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The biggest fucking joke of a crackkker circlejerk just posted their greatest hit.

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[–] TeddyKila@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

What is it?

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

What do you want to ask me?

[–] jack@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not watching any Israeli speak for 17 minutes. Did CPUSA actually officially condemn Hamas?

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Inquiring minds want to know!

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Will watch it in a bit

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah Im in the same boat.

[–] smokeppb@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Irrelevant and unserious people says what? lenin-laugh

[–] solongbeengood@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Way worse than I would have expected. Starting off with the whole “needs context” citations-needed , hamas bad, poor hostages. There’s literally only one “country” that shouldn’t be invited. May as well invite national socialists since they have socialism in their name.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

So I'd say this would cause a split but frankly everyone worth listening to has disavowed these libs years ago.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The guy in the video is Dr Ofer Cassif, who is explicitly antizionist. Search Ofer Cassif on youtube, you will see that he has spoken against Israel on Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, Majority Report and many other news networks. He was born in Israel and has devoted his life to ending the Zionist project. He helped South Africa take Israel to the ICJ.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/11/who-is-israeli-mp-ofer-cassif-why-is-he-backing-south-africa-at-the-icj

Editing my post to include that there have been many posts in support of Ofer Cassif on hexbear in the past. Even the beloved SeventyTwoTrillion wrote a news post about Ofer Cassif.

https://hexbear.net/search?q=ofer%20cassif&sort=TopAll

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ty for the background, how does this change his words in the attached tweet?

[–] dead@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

People seem to say "critical support" as a joke a whole lot seem to never actually use critical support. I don't agree with everything he says. You can say that you don't agree with some things that he says and still appreciate that he has taken serious actions against Israel.

I don't agree with Norm Finkelstein about his anti-transgender beliefs but we still recognize that him as a prominent antizionist figure.

I watched the video and I see that Ofer Cassif says "We condemned totally condemned the massacre which took place" and he keeps using the word "We". It seems to me that he is using a metaphoric "We", (I don't think metaphoric is the right word). He's using "We" to say that the general public said that they condemned Hamas. He doesn't say "I condemn Hamas", he said "we condemned" as he is setting up a comparison. He is setting up a comparison. In his next breath, he says that what the Israeli government is doing to Gaza is far worse. He calls the Israeli government fascist. Then he says "I place the blame on the Israeli government". Why does he say "we condemned (oct 7)" but then he said "I place the blame on the Israeli government"? Because in the former instance he was expressing the opinion of the broader public and in the latter, he is saying his own beliefs.

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

washedddddddddd

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I just do the same thing and not vote

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, everyone.

I'm really proud of our party and the progress we've made since John Bachtell was ousted.

I can answer any questions you may have, depending on whether it's not covered by OpSec.

Cheers!

AMA

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you agree with the speaker that the Al Aqsa Flood was an unjustified act?

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I don't agree, no.