#Be a Russian sympathizer and vote TRUMP

[izooks]

[eye-in-hand]

Alexander, 27 (18+), ✡ autistic bisexual trans man, married to my platonic companion and in love with a gorgeous man, thank fuck they get along lmfao ✡ Deep in the depths of Jewish conversion.

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I do not have anons on, if I can show my face while talking about politics you can show yours. Stand behind what you say proudly or don't say it at all.

And I have a lot of political opinions, but since I post about these the most and it's gonna give me the most shit lmfao:

All indigenous peoples have a right to self determination in their indigenous lands. All of them.

On Israel and Palestine: Note: These are not up for "debate". I am not spending any more time arguing with fascist hamasniks on tumblr dot com.

I am not qualified to have an opinion on how to end the centuries old conflicts in the Middle East. I urge people to listen to those in the region who support Peace and coexistence, whatever that may end up looking like.

Jews are indigenous to the Levant. You can not settle or colonize your native land. Israel is a land back movement.

The far-right of Israel speaks for Jews about as much as Trump speaks for me as an American. Which is to say he fucking doesn't.

While the conflict centers around Jews and Arabs, there are other groups of people in Israel and Palestine that also deserve safety.

Hamas is using Palestinians as human shields. Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist proxies of the Iranian regime, and Arab colonialism is just as awful as European colonialism and has resulted in numerous native cultures being erased.

To actually care about Palestinian lives you must condemn Hamas.

The UN and UNRWA are arms of Hamas and the Iranian regime.

I will not engage with historical revisionism, propaganda, or Nazi rhetoric on any topic, but especially Israel/Palestine. I will not engage with terrorist sympathizers. And I will not engage with anyone who claims Israel is committing Genocide when that is not a proven fact and everything says the opposite of that (like the Palestinian population actually growing. Which you know, doesn't happen during a genocide.). I will not engage with anyone who refuses to accept that Jews are indigenous to the Levant, and Arabs are indigenous to Arabia. This does not mean I support killing Arabs in the Levant, as I believe anyone should have the right to live where they want. I just support Native rights to self determination in their indigenous lands, no matter how long they've been forced into exile. My position on Israel is not founded by Religion or the Torah, it's founded on archeological fact. If you ignore these facts, I am not engaging with you.

I will not engage with Kahanists either btw. Equating all Palestinians with Hamas is racist.

On Ukraine and Eastern Europe:

Слава Україні! Героям слава!

Westerners really need to get a grip on not supporting the USSR/Russia or Russian supremacy.

Communists are not the opposite of Nazis - the USSR did not fight the Nazis because they cared about human rights.

Here at home (the US):

Trump is a fascist.

You do not get to not exercise your right and responsibility to vote and then bitch and whine that you don't get what you want.

America has a real problem with the alt-right and the rad-left. The average person is incredibly radicalized.

Russia interfered with our election because Trump owes Putin's friends money (or government secrets, take your pick).

Misc:

I'm neither a capitalist nor a communist because we need an entire re-hauling of human society and the only way it'll ever get better is to demolish the economic system all together. However this is an idealized world view and not the reality we live in right now.

I support unions, a 4 day work week, paid maternity and paternity leave, and not having to work when you're sick!

Anyone or any movement that tries to get you to hate an entire group of people for traits they were born w is trying to sell you something.

Trans people exist, deal with it. Someone else's identity is none of your business.

Support victims regardless of gender

Whiteness is a western social construct but that doesn't mean it doesn't affect people in different ways. We need to be open to talking about race if we want to take a stand against racism.

To truly be anti-imperialism, we have to stand against it regardless who is doing it.

Pro choice. If abortion is murder every twin that ate their sibling is a murderer. Sound ridiculous? Because it is. A fetus is not a baby. Abortion saves women's lives.

Waiting for a revolution is not going to save you. The "revolution" is not going to save you. To protect each other we need to engage with positive social change!

Politics are not sports, you don't have to choose a "team"

Being safe from bigotry is not conditional. I don't care how much you disagree with someone. You can disagree/hate someone without being discriminatory.

Most Importantly:

Value human life. Value companionship. Value peace. Value understanding. Value communication. It's harder to be radicalized by hate groups when you put loving human beings over ideologies.

[methamphetatitties]

If you vote third party because of fucking Palestine and Harris loses the election, you are the biggest fucking idiot. People have called me a genocide sympathizer because I said I supported Harris/Walz.

This is coming from someone who voted third party at 19 years old during my first election because I was a fucking moron and the Russian propaganda machine was working overtime.

You know what happened? It split the blue vote and Trump won.

Learn from that.

Last thing I want to say, the virtue signaling and moral posturing of the free Palestine movement is giving ⚪ savior. Just saying.

[petrenocka]

Listen Americans, I sympathize with your struggle, but "Joe Biden is the best president you had in generations and the best u gonna get at the moment" and "he is currently funding a genocide" are not contradictory statements. Your country is just THAT fucked.

And if this makes you doomer, if you are going to give up on trying over this you owe me 100$.

Local fascists of other countries are salivating at the thought of a Trump reelection. The war on Ukraine is still going on you know, it didn't just stop once you got an even worse genocide to pay attention to like a mob in a video game. The Ukranian children kidnapped to literal re-education camps are still kidnapped. Ukraine really could use the support orange man promised not to give right now.

This "I'm going to not vote/vote third party to show my distane for the whole system" it's just accelerationism. It's "I'm gonna let things get much worse much faster, so that more people see how right I am". And what I see so many of you not get is that "things get worse" means a lot of people dying.

Again, I'm sorry for you. It's hard having good morals while living in an utterly immoral country. But frankly, good ammerican lefties suffering from nightmares about the moral stain on their consciousness that is voting for Joe Genocide is not a primary concern for me. I would like to not get conquered by The Third Russian Empire, thank you very much.

[walks-the-ages]

Some of these vote bluers really need to examine their "I'm immune to propoganda" mindsets when they see democrats constantly smearing the Green Party and baselessly calling their candidates ""russian sympathizers" because I guess they're perfectly fine with voting for the people who are currently committing genocide, and are committed to continuing that genocide,

but the second you vote for someone thse genocidaires claim is "sympathetic to russia"? Suddenly you're even worse than Israel, because as we all know, Russia is the Evil Country, and you don't need to do any research whatsoever to see where they're getting these claims from.

because according to "Vote Blue No Matter How Many War Crimes They Commit", this single photo from 9 years ago is "proof" that Jill Stein is secretly a Russian Plant:

Would you like to know why Jill Stein was in Russia in 2015 at a diplomatic function, a trip paid for completely out of her own pocket while Trump's officials got all their expenses paid to stay in cushy hotels?

It was to plead in a diplomatic role for Russia to not take a "USA-led stance in the middle east of violence" and to please stop bombing Syria

This video is from 9 years ago.

This is what Jill Stein was doing in Russia, doing her job as a diplomat, to try to prevent from continuing.

Hey Vote Bluers, do you see a pattern here, at all?

Jill Stein has stood against War Crimes for at least the last 9 years.

Can the Democrats you worship say the same?

anyways if you actually want your vote to go to someone actually trying to change the world for the better:

[ohsalome]

russia is 100% exacerbating the violence. i think they’re trying to divert US aid for ukraine to israel and sway opinions against biden to push for trump 2025 / another russian-sympathizer win in the election. it makes me feel like a conspiracy theorist too 😅

Oh, they defiinitely will try to meddle with the USA elections. After all, they did help trump with the last one, what is to stop them now, when the stakes are even higher?

Needless to say, USA is our biggest weapons supplier, and if even with Biden we are drip-fed with ammo that barely allows us to survive, with trump or any other pro-russian candidate we will be fucked

Considering USA rarely gets two dem presidents in a row + I have 0 faith americans will take ukraine in consideration during voting... Sorry to be a doomer but we should anticipate the worst-case scenario

Which means that now, more than ever, we need to donate to our army

[warsofasoiaf]

What do you think the ramifications will be for the GOP for blocking aid to Ukraine down the line? They certainly have a hard right vocal minority who support that, but most Americans generally sympathize with countries being invaded so will this impact the elections in any meaningful way? And is it the association between Biden and Ukraine that gets that base's opposition or their sympathies with the right wingish, culturally conservative Russian regime?

I don't think it will have much impact on the election outside of individuals who care significantly about foreign policy and support the U.S.'s current alliances, who are unlikely to vote for Trump given his foreign policy stances. Support for Ukraine is declining in the United States, first because the longer something drags on for, the less support it gets, but disinformation is being continually repeated about how the Ukraine aid is going to oligarch mansions and weapons are ending up being sold on the black market. These have been exposed, either as unfriendly psy-ops or just bone ignorance, but repeat something enough times and people start to believe it. People don't have the time to research everything, so they'll just accept what they hear as the truth, because surely, if people keep saying it, it can't be wrong, right? The biggest things that I think will determine voter outcome in 2024 are culture war stuff (which will drive turnout on both sides, favoring Democrats because their policy positions are more popular overall) and the economy (which will favor Republicans due to the inflation problem).

I mentioned before what I think were some of the Freedom Caucus/MAGA-type opposition to supporting Ukraine. I don't believe that any of them actually believe the aid is being siphoned off by corrupt oligarchs (because Ukrainian aid is actually highly audited and controlled and the details of which are included in the Congressional documentation), due to concerns about federal spending (both because the money portion of aid is actually spent in the United States replenishing stocks while older equipment is sent to Ukraine and because they tend to be quite profligate spenders themselves), or because of a commitment towards peace and de-escalation (because they are supportive of military intervention against the cartels in Mexico). I think most of it is political opportunism - both Biden and conventional Republicans have identified with the Ukrainian cause and so they place themselves in opposition. They hope for a stalemate or Ukrainian defeat so that they can point to their opponents and see: "Look at all we wasted on this boondoggle!" For the really hardline crowd, I think they support Putin's policy positions on the culture war, have a fondness for Putin because Trump himself is quite fond of him, and believe that Putin helped get Trump elected and so identify with Putin's causes in the hopes that they can benefit from Russian troll farms. Also can't forget contrarian tribal posturing - they take the opposition path because they're so much smarter, maverick thinkers that can see past the common perception of the "sheep." This is the path taken by fools like Elon Musk.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[alwida10]

i'm confused on your stance on the israel/palestine situation. You mainly reblog pro-israel things, and never reblog anything about palestinians (unless it's something like "look at these palestinians who condemn hamas"). but you have also reblogged the occasional post condemning/recognizing the terrors of the israeli government? And you've also written in tags before denying what is happening to the palestinian people as being genocide (i think)?

so i am so confused. Are you pro israel? anti israel? and if you post about and recognize the wrongness of past genocides like the holocaust (as you should, rightfully so), why do you refuse to give the mass killing of palestinians any attention? even if there are israeli citizens who are being wrongfully targeted during all this, why does only that upset you and not the thousands more palestinian civilians being targeted? i'm just so confused? and i mean.. aren't you a mother? how can you look at thousands of children dying and only post about the side that is currently suffering less deaths?

Short answer: I’m pro-lasting-peace and anti-terrorism. The deaths of people, especially of those extreme numbers of people are devastating and a catastrophe. This isn’t a typical war. It’s a double-hostage situation where the perpetrator hides the Israeli hostages behind the Palestinian hostages. And that needs to end soon! And most importantly – it has to stay peaceful for good. Natanyahu will not be helping with that, but the Hamas will rather have every child in Gaza die a painful death than to give up their hostages – may it be the ones everyone calls “hostages” or the Palestinian civilians, who are just as much hostages of greedy, immoral, old men.  

I share posts that reflect, at least partially, my personal view. I like posts I generally sympathize with but include messages opposite to my personal view for sharing. Most social media pro-Israel posts are closer to my personal stance than most social media pro-Palestine posts are. The position of the state of Israel is even further removed from my personal stance, hence my criticism. The Hamas has the opposite goal, hence my even more pronounced criticism.

Long answer:

Real world politics are complex. Everyone who tells you they were not is lying and either trying to manipulate you or being manipulated themselves. (Such as this post.) There are never only two sides to it. Reducing it to two sides is a tool of manipulation.

There is a war going on and manipulation is a common and extremely efficient tool of modern warfare and we (everyone on social media) are a part of that. You might think that the conflict (several conflicts, since I’ll talk about Ukraine, too) is far away and does not include “us” (such as people in Europe and the US). That’s a wrong. Remember for a moment 2016 – 2017, when Trump was elected president of the United States. People who were aware and thinking critically realized even before the election that social media was swarming with Russian bots. These bots did their best to manipulate people into not voting, or voting third party. The leaked emails of Hillary were a part of the manipulation, eliminating Trump’s opposition.People fell for the manipulation and four years of LGBTQIA+ suffering, children-in-cages and destabilization of the NATO (the alliance against Russia) followed. Afterwards a lot of evidence for the Russian manipulation surfaced. But then it was too late. The people had been manipulated into helping the bad guys. The same manipulation repeated with the Brexit (2016-2020) ruining many chances of young people in the UK and further destabilization of the NATO. That’s why you should learn how to recognize manipulation and whenever you feel like there could be some involved think who might profit from it. Yes, people learned and that’s why you see all the “VOTE!! FFS VOTE!” posts making their rounds. Especially now, since elections of the US and of the EU are close.

How to manipulate someone: Make them think that they are fighting for a good cause (on surface level). But in truth this “good cause” only serves you, the manipulator. The people voting for Trump thought they voted for a better future, for having more money, for being safer. The people voting for Brexit thought basically the same. The Germans who voted Adolf Hitler into office had been desperate. The country had just lost the first world war. The economy war on the floor, ruined by the reparation payments Germany had to pay. The people worked hard, and still were unable to afford anything but (sometimes not even) the basic necessities. There were no future perspectives for them or their children. (Does that sound familiar?) Hitler promised to make “Germany great again”. He said the Arien people were a good, upstanding race. That Germany didn’t deserve having its colonies and land taken away by force. He said Germans were being threatened and close to extinction. He said that the Jews wanted to corrupt and annihilate the Germans.

Another tool of manipulation is the incorrect use of language to rile people up so they won’t think rationally anymore. If someone says “Person A is a pedophile and a rapist!” and it turns out Person A is trans and not a rapist, there is a solid chance said someone wanted to manipulate you by making you angry so you will rage against Person A without cross checking. If someone says “this is a genocide” that means fraction A is intentionally and efficiently trying to kill fraction B. It means they aim where the most people are. It means they don’t do anything to help anyone of the fraction B. The fact alone that we know where the IDF will strike next is a clear indicator Israel is in fact warning the civilians. It would not do so, if the aim was to annihilate every single Palestinian.

It’s the aim that makes the difference. IF Israel wanted to kill all Palestinians they would have very efficient tools to do so. And even if it’s hard to imagine a number 28 thousand deaths (as on 12.Feb.2024 as “small”, they still are. These numbers mean there are about 1555 deaths per week in average. In comparison, during the holocaust, Germany killed 17 Million people between 1.September 1939 and 1945. In average that have been 61.594 deaths each week. So why would someone willfully equal these two vastly different numbers? If someone says “genocide” to a military occupation of the west bank or the civil causalities during a counter strike against the Hamas who knowingly proclaimed war against the state of Israel, than there is a solid chance this person is trying to manipulate you by using emotionally charged wording instead of what can and has been proven – a military occupation. “But killing so many people is bad regardless what you call it” you might argue, and I agree. That’s why I criticize the Israeli government. Also, soldiers using the war to do unforgivable things, looting, beating people who have surrendered – this all has to be punished.

“So, why does it matter what you call it?” you might ask, and I sigh. Many, many Pro-Palestine posts aim to manipulate people from the noble point of being against the killing of Palestinians into being for the Hamas getting away with killing and raping Israelis (both Jewish and Muslims) and keeping the Israeli hostages (some of which might have gotten pregnant by rape - which might be a reason these particular girls/women have not been released as of yet). Calling what happens a “genocide” is manipulating you into that, because it takes away the rational reasoning. It takes away the rightful wish of Israeli civilians living in peace. It implies it was death and destruction simply born from being evil Jews who hate Palestinians so they want to kill them all. The moment you call the stuff going on a “genocide” and call for a ceasefire without the return of ALL hostages you become the equivalent of the people who voted for Trump or Brexit in good faith. It means you are speaking up for the hostages remaining slaves, the Bibas children and their mom remaining in the hands of their captors, and that killing Jewish women and men as well as raping them is an act that should not be punished.

5.Another way to manipulate people and radicalize is to establish a “we versus them” mindset where you have to choose between two positions, which are both extremes. What you did in your ask - claiming I would only reblog pro-Palestine posts when they condemned Hamas - that erases the part that said post focused a lot on the situation for the victims. You erased the nuance. But the nuance is where a possible solution can be found that does not includes shrugging while accepting that some children will be victims of decade old hate.

6. If you know a child gets abused and beaten by its parents you can treat its wounds, so YOU feel better, but in the end, when the child has to go back into the abusive environment you won’t have changed anything that really matters. You might have made it worse, even. If you really want to help the child you need to get it out of the abusive situation. The Hamas are the abusive parents in this analogy. It’s no secret they don’t care for their people. Pro-Palestine posts like to claim the Hamas would not hide behind civilians, schools, hospitals, or mosques. That is a lie. They do. They don’t give civilians shelter in their tunnels, they say “you have to go to the UN for help” when Palestinians ask for food, they steal humanitarian aid and SELL it to the refugee Palestinians. They don’t participate in projects to give Gaza its own water supply, and even demolish the structures build by outsiders like the EU and the US to build weapons from it.

When the British mandate was transformed into the state of Israel, the Palestinian people became refugees. Normally, refugees search refuge in countries where they become citizens and can build a normal life, work, get children, build an existence. Their children would no longer be considered refugees. They would be citizens of the new country. This happened at first, until Yassir Arafat (an Egyptian, NOT Palestinian) realized that the UN was willing to pay money for each refugee.

This money is normally intended to provide humanitarian aid for the people who are not able to build an existence. He went forward and build a system (including the UNWRA) that would do something unique. Unlike all other refugees, Palestinians stay refugees over generations, ripping away their possibility to create a true life. And all the money the UN pays (the major part originating from the US, Europe and Germany) goes not to the refugees. But to the Hamas, because these are the official leaders of the Palestinians in Gaza. You see – Arafat has actually developed a magnificent way to make himself and his friends rich by holding the Palestinian people in poverty and forced dependance. The Hamas use the money to build weapons and tunnels. But that’s not even the worst part. Because they need more than tunnels and weapons. They need people operating the weapons and using the tunnels. In fact, a dispute between the UNRWA and the Hamas happened in 2009, as the UNRWA (allegedly) wanted to include lessons on the holocaust into the curriculum of middle schools in Gaza.  That would have been contrary to what the Hamas wants. It wants to manipulate the Palestinian children into hating Jewish people, and dreaming of killing them all, so one day the children will grow up to be willing Hamas fighters. ). Here is a quote from the linked article: 

It was not just limited to history, social studies and religion — with a math book using an image of Palestinians hitting Israeli soldiers with slingshots to describe Newton’s second law of motion, the report said. Dead terrorists are also called “martyrs” throughout the books — with one ninth-grade math book using the term for Fatah leader Khalil al-Wazir, who led the 1978 massacre of 38 civilians, including 13 children, Bild noted. Most maps used in the books entirely erase the state of Israel, dubbing it a “Zionist occupation” and calling the entire region of Israel, Gaza Strip and the West Bank “Palestine,” the reports said.

The Hamas takes the money intended to help Palestinians. Today, all leaders of the Hamas are billionaires. They could use their billions to help their people. But they do not. Because they do not care for their Palestinian hostages.

Because basically, we don’t have a Israel-wants-its-hostages-back-and-commits-mass-murder-situation. We have a double-hostage situation. At first, the Hamas took all the civilians of Gaza hostage. They use them as a meat shield, to recruit new cannon fodder from and to manipulate the international community into seeing the Jews as the problem. Then they took Israelien hostages and basically hid them behind the Palestinian hostages. Natanyahu, the moron rushed his well-trained and highly motivated soldiers against the Palestinian hostages, because he doesn’t care for them. The Hamas likes that, because they can now claim Israel “martyred” the Palestinian hostages. In the end, they just die for the hate and political ambitions of old, hateful, greedy men.

As a mother, this breaks my heart and makes me so so angry. And looking at my peers and friends joyfully joining the antisemitism train (EXACTLY what the Hamas wants them to do) and marching off to attack Jewish people who had NO part for all this mess – that makes me lose my last hope in humanity.

[rametarin]

Frustrating

Folks believe the Russians brainwashed, “those stupid conservatives” into voting for Trump, and thus, “sabotaging the elections.”

My dude. That infantilizes folks you view your enemy and attributes way too much credit to the idea propaganda and shit on the TV dominates and dictates thought. Yes, it may have helped, but it didn’t convince the Trumpers to vote for Trump. It just reinforced it in the most ethereal manner to what they were already going to do.

And yet these people miraculously think either conservatives are mental children, or Putin is a super genius (neither are true) enough that someone shitposting on facebook or on tumblr en masse could sway the entire voter base.

You know what else the Russians have done? And Tumblr confirmed this, themselves. They pretended to be black, stirring shit with posting pro-BLM related stuff and deliberately posting and spreading information on the basis of race and race identity that helped to sow discord and discontent since 2010. They’ve been wagging the dog and MAKING it a big issue through propaganda to compliment the stateside campaigns.

And you know what the Russians were doing before that shit? Giving funding, money and marching orders to Marxists and communist or socialist sympathizers stateside, since the Soviet Union was a fucking thing. This is fact. They do this in every country that has a domestic, sympathetic movement towards their values throughout the late 1800s through the entire 1900s since the Oktober Revolution, and have been empowering guerilla campaigns to silence or destroy political/ideological opposition, take over places numerically and then have phony assed elections to “democratically” decide to be Soviet puppet states, since forever.

They do this shit all over South America, Africa and South Asia. They have for more than a century, now. They were exacerbators and rabblerousers and propagandists and guerillas and saboteurs, feeding every way to create division, discord, disharmony and irreconcilable differences by tricking groups of people with opposing passions to see themselves as mortal enemies.

And the most frustrating part of all of this is the people so willing to believe the Russians all but brainwashed, “the conservatives,” will scream about it being shallow, lies or propaganda that the Russians did similarly to the left-wing in the US (which is comprised of liberals, and liberal-when-convenient Marxist sympathizers that are actually more syndicalist, socialist or communist to platform the democratic party.)

Whether they genuinely believe Russia is what “caused” Trump or they’re sticking to the fiction because acting in bad faith and selective ignorance gets them a narrative they want (LIKE HOW RUSSIA IS ACTING EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY IN A POST INVASION OF UKRAINE WORLD), they will swear up and down the conservatives are stooges of Putin because some publisher said it’s true, but deny every piece of evidence one could put forwards that many left wingers are similarly duped or knowingly on the take.

Russian Imperialism is cold blooded and soulless. It will Courtney Love the fuck out of you and glamourize itself, allowing you to see what you want in it while capitalizing on your hope and desire. Not quite a shapeshifter, but an omitter that will lie to you, engineer circumstances around you, get people that do not value you or your intellect to reinforce the illusion to triangulate your belief, set up consequences for DISbelieving it, and then coerce you to act accordingly. Even when you KNOW what it wants is incorrect, forcing you to participate in its fiction or absolutely ice blooded take is how it keeps control.

The fact that some will acknowledge the depth and power of their manipulations and entrenchment, but only for their conservative enemies, while denying there’s any such entrenchment in American bureaucracy, college tenured professors or counterculture social groups, pisses me off something fierce. God damned hypocrites. The same people that will parrot any story about mean ole CIA destroying, “any BLACK group that teaches self-reliance and community solidarity” while omitting that many of those groups were also breaching Soviet sympathetic socialistic views and values and causes, will deny Russia had any hand at all in that.

[rametarin]

No joke, this absolute farce of an election should be evidence that Russo-Sympathizers were always at play in US elections. In previous decades with republicans hostile to communism and Russian imperialism? "Vote blue, no matter who."

But literally Trump as a candidate? And the odd radical progressive voices give this slapshod mess that, while not specifically advocating for Trump, tries to play the monopolar, "Biden is bad but I'm not saying vote for Trump" game.

You don't vote for Biden, Trump wins. You don't vote for Trump, Biden wins. So, you can guarantee failure to vote for the person willing to keep funding Ukraine will result in Russian victory.

Trump is not the guy. Every other domestic issue can be unfucked at a later date. We have the opportunity to grab Russo-Imperialism by its roots and rip it the fuck out, and we'd be fools not to take it. Half their Soviet era surplus is TRASHED now. Half their buildup of conventional arms- gone. Their economy is trashed. Their oil monopoly petro state is losing oil refineries. The Russian bully state is teetering on the fucking edge of losing its ability to wage war or even be an oppressive nation.

Don't piss that away with a vote for Trump.

Me: In November, either Trump or Biden will win. There is no third outcome, so we should vote accordingly for the option that will mitigate the most harm.

The people in my notes: Oh, so you think direct action is bad? You think voting is literally the only thing we can do? You hate activism? You love Biden and endorse everything he does and think nobody should criticize him ever? You think voting will just magically solve all our problems? You think protesting is wrong? You love the status quo and think everything is fine?

[izooks]

[mavolia]

Election 2024 (3)

Once again we are voting for Climate Change acknowledgment (if not counteraction), which has become synonymous with corporate & industrial regulation - an astonishingly simple choice, particularly so since most of us are not corporate or industrial executives and never will be - the scales weigh the immediate profits of a vanishingly-small number of exceptionally comfortable psychopaths against the stable perpetuation of all societies and all that that implies. Somehow we are once again measuring the merits of prospective scientific, technological, political, social, philosophical - human developmental - programs for generations to come, against financial ease-of-access for a handful of notorious pedophiles. How can this even be debatable? Obviously we are also voting to decide on whether or not Ukraine is allowed to remain a country - rather baffling, considering Ronald Reagan's opinions in regards to Russia's expansionist ambitions - but considering Candidate Trump's personal investment in Russian property combined with the quantity of kompromat that Russian intelligence agencies hold over him, Trump's position is almost worth sympathizing - he is obviously being blackmailed. But so what - the stakes for Ukraine include its prospective NATO membership, all forms of U.S.-based financial & munitions aid, similar aid from U.S. allies, likely the redirection of that aid toward Russia, and swift capitulation followed by the redefining of its political geography if not its entire dissolution and absorption by the Russian State. Trump's anxieties are not existential; Ukraine's are. Further, Trump's stakes are self-wrought - Ukraine's are derived from coincidences of proximity. Loyalty toward Donald Trump on this matter must exist independent of all sense - it should only exist out of one's fear of falling out of favor from an in-group that demands constant affirmation of weakness of character as well as of intellect. It may not matter to many, but enforcement of taxation upon the rich is also on the ballot, which (theoretically) translates into public-improvement projects and maintenance of what public welfare remains intact. Instructively, firearm ownership is not on the ballot - given the spike in legally-forced childbirths as a product of rape in Roe v. Wade-defeated States, my personal suggestion to newly-vulnerable women nationwide is: Exploit this permission while it remains, because the trend toward inheriting possessions coupled with I-Got-Mine-ism will see the whole populace disarmed if that is what must occur in pursuit of disarming the Enemy Within.

[mightyflamethrower]

About half of America sympathizes with Ukraine’s plight and wishes to arm it.

After all, Kyiv was attacked preemptively by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, in an effort to decapitate its government and turn the country into a Russian satellite, perhaps similar to the status of a Belarus or Chechnya.

The heroic ability of the Ukrainians to save Kyiv and to stop the Russian assault beyond the occupied Donbas and Crimea has hinged on Western weapons deliveries, specifically from European NATO countries and, to a far greater extent, the United States.

But now, after a reported 1 million combined dead, wounded, or missing Ukrainians and Russians (the actual figure is probably far higher), the war remains deadlocked with no end in sight.

Putin serially threatens to break the static front with tactical nuclear weapons. The Europeans are tiring. And no one in the United States has come up with a strategy to push back the Russians from either their February 2022 demarcation points or their post-2014 occupation of Ukrainian borderlands.

The result is a lot of disconnects, paradoxes, and mysteries about the war, the Biden administration’s role in it, and the general geostrategic landscape surrounding the conflict.

Ukrainian Election Interference?

Americans are demonized by the Uniparty elites for having doubts about their blank-check support for Ukraine. And while the American people are mostly anti-Putin, they are not always pro-Ukraine.

But why is that so?

For one, we know that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.

Even leftwing Politico reported that Ukrainians in the U.S. gathered opposition research on Trump campaign officials and passed it to the Clinton campaign and thus likely her appendages in government.

In August 2016, at the height of that Trump-Clinton presidential race, Ukrainian ambassador Valeriy Chaly himself wrote an op-ed in the Hill attacking then-candidate Donald Trump for his comments about Crimea.

Ukrainian expatriate and U.S. citizen Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was the catalyst and likely source behind the “whistleblower’s” allegations that led to the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Yet in retrospect, given subsequent disclosures about the Biden family‘s quid pro quo enrichment, Trump likely had reason to worry about feeding the ongoing Biden family Burisma corruption and collusion with Ukrainian oligarchs.

Via Hunter and Joe Biden, the Bidens really were receiving money from Ukraine in exchange for selling their influence. Joe Biden really did leverage $1 billion in congressionally approved U.S. military assistance to Ukraine. He thereby sought to have fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was looking into the extravagant sums Hunter Biden was receiving from Ukrainian interests. And we know this because Biden later publicly bragged about how he threatened to cut off U.S. assistance unless Shokin was fired.

Vindman himself really was an anti-Trump partisan—and later cut a campaign commercial for the Lincoln Project. He likely had leaked a classified presidential phone call to the so-called whistleblower in order to prompt a third-party induced impeachment of a perceived anti-Ukraine Donald Trump.

He refused to disclose all the parties to whom he leaked the call. (Note that Joe Biden himself in May 2004 put a hold on congressionally approved 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, likely due to concerns of losing the Arab-American vote in key swing state Michigan—a better example of a president subordinating the national interest for his own political reelection agenda.)

Vindman was reportedly involved in a family company (as CEO of Trident Support) trying to facilitate repairs of U.S.-supplied military equipment to Ukraine. His wife recently and callously tweeted of the second assassination attempt on Trump, “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”

Ukraine’s efforts to compromise prominent Americans, interfere in U.S. elections, and use their American contacts to facilitate arms transfers still continue in outrageous fashion.

On September 23, just 43 days before Election Day, the Biden-Harris administration flew in, at taxpayer expense, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and accorded him secret service protection as he visited the critical swing state of Pennsylvania—where the deadlocked election will likely be decided.

Zelensky and Democrat politicos (no Republican counterparts were invited) toured a Pennsylvania munitions plant making artillery shells likely destined for his Ukraine. One subtext of the visit was that Biden-Harris aid for Ukraine—to be continued or increased by a President Harris—results in jobs for Pennsylvania voters.

In an interview with the left-wing, pro-Biden-Harris New Yorker magazine, Zelensky—who himself has canceled both 11 Ukrainian opposition political parties and scheduled elections, suspended habeas corpus, and censored the media—regrettably went further in his \efforts at U.S. election interference. Zelensky trashed Harris’s rival candidate Donald Trump as someone who “doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how.”

The Ukrainian president attacked even harder Trump’s running mate and vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, as “dangerous” and “too radical.”

Too radical for what or whom? The people of the United States or the Ukrainian hierarchy? Amid a firestorm, Zelensky later hurriedly met with Trump, which unfortunately only further highlighted his poor election timing.

One reason why many Americans are skeptical of helping Ukraine is, well, Ukraine itself—specifically its graft and corruption, its oligarchs’ disturbing history of bribing U.S. influential figures, its interference in U.S. elections, and its dictatorial suspension of human rights, political parties, and elections.

On to Moscow?

Strategically, it is understandable why Ukraine wishes to use European and American planes and missiles to strike depots and supply centers deep inside Russia, given Russia does the same to Ukraine—and focuses far more on civilian targets.

But to equip a proxy to attack far inside a nuclear rival’s homeland was always taboo in the Cold War—and for good reason, given the resulting lowered bar of nuclear escalation.

So, the Korean War, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the wars in the Middle East all respected our ancestors’ Cold War rule: neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R. in their numerous proxy wars ever used their clients to attack the homeland of their nuclear opponents with either nuclear or conventional weapons.

When Nikita Khrushchev came close to doing just that by equipping Castro’s Cuba with missiles capable of becoming nuclear-tipped, along with nuclear-carrying strategic bombers that could hit the U.S. homeland, the Kennedy Administration went to Def Con 2.

It quickly blockaded the island. Kennedy further warned the Soviet Union that in case of any Cuban-based attack by missile or plane (conventional or nuclear) against the American homeland, the U.S. would retaliate against Russia itself.

So, we are caught in a very dangerous cycle.

Almost weekly, Putin himself, his generals, Russian politicians, or the Russian state media threaten to respond to attacks inside Russia by resorting either to tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine or strategic nuclear strikes against its suppliers.

In response, our retired generals and intelligence authorities, along with pundits and diplomats—and our de facto commander-in-chief at the press room dais, Kamala Harris—discount these threats as empty bombast. They offer no consideration that what has been mere Russian braggadocio in 2022-2023 (when casualties were in the few hundred thousand and no Ukrainians were fighting inside Russia) might not be so vacuous in late 2024 or 2025. Now casualties have soared by over a million. And Ukrainian forces, equipped with a new arsenal of jets and missiles, currently occupy 500 square miles of conquered Russian territory.

In truth, the West and the U.S. have no strategy for a Ukrainian victory over Russia. Much less do they worry much that a quarter of the Ukrainian population has fled the country, and the military is running out of recruits. The default assumption is to keep fueling the 1 million-man meat grinder to the last Ukrainian and hope that Russia tires first—the sort of non-strategy that the left used to lecture was amoral and senseless in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Why the Ukraine-Israeli asymmetry?

Israel, in many ways, is America’s closest ally. It is a constitutional state and the only nation in the Middle East that respects human rights. Its enemies are our enemies. And it is the target over the last half century of nonstop Arab and Iranian attacks.

Not so Ukraine that separated from Russia in August 1991, and yet still has a checkered history of corruption and authoritarianism.

In the present war, Ukraine has likely become the target of some 8,000-10,000 missiles launched from Russia. Yet that number is still smaller than the some 20,000 projectiles sent into Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran. Israel, like Ukraine, was surprise attacked by its neighbor. And like Russia, Hamas started the war without concern for civilians. Or rather, in efforts well beyond Russian brutality, Hamas deliberately targeted civilians for Dark Age-style murder, torture, mass rape, incineration, beheading, and hostage-taking.

It is hard to outdo Russian wartime savagery, but Hezbollah has accomplished that easily. And unlike post-Soviet Russia, it has blatantly murdered lots of American diplomats and soldiers. Hamas still holds American hostages.

So why does the Biden-Harris administration, and many elites in Washington, treat the two wars so differently? Or more specifically, why do they deify Zelensky and Ukraine but demonize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel?

Note that Biden-Harris demand Israeli “proportionality” in responding to Hamas terror. But they encourage “disproportionality” for Ukraine to win the war. (Does America believe Russia is eviler than Hamas?)

They call for ceasefires nonstop in Gaza and the Hezbollah war. Yet do they ever commensurately instruct Ukraine to stop the war and negotiate with Putin?

Biden-Harris insist that Israel text or otherwise notify Gazans or Beirut civilians of any impending Israel attack. Do they demand the same of Ukraine when it shoots off missiles, shells, and drones into Russian-occupied civilian areas?

Netanyahu has formed a bipartisan war cabinet and will adhere to regularly scheduled elections. And yet he is still demonized as an authoritarian by Biden-Harris. Neither showed up for his recent congressional speech. In fact, in 1950s-Latin-American-coup-style, the U.S. government has been trying under the radar to remove the elected Israeli government.

Most certainly, Netanyahu would not be flown, Zelensky-style, by U.S. military transport to tour a Patriot battery facility in Pennsylvania or in any other election-year battleground state.

And if he was used by Republicans in such overtly partisan fashion, Netanyahu would be asked by the left to leave immediately—especially if he gave an interview from a swing state and, say, on Fox News, in which he trashed the Harris-Walz ticket.

We are warned by Biden-Harris that the Gaza/Hezbollah war should stop now, lest it ignite a theater war in which a possible nuclear Iran and a nuclear Israel would exchange missiles and blow up the region.

Yet, Russia is no putative nuclear power. It possesses somewhere between 6,000-7,000 deliverable nuclear weapons. And it has threatened to use them far more often than Iran has.

Ukraine is on the doorstep of NATO and any regional war would endanger America’s NATO allies far more than an Israel-Iranian conflict.

Is the Iran-Hezbollah/Hamas/Houthis Axis that has emerged from the war more dangerous than the new nuclear Russia/China/North Korea/Iran symbiosis that is fallout from our massive support for Ukraine?

So why are we lectured nonstop about the dangers of Israeli brinksmanship but almost encourage it on the part of Ukraine?

Do we believe that Putin is more rational and restrained and less likely to go medieval than Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei?

Again, what explains the vast difference in the way we oversee our ally Israel’s war and Ukraine’s conflict with Russia?

Is the explanation anti-Semitism?

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim-American voters in Michigan?

The airbrushing of Middle East terrorists unthinkable of Russian thugs?

The sheer hatred of Russia and Russians, but the pass given to Middle Eastern autocrats?

The absence of a large expatriate community of Russians in the U.S.?

Hating Russians?

The left’s hatred of Putin’s Russia is understandable given Putin’s 2022 aggression, but it’s generic nature is now also becoming obsessive. The loathing of all things Russian helps to explain the above paradoxes and obsessions—even in the trivial sense of Joe Biden in his recent The View appearance wearing a U.S./Ukraine flag lapel in a way he would likely not a U.S./Israel flag counterpart.

There is also the shame and embarrassment of left-wing past naiveté about Putin.

After all, it was Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who in 2009 gave us the performance art, red jacuzzi button, mistranslated Russian “reset.” All that hoopla was a direct partisan rebuke for the supposedly too-tough prior Bush administration response to Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia.

Recall that in 2013, Obama and John Kerry stupidly invited Putin back into the Middle East, supposedly to help corral Syria’s WMDs, after a near-35-year absence from the region.

It was also Obama, who, in a hot mic exchange in Seoul in 2012, promised that he would give up critical missile defense in Eastern Europe if Putin would just give him space during his last election. (Again, was that gambit impeachable under our new rules, given Obama clearly sacrificed America’s strategic interests to win temporary calm from an aggressive Russia to help his reelection?)

Both fulfilled their bargains: Putin waited until Obama was safely reelected and then invaded Ukraine in 2014, while Obama happily surrendered the nascent air defense project to protect eastern Europe from enemy missiles.

In contrast to Clinton-Obama appeasement of Russia, Trump killed Russian Wagner mercenaries in Syria. He gave previously Obama-banned offensive weapons to Ukraine. He opposed the Nord Stream 2 German-Putin pipeline. He got the U.S. out of an asymmetrical Russian-American missile deal. He jawboned NATO nations to up their collective defense expenditures by some $100 billion.

Trump also nearly bankrupted Russia by releasing oceans of cheap American oil and increased sanctions on Russian oligarchs. He made it clear to Putin that unfortunate things would follow from an invasion of Ukraine. Trump’s was the only administration of the last four when Putin stayed put within his borders.

As far as the 2016 Russian-Trump collusion, even Mr. Mueller’s “dream team” and “all-star” partisan “hunter-killer” cadre of lawyers found no such thing—as compared to the Russian-fed Steele dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton to smear Trump.

There was no “Russian disinformation” either in 2020 when team Biden rounded up corrupt ex-intelligence authorities to lie that Hunter’s genuine laptop was likely Russian fabricated.

So why the left’s hatred of Russians—other than the classic projection of blaming others for its own very disastrous appeasement of Putin that the left itself had inaugurated?

One other reason was that Trump endlessly rubbed left-wing noses in their Russian paranoias, joking that Putin might find Hillary’s missing emails, destroyed while in her custody and under subpoena.

When he was accused by Clinton partisans and hacks of being a “Russian asset” or “Russian poodle,” he deliberately bragged about his “deals” with Putin to inflame his critics even more.

In a larger context, Russians have replaced South African or Iranian villains in Hollywood action movies and popular entertainment. The new big-screen bogeyman is now nearly always a large brute with a shaved head, his torso dotted by orthodox Christian cross tattoos, gap-toothed, an exaggerated Russian accent, surrounded by creepy black-suited mafiosi—and full of racist and sexist hatred for liberal America.

In sum, there is an argument to help Ukraine survive Russian attacks.

But that consensus is daily being eroded by the present beltway messianic crusade for Ukraine, in a manner quite unlike our lukewarm and vacillating support for our far closer ally Israel.

The near-hysterical official Ukrainian narrative requires denying or ignoring the escalating dangers of our sophisticated weapons hitting deep inside Mother Russia, the Somme/Verdun-like endless wastage of over a million youths and counting, and the increasingly anti-democratic and election-interfering nature of President Zelensky and his Ukrainian entourage.

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Hi guys, taking a moment to step away from fun video game/ live streaming/ podcast things to put this out there (sorry it gets a bit rambley): If your only issues with Biden are "old" and "has a stutter" and that's making you seriously consider if you want to vote for him, congratulations, you're agist and ableist. Let's just cross the age thing off from both lists, shall we? One of them doesn't seem to be having any issues with running this country regardless of his age, and the other one has a long enough list of other issues going on that his age would be the least worrying thing even if it was an issue. Also, since I've seen a number of people make these points when scrolling through the reblogs, just gonna put these things out there: * Roe v. Wade got overturned because of Trump, the people who voted for him, and the people who voted third party or didn't vote at all during the 2016 election. It doesn't matter whose administration it got overturned during. The reason it got overtured was because of the judges Trump put on the Supreme Court. So if you're upset about Roe v. Wade being overturned, and you voted third party or didn't vote at all in 2016 and bought into the "Hillary is just as bad as Trump" bullshit, congratulations, that one's on you. * Tara Reid, the woman who accused Biden of rape, fled to Moscow a few months ago and has spoken on Russian propaganda networks since. And her credibility wasn't all that great even before that. She also already had a history of being a Putin sympathizer. If you actually google her, the more you look into her and her allegations, the more the whole thing stinks. And when you take that in the context of everything that's happened between the 2016 election and today between the US and Russia, it shouldn't take that much critical thinking to put 2 and 2 together and make 4. * And if you need to reach back to something that Biden did as a senator in...what, the 1970's/80's/ 90's? to try and claim that Biden is racist today, in 2023, then I want you to take a long hard think and see if you can figure out for yourself why trying to use something from 30-50 years ago as "proof" that someone is racist today might reflect more poorly on you than it does on them. People change. As recently as 15 years ago there were people who were against gay marriage, either entirely or because they thought Civil Unions were a "good enough compromise" or w/e, who today understand why that stance was problematic and have evolved with the times. Same deal goes for many other LGBTQ+ issues. Same deal goes for women's rights. Same deal goes for race issues. If you have to go back decades to support your claim that someone is racist or any other kind of bigot, with nothing more recent (like, say, within the last 5 years? I'd say 10 but even that can be stretching it. Can you honestly say you held 100% the same beliefs now that you did a decade ago, or have you evolved and changed as you learned new things?), then you have nothing. I could go on, but this is already super long.

As a final note (and I know it's long, so the TL;DR is fact check, verify, don't take anything you hear second hand at face value): Always fact check if you're getting information from a secondary source (whether it be through the social media grape vine or an article you read). Always verify. If you see people criticizing a politician or other public figure for something they said, always double check the context--find the original source and read/ watch the whole thing, if you can. And if someone shares a source or fact checking resource with you that contradicts something that you've said or shared, always read the whole thing. A lot of times, it turns out that in context, what the person said isn't nearly as bad. Sometimes, like in the case of Trump, the full context ends up being so much worse than just the snippet that got quoted. I can't tell you the number of times I have seen with my own eyeballs someone say they didn't like Biden or Hillary or whoever because they had said xyz thing, who then admitted it wasn't nearly as bad as they had thought once they were linked to the original source and knew the full context.

I also can't tell you how many times I looked through articles friends had shared on Facebook that were making a claim, that linked to sources that allegedly backed up that claim, only for those links to in fact not back up the claim at all when I actually looked into them to verify the information. There is so much propaganda out there coming from sources that are trying to make our country weaker and weaker, and they would love nothing more than to put Trump back into power and repeat their success from 2016. The best way to make sure they don't win is to always question, always fact check and verify, and never share something without verifying, no matter how much you like the sound of what it says or want it to be true. If you actually care about LGBTQ+ issues, or civil rights, or women's rights, or preventing the right from rewriting history in terms of what kids learn in schools, or protecting libraries (and the books within), or access to education or all of the other things that people on the left claim to care about, you'll do what needs to be done. I once read an article that pointed out that what people call a "vote of conscience" is a misnomer, and it should be called a "vote of ego." Your conscience is supposed to be what guides you to do the right thing, even if it's not something you want to do, while your ego leads you to do what feels good to you even if it ends up having negative consequences later. When you vote, make sure what you're making really is a vote of conscience, and not a vote of ego. The consequences of the 2016 election and how close the 2020 election were prove just how important that distinction is.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, your regularly scheduled anime/ video game/ podcast/ book/ etc. programming will resume shortly.

Look, Biden isn't my first choice, either. But it's going to be one of these two guys, and I'm not voting for the rapist.

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PSA to Americans: Russian bots are in full swing again

Don't trust anyone telling you to not vote or to vote for Trump because "Biden bad Palestine" or some shit, the psyop is real again and they actively pretend to be left-wing American minorities to get you to sympathize with them before they push whatever kind of drivel they want down your throat. I'm not telling you what to do, because then I'd be no different than them (although I'm hinting real fucking strong to pick the less worse option, don't be disenfranchised), but don't believe everything you read on Tumblr.

actually don't believe everything you read anywhere from 2ч to wapchan to facebook to youtube there's a lot of misinfo out there

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Hey,,,, that post escaped containment and the context of "op is a russian sympathizer" got lost. How I interpreted it was in the context of Palestine and people saying "vote Biden no matter what bc trump is worse" for example, and being part of the mentioned countries during a government that REALLY feels like it was put in place by the US..... a lot of us feel it in that way.

Anyway for people that didn't know, context on the OP.

sure! maybe the u.s. lied about and/or caused mass death in japan, china, korea, the ussr, guatemala, indonesia, cuba, congo, peru, laos, vietnam, cambodia, grenada, lebanon, libya, el salvador, nicaragua, iran, panama, iraq, kuwait, somalia, bosnia, sudan, afghanistan, pakistan, bulgaria, macedonia, bahamas, cuba again, south africa, bolivia, marshall islands, greece, portugal, philippines, ecuador, albania, argentina, angola, jamaica, indonesia, seychelles, haiti, guyana, chad, thailand, algeria, brazil, dominican republic, ghana, mexico, uruguay, colombia, chile, russia, venezuela, yugoslavia, palestine, yemen, cuba again, the u.s. itself........ but! ....and hear me out here..... maybe this time they're telling the truth & they really have the interests of people and democracy at heart :)