I’ve noticed that there seems to be an emphasis on being extremely serious at all times, as if every single comment is a PhD dissertation being evaluated or something. There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental. It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?
Can’t have serious discussions about most political topics here without it being just people endlessly spamming “capitalism bad!” or “Israel bad!”
Generally people are just spamming the same talking points, ignoring any facts (like the fact that communism failed). Posting the same antisemitic conspiracy theories I’ve seen on the internet 20 years ago, but with “the Jews” replaced with “Israel”. There’s a lot of hateful people here and they compete with each other to be the most hateful towards the evil capitalist Jews.
I don’t see anyone even attempting to think of ways to improve anything in the world, a lot of people just seem to think expressing hatred on the internet will somehow make things better.
What economic policies could make our lives better? “Kill the capitalists!” How can we make peace in the world? “Kill the Jews!”
That’s the level of political discourse on Lemmy.
The problem is that the state of Israel is straight up doing the stuff from the conspiracy theories 20 years ago.
Most people here know that the state of Israel and people of the Jewish faith are two different things. It’s like saying that being critical of the Vatican is being Anti-Christian.
Antisemitism is the shield the state of Israel is hiding behind as it does the same heinous shit that was done to the Jews by Nazi Germany.
My view is that antisemitism is a very real issue, but yes I agree with your point that Israel’s current government uses the label of antisemitism to dismiss genuine, non-antisemitic criticism of Israel.
Okay, cool. But you’re doing the exact thing OP is talking about, complaining about Zionism without offering any suggestions, and derailing the conversation.
No I’m not. I’m correcting their assumption that hating on Israel means hating on Jews.
It doesn’t even have to do with whatever issue you’re discussing, sometimes.
Isreal and capitalism bad. Okay, sure, Israel is doing genocide, and capitalism might be bad depending on which of the endless definitions you’re using. Can we get back to talking about the comparative benefits of different overpass designs?