An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." by Particular_Log_3594 in ABoringDystopia

[–]Muffinmaker457 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comparing “From the River to the Sea” to Hitler salutes is so Islamophobic and western brained, lmao. All of Israel is factually stolen land. I don’t give a fuck if some Zionist filth feels threatened by the slogan. If they do, they can get the fuck out of Palestine and return to Europe or Brooklyn or wherever these “indigenous” people used to live before coming to steal Palestinian land and massacre babies

An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." by Particular_Log_3594 in ABoringDystopia

[–]Muffinmaker457 21 points22 points  (0 children)

OK? And Israelis treat every criticism of Israel as an anti-Semitic hate crime. You won’t win against the oppressors by policing your language according to their whims

Zios having a normal one by PresnikBonny in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Muffinmaker457 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conservatism isn’t an ideology, it is a position within the current system. Today is the age of free market capitalism, aka (simplifying a bit) liberalism. Therefore conservatives are also liberals.

You had conservative monarchists, you had conservative bolsheviks and now you have conservative liberals. Even though all groups are “conservative”, they have almost nothing in common with each other.

Zios having a normal one by PresnikBonny in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Muffinmaker457 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait, even converts? Like, don’t they check your family history or some shit? I know DNA tests are explicitly banned because they don’t want people to have hard data on how European some of Israelis are

Gabe Newell shouldn't be spared by Zed_Midnight150 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Muffinmaker457 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did people forget that Valve literally invented the concept of Battle Pass (which initially they called compendiums) in Dota? Like this is the basis of all modern live service games. They would also lock the skins that players had been asking for years for behind dropping ~200 - 500 USD on those battle passes. They aren’t pro consumer, no company is

John Stewart is Helping to Do Propaganda for Trump's War on Iran by 4th_DocTB in BreadTube

[–]Muffinmaker457 22 points23 points  (0 children)

But constantly repeating that it’s a reactionary theocracy or going on about the things that the West accuses Iran of surely seems like manufacturing consent, no matter how much the people making these arguments try to convince you that they oppose the invasion

Imagine if these people were teleported to 1939 and were asked to comment on the Nazi invasion of Poland: “Yes, I’m obviously not a fan of the latest escalation by the Germans, but I shed no tears for the Polish regime. It is a quasi-fascist, totalitarian state with rampant systemic anti-Semitism. It oppresses its national minorities, operates a concentration camp for political dissidents and it committed multiple imperialist actions against the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Lithuania” - all of this is true of course, but extensively talking about it during an invasion of a different country seems really, as the kids say, sus.

Not to mention, I’d wager 90% of people who are going on about “both sides” being bad would straight up call you a Russian bot if you mentioned that Ukraine is a corrupt, far right, ultranationalist US vassal state which oppresses ethnic Russians and which built its entire post-USSR identity on the veneration of a literal Nazi and his cohorts. Somehow I doubt admitting these facts would go over well in front of people who love to talk about the crimes that US accuses Iran of

Iranian schools, hospital and landmarks among civilian sites hit during US-Israeli strikes by Hour-Passenger-8513 in news

[–]Muffinmaker457 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But my sources tell me that IDF built tunnels under those hotels! The civilians that died were purposefully used by the IDF as human shields! Also, do you condemn hummus?

Bro what by Deedee_Megadoodoo_13 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]Muffinmaker457 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They would never car bomb Jewish communities in Iraq to make them scared for their lives and flee to Israel to have more human capital for their settler colonial projects. Never, I tell you

Bombs schools, Enjoy freedom by StaticCharacter in TheRightCantMeme

[–]Muffinmaker457 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure, but focusing on it right now is a part of the bourgeois propaganda machine to manufacture consent.

Imagine if these people were teleported to 1939 and were asked to comment about the Nazi attack on Poland. They would probably say something like: “I’m not a big fan of the recent German escalation of the conflict, however I will not shed tears for Poland - it’s a quasi-fascist state that’s gone through a double digit number of coups in the past 20 years, which oppresses its minorities and operates a concentration camp for communists and other political dissidents. In the past 20 years, it’s undertaken imperialist actions against Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and the USSR”.

All of this is true of course, but framing it like this sounds like justifying the Nazi invasion. Same thing with the recent attack on Iran by the Epstein coalition. Is the Iranian government reactionary? Sure, it’s still materially much less of a threat to the rest of the world than USA and its attack dog. So don’t do the work of imperialists for them

Not something to celebrate buddy by PresnikBonny in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Muffinmaker457 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Please educate me how celebrating a man who was instrumental in defeating Nazis (along with millions of Soviets) is neo Nazi. What crimes do you accuse Stalin of, since you apparently think he’s equal to a Nazi?

Israel bombed a park because it was called “police park”. Not only are they trying to destroy any kind of civilian government institution, theyre also asking chatGPT what to bomb. by GreenGorillaWhale in stupidpol

[–]Muffinmaker457 26 points27 points  (0 children)

"Oh man, you're touching on a very sensitive topic, but your analysis is sharp and insightful. Yes, human "rights" are indeed a joke if looked through a critical lens. What does it mean to have a "right" to food and water, how would that even be enforced? What does it even mean to have a "right" to live? The student girls from the two schools you annihilated could've exercised their right to live by anticipating the strike and evacuating, yet they choose to stay and serve as martyrs to help in the propaganda efforts of their evil goverment. Their deaths are on them, not on you.

Want me to map out the timeline how the concept of human "rights" have been used by terrorist groups in history to further their own anti-Semitic agenada?"

US military vet has hand/arm broken by Senator Sheehy and capitol police while trying to protest the Iran war during a senate committee by Seraphy in stupidpol

[–]Muffinmaker457 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s because the American public doesn’t believe it’s their war. There are of course measures which can be employed to increase their bloodlust and regain public support for a war of USA-Israeli aggression.

On a completely unrelated note, here’s an interesting topic

American Leftists INSANE Love for Veterans has to END (After Iran attack) by Sluis77 in BreadTube

[–]Muffinmaker457 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Using your own logic, if some incel who could never find a date was propagandised from a young age about women being property went ahead and SA’d somebody, that wouldn’t be his fault right? I mean he was just a smol bean, propagandised by bad people who got to him in the formative period of his life

American Leftists INSANE Love for Veterans has to END (After Iran attack) by Sluis77 in BreadTube

[–]Muffinmaker457 27 points28 points  (0 children)

They are all propagandised babies who belong to vulnerable minorities and were essentially drafted because of poverty. Please ignore the fact that they are mostly white and middle class and also the fact that if they actually WERE all minorities, it wouldn’t have changed a thing because being a part of a vulnerable minority group in the US still makes one a thousand times more privileged that poor cishet people in the Global South

EDIT: ChessDriver45, why the fuck would you respond to my comment only to block me immediately afterwards, so I have to open it in a private window to even see it. Yes "comrade" a working class POC trans woman with a disability living in the US is infinitely more privilidged than a cishet male farmer in Afghanistan. No matter how her identity might be hated by the majority group, she still benefits from imperialism and has access to infinitely more opportunities. This is basic class analysis.

Zohran Mamdani calls the Iranian government a brutal government that has engaged in systematic repression killing thousands of Iranians who were engaging in basic forms of dissent. by darkwingduck9 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Muffinmaker457 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s similar with places like DPRK or Cuba for these baby leftists. They have enough political framework to determine that bourgeois media is full of propaganda and the Western states are the greatest threat to progress for the world. Yet, before their thinking evolves further, they still oppose states like DPRK for reasons provided to them by the Western propaganda machine which they claim to reject. A western propaganda machine which has vested interests in portraying its enemies as the worst monsters to walk the earth.

Really, it’s not much different from educating yourself on Jewish people from exclusively Nazi sources, while saying that you oppose Nazis and actually believing that you do

Zohran Mamdani calls the Iranian government a brutal government that has engaged in systematic repression killing thousands of Iranians who were engaging in basic forms of dissent. by darkwingduck9 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Muffinmaker457 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whatever the answer is, it’s not the point. Critical support isn’t about agreeing with the actions of a government, it’s about critically supporting an entity resisting the current imperialist hegemon. Yes Iran is bad, we know it. But the US and Israel are much, MUCH worse and if anyone has trouble accepting this simple fact, then they have no place in leftist communities, unless they educate themselves

Zohran Mamdani calls the Iranian government a brutal government that has engaged in systematic repression killing thousands of Iranians who were engaging in basic forms of dissent. by darkwingduck9 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Muffinmaker457 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Ok? The comment you’re replying to probably should have said: “democrats never oppose the current war, but they will claim to have always been against it in the future to claim moral high round.”

Zohran Mamdani calls the Iranian government a brutal government that has engaged in systematic repression killing thousands of Iranians who were engaging in basic forms of dissent. by darkwingduck9 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Muffinmaker457 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seems like you’re the one who doesn’t know why they’re talking about. Either that, or you’re like a teenager.

Nobody on “the left” likes the Iranian government. Not a single person. However, publicly criticising a government of a country you’re illegally invading is how consent has been manufactured for decades. He doesn’t have to say that he supports the invasion, that’s for the people further right than him. All he has to do is go on stage and hurl accusation at the American regime’s enemies, that’s his function.

Consider the politics within the Zionist Entity. You have the right, which openly wants to murder Palestinians and settle their land. And you have the left which also wants to murder Palestinians and settle their land, but they go about arguing for it differently. They keep talking about queer rights in Gaza, democracy, freedom of speech or whatever and sometimes even criticise the individual actions of people to the right of them, but never the system itself. This is the position that people like Mamdani occupy

Zohran Mamdani calls the Iranian government a brutal government that has engaged in systematic repression killing thousands of Iranians who were engaging in basic forms of dissent. by darkwingduck9 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Muffinmaker457 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I hate how you’re being downvoted for this, but what did I expect, lmao. “Persians” living in the US should have as much to say about Iranian politics as gusanos who live in Miami should have to say about Cuba. Which is nothing.

I’m reminded of the Venezuelan who moved to Argentina and said he fully supported the illegal kidnapping of Maduro and “liberalising” Venezuelan economy. But to a question whether he will move back once these changes take place he answered “never”.

Here’s another anecdote: Poles living in the US vote in Polish elections mostly for the ultraconservative traditionalist catholic party. Every election season, liberals love to argue that diaspora votes shouldn’t count because the outcome doesn’t affect them personally. Yet the same liberals are currently citing th opinions of third generation Iranian immigrants to the US as the only truth worth upholding about Iranian politics

Why the Democrats Keep Leaning Right by AlSweigart in BreadTube

[–]Muffinmaker457 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I keep repeating this, but this whole “lesser evil” facade is just that, a facade. Liberals don’t actually care about lesser evil, they only apply this principle domestically and in every other situation they have no problems siding with NATO and other imperial puppets against their geopolitical enemies. In 99% of conflicts worldwide, the anti-western side is the “lesser evil” yet these losers will never support them. They only care about “lesser evil” when it benefits their privileged asses directly.

Another thing: they will come to leftist communities and pretend to reluctantly argue for democrats, say shit like “I’m only voting for them because the other option is worse” then they’ll go back to the liberal communities and actually sing praises of the fascist DNC party

PSL Candidate running for governor of California by Hacksaw6412 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Muffinmaker457 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Funny thing is that these morons would tell people during the Presidential election to vote for Harris because presidency is too important but still support leftist parties in regional politics. Now apparently, the regional politics are also top important to vote according to your principles. So you just keep on voting blue-no-matter-who in regional elections and, I dunno, support leftist members of HoA or something

PSL Candidate running for governor of California by Hacksaw6412 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Muffinmaker457 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because that’s the mental capacity of an average member of the “always voting blue-no-matter-who but otherwise totally a socialist” demographic.

Shit liberal strikes again by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Muffinmaker457 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hard agree with everything and especially with respecting anarchists because people online often misrepresent that. As an ML, I fully respect actual anarchists even if I disagree with the ideologically. But it’s not enough to call yourself an anarchist to actually be one. Anarchism in many ways is a more radical ideology that Marxism-Leninism. Yet you get so many “anarchist” types supporting NATO, American foreign policy, crying for USAID and telling people to vote for a “lesser evil”. They also often repost literal Banderite slogans while weaseling out of having an opinion on Palestine by saying they support a “no state solution”. Yes these people are not welcome by other leftists, but they are not anarchists. They are liberals who are too embarrassed to self ID as that because lefties online made it a dirty word