Can’t make shit like this up…

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    May be don’t wave that flag as you murder toddlers and people won’t feel the need to step on it.

    Zionism is a shield for white supremacy.

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      That’s the point. By waving a Star of David while they do genocide, they accomplish two things: anyone who desecrates this flag gets smeared as an antisemite and actual antisemites use this as proof for the basis of their own hatred. They stoke antisemitism and fears of antisemitism, then this feedback loop makes Jewish people in other countries feel unsafe so some become settlers to escape antisemitism. It’s all a grift.

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

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    This is how you can tell the Israeli government is pissed they don’t have any ties to China.