Global Politics - General Chat

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The UK's swing to the right is both concerning and deeply unsurprising. I still remember in 2014 one of the reasons I voted yes in the Scottish Indy Referendum was because I could see the UK (England especially) swinging to the right, and I didn't want to be part of it. Maybe we'd be screwed no matter what we did, but there seemed to at least be a chance of escaping it.

In regards to current events in the ME, one of the reasons MGSF came back into mind was that I had a bit of a run in with a member in the DC private chat because I made a pretty broad/blunt statement of condemnation towards Israel for what happened in 2014. UN peacekeepers needed to be on the ground as soon as October 7th happened, because it was pretty clear the direction that Bibi and his government were going to go in...

Old MGSF was overrun with bootlicking mongrels for the settler colony. Even when I was far less politically literate it stuck out like a sore thumb how even bleeding heart liberals would suddenly take pretty hard line stances on Israel (funny enough, one of them turned into a full blown fascist). In general most discourse around the Middle East is functionally illiterate because everyone either believes in divide & conquer federalism or plain imperialism dressed in blue or red.

Palestine has been and always will be a moral and ethical compass and the battleground to end battlegrounds in the fight against global imperialism and western hegemony; and for all that has transpired since October 7 it was at least made it clear to the naked eye that there are no middle grounds.

I'd be curious to know who went full fash (in the unlikely event I actually remember who they were). In the incident I referenced, the core of the issue was that someone was Jewish-American - so I think they interpreted the comment I made as being antisematic - when it absolutely wasn't. There was no reference to Judaism or the Jewish people in anything I said. tl;dr I wasn't booted from the org, although things were a wee bit frosty in the org chat for awhile as far as I remember.

But yeah...I find it fucking wild that the centrist MSM are still parroting this line of 'Israel has a right to defend itself.' I'm UK based and I can't listen to the BBC's coverage because it's utterly spineless. I mean The Pod Save World (former Obama staffer, so...y'know, basically neolibs) guys have been far stronger in calling out Israel, Bibi and the far right wing government than the 'impartial' BBC have been. Mind you, when you've got a human rights lawyer who can't call out human rights abuses you've not got much chance of your government acting on or your media reporting on, y'know, war crimes, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

I remember Freeman turned out to be a full blown white nationalist despite being non-white.  And a few people tried to act like him being a racist didn't mean they couldn't be friends.

My mom had the perfect analogy for the whole conflict:

"If Palestine throws rocks, Israel will throw live grenades."

We knew pretty much the instant October 7th happened that the response from Netanyahu and his equally bloodthirsty cohorts was going to be absolutely horrifying.  It continues blowing my mind that we're seeing these college kids all across the country call for an end to the genocide and all the powers-to-be can think to do is call that being antisemitic.  Now, WWE's Linda McMahon is calling for Columbia U to lose its accredited status because of its rampant ""antisemitism"" problem.

I don't believe in god, but god do I wish I believed in hell.