ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

You should’ve seen the hoods the other guy would have made us wear. Enabling a genocide of our colonial subjects is a small price to pay to maintain 5% of our dignity. I’m on the left btw

Lol my former friend tried to do that shit but she had clearly only seen the name written, so she said “ooigwyres”

If China was doing Israel shit, it would be the only thing that was ever on the news.

The Confederates continue to claim sole ownership over all the territory of America, plus some of Canada for good measure. In taverns and coffee shops from Barcelona to Berlin, any mention of the USA is likely to be met with a self-satisfied “You mean West Puerto Rico?😏”

It’s not about if an ideology uses authority to entrench itself. Every state and organization with any power in the world does that. It’s about who wields that authority against who, and for what purpose. We generally consider Hitler and Mussolini to be exceptionally “authoritarian”, but in reality the only thing exceptional about them was that they directed that authority inward instead of just outward, the latter of which we in the west are all more accustomed to. They took the full-spectrum colonial violence typically reserved for non-white people outside their borders, and directed it also towards white people within their borders. This (and only this) is what we have been taught to view as an unacceptable aberration.

TLDR Authority itself is not “good” or “evil”. Authority is just a weapon like any other, and what makes it heroic or repugnant is who wields it against who.

For the liberals, a metaphor:

It’s the end of the American Civil War. The Southern lines have collapsed, the Union is surging. Robert E Lee and the remaining confederates, rather than surrender, decide to retreat to the island of Puerto Rico. The US Army moves to pursue them, but Spain sends an armada to point it’s guns at Florida.

Once ensconced on Puerto Rico, the slavers initiate a brutal anti-abolitionist crackdown that sees them murder tens of thousands of people. Then they proceed to implement four decades of martial law and throw at least 140,000 people into concentration camps on suspicion of being “yankee sympathizers”. Thousands more are disappeared into the jungle by the Dixie death squads.

Meanwhile, Spain floods Europe with propaganda about the noble freedom fighters of Puerto Rico and their valiant struggle against Northern Aggression. To this day, the face of Robert E “Memphis Massacre” Lee is stamped on the money.

Four decades of martial law and mass murder is cool as long as the people doing it say they’re fighting the communists😊

I refuse to forget the “russian orcs” shit

See also: every instance of “You worship Great Leader” type shit

The way liberals flip out when you don’t agree that the DPRK is literally Mordor is exactly how conservatives react when you defend any other country that the US attacks. “Oh yeah, i bet it’s a real heavenly paradise with no problems! Why don’t you move there if you love it so much?! Why don’t you go there if it’s sooo perfect?! Kiss them on the lips and marry them maybe? Fuckin stupid traitor.”

Just instant ridiculous maximalism, like a 12 year old who gets called out for being wrong about something and responds with “Oh yeah and you’re never wrong ever, right?!” No ability or willingness to engage with what’s actually being said, just an instant defensive jingoist freakout.

Liberals believe like “every building in the country plus millions of Koreans had it coming, btw i support Ukraine and Palestine”

Inb4 “tWo ThInGs CaN bE bad At OnCe” from someone comparing something real the empire is doing with a story that same empire told them about someone else.

That’s a lot of words for “I’m a nazi and I swear I’m not mad”

-Statements from a person trying to cope by pretending it’s the same

I have seen far too many dead Palestinians and zero dead Uyghurs

The Nazi battalions are not the entirety of what Ukraine Germany is as a nation.

Yeah they’re only in charge, hardly anything important. But you’re right, I have changed my mind and now think that ten years of government-sponsored ethnic cleansing in eastern Ukraine is an acceptable price to pay for keeping the savage Muscovite on his toes

We shouldn’t purity test a country that’s being invaded, regardless of whether it’s Palestine or Ukraine

An absurd thing to say when one of the countries is being genocided with western support and the other is run by actual seig-heiling nazis who were doing ethnic cleansing also with western support. To equivocate between the two is nonsensical, It’s the geopolitical version of equivocating between kicking in a door as part of a robbery and kicking in a door as part of a hostage rescue operation. But if you really must reduce everything down to black and white principles about what is and isn’t acceptable, try this one: There is never a good reason to side with nazis.

Also, I curse whoever came up with the thought-terminating cliche that is “purity testing”. In cooking and chemistry, in metallurgy and biology and a million other things, you need “purity testing” to achieve anything, because it turns out that making a habit of disregarding basic standards consistently leads to failure and disaster. I don’t cook with dirt, I don’t build out of bubblegum, I dont make tea with metal shavings and I don’t give critical support to genocidal goose-steppers.

Pictured: fake news according to western “leftists”