• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I’ve blocked Cowbee because they kept trying to justify China rubber staping the genocide in Gaza by voting for the Trump UNSC proposal after 2 years of genocide. Some people will justify anything China does.

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      6 months ago

      China didn’t vote for the proposal, though. They abstained. I agree voting against would have been good, but it’s strange to claim they voted for it.

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        6 months ago

        This user is banned from Hexbear for claiming it’s run by “transzionists.” They uphold Bad Empanada so much because more often than not, it’s more important to be a contrarion for them than actually make a correct point.

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          This user is banned from Hexbear for claiming it’s run by “transzionists.” They uphold Bad Empanada

          Thanks, that’s enough of a reason for me to not want to reply to them any further.

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            Yep, it’s frustrating because the only reason I gently reached out to them while they flipped 180 on China, calling it imperialist and Blue MAGA, was because I thought they were generally more reasonable. A radlib with good political instincts, but someone that could use real organizing work and study. Unfortunately, it seems they became Bad Empanada poisoned, causing them to see enemies out of every ally by finding imperfections and magnifying them.

            Doubly frustrating that they blocked me, rather than respond in earnest. Even before they blocked me, they would just respond with unrelated Bad Empanada tweets.

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        6 months ago

        Abstaining is nothing more than a cowardly way of voting in favor. They have veto rights and they know it will pass if they don’t veto it.

        Silence is consent in the most literal terms here.

        The abstain vote was very useful to filter out those who actually care about human rights from those who only speak about it to further their own cause. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubeCHFGZM-E

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          6 months ago

          This is the same logic used by liberals to claim voting for PSL is a vote for Trump, and again, you’re upholding Bad Empanada, a known contrarion and transphobe, instead of addressing the actual arguments at hand.