this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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I promise you that the very last people to reject the Atlanticist Uyghur genocide psyop—if they don’t literally take it to their grave—will be the virulently anti-tankie Lemmitors who have emotionally invested so much in it being true.
Holy hell someone just linked the mod doing actual genocide propaganda. They are a massive Zionist.
Their posts are insane.
And two years into the genocide and they are claiming Israel is the victim of 'Arab violence'.
not surprising goat is a zionist in addition to running a Nazi bar comm
edit for the fash replying to me: + I'm an anarchist
Not disagreeing with you here, but I recommend changing "insane" to a less ableist term, like evil.
Were there insane posts other than the two in your screenshot? Because those are literally just news articles of political responses to the war. Sharing news of something isn't endorsing it, otherwise that would make a lot of people inadvertent genocide supporters.
Combined with the comments shown below, it's clear that they are intentionally pushing the Zionist point of view by sharing hasbara uncritically.
The comments show them defending Israel and claiming Israel was defending itself against Palestinian aggression. Which denial of Israeli past genocides on Palestinians. Israel has always been the obstacle to peace. https://youtu.be/jhasaJbQCfA
This is BS spreading israeli lies is endorsement