I don't care what you have or have not a problem with. You have thus far done apologia for Zionism, misinformation about the Palestinian struggle, and posted unsolicited gore pictures without a source or a content warning all in THIS thread and you call me an asshole? Cool.
I'm not a Zionist, but I'm also not a fucking moron
Actually you're both.
See a therapist.
Very cool ableism. I disagree with you and think you are a liberal centrist both sides-ing genocide therefore I must have some mental disorder. Fuck ooooofffffffffffffff!
You are also flattening this conflict by claiming that Hamas are the only ones fighting back. This is not "Hamas" this is a popular front of several militant liberation organizations fighting for the existence of their people against a genocidal settler colonial project and you're painting them all as terrorists under a blanket label that you yourself demonstrably do not understand. You are also being manipulated by imperialist media but you have to be letting yourself believe this shit at this point because it is so incredibly blatant.
By the way those people that the Palestinian fighters are defending include Palestinian Jews that Israel is bombing all the same.
I think what they are expressing is a sense of alienation, being between two socioeconomic strata and feeling like they don't fit in with either and that maybe they feel they betrayed the former.
For what it's worth I'm in retail and I have been most of my life, I don't have much ambition to climb the economic ladder because it basically demands we sell our souls, that said I don't begrudge anyone with a better paying and less stressful job. Also we absolutely need working class solidarity between tech workers and "blue collar" or "low skill" jobs. These are all preconceptions that are instilled in us to create divisions among working people.
Basically, it sounds to me like class consciousness and maybe joining a communist organization or looking into forming a union if there are points to agitate on among your coworkers might help you find what you are looking for.
Imposter syndrome is definitely a real thing though.
You're not pretentious for telling people what your job is, you'd only be pretentious if you held to some notion that it is any more important work than that of the person serving you food or selling your groceries.
Reminder that Hamas rose to power with the backing of Israel as a counterweight to popular secular left wing parties in Palestine. The Hamas that exists now is far from what it was then and is not the anti-Semitic boogieman they created, but rather a larger popular front that has liberalized in some ways to the point that they are conducting the current defense against the Zionist entity as a united front with the left.
In one case their doctors even performed surgery on a wounded Israeli, in other instances they are shown protecting them from gunfire from Israeli soldiers, in others they are seen taking care of children, and in many posing for pictures with the elderly, one specific picture shows and elderly lady with a Palestinian fighters gun in her lap while she smiles and they both wave piece signs.
This fight is not as complicated as western media is trying to make it out to be.
more and more I feel like people who are both transphobic, and also project that on China are really telling on themselves about what they would do if they were in power. It always feels like "you're lucky our FREEDOM LOVING government lets DEG*NERATES like you exist!" It's almost more terrifying than the typical right wing blue hair enby boogieman memes.
Doing an actual communist revolution because we are just that committed to the bit.
Some stubborn liberal that's mad we had to [REDACTED] a few billionaires and war criminals as is necessary in revolutions comes in to the free gender affirmation clinic having just finished brunch at the local free kitchen and bursting into the reception area shouting "BUT AT WHAT COST?!" Then claiming the clinic isn't actually real, and storming out mutter about paid Russian actors and Trump, who had since been posthumously convicted by the previous liberal government after having died choking on a McRib two years prior.
That happened when I was in the midst of a completely shattered understanding of geopolitics and was piecing things back together with the help of Lenin and co. but I distinctly remember thinking back then "this seems really important but I am distrustful of the narrative that Russia is this cartoon villain invading and annexing people at gunpoint without firing a shot" simply because I had seen how that works in practice the many times the US has ultimately tried to do the same thing (or at least that was always the stated intent with narratives around "Nation Building").
Now obviously Russia is not an altruistic actor here and the Russian government is extremely socially reactionary and corrupt, but that doesn't matter when you're in eastern Ukraine seeking self determination and under siege by a bunch of fascist paramilitaries with the tacit approval of their US backed government that rose to power in a CIA coup.
This is funny because it seems to be a more appropriate image to invoke for Hexbear users as we are the ones more notorious for "dogpiling" or "brigading" which is ironically a function of the fact that we disabled downvotes because of reactionaries using them to astroturf posts and harass trans people without actually speaking out and outing themselves.
So for years the site culture is one of disagreement yielding a flood of dissent instead of just a "silent" downvote.
TL;DR if you want to force your community to up their posting game, disable downvotes.
I don't care what you have or have not a problem with. You have thus far done apologia for Zionism, misinformation about the Palestinian struggle, and posted unsolicited gore pictures without a source or a content warning all in THIS thread and you call me an asshole? Cool.
Also here's your cherished innocent settlers and what they have been doing for 70 years that is the cause of all this