Greenblatt: "I’m thinking about the New York Times doing a gauzy profile a few weeks ago of this gamer, Hasan Piker, who regularly employs awful genocidal rhetoric against Jewish people and the Jewish State. Extremists should not be empowered. People who spout prejudice should not be platformed. This is a moment when we need to look ourselves in the mirror and say ‘We’ve got to stop this because the consequences are deadly’. "

https://xcancel.com/CharlieSheenGO/status/1925566024218218496#m

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    A shooter cites great replacement theory pushed by Fox news as the reason for performing a mass shooting at a mainly black grocery store -> not related to Tucker Carlson

    A shooter cites palestinian suffering for reason for shooting Israeli officials, cites examples of injustices from over 10 years ago when Hasan wasnt even a thing -> this is because of Hasan

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      Like I said in another post, we’re rapidly coming to a point where being a fascist is more socially acceptable than being an anti-fascist and that shit is by design.

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        I think we passed that point a long time ago. Heather Heyer was killed in 2017 and many Americans found that acceptable. They were “both sides”-ing the literal nazis at that rally and the anti-fascists who showed up to counterprotest. Anti-fascists were blamed for riots about George Floyd’s death and not the pigs who killed him.

        Like remember when Biden was all “We should shoot anarchists in the knees?”

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        The re-nazification started in 2014 when the great replacement theory became mainstream, then with the Ukraine war when azov became smol bean and whitey thought it acceptable that ukrainians got to have swastika tattoos as a small treat because of evul ruzzian hordes, what is happening now is the fruits of someone’s very hard work.

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    who regularly employs awful genocidal rhetoric against Jewish people and the Jewish State

    Further proof that the west is explicitly fascist is that some genocidal bastard can spout this type of fucking nonsense manufacturing consent for violent reprisal for just criticising pissraels genocide. On mainstream media no less, without swift and severe punishment.

    It’s terrifying, this is actual proof that the west, america in particular, has fully enshrined a fascist superstructure of lies and delusion across civil society, it’s all pervasive, it’s everywhere, and they use it to warp reality past the point of no return. 2+2 has been 5 for the longest fucking time because hundreds of thousands had to be slaughtered for America to retain a decaying foothold in the Middle East.

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    Hasan should make a big drama out of this accusation and take the heat away from PSL. He won’t get taken down by this because it’s stupid to blame him with absolutely no connection to it but a crackdown on orgs would be genuinely damaging.

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        That generally true due to the ambiguous nature of US libel laws, but Greenblatt literally ticked off all the boxes that can lead you to win a defamation case in the US; false statement, publication to a third party, and the spoken stated intention to harm an individual’s reputation

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          It won’t matter

          This damned state picked it’s side in this genocide many years ago

          Even just boycotting Israeli items is a crime in most states. We’re past the point where factual information makes a difference

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          He could sue and possibly even win but it would be a 5 year lawsuit and his opponents have infinite money. It’s a substantial personal sacrifice to go after imperialist goons via the legal system.

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    Extremists should not be empowered. People who spout prejudice should not be platformed. This is a moment when we need to look ourselves in the mirror and say ‘We’ve got to stop this because the consequences are deadly’

    heartbreaking wonder-who-thats-for

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    It’s so bizarre to be living in a timeline in which mass murder is right and condemning mass murder is wrong.

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      This phenomenon is known as the “State Monopoly on Violence”. The government’s unlimited use of violence is considered by the public to be legitimate and any resistance against the state’s violence is considered to be illegitimate.

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        Thing is, it’s not even the state’s monopoly anymore. Both the US & Israel empower & then protect vigilantes/settlers to commit fascist violence. (Obviously this has always been the case to some degree, but has certainly ramped up again in recent years)

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          Israel is expanding via the same process the US did into indigenous lands. Making reservations, breaking treaties repeatedly, having forward settlers staking claims and then having the US military come and defend their illegal settlements in so-called “Indian territory”. Monopoly on violence is overly simplistic, the state is a vehicle of class war and class-based violence. The settlers and the state were the yin-yang that made the expansion possible. You know how when you’re moving a heavy piece of furniture by yourself, you lift one part, then pivot and lift the other part, back and forth? This is the mechanism of genocidal expansion, one foot forward then the body follows.

          The first plunge is made by those who are willing but unable, the thirsty ambitious psychopaths. They only succeed because they are shortly followed by those who were unwilling but are able, the boring legalistic normies, the officials and diplomats and soldiers. Their reluctance has been made irrelevant, the due process of law forfeit, they are dragged along with the settlers because ultimately the state serves the interests of the capitalist class, of which the settlers are a large portion.

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    As soon as I see anything by the ADL, I assume the rest of the sentence is going to be something racist.

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    Didn’t the Gunman know it’s ONLY OK to Shoot BABIES and CHILDREN? OTHERWISE you’re ANTI SEMETIC!