Imagine if JK Rowling would do that last bit for us.

blaming them on using WhatsApp is besides the point

WhatsApp admins are explicitly interfering with a public protest in order to satisfy a genocidal foreign government.

This is at least as big a deal as TikTok censorship of anti-China posters. It’s just on behalf of a US ally, so we’re defending it rather than threatening to interfere in their business practices in turn.

the shame is on the cess pool that is Meta

Who appoints WhatsApp administration heads if not Meta? It’s the same picture.

Anyone from 28 and above will be easly called a boomer by 14 years old

I’m sure there’s some kind of meme to describe this. Or maybe they’re all TikTok dances now, idk.

All I know is that the damned kids today need to get off my lawn.

You mean freedom of speech…

I mean “posting online”.

The freedom to speak truth to power without the goon squad kicking down your door?

Has never existed in a practical sense within the United States. Not under Bush. Not under Eisenhower. Not under Woodrow Wilson. Not under James Buchanan. Not under John Adams.

Americans have a long and storied history of arresting outspoken dissidents, assaulting them, and disappearing anyone who persisted.

Clearly that is being eroded in the US right now

We have more political prisoners in jail today than China has had since the end of the colonial era.

At some point, you gotta dance with who brung ya. If, after over a century of experimentation, you conclude that every single AES state is as evil as the CIA tells us, there’s not much socialism to support.

You also really need to jam your eyes shut and ignore the enormous improvements in quality of life, even in the face of adverse economic headwinds, in the surviving socialist block. “Ah, but I’m not free to shitpost on the Internet the same way!” is such sad metric for a country’s success

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You such an idiot.

Impossible. I always support the person who is slightly to the left of the most far-right candidate on the ballot. Ergo, I am always a genius and it is you who are the idiot.

The old Inside-Outside strategy. Reactionaries aren’t the only ones who can work a ratchet.

Absolutely within the purview of “moderate” leftists to advocate turns to the left and backstop turns to the right at every opportunity. But they do have to do those two things.

Posting this makes you singularly responsible for the Presidency of Donald Trump. Everything is now all your fault.

Israel crossing red lines like a cat going at a laser pointer.

If you were offered the real thing or a pale imitation, which would you choose? Boobs are simply asses on the chest! The Ass is superior!

Americans expressing their decidedly non-tankie tendencies

Unless there’s something about Israel in particular that you especially don’t like

Not a big fan of the genocide.

recognizing the slogan as a Zionist invention

Clipping off the bit about freedom is a Zionist framing, certainly. But when every expression of Palestinian solidarity is criminalized, there’s little to be gained in a debate about “framing”. At this point, “Death to Israel” is a perfectly valid and legitimate sentiment. The state is rotten to the core, from its corrupt fascist parliament to its bloody-fisted imperial expansion.

Pretending that “Israel has a right to exist” is any different than some Boer slogan championing White South Africa or a Neo-Confederate rallying cry for the restoration of America’s slave-owning past is what really plays into the Zionist’s hands.

I do in fact think “from the river to the sea” is neither an acceptable or advisable thing to say

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is an unacceptable or inadvisable thing to say in the midst of a genocide of the Palestinian people, because it suggests that the state responsible for the genocide shouldn’t exist?

I’ll say “free Palestine” all day long but will never use the other slogan.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

It’s weird how they always leave off the second part.

Extremely conservative estimate resulting, in no small part, thanks to the IDF habit of killing journalists.

Lolz. Didn’t Trump just pardon Ross Ulbricht?

What a joke.

I’ll support any kind of Socialism except AES. Those guys are the worst!

How do I know?

slaps a stack of books authored by anti-communists from the 1950s-1980s

I learned to read.