t3rmit3

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t3rmit3,

Yes, that is the origin of the term, but it is not what it means now. Is that too complex for you?

t3rmit3, (edited )

Ah, I see your confusion.

what it means (people in support of that use of force and tanks to suppress civilian revolution)

This ^ is the incorrect part of your statement. That is not what it means now.

edit: Also

Tankie refers to those people who supported the Soviet use of tanks to quell the Hungarian revolution.

Emphasis added. If you meant “referred” in the past tense, that was a typo on your part. Otherwise, you are just trying to reclaim the term to an earlier meaning.

t3rmit3, (edited )

“Yeah, but if there’s one Hamas guy inside a densely-populated refugee camp, what possible other choice do we have than to bomb literally tens of buildings in there? He could have been in any of them! We gave those civilians ample warning that they are subject to murder at any time, anyways! How can you say we’re not merciful and restrained!?”

t3rmit3,

Exchanging them for Palestinian hostages that Israel is holding.

t3rmit3,

Netanyahu is going to bomb the hostages and then blame Hamas, saying they were used as human shields, just like he’s been doing with Palestinian civilians. 200 Israeli hostages “murdered by Hamas (using Israeli bombs)” is more useful politically to his war-machine than 200 live hostages.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Hamas wouldn’t have done 10/7 if not for Israel’s colonialism and genocide, and Israel has never had a true “ceasefire” in Palestine. They for years have done bombing campaigns that they euphemize as “mowing the grass”, against Gaza. You can’t divorce the current conflict from the history that led to it.

Turns out that desperation breeds extremism, and Israel is the one who made Palestinians desperate.

People don’t denounce slaves who revolt as being too brutal, but continually murdering and starving peoples’ children apparently is not bad enough to justify revolt when it’s only Palestinians being murdered.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Are you by any chance in denial of the PIJ missile which misfired into the hospital carpark a couple of weeks back? The one which Hamas lied was a direct hit by Israeli bombs killing 500?

No, I think it is likely that it was a rocket that misfired. Israel has been responsible for all the intentional bombs hitting hospitals, schools, places of worship, etc though, so I’m not sure what significance you are attributing to what someone believes about the one unintentional one?

t3rmit3, (edited )

Israel’s entire claim was that this resource starvation that they enacted HAD to be done this way in order to prevent Hamas from taking the supplies, but then they turn around and say their own justification was wrong?

Okay, seems like they are making the case for lifting restrictions on aid, since the restrictions aren’t working anyways.

Because unless they are just finally admitting that Israel intends to genocide the Palestinian civilians, essential supplies HAVE to go to Gaza.

t3rmit3,

Imagine the police calling you and telling you to turn yourself in, and then bombing your family if you don’t.

Seems like the police are the bad guys in that scenario.

t3rmit3,

Hamas denies aid to civilians: “it’s so horrible, no words to express it”

Israel denies aid to civilians: “this is just what has to happen, no way around it”

Food and water don’t power weapons, and it’s illegal to use denial of food and water as a weapon of war anyways.

Anyone who claims to care about Palestinian civilians should be demanding the restrictions on supplies be lifted, because the restrictions clearly aren’t working anyways.

t3rmit3, (edited )

That feeling of being less well off.

I got bad news for you: no one cares what an economist says about how they should feel, they only care about how they DO feel, and most Americans feel worse off.

That’s not Biden’s fault, obviously, it’s Capitalism’s, but try explaining that to your average American.

t3rmit3,

So in other words they understood that they were being called on to condemn antisemitism in order to help reinforce the narrative that these college rallies were antisemitic protests, when in fact they were pro-Palestinian ones.

Good on them for choosing to side with their students rather than give the anti-Palestinian camp their manufactured “professors condemn antisemitic student rallies” soundbites.

Refuse to engage with their genocide-backing rhetoric that tries to tie being pro-Palestinian to being antisemitic.

t3rmit3, (edited )

But of course no one will act on calls to blame Israel for the hospital needing to be evacuated in the first place…

t3rmit3, (edited )

Of course Bibi didn’t mention the Palestinian women and children.

He isn’t going to admit that Israel uses hostage-taking to demoralize and torment Palestinians.

At best, he’ll make reference to “prisoners”, and not address why they have a bunch of child prisoners in the first place.

t3rmit3,

extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop

He’s talking about settlers attacking Palestinians.

t3rmit3,

I loved/hated how it was like a “my little combatant” kit, with a gun, uniform, and snacks all packed in a little duffle bag.

Either it was Israel bringing those in for the photo op, or it was Hamas leaving those to make it look like Israel carried them in for a photo op.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Israel is trying to pull a “if the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit” sleight of hand here.

Even if it were a Hamas command center, that does not justify withholding food and medicine from the hospital.

Even if it were a Hamas command center, that does not justify conducting their brutal attacks on civilians elsewhere.

Even if it were a Hamas command center, that does not justify destroying the infrastructure that civilians require in order to survive.

They are going to make sure there is a command center there, because their entire narrative has become that if Hamas uses civilians as human shields (even if there is literally not enough space for civilians to go anywhere else anyways), then Israel is justified killing civilians.

That’s is false on its own, but more importantly, they are not only attempting to kill Hamas, they are also attempting to kill and displace large numbers of civilians, and we know this because their own government ministries and employees are putting together reports and doing news interviews about how they should displace Palestinians from Gaza.

They would not be making those reports and statements if they thought the government was against it; that would be career-ending. They feel comfortable making those reports and statements precisely because they know that their government is on board with that. They are getting people comfortable with hearing it, for when they actually do it.

t3rmit3,

No shit, what did they think Israel was gonna use their munitions they sent them to do?

Israel’s time enjoying US support is officially borrowed, because young Americans are gonna cut that poisonous umbilical the second we can.

t3rmit3,

Oh look, and just yesterday I was arguing with a Tankie who insisted that Tibetans living in Tibet actually love China.

t3rmit3,

Yep, and the worst part is that it’s proving that as long as you do a genocide slowly, and through systems like cultural erasure, forced abortions of Uyghurs, and ‘reeducation’ camps rather than straight deathcamps, world governments won’t put any real effort into stopping it.

Imperialists like America don’t like China’s imperialism, but not because they’re opposed to Imperialism, only because it threatens their own hegemony.

Meanwhile, anti-colonialists who should know better, like Mbembe, fall for China’s positioning of themselves as a counter to Imperialism simply because they’re opposing American and European hegemony with their own hegemony.

Systems of authority suck, all the way down…

t3rmit3,

Israel killed Palestinians in Gaza who were heading North during the “cease-fire”.

Israel killed Palestinians in the West Bank who they said were Hamas during the “cease-fire”.

Israel never even wanted the cease-fire except that it would lay bare Bibi’s complete lack of giving a shit about the hostages on Hamas’s side if he refused, and he couldn’t afford that either internationally or internally.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Israel never stopped murdering Palestinians in the West Bank, and even shot a bunch of Palestinian civilians who tried to go North during the “cease-fire”.

The cease-fire was Hamas trying to give people as much time to evacuate as they could, because Israel was clear from the beginning that they intended to go back to murdering Palestinians afterwards. And of course Israel is now expanding “operations” in the South, since that’s where the majority of Palestinians are now.

t3rmit3,

Everyone knows this. We have seen the response of “World Leaders”, and it’s to appoint an oil executive to be President of COP28 so he can falsely and perniciously claim that ‘no one’ is actually saying to get rid fossil fuels.

Governments have already decided that they are not going to miss out on any sweet sweet potential economic activity (read “money generation for politicians”) until it gets so bad that they have to to survive. They’re going to play chicken with each other and employ police to put down protests until we finally do something about it/them ourselves.

t3rmit3,

A doctor carried the small limp body of a dead boy in a tracksuit and placed him in a corner, arms splayed across the blood-smeared tile. On the floor nearby, surrounded by discarded bandages and rubber gloves, lay a wounded boy and girl, their limbs tangled with the stands holding IV drips in their arms.

Two young girls were being treated, still covered in dust from the collapse of the house that had buried their family.

“My parents are under the rubble,” sobbed one. “I want my mum, I want my mum, I want my family.”

If you’re not furious, you’re not paying attention.

t3rmit3,

Dictatorships never stay static, they only ever increase their oppressiveness until they reach a breaking point.

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