I hope this post fits the content and format of this community, if not I'm sorry.

I'm just incredibly shocked by the fact that an admin of the instance lemmy.dbzer0.com is openly supporting Hamas.

Here's a link to the comment: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61235665/23634712

Comment by kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com: "One of the several issues western shitlibs tend to suffer from is that they expect a perfect Netflix style resistance™. They don’t understand that resistance is an imperfect process done by flawed individuals who sometimes do bad. Yet through it all even a deeply flawed resistance is better than a genocidal occupation.  So yes unironically I do support Hamas and I support every resistance group to imperialism regardless of how flawed they are because morality means nothing to the dead."
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[–] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (54 children)

The posted comment never represents one side as "good". It correctly identifies one side as resisting imperialism and colonialism, while acknowledging its lack of perfection.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (10 children)

    There is no excusing rape and murder of civilians. You can't handwave such atrocities as imperfection

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    You're posting hasbara again, and what's more is it's "every accusation is a confession" shit with a growing mountain of evidence that Israel military forces like the IDF and IOF use sexual violence to terrorize Palestinian civilians as well as incoming aid workers trying to help starving children.

    Please stop re-perpetuating this harmful and wrong misinformation.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (6 children)

    I don't support Israel or IDF, they can go suck a bag of dicks lol

    But surely you can acknowledge that the rape and murder of civilians isn't resistance?

    why is it so hard for yanks to understand that both things can be bad

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I am not endorsing Hamas as the legitimate leadership of Palestine. But I am saying that there is no credible evidence of rape and murder of civilians "as resistance." You are perpetuating a harmful zionist talking point uncritically and it does the work for who you claim not to support for them. The world is filled with enough injustice to speak truth into the world about how genocide and the starving of children is wrong without doing what you're doing here.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    Hamas raped women during the 7th of October and sexually assaulted hostages. There was also the whole massacre thing during the 7th of October where the terrorists filmed themselves shooting elderly in their homes.

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    Since they know they have no ground to stand on, they default to base programming.

    I think it's a sunk cost fallacy, they can't handle considering that not everything is so black and white and that resistance movements may not always be the 'good guy' -- They're in too deep.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (16 children)

    "Imperfect resistance" ahhh, the classic terrorist supporter dog-whistle.

    Much like MAGAs "novel legal theory"

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (15 children)

    Your argument is circular and inane.

    Try engaging substantively.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    circular and inane

    I genuinely don't think you know what either of those words mean if you think they apply to what I said.

    You are describing terrorists by using normatively loaded language to make them sound like just little guys trying their best and making little mistakes. It's disgusting.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    Israel is a terrorist state that calls as terrorists those who challenge its ambitions of occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

    Being vilified by Israel is not one and the same as being fundamentally wicked.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    Israel is a terrorist state

    Correct. And Hamas is a terrorist organization.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

    Hamas is labeled terrorist because it was assigned the label by Israel.

    Hamas is terrorist only as much as one terrorist entity is credible to decide exactly which groups or factions are terrorist.

    More generally, terrorist simply is a label states assign to their non-state enemies.

    By the same standards, the Continental Army would be terrorist, as would be essentially every belligerent that has engaged in anti-colonial struggle.

    Regardless, it should be concrete facts, not abstract labels, that are used to support arguments and conclusions.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

    Hamas is labeled terrorist because

    False. Hamas is labeled terrorist for performing acts of terrorism.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

    Once again, your argument is circular and inane.

    You are begging the question, of the particular acts and the reasons for their being characterized as terrorist.

    The fact is that Israel labels Hamas as terrorist, because doing so functions in service of its state interests. However, Israel has no credibility, and all of its claims should be strongly scrutinized.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Once again, your argument is circular and inane.

    Once again, you demonstrate zero knowledge of what those words mean.

    The fact is that Israel labels Hamas as terrorist, because doing so function in service of its state interests

    True.

    However, Israel has no credibility, and all of its claims should be strongly scrutinized.

    Also true.

    Hamas is also a terrorist organization.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Rolling up to a music festival with the boys to slaughter and rape was imperfect. Just a little oopsie. I am not a terrorist simp

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Bad Hasbara.

    You are repeated debunked Zionist propaganda.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (25 children)

    the problem with tankies like that admin is that they never stop with the moral relativism. and their support of Palestine is not borne out of concern for Palestians, otherwise they wouldn't have supported Assad's ethnic cleansing campaign which was so brutal, you'd think it as something Israel would do. alas, they support "anti-imperialists" whose moral compass and politics are practically indistinguishable from that of Zionists

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    to give you a more practical example, no one can deny that Azov is correct in fighting Russia. that doesn't automatically make them valiant and brave anti-colonial heroes just because the Ukrainian people are fighting a war of national liberation. some groups are bad no matter how dire their local context is.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You have no business complaining of someone else allegedly relying on a straw men.

    Much of the problem is that you assume others follow your own narrow method of thought, by which every facet of the world is cast along thin and fixed lines separating good versus evil.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    are my moral lines too thin and fixed or are you simply too apathetic to stop fencesitting? i know the watchers at home know the obvious answers, stay tuned for the evening news 📺

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (18 children)

    Anarchists are not tankies.

    Also, the reason some leftists supported Assad was a hope to hasten the collapse of US imperialism, which causes massive death and suffering around the world. Criticizing such a stance as misguided is credible only if accompanied by a comparably critical stance against the even more deadly abuses of US imperialism.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (17 children)

    anarchists arent tankies but Lenin Glazers like the admin irrefutably are.

    Criticizing such a stance as misguided is credible only if accompanied by a comparably critical stance against the even more deadly abuses of US imperialism

    there isn't a single anti-Assad anarchist that wouldn't also critique the US. nice try, maybe leave the strawman arguments at the door next time

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (16 children)

    The posted comment never mentions Lenin.

    You are being deliberately dishonest.

    Also, you are the one who just now presented not one, but several straw men.

    When did I imply that "there [is] a single anti-Assad anarchist that wouldn’t also critique the US"? Again, you are being dishonest.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    It is on topic, dude. Lenin and tankies are closely related, so are anarchists being tankie glazers.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    It breaks your own rules against derailing threads, and your defense is little more than a word salad of unsubstantiated dogma.

    Anarchists are the strongest critics of authoritarian tendencies of leftism. Anarchists were targets of some of the earliest repression after the October Revolution, and Kropotkin famously fled the Soviet Union as an open and caustic critic of Lenin.

    Anarchists by nature are the strongest critics of any authoritarianism because anarchism entails opposition to all authority.

    Your failure to distinguish between anarchists and authoritarian leftists is ignorant and absurd.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

    Anarchists aren't strong critics at all lol

    You can't even condemn Hamas, who are authoritian in itself.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    You don't know or care about historical and actual facts.

    You don't listen, or argue honestly.

    Of course we criticize Hamas, but we also support their struggle to liberate Palestine from occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

    Again, I cannot help if you are unable to parse the nuance, instead of continuing to perceive a conflict.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (6 children)

    When I asked if you condemn the rape and murder of civilians you told me to get lost lol

    So no, you don't criticise Hamas. I mean it's pretty easy to criticise rape, 'Hey, guys, probably don't rape that woman to death and then parade her corpse through town while recording it' -- Makes it really hard for Tankies to squirm around muh nuance

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Again, you are parroting Zionist propaganda. No one should feel compelled to take you seriously.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    you can't criticise hamas lol

    typical anarchist

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You have the mind of a child.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not being dishonest, I'm just not coddling your feelings

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    What an absurd defense.

    Once again, you deflect with an accusation that is completely unsubstantiated, an obvious non sequitur.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    an obvious non sequitur is your mom loving you

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