Greenblatt: "I'm thinking about the New York Times doing a gauzy profile a few weeks ago of this gamer, Hasan Piker, who regularly employs awful genocidal rhetoric against Jewish people and the Jewish State. Extremists should not be empowered. People who spout prejudice should not be platformed. This is a moment when we need to look ourselves in the mirror and say 'We've got to stop this because the consequences are deadly'. "

https://xcancel.com/CharlieSheenGO/status/1925566024218218496#m

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[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 116 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A shooter cites great replacement theory pushed by Fox news as the reason for performing a mass shooting at a mainly black grocery store -> not related to Tucker Carlson

A shooter cites palestinian suffering for reason for shooting Israeli officials, cites examples of injustices from over 10 years ago when Hasan wasnt even a thing -> this is because of Hasan

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 105 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Like I said in another post, we're rapidly coming to a point where being a fascist is more socially acceptable than being an anti-fascist and that shit is by design.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think we passed that point a long time ago. Heather Heyer was killed in 2017 and many Americans found that acceptable. They were "both sides"-ing the literal nazis at that rally and the anti-fascists who showed up to counterprotest. Anti-fascists were blamed for riots about George Floyd's death and not the pigs who killed him.

Like remember when Biden was all "We should shoot anarchists in the knees?"

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

frothingfash "BLOOD AND SOIL"

"Fascists suck"

liberalism "Both sides are the same"

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

Thin Red Tagline kelly

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

I remember the rightoids were blaming her for being overweight for why she died.... fucking horrific sacks of shit.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The re-nazification started in 2014 when the great replacement theory became mainstream, then with the Ukraine war when azov became smol bean and whitey thought it acceptable that ukrainians got to have swastika tattoos as a small treat because of evul ruzzian hordes, what is happening now is the fruits of someone's very hard work.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Steve Bannon should have been shot in 2012. He was instrumental in this shit being spread on social media

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 89 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Semi unrelated but reading the shooter's Twitter is funny as fuck. He was a poster

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maoist standard English waow-based

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Disavow and all that, but this guy rocks

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

i'm breaking from the belden program and going ten toes down

guy rocks, free my mans so he can do it again

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 104 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hasan should make a big drama out of this accusation and take the heat away from PSL. He won't get taken down by this because it's stupid to blame him with absolutely no connection to it but a crackdown on orgs would be genuinely damaging.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hasan should flee to China then eat the sin

[–] SocialistDad@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

He’d move to Japan well before he would move to China. Dude’s a weeb

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

both-sides

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[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 82 points 2 days ago (2 children)

who regularly employs awful genocidal rhetoric against Jewish people and the Jewish State

Further proof that the west is explicitly fascist is that some genocidal bastard can spout this type of fucking nonsense manufacturing consent for violent reprisal for just criticising pissraels genocide. On mainstream media no less, without swift and severe punishment.

It's terrifying, this is actual proof that the west, america in particular, has fully enshrined a fascist superstructure of lies and delusion across civil society, it's all pervasive, it's everywhere, and they use it to warp reality past the point of no return. 2+2 has been 5 for the longest fucking time because hundreds of thousands had to be slaughtered for America to retain a decaying foothold in the Middle East.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WAIT WAS THE WEST 1984 evul gommulist no freeze peach the entire time!!!!! who could have predicted this.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

It’s more frustrating by how many continue to believe in the myths of the virtuous west and continue to build parking lots and privatize public programs to emulate them.

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Pissed off reading that and being able to do nothing about it, what a sick society

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 92 points 2 days ago (1 children)

'We've got to stop this because the consequences are deadly'

By 'this' he means the genocide that the shooter expressly stated was the reason for the attack, right? anakin-padme-2

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago

anakin-padme-3

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 95 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is textbook defamation and slander, Hasan should sue

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

it's nearly impossible for defamation lawsuits to do anything here even when they're not about state interests

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That generally true due to the ambiguous nature of US libel laws, but Greenblatt literally ticked off all the boxes that can lead you to win a defamation case in the US; false statement, publication to a third party, and the spoken stated intention to harm an individual's reputation

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It won't matter

This damned state picked it's side in this genocide many years ago

Even just boycotting Israeli items is a crime in most states. We're past the point where factual information makes a difference

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He could sue and possibly even win but it would be a 5 year lawsuit and his opponents have infinite money. It's a substantial personal sacrifice to go after imperialist goons via the legal system.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can guarantee there are lawyers willing to do pro-bono work on this. The discovery alone would be worth it

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If I were a hungry, new lawyer and I needed to make a name for myself I'd want to take the case. I'd get the most libel-looking libel case ever and I get a bunch of publicity for winning. Then, because words don't mean anything anymore, ghouls will be popping off all the time. Any time some ghoul says some shit they'd have to be scared of the specter of me. Therefore people would pay me a lot of money to do libel cases because I know how to win and win bigly.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

well get on it kid. go go! picard-excited

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Maybe. It will be years and years of time. That's a big layout to do pro bono.

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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"yeah, we're rebranding. People don't like 'anti' things anymore. I mean, we're keeping the letters, people like the letters, but now we're the Amazingly Defamation League!"

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 2 days ago

this gamer

the most insulting part tbh

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 82 points 2 days ago

The Israeli ambassador is using the embassy staff as human shields. All blame falls solely on the ambassador.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 92 points 2 days ago

Extremists should not be empowered. People who spout prejudice should not be platformed. This is a moment when we need to look ourselves in the mirror and say 'We've got to stop this because the consequences are deadly'

heartbreaking wonder-who-thats-for

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's so bizarre to be living in a timeline in which mass murder is right and condemning mass murder is wrong.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 80 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This phenomenon is known as the "State Monopoly on Violence". The government's unlimited use of violence is considered by the public to be legitimate and any resistance against the state's violence is considered to be illegitimate.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Our violence good, your violence bad"

[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 days ago

"Violence of the oppressor good, violence of the oppressed bad"

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thing is, it's not even the state's monopoly anymore. Both the US & Israel empower & then protect vigilantes/settlers to commit fascist violence. (Obviously this has always been the case to some degree, but has certainly ramped up again in recent years)

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Israel is expanding via the same process the US did into indigenous lands. Making reservations, breaking treaties repeatedly, having forward settlers staking claims and then having the US military come and defend their illegal settlements in so-called "Indian territory". Monopoly on violence is overly simplistic, the state is a vehicle of class war and class-based violence. The settlers and the state were the yin-yang that made the expansion possible. You know how when you're moving a heavy piece of furniture by yourself, you lift one part, then pivot and lift the other part, back and forth? This is the mechanism of genocidal expansion, one foot forward then the body follows.

The first plunge is made by those who are willing but unable, the thirsty ambitious psychopaths. They only succeed because they are shortly followed by those who were unwilling but are able, the boring legalistic normies, the officials and diplomats and soldiers. Their reluctance has been made irrelevant, the due process of law forfeit, they are dragged along with the settlers because ultimately the state serves the interests of the capitalist class, of which the settlers are a large portion.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If something happens to Hasan over this, there will be a zoomer insurgency hitting refineries and munitions warehouses within the week

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 2 days ago

It's the Haymarket affair all over again. He didn't throw the bomb but he should hang for what he thinks. American justice!

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 58 points 2 days ago

Didn't the Gunman know it's ONLY OK to Shoot BABIES and CHILDREN? OTHERWISE you're ANTI SEMETIC!

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago

I like Hasan now

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 29 points 2 days ago

As soon as I see anything by the ADL, I assume the rest of the sentence is going to be something racist.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago

Yea he should leave the country for a bit like Badempanada told him

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

freeze-gamer

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

Greenblatt looks like the evil version of Ali Abunimah from Electronic Intifada

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