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From what I saw, the 'call to murder' was someone having kill all zionists in their username, and that only makes sense as a real call to violence if we're supposed to take everyone's username seriously and literally. That would be a very weird world to be in, as then we'd have to accept that we're reading posts written by Star Trek characters come to life, inanimate objects, and various bodily fluids. Without evidence of something worth taking more seriously, at best this looks like the admin team doing something silly, and obviously certain groups of Lemmy users will interpret it less charitably and as the LW admin team being pro-genocide. Neither is a good look.
My handle is serious. Deadly serious.
Same dude.
I'm sure you'll have someone to satisfy your request someday.
Surprise surprise Lemmy isn't entirely different from Reddit in that:
For the record, I am not for calling anyone's death as that's not my thing, but have some consistency hypocrites. Smh.
I think speech on the issue of killing zionists is more serious than Star Trek and cum farts, because there's a war actively going on. And killing Zionist civilians during a war is starting to sound pretty war-crimey. We should only be killing Zionist soldiers.
If someone, in the course of WWII, said "kill all Nazis", would you feel the same?
Keeping in mind Nazism, like Zionism, is a political identity one chooses...
I don't mind either statement on it's own. But it does become problematic once people go around baselessly accusing others of being Nazis/Zionists, which is something that is rampant on lemmy, especially dbzer0 and its offshoots.
Schindler, the list guy, was a Nazi. And he saved a thousand Jewish people from the Nazis. I don't think Schindler ought have been killed. Plus there's Operation Paperclip. They recruited Nazi scientists to work at NASA and help get a man on the moon. I'm not educated enough to understand the full ramifications of Paperclip, but it seems like a decent idea.
But all of that is kinda besides the point, because Netanyahu has a very different propaganda strategy to Hitler. A more sophisticated one. Netanyahu wants there to be extremists who would see him dead. He funded Hamas during the last Gazan election, because of their violent rhetoric. There is serious evidence that he and the government knew about October 7 and deliberately allowed it to happen by suspending the border patrols during the crucial hours. He's got a plan.
Israel thrives on the violent rhetoric of its opponents, because they want to call us terrorists. That is why we must conduct ourselves with the appropriate restraint to beat these allegations. Luminous' rhetoric sounds terrorist-y. They're advocating for the killing of civilians. That's terrorism. We need to be better than that, or we can't win the propaganda war and gather allies.
On this point and this point alone I reply: No. Do not let the enemy define the terms of the battle. In the US, the Democrats need to not placate the fascists. Again, I am solely discussing the words I quoted, not the larger topic of zionists or the lemmy thing.
I'm against the death penalty and I'm against targeting civilians during a war. Those aren't the enemy's terms of battle, those are My beliefs and values.
I mean this pretty much avoids the question by invoking the idea that because there was some Nazis you approve of, something something.. I fail to see the relevance. It sure sounds like apologetics.
You then proceed to moralize about the efficacy of the critique the stament is making, but you didn't actually address the question.
Your argument is basically "Don't be critical of Zionists or Israelis, because that plays into their five d chess".
Now, put yourself in the position of the period immediately before WWII, and in your response, replace the word Israel with the word Nazi Germany.
Would you still agree with your statement? Are you comfortable with history remembering you did these kinds of apologetics on behalf of the worst criminals, the most abhorrent people of the time?
Okay, I'll switch to talking about the big man himself.
It is a wonderful thing that Hitler killed himself. It was a PR blessing for the allies, because it prevented him from becoming a martyr. If Hitler had not killed himself, I do not think he should have been given the death penalty. I am against killing Hitler unless he was an active combatant. I think Hitler should have been given life in prison, because I am against the death penalty in all circumstances. And it would have made him a martyr.
Likewise, Netanyahu should not be killed. He should be given a fair trial, which I believe should reach a verdict of life in prison. I don't want Netanyahu martyred, I don't want to spend tons of money on his death row, I just want to put him in a room where he can't hurt anyone until he dies of old age.
I love it when you fascist lovers out yourself like this.
Ikr? Just for starters, using Operation Paperclip as an example of something good and positive to back up your point, when supposedly your reasoning for defederation is based on the concept of the Nazi bar? That is some seriously wild pro-fash hypocrisy.
If someone said "Murder all Martians. Rimu is a martian." and then we spend hours debating whether it's ok to kill martians or not then that would be a waste of time. Because I am not a martian. Obviously there are situations where murdering Martians can be justified - the problem is someone calling for me to be killed based on made-up bullshit. Let's talk about that.