So tired of "protests are useless" posting. There are good ways to make a critique of a movements but this is not it.

The past decade around the globe protest movements exploded into radical restructuring of various countries' way of governing. This particular protest doesn't seem like it will evolve into that, but no one ever predicted the outcome of past eruptions.

A protest isn't a reliable or advisable way to create a revolution, but they are still great organizing opportunities and solidarity building events.

Please stop with the nihilism

Haha didn't even know they did that, guess I'm keeping in spirit of the com

Sounds like ultras to me, but I don't have access to the article or know about this specific issue.

The only org in my area that has been leading the organizing for Palestine is the PSL. One of the integral parts of a protest is to network with like minded people, the protest itself isn't going to bring about the revolution.

There is a danger to any movement that an organization might use it for gain like what happened with BLM, but if the PSL really were after cash, the recruiting process would not be anything more than a form and your credit card.

So rather than take a side based on previously accurate death counts from this ministry in past Israeli military action, you choose to sit on the sidelines?

Useful idiots like you are how atrocities like this continue on.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

You were physically at the festival I assume, to be able to say with such certainty what happened? There are also reports of police firing from the crowd and video of a fully combat ready tank on site before any conflict began. Couple this with the fact that all citizens 18+ in Israel are able to be conscripted and it further muddies waters on who is "just an innocent civilian" at an 18+ festival when combat is planned to occur.

I'm not reveling I'm death, but you're flattening a very deep issue. There's already reporting that the tattoo artist that was supposedly stripped and paraded about after being killed was instead injured and currently in the care of Palestinians' in Gaza where Israel has been indiscriminately bombing, saying they do not care if they kill Israelis.

You're acting as though Palestinians have a choice here. They do not have state of the art weaponry. I'm sure if the US or other "civilized countries" were to offer them more precise weapons to more surgically decapitate the Israeli apartheid state they'd graciously accept them. Are you writing your Congress person to authorize such a transfer?

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays of nonviolence might relieve the conflict. But if the entire regime, even your nonviolent thoughts, is governed by a thousand-year old oppression, your passiveness serves no other purpose but to put you on the side of the oppressors.

They could go to any bank and leverage that asset for a loan for more than everyone who posts on this platform will make in their lifetimes no problem. That is a nonsense talking point

It's funny how for those who Hexbear is to their left, always use the critique of "they're crazy" then compare us to right wingers without fail.

Absolutely no actual critique and the typical liberal understanding of politics that "there are only two teams, and if you're not on mine then you're on theirs"

Please read a book

You live in the US, how are you not being bribed to think the way you do?

You're such a redditor

It's also kinda hard to have 99% of people dislike China if 18% of the global population lives there and is very satisfied with their government, not even counting anyone in Russia, other parts of Asia and the Pacific, Central and South America, or Africa.

You're really showing whose opinions you actually care about. A bunch of propagandized to the brim, comfortable Americans, Canadians, and Europeans

Time for you to go make friends with the fascists and shitlibs who share your opinions I guess

What an awful analogy that misses any sort of context or nuance about the situation.

That's the problem with liberals like you, that you think things can be understood by imagining it as something superficially similar.

Do you understand what historical materialism is?