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3 months ago

Hi, thanks so much for your kind words. I’m working on finding a sweet spot between healthy skepticism and cynicism, kindness and gullibility. It’s tricky, and both cause unnecessary suffering, for all parties involved. While I’d prefer to be inerrant, that’s not very realistic, since I’m human. I’m learning, and that means mistakes. Thank you again for your kind words.

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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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3 points

3 months ago

Humans are, inherently, messy. Plenty of terrible people have done good things, whether they meant to or not, whether their motive was good or not. Its just the reality.

Its why all we can do is try to be the best we can be, but we all have to look at how people act and make our best judgment.

I entirely missed their antisemitic comments in a wall of text with lots of other right wing propaganda mixed in, and someone else highlighted it.

Its these talking points, which are intended to confuse and misdirect people who do want better, that you also need to be aware of to accurately identify.

And it sucks.

Maybe one day things will be better. I hope so. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will while certain individuals/parties/leaders use all kinds of nefarious means to spread their hate.

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-2 points

3 months ago

Their wording could have been much better. I’m thinking “hasbara,” but their wording was awful. But again, some people don’t know what hasbara is. Yes, that’s stretching it, I really should go look at their post history in detail.

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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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5 points

3 months ago

Blue maga, antifa as a violent organization, the “Hebrew school” comment, the claims of supporting genocide when trump definitely would go for more, etc, that’s all right wing talking points.

I’m not Jewish, but learned the dradel and a few words, so if I remember right hasbara is explaining-ish? by the state, kind of a propaganda approach. Which yes, what Israel is doing is terrible IMO. I showed my wife yesterday a picture of an area of been to that was a bombed out shell of nothing. The people in Beirut were incredibly nice to me when I went there for work some years back, and knowing some of the area that was bombed just adds to the horrors - and I barely visited.

That doesn’t excuse any of the other behavior, and the right wing talking points especially.

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-2 points

3 months ago

Hi, I’m about five or six mobile device pages in their comments, now. Antifa most certainly can be violent, but it largely depends on circumstances, or maybe I’m conflating the antifa activists who also participate in Black Bloc, or maybe they’ve just calmed down a bit here in the USA since they first blipped onto my radar maybe 30 years ago.

At any rate, he seems to be more moderate than me since I have nothing bad to say about Antifa or Black Bloc, in my recollection of anything that’s made news, but I could be forgetting stuff. Thirty years is a long time.

I haven’t seen anything else that suggests antisemitism, so far, either. “So far” being key. I’ve been accused of RW talking because I’m definitely voting third party or not at all. I also definitely see his points, although emotion seems to have gotten the better of him. It happens. When I was leaning towards voting Harris, it got the best of me, and I made shill accusations too. Then the news and the photographs kept coming and kept coming. I was accused of being antisemitic when I started vocally criticizing Operation Razor’s edge, too, relentlessly, and used to become upset and almost started speaking out. That’s when a Jewish friend of mine pulled me aside and explained hasbara (it’s not explaining, it’s excusing the inexcusable, so yes, propaganda), and back then what was known as the IDF (Internet Defense Force). Mossad and USA right wing Jewish activists monitor media and real life, and quickly activate when criticism is detected. This was about the time people were heavily berating Noam Chomskey, JVP, Mondoweisse and the reform Jewish Temple clergy and members who spoke out against Palestinian genocide, and before the BDS movement began or maybe around the time it did, as antisemites and self-hating Jews.

Anyway, the word choice was terrible, I’m not that deep into his comments, yet. If I see others, I’ll come back and correct myself. The first glance was a glance, but I plan to look through several more pages. Have a good evening and thanks again for your kindness to me.

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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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2 points

3 months ago

Antifa most certainly can be violent, but it largely depends on circumstances, or maybe I’m conflating the antifa activists who also participate in Black Bloc, or maybe they’ve just calmed down a bit here in the USA since they first blipped onto my radar maybe 30 years ago.

That was never debated, absolutely there can be violence. There is a difference though between a structured organization planning to terrorize people (Patriot Front, Patriot March, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Texas Freedom Force) and antifa, which is simply a network of.people unified by only one thing - antifascism. As such, antifa has no structure, no commander, no single person to listen to or be ostracized.

Which means involvement is limited to a specific task, not large scale terror efforts. These two things are not the same.

But let’s ignore that for a second, and consider the other part mentioned to “equate” the violence. Protests. Specifically shooting at police stations and setting fires. And yet, that’s not what happened - those were right wing provocateurs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/far-right-extremist-pretended-blm-pled-guilty-to-rioting-2021-10?op=1

In fact, of those who were left wing and arrested, most were not affiliated with any group.

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity-suburbs-health-racial-injustice-7edf9027af1878283f3818d96c54f748

Because the idea of antifa and BLM being organized violent groups on par with the hate groups / terrorist organizations I mentioned is specifically a right wing talking point, a complete farce.

Which leads us to the blue maga bit - this is another right wing talking point (as well as a tankies talking point, mostly to bolster the right in some weird hope for a civil war, which I will never understand).

In any case - these are not talking points of moderates. They are exclusively found within extremist groups/positions. Blue maga doesn’t exist.

I haven’t seen anything else that suggests antisemitism, so far, either. “So far” being key.

I’d recommend this comment right here:

https://lemmy.world/comment/12762297

I’ve been accused of RW talking because I’m definitely voting third party or not at all.

That is beyond unfortunate, effectively you are providing your vote to Trump. This is not a point for debate, that’s what is happening. All third party candidates up for this Presidential election are spoiler candidates and nothing more. I’ve recently detailed out all the elements related to Jill Stein, including one of her supporters, at Jill Steins rally, specifically calling out their intention to make Harris lose. She literally serves no other purpose.

Make no mistake, what you are doing is the sane as voting for Trump. Again, you can do as you choose, just dont pretend what you are doing is anything but bolstering Trump, especially if you live in a battleground state. Because you are.

That’s when a Jewish friend of mine pulled me aside and explained hasbara (it’s not explaining, it’s excusing the inexcusable, so yes, propaganda)

Thanks for the clarification, its been quite a while since I’ve been around many of my friends who do speak Hebrew, mostly due to covid.

I do have to add - your vote, which is effectively a vote for Trump, will ramp up what’s happening. With Harris there is an opportunity for things to change, more than just words, but let’s be honest here - she can’t say that or she’ll lose a significant group of voters in key states.

Trump has called himself Israels “protector”. He also said:

I think that Israel has to do one thing. They have to get smart about Trump, because they don’t back me. I did more for Israel than anybody. I did more for the Jewish people than anybody. And it’s not reciprocal, as they say, not reciprocal.

But the nice thing is they’re entitled to an attack, and nobody will be upset if they attack, because they’re entitled.

So just to be clear here - a third party spoiler vote is voting for ramping up the bombing.

By all means, continue to look. But every comment in this thread they made is riddled with right wing talking points. This is not a moderate.

At best, they’ve been been tricked so thoroughly they are parroting all the maga hate talking points.

At worst, a paid poster.

I hope you have a good night too, and I sincerely hope you reconsider throwing away your vote.

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3 months ago

The first part, we agree. The J6 rioters were fascist insurrectionists, most certainly not Antifa or Black Bloc.

I don’t agree about voting third or not voting is for her that I shall not name, but I’ll concede it was not that long ago that I would have agreed. I’ve simply had a change in perspective.

The way anyone who disagree with the mainstream parties’ are virulently attacked as being either “radical leftists/Communists” or inversely, “fascists/Russians/bots”…I can see where Blue Maga makes sense. I would hope you would take time to consider that. Cult of Personality doesn’t just apply to Voldemort or the prosecutor. In Living Color and Disposable Heros of Hiphoprisy both addressed that in those exact words and in so many words, respectively, but it’s been a multitude of years ago, with songs that were rather popular, at the time. Fred Hampton, MLK and other leftist icons (if one can consider MLK leftist) did, as well.

Although we agree on certain points, and disagree on others, I’m glad you engaged in conversation with me. I think it’s been productive, and humanized us more for each other. I’ll certainly continue to give your sentiments more consideration. I hope you do mine, as well. May you be happy and well. Brightest blessings for you and yours, sincerely.

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