Being Pro Palestine is anti genocide and occupation, though. What's your point?
EDIT: Ah ok, you probably meant in relation to the rag like The Guardian who don't apply the terms "genocide" or "imperialism" to refer to Western regimes proper
The Euros and the Anglos have pretended and continue to pretend like they don't recognize one of their own in a distant land they currently occupy; the occupiers are white when the time is right and aren't when it isn't.
Whichever pretext or post-hoc rationale for occupation and colonization is used doesn't fucking matter because it's a settler-colony on perpetual life support from the US (another settler-colony) and the rest of the West no matter how you cut it and how much linguistic sugar you coat it in.
How many times does it have to be said till these academic types fuck off..
The most that this has done is inconvenienced a bunch of children who can travel freely literally anywhere they please. There is no room for moralizing this.
What happens to Palestinians hourly and what happened to Palestinian children across several decades is multitude of degrees worse, there's literally no sane comparison to be had.
there’s a really bizarre wave of USSR apologism and revisionism on tiktok right now,
Probably a Russian psyop or something like that [...]
Seems pretty on brand Putin would be spearheading something like this with his troll/bot farms. I mean, the man is set on conquest and admires Stalin, probably wants the USSR back as well. He does miss it
Yup, Russia is now being sold as pro-christian-family-values-anti-woke culture.
Scary as fuck, we're basically occupied by Russia and the Trumpers are going to start cheering as we become Russia's theoretical "51st state."
I'm not sure what your political stance is, frankly idc, but based on that last sentiment it steers too close to anti-warism, so I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt this one time, maybe you'll see what we see:
My meaning from my reply is that monolithizing the two issues with statements like "Both can be bad at the same time, actually!" is drawing a comparison, which is not only tone-deaf, but completely misses the point that @AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml made: that entire original comment of OP's directly applies to Palestinians in Palestine. And it does, it absolutely does, and there's no denying it does.
The difference here is in the direct applicability of things, sweeping statements like "both bad" especially in the context of Palestine only serve to trivialize issues, it doesn't offer any specific insight.
It also helps their case that one's a literal ongoing genocide on an indigenous population while having already been subjugated to 70+ years of ethnic cleansing as a result of Euro-Anglo settler-colonialism (which continues to this day) and the other's a war the West kicked a hornet's nest for that started in 2022 between bougies... There's nothing wrong with sympathizing with the latter, there's just something wrong with flattening multi-dimensional degrees of suffering and one degree of suffering all into one degree, as if they were on an even-playing field, so to speak. The other difference here is that you get, at best, tone-policed or at worst, silenced and/or jailed, for publicly sympathizing for the former.
And hey: they did not need to preface that Ukraine's full of Nazis or something to that effect, I seriously don't see how their point would be "more valid", even if the prefacing statement was true. Needlessly tone policing like this, a tactic used by libs extensively to derail and dissuade anyone from basically saying anything, isn't really okay at all..
You're really going to compare pedophiliac EuroAnglo-zionazi settler-colonialism, open-air concentration camps, wholesale murder and targeting of children, women and unarmed men, wholesale sexual violence (whether on the living or dead), land desecration, cultural erasure, etc... to a war on a country that still has active clubs and bars?
"Besides – washing your clothes too often eats up hours of your life. Who has the time? "I'm really interested in sustainability and the environment and natural resource management," says Harry. "But I'm also concerned with my time."
What's hard to believe about production outpacing that of the deindustrialized western nations whose economies are fueled entirely by imperialism and speculation?
The frenemy was both smol and big, schrödinger's ruler, stars weren't aligned etc etc...
not a serious bunch