The expression you’re looking for is “ad hominem”

And no, this was clearly not ad hominem

The opposition of two usernames, one extremely crass and one extremely bland is indeed a bit funny. It was an actual, and quite obvious joke.

Also, you didn’t really make an argument, you stated an opinion. One I kind of share I might add. Most/all people I have tagged as “Tankie” or “Vatnik” (which isn’t many since I only joined recently) seem to be from .ml

I had this exact thought yesterday, but was looking for hate speech and couldn’t find anything applicable.

Had another look for hate crime.

I guess 423.3 of Bill C-9?

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-9/third-reading Mind you I’m not very knowledgeable on the law, so there might well be something.

I think it’s obvious I’m not dumping all men in the group.

Are you making it obvious to the people you’re talking to who get defensive of men?

If you say “men” and are thinking of the majority of men who are toxic or tolerate other’s toxic behaviour, but the person you’re talking to hears “men” and is thinking of their amazing ally dad and brother, then the problem is that you’re essentially speaking different languages.

Congress isn’t stopping him.

Now they’re just furious that the other side of the story is becoming more widely known.

And they’re helping with publicity because apparently they haven’t heard of the Streisand effect.

He doesn’t need to. The project 2025 christian nationalists are doing the thinking for him.

Yeah, being founded to fight off a genocidal occupation absolves one of all wrong. I’ve already been made aware of that.

Yeah, it’s not enough to call Israel genocidal fascists, have to agree with the hive mind or its IDF astroturfing.

It’s funny, I came here in part because the zionist hive mind of Reddit was disgusting.

And all I’m finding here is a tankie hive mind.

Extremists on both sides, nuance not allowed.

Nitpicking is not an argument, it’s hasbara.

No, nitpicking is how you arrive at the truth. And the truth is that Israel are genocidal aggressors. But the truth is also that Hezbollah are aggressors.

Calling any criticism of Israel’s enemies “Hasbara” is the exact same bullshit as Israel calling criticism “Antisemitism”. Different side of the same shit coin.

And the articles accompanying this graph clearly contradict it, while the graph itself provides no sources. A graph itself is not a source.

a shadow economy is also a breeding ground for corruption.

literally the next fucking paragraph in my comment.

yeah, quote from that link

Since October 8, when Lebanon’s Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people

Why would 58% of Lebanese would support Hezbollah maintaining it’s arm other than to be used against the Israeli threat?

Oh fucking stop it. Threat against Lebanon specifically. A retaliation against Hamas, even if completely disproportionate and genocidal is not a threat against Lebanon.

Israel want to create a greater Israel which include Lebanon.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon kinda works against that claim.

Hezbollah rocket was thrown on Shaba farms, Lebanese occupied land

Not according to the UN?

Not to mention Israel constantly breach the resolution 1701 yearly

Unlike Hezbollah?

waiting for Palestine to be completely destroyed then wait for Israel to occupy and colonize Lebanon again.

Extraordinary claims again

If you think Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into the fight without consent, then France dragged themselves into the war by signing a mutual defense alliance with Poland

Unlike the French government, Hezbollah didn’t have the representative authority to do so. Doing it without such an authority is in itself a form if aggression (against the people of Lebanon, not against Israel)

Linked article disagrees with the info graphic, info graphic does not provide sources. What’s your justification of choosing the info graphic over the linked article?

58% to 64% of the Lebanese population opposing Hezbollah’s immediate disarmament

Opposing Hezbollah’s immediate disarmament is not equivalent to consent to enter the war of Israel against Palestine.

You don’t seem to understand the difference between colonialism and occupation either.

Just rolling with how loosely you seemingly use the term. Israel may be colonialists in general, but in the specific context of Israel vs Hezbollah they are clearly not.

I was talking during WW2 against the axis not after Germany surrendered.

Yeah, conveniently leaving out one of the greatest examples of a resistance fighting force becoming the occupying colonialists?

I love how you also ignore France and Britain

What about France and Britain?

France did not wait for Germany to start aggressing it to declare and attacking war on the Nazis

The French government being the democratically elected government representing the French people and territory signed an alliance with the Polish government. As such Germany’s invasion of Poland was also an aggression against France, not the other way around. There is no such understanding between Palestine and Lebanon. Or Iran and Lebanon.

And sure, you could argue that Hezbollah are allied with the IRGC and Hamas, but Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into the fight without consent.

Hezbollah, a powerful armed group backed by Iran, said it had launched guided rockets and artillery onto three posts in Shebaa Farms “in solidarity” with the Palestinian people.

That’s what the sources say.

I included all the factions involved .

Yeah, right:

The context of the post is israel vs hizbollah. It that context the only agressor is Israel.

I am sick of hypocrites trying to delegitimize resistance groups and treat them like colonizers.

Hezbollah had the legitimacy of a resistance group until they defeated the Israeli occupation of Lebanon.

Continuing to fight Israel from Lebanese territory without the express consent of the people and the government of Lebanon delegitimizes them as resistance fighters.

And their support of Assad and his Alawite oppression of Syria made them colonizers in their own right.

In the example of WW2 that you brought up, Soviet forces were the resistance fighters against Nazi aggression and colonization right until the point that Germany surrendered. Their refusal to then withdraw made them the aggressors and colonizers in turn. And that is not even to speak of the Baltics, where the Soviets were the original aggressors and colonizers.

Acknowledging the capacity of resistance fighters to become colonizers themselves is not hypocrisy. What is hypocrisy is letting the aggression and colonization of a group slide because they are/were resistance fighters themselves.

The sources show that Israel is an aggressor, which I never disputed.

Even in 2023 Israel was the aggressor. In response to Israel geocoding Palestinians Hezbollah launched rockets on occupied land, Israel went and targeted civilians infrastructures and Lebanese civilians.

Dude, you said Israel is the aggressor when only looking at Israel and Hezbollah and then include Palestine.

So are we looking at only Israel and Hezbollah, or are we looking at Israel, Hezbollah, and other factions? And if so, why are we only including the factions that help your case, instead of all factions involved?

You are treating this as a sports match, it’s fucking not.