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The screenshots of your own words seem to suggest:
Unless the link you gave is actually proof of the opposite.
The screen shot is me saying the exact opposite, im explaining how I dont support the IDF but all the tankies are lying and pretending im saying the opposite, and theyre lying about not seeing the threat. Highlight the part of your screenshot where I defend the IDF or Isreal… you cant because its not in there.
All you need to do is read the comments in the link I posted to see a screenshot of the threats, but you seem to intentionally avoid reading them…
EDIT: heres a screenshot for ya:
just from context, I can gather that this is discussing Hila Kline of the H3 podcast, and I think it’s kind of wild that anyone would still be trying to claim that her attitude about her illegal activities while serving in the IDF is anything other than pride, or at a minimum defense. “She’s literally never said those words” isn’t really a defense when plenty of other (far braver) ex-IDF soldiers have come forward to comment on their own regret of participating in war crimes and genocide, even if they had no knowledge of their illegality at the time. Hila herself acknowledges this as a genocide (at least, she acknowledges the administration as genocidal), so I’m not sure why else she wouldn’t address that accusation if not because she feels proud of her service.
The comment you’re highlighting isn’t even close to supporting calls to the death of all americans, and in fact I think the sentiment it’s expressing is the bare-minimum acknowledgement americans should have for their country’s origin. Maybe you just find it uncomfortable being confronted by reality, but it’s a factual statement to say the US is a settler-colonial state, and we are all settler-colonists. I don’t see any problem with acknowledging that as a verifiable statement.
I feel like someone on an anarchist instance should be able to at least acknowledge the past and current crimes of their imperialist nation state of origin without feeling personally threatened about it.
The only person here denying genocide is you! I denounce isreals and americas genocides. I dont like that I was born in a colonial state, but you are looking at comments saying I should be killed because I was born in a certian geograpahy and saying it makes you want to donate…
To you commies it doesnt matter what we say, only where we were born. You attack hila becase she was born in isreal. It doesnt matter that she denounces the IDF genocide, you guys just lie that she liked killing babies and heinous other things.
I have yet to see any comment that says or implies that you should be killed, but it does make me want to donate to see .ml mods acknowledge the settler colonial status of americans on colonized land.
I’d invite you to corroborate that claim again, but since others already have and the comment you’re sharing isn’t painting you as the victim you’re saying it is, I think I’d rather just write you off as a lost liberal who has wandered into a group of anarchists by accident.
I think you share the same victim complex Hila and Ethan have.
Look at the screenshot I posted! You will spend all day and night arguing but cant look at the first line of the screenshot I posted… how is anyone supposed to believe youre acting in good faith?
EDIT: heres tha screenshot for ya:
Lmao, not sure why you highlighted the comment at the bottom and clipped out the messages that directly preceded that comment. I don’t even know if they’re saying that to you, let alone what it was that made them say it.
I guess i’ll just have to take your word for it that they were talking to you, and it was in response to you being american? Sounds like you had just defended Zionism from context, but I literally don’t see it. Honestly, could you just post the link to the post? I have no idea why so much of your story isn’t being comported by the screenshots you’re sharing but it’s hard to believe you when you’re being so opaque.
If you were running defense for the IDF or Israeli war crimes I don’t know what to tell you.
The reason I highlighted It is because its him explaining that Im a settler because I live on settled land… and hes calling for my death because I live on settled land. Its him explaing that he is calling for the death of all americans because we live on settled land… I dont have screenshots of the things that were deleted but you cna clearly see the mods dont care about commies calling for the death of all americans because only my comments were deleted. The first comment on that screenshot was me asking him why he was slandering me for calling me a “settler nazi” when I denounce the palestinian and american genocides…
I keep saying I denounce isreali war crimes and that theyre clearly engaging in genocide! I keep saying theyre lying and the only “proof” anyone posted was just a hexbear accusing me and me replying that Im NOT defending the IDF. what more do you want? and why do you not care about him calling for my death or the deaths of all americans?
Posting a link would prove they’re not the victim and infact are the agitator, so they won’t.
You jumped in their DMs to fight them? You defended Zionism? You took offense to being a member of colonialism and not doing anything about that?
Man you really are not the victim, you had it coming.
Im not defending zionism! They deleted my comment and lied about what I said! I repeatedly explain that but you refuse to acknowledge that, and even repeat the claims!
I keep posting the screenshots where he calls for my death, but you are pretending like that is impossible to find.
And yeah, after I was banned from the sub I responded to the guy In DM because I couldnt in the thread, and as soon as he indicated that they didnt want me messaging them, I stopped; but for some reason you think that is a bad thing…
Its wild that you would say DMing is bad, but calling for my death only because Im american doesnt even matter to you…
so your argument is, and I want to ge this clear as an outside observer is, when screenshots of what you said are brought up “I did not say that its all the evil Commies who are lieing” dispite the plain text showing that what you are saying is the one that does not proport with reality?
You showed up out of the blue to compleetly misrepresent me and have no screenshots of me defending isreal or the IDF because I never have. all you have is a screenshot from some hexbear slandering me but are unable to find the clear death threats against me. All youre doing is proving my point that tankis will show up and lie.
Why are you on an anarchist instance if you don’t like owing to your own self and your mistakes? Why are you on an anarchist instance if you support states and their actions? Why are you on an anarchist instance when you clearly don’t like anarchism?
You’ve been asked for evidence. Your evidence before didn’t prove your case well and made you look worse. You then go “I’m not the one who denies genocide, you are!”
I am only summerizing what I got from the thread that I read. I did not produce evidence, I merely looked at what was posted. From what was posted incluiding your link it seems much more likely that you posted something pro IDF. Now if I am wrong, I am more than happy to admit that, as I have not gone through the mod log to look, however I wanted to make sure I understood your last argument correctly.