[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Something something I hope for a future where I'll face the wall for being a reactionary something something

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

uh, buddy, you're aware the US has that too right? like, by your own logic the chinese cannot control the UN any more than the US can, and I'm purely using what you've said, no other needed information about the history of what the UN says and sides most of the time with needed.

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

yes, obviously the UN and WHO are controlled by the evil see see pee

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

I condemn the racist politics of the right-extremist government of Israel and the social segregation and severe injustice it causes. What is your point?

Israel is an apartheid state, this isn't new, this isn't something that the current government did, this is the establishing principle of the state that has been held up since the start, calling an apartheid state "diverse" like you did in your first post is absolutely incorrect and is not close to the reality of the situation in any way shape or form, it's pure propaganda

There was this thing you all constantly choose to ignore, called the holocaust, that afaik not just a lot of antifascists see as a reason why Israel must exist, simply because otherwise the Jews will not survive capitalism.

having suffered in the past does not give a group of people free reign to commit those same acts against a separate unaffiliated population, having an ethnostate in the first place is not a good goal, but even if we said it was necessary, doing it through the ethnic cleansing and genocide of another group is not at all justifiable in any way.

treating things as if jews are simply different from regular people and could never survive as a minority in another country so they should not be judged by the same standard we apply to everyone is in itself an anti-semitic view to have, jews are regular people, committing genocide and ethnic cleansing is bad, whoever does it and however noble their goal is doesn't change that fact.

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

'Warak enab' (ورق عنب) is how you say 'grape leaves' in arabic, so, that's the same dish yeah, they're stuffed with rice mainly

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

Even with the meaning of Semite=Jew

That's still incredibly antisemitic, saying all jews are Zionists is just calling all jews supporters of genocide, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, it's untrue of course, being a Jew has nothing to do with supporting ethnic cleansing and the existence of the state of Israel

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

like the others said, generalizing over jews like that is at least a little antisemitic, there are a lot of jews that do recognize the genocide and are anti-zionist/anti-Israel, or at least are speaking out against current Israeli action even if they don't recognize the rest of Israel's crimes

so, zionists as a group do only care about the holocaust because it happened to their group. but this is not the case for all jews.

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago

we don't like apartheid, and we don't like ethnostates.

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I despise you for exposing me to this, dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow, spreading this kind of nuclear grade cringe should be a punishable crime.

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

China

the largest poverty alleviation campaign in modern history is too small for you to consider good?

Russia

we're talking about AES, not capitalist states.

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'democratic' is used today a lot of the time to describe neoliberal capitalist governments that are controlled (influenced greatly) by the capitalist class

for example we can look at somewhere like the US and point out how the majority of people in government are all rich capitalists and how through lobbying and campaign 'donations' and owning the media the capitalist class controls the government

marxists call this kind of state a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (capital), as opposed to a dictatorship of the proletariat (workers)

dictatorship here meaning general 'rule' not the specific meaning that the word has taken on more recently

so 'democratic' capitalist countries that exist today are under the "rule of the capitalist class" or "dictatorship of capital"

so if you wanted an actual democratic (in the real sense of the word) government, you'd need a government which is controlled by the majority of people, that is, the workers, a dictatorship of the proletariat

under such a system capitalists cannot be allowed to have influence on the government, which is something that is not really possible unless you implement tight capital controls like they do in China

the reason being that capital flight is a very real threat to a capitalist economy, and having that power over a government lets the capitalist class dictate terms and change laws to be favorable to them despite what the majority of people might want.

so to answer your question, the only way to have a government with a capitalist system not be controlled by capitalists is through suppression of the capitalist class, if they are allowed to have influence then you no longer have actual democracy.

[-] Clever_Clover@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

best way I've seen to tell someone to read capital lmao

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