Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists after they sprayed red paint and cracked windows at a branch of Barclays bank to protest the company’s links to an Israeli weapons manufacturer.
It’s just some strange tribalism I think. I think in their mind you have to be supporting another empire instead, it seems some are unable to understand that you support none of them.
I find it more than a bit ironic that after I list many other countries who have done and/or are doing tons of awful things you say that.
What strange tribalism? What tribe? Why do you think I’m imagining anyone is supporting any empire? I said nothing positive about anyone. The entire point was “Yeah, seems like the bulk of the world is run by awful cunts. Let’s have a pint.”
… and that means I’m in some sort of tribe? Do we at least get fancy hats?
I’m lost on how so many people seemed to take me listing the countries I did followed by the description of them as having “run on compassion for others and doing the right thing for the last hundred plus years” and seen anything other than sarcasm.
All of the listed countries have been responsible for the deaths of mass numbers of innocent civilians, and kids, and nuns, and nuns carrying infants who were carrying baby kittens over the last 100 or so years. Fuck, more than one of them has been responsible for that in the last few months.
In my case it was a combination of it being hard to read sarcasm online in many cases, especially if you are not already familiar with the author, along with the number of times I run into “You don’t support A? That means you support B!” in political discussions.
What’s your point with this whataboutery ?
It’s just some strange tribalism I think. I think in their mind you have to be supporting another empire instead, it seems some are unable to understand that you support none of them.
I find it more than a bit ironic that after I list many other countries who have done and/or are doing tons of awful things you say that.
What strange tribalism? What tribe? Why do you think I’m imagining anyone is supporting any empire? I said nothing positive about anyone. The entire point was “Yeah, seems like the bulk of the world is run by awful cunts. Let’s have a pint.”
… and that means I’m in some sort of tribe? Do we at least get fancy hats?
That’s an interesting theory… I have none myself, except maybe they were being terribly sarcastic?
That is also a possibility. I just run into way too many that seem to assume that to automatically default to reading it as sarcasm.
Ding ding ding.
I’m lost on how so many people seemed to take me listing the countries I did followed by the description of them as having “run on compassion for others and doing the right thing for the last hundred plus years” and seen anything other than sarcasm.
All of the listed countries have been responsible for the deaths of mass numbers of innocent civilians, and kids, and nuns, and nuns carrying infants who were carrying baby kittens over the last 100 or so years. Fuck, more than one of them has been responsible for that in the last few months.
In my case it was a combination of it being hard to read sarcasm online in many cases, especially if you are not already familiar with the author, along with the number of times I run into “You don’t support A? That means you support B!” in political discussions.