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Police in South Africa frequently carry out oppresive actions against marginalised people and activists. Kennedy Road, Marikana, and Stilfontein all occured with the involvement of police and compromised elements of the ANC.

SA Liberals, including groups like the DA, would rather fearmonger and campaign on a non-existent white genocide than acknowledge the reality of the violence that capital enacts on the poor and landless on a frequent basis. Those who do bother to talk about it, will praise the cops and side with the rightist ANC's narrative of events, as is the case with Trevor Noah.

Might be a bit libby, but I am not normally a fan of vigilanteism. This might be an exception though, given the fact that this was going nowhere before through the legally permissible avenues.

Right sorry, must've misclicked

An ad hominem would be to dismiss an argument by attacking the person or circumstances. You know, like calling someone a Russian bot.

Secondly, I think you missed the point of the image. You claim to believe America is bad, but simultaneosly adopt it's views on geopolitical rivals uncritically. Yes, including the view that anything that portrays the west in a negative light being "Russian propaganda". Funnily enough, that's the real ad hominem and is something incredibly common to hear coming out of liberals.

Edit: this was actually aimed at potustheplant, not Mayali. Clicked reply on the wrong comment.

I can't speak to the views of others, but I suppose that I personally don't see the harm so long as the player doesn't give microsoft the money. I kind of assumed that you needed a legit copy of the game to be able to play online, but I don't actually know anything about pirating it either.

I'm not a video gamer personally, but isn't this owned by microsoft, a company on the bds list?

I'm aware. When I say "progressive forces" talking about groups or individuals who are playing a role in leftist aims even if those groups aren't explicitly communist. Iran for instance is by no means a socialist state, but it is nonetheless a progressive force in the sense of countering imperialist influence in the middle east. Same can also be said for any number of groups that aren't necessarily communist, such as unions and civic organisations, but may at times share common goals with the left.

True, it is a hasty generalisation, I nonetheless believe that what I say applies to the kinds of people who try to "both sides" incredibly obvious black-and-white issues such as apartheid, colonialism, and wars of imperial conquest. In my opinion, you can't claim to be left-wing if all you do is denounce progressive forces for actually fighting back. I mostly had the compatible left and Liberals in mind when I wrote this.

Truly remarkable, you found a pizzacake comic that didn't make me immediately recoil in utter cringe.

There is no left in the west, there are only centrists who drape themselves in the tapestry of social democratic reform who will always find themselves on the wrong side of history. They are no different from the conservatives they claim to despise.

"There is no such thing as 'liberal' bourgeois, they all use fascist methods to destroy the lives of workers" as a certain South African trade unionist once said. Viva ANC, viva EFF.

That's not true, anarchists regularly allow themselves to be infiltrated by cops and closet white supremacists.

Unsurprising to say the least, PSL kinda sucks.