I’ve been boofing it for months now and the main benefits have been way better mood and hair lmao

I use browser, never really had a reason to switch

I gotta say it’s extremely telling how that coinciding with this series of events a handful of brand new accounts popped up just to spew transphobia and nazi shit in addition to the ones just being zionist/defending the LW mods across the various threads.

wonder what’s up with that

anyway the abuse and harassment you get is gross, fuck those assholes

actual nazi response, if I had my way I would turn you into fertilizer too

It pretty much seems like people finding a promised land with abundance and peace and joy.

There’s really no thing tying that concept to genocide.

except all the people already living there who have been and are being exterminated in order to make the ethnostate a reality

This looks like the same screenshot as the other post!

with ‘allies’ like this who needs enemies

Rimus comments in question. Seems like hes very concerned about people defending luminous, less so about the admin of the largest instance being a zionist.

deserved it, ‘flags in banner’ is pretty tangential and no defense for behavior. mrkaplan is very clearly a zionist and anyone apologizing for him is sus

I will say I prefer ‘death to zionism’ because it’s the ideology of that ethnostate which should die and is not worth saving. people can learn

I have reported youre brigade community [email protected] to the admins

incredible ben shapiro energy

Australia is fucked if that’s the case

australia is fucked for a wide variety of reasons tbh

i try to purge insults which target out-groups from my usage as a general practice, i take the point that it does apply to a lot of common insults though. i prefer to paint a vivid picture with my words.

generally i agree that a perm ban is a bit much, i prefer to keep bans to temporary, unless the person is being particularly abusive to specific users. people don’t really have room to learn with perm bans.

i will say that though .ml has a reputation for banning people a lot, most of the time when i follow up on someone who is complaining about draconian mod censorship it will turn out they caught a temp ban and are just being dramatic

that’s hardly a forgone conclusion; for one the conditions are way different and at this point under our current bourgeois dictatorship i’m far more likely to eat a bullet thanks to some feckless liberal.

i have more common cause with MLs opposing empire than with liberals funding genocide.

I think you’re online way too much.

trust me, arguing with hitlerite liberals and voting is the least of my political activity; certainly not interested in talking about what i do with people like you though.

accelerationist at worst.

from my perspective people like you are the accelerationists; you prevent any positive change and insist everyone vote for your preferred genocidal warmongers as the full scope of political activity while the world burns

Slava Ukraini?

gesundheit

i love how the two major examples of outsiders you present both routinely vote for funding the genocidal ethnostate and they’re also considerably more moderate than i am. social democrats - compatible with empire.

i don’t view electoralism as something worth participating in, because it’s a bourgeois farce. i’m not interested in playing nice with hitlerite liberals

choosy beggars

some of us have to worry about paying rent and shit, believe it or not there’s not a lot of institutional backing for trans anarchists in electoral politics, just genocidal warmongers

you just sound out of touch

yeah let me just conjure shitloads of money i don’t have to run against a hostile party within their own apparatus instead of my day job. very reasonable suggestion.

the system is beyond broken, blaming that on individuals does nothing but make you feel better

also one of your earlier responses was extremely off-putting. you called armed resistance to occupation ‘legitimate war crimes’ while describing actual genocide that the democrats were complicit in as ‘disproportionate acts’ which you attributed to the machinations of one individual.

equating the oppressed with their oppressors and blaming individuals is something that makes it hard for me to want to engage with liberals with anything other than hostility

the democrats held a farce of a primary in 2024. my own turbo-zionist rep ran unopposed and all the people voting ‘uncommitted’ were actively ignored at the federal level

sabara is dog vomit and i generally buy greek or lebanese tahini around here

but how many hamburgers is it?!

for what its worth i appreciate the good faith engagement and the apology.

on ‘liberal optics framing’: for me this is shorthand for ‘what looks good to western observers’. you said hamas was ‘represented poorly’, this centers how palestinians are perceived rather than material reality of occupation.

even if israel does try to create a ‘strategy of tension’ (ie provoke/allow funding of violent response to justify crackdown) that doesn’t mean the oppressed are wrong for resisting. it’s just part of the standard playbook for colonial powers because it allows them to paint themselves as simply defending against unreasonable actors.

the logic of ‘don’t resist violently because that’s what they want’ leads to: don’t resist at all, because any resistance will be used to justify more violence. that’s paralysis, not strategy.

colonial powers will use any resistance, be it violent or nonviolent, to justify violence. the great march of return (2018) was explicitly nonviolent and israel still shot medics, journalists, children, all of them unarmed protesters. they’ll justify crackdowns regardless.

from my perspective the question isn’t ‘does resistance give israel pretext’ (it always will), it’s ‘does resistance materially challenge occupation and build toward liberation.’

armed resistance does that: it makes occupation costly, ties down military resources, and demonstrates that colonization won’t be accepted peacefully.

calling palestinian armed resistance ‘violent terrorism’ accepts israeli/US framing. armed resistance to military occupation is legitimate under international law. the framing ‘terrorism’ vs ‘self-defense’ is itself colonial, resistance to colonization is treated as terrorism while state violence is treated as legitimate.

on netanyahu/qatar money: yes, it’s documented that he allowed qatari money into gaza and exploited hamas/pa divisions. but my issue is that the framing surrounding ‘israel created/funded hamas’ removes palestinian agency and treats resistance as israeli puppet show. hamas emerged from material conditions of occupation. netanyahu exploited existing divisions for divide-and-conquer, a standard colonial tactic

your isis comparison isn’t wrong either, the US didn’t create isis but created conditions (iraq invasion, destabilization) that enabled it. they also helped fund it. israel also supported isis as it was a useful wedge to destabilize syria

on what’s ‘effective’: resistance isn’t just one front. it requires action on every axis. armed struggle adds material cost to occupation. BDS and legal challenges such as ICC/ICJ adds economic/diplomatic pressure. countering propaganda shifts societal opinion against the occupation. the goal isn’t just military victory, it’s making occupation unsustainable politically, economically, diplomatically.