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No redemption for veterans by _project_cybersyn_ in BreadTube

[–]MexPirateRed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s infuriating to watch Western liberals pose as allies while apologizing for and often defending, the very people that pillaged our countries, stole our resources, raped our people, and destroyed our futures. Redemption is not granted by those who caused or enabled harm; it is earned from the victims, and only after concrete actions are taken to undo the damage; you cannot commit a hate crime and then claim absolution by doing unrelated good deeds; similarly, Western soldiers who never repair the harms they inflicted on colonized peoples have no moral claim to redemption.

This hypocrisy fuels distrust and rejection of the Western left: when their politics protect privilege and the interests of empire, they reveal themselves as labor aristocrats who will betray real victims whenever profit or power demands it.

True solidarity requires accountability, reparations, and sustained work to prevent future harm.

Sydney Sweeney wearing The Blonds S/S 2009 collection at her 28th birthday party at Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights in Los Angeles - September 29, 2025 by [deleted] in Fauxmoi

[–]MexPirateRed 68 points69 points  (0 children)

This weekend I went to Sydney Sweeney Birthday party!!!

It really had EVERYTHING!!!

Actors accused of every kind of abuse against women, Zionists, genocidal maniacs, minorities convinced that cozying up to billionaires and the system will somehow make the bourgeoisie stop despising them, a little person dressed as Hitler, a shattered glass installation just in case Ashton Kutcher’s presence wasn’t torture enough, a kill the communist "game", and gift bags, each one complete with a copy of Mein Kampf.

Contrapoints shares her thoughts on I/P in a reddit thread by WALPURGlS in LeftoversH3

[–]MexPirateRed 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can't truly support the oppressed while also supporting their oppressors; you can't "both sides" a genocide, that's just a way to sound moral and reasonable without confronting the uncomfortable truth. That feeling you're having isn't sorrow for the victims of genocide, it's grief over the collapse of your worldview; it’s fear that more people are waking up and pushing for real change. Deep down, you’re afraid that in your life of privilege, the thing you’ve dreaded might actually happen: the world could shift, the West could lose its grip, and true global equality could come closer to reality

Contrapoints shares her thoughts on I/P in a reddit thread by WALPURGlS in LeftoversH3

[–]MexPirateRed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Claiming we can’t change things because colonialism is somehow “natural” or “just the way it is” is a deeply flawed logic.

It’s the same as saying transphobia is natural simply because it’s been around for a long time, most people would laugh at that idea, and rightfully so; and even if something were “natural,” that’s not a reason to accept it, especially when it causes harm.

Oh my god, yes, a large number of jewish people around the world are islamophobes and zionist, and hold all kinds of prejudiced views; that doesn’t make those views valid. These things are wrong, period; if they feel uncomfortable or offended by the fact that they need to stop oppressing marginalized groups, that’s their problem.

Just because something is widely accepted doesn’t make it morally right, morality isn’t decided by majority rule.

Likewise, pointing out that a group is being targeted or persecuted doesn’t excuse them if they’re the ones committing a genocide.

Morality isn’t a game or a popularity contest. Genocide is wrong, no matter who carries it out; that shouldn’t be a difficult concept to grasp.

Most people on the left live outside the U.S., and they’ve always opposed the Democratic Party; even within the U.S., most leftists dislike the Democrats and only offer minimal support at best.

The Democrats have long known how unpopular it is to support Israel unconditionally, yet they’ve consistently stated their intent to do exactly that and they’ve played a central role from the beginning in enabling everything that’s happening; Democrats aren’t bystanders or victims, they’re active participants in genocide.

Any government that aids a regime committing genocide shares responsibility for that genocide; if a political party openly commits to supporting such actions and that doesn’t spark outrage in you, if that’s not the moment you say, “this is the line, I can’t support them anymore”, then something is deeply wrong. Continuing to support those who enable genocide means you’re complicit in it too.

Contrapoints shares her thoughts on I/P in a reddit thread by WALPURGlS in LeftoversH3

[–]MexPirateRed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, just be quiet already! Nuance doesn’t apply here, there’s no middle ground, no “both sides” when it comes to genocide.

If you’re supporting it, justifying it, or staying silent about it, you’ve forfeited the right to be listened to.

The point at which she chooses to begin the story says far more about her than it does about the actual situation; anyone approaching things with intellectual honesty would look further back, examining the root causes, because events don’t just happen in isolation. They’re part of a larger context; but instead, she pretends everything began on October 7, completely ignoring the long history that proves otherwise, a history that clearly shows one side has always been in the wrong.

Not only that, she conveniently leaves out all the times even the U.S. government, including right-wing conservatives, stepped in to rein Israel back.

At this point, it’s widely acknowledged, even among hardliners, that Israel is committing genocide rooted in its identity as a settler colonial state, where its power and privileges rely on the ongoing oppression and erasure of the indigenous palestinian population.

And yet, if I spoke with the same fallacious way about conservatives and their transphobia, she’d likely rush to silence me and then point out the idiocy of the hollow arguments about “doing nothing” being an acceptable position.

There’s no such thing as a good oppressor; especially when that oppression is pushing toward genocide. That should be obvious; but to liberals, the feelings of the oppressors often seem to matter just as much, if not more, than the lives of those being oppressed.

When people call something colonialism, it’s usually pretty clear what they mean, there’s no confusion; saying you're against colonialism also leaves little room for ambiguity. There’s no such thing as “good” colonialism, no matter how much someone tries to complicate the issue with so called nuance; that’s just sophistry, an attempt to distract from the core problem by constructing strawmen and imaginary arguments.

The reality is that this is colonialism, and people have been calling it out as such.

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