• @Ensign_Crab
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    It might have something to do with their steadfast insistence on rating literal Zionist propaganda outlets that spread straight up lies that have been debunked hundreds of times over as “extremely credible”.

    No, that would have made it the most popular user lemmy has ever seen. I think it was because it was something that no one asked for like that one U2 album.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      You think zionism is extremely popular on Lemmy?? What the fuck have you been smoking?!

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        You think zionism is extremely popular on Lemmy??

        certainly on .world

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          Nope. Even on [email protected], the most Neoliberal community on the most Neoliberal instance on Lemmy, pro-zionist comments are few and heavily downvoted, as they should be.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            215 days ago

            They’re openly hostile to anyone who says that Democrats should not support Netanyahu’s genocide.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              915 days ago

              Not really, only the ones who say that you should withhold support from all Democrats in a binary election system. And anyone who says anything that can possibly be interpreted as such. And quite a few where they have to invent the nonsupport out of whole cloth.

              It’s not so much that they’re Zionists, it’s more that many of them are pro-Dem to the point where any dissent against any Dems, especially the leaders, gets the same ferocious reactions as when you criticize the Mango Mussolini amongst his fascist cult.

              Or to put it another way: apart from understandable election pragmatism, there’s a lot of people there who cares more about pretending that their “team” is perfect than about holding the people supposed to represent them accountable for participating in countless crimes against humanity.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                415 days ago

                Not really, only the ones who say that you should withhold support from all Democrats in a binary election system

                I have never, not a single fucking time, suggested withholding support. That has never fucking mattered.

                Or to put it another way: apart from understandable election pragmatism, there’s a lot of people there who cares more about pretending that their “team” is perfect than about holding the people supposed to represent them accountable for participating in countless crimes against humanity.

                And I don’t give the benefit of the doubt to people who are willing to jettison their humanity just for their “team”. Particularly when they’re super fucking excited to get Dick Cheney’s endorsement.

                • @Viking_Hippie
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                  215 days ago

                  I completely agree. Just pointing out the technical difference between pro-zionism and harassing/othering anti-zionists for reasons only indirectly related 😉

                  • @Ensign_Crab
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                    315 days ago

                    In the next few weeks, we’ll see if centrists start abandoning their hostility toward the anti-genocide wing of the party. I don’t think they will. I think you’ve drawn a distinction without a difference.