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[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Libs get real offended if you just flatly say that Israel does not have a right to defend itself.

Yes, obviously, what Israel is now doing is in no way defensive but taking their dishonest framing and directly rejecting it is good too.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

israel doesn't even have the right to exist

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No country has a right to exist

People have a right to exist

Countries do not.

After WWII the allies dismantled Nazi Germany and Japan because the whole world was like "you don't get to exist." Not like that anyway.

Zionist propagandists try to force the repetition of that line "Israel has a right to exist... Israel has a right to defend itself..." so that people never question it or rather can't question it (they become children and start calling you names if you do). It's just more bullshit and they always tie the state of Israel back to "the Jews" broadly, across the world. As if saying "Israel doesn't have a right to exist" is the same as "Jews don't have a right to exist." Obviously it is not the same. Not even in the same realm. Like if I said Vatican City doesn't have a right to exist no one would assume I meant "genocide all the Catholics!" I mean the entire thing is just moronic. Ethnostates are fucking bad.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Let's be honest here: at least half of Nazi Germany didn't get dismantled.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Denazification but only enough for plausible deniability

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My absolute favorite is to hit them with even more religious bullshit. "As a devout Catholic I cannot deny Jesus of Nazareth is the rightful King of Israel and his kingdom will reign through the hearts of all; it transcends borders, language and culture. To acknowledge another Israel would be against the practice of the church."

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'd stay away from using catholic doctrine to justify opposition to Zionism.

Like, the material is absolutely there, but that's mainly because for the last thousand years it was the primary ideological basis for European antisemitism.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We hear you, we see you, but our hands are tied.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Libs get real offended if you just flatly say that Israel does not have a right to defend itself.

liberal discourse about "rights" always misses the point anyway. Israel has always used the idea that it guarantees more "democratic rights" than the surrounding Arab states as evidence that it has measurehead SVPERIOR CVLTVRE frothingfash etc. etc.

Israel has the power to defend itself. Where does it get that power? From the imperial core states (especially NATO/EU members) pouring money into it. Why do they do that? Because settler colonies are forward operating bases for imperial core capitalists. You can set up a situation where people have "equal rights" on paper, but in practice, violence decides what the actual material conditions are. Segregation in the united states always claimed to be "separate but equal" even as black people were made to suffer systemic discrimination (and continue to be made to suffer obviously)

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (1 children)

thinking about those videos of huge crowds of settlers at Ben Gurion queueing to flee to where their other passport is from

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

my opinion about israel is the same as my opinion about the US took-restraint

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

marg bar, as the kids say

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

international-community-1international-community-2 stalin-gun-1meow-tankie The way our ghouls are behaving about this, it's gonna be hard to say we don't deserve whatever national-mourning-period happens next

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unlimited 9/11s on the first world

Unlimited 10/7s on the Zionist entity

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Unlimited 1/6s on dork libs

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It's a fun thing to say, I'm sure. But it honestly upsets me to see others so willingly and happily wish death upon others. I don't actually wish death on anyone, it's just a sad and unfortunate necessity because oppressors like Israel and the US make it the only means of self-defence.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (6 children)

i agree the "1000 october 7s" aka 1.2 million dead people part is concerning me a bit, even if it's hyperbole. like, we can recognize violence is often a necessary means to liberation without rooting for maximum violence?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (16 children)

It's a cope. The necessary violence is really hard psychologically, people loop around to becoming hyperviolent as a way to deal with it.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i agree the "1000 october 7s" aka 1.2 million dead people

so-far dead settlers

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

no more half measures walter

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

idk why I don't hear anybody saying this but "from the river to the sea" is compatible with a one state solution of reintegration a la South Africa. Yes there will be internal violence. Yes the settlers will run and hide in gated communities within gated communities. Yes it will take over 100 years to become something resembling a normal country.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You’re cute for thinking that the solution for Israel will be as mild as it was for South Africa. The settlers will be removed and that won’t be pretty, they cannot exist peacefully with the Palestinians they treated as subhuman for more than 80 fucking years, it’s worse than South Africa, Apartheid pales in comparison to what’s happening in Palestine, Palestine is the equivalent of an open air concentration camp. And after that the Americans are next on the chopping block in terms of decolonial struggle and they will probably get nuked if I’m making predictions here. The future is going to be violent, as communists we can only assume world war three is inevitable and we should take individual action to insulate ourselves from the literal fallout. Comrades, I have a bunker full of beans, if you ask nicely, you can have them.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (5 children)

it’s worse than South Africa, Apartheid pales in comparison to what’s happening in Palestine, Palestine is the equivalent of an open air concentration camp

Fully agree this is far more extreme than South Africa, plus South Africa was <15% white, while a one state Palestine would be around 50% Jewish (and far more Palestinians than Israelis are under 18). Imo, the ideal coexistence would be administered by an eastern/global southern power, but however it's brought about, you'd need to abolish the current fascist "law of return" and give the Palestinian diaspora (over 6 million people, mostly in Jordan and Syria) right of return, reparations, etc.

Obviously deport all first generation settlers (>20% of Israel's current population) back to America and Europe, but it gets more complicated for a lot of people born there, and wouldn't really solve much imo. For one, roughly half or more of Israeli Jews are Arab Jews/Mizrahi (which would surprise some people seeing how white their government is). This is largely because, 1) intermarriage between Ashkenazis and Mizrahis has become common (if one of your parents are Ashkenazi and another Mizrahi, you're just considered Mizrahi), and 2) immigration, coercion, and kidnapping of Arab Jews from other countries was a big thing.

Mizrahis are indigenous to the Middle East, but they've essentially had their culture stolen and been forcibly assimilated. So "deporting all settlers" wouldn't solve much and would be pretty complicated to define. While Mizrahis aren't settlers, they've been indoctrinated their entire lives in the same way Ashkenazi Israelis are, and even attempt to prove themselves to the settlers by being even more fascist in a lot of cases. So unfortunately, any resistance and violence from settlers would be equally if not more likely from indigenous Mizrahis either way.

As sick and fascist as the Zionist entity is, I don't think South Africa style reintegration is a pipe dream. You have a lot of examples in history of this, look at reconciliation after the Rwandan genocide for one.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

if your opinion about israel is anything other than "death to israel, infinite october 7s on the settlers until palestine is free from the river to the sea", fuck you, your bloodline, and all your dead homies

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a centrist position

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

I thought 'bloodline' implied enough relatives to qualify for an acceptable party line

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (41 children)

To me the true tragedy is if Mesopotamia and the Levant formed into one nation like the Arabs in the area wanted, we would have Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine all as one nation. Even if 7 million Jews moved there, they would not be able to dominate their partitioned region. The colonial mandates of the late 19th century and early 20th century is what caused this violence, now we’re just going to live it out until the status quo can eventually change. May the communists win this century

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

It always goes back to the British ukkk

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From every river to every sea Palestine will be free

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

From the Nile to the Pacific cat-vibing

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Two things I hate are colonialism and the influence of American Evangelical eschatology on geopolitics. Guess where both overlap

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

From the river to the sea!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Bring back downvotes because jesus christ, this thread isn't doing anything except wasting anima into terminally online , self-righteous navel gazing. Listen OP, I have had to grapple and coming to terms with America massacring millions of my people but signing every one of your posts and comments with "death to America" regardless of how just it might be in intent or how you mean it, simply comes across as provocatively inflammatory and trying to get rise out of others. If someone acted like you posted, I'd think they were a fed, or they were a late teen channelling some other source of repent energy into this. Its a red flag either way, and I'm not sure at all what it does. No Palestinians or Middle Easterners I know have the opinion you quoted, even as aggrieved as they are.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

nah it's not really that deep. i just fuckin hate america

Death to America

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