oakey66

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[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

They're really milking the Taylor Swift angle.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

lol. So nothing is going to change.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That's a beautiful whataboutism. Didn't realize this article also discussed the moral equivalency of the mistreatment and internment Uyghurs.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Ok. My phone autocorrected "Israel" instead of a misspelling of "Israelis". But again. Never implied all or every. Nor did I write every Israeli rioted.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Dude. I have a top level comment. I wasn't responding to anyone. I responded to the article into which you read another conversation in the post. That's on you not me.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I think you have an issue with parsing words on a screen. Nowhere in what I wrote did I say every. I said Israel as a whole would look for every opportunity to level Gaza and displace the West Bank. Israelis are not in the streets protesting the IDF ripping up roads of Palestinian cities in the West Bank. They're not protesting because there are 40k dead Palestinians (possibly as high as 186k which around 8% of the population). They're protesting dead hostages.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I never said every. You're burying your head in the sand about what Israel has turned into. And don't lecture me on Israel like you have any fucking skin in the game. My grandfather was Israeli. I'm a Jewish refugee in the US. It's not bigotry to factually point out how absolutely atrocious the views of the majority of Israelis are. And how rooted in bigotry it is.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (9 children)

As a Jew who fled the USSR in the 1980s, I fully co-sign Norman Finklestein‘s (a Jewish intellectual and scholar on the subject who lost his family to the Nazi holocaust) assessment that Israel is a sick society.

In October, 58% Israelis polled said that Israel is using too little firepower in Gaza.

In December, they were polled and asked to what extent should Israel take into account the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population. Over 80% said to a little extent.

https://truthout.org/articles/polls-show-broad-support-in-israel-for-gazas-destruction-and-starvation/

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I’m Jewish. Go back to policing someone else.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (63 children)

It's important to understand that this is only because the hostages aren't returned. If every hostage was returned, Israel would be looking for every opportunity to level Gaza and further displace Palestinians in the West Bank. Israelis rioted for the right of soldiers to rape prisoners.

Edit: Israelis rioted instead of Israel.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Same experience. It can serve as a starting point but usually I have to sift through so many bad answers until something usable is made available.

 
 

If you need a clearer example of how the Clintons are opportunist scumbags that will use race to get elected in one breath and throw minorities under the bus if they don't agree with their horrific world views.

 

Absolute shame that this show got canceled.

 

The difference between European countries and America is becoming so stark. Anyone reading or watching global news has to see how backwards this country is and that it’s only getting worse.

 

It’s about time that Intuit was called out for their scam. Hopefully, the attempt to stop the federal tax filing will get dismissed as well.

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