[-] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

prototype sequel to super mario kart including a haunted house themed track that included a really narrow winding shortcut that I managed to cross (though it was apparently meant as a allegory for “the long road it takes to make it to Israel”???

Red shells are Hamas

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I have seen libs unironically claim that Holocaust denial was state policy in the USSR.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Clearly they fell for one of those comic covers that shows Superman doing something that looks bad out of context

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with this.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago

If you judge "tankies" by our enemies, we come out looking pretty good.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago

These people make it so easy for the far right to spin up antisemitic (actually antisemitic, not this bullshit) conspiracy theories.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

And perhaps the most interesting implication in all of this: this international, loosely connected network of secret gentiles are portraying Jews in the best possible light by behaving as caring, humanitarian, antiapartheid peace activists… whereas ‘real’ Jews oppose a ceasefire, support the forced separation between Palestinians and others, and prevent aid from reaching them… I’ll let you draw your own conclusions from that one.

Remember that a core belief of liberalism is that indiscriminate mass murder of an entire population for being insufficiently progressive is not only justified, but that opposing the same is an endorsement of all of the beliefs they imagine their targets to hold. It's why they think "queers for Palestine = chickens for KFC" is some kind of own.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I did a double-take at that 5-digit timestamp in the URL

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

So the Trump administration wants to do a Khmer Rouge, but on Medicaid recipients instead of intellectuals?

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[-] [email protected] 74 points 4 days ago

but they’ve also mentioned they’ve not met a single homeless trans person.

Oh good, shipping homeless people out of sight and out of mind has worked then, glory to the People’s Republic of China!

Literally just describing what the West does and ascribing it to China.

[-] [email protected] 105 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

As usual, leftists have championed a doomed cause

Algeria: Liberated.
Vietnam: Liberated.
India: Liberated.
Zimbabwe: Liberated.
South Africa: Liberated.
Ethiopia: Liberated.
Burkina Faso: Liberated.
Mexico: Liberated.
Cuba: Liberated.
Countless other former colonies: Liberated, liberated, liberated.

But Contrapoints has said Palestine will never be free, so no-choice

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This randomly popped into my head from my childhood, I searched for it online, and apparently it's not even that uncommon of a Christian take today.

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Toxic masculinity is a fuck, the standard of fearlessness and dominance that patriarchy demands you uphold is unattainable, accept and embrace your fear as part of yourself.

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  • Weapons that keep killing long after the war they were used for is over (the Space Jockey isn't just dead, they're mummified, and there's no indication that there are any others of their kind around)
  • Lay hidden and dormant, leading to innocent people stumbling on them by accident and getting killed (Nostromo crew finds the eggs and doesn't know what the fuck 'til it's too late, colony LV-426 gets wiped out because it was unknowingly built on top of a nest)
  • They render entire areas unsafe to inhabit
  • Aliens has often been considered an allegory for the Vietnam War, and that left enormous amounts of UXO across Southeast Asia that still persists today.
  • The Weyland-Yutani and corporate profiteering aspect is a bit fuzzier, but I think there's a case to be made that their attempts to weaponize xenomorphs and the catastrophes this causes mirror the real-world military-industrial complex.
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I recognize that it's speaking to an underlying emotional truth - something I've known on a gut level for a while now but can't quite put my finger on. I know it's not, as I've seen liberals argue, that it's an excuse to legitimize violence against them (their own violence is all the justification one needs) or some kind of "No True Scotsman" argument. There's something deeper and more fundamental, something to do with how the nature of their class position causes them to set themselves apart from and above the vast majority of humanity. Anyone who can help me put this into words?

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Link

Incidentally, I stumbled on this while looking for a Marx quote about how representatives of the old feudal order falsely positioned themselves as allies to the lower classes by attacking the excesses of industrial capitalism. If anyone has that quote, please let me know.

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