Atheism is the opiate of the insufferable.
That is all.
we can and do that alongside centrists.
Liberalism has never been "centrist" - it's about as right-wing as it gets. The only real difference between liberals and fascists is that fascists don't lie to themselves and everybody alse about it.
the right.
WTF did you think liberals are?
Fuck liberals. And fuck liberalism, too.
Depends on what it is... if it's a movie that I can't find, I'll usually just wait until an ethical version shows up somewhere later.
If it's a research paper or a book I'm looking for, though, I take paywalling as a personal insult - I usually go to extreme lengths to obtain it, and I usually do get it.
I’m not saying you have a pattern of defending the IDF, but I think you’re doing so in this case by mistake.
Exactly what "damage" will the IDF be suffering from the discourse on here that I am (supposedly) - and mistakenly - protecting it from?
Why on earth would the average person (including anarchists) understand how the intelligence business works?
Are you trying to say it's not anarchists' business to understand stuff like this?
That doesn't it even get into the nuts and bolts of anything - but it suffices to demonstrate that an intelligence asset is worth far, far more than somebody performing hit-or-miss (but ultimately very temporary) stunts for the media cycle.
While we're on the subject of the Makhnovists - you did know that the Makhnovists, after taking prisoners on the battlefield, went to great pains to separate conscripts from officers (before shooting the officers, of course)? What did they understand that you don't?
Similarly, the NFL (Viet Cong) cadres that particpated in the Tet offensive did the exact same thing - they went to great pains to separate South Vietnamese army conscripts from officers in the towns and cities that they captured before "liquidating" the officers. What did they understand that you don't?
and I selfishly would have loved to see him do more
Okay... maybe I'm not anarchistically "pure" enough to get this - but wtf would be "selfish" about this? What mental process is going on here?
He was just another baby killer
Perhaps you should learn where that term comes [from.][https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/27/vietnam-war-protesters-have-nothing-apologize)
Perhaps then, you won't use it in a way that actually helps the imperialists.
but if (and only if) they refuse to do that
The people in question here aren't around to refuse anything, are they?
Intelligence is not my expertise - it's just an interest I gained because of my radicalisation (in my opinion, it should come with the territory). My actual expertise is in propaganda - I worked in it for many years.
Maybe you can tell me - if you were to use IDF suicide rates as a propaganda device to help drive a wedge, no matter how small, between IDF conscripts and the IDF officer class - do you think the discourse on this sub would be a hindrance or a help?
these systems are designed to be robust to attacks by former personnel.
You'd think the intel on these systems would be valuable to those that are targeted by US imperialism - but I guess modern-day anarchists just don't understand how the intelligence business works (which would actually explain a lot - including why Bushnell didn't even see himself as becoming an intelligence asset to them)
But even if he could have done more…at least he did something.
Yes... he won the approval of all the armchair revolutionaries by setting himself on fire. But before that, he was just another "baby killer" to them, right? That's quite a high bar to pass... I guess it's no surprise that there is such a gigantic schism between the modern left (emphasis on the "modern" part) and military veterans.
I have to wonder why he felt the need to act so unilaterally? Do tell... what would you have advised him to do? To go ahead with it and set himself on fire for the cameras? You know... considering that this is the only way he could "atone" for his sins in your book - for whatever that is worth?
Since you and most people commenting here are such experts on why military vets off themselves it should be easy for you to say, right?
Yeah which is why it’s surprising you’re figuratively pissing on Bushnell’s
I'm not the one using Bushnell's death as a cheap propaganda prop - and no, I don't give a flying fuck if it was his intention to be used as such.
as a way of standing up for IDF soldiers…
You are free to peruse my comment history here on Lemmy, Youtube and Reddit for evidence of this accusation of yours if you so wish - otherwise, I'll just be ignoring it, okay?
So yeah, Bushnell didn’t frag his peers,
Bushnell was a cybersecurity spook for the US military - he could have done a lot more than just fragging his peers. Instead, he decided to be flashy.
Nah, when IDF soldiers kill themselves,
Are you normally this much of an expert on suicides committed by people half-way around the world? Reading through these comments I can pretty much see a pattern of first-world, liberal views being projected onto a society the commentors absolutely do not understand - and it's annoying.
The suicide rates among IDF personal is - perhaps - a positive indicator of the pressure Israeli society is under. That is all it is - figuratively pissing on the graves is hollow edginess and nothing else.
You do get that if I threaten to kill you
Fascists are not 80s cartoon villains.
that you are actually culpable
Of course - even if that's irrelevant. Why do you think they broadcast their war crimes for the entire world to see? I'll tell you why... they are spreading the culpability around. It's a very fascist thing to do.
I could be wrong... maybe Israel treats it's conscientious objectors all nice and fuzzy, with hot chocolate and marshmellows thrown in.
But that is not how it worked in the fascist state I grew up in.
You think actual fascism works the way it's portrayed in the video games you play, dipshit?
We literally had a conscientous objector living in one of the streets of one of the towns I lived in as a kid - I guess he picked up the disabling brain damage due to all the "kid glove" treatment you assume he got?
you can just spend your time in prison rather than serving.
Still only an option for the privileged - any Israeli who does that had better come from a rich enough family to keep them safe in that jail. I remember what they did to conscientous objectors here in Apartheid-South Africa - not pretty. And Israel is probably far, far worse in that regard.
You first-worlders do not understand what being born into a militarised fascist state is all about.
Deserting and draft evasion are options for the privileged.
FTFY.
Instead of killing themselves they should be fragging their fellow soldiers.
Sooo... like that thing Aaron Bushnell didn't do?
Most people aren’t sociopaths but can still be persuaded, pressured, and/or conditioned to do terrible things.
It's actually quite easy when the conditioning starts at birth... the way it does in Israel.
Some would argue capitalism is counter to democracy
I'd say that capitalism is violently incompatible with democracy - that's the whole reason they send violent goon squads out every time people start doing things democratically.
I know, but I don't understand the point they're trying to make? Whose power? And why the supercreep with the anarchist symbol on his chest?
I don't get it. What am I looking at here?
If I want to find a pdf, whether it be a book, comic or research paper, I use Yandex - Google has been unusable in that way for a long time now.
If I had to choose a group to not exist from between liberals and open Nazis, open Nazis poof out every time,
If you make the Nazis disappear, the liberals are still there to allow the Nazis to grow anew - if you make the liberals disappear, the Nazis will never be able to exist in the first place.
You can't have fascism without liberalism.
Define "coloniser."