This rule has held true my entire life so far, and has probably been true since the 1940s.
Although i definitely know people who are pro-Palestine and pro-Ukraine and its like uhmmmm lol
Although i definitely know people who are pro-Palestine and pro-Ukraine
Are they actually pro-Palestine though or does their support stop once Palestine actually does anything?
at least one i know for sure is pro-Palestine in all regards, but he also won’t stop libbing out for Ukraine. All he thinks is Russia is oppressing Ukraine and completely ignores everything that led up to it. He said the war in Donbas was a Russian psyop so he ignores it that way. He’s also a big fan of the UN and NATO and claims to be an anarchist of some kind. But he’s anti capitalist as well. It’s really made me lose a lil respect for his inconsistent views. Unfortunately like many people he refuses to budge on those opinions, despite me telling him how they are contradictory.
in my example it’s more like he wants the revolution but thinks it will immediately become a non-authoritarian utopia and we won’t have to oppress anybody. He also wants to eat the rich? it truly is liberal levels of contradictions. Me and him used to just be simple Obama loving libs but he still hasn’t shaken all the lib off.
I would venture to guess that people with these views just don’t know anything about history. I’m still very limited on my knowledge, especially when it comes to Ukraine but I know enough about US Imperialism to be sus of any intervention. Like, I know very very little about the history that led up to the war in Ukraine but I never was vehemently for or opposed to defending them simply because I know better than to pick a side without being very informed about what led to it. But I can see why people would have that position, not to say I defend them having that position.
I would venture to guess that people with these views just don’t know anything about history.
i wish it was like that. its more like they are just some strict 100% anti authoritarian, but they also want a revolution. it’s like the first disagreement ive had with someone that i agree with 95% of the time. it just turns into OH YOU LIKE THE STRONGMAN DONT YOU, so as a result i just avoid my current view on Stalin aka he didnt do as many wrong as the west says he did.
If he likes the UN, is he not convinced by the UN report on Donbas? Tbf there is a way of reading that report as an ‘it just happened’ probably ‘because Russia’ – an event that simply materialised out of nowhere – it doesn’t get into the blame/chronology/historical context very clearly.
they were fake virtue signallers who were using palestine as a rhetorical shield to make them seem “good” and supporting “underdogs” since that’s a Liberal virtue. As soon as Palestine does anything though, that fake support evaporates. A lot of it was probably libs trying to own the online tankies by saying “see Ukraine is just like Palestine!”
