I got a dbzer0 admin that angry last week. Went scrolling through My comment history looking for dirt, and the best they could find is that I think anarchists should vote.

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Edge of Tomorrow

I need Peter Griffin to explain this one

Ohhhh, right, thanks.

Wait, but persona non gratis can’t possibly mean a person who isn’t free as in beer, can it? You can’t have Me for free, I’ll only sell My sex for money.

What’s gratis?

Count Me in the confused group, I thought FOSS was free as in speech software

What do you mean? Lots of anarchists dislike state sponsored executions, no matter who’s getting executed by the state.

Now if we’re talking about an assassin killing Hitler during WW2, then I’m on the assassin’s side.

The Nazis got some of their best inspiration from America’s treatment of black people. I don’t exactly think America is a shining beacon of responsibility, especially in the 1940s. I don’t think America should have a death penalty, because I don’t trust the American government to wield that power responsibly. If political enemies like Hitler can be executed, then political enemies like Edward Snowden are at risk too.

As an anarchist, I want to limit the power of the state because I don’t trust anyone with that much power. And I especially don’t trust the likes of Harry Truman and Richard Nixon.

Yeah, I had a very negative experience with Flatworm recently. They made a grudge post calling for a vote to defederate My instance, which, fair enough, democracy is cool. But then they accused Me of being an alt of a bunch of other people with no evidence, and “defended” Me with an insanity defence I didn’t consent to, in a way that increased people’s stigma. I think the “defence” was just an excuse to tell everyone about My disabilities.

A lemmy.world moderator recently accused @Mechoselachia@multiverse.soulism.net of being My alt. The problem with that accusation is, I have proof that we’re different people. Here it is.

Your current instance and lemmy.zip are both fairly censorship light. Personally, I’m pro-censorship, but I hope you find an instance you like.

I’m against the death penalty and I’m against targeting civilians during a war. Those aren’t the enemy’s terms of battle, those are My beliefs and values.

You make decisions for your community based on the rules. There’s another word for rules: policies. You make decisions based on the policies. That’s politics. What I think is going on here is, you don’t make decisions based on external politics, just internal politics.

I’ve been noticing the FAF leaning more tankie over time.

Okay, I’ll switch to talking about the big man himself.

It is a wonderful thing that Hitler killed himself. It was a PR blessing for the allies, because it prevented him from becoming a martyr. If Hitler had not killed himself, I do not think he should have been given the death penalty. I am against killing Hitler unless he was an active combatant. I think Hitler should have been given life in prison, because I am against the death penalty in all circumstances. And it would have made him a martyr.

Likewise, Netanyahu should not be killed. He should be given a fair trial, which I believe should reach a verdict of life in prison. I don’t want Netanyahu martyred, I don’t want to spend tons of money on his death row, I just want to put him in a room where he can’t hurt anyone until he dies of old age.

My grandma’s a zionist. She’s a little old lady who lives in Australia. She’s not Jewish, she’s a Christian. But she’s fallen for the propaganda that says the holy land is owed to Jewish people. She’s gone for a holiday in Israel a few times because the place is important to her faith. But she’s disappointed in Israel for its war crimes in recent years, the same as most people. She wants peace, she just hasn’t realised that Israel is fundamentally anti-peace. She might get there one day.

I don’t think grandma deserves to die. The only thing she’s done wrong is give Israel’s economy a few thousand tourism dollars. That’s bad, but it’s not death penalty bad. I want grandma to live.

I don’t know if defederation is an appropriate response, I haven’t made up My mind. But I do know that Luminous is harming the Palestinian cause by giving Netanyahu the violent rhetoric he wants people to hear from his enemies. Netanyahu wants his enemies to look like terrorists. Luminous looks like a terrorist. I want us to look like we’re interested in stopping the killing.

Everyone bases their decisions on political motivations, it’s part of being a political species.

Schindler, the list guy, was a Nazi. And he saved a thousand Jewish people from the Nazis. I don’t think Schindler ought have been killed. Plus there’s Operation Paperclip. They recruited Nazi scientists to work at NASA and help get a man on the moon. I’m not educated enough to understand the full ramifications of Paperclip, but it seems like a decent idea.

But all of that is kinda besides the point, because Netanyahu has a very different propaganda strategy to Hitler. A more sophisticated one. Netanyahu wants there to be extremists who would see him dead. He funded Hamas during the last Gazan election, because of their violent rhetoric. There is serious evidence that he and the government knew about October 7 and deliberately allowed it to happen by suspending the border patrols during the crucial hours. He’s got a plan.

Israel thrives on the violent rhetoric of its opponents, because they want to call us terrorists. That is why we must conduct ourselves with the appropriate restraint to beat these allegations. Luminous’ rhetoric sounds terrorist-y. They’re advocating for the killing of civilians. That’s terrorism. We need to be better than that, or we can’t win the propaganda war and gather allies.