But until israel has become wasrael, they’ll have my support.
Well... it sounds like you do commend Hamas for their resistance to the genocidal colonial occupation (complimentary, I mean this as a good thing, of course).
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One of the several issues western shitlibs tend to suffer from is that they expect a perfect Netflix style resistance™. They don’t understand that resistance is an imperfect process done by flawed individuals who sometimes do bad. Yet through it all even a deeply flawed resistance is better than a genocidal occupation.
THANK YOU, you see it all over this very thread. It's unbelievable (well, sadly believable, but it shouldn't be) at this point in time that people who think of themselves as "leftists" would still behave this way.
So yes unironically I do support Hamas and I support every resistance group to imperialism regardless of how flawed they are because morality means nothing to the dead.
It's literally just this simple and IMO all the pearl clutching people do to avoid saying this comes from a place of western chauvinism.
"My source is that I made it the fuck up."Bro, they are misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, radical Islamist, fundamentalist terrorists. They are the exact opposite of every value leftist stand for.
You also don't seem to understand the concepts of colonialism and resistance to colonialism. Opposing colonialism is a value every leftist should stand for.
Have you ever heard the term "critical support"? Resistance doesn't need to be perfect to be valid. Read "Perfect Victims" by Mohammed El-Kurd.
They pursue a deliberate strategy of killing and kidnapping civilians.
They "kidnap" civilians (among also many military members) in an attempt to do prisoner exchanges in response to a much more large-scale strategy of the same employed by "Israel". Unlike "Israel" they are working with few resources and very little intelligence data, so it's not surprising their actions aren't always surgically precise (whereas "Israel", of course, constantly target civilians deliberately).
And their disastrous political and military strategy was a large contributor to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Gazans over the past several years.
Literally victim blaming, lol. You're not only assuming that they could have predicted the exact course of events (including the scale of their success in Al-Aqsa flood and the scale of the "Israeli" response), but softly absolving the actual perpetrators of much of the blame. There is one and only one party responsible for this and for all other violence within Palestine since 1948. That's what colonialism is.
I usually try not to criticize them because such criticisms are being used to justify genocide
Yeah, they are.
Hamas are responsible for the worst killing of Jews since the Holocaust.
Damn, I didn't realize the 1976 right-wing military coup in Argentina (the actual largest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, committed by people who "Israel" continued to arm before, during, and after) was Hamas.
If that's your impression of what Hamas is, you are either severely misinformed or you harbor racial/religious bias. I'm assuming it's the former, so I will let you know that that is not an accurate description of Hamas. If you are interested in finding out more about them, you should read their updated charter from 2017.
Yes, this is ancient. Yes, it will be reposted whenever Things are Happening.
Yes, this is ancient. Yes, it will be reposted whenever Things are Happening.
<- The Based Department.It’s hard. I wish we could kick them in the nuts over the internet. Not because it would necessarily change anything, but so that the rest of us could be a bit less stressed about it all.
Like the meme. Thanks.
Fair points. To be honest, my main concern when commenting in spaces like these is the state of "leftist" spaces, since that's what's directly affected by the act of commenting. I think allowing the chauvinism to run unchecked without being confronted makes these spaces quite painful to inhabit, especially for those targeted by that chauvinism.
Related to what you've said, I've got one of the classics from the Chinese internet... You might enjoy it in the unlikely event you haven't seen it before.
Remember JDPON Don. Internationalists are in control. Trust the plan.
Ah ok understandable, admins aren’t marked outside the instance itself so that’s an easy mistake
Oh damn, I didn't realize that before.
To clarify, I think the positive spin here is for us to acknowledge that the article's framing is racist, but that WE can read it without perceiving being accused of being in a "gang" as an automatically negative thing.
I'm not sure if I'm expressing this very well, sorry. I think it's like how you see people who commit justified acts of resistance often being called "terrorists" by the media, so among leftists "terrorism" no longer has an automatic negative connotation because we associate it with resistance. However, we understand that the intent from the media in using this term is still to convey the negative connotation.
The title says "Liberal newspaper", that's quite enough information to me to assume that the use of the word "gang" here is racist slander.
However, I acknowledge that not everyone has a lot of experience reading this kind of media critically from the perspective I'm discussing, so I'm accepting that you were mistaken and weren't being racist. /genuine
Edit: to reply to your edit:
Like yeah I made a mistake, sorry about that ¯(ツ)_/¯
Fair enough!
Personally I’d just get mad at the racism but maybe I’m not white enough to understand this.
also using gangs to do your bidding as a leader is inherently anti-communist.
2 hours ago you were referring to them NEGATIVELY as gangs completely without irony.
Wow, you oppose both sides, the perpetrators and those who resist them. Would you like a medal to take back to your mind palace, where unlike in reality that opinion might actually mean anything?