He did offer the example of Cuba’s pivot on LGBTQ rights in response to me, which I think is a reasonable one.

Look, I wasn’t making the argument; you’ll see elsewhere in this thread that I agree with you. I was just trying to get your conversation back on track. That…doesn’t seem to have worked very well, unfortunately.

Rio is asking for a specific accomplishment; you’re pointing out systems of government. As such, it looks like the two of you are talking past one another at the moment.

Lmao

Edit: On reflection I have to agree with comrade @nohaybanda@hexbear.net. That said, this is really not the place to take a stand on behalf of electoralism, and honestly I question whether the current US version of same is worth even as much as the pile of shit my dog crapped out this morning.

If it isn’t Patel’s job to impart that feeling to as many people as possible, then I have been seriously misunderstanding his role

I started listening to Chapo and hanging out on r/CTH back in 2018. It took literal years of chipping away at Western media narratives to push my family left.

Honestly one of the bigger things was introducing Means Morning News (it’s a 4-day-a-week news program offerered by the leftist co-op subscription service Means.tv, which costs $10/mo, but the Friday show is posted free most weeks) and getting them to watch it regularly, but it took a lot of pointing out the BS in Western media to get to that point. As I’m sure you know, the slant of Western media is very obvious once you’re aware of it, but your family, like most people, has been very effectively trained not to see it, and it will take time to break through that.

For some of us, life will get back on track, with the petrifying fear of an imminent repeat. And for some of us, life won’t get back on track. Those people will walk among us like the living dead. That’s what we voted for. That’s how it is. We need to get used to the sad reality in our homeland.

IT IS NOT YOUR FUCKING HOMELAND YOU GENOCIDAL SHITBAG. JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE EYES DOESN’T MAKE YOU WORTH A DAMN.

From the river to the sea, asshole.

Apparently someone who drives an off-road-capable vehicle exclusively on-road.

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Ah, Illinoisourtucky, got some good memories from there

ELEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE GIGAWATTS, MARTY!

After what now?

Not sure why CrimsonSage decided to delete her account :sadness:

The only thing worse than cool long-timers deleting their accounts is when they just go missing one day.

It’s not “both sides” to accept the reality of the situation.

This is you, 42 minutes ago:

both sides are terrorists

Anyway, I’m done. Enjoy being a stooge for genocidal powers you say you don’t support. If this were a post on my home instance I’d be a lot more rude right now; as it is, all I’ll say is that this experience, for me, is best encapsulated in this emote:

Ooo, I can play this game too: https://hexbear.net/post/251036

Why would I need to check your history? You’re both-sides-ing a settler-colonialist genocide here. Hamas’s goal is fighting off the Zionist entity, not genocide, and your acceptance of that horseshit claim makes clear that you believe anything the Western media tells you, hence your appeal to the authority of “experts” (all of whom are doubtless employed by, or at minimum enthusiastically on the side of, Western media companies or militaries) on this particular claim, rather than any independent thought.

PS: Since you’re so dependent on “experts,” here’s some that argue the opposing side: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/what-hit-ahli-hospital-in-gaza https://www.channel4.com/news/who-was-behind-the-gaza-hospital-blast-visual-investigation

No one who believes the (absurd and obviously false, in this case) lies of genocidal monsters is on the side of the Palestinians, full stop, especially if you think it’s wrong for Hamas to use violence against the oppressors.

PS: I love how you’re more ready to be skeptical of Palestinians claims about number of deaths than you are of Israeli claims of innocence.

lmao an R160 managed to kill 500 people when one has literally never managed to even kill 10 before? Come on. You’re not even subjecting these claims to basic common sense.

PS: It was likely an antipersonnel munition, and it burst in the air; the tiles are irrelevant, you credulous fool.