I know nothing should surprise me with these fucking people at this point, but my mouth still dropped open when I read that.

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    Fucking grotesque. Hey why not make a lampshade of human skin next time. Sick fucks.

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    Imagine the outrage if a world leader gifted another leader a golden model airplane after 9/11.

    Insanity.

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    The “pager attack” killed 42 people, including two children and two healthcare workers, while wounding another 2,800 people. The attacks targeted public areas, including cars, streets, and supermarkets, and many of the wounded suffered eye, hand, and brain injuries. Many survivors needed surgery, and some victims went blind or had to have their limbs amputated. One of the attacks killed an 11-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, along with a nurse. At a funeral for some victims, another electronic device attack was carried out by Israel, wounding more people. It’s unknown how many Hezbollah operatives the attack actually killed.

    “That was a great operation,” Trump reportedly told Netanyahu, after being given the morbid gift.

    I can not believe this man was voted in. I can not believe this time line is real.

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      You should see the hasbarists that tried to tell me that the operation was highly successful since it killed the children of Hezbollah operators, and that was its intended victims. Basically these people consider children to be very valid and normal targets to the point that you are a fool for thinking it is wrong.

      In all honesty at that point I am actually surprised at the restraint that Hamas and everyone else has had on them. Iran and even the Houthis defeated Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling so many times it isn’t funny, but they still act like it is some impenetrable forcefield that has never been defeated. Also all of the targets by Hezbollah and Iran have been purely military targets or symbolic while also pulling some major punches, while Israel targets civilians with wanton abandon and with the intent to do as much damage as possible to civilians and civilian infrastructure.

      When Israel did get (mostly warhead-less) missiles launched at it, they expressed shock and acted as if Iran was some idiotic child-like state that did not understand that these are weapons that could hurt people. In the meantime they revel in the murder of children and civilians and even when releasing hostages as a part of their deal, they open fire at their buses.

      And Israel has always been like this. It isn’t new.

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      He wasn’t voted in. Elon manipulated the voting system for trumps gain. Trump even said it himself “Elon knows voting machines”. They have taken over our country and are dismantling it piece by piece. The question is, how do we stop these fucks?

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      Believe it or not the Democrats had machinations themselves that they had been working on a long time, and was very nasty. Rumor had it, Kamala would have no problem finalizing those plans, which is why she was ushered in without a primary and Joe was forced out. BOTH PARTIES HAVE GOT TO GO. The democrats enabled this level of power abuse because they wanted the power themselves, nothing was codified into law because they thought they would have the power. They are just as guilty of these current administrations actions because they themselves refuse to limit the powers and reach of branches of the government, they only ever extend them… And they did it because they had plans for that power, but you don’t need to believe that, the evidence they allowed the power to exist is elected and likely xitting on truth right now, that’s all you really need to believe, Democrats enabled this.

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        Trump does something abhorrent.

        Writes paragraph explaining why it’s the Democrats fault.

        The conservative propoganda machine has really done a number on some of y’all.

        Like you couldn’t even stop to acknowledge what happened you were so eager to make Trump’s actions all about the Dems.

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      Kaboom is lurking on the conservation Lemmy. Probably re-evaluating his life choices. Or most likely not, because that requires self-reflection.

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    One day, decades from now, people will read about these men in the same way we read about Mussolini and Hitler. They’ll be reading with bated breath about the atrocities they committed and we’ll be asked by our grandchildren how was it possible to even happen. Hopefully they’ll live in a world where none of this would be possible and they won’t comprehend the evil and cruelty that we got to witness, they won’t be able to understand how so many millions cheered for these monsters. Come to think of it, I don’t understand why so many millions cheer for them today.

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        Israel had invested billions and continues to invest record numbers every year into propaganda and desinformation, in particular revisionism of its own history. And countries like the US and Germany are helping them with it.

        For instance in some places in Germany it was decided to make it mandatory for teachers to use a leaflet called “Mythos Nakba” - Nakba myth, which is claiming the ethnic cleansing of around 750.000 Palestinians before and during the formation of Israel in 1948 to be a “myth”. Of course this leaflet comes from an Israeli propaganda organization, with connections to the government funded “Zentralrat der Juden” - central council of Jews. The “Zentralrat” used to be a representation of Jews in Germany but has been usurped into a key organization of Israeli propaganda in Germany over the past decades, while continuing to claim to represent the mainstream of Jews in Germany.

        This is particularly insane in Germany, where denial of the Holocaust is a common trope of the fascists too.

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      Nope, this turn in history will go beyond decades. We have entered the dystopian age where corporations will run or replace governments.

      There’s no coming back for this one.

      Corporations 1, people 0.

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    As a Canadian, It’s crazy how easy these two played the American left by starting a genocidal war and having musk and the oligarchs use all propaganda machines to turn it into the Democrats fault. And the left just ate it up despite how blatantly obvious it was. The left splintered and had a “no, YOU’RE the fake leftist!” Argument among each other while the right unified and laughed at you guys

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      The right is always unified. Blind loyalty to the team captain is their one positive attribute. Look to our own slimeball cons for similar - but properly muted because #canada - idiocy and worship.

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      I mean it seems more because Biden’s administration was hugely pro-Israel and consistently the destruction of Gaza and the death of Palestinians, and Harris started plainly her policy was the same. Harris ran on a campaign of telling parts of the left that they didn’t want their vote and courted mythical moderate Republicans.

      And I voted for Harris, but this was by far a loss due to the Democrats abandonment of their base and what polling clearly showed people wanted change, irrational or not, just something different. Running on a same-as-Biden platform was a massive blunder.

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      if only there was a way for the democratic party to not be accused of sending weapons to a country actively committing war crimes . alas , it is the voters faulrv

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      A belgian tennis player was recently complaining that his adversary was faking pain after he smash his face throwing himself on him and hitting him with his shoulder.

      Maybe he was faking honestly, I saw the video and it’s not that convincing. But if you don’t wanna that kind of shit, don’t throw yourself on people. Tennis is not a contact sport.

      And if you don’t want to be call genociders, don’t send bombs to a genocidal regime. It’s not that hard.

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      It’s almost as if there should be 3-4 parties because not everyone in one party is going to agree about everything else that others in that party agree with if it’s supposed to represent 50+ percent of the population.

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        Great, I mean you guys keep saying this. I’ve been hearing it from Americans for decades. Maybe that’s the problem, you guys always have this defeatist attitude like “well if the system was better” well it isn’t, so work within it, or you personally get out there and work to change it. Otherwise there’s nothing you can really do but complain. You don’t get to just complain online about a lack of change, you actually have to go out there and help in some way physically

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          I never said I’m American, I live in a place with more than two parties. It’s not perfect but it’s a hell of a lot better than if there were only two.

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          Working within the system would mean to collectively vote for a third party with positions that aren’t as far right as the Democrats. This is why the goons of the system made so much effort to discredit this approach and tell people that voting “the lesser of two evils” is as good as it gets, while also hyping up the next election as the all deciding one, so no one develops long term political strategies against the Oligarchy.