• neobunch@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’m a geopolitical hipster, I’ve been hating on Israel and it’s ethno-supremacist genocidal project since 2001, before it was cool to do so.

    (in reality my heart warms and welcomes everyone on the side of humanity)

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      4 days ago

      The second intifada woke me up to world politics. My ex was a photo-journalist of Jordanian heritage. She went to Palestine at the time and showed me photos that made me cry even then. To this day, I cannot fathom how Israel maintains such a choke hold on the media and world governments.

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    3 days ago

    Additionally, one flag has a whole fleet of Death Stars.

    (The EU too, but they are centuries old and inoperative at this point.)

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      The EU is supporting genocide in Palestine, collaborated in the bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yugoslavia… All of that in this very century. Go 80 years back and watch France murdering a million Algerians.

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        Yes, I meant it more like the machines (power source) were older, not that we act benign or don’t have still them, but you are absolutely right, not as inoperative to not cause hardship (or to not support the Murikan ones).

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    4 days ago

    And we will root for the remnants of the republic that was replaced and the rag tag band of freedom fighters?

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      3 days ago

      As in both were perfectly fine religious symbols before they got appropriated by genocidal right-wing governments and now context matters. In that sense you’re right. But only in that sense.

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        Yeah, that was the point I tried to make clear with the comparison. Israel has forced it a symbol of Jewish supremacy and land thieving genocide. It’s unfortunate for those that don’t align with Israel’s ideology.