#but yeah the jews control the media

[apleasurableillusion]

Truly bonkers that Coates went to Israel for 10 days, only spoke to Palestinians while there, did no external research and then put all of this in a book that we're supposed to take seriously. And then the publisher doesn't even hire a fact checker?

[entropyvoid]

I don’t think I can even remember seeing one singular post about antisemitism since 10/7 (and I’ve seen a lot) that wasn’t met with outright doubt (“has this actually happened to anyone?”), suspicion (“weird that OP hasn’t said anything about X in this post that isn’t about X, must secretly mean something about what they think that they’re not telling us, and it must be bad” or attempts at moral slander to delegitimize whatever incident the person was talking about (…as if OP being a shitbag in whatever way suits your fancy would make the antisemitism okay? …Do you scream racial slurs at transphobes and the like too? Do you think bigotry stops being bigotry or becomes okay if a person “deserves” it? Do you think bigotry can be earned?)

And if the thing being talked about is something like… a worldwide problem tons of Jews all over have been dealing with and talking to each other about, there’s always someone who asks the OP for the burden of proof, when it’s either an easily google-able thing, (from synagogue shootings, to magen davids being banned at pride events and general feelings of being unwelcome from queer Jews, to the hate-crime rape of a 12 year old, to harassment of Jews from college protestors) or in the most annoying cases, said proof/example is sometimes even just sitting in the comments of the same damn post for any old idiot to see with their eyes.

…Do other minority groups normally get this level of straight up disbelief over our experiences from the very people who claim to stand against the kinds of things we’ve experienced and are experiencing, or do people just make a special exception for us?

[gingerswagfreckles]

"Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism" yeah but accusing Jews of making up hate crimes to derail the conversation around Gaza is. Claiming that the media is controlled by a secret group of all powerful Zionists is. Acting like the Holocaust is something Jews use to get out of trouble instead of an actual genocide that happened within living memory is. Telling us to go back to where we came from is.

"Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism" yeah well a lot of you aren't being accused of antisemitism because you are criticizing Israel. You're being accused of antisemitism because you are being antisemitic and do nothing but evade and double down when it gets called out.

[edenfenixblogs]

How do you know if you’re antisemitic?

Well, if a Jew telling you you’re antisemitic won’t make you believe it, here is a guide to help you figure it out yourself.

1. Do you think Jews, en masse, are ACTIVELY REPLACING/ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE some other group — especially a somehow more deserving group? (For example, White people, Black people, African people, Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, indigenous people, etc.) Do you feel there are JUST TOO MANY JEWS IN A GIVEN LOCATION?

2. Do you think Jews are PRETENDING TO BE SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE NOT? (For example, White, PoC, “Real” Jews, Indigenous/Native, an Ethnic Minority, Devoted Citizens of [YOUR COUNTRY] etc.)?

3. Do you think Jews are CONTROLLING OR ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL SOME INTEGRAL ASPECT OF SOCIETY? (For example, the government, media, banks, business, medicine, etc.)

4. Do you think Jews that you criticize are UNIQUELY BLOODTHIRSTY OR GENOCIDAL — especially when hoping for personal achievement or cultural supremacy? (For example, trying to stage a global war so they can control the world; using/consuming blood of Christians and babies to do satanic rituals; sexually seducing non-Jews in order to contaminate bloodlines and erase other pre-existing identities; immigrating to a new location with the intention of murdering those who already exist there; desiring to murder Arabs, Muslims, or Palestinians in their homelands by means of genocide in order to control a region at the exclusion of other ethnicities, etc.)

5. Do you think Jews are APPROPRIATING A PRIVILEGE THAT THEY DO NOT DESERVE AND THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM? (For example, freedom, wealth, power, whiteness, G-d’s favor, a safe home in the Levant, Arab land, colonial power, representation as a minority group, etc.)

6. Do you think Jews at large or the specific Jews you disagree with and who wield power in a way you disapprove of CAN BE COLLECTIVELY LABELED? (For example, might you call them slaves, vermin, insects, dirty, scheming, communists, fascists, Nazis, satanic, Zionists, scum, etc.)

IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS YOU ARE AN ANTISEMITE. This is literally textbook antisemitism. If you answered, well yeah but only “the Jews in Israel” or “the ones who vote for Bibi” or the “ones who moved to my town/country/region” or if you saw something on one of the lists and think “well no fair! That one is actually true,” your exception isn’t exceptional. You haven’t found the one true bad thing that Jews ACTUALLY are. It’s not some conspiratorial propaganda to equate reasonable beliefs with hate. You’re just hateful. Some part of you hates Jews. And you have to confront what that part of you is and you have to destroy it if you want to engage in any conversations that impact Jewish welfare anywhere in the world.

One way to start deconstructing is to ask yourself “Why do I feel this way?” “From whom did I learn to think this way?” “Who in my life approves and supports me thinking this way?” “Am I comfortable telling a Jewish person I feel this way in person?” “How do I think a Jewish person will feel/What do I think a Jewish person will think if I tell them this?” “Do I care what they feel or think? Why or why not?” “How would I feel/what would I think if someone felt this way or thought this way about me or an identity I value deeply?”

[notaplaceofhonour]

Understanding Alex Jones’s place in the Bush-era anti-war scene would do the left a lot of good in understanding (and not repeating) similar mistakes that the current anti-war scene is making today.

For those who aren’t old enough to remember, there was actually a time when Alex Jones had a decent amount of goodwill on the far left. He was obviously always a lunatic conspiracy theorist, and most everyday people saw him as such, but there was a significant enough portion of the anti-war left that liked him, that actually promoted InfoWars, appeared on AJ’s show, and linked arms with him at anti-war protests.

Without the momentum that his Bush-era popularity gave him, Jones would not have become a recognizable or relevant media figure like he did. The model InfoWars pioneered, which helped pave the way for the entire far right griftosphere that sprang up around it—from Breitbart to OAN & the Epoch Times to the sea of smaller Q-fluencers—owes its success in part to this diagonal reach across political lines. The extreme right wing conspiracy theory platform that has all but consumed the GOP would not have been able to gain nearly as much of a foothold if it were not for the years of work InfoWars & outlets like it did to normalize it in the Bush years.

Obviously I am not going so far as to say “The Left Is Solely Responsible For Alex Jones™️”. But much of the anti-war/anti-government left absolutely participated in helping him rise to prominence. They were willing to jump in bed with Jones without paying attention to his work or else were willing to turn a blind eye to who Jones was, all because he was saying things that were convenient to their cause. It didn’t matter that he was a rightwing or grade-A bigot; he opposed the US government & the war.

And I’m fully aware that there’s a common refrain among a lot of that “I used to listen to InfoWars” section of the left that would push back against this and say, “well, yeah, Jones is obviously a fascist now, but back then he wasn’t like that; he was kooky back then, sure, but the pre-Sandy Hook, pre-Gay Frogs Jones wasn’t nearly as bigoted or rightwing as the ‘Hillary For Prison’ Trump-era Jones became”.

To that I say, no, that’s bullshit. If you actually go back and listen to his show from back then… holy shit. He was homophobic as fuck. He was racist as fuck. The entire NWO/Globalist framework that he hangs all his other conspiracy theories on is built around antisemitic tropes from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion he regularly hosted & promoted explicit antisemites like his pastor Texe Marrs, who openly espoused that Jews (often named as such) controlled the world politically, financially, and religiously through Zionism, a global banking cartel, and Communism. In some ways, Jones was even more transparent then than he is now.

“Okay, but what does this have to do with the current anti-war movement?” I hear you say. “I never fell for Alex Jones; I’ve always hated that guy.”

To begin with, you should be on the lookout for the internal biases and lack of vetting that lead the left to tolerate Jones in the first place, whether you think you’re liable to or not (arguably, it is all that much more important when you think you aren’t, because you are never more susceptible than when you think you aren’t). But unfortunately much of the anti-war left of today has been making the same mistake, just with different people and organizations.

Take for instance Jackson Hinkle, a tradcath & self-described “MAGA Communist”, who has gotten a lot of traction with the leftwing anti-Zionist crowd (and I would be remiss not to mention, has also been a guest on InfoWars). Or take another AJ, the media outlet Al Jazeera, which says a lot of things that are attractive to the left out one side of its mouth while spewing a bunch of rightwing theocratic garbage out the other, much like Bush-era InfoWars did. Take PSL/ANSWER (Pro-Putin Pro-Assad Pro-Xi atrocity denialists & conspiracy theorists) are one of the most common fixtures of the current protest movement, regularly advertised as organizers by other prominent organizations like JVP & SJP. A lot of people on the left have been embracing figures and organizations that espouse Khazar Theory, Deicide, Media Control, and Blood Libels not at all dissimilar to the accusations you could hear from Jones and his pastor friend Texe Marrs, with the same figleaf of “anti-Zionism” that Marrs frequently used himself.

Whether by sheer ignorance or willfully turning a blind eye, the left keeps making the same mistake of tolerating & even embracing figures & organizations with similarly noxious politics & conspiracy thinking now that was made with Bush-era InfoWars. We need to do better. We need to learn from the past so we can stop repeating its mistakes.

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

jewish people online:

yeah we have to block and report people constantly because they post misinformation, harass us, send death threats, doxx us, send sexual harassment threats, go after our friends, and generally destroy our mental health. there's not really any super well known lists of people to block and report because ever jew has a different threshold of what they can handle seeing and want to see. some people do share information especially about particularly violent people to keep others safe. we'd really like it if more people spoke up about antisemitism but at the very least just leave us alone and fact check things

antizionists anti-israel (totally just the government) anti jewish people:

we've curated a huge list of celebrities and influencers for you to block because they haven't talked about our special cause (palestine) yet! we do not encourage you to make critical decisions about who you're blocking and why and instead we want you to just block every single person who doesn't talk about palestine. no we don't care that a lot of celebrities accounts aren't even controlled by them and are instead accessed mostly by members of their staff. its just common knowledge that the best form of activism is getting mad at famous people! then people look at those people and realize how bad they are -- wait what do you mean?? we're exposing these celebrities to more people and some of those people actually agree with them?? they could even gain support? or even if they lose followers they might have a smaller audience that's more interactive?? no no wait that can't be right. also when people post things without checking for misinformation because they fear losing support or even income it can actually harm palestinians?? because the aid is probably going to hamas instead? wait how is that bad hamas are our freedom fighters!! anyway ugh all this is making my head hurt those (((zionists))) are controlling the media

[jewish-sideblog]

spent most of my life thinking that horseshoe theory was dogshit. And for most things, it is. The political spectrum for the economy goes from “everybody should have equal access to resources without the need for money” on the left to “minorities should die to benefit the economy” on the right. The politics spectrum for human rights is “we should dismantle deeply-ingrained social ideologies inherently harmful to minority groups” on the left to “let’s do a race war” on the right. There’s no universe in which horseshoe theory is anything but a centrist’s wet dream… as long as you’re not looking at Jews.

The political spectrum for Jews goes from “All Jews are Zionist pigs who control banks, the media and world governments” on the right, to, uh. Let me check my notes here. Yeah, it’s the exact same thing on the left. The only difference is that the right thinks that Jews are all brown people using our “Jew Privilege” to replace white people, and the left thinks that we’re all white people using our “Jew privilege” to replace brown people.

How the fuck did that happen.

[thedreadvampy]

I mean fundamentally the thing about Israel/Palestine that makes people uncomfortable is not that "it's complicated" it's that it's extremely fundamentally morally simple, it's just difficult

there is not a morally acceptable solution that will be accepted by the expansionist Israeli government or its allies in Europe and America

the balance of power has remained basically the same since Balfour handed the country over. Israel has the power to displace and kill Palestinians without accountability because it's backed by the majority of major world powers. there's fundamentally no back and forth of power. Palestine and its people were sold from the control of the British to the control of Israel for the political convenience of a bunch of people on different continents. there's no retribution or wrestle for power. Israel has had power over Palestine for decades and Palestine, despite Palestinians occupying the land for millennia, has never had power over Israel.

the fundamentals of the situation are discomforting because Israel is in many ways the last surviving bastion of the type of turn-of-the-century colonialism which the contemporary economy of Britain, America and much of the West is rooted in.

that's why the media and political classes are so invested in the Israeli party line - not because Israel ~controls the media~ or whatever but because the fundamental existence of Israel is the interests of the British ruling class, for example. It is in the interests of the British ruling class that we accept as a basic precept that there are Civilised and Uncivilised nations, and that it is right and good and natural that the Civilised nations should be able to decide the fates of the Uncivilised nations, for their own profit, without brooking any complaint from the Uncivilised Peoples. The structure of Western capitalism requires, as well, that we accept that any number of deaths and any amount of suffering among the Uncivilised Peoples is an acceptable price to pay for the comfort of Civilised Peoples. That's why the media classes are more interested in pearl clutching that somebody slashed up a hack painting of a famously antisemitic and genocidal British lord than in the loss of swathes of priceless and irreplaceable artworks, historical relics and Human Fucking Lives in Gaza.

it isn't complicated. it's just uncomfortable because fundamentally it lays bare the basic reality of colonial capitalism, and generally we in the UK are sort of trying to pretend we're over that whole thing even though we're obviously not, politicians just try to be a bit less obvious about it. so it's discomforting to people to be faced with the rawness of Israel's open colonialism, and so those who can't or don't want to divest from Britain's own ongoing colonial endeavours end up tying themselves in knots trying to justify why it's Fine Actually.

while obviously Israel is a Zionist project so it can no more be decoupled from Judaism than the British empire is decoupled from Christianity, the conflation of Jewishness and Israel is a mostly irrelevant (and harmful) distraction from the underlying Problem With Israel, which is that it's an incredibly 19th century European style of colony in 21st century Asia, and the nature, consistency and ferocity of its colonial project has been pretty unchanged for like 3-4 generations.

but it's a very successful distraction because

a) a lot of people do actually hate Jews a whole bunch so yeah antisemitism is a genuine and legitimate fear, but it doesn't connect to the core issues of genocide, oppression and colonialism (and conflating Israel with Jewishness does play into existing antisemitic ideas of the Jewish perpetual foreigner and perpetual dual loyalty)

b) people want it to be complicated. They don't want it to be simple in a way that would create discomfort for them. We don't want to acknowledge that to free Palestine we'd have to take a hit to our own economies by not selling arms to Israel. We don't want to acknowledge that what's practiced openly in Israel is the same structure of systemic injustice underpinning almost all British and American foreign affairs, but with more of a veil over it. We don't want to challenge the underlying assumption that there are those who should rule and those who should be ruled over. But with the assertion that Israel=Jewishness, and the rewriting of history to say there's an Endless Cycle of Violence on Both Sides, Who Can Say Where It Started Really, you're off the hook! It's Complicated! Who Can Really Say?

(this Who Can Really Say thing is fascinating in itself. It's not like it's ancient history! it's been slightly over a century since the birth of the Israeli project! you can look it up! we have the news articles! we have the correspondence! this is my grandparents' generation not the distant mists of time!)

but yeah like fuck 'Israel controls the media' bullshit. It does not require a Shadowy Jewish Cabal of Puppetmasters to create mass appeasement from the media and ruling class, and if you think that's the best explanation you're fucking gross. The media and political establishment of Europe and the US are not being Controlled By The Wicked Jews. They are colonial projects. Israel is a colonial project. Their interests are aligned. It's not complicated it's So Fucking Simple. Our ruling classes, whether in Tel Aviv, Washington, Westminster or Berlin, are enthusiastically invested in the project of global apartheid. It makes them money. It maintained them power. It is in their interests to preserve the impunity of the occupying state where it shores up the civilised West vs barbarian East paradigm. It is not "too complicated" it's just huge, implacable and miserable to recognise.

[spacelazarwolf]

Ok am I not reading this right or something? I want to listen to jewish voices but something about this whole post feels really wrong. It comes across real victim blamey? Sorry if you don't have the spoons, just, compared to stuff I've read from you (where you actually source things in post) it just sounds... off in some way

https://www.tumblr.com/necronomeconomicism/748700454464159744/ok-gotta-talk-about-it-as-a-jewish-historian-i?source=share

this post is an ahistorical antisemitic mess holy shit. this person has zero understanding of the history of zionism or the racial, ethnic, and cultural makeup of israeli jews. also they seem to have copy-pasted part of the shema and left an extra “yah” on the end that they didn’t translate??? and called it “a prayer”??? so it’s unclear if they actually know what prayer it is or if they just think that’s how hebrew prayers start???? it’s VERY weird, and also they’re doing more antisemitism “the (((zionists))) control the media” in the comments. so yeah this post is absolutely bonkers.

[mylight-png]

Hello. I have been really depressed these past three weeks. In over twenty years of my life I do not remember seeing as much antisemitism as I have in the past month. I am deeply disappointed in the world. I had a higher opinion of it, especially places like Europe, Britain and America. I had believed that when we said "never again", we really had meant "never again". But I was wrong.

It turns out, that our history, and history of Israel has been lied about and twisted into something unrecognizable in universities and mass media, and the world just allowed it to happen. It turns out, that when Jewish people are massacred, people still rejoice in our deaths, using new lies to justify their hatred than the ones they used in WW2. It turns out that the world hates the idea of a Jewish state, it does not want us to have a country of our own, and so will look for any excuse to disparage our state, holding us to an impossible standard that cannot ever be realistically achieved.

We were not given the chance to mourn October 7th. We were not allowed to do so. Almost immediately the world rejoiced, came out in these "Pro-Palestine" protests — even before Israel had retaliated. Called the horrific massacre "resistance". Victim blamed us with the fictional fairytale of "75 year old oppression". Dismissed our grief with "Yeah well but the Palestinian deaths—". Screamed "From the River to the Sea". These were the words we heard on the 7th and 8th of October as news of our people's deaths were reaching us in real time. How can anyone support this so-called "Pro-Palestine" movement after that? Are we still hated this much?

I have already lost someone I considered a friend over this. She started reposting antisemitic lies, calling us "colonial settlers", parroting the Khazar conspiracy theory about Ashkenazi jews (which I am), making absurd claims about how we weren't indigenous, and how Israel does not have the right to exist and how we should cede control to the Palestinians and then live in "their" state, under "their" government. Yeah, we have already seen on the 7th how that idea would go. I was especially disheartened, because she is a person of color, as a fellow minority, I thought she would know better and would know what it's like to be hated over something you can't control...

I still may lose another friend. Recently, she has written me "It looks like Israel is enjoying this! They used this as an excuse!" I have tried to educate her and she seems to have listened, but I doubt my words will be enough. I know where she has gotten these lies, with the mass media continuously airing unverified statistics posted by Hamas controlled institutions all the while sneering at every shred of evidence Israel publishes. I'm tired. I do not believe I can fight against this continuous stream of lies. I'm tired and heartbroken that this is happening to us again.

I always wondered how the world ever bought these lies about how we were responsible for Germany's economic crisis and how we controlled world governments. Now I know. Because it's happening again. Just with new lies. And everything we've seen in WW2: the marking of Jewish homes, the pogroms, the persecution - it's all happening. Again.

I'm sorry for this extremely depressing message. My father, my grandmother and I no longer feel safe in this world. And we feel silenced lest we become victims as well.

I have nothing to add to this, it is as if someone wrote out my thoughts and feelings for me.

I wish and pray for safety for you and your family in this time when safety is an uncertain luxury. We have outlived them before, we will outlive them again. We meant "never again" when we said it, and I know our community well enough to know we follow through.

Am Yisrael chai

[afrenomes]

“It’s the Jews Zionists that control the media!”

Yeah, that’s still blatantly antisemitic. Also, those famously antisemitic radio talk show hosts are also saying literally the same “Zionists control the media” schtick, so instead of parroting them maybe you need to rethink what you’re saying and where your values lie 🤷‍♀️

[alarajrogers]

Just re-reading some of my old "for the love of God vote for Biden so we don't get Trump" posts, and I'm super happy that instead we have Kamala Harris, who people seem to be excited about... but I did notice a recurring theme in the leftist opposition (aside from refusal to actually understand electoral politics or pay attention to what's going on outside of the one issue they care about):

"We need to smash the existing system because it doesn't serve anyone! We need a revolution!"

It is understandable that Americans should believe in this fantasy. We have been taught that our Glorious Revolution that started this country was the height of righteousness and a wonderful thing for the whole world.

The problem is, it wasn't a revolution except in the most technical sense. It was the overthrow of a distant colonizing power and the institution of locally controlled government.

"Revolutions" that get rid of distant colonizing powers and grant the locals self-governance are often pretty successful, because the locals have a structure for self-governance already -- no distant colonizing power has ever been successful by installing nothing but puppets at every level of government in the entity they're trying to govern. But they're not really revolutions. They're the overthrow of occupying powers.

France took inspiration from us, misunderstanding what our "revolution" really meant, because they hadn't had 250 years to understand colonialism and what it meant and how it behaved... and their revolution involved unspeakable bloodshed and then takeover by a strongman who wanted to conquer Europe, and came damn close to doing it. How many French people died in the revolution? How many in the Napoleonic wars? Yeah, eventually they got their shit together and got a better government in place. It only took them a hundred years after the revolution... which, by the way, killed 16,000 French people. There were not that many nobles in the country. During the century of unrest that followed -- Wikipedia quotes this:

"Every [French] head of state from 1814 to 1873 spent part of his life in exile. Every regime was the target of assassination attempts of a frequency that put Spanish and Russian politics in the shade. Even in peaceful times governments changed every few months. In less peaceful times, political deaths, imprisonments and deportations are literally incalculable."

The Russian Revolution killed even more people. They started with the idealistic notion of a state that would wither away, and ended up with totalitarianism, and widespread hunger and black markets, because their version of Communism had to start with a state strong enough to strip everyone's property. They had a brief period of free press and free speech from the mid-80's when the Wall fell, to the 10's when Putin started turning them back into a colonizing empire. Now they are no better off than they were before the Revolution -- overall better food and health care, maybe, but less freedom to speak out against the government.

Oh, but our revolution would be different, right?

I want y'all who hope for revolution to seriously ask yourself these questions:

In the US, who has the most weaponry (outside of official government functions like military and cops)? How strong is our military? How leftist are our soldiers, in general? How leftist is the country, in general? Who controls the media that tells most of the country what to think?

I will answer those questions for you:

Right wing gun nuts who hate queers, Jews and Muslims and are not real happy with the notion that women and black people are human

Strong enough that if every single right wing gun nut rose up in revolution to kill our elected leaders, the military could put them down

Not very leftist at all

Our "left" is the rest of the world's center or moderate right

Big corporations, and a disproportionate number of evangelical Christian billionnaires who control those corporations

In other words, a violent leftist revolution is NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. Never. Not in our lifetimes, at least. And I'm including three year olds in that "our" there. And if it did, it would probably condemn our country, and most of the world, to unrest for a hundred years, and might result in us ending up with a far-right-wing dictatorship at the end of the churn.

The far left wing of this country -- the communists and extreme socialists who want to see all or most capitalism destroyed -- are a tiny minority of the nation. The progressives, who want stronger socialist protections but are okay with capitalism existing with stronger controls, and who want to see all people being treated as equals, are not a minority but have almost no guns in comparison to the right wing. Guns are actually necessary in rural areas due to the existence of wolves, bears, coyotes who will eat your chickens, etc, so even if we had excellent gun control measures, the majority of the non-government weapons would be held in the rural areas, which are predominantly white, Christian, and have been largely taught that queers, Jews, Muslims, atheists and socialists are evil subhumans. But most of the non-military weapons are held by cops... who exist to protect property rights and are so riddled with racism, sexism, ableism and corruption that good cops often end up dead rather than being able to change anything.

When do you think a minority of leftists who mostly do not have guns are going to be able to mount a revolution against the most powerful military in the world, against cops who are willing to drop bombs on civilians (check out the story of MOVE in Philadelphia, and recall that the cops have gotten worse toward civilians since then), against the people who feel like they're not really safe unless they have twenty-seven guns in their home and they know how to shoot all of them?

Your leftist violent overthrow of the wealthy will never happen, because all the wealthy will do is use the media to redirect a substantial number of you into attacking Jewish doctors and lawyers for being "rich" instead (or for being "Zionists", which is happening right now, because anti-semitic hostile powers like Iran and Russia have infiltrated your leftist spaces and filled them with misinformation), and the people who should share your class consciousness think you should be dead for not being a straight evangelical Christian, or for believing in Communism, or both.

Your only hope is to change the culture. Change the government through non-violent ways like peaceful protest, calls and letters to your representatives, and voting. Change people's beliefs by writing, teaching, running for office and speaking, controlling school boards to make sure the next generation are taught to question authority and not mindlessly accept everything the media tells them. Make things better in little ways, then crow about it so everyone knows you did it, then use that to prove that you could make things better in bigger ways if you were given the power to do so.

You have tried, election after election, to "teach the Democrats a lesson" by withholding your votes, to make them go further left. As a result they went further right. Because if leftists don't vote, why should an elected politician care what they want? Go after the people in the middle who could maybe be pried loose from the right wing, by catering to them. That's how we got Don't Ask Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act and welfare "reforms" that fucked over poor single moms and why we still don't have national marijuana legalization despite the fact that Bill Clinton admitted to smoking it in college. When a strategy has not only failed to work but has made matters much worse, over the course of at least 20 years, maybe 50, why do you keep pushing it like it changes anything?

You argue, votes don't change anything. Has nothing changed in 50 years? Corporations have more power now than when Howard Beale yelled "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore" in the movie Network, in the 70's. Real wages are down. The job I do paid $90 an hour in 2010 and now it pays $70 -- that's not "with inflation", that is actual numbers. AIDS happened and killed untold thousands of gay men, drug users, hemophiliacs and people who needed blood donations, because the left wing didn't come out to support Jimmy Carter, so we got Reagan instead. Reagan didn't cause AIDS, but he did his damned best to make sure that AIDS research got no federal funding. Many things got worse because you didn't come out and vote.

Things have also gotten better. Because people who are nowhere near as far left as you economically, but who believe all humans should have rights, have voted, so now we have a world where on paper everyone is equal and discrimination is illegal, which is nothing at all like a world where everyone is actually equal but a hell of a lot better than a world where people are allowed to legally discriminate. But meanwhile things turned to shit for the working class. Because you guys are the ones who put pressure on the government to protect people's economic rights, and you abdicated because you wanted to teach the politicians a lesson. Well, you sure did. You taught them that nobody who votes cares all that much about economic justice. It's only now that late-stage capitalism and corporate/right-wing control of our economic system has gotten so toxic it affects the middle class, that we're seeing any economic reform at all or any pushback against corporations -- because you gave up. Because you declared, on the basis of no evidence because most of you are 20 and the rest have become so beaten down by life that you're hopelessly cynical, that votes don't matter.

The right wing buckled down and voted. Every election. Dogcatcher, school board, municipal waste authority, whatever. Vote for the person who gets you closer to where you want to go. And as a result, we are on a precipice where, despite how unpopular their extreme ideology is nation-wide, they are on the verge of being able to achieve it -- the rollback of everything we've successfully achieved throughout my lifetime, 55 years of progress, gone. Or, we can have leadership who have been trying to push a progressive agenda, uphill both ways but they're doing what they can.

This is where we are. Because you want moral purity. You want to absolve yourselves of all the bad things American leaders do by not voting for any of them. But since you had the power to vote and you didn't use it, there is no absolution for you. Everything an American leader does that is worse than what his opponent would have done, your hands are dirty if you didn't vote against him. And if you wilfully refuse to understand that voting third party in a presidential election is basically not voting at all, and that all it does is make both of the large national parties that are capable of winning ignore you, and that this behavior is why we are in such a shitty place right now...

Well, maybe you think your conscience is clear, but honestly, you are the guy standing next to the trolley lever operator, saying, "Well, I didn't do anything to stop him from making sure 1 guy died instead of 5, because making 1 guy die is as bad as making 5 guys die, so my hands are clean!" And then the next trolley operator comes along and wilfully kills the 5 people on the train tracks and you didn't stop him either, because the last guy killed 1, and you refused to accept that your choices were 1 or 5. And because you gave away all your actual power, and fantasized about power you don't have and never will, you imagined that someday, in a perfect world, you and your friends will fix the trolley system so it never hits anyone. But you aren't even engineers, you won't pick up tools, you don't join public transportation planning committees, and you won't even stop the guy who keeps turning the lever to kill 5 people because the 1 on the other track gives him money, because the other guy killed 1 to save 5 and that makes him just as bad in your eyes.

[jewish-vents]

i’m so fucking tired of having to unfollow people because the stuff they’re posting is just so blatantly antisemitic and i know that most of them think it isn’t but that doesn’t make it ok that they’re reblogging “i can’t believe the same israelis that (something bad that one israeli citizen did 10+ years ago) are mad at palestine for daring to defend themselves. death to israel :33” or posts about how they “can’t believe this celebrity is a dirty zionist *sigh* time to boycott everyone who ever spoke to them” and then u find out why they’re being called that and they made a post saying “hey people being killed is bad, this obviously includes palestinians but also jews” and honestly like some of my jewish mutuals have a similar problem in the other direction (defending what the idf is doing right now because hamas attacked and stuff) but i’ve had to unfollow maybe one or two people for being too extreme in that direction i swear to god every other day i click “view post” under the filtered tags and it’s someone i’ve followed for months posting about how suicide is good when u scream a political slogan first or violent attacks are just “defending urself” or how those media controlling baby eating (((zionists))) want u to think there’s an actual antisemitism problem going on or whatever and idk maybe some of them would listen if someone explained to them how it was antisemitic but i know most of them would just call u a zionazi and tell their followers to harass u

anyways sorry for that complete lack of punctuation or anything i just had to rant bcz a good leftist blog i followed for a while reblogged something explicitly pro-hamas and yeah i am 2 seconds away from actually building that space lazer and blowing up the earth atp

Damn, that must have felt good to get off your chest. I get that

[creature-wizard]

Conspiracy thinking on the left

While many of us associate conspiracy thinking with right-wing types, the fact is that no one is immune to conspiracy thinking, and people on the left indulge in it quite often.

I've spoken about how QAnon types believe that everything they see celebrities and politicians do is all a staged drama, which they call "the show." Supposedly, all of the "real" stuff is playing out "behind the scenes."

Left-leaning people are actually prone to a very similar belief - anytime a public figure says or does something incredibly controversial or ostensibly disastrous, you'll find a number of people claiming that it must have been a carefully-calculated move to gain more publicity. This isn't to say that publicity stunts don't exist, but the kind of people I'm talking about basically believe it's impossible that a public figure is genuinely just a dipshit asshole sometimes. They make the same fundamental error as right wingers by assuming that these people are playing 5D chess. You know how right wingers tend to read everything that doesn't go exactly their way as the machinations of an evil conspiracy? Leftists often do basically the exact same thing, interpreting everything that inconveniences or annoys them is part of a deliberate ploy to keep them oppressed. There are, of course, many laws and systems designed to do exactly that. But sometimes, laws and systems are just designed badly, and people suffer as a result.

Many left-leaning people buy into extremely similar conspiracy theories about Christianity as both Evangelical and New Age conspiracy theorists. Like many Evangelicals, they often believe that the Catholic Church is literally nothing whatsoever more than a tool to deceive and control the masses. (Like yes, the Catholic Church has always been a political force, but that doesn't mean they aren't also generally sincere about their spiritual beliefs.) Like many New Agers, they often believe that Christianity was invented by the Catholic Church and took literally everything from older pagan traditions, in addition to being nothing whatsoever more than a tool to deceive and control the masses. Many view all religions, no exceptions, as nothing more than means of controlling and exploiting people. This hypercynical view of religion makes it easier to believe in things like conspiracy theories about Jews controlling media and finances. Hell, some leftists will basically decide that any work of media they don't personally like must have been deliberately made as fascist propaganda, as opposed to just being created by someone with shit political views, or someone who just didn't think things through - and never will these particular leftists ever stop to consider that maybe they just misread the media. This is no different than those right wing assholes claiming every other movie is full of "Illuminati symbols." Leftists also sometimes fall for anti-pharma conspiracy theories, under the reasoning that because drugs are sold for excruciatingly high prices under capitalism, drugs must have been invented for solely capitalist purposes. They're convinced that after the revolution, the causes of our illnesses will no longer exist and we won't need medication anymore. (Yeah, sorry, serious illnesses have always existed.) So yeah, you are not immune to conspiracy thinking. Absolutely no one is.

[xclowniex]

Warning: very long rant because this white supremacist I accidentally stumbled upon clearly highlights the marriage of the right and left when it comes to Jews.

So I was just googling and doing some research when i came across this:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378469154_Jewmerica

The name really sets the tone except it's way worse than you'd expect.

The description: This unprecedented lineup of Jewish figures at the top of the most important global institutions and at the center of world’s crises can neither be a coincidence nor a positive feature of the existing global leadership. Judging by the decay of the global order into chaos and conflict, as well as by the total destruction of the rule of law throughout the West and especially in the US, it is clear that this configuration of individuals is bent on destruction.

I'm sending this to you because the person who wrote this has written a shit ton of stuff and I feel like despite his obvious white supremacist behavior, he reminds me perfectly of leftists right now. He has a few stuff written about "the genocide in Palestine" which is so interesting because when the alt right and the left are saying the exact same shit about Jews, um i don't think that's good lol. Also if you cut out the insane shit or reword it with zionist, you could get the left agreeing and supporting with this man like they do with jackson hinkle and co. That's the craziest part of all of this. Nothing new but i just cannot accept this reality.

Our "crimes" according to this white Christian man: Jews have placed themselves at the top in key positions of government, the media, and science by the power of the purse in order to push the Western world into war on two fronts, in Ukraine and Palestine, and bring Christendom to nuclear war to take revenge for the Holocaust, having already killed millions of people around the world with vaccines manufactured by companies led by Jews.

He then says: "the false war in Ukraine, and the all too real genocide in Gaza and the possible future crises of artificial intelligence (AI) and alien annihilation (ETs and UFOs)."

White supremacists succesfully milking what's happening in Palestine and leftists falling for it is fucking wild. Take the alien shit out and instead of "false war" just say some shit like Ukraine only matters because theyre white and leftists would eat this shit up lmao.

He says Epstein was a Mossad agent lmaoo which leftists would also fall for and also states that "Israel controls American politicians" which leftists would once again agree with.

He says that Jews occupy the most powerful positions in the administration and the military-industrial complex and lists names which is so fucking scary. Again leftists would eat this up, just say zionists and then yeah they're repeating this everywhere. They hate the military and those who served when it's not mentally ill antisemitic white men setting themselves on fire "for Palestine".

He proceeds to list "the jews surrounding biden" which is terrifying and then says a lot of stuff about us forcing vaccines on the american people and how we are the ones leading the creation of vaccines to kill everyone cause we're evil. He has a part about "genocide in palestine" which the left would support and back even though he clearly just hates jews lol. He hates ukraine because jewish president.

HE SAYS SOME SHIT ABOUT ALIENS AGAIN LMAOOOO because that is our fault and doing.

He quotes this insane website a few times: https://www.islam-radio.net/bush/jewishpower.htm

Some of the other stuff he has written:

Depopulation by Vaccination in the European Union: The Effects of the Plandemic and the False War in Ukraine on Births, Deaths and Migration: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382002476_Depopulation_by_Vaccination_in_the_European_Union_The_Effects_of_the_Plandemic_and_the_False_War_in_Ukraine_on_Births_Deaths_and_Migration

He has so many stuff written about "Depopulation by vaccination" and the "plandemic".

BATSHIT INSANE: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376610245_War_of_the_Circumcised_The_Destruction_of_Palestine_and_its_Geopolitical_Objectives

The first image with the blood is the same imagery leftists are siding and agreeing with because evil zionists lmao.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377772944_Apocalypse_Now_The_Final_Solution_to_the_Population_Problem

"Final solution" okay. A direct quote from him: by subjecting Muslims to genocide while at the same time giving Jews legal, political and diplomatic immunity to commit genocide against Muslims. Right after he says fake war in ukraine AGAIN. hmm

Hold on it gets worse:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376169709_Letter_to_President_Biden

Some quotes: (1) First of all, the Israelis are a warmongering, land stealing, barbaric and deceptive lot that could not live in peace even in heaven alongside God and his angels, whom they would also abuse, dispossess and label a terrorist. Secondly, Palestine is not their native land.

(2) The only logical explanation for such perversion of the facts is that the House Members have all been bought wholesale by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the very same Jewish lobby that every incumbent or aspiring president of the United States grovels to before every election in a display of servitude and submissiveness that has discredited the highest office of your nation to the rest of the world as that of a mere puppet of Israel and thus the very opposite of the “leader of the free world”. As for you, well, you have sold yourself to the highest bidder your entire life and can only be classified as a political prostitute.

(3) Of these two extremist factions the Jewish Zionists are far more dangerous, violent and powerful and are solely responsible for killing the best chance for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, namely the implementation of the Oslo Accords, by assassinating Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. No Palestinian faction has ever committed such crimes against peace or the prospect of peace since the Palestinians have employed violence only in response to Israeli violence and provocations.

(4) It also gives your country the opportunity to peacefully dismantle the Jewish stranglehold on America’s political, cultural, scientific and financial institutions, which has become more extreme than in Europe in the 1930s and 40s. The American government can accomplish this by declaring AIPAC a foreign agent, shipping most American Jews to Israel, and by setting proportional limits to how many Jews can occupy positions of power in politics, academia, courts, media, and other institutions that are crucial to safeguarding liberty, much like America’s affirmative action for minorities and women. The current attack on freedom of speech and conscience in the US by the Jewish lobby is intolerable and a disgrace. The American people are for all intents and purposes muzzled and leashed pets of Jewish interests and unless this is corrected it will inevitably result in another Holocaust. The genocide in Gaza gives America the opportunity not to repeat Europe’s experience (EVERYTHING HE SAID IS BAD BUT HELLO??????). If I were to give America’s intellectuals the benefit of the doubt I would give them credit for creating this opportunity, but the evidence seems to indicate that the stupidity and corruption of America’s political class is responsible along with the arrogance, greed and overreach of America’s Jews. If your government does not remove America’s neck from the Jewish stranglehold you will go down in history as Genocide Joe and your country will have to be renamed Jewmerica.

Lastly: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375951660_Letter_to_EU_leaders_on_the_aftermath_of_the_destruction_of_Gaza

One last quote: And Europe, above all, owes the Palestinian people an apology for shoving its Jews down their throats. Hmm I wonder what this guy thinks about the Holocaust..........

You honestly did such a great job at dissecting everything. He 100% reminds me of lefists currently. The 5th link you sent literally looks like it came straight out of extreme leftists mouth. A lot of his stuff is just straight word salad. Like it was tough to read. 100000 points of psychic damage straight to the noggin.

You are honestly brave anon o7. That was all... just a lot to read. If anyone wants to instantly turn their brain to mush, go ahead and read all the links.

I ended up on a deep dive on him and holy fucking shit. If you look up conspiracy theorist in a dictonary, it is just him. If anyone wants to fry their brain, here is his website: https://kevingalalae.com/

Like genuine cult vibes

Because i honestly have no further notes, please find my commentry focusing more on funny stuff below, the numbers correlate to the order of links you included, 1 being the first link, 2 being a second link, 3 being the third link and so on and so forth.

1

Jeffery Epstein mossad agent confirmed but still allegedly to this guy

56 jews in the biden administrator = proof that jews control the US

oh no jews control vaccines!!!!! oh the children!!!

Biden's children all married jews! Darn those sexy jews

Ukraine war is just Zelensky using his evil jew powers to cause a nuclear war between the US/EU and Russia

jews are faking aliens

2

3

Pandemic faked to descrease birth rates confirmed

4

Yummy blood libel

nooo guys don't you get it? Israel is trying to turn the world against jews!!!!!

Guys please listen, we need to sterilize jews and palestinians as they keep trying out birth each other to get a one state solution which suits them. We need to bring back the chineese 2 children rule for israel and palestine.

Direct quote idek how to make fun of this one

"Cause Armageddon to fulfill Biblical prophecy. A war of the circumcised in the Middle East, with Evangelical American (the only circumcised Christians) and Jewish Zionist soldiers on one side and Sunni and Shia Muslims on the other, all of whom are circumcised, will result in Armageddon in Israel and once this Biblical prophecy is fulfilled the doomsday adherents of the world’s monotheistic religions will be willing and eager to accept the creation of an entirely new system, as that is what is foretold by their spiritual texts."

5

i have nothing funny to say, this just seems like

something i have seen leftists say and this man is

a white supremist

6

Biden please suck my dick, jews are barbaric and

did oct 7th

7

nothing funny to say

[jewishbarbies]

idk why, but it seems that Jewish actors aren’t “allowed” to play Jewish roles. Which is crazy because if Jewish people really controlled the entertainment industry like everyone thinks y’all do, then y’all would have a shit ton of movies and shows including yourselves, right? But yeah, I’ve noticed that Jewish people are often made to play non Jewish roles while non Jewish people are given the Jewish roles. Bradley cooper, Oscar Isaac, Rachel Broshanan, Elizabeth Olsen, Michael Fassbender, etc. Obviously I may be exaggerating, but it’s a little noticeable.

no, it’s not an exaggeration. we’re not allowed to play ourselves. hollywood execs ‘know’ that audiences don’t want to see visibly jewish people in their media. so it’s okay if a character is jewish as long as they don’t look “too jewish” or actively practice judaism on screen. if they do, it’s the butt of a joke and/or some kind of antisemitic trope. more goyiche “we want jewish things but we don’t want jews” bullshit.