“I’m well aware that Russia invaded Nazi Germany”

Everytime I try to explain the link between anime/manga/video games and the government’s role in whitewashing Japan’s war crimes and brutal history I get people looking at me like a psychopath.

How hard is it for people to understand that the Japanese government has used art and especially anime to cultivate an image of Japanese history that completely ignores their crimes against humanity. Ffs we’re seeing it happen with the entity and the Japanese government even admits to funding anime and forcing authors to abide by their narrative. America does it too.

I’m surprised I still see pushback against the idea that virtually all isntraelis are like this. Morally reprehensible and depraved beyond rehabilitation.

Fair. I’ve seen enough however, I don’t anticipate that China will do anything to actually address American encroachment on their region and constant dismissal of their interests until it’s too late.

To get him to ease the tariffs, they need bargaining power.

My honest take: XHS is right. China is dominated by neoliberals and has zero intention of challenging the US’s order on any front (see BRICS and dedollarization) because it benefits from this order.

So they suspended the ban because ultimately it’s good for China and they really don’t care about the internationalism portion of communism. That other nations will be destroyed, headed by anti-china puppet regimes, anti-china terrorists will be funded and flourish as a result means nothing to them because these aren’t directly affecting china’s growth atm.

This is hubris that will likely cost them dearly in the future, but again the cpc isn’t thinking about this bc they’ve got neoliberals heading the government.

Well for starters: that trade between Russia and China was going to shrink and that China wasn’t going to commit to dedollarization 5 years ago bc that would require they give up their net exporter status and attempt to replace the US as a market. I’m heavily paraphrasing to the point where I (most likely) have failed to capture the nuance in their takes, but idk about linking them here. I feel like that’s weird and that they may not appreciate having their comments copy pasted w/o context.

I don’t have a hexbear account (and I don’t want to make one), so maybe someone could DM them and ask them for their take.

Can someone invite xiaohongshu to comment on this? They’re on hexbear and they’ve pretty much predicted everything related to china’s economy months in advance.

I think their insight would be really valuable, and grounding for the site.

Yeah, thank you for the discussion. I’ll read more closely next time

In regards to zionism honestly all arguments about “80% jews support it” miss the forest for the trees. Is there something innate in Jews that predisposes them towards genocide? This is the actual question. And you have two answers: either it’s a yes and so you must genocide them before they genocide you (the mysticist idealist pov), or it’s a no and there can be judaism without zionism (the materialist pov).

Right, so genocide is never the answer for any reason whatsoever. Period. That idea validates genocide as a means to an end/ “self defense”, and quite frankly sounds like a Zionist argument trying to defend why Jews/Judaism absolutely requires genocide. We can point out societal problems that different groups of peoples have (and every nation on earth that has ever and will ever exist had/has/will have problems) in an effort to get them addressed in a nonviolent manner. There is only 1 answer if we are being honest and two answers if we’re being fascists.

Contrary to popular belief: it’s actually in the material interest for Jews to be Zionists the same way it’s a material interest for whites to be white supremacists. Absolutely being a piece of shit has its material benefits, but you shouldn’t do that because it’s unethical and morally reprehensible. Similarly, everyone here is a communist because it’s the most ethical and morally good thing to support; not because productive forces line go up.

The reason you see so many anti-zionist/non-zionist Jews isn’t because they’re afraid of the " material consequences" of being a genocide supporter, it’s because genocide is disgusting and any good hearted individual with a hint of sympathy and compassion will obviously be against it. Jew or otherwise.

I’m talking about the diaspora, not the entity. This is what I mean, the assumption that “Jewish” meant “Israeli” despite the previous sentence starting with “Outside of Israel”.

I apologize for not reading your comment properly. I was under the impression that we were still talking about the settlers.

I agree with you, stratification of demographics within the Jewish community (outside of the entity) would absolutely reveal patterns related to class and, especially, age.

The people who do support these things make themselves incredibly obvious very quickly, it’s easy to tell without having to guess.

There are a lot of good, polite, and well mannered people that support genocide. It’s like saying every maga dumbass is frothing at the mouth white trash that collects welfare and huffs paint. A good portion of maga look like decent people until you find out more about them.

I didn’t make myself clear in my previous comment. I wasn’t trying to conflate the entity with Jews/Judaism in general.

If you dig deeper into the polling, you’ll see large differences by age group and financial situation among Jewish people.

When it’s 98% of the Jewish population of the entity, I think we can safely say that it’s gonna look the same across stratifications. You don’t get differences in demographics when the overall is 98%.

Liberals do this

This is just no true Scotsman fallacy; yes there are absolutely communists that do this. Anyway my comment wasn’t just referring to communists alone, it was referring to everyone against the genocide.

Non-zionists and anti-zionist jews exist in large numbers

I’m not doubting this, I’m just saying that people really need to point out that Jews supporting genocide is a massive problem within the Jewish community. I think I’m being generous when I say that for every non-zionist/antizionist jew there is a genocide supporting/Zionist jew. That’s not something I see addressed the way it needs to be, and the excessive coddling is absurd. Especially when other groups have been questioned significantly more for significantly less.

This is really the crux of the issue. For some reason people on the left are ready to give Jews (not all of them) a pass for being genocide supporters simply because they’re Jewish. The same cannot be said of their attitude towards other genocide supporters who are of a different race.

It’s like the dumbasses who think the problem is netanyahu and not the 98% of Jewish isntraelis who:

1. Make up majority of the occupation soldiers/genocidaires

2. Consistently vote for the same government they have no problem removed about and blaming the entire genocide on

3. Overwhelmingly support the extermination of a nation of people

It’s just pathetic and quite frankly I’m sick and tired of hearing the excuses. B.E is breath of fresh air in this regard.

No one wants to name the actual problem.

The way to approach these movements:

1. Any kind of imagery/ slogans from pop-media.

2. Any kind of imagery/ slogans from other movements happening across the globe with no clear connection between the two. Example: protests/ riots for “democracy” in some eastern European country using the exact same rhetoric, slogans, and imagery used in a similar movement happening in a North African country. This is different from BLM occuring in the US and BLM occuring in France since both nations share a connection via police brutality against black/brown Africans and other racial minorities.

3. Vague demands and/or no clear plan of action after the demands are met.

4. Unwarranted violence especially against police forces or military personnel.

5. Protestors/movement/rioters have no leader or clear leadership.

6. The protest/riot happens out of nowhere. Usually if there is a major problem then this problem would have been known/protested several times prior. It would make sense, in the regard, that protests would progressively get larger, more organized, and more violent over the course of time. Essentially if you see a protest that gets big quickly, violent quickly, without a history of progression then you should question its authenticity. An example that comes to mind are the Hong Kong protests.

Any of these points being met warrants high suspicion of the protestors real reasons for protesting.

Oh.

I feel like Iranians would quickly find out why those guys would absolutely ruin their lives. If they come into power, there will be buyer’s remorse in the first hour. Like a combo of Millei/jolani but somehow worse.

unfortunately the opposition has been successful into turning support for palestine into a political issue where if you support palestine you’re a hack

Who is the opposition? The moderates?

I know it’s in Arabic. But it was written by Iranians. I would like to know if there is a student movement in Iran dedicated to communicatng with stabs about this. It’s necessary to bridge gaps between Iranians and Arabs of we want to succeed.

Farsi is the biggest language spoken in Iran. Maybe reach out to hexbear users, there might be some Iranian/Persian comrades there. If we don’t have a few here, that is.

Interesting. Do we know more about this letter? Students of what university specifically? Is there a movement associated with this letter?

They literally couldn’t even if they tried tho