The guide in question.

(The reply in the screenshot is satire btw)

There are MANY center-right communities in the fediverse where you are allowed (even encouraged) to defend things like genocide, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, US-style "democracy," and those who support them. This is not one of them.

...and I still see liberals doing mental gymnastics for why Biden is gud ackshually

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There's been a STRONG attempt by the media to portray these demonstrations as anti-Semitic. Even the White House has put out a statement against the participants.

The lengths that this nation and its institutions will go to in order to defend their support of Israel is really reflective of what type of nation we are.

Here's some more.

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If you followed the mainstream news for the Iran/Israel escalation, then you might have been terrified about ww3, fearmongering is something they do well.

I'm here to suggest a quite crazy channel for leftist to follow. military industrial economics, channel Perun.

Not because MIC good, but because it's a channel that grants a very well versed way to understanding modern conflicts. No, it's not perfect, but it's way better than cnn or some shit

edit!: it's also one of the reasons I'm less afraid of nuclear escalation in the world!

also lol, link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3ehuUksTyQ7bbjGntmx3Q

What if that were your child, your parent, your friend or loved one?

What would you do? Make excuses? Stay silent? Say "at least it's not some hypothetical worse situation"?

No, you'd do everything you could to stop it

Still thinking about this

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These are pro-Palestine demonstrators that have been demonstrating peacefully.

Full post for context.

I wish I had a cookie for every time a Democrat told me the concentration camps are good ackshually

Fuck your border and your president

In the United States (the prison capital of the world), prisons are nothing more than the spiritual successor to slavery in all but name. They are a racist institution in a country that was openly founded on colonialism and genocide.

"But whatabout the really bad™ people???"

See the post, and also CW: Reality. Donald The Fucking Nazi Rapist Trump is a free man, and he will always be a free man, and if he does see "prison," it will be all for show in some country club "prison," not with the rest of us normies. Joseph Biden has more blood on his hands than the worst serial killer in history, and he's the fucking president! And he's also got a protective circle of brainwashed individuals defending him!

You think really bad™ people go to prison? Only if they're also part of a marginalized group. The prison system was never intended to address actual injustice, unless that "injustice" is one of the things referenced in the post.

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https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747866781675405312/leaked-nyt-gaza-memo-tells-journalists-to-avoid

THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept.

The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.

The Times memo outlines guidance on a range of phrases and terms. “The nature of the conflict has led to inflammatory language and incendiary accusations on all sides. We should be very cautious about using such language, even in quotations. Our goal is to provide clear, accurate information, and heated language can often obscure rather than clarify the fact,” the memo says.

“Words like ‘slaughter,’ ‘massacre’ and ‘carnage’ often convey more emotion than information. Think hard before using them in our own voice,” according to the memo. “Can we articulate why we are applying those words to one particular situation and not another? As always, we should focus on clarity and precision — describe what happened rather than using a label.”

Despite the memo’s framing as an effort to not employ incendiary language to describe killings “on all sides,” in the Times reporting on the Gaza war, such language has been used repeatedly to describe attacks against Israelis by Palestinians and almost never in the case of Israel’s large-scale killing of Palestinians.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14344829

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Systemic and unchecked genocide = Biden yes

Defending yourself after your embassy is blown up by an aggressor = Biden no

Fuck Genocide Joe.