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  • threshold [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    so stupidly excited to see what fucked neolib and/or neocon shit that Captain America: New World Order (real name) featuring Israel's first superhero is going to achieve

    • Mizokon [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      they really calling a film with explicitly Jewish characters "New World Order"? Who tf came up with this?

      • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Under Capitalism expressions of minority pride are deliberately tied to negative stereotypes about those minorities by opportunistic Capitalists, so that sincere expressions of pride become reduced to a "kick me" sign by the culture industry, and placed on the back of said minorities by Capital. This is what happens when you have the liberal right to express yourself but no real protections from violence, and no ability to negotiate the terms on which your pride is expressed.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      For once and for all the NWO will vanquish the Damas. Damas has been tirelessly fighting against democracy and freedom for thousands of years from their entirely unnamed locale in the Middle East. These ghastly creatures speak no known human language but it certainly does sound like a stripped down, gutteral and crude dialect of Arabic. In their black and white cowls the army of the mindless, bloodthirsty Darkestinians have committed great evil and as they—

      Wait a minute. This sounds somehow familiar.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I really wish Israel would stop doing shit that lines up perfectly with the most insane antisemitic conspiracy theories on earth.

    Stop running cabals!!! Do you not understand the optics here???

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I don't think Israel cares if people are Nazis because Nazis help discredit criticism of Israel.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I'm Jewish and it creeps me out how some Israelis have conflated the word Jewish with the word Israeli. And for them there's the additional possibility of being an honorary Jew if you are rabidly pro-Israel.

        • rubpoll [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Same. I'm Jewish and constantly begging other older American Jews to stop acting like Israel = Judaism and Judaism = Israel.

          • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            I think if I was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at a Denny's and I stood on a chair and in a loud voice I said "Israel does not equal Judaism and Judaism does not equal Israel. Thank you for your kind attention," - many elderly Jew's first thought would be that they'd like to hobble over to me, knock me down, and beat me to death with their walker or their cane.

                  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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                    2 years ago

                    I don't know if I would ever actually mess around with elderly Jews. I can also imagine one of them getting on their cell phones with it's huge buttons and using speed dial...

                    "Hello, Moishe. I am leaving you a message because I want to know if you can do me a very big favor. You know your friend the Russian ex-gangster? Please tell him that I want some lawn work done immediately. I understand I must pay a premium. But the grass must be cut right away. Love to you and your grandchildren. Oh - and see you at Chanukah!"

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Israel is above all things a White supremacist settler-colonial project. They merely abuse Jewish mythology and history as a thin veneer to justify what they are doing to Palestinians. Both zionists and nazis are more than happy to play along with the charade.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      the Israeli state has a vested interest in fanning the flames of antisemitism abroad to cause migration to Israel and win its demographic war at home against its apartheid underclass

  • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Chuds always miss the mark - "all da Jews are part of a cabal!!!!" And they go an harass like, some jewish dude down the street in his garden instead of like, the government officials that are teaming up withthe apartheid settler state

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly who isn't these days? My plumber is an automated gun installed at a checkpoint in Palestine.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Let’s begin with the classic case of US military film propaganda. In The Green Berets, Western star John Wayne convinces sceptical news reporters that the Vietnam War is necessary and leads a team of Green Berets (US Special Forces) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers on a successful mission to capture a top North Vietnamese field commander.

      During production of Green Berets, the DOD requested that the scriptwriter delete any mention of the soldiers entering Laos because it ‘raises sensitive questions.’ Presumably, these questions revolved around the fact that in the real world the US had been secretly bombing a neutral country for the past three years.
      In a scene that explains the purpose of the war at the start of the film, Francis Tully, Speech Review Staff for the Department of State, also suggested that the scriptwriters insert the following language:

      We do not see this as a civil war, and it is not. South Vietnam is an independent country, seeking to maintain its independence in the face of aggression by a neighbouring country. Our goal is to help the South Vietnamese retain their freedom, and to develop in the way they want to, without interference from outside the country.

      These lines do not appear in the final film, but Tully’s suggestion indicates that he hoped to simplify the war in Vietnam in a way that Americans could support, and this simplification occurs though in the final version of the scene, as military leaders explain to reporters that the war boils down to stopping 'Communist domination of the world.'

      from National Security Cinema by Alford & Secker

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        We do not see this as a civil war, and it is not. South Vietnam is an independent country, seeking to maintain its independence in the face of aggression by a neighbouring country.

        We do not see this as a civil war, and it is not. The Confederate States of America is an independent country, seeking to maintain its independence in the face of aggression by it's northern neighbor.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    A little surprised they haven't already straight up introduced an IDF Superhero. Israeli Captain America meets Jack Bauer or something.

  • Joker [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    They’re adding an Israeli superhero whose power is being a mossad agent soooo