UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • Germany is completely losing it. You’d think that if you’re a German zionist trying to suppress pro-Palestine protests in Germany of all places, you’d say things like “Old Nazi sentiments are still alive and well, how saddening”. You’d go hard on invoking the Nazis, right?

    Nope. The entire German establishment has decided that anti-Israel sentiment is caused by RADICAL ISLAMIST AGITATORS. The discourse in Germany around pro-Palestine protests leans insanely hard on islamophobia and in what felt like days, it has suddenly become accepted as a fact that “Germany has a radical islam problem” after, and I can’t stress this enough, nothing has happened whatsoever. There was no inciting incident or anything (and no, nobody talks about the Moscow attack). There’s also an outright hysteria around Russian/Chinese spies. Absolute insanity.











    1. I don’t think both sides are using this same very specific tactic to begin with, if it’s been used at all and it’s not just random posts.

    2. It doesn’t sit right with me to assume the worst for one side while assuming the best for the other when they’re deploying the exact same methods. Zionists could just as easily say “The IDF is trying to lure Khhamas because they love beheading babies, Khhamas uses it because they know our heroic IDF soldiers will try to save the babies.”

    I’m not trying to both sides this discussion. I know the argument of “assuming intent” has been abused to deflect Israel’s genocidal intentions, but there’s a limit. This is a pretty extreme example of assuming intent and I don’t like it, it feels dishonest.




  • “Keep politics out of games” and the whole “escapism” line are nonsensical the more you think about it.

    Video games are not an “escape from reality” into something completely new and different, they will always be reinterpretations of our current reality because that’s all we know and all we can create. Reinterpretations that display how we believe the world works, how we feel about the world and what we would like it to be. Any piece of art involving any kind of society will therefore always be political, because you can’t write a society without displaying how you believe societies work and/or how they should work.