Yassine Meskhout is a Moroccan-American lawyer who works primarily as a public defender. He also writes a blog on the side. As far as I can tell, he is an ex-Muslim, and he used to be some sort of leftist when he was younger, but now has receded to being more of a centrist liberal. He mentioned in a post written in 2019 that he "used to be part of a leftwing gun rights group".

Since October 7th of last year, he's posted the following pieces:

Nov 1st, 2023: The Jewish Conspiracy to Change My Mind
Dec 22nd, 2023: Follow-Up On That Jewish Conspiracy
Jul 21st, 2024: I don't know if it's really antisemitism, but I have nothing else

I've copy-pasted some of the more salient passages below (FYI, there are a lot of hyperlinks in the original posts that I did not copy over, so you sh

Just to clarify, I don't believe any of the following arguments and I'm fairly sure they're all bullshit, but I'd like to bolster my understanding of how to refute them the next time I see them.

These are all paraphrased or "steelmanned" (as opposed to strawmanned) versions of arguments I've encountered elsewhere on the internet.

1. Israel does not unilaterally blockade the Gaza strip all by themselves; Egypt also has a border with Gaza and also participates in the blockade, and yet pro-Palestinians never seem to allocate any of the blame to Egypt, they always put it entirely on Israel. This is unfair and possibly antisemitic.
2. In 1948, the Zionists allowed Arabs who didn't fight against them to stay in their homes and become citizens of Israel. This population of Arabs became known as the "48-Arabs", and they and their descendants are still citizens of Israel today. The fact that the Zionists accepted these people into their new state proves that the Zionists were not aiming to et

The obvious response is that Gaza is a very densely populated place, of course there's civilians near any given location, that's not a conspiracy by Hamas. But are there any other talking points I should hit?

(I'm not really a lib in rehab, but this seems like the comm for getting talking points straight)

Hi Hexbear! I’ve been lurking here ever since you federated with Blahaj. I was already a chapo listener for a year, so it was kind of a twist of fate. Anyways, the other day I heard Matt Christman say something on one of his Cushvlogs that opposes the general sentiment of people here. He said, “China isn’t socialist, they’re not even social democrat; they are state capitalist.” I know you all here uphold that China is AES so I would like an explanation as to why China isn’t state capitalist or a social democracy. Why is/what makes China socialist?

Thank you!

I’ve been dabbling with the idea of communism for quite some time now, but one thing has always prevented me from being fully convinced. How do you allocate the inherently scarce resources. I strongly believe that a local person/company knows better how to allocate resources efficiently than a central government 100s km away. For example food. A central government will never be able to know the area as well as locals. How do you solve this?

Q: How should the working class organize to take class power?

A: This is dependent on your nation's material conditions, often in relation to the present state of international affairs. For colonized nations where the status quo is upheld through strict state violence, a violent people's revolution utilizing geurrilla warfare, sabotage, mass propaganda and the 'war of maneuver' is best, although a multifaceted strategy should be considered. For highly-developed nations where the status quo is upheld through not only state violence but also intricate institutions of cultural hegemony (religion, media, education) it is vital to first construct a revolutionary base within civil society. This is best done through improving material conditions (whether via organized labour, riots, sometimes electoral reform), challenging hegemony through the formation of counter-hegemonic institutions, raising class consciousness, forming alliances with all oppressed groups, all of these falling largely un

I haven't touched any GamerGater content creators but I'm trying my best to flood my recommended with some more non-white let's players.

I watch Markiplier, and Cory. And I have some POC Vtubers but I want to try and find some others that I can show other people.

Full talk available here: Yellow Parenti

This is a pretty comprehensive list of sources that counter the pervasive US propaganda and present a much more accurate view of what happened at the Tiananmen Protests in 1989.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/280271

edit: Based on feedback, I'm considering changing the name to Well-Red. Let me know what you think.

Hi all, if this isn't the appropriate comm for this post then please redirect me to a better one.

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I would like some constructive feedback on these articles. They're meant to serve as an FAQ-like rebuttal to common misconceptions, so that typical predictable questions (both good faith and bad faith) can be effortlessly handled by linking to the relevant page.

Because of this, the main target audiences are non-leftists and babby leftists. Feel welcome to crit the content but also the style, structure, theming, whatever. One question on my mind is if there is a good balance of clarity, succinctness and comprehensiveness, another question is whether the red-coloured links are a problem.

• https://wellread.miraheze.org/wiki/Communism_killed_100_million
• https://wellread.miraheze.org/wiki/Capitalism_is_volunt

Librehab mentioned, woo-hoo!

Feel free to add any feedback, questions or critiques!

While none of us were precisely born as liberals, the vast majority of us were raised as such.

If you could reach back in time to the past version of you that remained under the illusions of liberalism, what would you say?

The second of many.