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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

China supports Palestine; The World Uyghur Congress supports Israel.

Wait... That can't be...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

theres no way

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Turkey is a fucking NATO member, which makes them the USA friend, you goggle-eyed insult to the concept of sapience

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NATO-Stan dorks usually see Turkey as the NATO family's misbehaved step child who's only at Thanksgiving out of obligation. They don't REALLY count as NATO.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But they be brown ppl and brown ppl bad maybe-later-kiddo

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know somebody who was recently arrested and charged with felonies for protesting and the cops themselves couldn't stop mentioning the gays in Palestine thing in between homophobic rants.

These morons are literally the institutions of violence against gays and also think it's hypocritical for gay people to stand with enemies of the US

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reminder that serveral places (and growing) in the USA have banned queer people and womans autonomy.

You had stories about trans people fleeing Florida like 2 months ago, "bootybae1989".

Also Russia is a fucking capitalist country that is only the way it is now because of US meddling. Putin and the oligarchy are a product of that Western capitalist "freedom" the CIA forced on them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You had stories about trans people fleeing Florida like 2 months ago, "bootybae1989".

"Why don't the blue states just take them?" morshupls

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Russia supports Hamas; Ukraine supports Israel.

This in particular stands out as extremely questionable, if not just outright false.

Netanyahu and Putin have been fairly friendly for a long while, and Israel has in many ways sided with Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 (continuing diplomatic relations with Russia when many countries broke off with them, not sanctioning Russia, not sending weapons to Ukraine, etc).

Both Ukraine and Russia have formally condemned the settlements, and Israel has gotten butthurt about it in both cases. Russia is somewhat more aggressive about reaching a two-state solution and making concessions to the Palestinians than Ukraine is, but it’s not a huge difference.

It’s fairly complicated, but overall I don’t think either Ukraine or Russia can be said to be more supportive of Israel (or of Palestine) than the other one is. Israel has a lukewarm relationship with both. There are no strong contrasts to be made here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine%E2%80%93Russia_relations

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Ukraine is also jealous of Israel right now for getting the monetary support of the ghouls-based international order

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Iranian liberation activists sounds like the most NED funded CIA op ever created.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They are. Source: am iranian. We call the ones living in the west Gushahnos.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey what's the Venn diagram of countries that support Israel and countries that harbored Nazis and Japanese war criminals after WW2

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What happened to Africa and Europe?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

big bulldozer

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

China doesn't support Hamas, they issued the most milquetoast centrist "we support a two state solution and not killing civilians" statement imaginable.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

China doesn't support Hamas but it did call for a ceasefire and for the implementation of the Two State Solution.

Whatever your opinions are on the Two State Solution (two Palestines seems excessive to me), it's fundamentally unacceptable to the Zionist regime which de facto puts China into the camp opposing Israel.

China also supported the UNSC ceasefire resolutions that were vetoed by the US.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a video by Ben Shapiro where he harshly criticizes Obama's message about the genocide; Obama's message was hugely pro-Israel and what criticisms there were, were the most milquetoast criticisms I'd ever heard. Shapiro on the other hand was treating this ridiculously mild and occasional criticism as just basically scathing antisemitism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything other than total support and blind faith in the State of Israel is anti-Semitism according to people like Shapiro

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"They're not REALLY our ally"

-NAFO

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"haha yeah why don't you [slur]s go to Nonwhitesville and see how they like your [slur] ass there!"

meanwhile, life as a queer person in the united states: this-is-fine

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i look forward to the wholesale bombing of anti queer american enemy the state of florida

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

i will walk outside and welcome the bombs with open arms

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Read the Hamas charter. There is nothing about freedom or the pursuit of happiness anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

t. guy from a country where prison slavery is explicitly allowed

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yea I picked up the habit to prevent libs from having an easy "well ackshuallynerd"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

fuck 'em, that's one you don't have to hedge on. the 13th amendment is explicit here: "slavery is banned EXCEPT AS PUNISHMENT" means exactly what it means.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their problems are a little more serious than those of slave-owning fancy lads

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Iranian Liberation Activists support Israel!"

Said "liberation activists" being the last Shah's Failson who most Iranians could not give two shits about, a handful of monarchist gusanos in LA and Toronto and some useful morons who actual Iranian dissenters distance themselves from.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

facebook boomer meme level thinking

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

It’s just football to these lunatics

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The "western mindset," build around the highest of the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian ideals, is what has allowed the world to prosper. Even the most recent humanist ideals are built upon those western ideals.

The reason western ideals are not working is that people have abandoned them. Resentment and self-imposed victimization have taken the place of gratitude and accountability. I know I sound like I'm 900 years old, but the reality of that hasn't changed.

True westernism has never been tried.

How do these people believe this stuff beyond like 6th grade? There's no such thing as Greco-Roman ideals, those were slave societies operated by pedophiles and they were in direct conflict with both Jews and Christians. "Judeo-Christian" has never been a thing outside of maybe Jesus himself. Even to the extent that Greece and Rome had specific ideologies, modern people would find them pretty alien. Like they had no concept of biological race, homosexuality was frequently considered superior to being hetero, and religious belief was explicitly syncretic and flexible.

Yeah sure all we have to do is imitate the reign of Elagabalus or and this will make western imperialism stop somehow. These nerds are the worst

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait until they realize that Marxism is "western". Not to mention that westerners gag upon hearing anything that remotely sounds like it was written by Thomas Paine.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Resentment and self-imposed victimization have taken the place of gratitude and accountability

Christianity is pretty famous for it's celebration of victimhood

also are their ideals greco-roman or judeo christian there is quite a bit of conflict there

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Judeo-Christian

I would argue that the alignment of Christian evangelicals and Jewish Zionists constitutes “Judeo-Christian” values, those being settler-colonialism, apartheid and genocide and desire to nuke the entire Middle East

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

::: spoiler literal fash shit in the replies hitler-detector

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I saw this. Complete bozo. I always want to ask them exactly when the west abandoned so called Judeo-Christian values and curiously it's always around the civil rights movement (mid 1960s) that everything started collapsing

Huh I wonder why these nerds wanna return to a time when segregation was legal

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine listing Iranian MEK psychos and Ukrainian Nazis as “the good guys” and listing the Yemeni resistance and China as “the bad guys”

No historical memory

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

no one tell them a lot of trans people also support palestine

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ugh I can never help myself from dunking of libs when I click on that kind of posts.

It's not good for my mental health.

Edit: I dunked on their mod, so I'll probably get banned anyway 👍

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