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  • My general observation is that have placed yourself between two deceptive narratives, while also boldly framing yourself and neutral and enlightened.

    One the one side, you have adopted a narrative that you present as unifying across a group you call tankies. On the other side, you have promoted the narrative constructed by Western states, most notably the US, and propagated through Western media, for the purpose of cultivating popular domestic support for their own expansionism.

    Tankie is a term coined by leftists to discredit other leftists. Most generally, the usage has been anti-authoritarian leftists attacking authoritarian leftists, but the term has no fixed, precise meaning, and has been widely abused due to its vagueness and obscurity. As for authoritarian leftists, attitudes do vary considerably. Taking for example attitudes respecting the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, some are vulgar campists who glorify strongmen and deny atrocities, whereas others simply acquiesce to the painful reality that conflicts involving US imperialism always end in massive devastation, even while no credible antagonist of the US is itself driven by virtue. The latter is broadly shared by most serious leftists, including libertarian socialists and democratic socialists, who are also broadly critical of all authoritarians, including leftists who are authoritarian.

    Specifically attacking tankies from a standpoint of reaction is counterproductive. Reactionaries obviously demean all leftists, but at best very rarely offer any characterizations that are accurate.

    The dialogue that is promoted by you and this community is similarly counterproductive. It wastefully exaggerates the threat of the groups you criticize, and promotes broad conflations whose primary effects are to amplify antagonism and to poison the discourse. A much more serious approach to engaging leftism would be first learning and acknowledging the varied positions within and between distinct leftist tendencies, and then considering which specific positions you are inclined to accept versus to reject.


  • I cannot do any more than repeat my explanation one last time, that you are anchored to a straw man.

    The basic fact is exceedingly simple. Hamas, a faction of Palestinians, is engaged in an armed struggle with Israel, which is perpetrating atrocities against Palestine.

    Such an uncontroversial observation should not provoke such confusion or hostility.

    Of course, it would be more favorable for Palestine to have the means of acquiring more potent military capacities.

    If you want to ask a question, then please find one that is not meaningless within the context.






  • It is certainly in your interest to be conscious of others seeking that you be duped or manipulated.

    The wealthy and powerful constantly deploy their massive resources to deceive the public into following a path that benefits those on top while keeping the mass of society repressed.

    The long history of the US lying to its own population to justify overseas wars offers only among the most obvious examples of deceit being employed by the privileged in favor of the privileged.

    As crises and discontent escalate around the world, the catalyst for such interests to create distractions from the real problems only becomes more substantial.

    Overcoming such challenges begins with our recognition that effective solutions will not be handed down from above.

    I have found it particularly ironic that Americans constantly lament the foolishness of trusting the government, yet they follow hook, line and sinker whenever state interests align with the public being made fearful of yet one more enemy.





  • Hamas emerged from within the context of a brutal occupation.

    Before Israel, there was no Hamas.

    Before the Nakba, there was no Hamas.

    Hamas is fundamentally a construct of colonial resistance.

    It is not seriously a threat to any interests except Israel atrocities. Even if it did threaten Palestinians, the threat would be dwarfed by such atrocities of Israel. Palestinians are far safer through Hamas than they would be without Hamas. It is easy to imagine a superior alternative, but none actually exist in the present.





  • Hamas is labeled terrorist because it was assigned the label by Israel.

    Hamas is terrorist only as much as one terrorist entity is credible to decide exactly which groups or factions are terrorist.

    More generally, terrorist simply is a label states assign to their non-state enemies.

    By the same standards, the Continental Army would be terrorist, as would be been essentially every belligerent that has engaged in anti-colonial struggle.

    Regardless, it should be concrete facts, not abstract labels, that are used to support arguments and conclusions.