• plinky [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      (if you are that interesting to fbi, they'll know its not your main phone) but yes

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      It’s good advice, but just know if you’re on a watch list and they have people waiting for you, they also probably have people going through your home to look for your belongings. If that’s your threat level, maybe leave the phone with someone you trust.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 month ago

    whywhywhywhywhy "Woah woah woah, this sounds scary, authoritarian, and racist. But really, we've already tried sending Israel billions of dollars of weapons and scolding them for using the weapons, while sending more weapons and we're just plum out of ideas! So now we're just asking everyone who comes through if they have any ideas about what we should do over there."

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      1 month ago

      Man the Stasi might be my biggest “There’s actually zero difference between good and bad things. You imbecile. You fucking moron.” thing. Like actually “secret police” whose job is to root out fascism and the remnants of Naziism are fundamentally different from “secret police” whose job is to protect Capital.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        Not to mention West German intelligence was literally build by the CIA out of remnants of nazi agencies, and had some real hits in their career like protecting Stepan Bandera when he and his thugs murdered over 100 people in there.

        History is a flat circle.

        • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          Hell, German intelligence were knee deep in the NSU murders and that shit was in the 2000s.

      • Greenleaf [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        On top of that, they really were used as a way to gauge the sentiment of the people. They did actual, normal “information gathering”. And even then, the Stasi had nowhere near the information on you that Google and Facebook do now.

        But yeah, unless you were a fascist, a capitalist reader, or a suspected western intelligence asset, you basically had nothing to worry about.

        • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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          edit-2
          1 month ago

          unless you were a fascist, a capitalist reader, or a suspected western intelligence asset

          but you repeat yourself

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    1 month ago

    Asking whether or not he supports Hamas wasn’t part of the interrogation. More of a compulsive greeting.

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Was it JoJo Rabbit or some other anti-Nazi media that lampooned “Heil Hitler” by having all the characters greet each other with it? I’m imagining that, but you greet each other with “I condemn Hamas, Robert.” “Morning, Steven, I also condemn Hamas.”

    • plinky [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      I think he escaped from there like 15 years ago

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
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      edit-2
      1 month ago

      I think he left israel long ago because he got expulsed from the knesset and some israeli magazine has his face with a target painting on his forehead as a cover iirc.

      Israel does have some precedences in the assassination of politicians who show moderate views or some degree of willingness to uphold peace with the palestinian state

  • BountifulEggnog [they/them]
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    1 month ago

    what is the solution to the "conflict"?

    The complete destruction of the zionist entity. Oh and at least a few people should get thrown in a pit.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      1 month ago

      Squishy liberals always act like that’s some gotcha and there’s just “no good answer”

      No bitch, there’s a specific right answer. Dismantle the illegitimate state of Israel. Create a single, secular state of Palestine with equal rights for all regardless of religion or ethnicity. Have a truth and reconciliation commission and punish those responsible for the genocide, execute Netanyahu and high ranking members of the Israeli military.