Well at least it gives us some idea of their politics.

tbh it looks a lot more like parody to me. Also, please by mindful of community rule 5.

A bit of self-promotion here, but check out !fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com if you want to stay up to date on recent disinformation campaigns. It’s obviously not going to solve the problem, but it’s one more tool to help identify and fight the disinfo peddlers.

Wait until you hear about the semi-autonomous killer drone swarms, designed to prevent signal jamming (by not needing an operator).

Lol true.

Looks like he’s putting together his own version of the Legion of Doom.

I think people are concluding you are right wing because your post history is full of pro-Trump apologia. You are walking a fine line on this topic. Nobody wants right wingers on Lemmy, so if you are coming across as a Trump supporter, or at the very least a Trump apologist, then people, including me, are obviously gonna be suspicious of your claimed political position.

And for the record, you have no right to say whatever you want on Reddit, or on this instance. dbzer0 is not a “free speech” instance, it’s an Anarchist instance. If you don’t understand the difference, then see this post for some light reading. FYI, you are expected to follow both the community and/or instance rules wherever you are posting. If you want to run your own instance and set your own rules, then go for it. Until that time, try to focus on something more productive than making excuses for Trump and being a “both-sides” bro.

Cripes, you really got thrown to the wolves here.

Yeah, it’s a fascinating topic. I’ll check him out, thanks!

Are you implying it’s ok to make excuses for war criminals if the civilian casualties caused by one war crime are lower than during another war crime? Because it sounds like that’s what you’re suggesting. I mean, sure, I agree with you that Israel’s war crimes have been *even worse *than Russia’s. But I’m not the person defending one of these genocidal wars because the other one has more civilian casualties. What I am saying, supported by facts and evidence, is that that you seem to be ok with defending one of these war crimes while condemning the other. Someone who isn’t politically partisan would be opposed to both.

Total deaths: Palestinians killed in Gaza: at least 40,005 […]

Civilians killed in Gaza: Gaza’s health ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, but says at least 5,956 women and at least 10,627 children have been killed. - Source

Nope. Where did I do that? The civilian casualties are horrific in both cases.

The comment I linked to lists a bunch of your problematic comments about Putin and Ukraine, so I didn’t have to repeat them here. But if you insist, here they are again:

• Israel has already killed more civilians in 45 days than Putin during his entirely Ukraine war.
• The west is commiting actual genocide right now. Don’t mis use the word for Putin.
• Ukraine is doing plenty of terrorism against their occupier. Your double standards are showing.
• Reminder that israel had already killed more civilians than Putin did since the start of the Ukraine war. Biden is literally worse than Putin.
• You fuck off genocide apologist. When it came to Ukraine you were all calling for the Russians to assasinate Putin.
• Now that it’s about non white people you’re literally saying you’re gonna vote for the genocide guy. Fucking racist hypocrites.
• The war crimes Russia committed in Bucha pale in comparison to the complete genocide israel is committing right now.
• America is already talking about dropping support for Ukraine.
• Ukraine was just a proxy to exhaust Russian resources with.
• Now that the entire country is in ruin America is going to pull support and leave them for dead like they’ve done with all their other proxies.
• Even the Russians had far greater precision than this when attacking Ukraine.
• You’re in for a treat when you start reading about the Azov brigade. They’ve got literal Nazi’s.
• It’s so sad that all you have is whataboutism isn’t it? And the worst part is that Genocide Joe isn’t even the lesser of evils anymore. He is now the worse evil.
• Genocide Joe is the person able to stop this. Instead he removes all war crime restrictions on the weapons and protects israel with all his power. He is actively committing mass genocide.
• A reminder that Genocide Joe has killed more than twice as many civilians than Putin in Ukraine already.
• Not to mention the amount of children murdered by this barbaric Zio Nazi
• Not to forget Ukraine is slowly getting ditched too so the “world powers” are losing that one as well.
• Israel is like 10000% more genocidal than Russia.
• But anyone not supporting Ukraine with weapons against Russia obviously has to go because that’s very “unfreedom” of them.
• The Kurds welcome Ukraine in joining the long list of groups abandoned and left in ruins by the US after being promised support to fight their enemy as long as needed.
• Biden needs to focus on committing Genocide now. He has no time for Ukrainians beating an invasion. Surely Zeloonsky understands, he unconditionally supports israel’s genocide himself.

Nobody is denying Israel’s genocide, or the war criminal Netanyahu’s culpability. What I am questioning is why you are only concerned about the genocide in Gaza, but when it comes to Russian war crimes, you are happy to make excuses for them. That’s what I find disingenuous. All the excuses you make for Putin are the exact same sort of excuses people use to support Israel’s genocidal actions. It’s a double standard, and it demonstrates that your concern trolling on this topic is motivated more by anti-Western political propaganda than it is about genuine concern over war crimes.

Where’s the lie? I agree there is some whataboutism, but in this case the hypocrisy of your position is so striking that it needs to be pointed out.

Crocodile tears indeed. It’s interesting that you seem to care so much about the genocide in Gaza, but can’t quite bring yourself to express the slightest concern about the illegal and vicious Russian invasion of Ukraine. Are innocent Palestinians worth caring about, but not innocent Ukrainians? According to your post history, you are in fact generally supportive of Putin’s actions in Ukraine. If you only oppose genocidal acts in which the US supplies weapons, but handwave away a literal direct invasion by Russia, then you’re just engaged in partisan propaganda. I don’t think you can be taken seriously as someone who is anti-genocide if you think that it all depends on who is committing the genocide, and/or who is the target.

It seems to me that academics who study horseshoe theory routinely miss the point. For example, the Wikipedia article on this topic uses this to try to refute the theory:

Simon Choat, a senior lecturer in political theory at Kingston University, has criticized the horseshoe theory. In a 2017 article for The Conversation, “‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common”, he argues that far-left and far-right ideologies only share similarities in the vaguest sense, in that they both oppose the liberal democratic status quo, but that the two sides have very different reasons and very different aims for doing so.[29] Choat uses the issue of globalization as an example;[30] both the far-left and the far-right attack neoliberal globalization and its “elites”, but identify different elites and have conflicting reasons for attacking them.[31]

But it’s a total strawman. Nobody is arguing that tankies oppose or support the same things as Nazis, or that they share the same goals. What they have in common is an embrace of authoritarianism. Of course the tankies like different authoritarians, like Maduro or Putin instead of Hitler or Mussolini. But the love, or at least tolerance, for authoritarianism is the one thing they have in common - that the ends justify the means.

You must might want to check out !fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I started it recently to help people identify and report disinformation on the platform.

Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”

– Donald Trump

Source: PolitiFact

Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”

– Donald Trump

Source: PolitiFact

I recently set up !fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com for this exact reason. I’ll be happy to cross post in this community if the mods think it’s a good fit

We definitely shouldn’t normalise this sort of surveillance, whether it’s simply for advertising or for more nefarious purposes. China already banned apps like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter, so was that due to anglophobia or is it ok when China does it, but not when the US does it?

I agree with you on some level - it’s definitely not cool to only focus on TikTok, because these surveillance machines are IMO all equally problematic. But most Lemmy users have a dim view of all mainstream social media apps because they all suck with regards to user privacy. But is TikTok hated on more than Threads or Facebook? I really don’t think so. And the narrative that any criticism of the Chinese state must be sinophobic is total bullshit. The Chinese state is just as sleazy and authoritarian as any other large nation state. They all deserve criticism when they use these digital panopticons for political purposes.