#/pol/

[noxiatoxia]

I saw your post about Americans constantly justifying what america did to japan courtesy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the camps and how its not genocide. like im pretty sure Dresden and Hiroshima and Nagasaki counts as genocide because America knowingly dropped the bombs on innocent civilians o purpose. im glad Germany and Japan lost the war given what they did but the.bombings were one of America's most evil actions and civilians aren't numbers, they were fucking people

It's sadly something we see commonly in History, and I don't know why. Maybe it's easier to live with yourself and your cause if you convince yourself that ALL people of a certain nationality are evil...?

We see it time and time again. It's okay to kill Russians, they're just as bad as their government, look what they're doing to Ukraine! It's okay to kill Israelis, they're just as bad as their government, look what they're doing to Palestine!

So on and so forth.

I never understood it, ever. The blatant lack of logic in such hatred I guess is hard to understand. People cannot separate civilians from their wicked governments. People are just needlessly violent.

The world is a complicated place so there really is no clear cut right and wrong to, say, a group of people standing up to their oppressors. Does being oppressed legally give someone the right to take the life of another? Does "one side" suffering loss at the hand of the "other side" justify them doing the exact same thing? Is substituting civilians in your violent protest because you cannot reach their government the right thing to do, when the other option is doing nothing at all, and abandoning your own life?

Humanity, war, life, and death are complicated both logically and morally. It's why I hate the people who like to pretend there's a clear cut "good guy" and "bad guy" to any given geopolitical affair. Because there isn't.

In any case, I speak on the topic of those same people with these black-and-white ideals then turning around and, shocker shocker (to nobody) having a very black and white outlook on the people involved. (i.e., "Japan did horrible things, so it's civilians deserved to be bombed.")

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[thedetectivechmilewsky]

[zanephillips]

CARLOS CUEVAS Merlí. Sapere Aude 1.01 "Sapere aude"

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Kaplan at MMFA:

Users of a far-right 4chan forum have shared the website for former President Donald Trump’s grassroots canvassing effort, Trump Force 47, hundreds of times, a Media Matters review has found. 4chan’s far-right “politically incorrect” message board, commonly known as “/pol/,” is a hotbed for white nationalist and racist content and harassment campaigns. The board played a major role in spreading the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, and it was the birthplace of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee launched Trump Force 47 in May to engage “tens of thousands of new volunteers across the country to participate in a neighbor-to-neighbor organizing program hyper-focused on mobilizing highly-targeted voters.” Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign describes it as the “official army of volunteer neighborhood organizers working together to defeat Kamala Harris and the far-left liberal democrats.” Volunteers, including in swing states, can seemingly be involved with neighborhood canvassing, poll watching, and other grassroots activities. Users on 4chan’s /pol/ message board have been promoting the organizing effort. A Media Matters review found that since Trump Force 47 launched in May, the URL for the site of the effort has been shared on /pol/ more than 350 times. These posts included messages pushing extremist rhetoric, which have been repeatedly shared. One included the lines “BAN THE TRANS,” “DEPORT THE HORDE!,” “AUDIT THE FRAUD,” “HANG THE RIGGERS,” and “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” (a reference to a white nationalist campaign popularized on the forum).

[...] Trump Force 47’s URL has also been shared in other far-right online spaces, like among QAnon figures and users on the far-right forum TheDonald. Far-right media figures, including Roseanne Barr, Jack Posobiec, and Rogan O’Handley — who have promoted QAnon, pushed various conspiracy theories, and spread misinformation, respectively — have taken part in Trump Force 47 training events. Posobiec’s trainings were reportedly “touted as a way to ‘receive insider insights from Jack Posobiec on the campaign’s efforts.’”

4chan’s /pol/ users have shared the link to Trump Force 47 at least 350 times to gather up canvassing efforts for Donald Trump.

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[dirt-goth]

As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.

[tenth-sentence]

A 2018 analysis of 160 million archived visuals showed that far-right trolls on the internet were highly effective in spreading racist and anti-Semitic memes from fringe forums like 4chan's /pol/ board and the subreddit /The_Donald to more mainstream platforms.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[noxiatoxia]

lbr good chunk of people put "cis" or "white" in front of a noun (white woman, cis lesbian, etc) to justify misogyny/homophobia bc they know they can get away with it cuz its #cool to hate on others for things they cannot control like race and gender as long as said thing is the majority. so its the perfect front. cmon say it with your full chest i have mad respect for people who dont beat around the bush. if a 4channer can do it you can too i believe in you ❤️

[idiopathicsmile]

begging the voting population of u.s. citizens on tumblr to vote this year, and specifically to vote in the way that most practically ensures trump doesn't win, not out of a liberal centrist "don't you hate the orange man hoho" impulse, but out of love and fear for the many, many, many marginalized populations whose lives will be concretely worse under a second trump presidency, out of paranoia that the current architecture of our american quasi-democracy will not survive a new formalized attempt at dismantling it, out of having done the research that no matter what you think of biden literally every stance of trump's is noticeably more disastrous.

i hate that these are our only two practical choices right now but hating it doesn't do anything to change the fact that these are our only two practical choices right now. a trump victory will also almost certainly send the mainstream democratic politicians scrambling even closer to the center; that is historically how the democratic machine reacts to defeat! which absolutely sucks, but the best way to lay the groundwork for progressive policies in the future is to start as far from zero as we can.

i am begging you: vote biden, and then protest every fucking thing he does. make that old man's life miserable. just please, please, please don't burn down your own country to try to make a point; who materially benefits from that?

[scottishcommune]

In the spirit of encouraging resistance to the fascist upsurge, Heckle presents eyewitness testimony from a comrade of ours, Joe, who took part in the anti-fascist counter-demonstration in Bristol on Saturday 3rd of August. By their quick thinking and tenacious courage, Joe and his comrades blocked a horde of fascists from breaking into a hotel housing asylum seekers and committing a pogrom. Read all about it in Joe’s own words below.

[raspberry-gloaming]

Doctor Who Christmas special 2024: Joy to the World

[you-need-not-apply]

Pushing through the American politics to remind everyone that Australia is having their elections this year!!

[aces-and-anime]

Finally some good fucking UK news! Ferrets are so much better than lettuce Liz