Comment on /Politics starts banning any mention of the Democrats complicity in the Genocide in Gaza
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
FYI, readers of /politics are very familiar with Linkerbaan and his nonstop hammering of a single wedge issue from a single narrow viewpoint. To be honest, I believe the mod made the correct choice.
You believe that i should be permabanned from politics for linking an article saying israel would have ran out of weapons if not for Joe Biden resupplying them?
FYI readers, Aubeynarf is also a frequent poster on /Politics. You can guess what type of “nuanced viewpoint” he posts.
No, but banning someone for questioning Israel’s right to exist is reasonable, since that’s advocating for genocide.
I can see someone eventually getting fed up with the one-sided narrative, and it’s true that Israel would not actually have ran out of weapons. We are not the exclusive supplier to Israel, simply the most convenient for them. They are capable of domestic manufacture and purchasing from other entities.
I was not banned for questioning the Apartheidheids state of Israels right to exist, another user was.
A colonial Apartheid state is not a people. Saying Apartheid South Africa should not exist does not mean one supports the Genocide of white people.
Israel cannot get their 2000 pound school buster bombs and tank shells in this quantity anywhere else. Even the israeli press reported that israel was starting to run out of weapons before Biden resupplied them which is linked in my post you hopefully read.
Yes, a current supplier stopping its supplies to you will cause your stocks to go down. The mistake is in thinking this cannot be rectified in any other way. You’re probably right that the big bombs could only come from us, but big bombs are not really required to destroy Gaza. Napalm would work just fine, and is very cheap. Tank shells are produced all over the world, and I’m not even sure Israeli tanks use NATO standard. If they do, then multiple suppliers could be found.
Actually it is genocide, since the only way to destroy the state of Israel would be to kill or drive away many of its citizens. When you destroy a people’s way of life, that qualifies as a genocide, and is why current Israeli actions meet the qualification. If any other group did similar things to Israel, it would also meet the qualification. Saying a colonial state is somehow special is silly. It’s people, living on land. Why they arrived there is largely irrelevant, when all of us colonized the whole Earth from Africa at a distant point in the past. Palestinians and Israelis, along with everyone else, are native to Africa, not the Middle East. Everything else is arbitrary. While we could all move back to Africa and leave the rest of Earth to the rest of the animal kingdom, I doubt current-day Africans would be very appreciative.
I believe the mod made the correct choice.
What choice? Last I heard they reversed a bunch of his band and decided against banning him from .world, which is what should’ve been done
This is a major issue. There are over 40,000 already counted dead and most are civilians. Dismissing the US’s aid in the destruction is disgusting.
…and your 2nd paragraph is whining about what you yourself are doing in your first. Gross
Pointing out someone’s patterns of behaviour on a thread they started about their own behaviour is not an ad hominem attack. It’s an on-topic discussion of the point at hand.
Calling someone who agrees that an ongoing genocide is dreadful but believes the suggested course of action will make it worse a genocide enabler, on the other hand, is an ad hominem.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Genocide is kinda big deal dude.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah. Only problem is that op wants people to let trump take the Whitehouse, so it’s clear they have ulterior motives.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 months ago
So people that want to vote for anti-genocide candidates are the problem? Rather than the blue cheek of the same pro war butthole.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You really do go all over the place lying about everything all the time huh. Amazing how you never get banned from /world.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, turns out they only ban/persecute the fReEdOm FiGhTeRs who totally totally address the issue of electing trump. Of course, totally on accident and definitely not on purpose via intentional year-long campaign with it specifically in mind from day one.
lengau@midwest.social 3 months ago
Making personal attacks against people who agree that it’s a big deal but say that voting third party is counterproductive, though, is hammering a wedge issue from a narrow viewpoint.
Tho problem for me isn’t viewing the genocide as bad. I am in full agreement there. The problem is the response to people who disagree about the most effective way to stop it.