spidervl

joined 2 years ago
[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

my unofficial tribute wall: 1 2

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Basically left wing progressives are inherently anti-male and anti-white male and social media helps amplify and push these beliefs far and wide because left wing progressives and women are supplying them with easy content

You're describing the liberal wing of the U.S. Democratic Party. A "left-wing progressive" would be someone like Bernie Sanders.

Have a look at this:

Factions in the Democratic Party (United States)

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the person you asked, but his 2019 Bernie Sanders interview was really good.

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thanks, good to know you have a similar group over there.

By the way, the two I had previously mentioned have been condemned by the head of the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League:

In November 2023, the Anti-Defamation League classified protest events led by groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow as "anti-Israel", adding the protests to a database documenting rising antisemitism in the US. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt labelled the organizations "hate groups".

To say this characterization is inaccurate would be an understatement.

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Zionists pretend to speak on behalf of all Jews, but never have

For what it's worth, here are two notable U.S.-based Jewish peace groups:

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 8 points 9 months ago

Ralph Babet, United Australia Party's senator for posting on social media, was first to leap into action, demanding the band be deported:

I call on the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to join me in denouncing Tenacious D, Jack Black and band member Kyle Gass, and I call on the Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to revoke their visas and deport them immediately.

This is the same senator who in April refused to take down graphic footage of the attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel from his X account because: "Without free speech our nation will fall".

In the U.S., this kind of hypocrisy is so common that people apparently no longer notice it -- if they even did in the first place.

[–] spidervl@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Things were great when I first joined Lemmy a year ago -- it truly felt like a community -- but then unfortunately some of the same toxic Reddit-like behavior started to creep in.

I've since learned that if I avoid the two largest Lemmy instances, plus some of the more sketchy ones like Beehaw and Hexbear, for the most part it's good.