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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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 41 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 1 day ago

this gamer

the most insulting part tbh

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 87 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maoist standard English waow-based

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 42 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Disavow and all that, but this guy rocks

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 30 points 22 hours ago

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

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

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 29 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 81 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 23 hours 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 23 hours ago

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

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 22 hours 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!

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 22 hours ago

I like Hasan now

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 116 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 104 points 1 day 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 72 points 1 day 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 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

frothingfash "BLOOD AND SOIL"

"Fascists suck"

liberalism "Both sides are the same"

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Thin Red Tagline kelly

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[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day 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 22 hours ago

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

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 104 points 1 day 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 32 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Hasan should flee to China then eat the sin

[–] SocialistDad@hexbear.net 25 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 17 points 22 hours ago

both-sides

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 83 points 1 day ago

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

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 92 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

anakin-padme-3

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 95 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is textbook defamation and slander, Hasan should sue

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 18 hours ago

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

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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day 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!"

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

We thought of the American Defamation League, but we would never defame amerikkka

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 92 points 1 day 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 89 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 77 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

"Our violence good, your violence bad"

[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago

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

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day 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 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 22 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

freeze-gamer

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 58 points 1 day ago

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

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

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

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