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Matt Osborne's avatar

Mao had his cadre of hyper-revolutionaries. Guess what happened to them.

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circe black's avatar

There is no communist paradise in Gaza so what would be the point of even the most devoted leftist throwing their lot in with that movement? It’s all based on vibes. For years the pro-Hamas American leftists excused “from the river to the sea” as a peaceful slogan for Palestinian liberation. When we would say “Bestie they are calling for a genocide of 50% of the world population of Jews for realsies,” they would audibly scoff saying “you think decolonization is violent because colonization is violent, baby it just ain’t that way.” Now that the whole world can see that this “decolonization” (truly a recolonization) project is indeed horrifically violent Jew-hatred, they either deny what happened or use decolonial theory and literature (literal Frantz Fanon quotes used to excuse gang rape) to forgive Hamas and say Israelis deserved it. And to what end? What would be the point of a collapsed liberal democratic state? Who has the guns and cash and knowledge of the basics of society to take over? Not the American left

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