SpaceCowboy

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Of course you did. Leftism is currently very devoted to looking the other way about issues of antisemitism within your movement. You don't want to consider that there is a very valid reason for leftism to be rejected.

It would be very easy to denounce Hamas, and denounce attacking synagogues. Make it very clear that leftism isn't about these things. But leftists won't do that, why?

Rule on the sidebar says:

We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

You're in the paradox of tolerance. If you tolerate antisemitism, then you're in an intolerant group. The goal of anti-zionist rhetoric has nothing to do with unionizing or labour rights. It's entirely about creating division and turning people against one another.

How much discussion on here is actually about unionizing and improving working conditions? I would love for there to be a community about that, since I support forming unions. But your community is mostly about bashing Jews and bashing Democrats. It's not about building coalitions with those sympathetic towards the rights of workers, it's about attacking anyone that's not onboard with one side in the propaganda surrounding a conflict on the other side of the world.

You shouldn't expect there will be broad support for a group that tolerates antisemitism. Trying to sweep the problem under the rug and pretend the problem doesn't exist isn't making it better. Attacks on synagogues continue to increase. People outside of leftist circles see the antisemitic comments by people in your group. It's also noted that there is no one in the leftist sphere that ever speaks out against it.

It's your choice whether to ban comments that bring up the issue, but that is you choosing ban discussion on a very real problem in your movement. There's a long history of people looking the other way on antisemitism that you'd be joining.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No, I recognize the distinction between Jews in Israel and the Jews that live in my community. "Leftists" threaten the Jews that live in my community and I'm not a big fan of that. Leftism in general is incapable of denouncing this kind of behavior. Which makes you deplorable to anyone that cares about their community.

This is why your movement is a failure. Y'all dabbled in hate politics and now it's taken over your movement.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You are doing these things. I do what I can to reduce carbon emissions and reduce waste. You could too, but you're told that it's fine for you to do nothing other than sit around complaining about other people on social media.

Doomerism is all about making you apathetic, why do you go along with it?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You really can't form a cohesive argument at all, can you?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

Don't worry about what other people are doing so much. Think about what you are doing more.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

People live in countries. People die when countries have wars.

You have to be a real psychopath to forget that countries are made up of people.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, it would be fair use. Selling the tape would be illegal tho.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

Not for another three million years, smeghead.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Uhhh.... Ro Khanna is a Democratic congressman. I'm from Canada and I know that FFS. He's the guy that got some of the Epstein files released and it's actually a crime that they haven't all been released.

Y'all are so conditioned into thinking the Democrats are bad that when an incumbent Democratic congressman says something you like you have to pretend it's a voter the Democratic party doesn't listen to?

and I want to be clear - this means no aid to Ukraine either. We are broke as it is.

So abandon all allies of the US? I guess you believe both Russian and Iranian propaganda. Is there any propaganda on the internet you don't fall for?

The US is actually the wealthiest country in the world. You're just so blinded by hatred for Israel you can't even consider simply taxing the wealthy. Hasan Piker is really earning the money Jeff Bezos is paying him I guess.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

USA as entity deserves hate of the world

The very first thing you said. Do you normally act surprised when people say you're hateful when you furiously type out some long text (without paragraph breaks) about why a whole country deserves to be hated in an effort to rationalize violence against citizens of that country?

 

Of course it's just a cartoon. In reality, Sideshow Bob wouldn't be arrested at the end.

 

Protest swiftly condemned by all levels of government; organizing group denies hospital targeted

Toronto police say they are increasing their presence along hospital row after a pro-Palestinian protest downtown on Monday night, including outside Mount Sinai Hospital.

Toronto Police Service spokesperson Stephanie Sayer told CBC News the increased police presence is to ensure that essential hospital services and emergency routes remain accessible.

"Interfering with the operations of a hospital is not acceptable," Sayer wrote in an email.

Police have not said if the hospital's operations were impacted by the protest. The hospital has not responded to CBC News's request for comment.

"The Toronto Police Service is investigating several incidents that occurred in front of Mount Sinai Hospital and along the demonstration route. As we have said before, officers use their discretion during large crowd demonstrations and even if arrests are not deemed safe to make at the time, investigations will continue and charges can be laid at a later date," Sayer said.

 

GENEVA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas and that it had severed ties with those staff members. "The Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on October 7," said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General.

"To protect the agency's ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay."

Lazzarini did not disclose the number of employees allegedly involved in the attacks, nor the nature of their alleged involvement. He said, however, that "any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror" would be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution.

 

I'm going to the game tomorrow and I want my Jose Bautista bobblehead!

Does anyone know how long before the game you have to be at the Skydome before they run out of bobble heads?

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