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It's so funny how the meaning of "tankie" has kept expanding to encompass those who previously used it. Like at first it was very specifically used by British Trots to refer to communists that supported the Soviet Suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising (because you know, they supported sending in the Tanks). But later on various "Libertarian" Leftists used it as a general pejorative for any perceived "Authoritarians", which usually includes Trots. Now you see fucking Liberals using it to mean any "Leftist" they see as too violent or radical; like it wasn't that long ago I saw someone referring to an Anarchist as "Tankie". Like how long until it enters the political mainstream? I can't wait to hear Joe Biden supporters call anyone who opposes his genocide a Tankie

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i guess the thing i'm noticing is that a lot of progressives seem to think that like pluralism means a plurality of conservatisms that are immune to scrutiny

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The U.S. will use its veto power against a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a member state of the United Nations during a vote at the Security Council expected to take place Thursday evening. Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson for the State Department, described as premature an effort by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain member status at the U.N. He said there was not unanimity among the Security Council’s 15 members that the Palestinian Authority had met the criteria for membership, with unresolved questions over the governance of the Gaza Strip, where Israel is in a war to defeat and eliminate the controlling power, Hamas. “And for that reason, the United States is voting no on this proposed Security Council resolution,” Patel said.

Earlier it was revealed that the United States was secretly pressuring other members of the Security Council to shoot down a Palestinian state membership so the US wouldn't have to use its veto as that would lead to a wave of local and international criticism for Joe Biden.

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On the subject of orwell and his rancid anticommunism, his flagship title "animal farm" is not simply a "satire of the USSR"; it is a full and total repudiation of the idea of proletarian rule at all. The entire book depicts the workers as dumb and incapable and easily manipulated by leaders. This is a fully aristocratic view of the proletariat and entirely anti-proletarian. This should be no surprise to people who are familiar with orwell's opinions and past, including the fact that he has "never been able to dislike Hitler" (actual quote, March 21, 1940) and that he was a colonialist cop.

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Columbia is unhousing students of color after suspending them:

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shit like this should be radicalizing people

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liberal zionists while the rest of the world is viewing images of mass graves and miles of completely destroyed infrastructure in one of the world's most densely populated areas

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do people even know the extent of sanctions on the iranian people? my mom's family can't afford fruit anymore. it's a state of psychological warfare; literally nobody living there has any sort of hope for the future. added sanctions from the EU are going to destroy the lives of 87 million innocent people

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always very telling when someone posits socialism as a hypothetical future thing that we cannot but debate the shape of, not like... a real thing with over a century of history. like you don't have to Imagine how x would be done under socialism, and arguing your own imagination against someone else's is especially timewasting. unchecked anarchist behaviour lmao

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Nothing more repulsive than the settler state's attempt at manipulating Sunni Muslims by using sectarian language to legitimise the killing of Shi'a Muslims

In fact, "The Shi'as insult the Prophet's companions" rhetoric was also used by another notorious terrorist group to legitimise the genocide of Shi'a Muslims:

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Theyre really painting him as some martyr for the cause as if he's not a full weirdo who would have been normally fired for his public harassment of students lmao

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Looks like Zionists still think they can say whatever the heck they want and get away with it.

How do you say this with a straight face when Gaza has been under Israeli siege since 2007? Movement of people has been restricted to the point where patients would die as they await Israeli permission to leave Gaza for treatment. Imports have been controlled by Israel that at some point even potato chips wasn't allowed into the strip and for years, Israel has been controlling the amount of calories allowed for the population to consume. And not to mention Israel's putting the entire population of Gaza under constant surveillance to the point of causing severe psychological harm.

That's just scratching the surface. If that's not Israeli control, I don't know what is.

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as you see the inhuman list of items banned from entry into gaza, you should be keenly aware the partner in israel's murder-suicide pact, the united states, has had an embargo on cuba (effectively doing the same to iran with sanctions too btw) for decades that includes medical supplies.

none of this was lifted for covid 19. both our cruel, barbaric countries will deny the absolute bare necessities for our genocidal economic projects

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The West Bank pogroms are still ongoing