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ATTENTION:
@FbAustralasia
moved to a new web server so these links are no longer functional - unless you replace the domain name "" with "". So I'll re-link to some of my Greatest Hits on the new website:
For those who're keen on my political Tweets, I'll post links here to what I think are my most important political articles.
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I am begging everyone to understand what it means that Putin's latest speech denigrates the West BOTH using homophobia, racism and "anti-wokery" AND using "anti-imperialist" slogans. They've been patiently trying to fuse the Western socialist Left and far Right for decades. 1/
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@souljagoytellem
Stranger Danger was an alibi for the fact that the vast majorities of rapes and child abuse come from family and/or close acquaintances
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@Madame_mousey
@bonkey_bong
Let's face it - for some people it's FUN to break the will of a small creature which can't fight back and is dependent on you. Fun as in, you get your jollies from it. That's the dirty secret of this kind of self-righteous "parenting".
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Q is a fascist movement. I think the reason a lot of the Left despair about it - talk about it as if it were unstoppable - is because they've forgotten how we fight fascism, except in a quite shallow way 1/
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Something that amazes me is how many people (esp older Lefties) just don't *know* that the young "podcast Left" are very campist and totally back Russian and Chinese imperialism against "Syrian ISIS" and "Ukranian Nazis". I can't understand it, it's not as if they're shy about it
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@souljagoytellem
...but that's not what this image means, it's pointing out that Black and Latino folks live in the South too and they don't deserve to be tossed out with the racist whites
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Anyway, the point is that Q can be stopped ONLY IF we stop being polite to racist uncle, hippie auntie, "climate skeptic" granddad, and "illuminati theorist" cousin. All those are gateways through which fascistic ideas come, which we've left open for too long. /End
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@panickygoblin
@1fivefive
They think that that character gives them permission to torture 'bad guys' to death. Of course, Moore was trying to point out that thinking you can torture 'bad guys' to death makes you insane or a fascist or both
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... will INEVITABLY follow that up with blithely denying that the Syrian regime used chemical warfare, or telling Ukrainians to surrender because Putin's got a point about NATO. Of course there are many real socialist internationalists, but they're despised and marginalised. 3/
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@tia_erwin
@parlertakes
"The Storm" is when all the global pedophile elite and all Democrats and liberals and that guy at the employment agency who wouldn't give you a job because you were mean and ignorant will be mass-executed or sent to Gitmo.
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You shitlibs don't understand comedy humor. When we wrote our article, "Ukraine is fake and gay and why don't they hurry up and surrender and stop stealing our tax monies", it was SATIRE. We were playing a JOKE on you. And you're a neocon warmonger for not getting it!!!
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I dread becoming one of those horrible people who talk about "why I left the Left". But I really am grieving the loss of my political community of 20 years. It seems these days that any public figure with a socialist or even social-democratic critique of capitalism... 2/
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I have actually given up. Leftists who were strongly pro-Syria are now reposting Caitlin Fucking Johnstone because they don't remember her name and now she's saying "the right thing" about Palestine. The left is intellectually rotten and perhaps it deserves the fascist creep.
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The hippies were individualist and sex-positive against boring, conformist Fordist capitalism. But they were also anti-science and had a cult of the "natural". That's where fascism and the New Age intersect. 6/
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My family has a combined income of less than 50k. We rely entirely on my $1.7k ebike and public transport. Tell me I'm an "elite", you scumbags, I dare you, I double dare you.
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Meme culture in the wild on the streets of (l) Kyiv, (r) occupied Kherson
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@stuartpstevens
@JoeBiden
thanks, Stuart; but honestly if we haven't won the Senate we haven't won much. With no Court reform, SCOTUS will trash Obamacare and Roe v. Wade, and Congress won't be able to replace them (unless Biden does some half-ass compromise with Collins/Romney which will do nothing)
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The other vector for these shitty ideas is "everybody's New Age aunt". There has been a horrible assumption that woo-spouting hippies can't be fascist by definition. But that totally misinterprets what 60s/70s culture wars were about 5/
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Honestly, the reason Q seems scary is just that it's a militant version of the same conspiracy nonsense "everyone's racist uncle" has been saying at family dinners for decades, and has been politely ignored or indulged as "funny" 4/
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I refer to those leftists with institutional power or a media platform with "clout". Campism - abandoning people oppressed by the "wrong imperialism", or smearing them as Nazis or ISIS - dominates. Russian meddling? Adaptation to the rise of the Right? A bit of both, probably. 4/
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Q is fascist Ideology in a new camouflage, designed to avoid the "vaccination" the world got against fascism in 1945. However, our cultural immune systems have been weakened by the mainstreaming of science denial and conspiracy theory 3/
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@maxdubler
@sam_d_1995
I've heard this explanation: the capital value of a property is based on its rental. Therefore, cutting rental would drive down property values. Thus, keeping a high rental (even though vacant) is best for capital value
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Context for this is that Right Sector - Ukrainian fascists historically linked to Azov - are being piled on by literally the rest of Ukraine for their transphobic abuse of a US volunteer on the frontlines. The course of the war seems to be *reducing* Ukrainian tolerance for fash
the thing with Right Sector yesterday and seeing people calling them out has encouraged me to share this telegram list so you can see that this cancer goes far beyond just Right Sector. These are all extremist,
#farright
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#whitesupremacist
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For much of the Left for the last few decades, "ANTIFA" means keeping tabs on a small number of deplorables (ideologues, violent boneheads, political grifters) and thwarting their schemes. But the REAL stakes are stopping fascist Ideology from spreading into the mainstream 2/
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@Random9421
@SocDane
You realise that Israel uses Hamas in precisely the same way that Russia uses the Azov Regiment, right
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If in this country the fascists bring an end to liberal democracy, and people like B. Edwards and C. Trotter smack their lips in satisfaction about "the end of globalism, the chance for real socialism", they may be disappointed with their "After Brian Tamaki, us" strategy. /ends
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"I want 50 thousand of you colonial chappies to run up a muddy hill into Turkish machine guns" - W. Churchill, 1915
These words from Winston Churchill are giving hope during the pandemic
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@WheatPM
American Leftists who have only partly assimilated their own theory have this idea that race/"blackness" is an objective and quantifiable thing, which is precisely what reactionary race scientists will tell you
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It's like they just *assume* that someone who's anti-capitalism and promotes progressive politics would never cynically laugh at/justify genocide because it's not happening AND because those Zionist-CIA stooges deserve it. You have to show them evidence, then they freak out.
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@evilballerninja
@revhowardarson
My God, every liberal capitalist or even tech-bro futurist capitalist says "it's a privilege to work here because we're doing something good for the world". You have reproduced bourgeois ideology for exploiting labor and painted it red
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Those views - campism, i.e. making anti-Westernism the basis of foreign politics, denying war crimes by non-Western governments, smearing people's uprisings in those countries as CIA or Nazis - are absolutely hegemonic on the *activist* Left here. Let's specify what that means 1/
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Nine years ago, the same Western Lefties who are reposting this to try to get sympathy for Gaza were LAUGHING at these kids, calling them Zionist-Wahhabi crisis actors
Orwellian doublethink. There is no objective reality, only whatever memes help you win the current argument
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I am very disappointed at all the Lefties and anti-imperialists in my feed who didn't say a damn thing while civilians were being carpet-bombed in Mariupol, except *now* when civilians are being carpet-bombed in Gaza - only to yell about the Ukrainians getting Western help.
The point is, these people didn't want to put up a stall with information and a donation box for the causes XYZ. They were choosing to punch down Ukrainians.
Lately, many people, often graduates of prestigious Western unis, cannot keep Ukraine's name out of their mouths,
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@LardFDorkness2
@MrKovalenko
I have never seen an actual photograph of the instant someone goes to Hell before
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@JosephSwanTwo
@SlenderSherbet
Let it also be noted that this is a song by MOLCHAT DOMA, a contemporary Belarusian band, so full support for the revolution, Goth comrades.
(I suppose Leeds 1984 is indistinguishable from Minsk 2020, except Thatcher had better hair than Lukashenka)
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@achkasov
@christogrozev
I've seen a lot of Buryat soldiers. The obvious answer is: soldiers from near Ukraine will be more likely to have friends/family there, or to feel "ethnic solidarity"
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What the National Party are actually saying is, if the Greens don't prop them up in Government, they'll deliberately wreck the climate.
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@Dywizjon161
@WhoIsBgBrthr
Not being Leninist here but he was incapacitated by a stroke in 1923 and died a year later. He literally couldn't follow up on this if he wanted to
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@3lfares
Nah, makes sense. Greeks are just Christian Turks and Turks are just Muslim Greeks.
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Stalin was just like Churchill.
A murderous, imperialist, cynical shitbag whose only redeeming feature is that he eventually realised Hitler was a bad guy.
Who on the actual Left venerates Churchill and Kissinger, though?
Let’s not lose context here; we’re talking about people on the LEFT.
We’d say, just as we do with “Leftists” who ride for Stalin, that “Leftists” who ride for Churchill and Kissinger are NOT Leftists at all!
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If you read the posts of any Ukrainian on Twitter, they are despairing at the moment because all that "blue and yellow lighting" was all it was. They are realising that the US doesn't *want* them to liberate their country; they just want to bleed Russia, and now they're bored. 1/
less than two years ago everything turned blue and yellow overnight. every website I went to, every logo, every app, every institution. billboards, light displays. blue and yellow for ukraine. blue and yellow. and for palestine, for gaza, just darkness
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This, as they say, is blowing up. Once again, please follow Ukrainian leftists such as
@ahatanhel
@VlStarodubtsev
@RomeoKokriatski
@commonscomua
. And _Fightback_ magazine, fighting a lonely fight against campism and Red-Brownery in Australasia.
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Six years on, and this epic hero of the popular struggle has never been doxxed. I hope they're living their best life and laughing at the fash. R. Spencer's career never recovered from this.
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Holy shit, do I "never trust" the FBI more or less than I "never trust" the Chicago cops?
The FBI says Jussie Smollett may not have sent a hateful letter to himself as the Chicago Police claimed.
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@souljagoytellem
Getting real Operation Barbarossa vibes from this. "Hmmm, maybe we had to do a LITTLE bit more than kicking the door down for the Biden campaign to collapse?"
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@souljagoytellem
@revhowardarson
My favorite anecdote about that was that Trotsky was very pissed off the Romanovs were killed; he was looking forward to being the prosecutor at the Tsar's trial
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The "People's Forum" is a tankie group literally funded by Goldman Sachs and techbro Roy Singham. Of course they want to teach left-wing kids this lie about how capitalism works, to distract them. Antisemitism is once more the socialism of fools
“When we finally deal that final blow to destroy Israel. When the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history, that will be the single most important blow we can give to destroying capitalism.”
-Manolo De Los Santos speaking at The People’s Forum in NYC.
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Seriously: there *IS* a problem with Western lefties trying to make excuses for Hamas atrocities.
That is not a problem with the Palestinian cause.
That is a problem with most "Leftist" politics in the West being based on white guilt rather than universal solidarity.
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@revhowardarson
I mean, I must be losing my mind because there is *no alternative candidate*, i.e. no-one shown by polling to have a better chance against Trump, and certainly no-one who *wants* the job. Exactly who is supposed to be parachuted in?
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@florida_sophia
@SyriaCivilDef
The fact that, despite this, Syrians are expressing solidarity with Ukraine is heartbreaking and proof of their revolutionary morality
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@revhowardarson
The goal is to convince themselves, not us - to steel themselves to vote against the hated Dems. You can't have a socialist movement unless the Dems are destroyed. As is my understanding.
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@souljagoytellem
"Everything is fascism except actual fascism, which is misguided but essentially based working-class rebellion"
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Also, how DARE you say mean things about our special good boy, the host of Laughing At War Crime Victims Because The War Crimes Never Happened And Also They Deserved It For Being ISIS Nazis Paid By Israel LOLOLOL podcast
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@evilballerninja
@revhowardarson
This is idealism. You can't elevate people's professed "politics" over their actual class relationship, which is employer-employee. Far too many socialist orgs have become profit-turning sweatshops because the tops guilt their paid workers into exploiting themselves.
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I wrote a thing. Mainly the same barrow I've been pushing for years, but - given the growth of organised Ukraine solidarity on the Left - maybe there is hope now. Shoutouts to
@EuropeanWith
@ahatanhel
@VlStarodubtsev
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Conspiracy theories are an autoimmune disease of free speech, and are thus very closely related to fascism. They can't be defeated by argument because they use the form of argument to destroy the possibility of argument. They can only be faced down by removing the platform.
conspiracy theories aren't meant to be debated or refuted or discussed in good faith. Most people who "believe" conspiracy theories don't actually believe them in a straightforward way. The theories are excuses, not arguments.
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I really wish people in the Palestine solidarity movement would quit retweeting scumbags who are horrified at Israel's mass killings being blamed on Hamas; when they themselves denied Russia mass-killing Syrians and Ukrainians or blamed them on ISIS/Azov 1/
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@panickygoblin
@1fivefive
Also a lot of people saying "but Rorschach was right". No he wasn't. He thought it was a conspiracy to whack "masks". True, his fave fascist paper realised there was something going on, but that's Moore's good sense of humour and suspicion of aristocratic liberals like Veidt
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@revhowardarson
No-one who was alive and conscious from 2017-2019 could describe that Congress as a well-oiled anything
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This happens to ALL TERFs.
It's a cult. They get recruited, they drink the Flavor-Ade.
G. Linehan and Redline weren't always like that.
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He's going to see this Twitter post in 20 years time and send you to the Tower
me: abolish the monarchy
also me: when will this tiny stunt-queen be king
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@JulieAnneGenter
They seem to think they were elected because of their Right-wing program rather than people being tired of Labour, and are now getting a shock that people DON'T want national parks bulldozed, landlord tax cuts, deliberate acts of rudeness towards Māori etc.
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@OwenJones84
... this can't be right. 25,000 civilians were killed when the Russians took Mariupol alone. This seems to be an agenda to use the just and righteous struggle of the Palestinian people to fuel an agenda to abandon just and righteous struggle of the Ukrainian people.
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@AmITooRemoved
Also, this nasty person had plenty of trans friends. They were just deeply in the closet and suicidal, and now either they're out or dead (sometimes both, considering what this nasty person's friends like to do)
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@stonerprincessp
@gshep1888
@bonkey_bong
I sent my mother a similar letter, she sent one back whining about how ungrateful I was, and that was that.
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@nouumL
@RightWingCope
@negativestatic
Mass killings don't happen if everyone is the same race. Thanks, Adolf
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@souljagoytellem
I'm really disturbed by the implications of "Steve Sailer uses statistics to prove race science, so statistics are inherently untrustworthy, even racist". That's pure Stalinist/Maoist "reject bourgeois science in favour of proletarian vibes"
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@JihadalHaqq
Have you not heard of the Lesbian Sex Wars of the 80s and 90s? Those people literally tried to get BDSM dykes expelled from the community as abusers and Nazis. It was in many ways the predecessor of TERFery
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@NAFOMoiety
Exactly. Fascism isn't weakened by the fact that it promises opposite things to different groups, that's all part of its intellectual cynicism
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The problem was that too many people on the Left saw Nazis turn up at transphobe rallies, and thought "ha ha, now the TERFs will realise they were the baddies". No: what the TERFs actually thought was: "Huh, Nazis at least know what a woman is, maybe the Holocaust WAS a hoax"
We're really in a period of discernment for antifascists, I think.
So much of our work 2016-2021 was an effort to keep extreme fascism from crossing the line into the mainstream.
But from MTG to Moms for Liberty, it's happened. And it's all being whitewashed by white women.
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I was a Western Leftist in 1999, and I remember the deep contempt my "scene" felt for Kosovars. "Selfish useful idiots allowing imperialism to spread its tentacles through the Balkans", that kind of thing.
I'm so very fuckin' sorry.
I’m seeing young Kosovars, like their Bosnian peers, trying to “explain” their support for the 1999 NATO intervention to Western “anti-imperialists”. My dears, your right to live requires no justifications. Milosevic was a genocidal despot; NATO should have acted in ‘91-2.
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The Russian state did not "brainwash" or bribe (many) Leftists to think like this - it just "laundered" its chosen narrative into these existing networks, by painting it in "anti-imperialist" language. They do the same in Fascist/VFF networks using "anti-globalist" lingo. 4/
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From a locked account: "The brain poisoning from [the Iraq] war has been actively unconducive to a genuine internationalism partly because Americans managed to conceptualise themselves as the victims of their own criminal war."
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I'm sure you can find some tankie or Trot out there whose position re: Ukraine is STOP WESTERN ARMS SHIPMENTS, DE-ESCALATE AND SAVE LIVES, while their position re: the US is NO GUN CONTROL, THE WORKING CLASS MUST BE ARMED
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@MenshevikM
People here, even Leftists, are AMAZED when I tell them that Israel pretty much keeps the marriage laws from the Ottoman "millet" system, no matter how fabulously gay the IDF keeps claiming to be
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Actually surprised to learn that Ian Miles Cheong, like "P*sie P*rker", actually expressed liberal views before finding out that fascistic hate speech gets you much more funding and attention. Many fashy or "Red-Brown" drifts are just entrepreneurs discovering a profitable grift
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That issued-and-withdrawn letter from the Dems' Progressive Caucus on Ukraine seems to have been a dirty trick from the Red-brown isolationist "Quincy Institute"
Here’s my hunch abt what happened here. Look at the Quincy Institute. They were apparently the organizers of the effort. That’s not secret. A lot of members signed it and then nothing happened. Kind of odd in itself. I suspect Quincy and other allied groups were really hots …
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Trying to pretend that Ukraine got everything it wanted - to make a negative comparison to Gaza, to make *those* victims of imperialism look like they're pampered children of imperialism - is campist and lacking in solidarity. Shame to any Leftist who's retweeting this stuff
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Let's see if Sean Plunket's good buddies in the Free Speech Union - like, oh, say, Juliet Moses or David Cumin - like this use of the term "pogrom".
If that word came out of the mouth of anyone to the left of Genghis Khan, they'd be screaming for resignations and jail sentences
Plunket: "There needs to be a pogrom. This new government needs to clean house."
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Part of it is "social proof" - if you can get a respected activist to say something, Leftists will instinctively repeat it. Chomsky says things about Ukrainians that they would rightly recognise as excuses for genocide if said about Palestinians - and John Minto repeats them 5/
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