• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    54·
    2 days ago

    the problem with tankies like that admin is that they never stop with the moral relativism. and their support of Palestine is not borne out of concern for Palestians, otherwise they wouldn’t have supported Assad’s ethnic cleansing campaign which was so brutal, you’d think it as something Israel would do. alas, they support “anti-imperialists” whose moral compass and politics are practically indistinguishable from that of Zionists

    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      to give you a more practical example, no one can deny that Azov is correct in fighting Russia. that doesn’t automatically make them valiant and brave anti-colonial heroes just because the Ukrainian people are fighting a war of national liberation. some groups are bad no matter how dire their local context is.

      • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
        25·
        2 days ago

        You have no business complaining of someone else allegedly relying on a straw men.

        Much of the problem is that you assume others follow your own narrow method of thought, by which every facet of the world is cast along thin and fixed lines separating good versus evil.

        • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          43·
          2 days ago

          are my moral lines too thin and fixed or are you simply too apathetic to stop fencesitting? i know the watchers at home know the obvious answers, stay tuned for the evening news 📺

          • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
            45·
            2 days ago

            You are being dishonest, simplistic, and obscurantic.

            I find no value in further discussion.

            Goodbye to you and your army of absurd little straw men.

    • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
      34·
      2 days ago

      Anarchists are not tankies.

      Also, the reason some leftists supported Assad was a hope to hasten the collapse of US imperialism, which causes massive death and suffering around the world. Criticizing such a stance as misguided is credible only if accompanied by a comparably critical stance against the even more deadly abuses of US imperialism.

      • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        63·
        2 days ago

        anarchists arent tankies but Lenin Glazers like the admin irrefutably are.

        Criticizing such a stance as misguided is credible only if accompanied by a comparably critical stance against the even more deadly abuses of US imperialism

        there isn’t a single anti-Assad anarchist that wouldn’t also critique the US. nice try, maybe leave the strawman arguments at the door next time

        • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
          63·
          2 days ago

          The posted comment never mentions Lenin.

          You are being deliberately dishonest.

          Also, you are the one who just now presented not one, but several straw men.

          When did I imply that “there [is] a single anti-Assad anarchist that wouldn’t also critique the US”? Again, you are being dishonest.

          • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
            31·
            2 days ago

            It is on topic, dude. Lenin and tankies are closely related, so are anarchists being tankie glazers.

            • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
              31·
              2 days ago

              It breaks your own rules against derailing threads, and your defense is little more than a word salad of unsubstantiated dogma.

              Anarchists are the strongest critics of authoritarian tendencies of leftism. Anarchists were targets of some of the earliest repression after the October Revolution, and Kropotkin famously fled the Soviet Union as an open and caustic critic of Lenin.

              Anarchists by nature are the strongest critics of any authoritarianism because anarchism entails opposition to all authority.

              Your failure to distinguish between anarchists and authoritarian leftists is ignorant and absurd.

              • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                32·
                24 hours ago

                Anarchists aren’t strong critics at all lol

                You can’t even condemn Hamas, who are authoritian in itself.

                • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  32·
                  2 days ago

                  You don’t know or care about historical and actual facts.

                  You don’t listen, or argue honestly.

                  Of course we criticize Hamas, but we also support their struggle to liberate Palestine from occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

                  Again, I cannot help if you are unable to parse the nuance, instead of continuing to perceive a conflict.

                  • goat@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
                    22·
                    2 days ago

                    When I asked if you condemn the rape and murder of civilians you told me to get lost lol

                    So no, you don’t criticise Hamas. I mean it’s pretty easy to criticise rape, ‘Hey, guys, probably don’t rape that woman to death and then parade her corpse through town while recording it’ – Makes it really hard for Tankies to squirm around muh nuance

            • unfreeradical@slrpnk.netEnglish
              52·
              2 days ago

              What an absurd defense.

              Once again, you deflect with an accusation that is completely unsubstantiated, an obvious non sequitur.