Ashlight Morningstar

liberals are every bit as much my enemy as fascists are. we do not share a political project. if you try to tell me to vote for newsom, i'm going to tell you to test the strength of your rafters

they do listen to feedback if its loud/directed enough, gotta give them that.

hopefully we see more integrity from wizards, like when they canceled the monster hunter secret lair

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i would point to the fact that recent investor memos shown in this video indicate that Hasbro at large could potentially force the issue

and while i agree with your points on why theres issues, id also point out that we just got Edge, and Star Trek is this year's finale

youtu.be/iMpHha2MU5c?...

make it a flying 2/2 human wizard creature in the upcoming strixhaven set, with your likeness depicted by Raoul Vitale

instant peak

yeah no apparently there's a high likelihood of a Harry Potter Universes Beyond set in MTG.

and straight up, if that winds up happening, i will fully boycott WOTC and never play magic again.

Harry Potter UB sits on the south bank of the rubicon. don't cross that shit, WOTC.

"damn ash, you went looking for a fight half cocked and got aggro, and couldnt take the heat when you were wrong"

yeah, shut the fuck up, i dont wanna hear about it.

alright. ill be checking out of this conversation now.

its clear to me that i went off half cocked, and wasnt fully listening cause i got triggered at some point here.

apologies.

fair. i got defensive and behaved in a reactionary manner. apologies.

but, i also recognize that this is a conversation about mass politics, and that this ties back to my original point in this entire discussion;

i dont think its a uniquely left wing issue. i think everyone is getting more antisemitic. and thats fucking bad.

if my tone is coming off in the way that your second post indicated, then aight, im sorry

im just asking for more direct and focused rhetoric on this issue because i dont think that on a systematic, ideological level, we have that issue. but i agree that we should root it out where found.

gods, im not fuckin trying to silence anyone here?

im just coming into this, admittedly from an outside perspective when it comes to the jewish experience in particular, but i think my vigilance is warranted because left bashing on this issue *is harmful* to a variety of different groups.

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

am being reminded that discourse is exhausting!

dont do it kids! at least, not online.

THANK YOU.

so, i dont know if ive openly posted about it here

but the individuals i named like second thought and bad empanada are ones that ive actively burned bridges over and steered people away from on the grounds of their behavior and rhetoric.

im genuinely asking— how is this dismissive?

fair. i do recognize that aipac is one part of an ecosystem of american-israeli lobbying, and that they are used as a dogwhistle.

that being said, there is a lobbying ecosystem. not a jewish one, but a lobbying ecosystem that seeks to bolster both the MIC, and ideological zionism.

disagreement?

and i only bring this up when a lot of this conversation, while yes it is and ought to be rooted in the safety of jews as a minority group, we have to apply an intersectional lense of analysis here

and jews are not exclusive to claims of safety here

palestinians are too

and i doubt you disagree.

mammoud khalil have what happened to him, or the near universal hatred of hasan piker from anyone outside of those already aligned with him.

cause lemme speak a bit harshly for a moment? and dont take this as oppression olympics cause it aint.

a lot of american jews are white (or white passing).

because my agenda is one of a universal humanism.

have i witnessed legitimate antisemitism from prominent left wing voices? yeah, unfortunately, bad empanada and second thought are out there, and that occupy dems post was fucked.

but, my defensiveness i feel is warranted when we have folks like—

okay, lemme take a step back

no, calling out antisemites on the left is not universal left bashing

and unfortunately, i agree that there may be antisemites in the ranks of "the left"

my concern arises from false claims of antisemitism being used to deplatform and silence pro-palestinian voices.

i dont have the time, nor energy, to investigate the validity of this list. ill take your word that most of them probably said some heinous shit.

that being said, why @trackaipac.com ?

is it because of antisemitism in the replies to their posts, or antisemitism from them specifically?

that being said, hey, maybe i could do more learning of my own and listening?

but i also feel like im not being listened to a lot of the time.

especially when i see folks use this conversation to sidestep genocide (not accusing you of this, just to be extra fucking clear.)

i did not ONCE tell you to stop calling this out or engaging in community safety, and if you think that i did, you're caught up in a frenzy right now and need to step off for a bit

im merely having a disagreement in tactics with the folks in this thread

not a disagreement that jews ought be safe.

im going to keep speaking on antisemitism because it affects me personally, both through my own family lineage (though i will not claim to be a jew myself), and because of— and i really fucking hope you know this to be the case

the chain links between antisemitism and transphobia are made of steel.

you misunderstand me

unique ownership of opposition to antisemitism

*AND* the genocide of the palestinians.

this isnt "no true scottsman", its a recognition of the ability for my enemy, the far right, to lie through their teeth when they express concern about the genocide, then start echo posting

so then call them out. be pointed in your language. name some fuckin names. not just "the left"

the more influential and wide reaching, the better.

im actually committed to fighting this shit, both out of a love for my jewish siblings, and because i dont want it compromise my own political agenda.

and lets be real; the recent buyout of tiktok, and its changes to tos regarding antizionism as antisemitism, is only going to further embolden this shit, which in my honest view is an active pathway and pipeline to the RIGHT, not towards the left. their socialism is of a national flavor, ya feel?

i will grant, that im not tapped into the tiktok ecosystem, so i havent seen self avowed leftists over there and what theyre up to.

but my inclination is that anyone trafficking antisemitism right now is, at best, hiding their power level, or at worst actively infiltrating for nefarious purposes.