Okay the cat part is kinda cringe but they have a point: Israel can indoctrinate as many children into being murderous pedophiles as it wants but there will always be those who escape the programming. Most of them will probably end up as liberals who think they can UwUify Zionism into something progressive but some particularly based individuals will be able to see through that bullshit and recognize the white supremacist settler-colonialism for what it is: the same fascist beast that murdered their grandparents in gas chambers.
That being said it's entirely fair to assume any Israeli you meet is not that self-aware. Most aren't and probably will never be.
If people want to leave that's fine but somebody needs to put in the work necessary to dismantle the empire from within. "Just leave" is a solution for individuals; not the masses as a whole.
The antagonistic attitudes that some feminists demonstrate when talking about these issues is entirely understandable tbh.
Most feminists are women (obviously) and womens' opinions, perspectives, needs, wants, & feelings are regularly being dismissed by our patriarchal society. The lack of value in our words, thoughts, and experiences lead to regular abuse, abandonment, isolation, and gaslighting. This is doubly so for feminists - who expressly reviled & ridiculed often by the public & institutions alike.
Naturally this leads to frustration, bitterness, and hostility. We get tired of being mocked and ignored while trying to discuss the nature of our oppression, its origins, and how to resolve it.
I don't and can't blame feminists who are more confrontational. I know what their feeling and I get it. The onus is on men to start listening to women if they want women to talk to them about womens' liberation and gender equality.
Men are not oppressed just by being men. Whatever 'hate' men may experience for their maleness is totally irrelevant by every metric. Men aren't subjected to abuse, exclusion, violence, etc. on a social or institutional level by any serious percentage just for the 'crime' of being men expressly because being a man isn't a crime.
You are rewarded for being a man. You are celebrated for being a man. You are empowered for being a man. This is true at all levels of society and it's why we live under patriarchy - the rule of men.
You might be oppressed for some other factor - such as being gay or trans - while being a man and the nature of that oppression may look different from how women or enbies are treated but you will never be oppressed just for being a man by itself.
Masculinity is a cult of male worship. Men aren't excluded from holding power in the sexual hierarchy just for being men; they will be excluded on other grounds like race, class, sexuality, or how they express their gender (i.e. not conforming to the 'ideal' masculine standard).
Misogyny is prejudice + power. Misandry is just prejudice with no power behind it making it an irrelevant social phenomenon. If the worst thing a man can face for being a man is mean words then he is not oppressed by any conceivable metric. Misogyny is a real thing that actually harms and kills; misandry is not and does not.
You may as well be talking about 'heterophobia', 'cisphobia', or 'anti-white racism' because that would make just as much sense. You can't oppress the oppressor class.
I agree with the core of what you're saying here but you shouldn't confuse the terms "immigrant" with "settler"; they are distinct concepts - one being a traveler who permanently relocates to another place and the other being an invader who attacks another people, destroy them, and steals their land & resources for themselves. Using them interchangeably just ends up rebranding Right-wing anti-immigrant rhetoric with a Left-wing veneer.
The USA was founded by settlers, for the benefit of settlers, serving the interests of settlers, and is maintained today by a settler culture and settler institutions which are maintained to this very day by the settler ruling class. We are not a "nation of immigrants" as liberals are so fond of saying; immigrants have continuously been an underclass to exploit, not a ruling class that exploits.
It's honestly not even about baristas often being young college-age kids, minorities, liberals or left-leaning.
It's just a pinkwashed version of "real jobs" wherein the only "real jobs" involve hard labor. Construction, manufacturing, trucking, farming, mining, etc. Things associated with "masculinity" basically. This is the same argument as the "burger-flippers don't deserve a living wage because it's not a real job" line conservatives are always using to justify the poverty wages fast food workers get.
ACP has taken this mindset, pointed to old-fashion Soviet posters of big burly factory workers hammering steel, and essentially combined the two into the abomination that is "baristas aren't proletariat". That's all MAGA communism really is: rehashed classist conservative arguments with a crimson veneer.
Yeah, like, the Book of Joshua is literally all about the Israelites invading Canaan and exterminating the indigenous people to settle the land because Yahweh promised the land to them and the Canaanites are infidels who don't matter to him.
Which we now know to be bullshit through archaeological evidence confirming that Israelite culture was already indigenous to the region and there was neither a period of slavery in Egypt, nor an Exodus from Egypt, nor a conquest of Canaan as they were already there.
Yet this story has been used to justify not just Zionist genocide, imperialism, and settler-colonialism but also Christian genocide, imperialism, and settler-colonialism.
"Baristas aren't proletariat" gives the game away. That person has never read theory and doesn't understand your class is determined by your relation to capital, not by your profession.
Bro has never read Marx, Lenin, Stalin, et al.
MAGA "communists" are just fascist LARPers using Leftist language to camouflage their reactionary politics. Fascists do this all the time.
Most proles - however you define that term - are most definitely not conservatives. Most of the work force are either immigrants or minorities; neither of whom vote GOP by large margins. I can attest to this as I have personal experience in manufacturing/warehouse work and have known many people who worked construction as well.
I think material conditions should determine whether a nation needs to be liberated or not.
It's not a liberation if they aren't oppressed, nor is it a liberation if the "liberators" are just going to oppress them in the same way.