• Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    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.

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      2 hours ago

      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

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        56 minutes ago

        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.

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    4 hours ago

    This is the kind of shit why I say that white supremacists and Nazis love the state of Israel. Both they and Israel insist that this is what Jews are really about, at the expense of actual Jewish people just trying to live their lives.

  • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    <Seattle goes up in smoke because foreigners don’t understand the difference between Washington state and Washington DC>

    <Trump starts selling gold-plated Space Needle statues with his head on top>

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      3 hours ago

      Foreigners know the difference. It’s Americans who are dumb. I can’t tell you how many Americans think New Mexico is not a state.

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      5 hours ago

      I mean, you wouldn’t be too far off. There’s an Air Force base about 20-30 minutes from my house. I imagine it would be a military target if a war was ever waged stateside.

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        2 hours ago

        There are several high-value sites in the state, and I-5 is an obvious target just generally. JBLM, Whidbey Island Station, Everett Naval, and major power infrastructure like Hanford or Grand Coulee.

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      5 hours ago

      Did a random Twitter account say something?

      You could go look, but I don’t see the point. It’s fucking twitter, it might be a far right racist, it might be a bot, it might be propaganda.

      Who fucking cares what any random person says on Twitter?

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        4 hours ago

        There was that Bluesky or mastodon post going around of writer I had never heard of telling people that now is the time for violence. Hundreds of upvotes in several communities.

        Some random person with a pseudonym and a blog that writes like an angry 14 year old who’s never left the house.

        I asked who this person was and why they were directing peaceful protests to become violent instead of doing it themselves and boy howdy did I get dog piled for it.