIO membership by some 1.7 million and seriously weakened its recruitment drives and political clout. In the late 1940s, to avoid being “smeared” as Reds, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a supposedly progressive group, became one of the most vocally anticommunist organizations.

        The strategy did not work. ADA and others on the Left were still attacked for being communist or soft on communism by those on the Right. Then and now, many on the Left have failed to realize that those who fight for social change on behalf of the less-privileged ele¬ ments of society will be Red-baited by conservative elites whether they are communists or not. For ruling interests, it makes little dif¬ ference whether their wealth and power is challenged by “communist subversives” or “loyal American liberals.” All are lumped together as more or less equally abhorrent.

        …

        Sorely lacking within the U.S. Left is any rational evaluation of the Soviet Union, a nation that endured a protracted civil war and a multinational foreign invasion in the very first years of its existence, and that two decades later threw back and destroyed the Nazi beast at enormous cost to itself. In the three decades after the Bolshevik revolution, the Soviets made industrial advances equal to what capitalism took a century to accomplish — while feeding and schooling their children rather than working them fourteen hours a day as capitalist industrialists did and still do in many parts of the world. And the Soviet Union, along with Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic, and Cuba, provided vital assistance to national liberation movements in countries around the world, including Nelson Mandelas African National Congress in South Africa.

        • Parenti “Blackshirts and Reds”