"at least venezuela lost a dictator" "the good thing about trump's invasion" "maduro deserved it" oh my god some of you are dangerously susceptible to fascist propaganda.

unfriendly and honestly hostile reminder that trump isn't invading venezuela because maduro is a dictator, or because of drug cartels. he's doing it only and exclusively because they have desirable oil reserves and no other reason. reminder that venezuela is a comparatively poor country that will never financially recover from this. reminder that venezuelans are suffering with the bombing and the air strikes. reminder that trump did it to steal from them and no one did anything. reminder that this sets a dangerous precedent and now all trump has to do to invade another country is claim they're in a dictatorship. reminder that trump is a fascist dictator.

this will only be bad, for venezuelans and for all of latin america (and possibly the whole world) in the long run. trump did this not to help the venezuelans or their country, but to steal their petrol and get away with it. and he will. because that's what dictators do.

courting antisemitism

so i recently decided to take a look at the latest stonetoss comics (probably because i love suffering). and while i was expecting some content on the israel palestine conflict, what i did not expect was how... standard it seemed. well, most of it at least, but i'll get to that in a second.

for context, if you don't know what stonetoss is, it's a (poorly drawn) webcomic known for having radical alt-right views - meaning it's incredibly racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, antisemitic. all that fun stuff.

so while i was expecting to see bad stuff, one of the first things i saw on the topic of israel was this:

terrible art aside, this comic is making a point that i usually see in left wing circles: that israel is pinkwashing genocide.

curious if there was more like this, i kept looking, and the comic right before that one was this:

again, this makes points that i usually see in left wing circles. that american healthcare is crazy expensive, that canada tells poor people to commit suicide, and that israel is bombing hospitals.

why does stonetoss, this well known alt-right nutjob, now seem to be bringing up left-wing talking points?

curious, i kept going deeper:

well this is... odd. clearly, stonetoss is trying to say that israel is on another level of bad, even worse than russia, iran, and north korea. i can possibly see someone on the left making the argument that the russian invasion of ukraine isn't as bad as what israel is doing in gaza, or that at least north korea isn't invading any other countries, but... iran??? the country that has a police force designed to enforce religious law, and gets away with murdering women who do not properly cover their hair? the country that props up paramilitary groups in countries all over the middle east, including lebanon, yemen, and yes, palestine?? that's completely ridiculous

but, given how much more israel is in the news nowadays than any of these other countries, i could see why someone would buy this

and now, we're starting to get to the crux of what stonetoss is trying to do. when someone sees this, they might be inclined to agree with it. they might begin to think that israel is the worst country on the planet

and that might not seem so bad at first. but the more you hate israel, especially irrationally, the more you feel allowed to dehumanize those who support it. the more you might be willing to agree with this comic, which came out two days prior to the one above

this comic says that jews, as a whole have no desire to exist with other people. it is blatantly antisemitic

i'm sure you could imagine some young leftist who sees the comics above this one and thinks, "this guy makes some good points". and then, when they get to this one, they might realize that this is antisemitism

or, they may not.

and that would start them down the road to becoming an antisemite.

this is what stonetoss and other alt-right nutjobs are hoping to achieve. to take left wing fury at israel, and direct it at jews.

we saw it with those neo-nazis at the palestine rally, and we're seeing it again here.

and if you've found yourself agreeing with what stonetoss has said so far, i would like you to see the last comic stonetoss put out before october 7th:

this horrifically racist comic is in reference to an environmental activist who was murdered by a black man in early october. this blatantly racist garbage is the kind of stuff stonetoss usually puts out.

but as soon as october 7th happened? these were his next two comics:

stonetoss completely changed the comic's tone as soon as the current crisis started. why?

to get as many people as possible to get on board with hating jews.

and i know many of you might be thinking that "well, everyone knows that stonetoss is racist garbage. nobody is going to fall for this"

except, as we saw with the neo-nazis at the rally for palestine, it's not always that obvious who the antisemites are and who is just rallying for peace. they are often a lot better at disguising it than stonetoss is.

AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF THAT

EVERYONE, no matter HOW much experience you have, can fall victim to propoganda. EVERYONE needs to be aware of what people around them are saying, and able to pick out hateful rhetoric, because even the stuff that is just kind of toeing the line of what's hateful is still putting your foot in the door

be cautious, everyone. and stomp out hate where you see it.

This is your daily reminder that Elon Musk is a garbage human being. Space X received $20 million dollars in taxpayer funded subsidaries to research weapons delivery. Mars was his BS front to hide that he had every intention to weaponize SpaceX

what frustrates me so much about the hyper focus on project 2025 is that it should be called project 1970 because it is literally just the Republican party enacting an agenda written by the Heritage Foundation after Nixon got elected out of fear of liberalism in the United States becoming “in effect, another version of godless communism.”

they’ve spent decades quietly manufacturing consent for this and now they’re doing it out in the open because, after over half a century of red scare propaganda, the lack of a legitimate US left-wing populist party and total corporate media control has eliminated the necessity to even hide their intentions.

these are just the first few that i could find on the Heritage Foundation's website in a few minutes of searching. here's a full list of all of their policy reviews posted on their website over the years since the 1970s. check out how many literally align with "Project 2025" and tell me that this hasn't been being built for 50 years.

Already seeing people on tiktok saying “I still hate trump but he ate with this one” like … babes … you just got propagandized … that’s literally exactly what he created this situation in the hopes you would say …

American Sniper 🤝 IDF Sniper

It is an extremely false equivalence to even remotely equivocate the so-called trauma of occupiers with the trauma of those who they are occupying. These types of stories are propaganda, meant to elicit compassion for an army that is proudly and flagrantly committing war crimes and other mass atrocities.

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Any alleged “psychological trauma” that IDF soldiers—who are wantonly committing war crimes—might experience, does not in any way equal the trauma of the thousands and thousands of Palestinians who they are murdering. I cannot believe that this even needs to be said.

Mark Vomit (2020)

you may also know Mark Vomit from such hits as "You Are Not Immune To Propaganda" (featuring Garfield)

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Yep. If history gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling, you aren't learning history. You're being indoctrinated.

Learning history you be alternating between these emotions: disgust, rage, amusement(the kind you get from watching stupid shit happen), frustration, disappointment, and if you are a white person like me; shame

if you find that youre learning the same few topics in history over and over again thats not a good sign

IMPORTANT.

This is more dangerous than any "propaganda" that israeli and the IOF tried to push since the beginning. Remember that Israel knows every single target they bomb, they have air drones flying 24/7 they know every single person they bomb in gaza. Also remember that these journalist are younger than even half of us, by labeling them as terrorists it means Israel is planning on wiping them out without facing consequences (which has already been the case with many Palestinian journalists especially those who work at aljazeera).

Note that these all are independent journalists on social media who are recording their life. Also note that Israel has killed 37 journalist and wiped entire families of other journalists since October 7.