‘The political desperadoes and ignoramuses, who say they would “Rather be Dead than Red”, should be told that no one will stop them from committing suicide, but they have no right to provoke a third world war.’ — Morris Kominsky, 1970
Although I’ve joked that Benjamin Netanyahu must be directly managing all of these accounts, I feel like a bot network would be unnecessary because there are likely enough dullards on the Internet to unwittingly do the neocolonists’ PR work for them.
That said, I can’t dismiss the bot network idea out of hand. Can you show me evidence for it?
Coincidentally, I was just thinking about how the Jews in Axis‐occupied Warsaw and the Palestinians today have more common with each other than either of them have with the Zionist ruling class. Perhaps the Warsaw Jews and the Zionist ruling class are closer to each other in terms of heritage, but in what really matters—situations, experiences, circumstances, spirit—it’s no contest: the Palestinians and the Warsaw Jews may as well be literal siblings. As for the Zionist ruling class, personally I’d say that it’s far more akin to the Ottoman Empire’s anti‐Armenian rulers than to Warsaw’s Jews.
As a gentile I tend to be very reluctant to compare anything to the Shoah, and if we want to discuss the technicalities, then yes, the oppression of Palestinians is not a one‐to‐one copy of the Shoah. But at the end of the day, the technicalities hardly matter: the Palestinians remain victims of colonial atrocities. Atrocities similar to what the Native Americans, the Aboriginal Australians, the Armenians, the Libyans, the Ethiopians, the Roma, and others have faced in history. That’s why I made an image of the neocolonial flag with the fascio littorio on it: if anybody finds the comparisons to the Third Reich inappropriate (and I agree that there are important differences…as well as similarities), it would suffice to draw comparisons to another atrocious empire in history instead.
Settlers can bite the dust for all I care, but pissing off would suffice.
Reminds me of when the Fascist General Rodolfo Graziani seriously proposed constructing a ‘new Hadrian’s wall’ to fence in Libya, hundreds of miles of barbed wire that stretched from the Mediterranean all the way to the southern sands of Libya and successfully prevented Egyptian supplies from reaching the Libyans.
Graziani would have been proud of you, Yoav Gallant.
Yeah, that’s fair. I was guessing that that chump thought that “red fascism” was a thing, and if somebody is going to use that phrase unjokingly then I’d expect them to recognize actual fascist symbols.
If somebody like you asked respectfully what the symbol was then I would have responded in kind.
What a klutzy mistake! Fixed.
Is it just me, or are the anticommunists more vocal than usual lately?
You need somebody to explain to you what a fascio littorio is?
Wow.
I don’t expect Jews (assuming that this snob is a Jewish adult, which I’ll admit is a very generous assumption on my part) to know everything about their kindred, but man, what a snotty thing to say. Barminam!
Linguists widely recognize Ladino as a language with centuries of history and not a conlang that Ayjan invented a few days ago. Admittedly it is much commoner these days for us to write Ladino in the Latin alphabet (a trend inspired by the Turkish orthography reform), but the Hebrew alefbet is still valid and Folkmasa helpfully provides the Hebraic script for every word.
That should be the neocolony’s national motto.
Usually he/him, but I’m fine with any pronouns.
It’s Sarah from Tear Along the Dotted Line.
(Also I switched profile pictures because my page wasn’t saving and I rewatched Close Enough too many times.)
LEL, I never claimed to be Jewish. In fact, when Ayjan offered me a position as moderator I was initially reluctant to accept because I was afraid that people would be uncomfortable with the idea of a gentile moderating a Jewish community.
My head almost hurts trying to understand how what I wrote was antisemitic… I know that some neofascists like to use ‘Zionist’ as a dogwhistle, but it’s very clear from the context that I distinguished between Zionists and Jews. As far as I know, nobody has seriously tried to challenge the facts that I mentioned (poverty among Shoah survivors, mistreatment of Jews of colour, Zionist collaboration with the Fascists, &c.), and I’ve never seen an antisemite even suggest that Zionism harms Jews. I mean, what antisemite would say that? Antisemites don’t typically care if Jews are suffering harm.
As for me being ‘fascist’, the only way that that would make a micron of sense is if somebody laser‐focussed on a time when I mentioned one of the less atrocious aspects of Fascism, such as Fascist Italy’s food self‐sufficiency (to avoid imports, not to feed its citizenry), how the Regio Esercito was usually nonviolent against European Jews (but not North African Jews), how the Gestapo was neither absurdly massive nor draconian (but ordinary citizens could be very helpful, and the Gestapo could still be harsh when it needed to be), or how the Third Reich rarely if ever intentionally killed Western Jewish POWs (a pragmatic decision that was very much the exception to the rule). In terms of class, I’m either lumpen or lumpenproletarian; I have no military background and no petty bourgeois background (unless you count helping my mother with her microbusiness a handful of times), so the chances that I’d be neofascist today are pretty low.
This is the best report that anybody’s ever written on me.
Are they trying to invite the comparisons now? We all know what happened last time colonizers draped their symbols on the Brandenburg Gate.
That must be Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lemmy account!
Hey Bibi, would you mind explaining to us why a third of Shoah survivors under your régime are living in poverty? I know that you don’t care about Palestinians—that’s a given—but surely if you cared about your fellow Jews you wouldn’t let so many of them suffer like this… would you? You do at least care about other Jews, right…? Right…?
I am somewhat curious what the outsiders think of /c/capitalismindecay, which ideally should be one of the least objectionable subcommunities from their perspective. Then again, my explicit rejections of attempts to equate the U.S.S.R. with the Third Reich (on which, believe it or not, even some liberals are capable of agreeing with me) are likely to turn off the most close‐minded anti‐Bolshevists. Nearly one week ago a couple of chumps expressed their disapproval of this post for contrasting the Munich accord with the German–Soviet nonaggression treaty.
But the goal of /c/capitalismindecay is simply to enhance and formalize our understanding of fascism; ‘defending’ the people’s republics is merely the sporadic consequence of ruling‐class education obfuscating and oversimplifying fascism for decades (which frequently involves conflating it with socialism in one country). If my goal was primarily to defend or praise the people’s republics then I could use subcommunities better suited for that, such as /c/communisthistory. For /c/capitalismindecay, the most that you need to do is accept the principle that the Axis was worse than the U.S.S.R., which sounds obvious and trivial to us but can be surprisingly difficult for some people.
I had to skim the author’s Twitter page just to make sure that he was being serious. Wow. He was.
There’s simply no reasoning with petty bourgeois fucks like this. Your time is better served by working out or training with a weapon.