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[–] 52 points 8 months ago (7 children)

This is known for a long time already and the reason why I boycott Substack. If you publish there, you are supporting right wing propaganda. Find a different platform!

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Getting harder and harder to find non Nazi bars...

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't fully understand, TBH. Is it particularly hard to create a substack competitor? Why don't we just... Do that

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago*

    I think it's a bold strategy to leave the bigger more populated and used platforms to constantly exist on the smaller less relevant ones that never grow and offer everything the major platforms do just worse.

    Shall we take Stalingrad? nonono it's full of nazi's, lets focus on Dieppe

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    [–] 46 points 8 months ago (36 children)

    The far right is racist against Jews, but the conservative Christians think the Jews are the chosen people, how does that work out?

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  • [–] 65 points 8 months ago (17 children)

    The far right isn’t a monolith and has lots of different subgroups like anything else

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    But the evangelical Christians want the Jews to trigger the rapture by fighting the final huge war in israel, and I imagine the antisemites are also fine with the Jews all being sent away to israel for then to be sent off to fight a senseless war to their deaths.

    Somehow they managed to start off from different angles and both end up wanting Jews to die.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (13 children)

    They sure seem to move as a monolith when it comes to systematically destroying the country in a well planned and organized manner like with project 2025, stacking the Supreme Court, dismantling civil rights, dismantling women’s rights installing a dictator and obstruction of everything that isn’t tax breaks for the people who own everything, unlimited money for Israel, unlimited corporate subsidies and installing an oppressive mass surveillance state policed by literal Nazis

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    They have one thing in common: the understand they can get most of what they want by voting as a block, instead of demanding their candidates tick all the boxes.

    Leftist infighting is the best tool the right has. And they know it. Whenever you see a leftist saying they won't vote for a Democrat because "both sides are the same", there's a good chance you're seeing a Russian bot or a right wing plant. Or a fucking idiot. I guess that's a possible third option.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    There's a big difference between being pro-state-of-Israel (Zionist), and being pro-jewish-people in general. They do not necessarily go hand in hand.

    Fundamentalist christians are typically Zionist because the state of Israel is necessary for the second coming of christ. It's entirely self-serving, not a belief they hold because they like jewish people at all. So being zionist and also antisemitic is pretty common because people are racist assholes.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Actually there's a big MAGA civil war among its most popular figureheads that boils down to two camps:

    Those that love Hitler

    And those who love New Hitler ™️ (Netanyahu)

    It started with Tucker Carlson interviewing Nick Fuentes in a verbal back massage. Candice Owens also joined along in that camp too.

    Now you have the Tucker-Candice camp at war with the Ben Shapiro camp, and Nick Fuentes attacking everyone because he's a fucking moron even compared to the others.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    ... The Aristocrats!

    (If anyone gets this reference I'll be what scientists are calling "fucking surprised")

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    It didn't start there, but it came out into the open there. The Israeli camp in the US is very aggressive in trying to make the US like Israel and the occupied territories, to ghettoize the others here in this country.

    To that end they had a vision for turning point usa, to turn it into a sort of hitler youth, and to police students and faculty at k12 to higher education. Kirk had his own vision, rejected theirs, and their board p[r]icks for his own. Then got shot with something that wasn't a high powered 30 ought six rifle in a situation that does not fit the official story given, and his widow leading the organization has embraced the Israeli in the US faction's vision, and condemned those blaming Israel's faction for it. Don't let the association with a few far right figures fool you though, it's true. Those few far right figures have turned against the Israel faction, and while Israel may tell us surreptitiously to discount everything they say because they impugn their motives, the ones impugning have the worst motives in the world, Israel's faction are the fucking devil.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Those Christians want to see a religious war happen in the Middle East since they believe it will trigger the return of Big J. And to make that happen the state of Israel needs to not only exist but be in perpetual state of animosity against its neighbors. Also both the zionists and these Christians believe that the Third Temple needs to be build on the place where the Second Temple once stood on Temple Mount. But that is where the Dome of the Rock mosque stands today. So building the Third Temple would trigger the religious war they desperately want to see happening.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    no they don't. That is what they tell their people. Israel is a foot hold into the Arab countries. Any military needs to be able to deploy rapidly. First to the battle has strategic advantage and smaller less powerful armies have destroyed larger ones just with that advantage. Israel lets America control that area and gives intelligence that it wouldn't have otherwise. Without Israel, they lose a major strategic advantage to controlling the Arab world. The Big J side is all woo woo. Not even sure I've seen anyone really say that. Almost all of America's moves are to control territory that gives their military the ability to deploy rapidly and to control territory.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    they believe it will trigger the return of Big J

    They were doing this very long game for decades. When the supposed return didn't happen 26 years ago, they instead have to force their hand.

    Now the bastards believe the table is ready for them.

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    [–] 33 points 8 months ago
    [–] 28 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    ... Don't they take a cut of most subs?

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago*

    I have a Substack and a Ghost (an alternative that's better in some ways and worse in others). The benefit to Substack is that growth on there is very possible with little participation in the social media like aspect they have, Notes. Ghost, meanwhile, has made growth incredibly difficult since they don't have that social media feature and you need people to actually sign up for your site instead of just clicking subscribe. It's kinda frustrating because I genuinely don't want to support Substack in any way but I write about videogames for almost 150 subscribers with continued and consistent growth and leaving that would be....annoying. What I've ended up doing is simply refusing to do any paid subscriptions through Substack so they don't get any money from me and instead have made a buy me a coffee and will eventually make a patreon.

    There's also just the reality right now that most of these types of places have some Nazis on them since Nazis are now just chilling out in the open as opposed to hiding in their basements like they used to. There's only so much you can do if you want to be on the internet as a creator.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Substack is a very useful platform. Both in that you get all the email addresses of your subscriber base, so they don't lock you in there, and the monetization they have set up.

    The fediverse should target it to replicate much or all of its functionality. It is MORE than a mere blog. It has a big ecosystem one blog can't replicate alone. The payment system would be particularly difficult to copy well.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    does this mean Karlyn borysenko is going to finally be deplarformed?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is everyone really advocating for some substack CEO to start deplatforming people based on ideology? How quickly do you reckon that will be weaponized to deplatform any anti-zionist content? I'd take an 'open for all' framework over arbitrary deplatforming based on ideology every day of the week. Particularly considering the 'new definition' of anti-Semitism being adopted everywhere that equates most criticism of the state of Israel with anti-Semitism.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago*

    It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Policies on hate speech could include automatic fact checking and community notes displayed to every reader.

    If fact checking is deplatforming the alt right, then well, problem solved.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Can't you see what British Corporate Media (e g. Guardian) is trying to do?!

    https://open.substack.com/pub/the307/p/british-corporate-media-is-pushing

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