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MTG accuses Democrats of ‘stealing’ House race, shaving GOP majority even further
  • Jesus fucking christ I KNOW.

    I agree with you and you're arguing with your imagined version of me based on a joke. This is completely pointless.

    The fact is, either Trump or Harris was going to win. Making a comparison is fine. I didn't say the dems should only aspire to be better than Trump, I didn't say turnout was not a crucial factor, I didn't say any of this and if you look through my comments from before the election you'll see me saying basically exactly what you are many times.

    I hope that we never talk again

  • MTG accuses Democrats of ‘stealing’ House race, shaving GOP majority even further
  • Maybe he does! But has he ever acknowledged the fact that consumers pay the cost publicly? He always acts like he's making other countries pay.

    Of course he could just be lying for manipulative purposes, it would be very on brand. But what makes you think so in this case specifically?

  • Live reaction to ICC ruling
  • Israel does what it can to minimize civilian deaths.

    How? Whatever it does is clearly not good enough, is it? Or do you think the civilian casualty numbers are acceptable?

    Israel killing children is not done on purpose as you all think. They have the most precise air strikes

    There is no such thing as a precise strike with a 2,000 lb bomb.

    I don't think Israel is purposefully killing children. I just think they don't care who they kill. Please read this:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

    In particular:

    When it came to targeting low-ranking Hamas and PIJ suspects, they said, the preference was to attack when they were believed to be at home. “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” one said. “It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”

  • Live reaction to ICC ruling
  • Israel is fighting terrorism, you people don't see that.

    Yeah we do, we just also see the thousands of dead kids you don't seem to think exist.

    If you want to live under the brotherhood and Muslim extremism, keep looking the other way.

    I don't want that. Obviously. People who disagree with you are not as one dimensional as you might like to think

  • Live reaction to ICC ruling

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    Political Memes @lemmy.world OccamsTeapot @lemmy.world

    Bibi having a normal one after the ICC announcement

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    Masters of War

    You fasten all the triggers

    For the others to fire

    Then you sit back and watch

    While the death count gets higher

    You hide in your mansion

    While the young people's blood

    Flows out of their bodies

    And is buried in the mud

    You've thrown the worst fear

    That can ever be hurled

    Fear to bring children

    Into the world

    For threatenin my baby

    Unborn and unnamed

    You ain't worth the blood

    That runs in your veins

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    Album cover shot

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    Israel’s Self-Destruction: Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect

    www.foreignaffairs.com Israel’s Self-Destruction

    Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the price of neglect.

    Israel’s Self-Destruction

    Archive: http://archive.today/Zm9yl

    >One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a recently established kibbutz near the border of the Gaza Strip. Dayan came to attend the funeral of 21-year-old Roi Rotberg, who had been murdered the previous morning by Palestinians while he was patrolling the fields on horseback. The killers dragged Rotberg’s body to the other side of the border, where it was found mutilated, its eyes poked out. The result was nationwide shock and agony.

    >If Dayan had been speaking in modern-day Israel, he would have used his eulogy largely to blast the horrible cruelty of Rotberg’s killers. But as framed in the 1950s, his speech was remarkably sympathetic toward the perpetrators. “Let us not cast blame on the murderers,’’ Dayan said. “For eight years, they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our estate.” Dayan was alluding to the nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” when the majority of Palestinian Arabs were driven into exile by Israel’s victory in the 1948 war of independence. Many were forcibly relocated to Gaza, including residents of communities that eventually became Jewish towns and villages along the border.

    >Dayan was hardly a supporter of the Palestinian cause. In 1950, after the hostilities had ended, he organized the displacement of the remaining Palestinian community in the border town of Al-Majdal, now the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Still, Dayan realized what many Jewish Israelis refuse to accept: Palestinians would never forget the nakba or stop dreaming of returning to their homes. “Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs living around us,’’ Dayan declared in his eulogy. “This is our life’s choice—to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.’’

    >On October 7, 2023, Dayan’s age-old warning materialized in the bloodiest way possible.

    ....

    >October 7 was the worst calamity in Israel’s history. It is a national and personal turning point for anyone living in the country or associated with it. Having failed to stop the Hamas attack, the IDF has responded with overwhelming force, killing thousands of Palestinians and razing entire Gazan neighborhoods. But even as pilots drop bombs and commandos flush out Hamas’s tunnels, the Israeli government has not reckoned with the enmity that produced the attack—or what policies might prevent another. Its silence comes at the behest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has refused to lay out a postwar vision or order. Netanyahu has promised to “destroy Hamas,” but beyond military force, he has no strategy for eliminating the group and no clear plan for what would replace it as the de facto government of postwar Gaza.

    >His failure to strategize is no accident. Nor is it an act of political expediency designed to keep his right-wing coalition together. To live in peace, Israel will have to finally come to terms with the Palestinians, and that is something Netanyahu has opposed throughout his career. He has devoted his tenure as prime minister, the longest in Israeli history, to undermining and sidelining the Palestinian national movement. He has promised his people that they can prosper without peace. He has sold the country on the idea that it can continue to occupy Palestinian lands forever at little domestic or international cost. And even now, in the wake of October 7, he has not changed this message. The only thing Netanyahu has said Israel will do after the war is maintain a “security perimeter” around Gaza—a thinly veiled euphemism for long-term occupation, including a cordon along the border that will eat up a big chunk of scarce Palestinian land.

    >But Israel can no longer be so blinkered.

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    Top Members of Far-right Swedish Party With neo-Nazi Roots Meet Israeli Minister in Knesset

    lemmy.world Top Members of Far-right Swedish Party With neo-Nazi Roots Meet Israeli Minister in Knesset - Lemmy.World

    Archived link: https://archive.is/20240129190423/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-29/ty-article/.premium/top-members-of-far-right-swedish-party-with-neo-nazi-roots-meet-israeli-minister/0000018d-564e-d0fc-a9bd-5e5f9ff00000#selection-449.0-449.91 [https://archive.is/20240129190423/https://...

    Top Members of Far-right Swedish Party With neo-Nazi Roots Meet Israeli Minister in Knesset - Lemmy.World
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    New Rule: Everything I don't like is antisemitic

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    Geopolitical rule

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    Magpie robs innocent couple

    Step one: acquire container.

    Step two: ???

    Step three: profit

    We've been giving them water in this tupperware all summer but now my bro apparently has his own plans

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    And some morphine to balance your humors

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    And for the love of god don't let him near your flowerbed

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