JacquelineThe ADL sure gets offended when people talk about Operation Epstein Fury
"anti Zionist left wing Jews are actually antisemitic" says the organization that defended actual South African Apartheid, Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute in public, and now a pedophile Israeli spy who had ties to Ehud Barak.
Drop the ADL.
I personally consider the ADL a fascist front.
If you cannot forcefully stand against Trump, if you cannot stand against the likes of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir with absolute moral clarity, then you are a villain. Directly architecting the precedent for WW3 and the Holocaust 2.0 will always be deplorable no matter who does it.
If they make it legal to essentially make a ghetto again, and then liquidate that ghetto, then they will roll it out elsewhere.
And it will happen closer and closer to Amerika, until every major city trump doesn't like is under siege by ice stormtroopers.
It can and will happen here if you allow it to happen elsewhere.
The world let the Nazis bomb the town of Guernica.
The world let the Nazis build Auschwitz.
The world let the Nazis seize Czechoslovakia.
The world allowed every bit of fascist atrocity to happen until WW2.
The world didn't care that Hitler and his gang of thugs were mass murdering people across the European continent until it reached their doorstep. And that right there is why they murdered millions of people. Because people were too cowardly, too afraid to use a little violence when necessary, to get the fascists to fucking stop.
The people of europe were content to let Jewish people, slavic people, polish people, gay people, disabled people, Communists, etc die until it was themselves on the chopping block.
The world did not learn its lesson. They did not learn from the destruction of dozens of major European cities, from the extreme human costs of the war against Nazism, from the introduction of the horrific atomic power that haunts the world.
If you declared war on the Nazis when they were still weak, then you would not need to defeat them when they are powerful.
But the only people to do this are the damned commies. And nobody listens to the commies. In fact, many people support the fascists because they believe the commies to be worse.
The thing is that if the world lets America get away with blowing up school kids, conspiring to annex Alberta, and going after immigrants here, then they will do more. They will eye Europe, they will eye China, they will go further.
As one more thing I will point out: Trump is trying to take Canada. Watch this
https://www.ft.com/content/11dc2140-6a5d-4536-b766-52c920affcc7
Alathea@burnoutqueen I told my cis friends that Trump was eventually going to invade parts of Canada, and they laughed. And maybe they're right; it's a ridiculous idea. But so far, the biggest predictor of what Trump is going to do has been listening to what he says he's going to do.
Peter Brown@Poljack @burnoutqueen yes he started with an easy one in Venezuela and now he has upped the ante in Iran.
This is just a dry run for Canada.
This is just a dry run for Canada.
David Fleetwood - RG Admin@burnoutqueen Commies won't either. They pretend to care but conspired against the Iron Front in Germany, and the USSR was content with Molotov-Ribbentrop until they got attacked. Here in Portugal they spend their time justifying Putin's actions.
Anarchists are the ones who have consistently recognized the fascist threat from day one and still do today.
@reflex I mean, the fascists of the modern day don't care to distinguish.
Also, I just want to note the communists of Germany were literally the first people the Nazis arrested. The anarchists weren't really in their radar as much as the communists were in terms of political suppression, even if it were only because of numbers. And yes, the communists did oppose hitler in street battles and the like.
And yeah, I mean, the leadership of the Soviet Union sucked quite a bit. I'm not going to deny that
@reflex I'm not an anarchist just fyi. It's not that anarchists are the only people to see the fascist threat.
@burnoutqueen I'm not an anarchist either, but historically only anarchists seem to consistently and without apology or excuse see fascism and authoritarianism as a threat from a group perspective. And they tend to call it out years or decades before anyone else.
@burnoutqueen I'm not disputing that the Communists are the first ones they go after. It's why it's so dumb that they played with fire like that. It's why it's dumb they keep pretending Putin is Lenin rather than Tsar Nicholas.
@reflex I totally would argue that Putin is tzar Nicholas. I would go farther and say that the US kind of put him there.
@burnoutqueen I agree with that, the US f'd up royally with the fall of the soviet union and this was the inevitable outcome whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Essentially the entirety of eastern Europe was absolutely eviscerated by fossil fuel interests and handed to various mini-fascists
Poland has gay free zones and Russia has a tzar again
@burnoutqueen Resource extraction and 'stable dictatorships' tend to be the US' preferred partners.
I would also like to point out that Ukraine is ran by corrupt oligarchs and has essentially been a buffer zone between Russia and the Western powers for the entirety of its post Soviet existence.
@burnoutqueen Sure, but invasion is invasion. Nothing justified Putin's actions. And his primary concern seems to be that his oligarchs were kicked out.
I'm not pro Putin, to be clear. I'm just pointing out that ukraine is in many senses between a rock and a hard place. They are a bargaining chip in the global geopolitics of fossil fuel, much like the middle east is
@burnoutqueen They still are. Living in Portugal. These things are problems for other people in their general estimation.
Nuwagaba Gift@burnoutqueen
Were they able to learn any lesson?
Were they able to learn any lesson?
@burnoutqueen
Sometimes the world doesn't suffer due to the violence of bad people but because of the silence of good people. Many good people stay silent and watch the bad people carryout their violence without taking any action to stop them until they become victims. How can we create a world where everyone stands for one another?
Sometimes the world doesn't suffer due to the violence of bad people but because of the silence of good people. Many good people stay silent and watch the bad people carryout their violence without taking any action to stop them until they become victims. How can we create a world where everyone stands for one another?
very normal person@burnoutqueen it was so wild seeing them campaigning against Mamdani using the most islamophobic talking points imaginable
@mook they were campaigning against him using the only rhetoric that far right extremists know: vile bigotry.
Because the far right knows who they are fighting for. They're fighting for the right of the ruling oligarchy to oppress working class people for all eternity. But they can't say it if they want to get folks with a normal income on their side, so they offer the only thing they can offer: contempt for working class people, just pre-digested for white petty bourgeoisie audiences