anarchiddy

How dare we ignore the trauma of those committing violent oppression?!

there is a very specific legal reason for that

A misguided or intentionally malicious reason, for what the effect of that law is. Codifying into law the conflation of Judaism/ethnic Jewish identity with zionism is itself antisemitic. Calling for the end of Zionism isn't the same as calling for the end of Jews or Judaism. What is the use of being allowed to criticize Zionism the ideology when you're not also allowed to advocate for its end?

"Zionism is a settler-colonial ideology." <- Ok "Zionism is a settler-colonial ideology, and Israel as a Zionist project should be dissolved in favor of a single-state that provides equal rights for Palestinians" <- Not ok, somehow?

The law as written only allows abstract and dissociated critique of Zionism, but forbids any criticism that comes too close to threatening Israel's existence as a ethno-nationalist state. That's a huge problem.

Their server isn't located within Germany, from what I'm reading.

From what I understand, the situation they are worried about is a german authority gaining access to their personal devices or somehow de-anonymizing their accounts and associating them with their actual identity while living in/traveling through germany, and seeing the type of content they are posting/allowing to be posted on a community they moderate.

The actual risk of exposure to them is incredibly small.

On this account, sure.

Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular

This part floored me. As if it wasnt Israel that was currently denying equal rights to Palestinians and not the other way around... this is just the zionist version of 'all lives matter' bullshit.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws

Why should it be necessary to specify Israelis as deserving of equal rights in historic Palestine when it is Israel who denies equal rights to Palestinians and not the other way around?

Go ahead and ban me now if that kind of acknowledgment can get you in legal trouble - I have no interest in participating in a community that is comfortable suppressing criticisms against an ethno-religious apartheid state committing genocide. Fuck Israel and fuck the German collaborators.

Free Palestine.

Jesus, this writer is dense.

Honestly, I never personally thought of this show as an explicitly Marxist critique of capitalism, but the way this article hyper-focuses on profit being an absent detail of the show makes me think they just don't know what Marxism is. I don't think there could be a clearer allegory of alienation of labor than the severance procedure.

I guess if that's what you think Marxism is, fine. If Lumon having near total control over the lives of its workers isn't a critique of class relations under capitalism, I don't know what would be.

I feel like your last paragraph ignores my last paragraph.

Your last paragraph was kind of meaningless

One of the reasons Israel is so fucking hated by all ME smaller groups is because it casually pretends to maybe this time possibly protect them, and usually does nothing of the sort, causing more ruin.

.... I mean kinda? Israel has been a belligerent anti-arab neighbor since 1948 and has caused nothing but ruin. There's a hell of a lot more reason for their distrust of Israel than their choices of proxy militant groups.

The west condemned Alawites for not liking to be massacred

Hmmm, are you sure about that? I feel like there was a notable party using that event as justification for crossing over the Syrian boarder but maybe that was a fever dream

The louder the west screams about him being a Jihadist, the more I trust him to do the right thing in Syria

I agree, which is why I find it significant that he split ties from al-Qaeda despite the significant internal pressures not to.

I guess we'd have to wait longer than a month to see if he makes good on seeking justice for acts of brutality against Alawites, but I don't think you can say al-Sharaa isn't a massive step in the right direction and deserving of positive diplomatic response to his reforms.

Edit: as long as we're condemning associations with al-Qeada, here's an interesting related report

You get partial credit for vocabulary but an F for misrepresentation