Omg, is the last story they mention in that article based on a story I read on reddit once, where [CW Body Horror]

!where someone sits on a pool drain and has their intestines sucked out of their rectum?!<

I remember someone saying it happened to a young girl that ended up dying from it, and it’s still one of the most horrific things I’ve ever heard. I don’t even care if they plagiarized it from that book, I carry that anxiety with me to every pool I go to.

if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve read all year

There’s maybe two problems with this:

• public housing is a part of the picture, and so are public libraries. The solution is certainly not to cut library spending just because there are homeless people using it
• Thinking there being homeless people around is an issue that needs solving is itself pretty bigoted. Like, maybe you have a problem with people who haven’t showered for a while? or people who use the library for personal activities because there are no better places for them to do them? But ‘these people are a problem’ itself becomes problematic because you’ve consolidated those qualities you find objectionable into a class of person, and that makes it really easy to forget/misplace/dismiss the humanity those people deserve.

It’s a common attitude, so don’t feel like i’m picking you out personally to scold. More people should be aware of how that attitude dehumanizes people experiencing shelter insecurity.

Lol, OK so what if this messaging was the state department’s way of undercutting anti-israel sentiment so that they could protect their interests in the middle east from domestic opposition?

If only israel had prior knowledge, they could have taken defensive action

Maybe in a particular light, but I’m personally of the opinion that intellectual property and patent law is antithetical to good social policy… so idk. Ideally we’d all benefit from the knowledge and ingenuity of all mankind but in a capitalist economic world-view there’s no place for egalitarianism so…

If they can take the same tech and make it better/produce it cheaper then I think that’s great, go nuts.

But that’s obviously just me.

People shit on China all the goddamn time here but they’ve done a prolific job becoming the tech and manufacturing leader in a handful of decades.

Blame it on tech espionage if you want but there’s a reason the US is deadset on targeting Chinese imports, and it’s hardly for any of the security reasons they might be tempted to claim it to be. The US is about to be left behind and it’s noones fault but our own.

Weird, I’m getting the same argument from those who think liberals are too lazy to push their candidate away from indefensible foreign policy

I’m so curious about those two downvotes

This is… this is really antisemitic… right? And Islamophobic…?

This is definitely some nazi shit

Guess ill be trying my hand at building my own pfsense router

Right because that changes the ethics of us doing it?

This has to be a copypasta

Does your coalition include Biden? Does it include democratic politicians that are obstructing justice against Israeli war crimes? Do you have any justification for Biden to not be more forcefully condemning Israeli fascism other than ‘he needs the votes of people who support Israeli fascism’?

Hate to break it to you, bud, but if the extent of your anti-fascist organizing is signing onto the democratic voting rolls then you’re not an anti-fascist revolutionary, you’re just a anti-republican liberal. Which isn’t the worst thing you can be! No shame in shitting on republicans, they’re literal neo-nazis. But a part of being an anti-fascist is opposing all fascism, not just the fascism that’s most immediate to you.

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People have been banned for being propagandists. One even admitted to it. I can’t imagine you’d ever admit that what you’re doing is not on the level, so unfortunately people are left to base their opinions on observations.

I’ll make the debate easy for you: I am doing agitative-propaganda. My goal is to agitate liberals into taking action against the genocide their party is supporting. My memes are intended as a counter-balance to those other liberal-propaganizing memes that seek to rationalize, normalize, and dismiss the political problems electoralism simply cannot address.

Please pass this comment along as evidence for my community ban, on some level it would be a relief to not have to deal with the self-valorizing liberal propaganda that seems to be the norm.

The anti-fascist label is the correct label to describe a political movement that is against fascists. That is self-evident.

Lmao the anti-fascist label does not have room in it to tolerate material support of genocide, or to justify that tolerance because you need to include those people who support it to serve your other goals.

You’re free to call it an ‘anti-maga-fascist’ coalition if you want. That seems less likely to confuse people who would like to actually act against fascism in all its forms and features, not just the ones that are most immediate to yourself.

I think trying to rank which one is worse distracts from the substance of the issue, which is that the electoral system doesn’t provide an option that doesn’t involve genocide.

They shouldn’t be comfortable with sitting on their ass and casting their vote 5 months out, if they felt as bad as they claim they should be protesting their government that refuses to stop running cover for a genocidal religious ethno-state.

I don’t even take issue with voting for Biden at this point, I just find ‘we are an anti-fascist coalition’ to be the most self-valorizing shitlib statement i’ve ever seen, especially when everyone here insists they don’t support Israel’s war crimes and think we shouldn’t be defending them.

They don’t get to larp unopposed as anti-fascist revolutionaries when they’ve quietly accepted the choice they’ve been given 5 months out from election day, at least not while I still haven’t been banned for mocking them relentlessly. They should feel miserable about the shit choice like everyone else does.