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I know, sorry… Can’t help but be honest about these things.

It's fine... it's not your responsibility to come up with answers to these things.

But we're going to have to find ways if we don't want our children and grandchildren growing up in bombed-out open-air prisons as well.

Okay... that's a pretty bleak picture.

Sooo... how do we beat AI surveillance?

Which are two leftist ideas.

Neither of these...

realistic universal basic income and a nationlized medical system.

...are leftist ideas at all. A government having to shoulder the burden of dealing with the consequences of capitalism isn't leftist (UBI). Neither is a state doing the bare minimum of what states have always been supposed to do (state-run healthcare).

But this...

Our current system trys to stem the amount of abusers

...ie, focusing on the miniscule amount of "abuse" done by the people without power and privilege in a society as opposed to the gargantuan amount of damage caused by those with power and privilege - now that is textbook punch-down-kiss-up right-wing ideology speaking.

So far, the only ideological understanding you have expressed here (so far) is a right-wing one.

I don't care what Phony Stark is "considering" - I only care whether he fucks off or not.

or left-center and still support free markets and capitalism.

Absolutely not. There is no such thing as "leftist capitalism."

What is left and right is really simple - you are either for dismantling systems of power and privilege (left) or you are protecting systems of power and privilege (right). The (so-called) "center" is merely politics that performs the latter while pretending to sympathize with the former.

Believe it or not, it’s possible for a person to hold right and left ideals simultaneously.

No, it isn't - you can't be "half-pregnant." If your politics protects power and privilege it's perfectly clear what politics you ascribe to... it doesn't matter what you may personally feel about this or that irrelevant little disagreement you may have with your fellow travellers regarding the details. A person that believes abortion should only be allowed "in cases of rape" is no less right-wing (ie, misogynist and patriarchal in this case) than a person that wants it abolished altogether.

There is one thing here that is unrealistic... the look of surprise on Israeli guy's face. They know exactly what it is they are doing.

Human Rights Watch has determined based on verified video and witness accounts that Israeli forces used white phosphorus in military operations

Sooo... just like Israel has always done?

Oh look... a white supremacist is doing white supremacism while hiding behind white supremacism's older sibling - antisemitism.

openly of removing the nation of Israel off the face of the earth, and you could therefore relatively easily label their actions as genocidal

"Israel" is a national entity ruled over by a state - calling for the destruction of a classical liberal nation state (never mind a colonialist-settler project masquerading as one) isn't genocide in any shape or form. You might as well argue that people calling for the abolition of the Apartheid-state were "calling for genocide."

Legally, genocide is not a particularly fruitful term

Not everything is about legality - we all know who writes the laws and for whose benefit they are written.

Ummmm... where do people get the idea that the Dems aren't right-wing?

If you are pro-capitalist, you're right-wing - no ifs, ands, or buts.

Essentially, (if my high school history had it correct) it's an extreme form of violence designed to force a targeted people to leave the land they are living on. People used to use this term a lot more in older days (back in the 80s), but now we just use the term genocide since pogroms usually are an aspect of genocide - the Armenian Genocide, for instance, had a lot of pogroms going on. They are also a key aspect of settler-colonialism - which is how Palestinians ended up being one of the largest refugee populations in the world.

...and again, and again, and again...

Laughs in 1.6...

And your insult of me is transphobic and ableist, you bigot.

Not proud of being a white supremacist, eh? Now why do you imagine that would be?

In other words, these laws are not “fighting pedophilia”. They are enabling child abuse.

So no different than all these laws that (supposedly) "stop sex trafficking" which only exist to clamp down on sex work while... drumroll... making absolutely no dent in actual sex trafficking?

Yeah... that tracks.

So you admit this meme is simply straight up misinformation?

That's strangely honest for a white supremacist.

Depends on which arbitrary definition of "white" you are using. I see a lot of white supremacists pretending that Israel can't be white supremacist because either Jewish people "aren't white" and/or Arab people suddenly "are white" - whatever their pretzel-logic demands in the moment, I guess.

Considering that western media is hysterically blaming Palestinians for Israeli atrocities now, I'd say it's rather Israel's (alleged) "plight" that's getting the limelight - not Gaza.

How convenient... every time Israel indiscriminately murders Palestinians, it's just going to be blamed on Palestinians?

Riiiight... US intel "confirms."

Have they found Saddam's "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" yet?