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They are a Gusano as well!
The guy they qrt is a literal zionazi Hasbara account.
God, I remember the boxes with big white labels saying "medical supplies", and only "medical supplies", in english, and only in english. Obnoxious.
It occurs when moralism is the foundation of their beliefs instead of class struggle. When given a choice between class struggle and a moral/values issue they choose to support the latter, so they end up on the bourgeoisie side instead of the proletarian one.
In the case of Iran the moral issue is that the religious state and its rules are not great for many reasons. The idea of that being overthrown for something better takes precedence over their sovereignty against imperialism. Even if it strengthens the imperialists and thus simultaneously weakens proletarians globally.
It's also plausible they don't analyse the situation from an international strategic position, but solely from a national one where it is only about Iran itself rather than the effect on anti-imperialism internationally.
Even from a national standpoint, if history shows us anything it's that any of these "naturally occuring revolutions" end up with worse fascists coming to power, now working for the further exploitation of local resources to the favour of foreign capital. Hardly a better reality for the ones that would supposedly benefit from this "moral" solution.
If class war is not the basis of the revolution, then you should always ask yourself which class is to benefit from it
Yes but they reason again and again that this time it will be different. Probably because they have no personal stakes and it will not affect them at all.
Also the personal factor. They left Iran for the US, obviously no love lost there for their home country.
It's reminiscent of the way they respond to claims of Uyghur genocide. Genocide is unthinkable, genocide denial is evil, therefore denying the Uyghur genocide is unthinkable evil. Going a step further to "lying about a genocide is also evil, and well within the expected range of behaviours of a nation currently proposing genocide against GSMs" is too much - they can't be a genocide denier, so china is committing genocide.
Please add a CW for the f-slur
Incomplete worldview detached from material conditions and geopolitical pressures (said lovingly as an ancom).
Like, from the "no gods no kings no masters" perspective, I hear "there's a revolution in X", my first thought is GOOD. Revolutions are cool.
When the thought is terminated at that step, these posts arise.
Deep education on existing political structures/geopolitical struggles for power (and a willingness to learn) are required to move beyond that stage.
Also, PROPAGANDA. So much PROPAGANDA.
Finding out the truth of a situation in the current media landscape requires an active effort, and a lot of skill.
I notice communists tend to describe those in the Compatible Left as propagandized, ignorant, opportunistic, ect. While those on the compatible left tend to describe communists simple as "stupid and/or evil". Just another manifestation of a half-baked worldview I guess, but it's interesting that they share the same view of communists as Miami Cubans, bog-standard liberals, and Dr Strangelove.
Yeah, they can't attack the argument, so they need to dismiss the person making it. They call people stupid or evil so they don't have to consider what they are saying. A term like "ignorant" or "propagandised" shows that we have considered their position and don't consider it valid, but also don't treat it like an inherent part of their identity. It is false information that they have been misled into believing is true, it isn't who they are as a person. Whereas calling someone "evil" or "stupid" has an implication that they are inherently like that and can never change and therefore can never be trusted.
Anarchists will tell you all about how evil the CIA and the State Department are and then turn around and gobble up their propaganda about the Global South.
I think it's just stupidity, pure and simple.
If they are sincere, it's because they read western newspapers who are basically sternogrophers for the state department, as well as human rights organizations who get info from state-funded NGOs and read history which is a one-sided recitation of those reports.
It's great that the only time human rights reports get trotted out as if they matter is when the US is prepping to attack somebody.
They don't seem to grasp that war opens the floodgates for horrific human rights violations. They've likely never been on the recieving end of a bombing campaign or invasion. War isn't real to them.
Since creating their account, this person has posted more than 60 times and liked posts more than 128 per day, on average. If they get around 7 hours of sleep that would have been a twitter interaction around every 5.4 minutes for the last one and a half years
I am fairly sure that's just a propaganda bot
Need CW for the first pic, even if it's self-depreciation.
the most triggering part for me is that the pfp is not by them, it's a mascot on triangle milk cartons they used to give at schools. they just changed the eye colors to red.
'TME Trans Woman'
Well, if she is the sort of 'trans ally' to actively appropriate the terminology and language of TMA people, then it's not particularly surprising that her politics regarding imperialism are just as bad.
Red flags all over the place, here, though I'll admit my view of that as being a red flag probably isn't popular on this website.
What is tma and tme?
Transmisogyny-affected and Transmisogyny-exempt.
They're terms concisely nothing whether one is a target of the unique oppressive force of Transmisogyny that targets specifically Transfem individuals. To claim to be a trans woman while being TME is appropriation of the words that TMA people use to define themselves.
I'm still not sure I understand, is this similar to a term like "passing" in that this person is claiming they don't experience trans-focused misogyny because they "pass"? Or is more like a trans-medical sort of thing, where they define being trans based on opportunities other people wouldn't have due to their circumstances and lack of wealth?
Most people calling themselves a TME Trans Woman did not even have to transition in a feminine direction, they are largely AFAB Queer people who are non-binary or something and use that to say 'well non-binary people are Trans so I am a Trans Woman'.
Sometimes this is out of ignorance but more often than not there seems to be reveling in the theft of labels that ought be and historically were restricted to TMA people.
Oh, ok, I think I understand a little better, it's appropriation, trying to claim victimhood without actually suffering any victimisation or persecution for who they are?
Essentially, yes.
TME Queer people do face quite a lot of oppression in their own right, I will note, and a united front is in the best interest of all parties, but it's just not equivalent to transmisogyny and appropriating terminology that belongs to TMA people creates even less room within the Queer community for TMA voices.
Ohhh. I guess they're bragging about passing really well or something then
See my reply to Damarcusart for more information.
I believe that the media tell us what we need to know
I believe that we need to fight disinformation
I trust the system I was born into
I posed this as a hypothetical re: China like 5 years ago and I still never received a response from them. If China's liberation of Tibet is imperialism (arguable), how do you think the ROC will fare?
You think China's liberation of Tibet is imperialism?
Edit: Or do you think the Anarchists think it is and are hypocritical when they justify Taiwan's white terror on the Island?
Sorry, I could have phrased that better but I was 5 pints of Guinness in.
If hypothetically, China's liberation of Tibet can be argued as imperialism, then the ROC would have been much worse due to its track record re: indigenous Taiwanese.
Understood.
