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eastern-anarchist · 2 years

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An absolutely shameful story about how the "left" Democrats in Congress voted against the expropriation of the frozen assets of Russian oligarchs. Especially distinguished Ocasio-Cortez, who explained this decision as a "violation of the 4th amendment."

There have been a lot of questions to the AOC, including conceptual ones - can a wealthy congresswoman defend the leftist agenda, who in her policy relies on the US Constitution and American law in general? But now the main question appears - is she sure that she can continue to associate herself with "democratic socialism" and the left movement, if she is so concerned about the private property of Russian oligarchs, but not about indirect support for fascism?

(In fact, without confirmed data, I assume that lobbyism influenced the decision of the "left" democrats)))

#aoc #alexandria ocasio cortez #democrats #dems #american politics #us #war in ukraine #russian invasion #democratic socialism #left wing #western leftist

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lady-nightmare · 2 years

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Perzyński: Roger Waters to Steven Seagal wśród rockowych dinozaurów (FELIETON) - BiznesAlert.pl

#roger waters #commie #tankie #western leftist #pink floyd #russia #china #pro russia #pro china #ukraine #politics #ignorance #westplaining

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hilacopter · 3 months

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it's the way american leftists will insist on separating themselves from their government because, you know, a single governing force does not represent an entire country full of people with differing opinions. and then they absolutely refuse to apply that logic to non-western countries.

#apparently being across the globe from the people that actually matter means your country is a hivemind of npcs #which are either to be saved or destroyed by said people who actually matter #i'm so fucking tired #i'm done pretending western leftists aren't being horrifically xenophobic about this conflict #leftist hypocrisy #i/p #hila has spoken #lukas rants

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hussyknee · 5 months

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I know some dickheads have now decided that Judaism is the "bad, violent, terrorist religion" and Islam is the "good, peaceful" one, which is only to be expected of white people, but how much of an issue is it currently? Like I've seen some USAmericans sharing how the Islamic faith shapes Gazans values and perseverance (good) except with that distinct white hippie "I'm about to imprint on this like the world's most racist duck" vibe (bad), but I didn't think they're already turning on Judaism in numbers.

Do they realize that Christianity is also the same kind of comfort to Christian minorities in Asia and Africa? That it was Buddhists that genocided the Rohingyas in Myanmar and Tamils in Sri Lanka? That Hindu fundamentalists are even now trying to ethnically cleanse Muslims in India? How Hindus and Christians are terrorized and persecuted in Pakistan? That Muslims have a history of persecuting and ethnically cleansing Jews too?

Really tired of asking y'all to be normal about people's religions man. There's no religion that's inherently violent or exceptionally peaceful. It's just like any other ideology that becomes a weapon in the hands of ethnic power. Interrogate power, not religion, and respect people's belief systems insofar as they aren't in your business.

Edit: I've amended the "long history" of Muslim persecution of Jews because it might be misleading in the current political climate. Zionism and antisemitic Arab nationalism are twin births resulting directly from Christian colonization, and Islamic empires tended to actually be more tolerant of other religions compared to Christianity, especially Judaism, which was considered a sibling religion. Antisemitism wasn't ideologically entrenched in Islamic tradition. It's simply that ethno-religious power will lead to ethno religious domination and intermittent cleansing of minorities, and Islam is no exception. Humans be humaning always.

#Edit: please boost the edit #why can't white people just be fuckin normal for once #tbh this site was so weird about Judaism that it felt almost culty #I had several crises about whether I was being antisemitic before I realized no I'm just reacting to the idealization-demonization binary #that seems to be all western leftists know how to do #white queers are the worst about this #and now some of the asks I've been getting gives me the impression that the west thinks ''Islamist'' is some kind of dangerous cryptid #y'all attach insane levels of importance to people's choice of headgear #the only common denominator of all the Muslims I know is their fixation on biriyani idk #a lot of white lefties just want to use religion to distance yourself from your white privilege #same reason as why communism is so attractive to you #y'all want to share in a legacy of oppression because it's easier than self-reflection and unlearning #antisemitism #anti Zionism #Islamphobia #philosemitism #white queers #western leftists #racism #religious fundamentalism #genocide #religious violence #knee of huss

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ahaura · 5 months

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#palestine #geopol #this is just the white/western leftist version of 'if you were gay in palestine they would kill you'#also im pretty sure the red keffiyah does not mean obeida is a communist but the point still stands.#📁.zip

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mylimoji · 7 months

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#my long time mutual just casually reblogged it like please kill yourself. leftist my fucking ass #al.txt #yas fascism gave us women's and lgbt rights ♥️ do you hear yourselves.#like u know nothing about ussr if you regurgitate the western propaganda of how ussr treated women. like what the actual fuck is this

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klassicknight · 1 year

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nooradeservedbetter · 7 months

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#palestine #i need to find that one article on western leftists and xtian utopias

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brw · 7 months

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idk just shocked at the amount of people who are surprised that war is messy and violent and shocking. that bad things happen when a war is going on that violence and death is common when a war is being fought. and that obviously the completely peaceful and nonviolent alternative of YEARS of settler colonialism and oppression and warfare and of land becoming smaller and smaller despite being theirs first is what we should strive for. lmao. this is not a call for more blood this is a call for people to realise no revolution or resistance has been without blood and you can't allow your reasonable shock about violence to be weaponised into upholding n supporting imperialism. idk.

#brieuc.txt #i know im not articulating myself right.#but like everyone's a leftist until its brown people instead of ukranians fighting for freedom #all colonised people deserve the right to fight for freedom. even if they dont support your western values.#but this is where internet leftists start shitting themselves #palestine #ask to tag #current events

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creekfiend · 5 months

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I just really need ppl to integrate the fact that Jews being explicitly racialized and violently targeted for elimination under white supremacy is in fact the reason this is all happening to begin with so perhaps rhetoric which conflates is with the group of people who have been ethnically cleansing and genociding us for centuries is like, not the hottest thing to do idk

#its not NECESSARY to claims this is WHITE PEOPLE VS BROWN PEOPLE to advocate for Palestinian freedom or hold the state of israel accountable #it is not TRUE firstly which i wish was reason enough in a lot og leftist spaces lmao but #like. its not helpful.#its allowing white westerners to lazily map racial dynamics they feel familiar with #onto a situation they know nothing about #which is dangerous for diaspora Jews. it is dangerous for us. your rhetoric is DANGEROUS TO US #GOING TO THE CEASEFIRE RALLIES WITH HORSE BLINDERS ON SO I DONT HAVE TO SEE GENTILES SAY HATEFUL THINGS #FUCKS SAKE

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hacked-wtsdz · 1 month

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So tired of jk rowling demonisation. Yeah the woman hates trans people. She also spent amounts most of y’all have never seen on humanitarian causes and charities. She is not a one hundred percent horrible person deserving of shunning. Are people allergic to nuance

#I watched a couple documentaries on her charity lumos’ work #and I can’t hate her #I honestly don’t care what she says about trans people as long as she continues doing the good that she’s doing #people are ambiguous #all of this is further support of my slowly growing conviction that western people are very detached from the harsh realities of life in #non-western countries #even the leftists #and yeah the cancel culture didn’t stop rowling from her charity work but I refuse to hate her #not because I agree with her stances but because she does good for this word #world #it’s just good westerners are so without need for they forget about it #jk rowling #rowling

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hussyknee · 9 months

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One thing you have to remember is that online queer discourse doesn't make a damn bit of difference to systemic queerphobia irl or LGBT rights. No amount of playing respectability politics by identifying the "real freaks" will ever lead to sexual emancipation or prevent sexual violence. No amount of trying to identify and cast out "oppressors" and "infiltrators" will ever make homophobes and transphobes respect the sanctity of your sexual identity. Not letting people have words and flags and colours is absolutely nothing except a weapon for online harrassment and clout-chasing wielded by white and Western weirdos who've drunk the colonizer Kool-Aid.

#queer discourse #gatekeeping #bi lesbian #pan lesbian #pansexuality #aphobia #arophobia #transandrophobia #mspec lesbian #online harrassment #respectability politics #purity culture #kinkphobia #western leftists #white queers #anti radfem #lgbtqia #knee of huss

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ohsalome · 2 months

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(story taken and machine-translated from the official twitter account of the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea)

Today's story is about a woman who was detained by the occupiers in the spring of 2022 and illegally sentenced to almost 7 years in prison. Iryna Danylovych is a nurse and citizen journalist.

She was threatened, blackmailed and forced to confess to things she did not do. Now Irina is in a Russian colony, her health is deteriorating due to the lack of quality and timely medical care.

Iryna Danylovych worked as a nurse at the Malachite rehabilitation center in Koktebel, maintained a social media page and several blog columns on the rights of healthcare workers and healthcare issues in the occupied Crimea.

The occupation forces abducted Iryna Danylovych in April 2022. She was returning from a night shift at the hospital when the occupiers searched her house and seized all her appliances, several books and documents.

There was no contact with Irina for more than a week. She was illegally detained by the FSB: she was subjected to psychological pressure, beaten, threatened with death, interrogated on a polygraph, threatened to be "taken to the forest" (ed. - meaning killed and buried in the forest) or "to Mariupol" (once again, killed), fed once a day, and not allowed to go to the restroom.

Eventually, the occupiers informed her relatives that a decision had been made to place her under "administrative arrest", allegedly because "she had transferred unclassified materials to another country". Later, they fabricated a "case" against Irina accusing her of "illegal actions with explosives."

The "proof" was the "discovery" of 200 grams of explosives in Irina's bag. And only on May 11, the lawyer managed to establish that she was in the occupation pre-trial detention center in Simferopol.

The "arrest warrant" was issued by the occupation "court" during a closed court session - without the participation of listeners, journalists, or Irina's relatives.

But the real reason for the detention is different. For covering the problems of the healthcare system, the crimes of the occupiers, as well as for protecting and promoting the rights of healthcare workers in the occupied Crimea.

Iryna was one of the first correspondents of the Crimean Process; she supported Crimean Tatar activists in the "courts"; prepared materials for the editorial office of Inzhyr Media; supported medical activists, recorded violations of rights under occupation.

According to Irina, she was kidnapped, taken to Simferopol and illegally detained in a basement, tortured and starved, and forced to sign a confession under threat of death, having been viciously planted with explosives after the "confession" had been forcibly extracted.

Complete hearing loss in the left ear, deprivation of necessary medications, suffering from headaches and earaches. This is what Iryna is going through now.

Irina was transferred to the Krasnodar Women's Correctional Colony No. 7 in Zelenokumsk. Every day, Irina's health condition deteriorated: in the occupation prisons, she gradually lost hearing in her left ear, developed otitis media, constant headaches and dizziness.

Back in July 2022, the political prisoner reported being beaten by an FSB convoy and psychological pressure exerted on her by Russian security forces. The occupiers also took away the opportunity to read, not returning the collection of poems.

To get medical help, she went on a hunger strike, but stopped it after 10 days, believing the promises of the SIZO administration, but no one has treated her and is not going to, watching the prisoner's health deteriorate.

According to her father, the colony allocates 90 minutes for the distribution of medicines twice a week: on Tuesday and Thursday. During this time, only 20-30 people out of a queue of several hundred prisoners manage to receive them.

"There are periodic fights among the patients for the opportunity to be in the front of the line and receive medicines. Iryna does not participate in this and has been deprived of access to the medicines prescribed by doctors, which we regularly send in parcels, for several months now," her father said.

Despite the illegal actions, torture and pressure, the occupiers failed to break the Ukrainian journalist, she continues to support Ukraine and believe that she will soon return home. "Only in such a strong Ukraine could such a strong you be born," said Iryna's father Bronislav.

Even behind bars, Iryna Danylovych continues to resist the occupiers and support Ukraine. The song "I am free!" performed by her is a symbol of disobedience and struggle, which the occupiers do not like, and the tattoo on her body that reads "Freedom is our religion" is her life's credo.

#human rights #ukraine #russia #journalist #crimea #war in ukraine #you know a woman being kidnapped and tortured as a punishment for speaking up about issues in the healthcare system #sounds like exactly something western leftists would be supporsed to care about #but alas our agressor is russia and they are allowed to do that because dostaevsky and chaikovsky #and one can't twist this story to somehow make it about usa #very sad

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kosherdragondev · 7 months

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First it was "the rape and mass murder of civilians is good. This is what decolonization looks like."

And now it's "the rape and mass murder of civilians didn't actually happen."

What changed?

There's a word for altering the facts to align with your opinions instead of altering your opinions to align with reality.

#Israel #i/p conflict #Antisemitism #Delusional western leftists showing their tuchases #Go fuck a cactus

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zvaigzdelasas · 7 months

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