Nah, not whataboutism.

A pro-russia tankie cannot be trusted in principle.

Sure, that’s a more balanced article, it doesn’t deny that the Israelis are starving people in Gaza:

It’s been widely established that there is severe starvation in Gaza, but the misreporting of a photo of a Palestinian child has caused criticism of the media’s reporting of the crisis.

The article you cited implies it’s all staged and refers back Israeli government sources (which should never be trusted).

There is no recognition that starvation is happening; specifically due to the Israelis.

The Algemeiner, a global news destination published online, serves as an independent media voice covering the Middle East, Israel and matters of Jewish interest around the world.

It was founded in 1972 by famed journalist Gershon Jacobson as Der Algemeiner Journal and was originally published in Yiddish. In 2012, Algemeiner.com was launched in English. The Algemeiner’s Publisher is Simon Jacobson, eldest son of our founder Gershon Jacobson.

A tankie roach came out of the sewer.

Mass summary execution of civilians, kill lists of cultural and political leaders, stealing hundreds of thousands of children, banning of language and culture (and keeping tens of thousands of civilians in torture camps) is all genocide.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me not believe that western “leftist” claims of concern about Gaza are genuine.

You are all a bunch fucking posers and scumbags.

Not to mention there are still many highly active non-political communities on ML.

ML admins/mods acting like the goons that they are is a good incentive for such communities to move off ML.

Keep playing dumb.

With this attitude, western “leftists” are going to keep losing.

The follow who wrote this article is a hypocrite, he refuses to recognize what the russians are doing in Ukraine is genocide.

Not to mention he has the gall to talk about NATO and russian policy without even speaking russian or having lived in eastern europe.

Typical western “leftist”.

Current Affairs is trash.

Ah, I see what you mean.

Personally, I think they switched to scamming pretty early (medicine is one area where IMO “fake it till you make” doesn’t work), but never figured out a proper exit strategy for the scam.

Wasn’t Theronos more of a cut and dry scam?

Oceangate wasn’t a really scam, more like the CEO thought his shit didn’t smell and got himself killed over this.

While I don’t trust Trump in the least, only the ignorant would think it’s possible to negotiate with the russians without threats of violence.

Only people who don’t speak russian, don’t know history and are too lazy to evaluate sociological research of modern russia would come up with such gibberish.

Not at all, I think if they did the same to Merkel and Schroeder there would be massive benefits to the German public.

They should cancel their citizenship and send them to russia.

It would be a good fit.

Perfect example of performative “humanism”.

Making claims about starvation, yet too fucking lazy to make a simple web search (on a topic with extremely detailed statistics that are even often reported in mainstream business news).

See, for you the russians invading Ukraine, engaging in mass killings, rapes, castration of POWs, stealing children, sending people who speak Ukrainian to torture camps is not a big deal. You don’t consider it to be wrong.

I consider it to be wrong. When a society supports such actions (somewhere between a strong majority to an overwhelming majority as per the more conservative approach possible), ignoring that is de facto supporting their actions. Which is what you are doing.

So don’t even try to play the faux-humanism card. I am not buying it for a second.

What a childish take. Russia is major exporter of grain, blocking all food exports to russia is not “denying food to people”.

Same with medicine, you’re acting as if russia has no internal production of medicine. Blocking all exports of medicine to a group where the overwhelming majority wish you harm is very much justified.

Get the fuck out of here you tankie roach.

How can you talk about “killing normal people” when you openly support the genocide of Ukrainians and russian imperialism in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.

A strong majority of russians are genocidal imperialists.

An overwhelming majority are broadly supportive of imperialism (on top of the strong majority that are openly genocidal).

The vast majority of russian consider “human rights” to be polemical tool to help forward their aims of genocidal imperialism.

And please don’t bring up “They are all afraid! They actually all oppose putin!” There are well established methodologies for evaluating preference falsification (who could have thought?) and they’ve been applied to multiple research topics with respect to attitudes of russian society. The results are damning. With respect to the annexation of Crimea, which has had consistent support at around ~85% for 7-8 years of polling, preference falsification has been estimated to be a mere 1%, i.e. it is completely irrelevant.

To be fair, I think the vast majority of tankies are lying about this in a pre-meditated manner. They are genuine and committed demagogues.

Reading the comments, it really does feel that most tankies are demagogues and roleplayers.

Isn’t Rand Paul that demagogue who was lying about taking horse tranquilizer for COVID?

Head dev of Lemmy (he actually spends most of his time supporting russian and Chinese propaganda) claims that North Korea is a great place to live.

He also supports the killing of Ukrainians and the extermination of Ukrainian culture and identity and is a huge fan of russian genocidal imperialism.

It’s all documented here:

https://sh.itjust.works/c/meanwhileongrad