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[–] 133 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Idk why this is treated as though its so inconceivable. Greta is hated by conservatives around the world. Most countries have already condemned Israel. They only care what Trump's regime thinks. Their prisons are notorious centers of physical emotional and sexual torture. This is relatively mild treatment in comparison to many of the accounts I've read. It's still awful, but if they were going to invent a story about how vile the Israeli prison guards were, this wouldnt be noteworthy in any way. Barely even scratches the surface of the things that happen in those prisons.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    English really needs to stop calling the right wing "conservatives". We don't call them that in other languages, and they literally don't try to conserve things, but instead always seek to destroy.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Not all the right wing is conservative of course and you are right about it, but you are wrong about the meaning of conservative, being a conservative mean those who in politics uphold the value of tradition, oppose any progressive ideology, and aim to preserve traditional social and political structures

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    At their core, Conservatives are cowards, afraid of EVERYTHING: Democrats, Liberals, Minorities, other religions, other countries, poor people, women, women's private parts, gays, and anyone else who wants society to improve their lives.

    Conservatives are fully satisfied with the way things are, and are terrified that any changes in society would be at the expense of the superior situation that they have created for themselves over centuries.

    Their overwhelming need for control over all else has allowed corruption in every form to take root, and they feel far less need to end that, than their need to punish their perceived enemies.

    So the result is the MAGA Party, whose primary function is to support the concepts of greed, treason, racism, corruption, incompetence, ignorance, intolerance, and pedophilia.

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is a terribly written comment.. There is a better way to say what you're trying to say. I think. I'm not 100% on what your point really is.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Their point is right there taking up half the comment:

    being a conservative mean those who in politics uphold the value of tradition, oppose any progressive ideology, and aim to preserve traditional social and political structures

    In other words, they're "conserving" traditional values.

    However this isn't really true, and @Lumisal@lemmy.world is correct that this isn't really what they're doing. It's how they think they're behaving, but they have a distorted view on history and see it through rose tinted glasses, often trying not to conserve but to "restore" society to some half-cocked version that never really existed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Absolutely true, but all of that is just the marching orders from the leadership to keep the rubes occupied and distracted, while they fulfill whatever personal agendas they have, mostly stealing as much as possible, but also committing treason, getting their rocks off abusing people, and kissing their Fuhrer's stinky ass.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Presumably because anyone with half a brain would realize that she should have gotten a far more diplomatic treatment regardless of how much of a genocidal asshole they were. The fact that she is getting treated this way shows how far Israel has devolved to and how much more people people should be protesting any interaction with the country.

    Unfortunately, it isn't the only Middle East country who behaves like shit, whom people in other countries have protested, and whom their governments don't care. But at least the fiction of what Israel was trying to project itself as has toppled considerably.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Of course she deserved better treatment. So did Sophie Scholl. It's just very odd to act like this is not a believable thing that Israel, famed mass murderers of children, would do.

    Israel hasn't devolved, the state was founded on acts of colonialist genocide. This is what the state of Israel has always been.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    At the same time, she is also a public figure. If they had treated her well, they would have less of a leg to stand on. Whereas mistreating her just raises the question that if they are treating a relatively known public figure in that way, what happens to the less-known people, who don't have as much of a platform to speak out on.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They abused her less than some other people so it is ok. What kind of dumb logic is that?

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