2000 years of racism, forced displacement and oppression, capped off with one of the most horrific genocides in the history of the world.
And who is responsible for that, eh? The same "western civilization" that is now using Israel as a kapo state to do it's dirty work in the middle-east, perhaps?
The only way Israel will ever stop the genocide is by ceasing to exist. If you don't understand that you don't understand what Israel is.
And the mod(s? was it ever more than one person?
Quite honestly it's difficult to tell whether it was all just an army of sock accounts or if this user (still going as ziq over on raddle) had actually managed to recruit some loyal followers into their weird little purity-testing cult or something. Either way, it's pretty fucked up.
But it did teach me an important lesson, though... any online space dedicated to leftists is going to inevitably attract these dangerous and toxic Napoleon-types (yes, I am naming them after the pig in Animal Farm - I'm going there) - people whose "leftism" only consists of that which facilitates their megalomania and who has the time and resources available to them to subvert those very spaces. It really explains why tankies have such a toxic presence online. Leftists should never fool themselves into assuming that someone understanding leftist theory automatically means they are acting in good faith.
So I don't get too heavily invested in leftist-only spaces - I prefer being out there engaging people and doing counter-propaganda. It just feels a whole lot more productive.
Hmmm... most interesting. Thanks!
No thanks... I don't want to meet your cousins.
Gee... what could I possibly have against grifters that want to twist the concept of socialism into "whatever Dear Brother Leader says it is"?
Yeah... and that was just the US and their new bestie Saddam getting warmed up.
Don't forget the crimes Saddam committed back in the 80s - with US help, of course.
Your ignorance is either naive or contrived. I don't care enough to investigate which one it is... I only care that your shitty take is understood for what it is. Aaaaand... that seems to be the case.
The US propaganda complex is the most spectacularly successful propaganda effort to ever exist - even modern-day China have zero hopes of even approaching it.
somewhere by secret services or criminal enterprises.
You say that as if they are two separate things.
You mean that thing the US only did because of a nationalist pissing contest?
Who were the first to use them in our appliances, pray tell?
Hmmm... okay - I'll give you this one (I sure as hell hope you're referring to the beer laws).