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@erkhyan Already switched to LibreWolf, sorry Mozilla!

@davidgerard @hipsterelectron @Siph he named his fucking AI slave bot "POC" oh my fucking God how on the nose can you get

@CrimethInc Israel is quite literally the closest thing to ontological evil in the world today. Even its examples of "good deeds" are responses to atrocities it engineered itself, in which it kills more people and colonizes more land. Publishing anything which hands it to them in any way, in short, is an utter embarrassment and why the fuck can't you see this?? If there is any red line for any kind of solidarity it should be this. Anyone on the left should be able to agree on this. You were under no obligation to publish that

@CrimethInc I'm going to bed so here's my closing point: Roja makes a big fuss about how this type of analysis is the "anti-imperialism of fools" and that the issue is standards shifting based on geopolitical alignment rather than mere survival. Survival is the sole concern of animals. Who's the real fool when your branch of ideology allows for thanking Israel for saving you from the army it created to murder you without even acknowledging that fact? The anti-imperialism of fools is that which aids and abets the imperialist in subjugating itself, which is what they are doing with this interview, and what you are doing by publishing it in this moment, thereby encouraging the anarchists who follow you to waffle about or even cheer on the US when it proceeds to show Iran the Iraqi treatment. An utterly myopic lens through which to view revolutionary struggle and a dead-end for solidarity, unfortunately likely to be rapidly quite literal here. Equivocation to deadly and insidious effect

@CrimethInc He clearly was not, but he was better for the Druze than Al-Jolani, which is what letting Israel choose who governs you will result in, and viciously toppling his government benefited no one but the Israelis, which is why they did it

@CrimethInc I appreciate the concern and respect that you attempted to derive a non-moronic argument from my statement. yes, the notion implied is that the Arab governments in the region are almost entirely now the servile bootlicking dogs of the US, forbidden to govern themselves against its interests. this lack of real Arabic self-governance (governance by Arabs is not the same as Arab self-governance when they govern on behalf of the West) is the reason why Palestine, which once was defended by force of arms by practically every nation in the Middle East, is now almost entirely left to the slaughter. the US is invading Iran as part of its agenda to topple these last holdouts so that Israel can murder and cleanse all the peoples of the region, Arab or not, as it pleases. they are quite open about this, I'm sure I don't need to show you the "Greater Israel" maps

please don't conflate it with asserting that all residents of the Middle East, or even all Muslims, are Arabs

@CrimethInc nah I was typing up a reply when I saw the question

@CrimethInc I probably mixed him up with Nasrallah lol

@CrimethInc oh, whoops, that's my bad; I misremembered the news at the time when it happened and thought I recalled him being killed because a bunch of his soldiers were killed including infiltrating the army's headquarters. yes he's alive (somehow) but it changes nothing material about my point

@CrimethInc the Kurds the authors express sorrow over in the interview are the very victims of this logic! they accepted the aid of the US, #1 genocidal colonizer in the world, and had that rug pulled out from under them by their capricious and disinterested benefactor, only to be immediately crushed and subjugated. do you not think that they would be better off right now if they had refused any support from the US at all? because that is also the same situation the Druze are in, and now they apparently laud their real oppressors as their saviors, the most prolific anarchists oblivious to the wool pulled over their eyes. nothing was learnt from history, and thus "real internationalism" continues to walk behind the pace of the treadmill.

@CrimethInc it's shameful to publish something which erases the nuance in that to the benefit of the US and Israel and to insult Palestinians by suggesting their struggle being supported by Iran is in any way a similar situation to Israel "supporting" the Druze. but oh, she always wore her keffiyeh! such a good ally

as shown by the fact that you are directly using this argument to suggest that killing Assad by any means, even Israeli, is a positive outcome for anyone, this merely carries water for Israel and suggests that the arm of the genocidal ethnostate can be a force for good under certain circumstances when it materially seems to benefit the oppressed at the time.

@CrimethInc firstly, no support for Assad is necessary to recognize the fact that he explicitly guaranteed their relative autonomy and carved out protections for them in the Syrian state. nor does one need to support him to recognize that these protections were erased when Israel, without justification, invaded the country, murdered him, and occupied the demilitarized zone. these facts ARE, however, things that should be taken into consideration when talking about how Israel saved the Druze from persecution at the hands of Al-Jolani; a leader that Israel itself helped install. criticize Iran all you like, but it did not engineer the genocide in Palestine in order to "save" the Palestinians from it by toppling their government and occupying them. these are simply self-evidently not the same thing, regardless of how you feel about anyone involved.

@CrimethInc here is a wild, tankie, authoritarian, censorious suggestion for you: if you were absolutely bound and determined to publish an interview which moralizes for Israel and equivocates against Iran, you might have at least delayed publication until *after* the US was not actively in the process of preparing to invade Iran and seeking to justify this act. or is this too suppressive of internationalist solidarity?

@CrimethInc no words are wasted on the idea that we recognize the stick and the carrot as being administered from the same hand. the "concrete conditions of survival" are evidently all that matters, even if they drive us further into the hands of those who engineered our suffering in the first place.

if only "tankie apologists" would call you out for doing the CIA's dirty work, at the precipice of the US almost certainly preparing to massacre untold numbers of Iranians and destroy Arab self-governance for generations, because objection supports Iran's government, then surely only "Mossad agents" would push back against criticism of this tripe because it feeds into the narrative of Israel doing good for minorities in the region

@CrimethInc
> A state that massacres its own people cannot be a force of liberation for others. A state that kills people in the streets, blinds them, imprisons them, executes them, cannot claim to be fighting for justice elsewhere.

this is the central thesis of the entire interview, the literal headline, and yet Roja apparently fails to see its applicability to their own anecdote and instead suggests that we must twist ourselves into logic whereby we acknowledge and are grateful for Israeli support without "supporting them," whatever the hell that means. let alone realize that Al-Jolani is in power because Israel invaded the country and killed the man who had instituted state policies which protected her people from these very crimes!

@CrimethInc so you do imply that you would reject texts if they were unduly sympathetic to the genocidal apartheid state of Israel or otherwise worded to sympathize with Israeli settler-colonialism. and yet this interview did not apparently raise any eyebrows for the blog-runners, who I presume read it in its entirety, and did not pick up on any of the ways in which it carries water for the dominant imperialist powers in the region or bloviates about how authoritarian governments are bad but when they shoot our enemies, it's good

@CrimethInc are you abolishing all editorial standards as well? do you take no responsibility for the words you publish on your website? would you publish the perspective of an Israeli as well, if they wished to pen a glowing defense of the "most moral army" and how it has undermined authoritarianism in the Middle East? pathetic

@CrimethInc fantastically blinkers-on interview running cover for Israeli military aggression in the region at the same time as the US' tinpot dictator prepares for a massive invasion of Iran. a trite piece that manages to say nothing at all because it must balance a distaste for Iranian authoritarianism with the fact that every other player in the field against them is also a colonizing, imperialist force. no thought, let alone space, is given to the idea that Israel "aids" ethnic minorities in the region as a smokescreen for destabilizing their governments so that it can invade, topple them, and colonize their land, as it has already done for the Golan Heights, the reason Syria's government is attacking the Druze at all. practically anti-intellectual

I didn't say that you worked for the CIA, although frankly, I hope at least some of you do -- it would be considerably less depressing than the idea that you are doing their work for them and not even getting a paycheck out of it