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I said that it was factually correct to say that Hamas carried out a war crime in 10/7.

Perhaps you're correct that it's more factual to say they "carried out war crimes".

But I don't think rhetorical purpose of Mamdani's post is pro-Israel.

I'm fully anti-Israel. I want them wiped off the map.

Do you somehow think we disagree on this matter?

You admit they killed civilians. You agree that's a war crime. But somehow it wasn't a war crime?

You say "October 7 itself wasn't a war crime" as though this event has some kind of other existence outside of the things that actually happened.

Amplified a-hundred-fold on platforms with character limits and a high rotation of what strangers you interact with.

Hey now, I still use the word "kyriarchy"! Also the "megamachine".

I guess that's what I was trying, if clumsily, to get at. Only a socialist movement can take a holistic approach, because liberalism as an individualistic philosophy is incapable of addressing the way these axes of oppression serve the owning class.

Though some "socialisms" get lost in reduction.

Considering the number of very attractive people who have made themselves significantly worse-looking through a parade of unwise cosmetic procedures... I think that her lack of consideration plays.

I dunno. The statement doesn't really say that Hamas is "bad" categorically, simply that on 10/7 two years ago they carried out a war crime, which I think is objectively true.
The 10/7 attack gets one paragraph of the three. And every call to action is a call to action against Israel.

I'm as far left as it is possible to be, and I've been committedly anti-zionist for as long as the BDS movement has existed, and this statement reads fine to me. It does not read as "middle way".

"We must end the apartheid" is plenty strong.

And furthermore that any attempt to grapple with racism which fails to address the economic components winds up focusing on how people simply FEEL about each other instead of the things like reparations or land redistribution.

I don't think that's what I'm saying. I'm saying there is no form of oppression which does not have a class component.

Racism serves imperialism and the owning classes by directing the distribution of labor, concentrating resources for the dominant group, and breaking working class solidarity.

This isn't a response to you, but to the one you are parodying, but it just popped in my head:

Only socialism can be intersectional, because the center of every intersection is class.

Anything less than universal salvation for all humanity means Jesus failed and is a failure.

Did you record this for this reply, or is there a source for this video?

I forgot about this! Like, how does he not know the song is out of his range!? He has to know he isn't hitting those notes, and he must have rehearsed it more than a few times to sing and play it at the same time! It's transcendent.

I think people are focusing too much on quoting specific things Charlie Kirk SAID, as though his greatest misdeed was to have/express bad beliefs.

Kirk was a fascist propagandist.That's what TPUSA DOES. They spread fascism. That's their purpose. And that's why the world is better off without Kirk.

"Are you a man or a woman?"

"No."

@jamesgunn.bsky.social I have a lore question about the new DCU:

When did metahumans start wearing costumes?

Obviously, by the time of The Suicide Squad, this is just an established part of the world. But how long has this been a thing? The costumes, codenames, and gimmicks?

I dare you to watch even one Leftist Cooks video essay and tell me they have no arguments, lol.

Fantastic Four was actually kinda shit. But people are VERY much still talking about Superman.

I had an ex from East Liverpool. A real hell hole, but with a compelling mystique. Fascinating and violent history, too.

Just join some discords with some cool people and fuck this whole public social media platform thing.

I will not cry for a dead fascist.

Jeanet is such a fascinating director!

What ought we have in common with the greedy parasite?
Who would lash us into serfdom, who would crush us with his might?
What else is there left to us but to organize and fight?
The union makes us strong!

Christianity is inherently anticapitalist.

4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

1. Killing members of the group;

2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

UN Genocide Convention, Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: