ferristriangle [he/him]

Ah yes, the famously anti imperialist right wing

Your mistake is thinking that people who use the word tankie have any kind of consistent definition, or even understand the politics of the person they’re name-calling.

It used to refer to a very specific incident where Khrushchev sent in tanks to suppress unrest. Anyone who supported that decision was called a tankie.

Now it just means “person on the left that I don’t like.” Trots are tankies, anarchists are tankies, Joe Biden is a tankie. The word doesn’t mean anything.

There was a recent campaign by the government to reduce the amount of homework for children

It’s nice to see Xi reaching across the aisle to find unity with the anarchists

You’ve fallen prey to one of the oldest laws of the internet, which states that the quickest way to get an answer to something is to post the wrong answer and wait for someone to correct you.

It’s called Murphy’s Law.

I fail to see how getting it over with in one mass slaughter is an improvement.

I’m failing to see how your concern trolling is particularly relevant to the question of whether or not we should be expressing support for Palestinian resistance.

Your protestations can basically be summed up as “I know what’s best for the Palestinians and their resistance better than they know themselves. Our job as distant observers should not be to support the decisions that those resisting oppression have made, we should instead concern ourselves with armchair quarterbacking and second guessing them out of an abundance of caution that we might end up backing the wrong horse and get egg on our faces.”

You don’t seem to be in possession of any specialized knowledge that would make you a higher authority on matters of strategy and tactics than the people actually organizing a resistance movement who have access to all the same information that you do plus an entire life of living in those conditions and an intimate familiarity with the on the ground reality. This isn’t a rogue group doing some adventurism, this is an effort organized across several different Palestinian resistance groups who will have already discussed the exact concerns you’re bringing up before committing to a joint plan of action.

I’ll listen to your concerns about whether there is a more effective strategy for resistance once you are the one putting your life on the line. In the mean time, I’m going to assume that the people who are actually living through that struggle have a better grasp on their situation than I do, and I’m not going to treat it like it’s my job to second guess them.

My beloved Parenti quotes

You seem to be incredibly hung up on this idea of celebration, but most of what you’re attacking are messages of support.

For /c/capitalismindecay, the most that you need to do is accept the principle that the Axis was worse than the U.S.S.R., which sounds obvious and trivial to us but can be surprisingly difficult for some people.

Problem is you are fighting against stuff like the Double Genocide Theory, which was literal nazi propaganda made to muddy the water and “both sides” the actual Holocaust, and even though that propaganda wasn’t even remotely credible when it was published it has since been reheated and served up as Cold War propaganda that was repeated so often that it’s just “common sense” at this point.

And part of what makes atrocity propaganda so effective is that once people buy into it it is filled with thought-terminating clichés that are built in which makes challenging that narrative difficult.

Yeah, we’re on the same page. I never said that Americans had exhausted all their other options yet.

Edgeworth is properly placed, but I would argue Phoenix should be in the top left corner.

He has regular encounters with the supernatural, and his specialty is bullshitting his way to what must be true regardless of how outlandish it sounds.

Though, I guess it depends on what qualifies as “intuiting the mechanics of the death note.” Phoenix will definitely stumble his way into something close to the truth even if by accident, but whether he actually believes what he’s saying is true because he arrived at the conclusion logically or if he believes it’s true because he believes so deeply in the innocence of his client that the supernatural explanation must be true is up in the air.

If “using the wrong equation to get the right answer” doesn’t count as intuiting the mechanics of the death note, then I could see the argument for putting Phoenix in the bottom left. But he would absolutely stumble into accidentally describing how the Death Note works, and confidently use it in his defense because you can’t prove that it’s not true, even if he doesn’t fully understand why what he’s saying is true.