I think breaking pinatas breaks the nap.

Being pedantic with the meme are we?

The point is that we need to break that piñata.

The “what” is the primary message of the meme. The “how” is up for debate. We can do it the nice and easy way, institutionally and orderly, with wealth taxes that are punitive enough to undo the obscene degree of inequality. Or we can do it the hard way with guillotines. Obviously I much much rather prefer the first, I would indeed like to keep my hobbies and walk my dog. So the patricians better go along, because the plebs cannot be blamed if they end up with no other option than violent revolution.

Well, your toothbrush is gross and your toes smell like canola oil.

And shitty communists go around purging other communists in kangaroo courts and show trials.

Shitty communists impose cults of personality and destroy workers democracy.

Shitty communists also refuse to learn from a century of shitty communism and still cling to old categories as if they have any meaning today. I mean you can stan Robespierre all you like but in the end of the day, the 1871 Commune was never going to be run by 1789 Jacobins much less fucking bonapartists.

Disengage

We don’t need an age/authority framework to have a discussion.

Call me old fashioned, but language matters. And if you scroll through this thread you will see that OP is pretty much using it as a campist slur, not ironically.

We used to critique whig historiography, maybe we need to critique whig linguistics too. “Westoid” reeks of campism, that’s not something to just accept and move on.

The point of the Latuff cartoon is valid, I just really dislike the smell of the word “westoid”.

Indeed but Israel is not copying those. They are not stealing Palestinian kids and raising them to be Hebrew speaking Jewish Israelis.

Left out Apartheid South Africa.

The United States of America after the Cold War.

At this point: sure whatever, leave me alone.

“Everytime I drive on the highway there is always some random male driver that tailgates me.”

When you read that, do you understand that “all men tailgate”?

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. You’re in a memes community and you’re demanding an empirical study with statistical significance.

judgment about a whole nation

Repeat: there is a difference between exists and forall. I’m not judging “all Germans”.

(I do have however very strong opinions about the German state, media, and political class, and its despicable laws, positions, and biases, but German official genocide denialism is a different discussion.)

In logic, there is a huge difference between existential and universal quantification.

Now, if you find reason to self identify as the “random German” that’s your own choice.

That’s… Buddhist philosophy. Holy shit.

No, this is strictly shit posting and subtooting to vent frustration. I’m not going to make a bunch of random Germans into targets. I usually try to engage in good faith and help change perspective. Targeting people like that would be counter to that.

I hear you! Wish I had been more careful with the phrasing

The earliest opposition to Zionism by necessity were Jews because that community is where those original discussions happened.

And Jews still are the biggest critics of Zionism! There is nothing inevitable about Zionism becoming the expression of Jewish self-identity. Zionism became the dominant model for Jewish self-conception because the other models, such as Bundist Doikayt, were exterminated in the Holocaust. In that sense, Jews rediscovering extra-Zionist Jewishnesses is a reaffirmation of the breadth of the Jewish experience that was stolen by the Nazis!