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It's baffling with Fetterman because he's a deranged and stupid attack dog that even many zionists don't like because he makes them look bad, and also I don't think Corbyn supports Israel, much less makes an entire career of it like Fetterman, even if perhaps he doesn't oppose it as much as we would like. He still advocates for an end to the occupation and for the UK to completely stop sending Israel weapons. Fetterman would literally call Corbyn Hamas.

Hopefully you remember that a good segment of the Labour Party joined with the rest of the liberal establishment in smearing Corbyn as an anti-semite and so on, but there's extensive documentation that even within his campaign there were absurd lengths people went to to basically embezzle campaign money to make him believe it was being spent according to the official strategy when it was not.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/leaked-dossier-shows-labour-party-officials-worked-against-corbyn-in-a-bid-to-lose-2017-general-election-184264/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leak-report-corbyn-election-whatsapp-antisemitism-tories-yougov-poll-a9462456.html

https://www.counterfire.org/article/labour-s-explosive-report-shows-how-right-wing-officials-sabotaged-the-party/

The syntax suggested that they are talking about a subset of Jewish people in Israel, not all of them, and it's certainly true that the Euro subset hold something of a dominant position and have long been discriminatory to the ME Jewish populations within Israel who make up most of its population.

Solzhenitsyn, one of the most influential figures in the western perception of the gulag system, had his cancer treated there and it saved his life. His book is mostly rumors and folktales written as though they were things he had witnessed, which is why editions in some languages call it what he did, a "literary experiment," and his wife further clarified in an interview for NYT decades later that these were folklore. Solzhenitsyn was also an antisemitic freak who somewhat bought into the "Judeo-Bolshevism" thing and was arrested for writing a letter about how the USSR needed to be overthrown while he was an officer in the Red Army on the Eastern Front, favoring an Eastern Orthodox theocratic monarchy.

Robert Conquest, probably the other most influential figure in this perception, claimed more people died in the gulag system than had ever even been entered into it (as we discovered when we gained access to the Soviet archives). This joins the list with other discredited theses from him, such as his thoroughly-debunked idea that the USSR's Great Famine of '32-'33 was a deliberate "terror famine" and a Holocaust-like event. He also preceded his work as a "historian" by working for 8 years in post-war British intelligence as specifically an anti-Soviet propagandist.

Just some fun facts.

Are you talking about John Fetterman? I can't tell because that would be such a baffling thing to say but I don't know what other Fetterman you might mean. Also, liberals supporting Corbyn? Do you mean other than the entire liberal establishment working to sabotage his campaign to the point of taking measures that are at least legally dubious?

Isn't it great how this isn't a call to violence or genocidal rhetoric?

You're probably right, but I think that in his specific case a lot of it seems to come from a genuine breeder fetish and megalomania. He genuinely seems to mail women his semen more often than he has sex with them.

15. Hope Never Dies by Andrew Schaffer

The Wave is kind of dumb, but from what I've heard the worst thing about it is that it kind of papers over the whole "mass child abuse" thing. Now, that might seem like a low bar, but there's a German Netflix film, "Wir sind die Welle" ("We are the Wave"), which uses the name but really doesn't share any similarity at all except that its about students becoming fixated on their clique of what they view as radical politics. Here's the thing: In "The Wave," just like in the original Third Wave "experiment," it's really explicitly about fascism, Nazism most especially. In the German Netflix caricature, the students are all progressives who are either direct victims of things like racial/gender discrimination or are concerned about the environment or war-profiteering, and the antagonist is a student who wants to blow up some facility belonging to an arms dealer who is illegally running guns to [I think it's implied to be Sudan?], before the other student leader thwarts the plot and defeats the arms dealer peacefully.

How fucking audacious do you need to be as Germans to take a story that is [purportedly] about Nazism and elements leading to its popularization, and then make it into a screed against radical progressives? You're literally the last country in the world with any right to do such a thing, and I'm even including America in that list, because your whole thing is "being an Ally" in the now-common craven liberal fashion, but on the level of an entire nation-state. I know their true "whole thing" is financial imperialism, but I mean their whole thing in terms of their cultural posture.

I have complete confidence that you care and want to make things better, I just wanted to mention it while I was thinking about it.

I think it would be really cool if you made a memoir or a satire or something about this, and I think the world would be a better place for having more works like that. You could help kids feel reassured that it doesn't need to be this way and help the rest of society understand what goes on in some of these reactionary bubbles.

The owner also has an admin sidekick who was basically their parrot, though idk if that person is still around.

What's really weird, as has been demonstrated in some screenshots, is how they bait post so fucking much but then seem so upset and play victim when people take the bait. They are like a child who acts out for attention by deliberately trying to rile people and then cries when someone yells at them for it.

Edit: Regarding your question, I think they have a personal beef with local communists. iirc they are Greek and view the local communist party as a counterproductive relic of the past.

They certainly come across as trying to use their anarchism to minoritize themselves by talking about persecution from teh tankies as though they have any connection to the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War or other historical incidents. Why? I can't really say.

Yeah, I've even seen some apologists identify the conflict as starting with the capture of a communications building but with no context as to why it was being captured, as though it was some sort of Spanish anarchist "shot heard round the world," when it really was just that the anarchists were sabotaging Republican communications in the midst of the war against Franco, so the Republicans took the building over with the help of the communists. You get all sorts of people (revealingly, Trotsky included) waxing poetic about how unforgivable it is for the communists to be working with the Republicans instead of trying to immediately overthrow them while fascists were at the gates, but people still tend to not mention the sabotage by the anarchists. To be fair, the first time that I did see it, it was from an anarchist who defended it, so credit to them for being transparent and at least minimally informed, even if their priorities are terrible.

Edit: I should further clarify that I am sure many anarchists today disagree with the decision to sabotage the Republicans, even though I've never personally seen one say so. I think most of them would either change their mind if they knew more about it or would at least drop it as a talking point because they understand how bad it looks (though for someone like db, it might be more of a "can't use it here because the crowd got wise but still uses it elsewhere" kind of thing) (but most people aren't db).

They put alot of work into this, okay?

Let me preface this by saying that, from what I have seen in screenshots, there was no ableism against db, db was just not taking care of themself by compulsively replying and getting mad at people replying to their replies, like it's "ableism" to not let someone have the last word.

Which makes it really gross that they are taking the real complaints hexbears have had about the broader HB culture and cynically weaponized it by distorting the very concept of ableism. The real complaints that I've seen are almost the inverse, which are that certain comrades, particularly ones on a certain part of the spectrum, get labeled as "debate bros" and otherwise disparaged, getting comments deleted, sometimes even getting banned, when basically what happened was that they disagreed and were failing to let it go. There is such a thing as a "debate bro," and we encounter them here often enough, but it can also effectively become a progressive-sounding way of saying "this autist keeps participating in this argument and I don't feel like either engaging in good faith or ignoring it, so I'm going to just say they are a (white?) male chauvinist who is obliged to give me the last word."

I've seen this complaint from at least three or four different people, though I think most of them aren't around anymore.

This is the first time I've seen people push back on the Spain thing, because our friend there is right that the way db0 characterizes it as some "stabbed in the back" story is truly ridiculous. Like, there are no shortage of stories around the world of much more credible transgressions by communists against anarchists, and the communications building in Spain is not one of them.

“Whilst the images used in the campaign were intended solely to highlight the contrast between the different colors available for the PSP, we recognize that the subject matter of one specific image may have caused concern in some countries not directly affected by the advertising,” Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe said in a statement at the time.

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It is not about punishment

I don't know which one of us you're lying to.

But those people in prison deserve to be there. Never forget that.

"Deserve" is not a term of utility and consequence. "Deserve" means that they should suffer in prison even if there is no external benefit. You aren't talking about protecting children, something everyone obviously agrees with, you are trying to assert as self-evident the need to inflict suffering for its own sake and then masking that with language about protecting children. Does that remind you of anyone?

Aside from the absolutely ridiculous and disgusting way that you made sweeping statements about prisoners as though the justice system is that dedicated to justice, something you can't just paper over by saying "oh, I didn't want to get lost in the weeds in my 'fuck people in prisons' rant," you're also treating people who have done wrong as though they can't change, as though their souls are just inferior to yours. Here, one might be tempted to speculate why you are choosing to categorize people this way, but I'm still going to refrain. How do I know you're doing this? Because I said:

Either they need to be put away for the time being for the common good, or you're literally just torturing someone.

And you could have just said "yeah"

Would i be a retibutive sicko to advocate for the execution of Nazis? Or Hitler himself?

This is an insipid comparison, but regardless the answer in the context of a powerful and wealthy state is that yes, executing people to satisfy your own impotent sense of moral outrage is bad and you shouldn't do it. If you're in the midst of a revolution or some other very tenuous situation, or you really need to pick and choose which mouths to feed, yeah, fuck 'em, even if they aren't criminals someone ultimately may need to go for the common good. But we aren't talking about that kind of situation, we are talking about an abundantly wealthy civil society that doesn't need to behave like it's under artillery fire.

Execution is something China uses for these exact situations

I was also withholding remarks on how you're an embarrassment to your communist aesthetic and much more at home with punitively-minded reactionaries, but here I have constructive reason to remark on it: Do you know whose side represents China's stance back when it cared about Mao for any reason beyond nationalism? Mine. Mao made it a specific point of pride that even Emperor Puyi himself (along with countless KMT and even Japanese soldiers) were rehabilitated and able to participate in society constructively as good socialists. The current policy of the state that uses Mao's corpse as a costume is absurd and unjustifiable.

Being merciful towards them does not make society better. It makes it more dangerous.

You are so caught up in your To Catch a Predator fantasy that you are missing several practical aspects of the common good, not the least of which being that we aren't asking God, in His omniscience, to strike down predators, and killing innocent people should indeed be considered a danger to society.

Furthermore, no one is saying we should "tolerate" predators, like you catch a Catholic priest doing the Catholic priest thing and say "well, everyone gets one!" The point is that you are speaking of these people as some sort of elemental force, metaphysically bound by their dirty souls to hurt people and hurt people. Should they be kept on a registry for the rest of their life? Yeah, I think so, but that doesn't mean they remain predators and are beyond any rehabilitation, even if it takes years of the state keeping them in some facility to accomplish that end.

You seriously sound like TYT talking about bail reform.

Even people who love the game say there's a lot of brainrot (complimentary?) and fandom stuff because there just objectively is. There's literally a

There's bits about Ralsei as merchandise with an actual plush. There's just a ton of extremely "for the fans" content.

Being kept up at night thinking about Mamdani scratching his anus is definitely something. Is this real?