One of the worst reddit-logo posts I’ve ever seen. I lost brain cells reading this and now I have to subject you all to the same.

CWs: transphobia, zionism, actual genocide denial, never-before-seen levels of liberalism, mentions of sexual assault, antisemitism

Some highlights:

"Man, isn’t it depressing that people are interested in engaging with politics beyond vote "

This next one’s a banger. We’ve got someone literally saying “Every trans rights in America is thanks to the democrats”, and thinking that the ballot box is the only way to effect change

"Why won’t you answer my contrived question that is framed in a way to make it seem like these are the only two possibilities??? Huh??? morshupls "

“All Russians know how to do is commit sexual assault, steal, and genocide”

"it’d take isntrael 30 years at this rate to kill all the Gazans, and Putler’s doing a worse genocide in ukkkraine "

“Russia is the only empire, don’t look too close at nato-cool. Also the only difference between Russia and Israel is that Israel is Jewish.”

“I mean, as stupid and flawed america has been and currently is now, for now at least, there isn’t censorship that detains or silences you if you talk shit to the government”

“Also TERFs are nowhere near the level of Nazis/tankies, that’s a crazy comparison”

“Trump is better than Putin, Stalin, Mao” - an Israeli-born zionist

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    When America invaded Afghanistan over 20 years, they killed in total 50k civilians.

    In half that time, the Soviets killed 2 million afghan civilians

    Yeeeah, I don’t buy those numbers for a millisecond

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      As shown in Fort Bragg Cartel, spec ops (death squads) in Afghanistan/Iraq had kill quotas they could barely even keep up with throughout these wars and these were never publicly tracked. 50k is definitely a lie.

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      50… 50 thousand…

      I’m sorry… THOUSAND… 50 thousand civillians is somehow okay? Definitely a low number but that’s still 2,500 non-combatants killed per year. If the town where I live had 2,500 deaths in a single year, there would literally be nobody left alive in this town. That’s an entire town worth of people, not soldiers, just… people… killed.

      Nothing about this number, even as inaccurately low as it most definitely is, should be okay.

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        I think there is something to be said for comparing the relative propensity for collateral damage between two militaries, but that only applies when the wars are just. The US invasion was not, which means 100% of the deaths were unnecessary.

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    The Democrats are the left party in the US with the other being the GoP. Trans, LGBT, etc are represented by the DNC due to this. Therefore, all protections for the LGBT are Democrat driven.

    That’s certainly… an argument.

    Minority rights have always been won by activists. Democrats sometimes pander to activists during election season, and then once elected do nothing about it until the issue reaches 51% in the polls[1] or people start burning cities at which point they concede to their supposed values in order to maintain order


    1. And even then sometimes not, e.g. universal healthcare ↩︎

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    “Also the only difference between Russia and Israel is that Israel is Jewish."

    lol, if the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are Israeli territory like Israel wants them to be then Israel is less than 50% Jewish.

    FUCK YOU

    STOP GENOCIDING THE PALESTINIANS YOU PIECES OF SHIT

    Sincerely,

    An anti-Zionist Reform Jew who had relatives that survived the Holocaust

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      I had forgotten how bad it was to venture out of my safe space of /r/TrueAnon, /r/TheDeprogram, and /r/ShitLiberalsSay

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        Controversial take but that “anti echo chamber” push in the 2010s was bs. I saw what libs had to say online and I had enough, I don’t wanna interact with them

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    Their smugness is so fucking annoying. The only values they stand for is western chauvinism. They are the type of people who both-sides a fucking genocide just so they can feel smugly superior to everyone else about how great their western democracy is.

    Every single posts about Palestine in that subreddit will have some highly upvoted comment about why people aren’t talking hard about Russia/Iran/China or something instead.

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    they tend also to be fans of Putin, the CCP, the Iranian government, Hamas, and the North Korean government, despite many of those being right-wing.

    nothing burger of a statement that obviously tries to blur the line between social issues and economic policy, maybe a decade more of social progression will stop uncle Bob from caring about not being able to feed his family, or maybe uncle Bob will (scary) blame the centre of Libs attention for his situation and vote for some bigot who is otherwise a near cut and paste cuck for big business.

    What is the deal with their bad faith arguments too, there is easily accessible evidence rebuking the “genocidal USSR” slop but these fake leftists couldn’t bother to use google?

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    i’m tentatively starting to feel like this and the other “political” subs are heavily astroturfed. not close to a majority of commenters, but enough to get the libs to feel comfortable in their inherent superiority over everyone else. you go to a lot of the “non-political” subreddits and people aren’t nearly as smug and self-assured in their chauvinism. sometimes they even say some pretty cool stuff. then again, it is surprising to see a drama community online that isn’t filled with out-and-proud nazis