Greatest ally
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The worst part about it is that, once you know this, every interaction you have with people saying "bibi is a monster" shows you just how bad faith almost everyone involved in the discourse is. After two years of flattening gaza to raucous cheers, unprecedented land grabs in the west bank, and an unprovoked war against iran you'd think people would have looked into a single government official beyond the prime minister to inform their analysis of Israel's motivations, but no.
It's just another empty platitude people can walk out as justification for sitting on their hands while unlimited war crimes play out, day after day, commited by thousands of individuals from the top of the government down to iof privates. No critical thought necessary. Same as the liberals blaming trump as the sole cause of America's issues. It demonstrates either a lack of awareness or an unwillingness to engage with the larger systemic issues for the sake of avoiding the premise.
I would say these people should be ignored but its more than half of the people in the discourse and like 99% of the people with any real power. Idk what to do about that.
I say the only thing to do is to get angry. Get so mad you go to your window and shout "I'M MAD! I'M MAD AND IM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!'
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I say the only thing to do is to get angry. Get so mad you go to your window and shout "I'M MAD! I'M MAD AND IM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!'
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Awh man what is this from? I want to say Monty python but I'm scared of losing 45 minutes trying to find it
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It annoys me that it actually is canon that the fairies are angels. Fundies can't help but steal everything.
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Should have been one at the GOP convention.
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Awh man what is this from? I want to say Monty python but I'm scared of losing 45 minutes trying to find it
Thank you for your service lol
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Automatic translation of Knesset member’s and regular Israeli’s tweets has been radically eye opening for me. Kinda hard to hold the view of ‘well, Bibi is a monster but he’s the main one pushing this bloodshed’ when you can factcheck genocidal statements in real time, and see the actions try to meet their rhetoric
I was under the impression that the entire population of Israel have been brainwashed against Palestinians from birth for decades now.
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I was under the impression that the entire population of Israel have been brainwashed against Palestinians from birth for decades now.
How much of that was accessible before social media though? Unless you went looking, Israel generally was a pretty sanitized package on the media landscape, or was framed within the “well we were attacked first” narrative that contextually requires ignoring the prior grievances and violence
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CIA:
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When I saw the news about the impeachment vote, I had the thought "what if they don't want to replace him just yet because they assume Iran will assassinate him and he'll be gone?"
This just adds to that idea.
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How much of that was accessible before social media though? Unless you went looking, Israel generally was a pretty sanitized package on the media landscape, or was framed within the “well we were attacked first” narrative that contextually requires ignoring the prior grievances and violence
It's taught in school from what I heard.
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does "national honour" justify starving tens of thousands of children and civilians?
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Sometimes I wish this would happen so that the USA would 180 and invade Israel instead, but like the USS Liberty is evidence that the opposite would happen and the government would just cover it up and send Israel another billion dollars
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I love how Netanyahu have him a golden pager
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Awh man what is this from? I want to say Monty python but I'm scared of losing 45 minutes trying to find it
Fantastic movie, btw.
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Zionists are blood thirsty monsters that should be stopped by the world. Stomp their ideology out.
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does "national honour" justify starving tens of thousands of children and civilians?
Of course. That is how nationalism works.
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Of course. That is how nationalism works.
Nationalism isn't something evil inherently, I like to remind of the "singing revolution", a peaceful separatists movements of the baltic states to split ties with the soviet occupying force:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_WayBut it can very quickly turn into something evil if utilized by powerhungry regimes
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Sometimes I wish this would happen so that the USA would 180 and invade Israel instead, but like the USS Liberty is evidence that the opposite would happen and the government would just cover it up and send Israel another billion dollars
We'd do like that guy who dick cheney shot in the face, and apologize to the Israelis that they bombed us.
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It's antisemitic to make Israelis look bad by highlighting what they say to each other.
You are only allowed to hear official, sanitised responses from English speaking israelis.
Agreed, I think if we translate more of these we are in for a bad time.
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Nationalism isn't something evil inherently, I like to remind of the "singing revolution", a peaceful separatists movements of the baltic states to split ties with the soviet occupying force:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_WayBut it can very quickly turn into something evil if utilized by powerhungry regimes
Nationalism as a political ideology and nationalism as advocacy for independence of people sharing national identity that isn't broadly recognized as official nation are two different things sharing the same name. Nationalism as political ideology is inherently evil, as it puts interests of an artifical construct above interests of people, with specific attention put to ingroup and outgroup dynamics. Separatists movements aren't inherently evil, with the desire of liberation being usually something everyone can stand behind, but if those movements co-opt the nationalist ideology, then they may be classified as evil in my book. Or evil-er. There are no perfect victims and such.
I feel like it's a meaningful distinction to make.
