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YDI for constantly trolling and I would have banned you sooner if it was up to me.
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In its original usage, 'Death to America' means 'end the power of America'. that is to say, 'death to U.S. domination and government policy,' not 'kill Americans.' It’s anti-imperial language, and if that continued under a 'socialist' president I would continue to say it.
Death to America.
In other words, that statement means "screw America's domination, let's just chill"?
I agree with the essence of your objections, but being misguided or misinformed is not in itself trolling, especially if the opportunity remains open for discussion and education.
At this point any charity I had is gone, they were already banned on a hexbear account for persistent zionisim, among other things
Is advocacy for a "two-state solution" necessarily in itself Zionism?
I would agree with that assessment, advocating for a two-state solution accepts the continued existence of the settler-colonial state. It treats the outcome of dispossession and genocide as a settled fact and asks Palestinians to negotiate within the framework created by that violence.
I think any realistic outcome would entail an acceptance that the settler population will remain living on stolen land. The objective should be full parity among all current occupants, which is inclusive of the "right of return", Palestinians moving freely throughout the entire territory.
Tbh I kind of expect this orientation from slrpolice.net
after all this is your admin
I guess punk is when you approve of the government policing speech about a settler colony
I find your deflections and extrapolations both completely irrelevant and also deeply distorted.
You started the deflecting, you started asking if advocating for a two state solution was zionism, then pivoted to 'whats realistic' when I said 'yes, obviously.'
Thats why my last post was actually completely relevant.
You introduced Zionism into the discussion.
I question that advocacy for a "two-state solution" is necessarily Zionism, whereas your complaint rests squarely on such an assumption. The entire settler population being expelled is not feasible. Zionism should not be represented so broadly as to include everyone who is merely practical.
Your grievances about a thread from nine months ago obviously are irrelevant.
It's why OP was banned from other places.
The link I posted has numerous people explain that advocating for the liberation of Palestine isn’t the same as advocating for a genocide or expulsion of Jews in Israel.
It's not, and the fact that you jumped to that is why I respond in kind.
The purpose of the post and community is for others to appraise the justification for the moderator action, not summarily to assume its correctness and then simply to explain its merits.
None if it bears on whether advocacy for a "two-state solution" is necessarily Zionism.
They were banned for trolling, their past behavior is absolutely relevant.
I can spell it out for you:
Two states
One of those states is Israel
Israel is a settler-colonial state produced through dispossession and genocide
Accepting its legitimacy and permanence is Zionism
Advocating for it is Zionism
Your appeal to 'realism' just means accepting the colonial status quo. Given current power relations, a two-state solution would rapidly become apartheid by another name.
As insinuated, an objective of full parity among all current occupants of Palestine, settler and Palestinian, including freedom of movement for Palestinians throughout the entire territory, would seem to be sufficient to achieve a dismantlement of settler-colonialism in the region.
"One of those states is Israel" is not a meaningful argument, because it begs the question of which transformations may have been imposed on Israel and the territory.
That is not a two-state solution as normally understood.
That's more like one state with equal rights. You are not addressing my point either, you are substituting something different as if it answers my critique. Kind of a bait and switch.
Additionally, 'parity' does not actually address decolonization, ie the stolen land and material inequalities baked into the infrastructure and economy. Still sounds like apartheid.
If Israel is so transformed that it no longer functions as a settler-colonial state then the proposal is no longer a standard two-state solution and calling it one is misleading.
The "two-state solution" is a vague proposal that encompasses a very broad range of concrete possibilities.
One might say it is a range of different proposals all described under a common phrase.
We should not pigeonhole the phrase into one particular, narrow representation insisted as the one "normally understood".
Simply, I question the narrowness of your characterization.
Vagueness doesn't make the term neutral. Political proposals are defined by how they function in practice, not by every hypothetical version someone cooks up.
Every actually existing two-state proposal affirms the legitimacy of Israel as a settler-colonial state and confines Palestinian self-determination within that framework. If the 'transformations' you're imagining undo that, then you’re no longer talking about the same thing.
You are maintaining the label but redefining the proposal until it no longer resembles reality, while simultaneously appealing to 'realism' as a reason to dispense with discussion of ending the settler-colonial state.
Vagueness challenges the particular, narrow representation you insist is universally accepted.
There is no concrete catalog that affirms which representations are "actually existing". There is rather open discourse with diverse contributions.
You are being overly narrow.
Proposals that matter in any 'realistic' sense (as you appealed to earlier) are not constituted by open-ended discourse, but by the concrete situations created through institutions, negotiations, and enforcement.
There's plenty of examples of what these proposals look like in the historical record.
You are continuing to be narrow and obtuse, now seemingly deliberately.
I simply will repeat that "two-state solution" encompasses a broad and open range of concrete possibilities.
Repeating abstractions to avoid engaging material reality. I’ve made my point and you've made it clear that you're more concerned with hypotheticals.
Is me being banned on Hexbear and Lemmy.ml a sign that I should study a bit more on socialist/communist theory often?
No, it means they suck, which they do.
It's a sign that people got tired of your trolling.
quoting a previous comment I made to you, re-iterating another comment made to you:
So what should I do? Should I read theory a bit more?
No it means you should get more than a western world view and stop parroting talking points of US Imperialism.
And I should read theory a bit more?
Always
Please elaborate
I cant really help you too much if you want Marxist-Lenin stuff to read. I am only newly innoculated myself to anarchist theory. Its fairly easy to find Marx's work online if you sesrch for "Marxist-Lenist" theory though.
The same question you have asked repeatedly, along with others, ever since your account appeared on Lemmy.
Is me being banned on Hexbear a sign that I should study a bit more on socialist/communist theory often?
Can you explain?
You replying to 80% of comments with more questions comes across as sealioning which comes across to many people as trolling.
Yeah that's kind of bullshit, sorry. Seems like you just can't handle someone with a different opinion. Maybe you shouldn't be a mod if you're this shaken up by modest disagreement.
Ok bluemaga
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TIL that statement was actually metaphorical, given the real meaning is "screw America's domination, let's just chill". I apologize if I took that particular statement literally.
The statement literally is "Death to America" not "Death to Americans".
Well I interpret it as "screw America dominating the world"