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  • YoungSheldonAdelson [they/them]
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    37 minutes ago

    CW for childhood bs and brief mention of billdawg, racism/white supremacy

    All right, this is finally something I have wanted to talk about for a while. I grew up in the US in the-other-South in one of those interim Protestant marginally pro-zionist households with a church and family that was trending toward MAGA evangelical Christianity and all that entails. As a young geography nerd(geography bee school champion in the 5th grade nbd nbd) I might have been more clued into this stuff than I should have been which is why I even asked my family about Israel in the first place. These fully grown adults told me that the Israelis in Israel were the same Israelis that we read about in the Bible in church and Sunday school every week. Forgive me, but lying to children is bad. And a sin, if you believe in that sort of thing. Matthew 18:6

    I think it is worth dissecting the lie and to contextualize where it came from. Otherwise, we will wind up confused, like our dear President Lolita Express. What you are hearing from Bill here is the lie that US Christians have been telling themselves for the past 50 years to protect their white supremacy and commit and contribute to genocide without ever having to feel bad or reflect on it.

    My grandfather served in the US military during WWII, but didn't go overseas. When I knew him he couldn't get enough of the History Channel WWII docs. He once got mad at a Sikh person for wearing a turban on Wheel of Fortune and immediately became irate that Pat Sajak would allow a Muslim person on his favorite game show, like 8 years after 9/11.

    We wouldn't really talk about Israel or Jewish people in our household or church but what we did talk about was Jesus' apocalyptic return. This is the pre-internet 90s, everything I know comes from the people around me. And these people, my family, told frightening stories. What I knew about Jewish people is that they were going to hell for not being Christian, same with the Mormons and the JWs and everyone else.

    My aunt was addicted to those Left Behind novels, we watched the movie Tribulation with Gary Busey half a dozen times. In our household, the End Times were upon us, imminently. But in the meantime, our church began bringing in wackier and wackier speakers, evolution and stem cell therapies were a hot topic for denouncement from the pulpit every Sunday. And we celebrated sending missionaries to Ukraine(true story). As it turns out, it was always just about white supremacy, our old church had been a meeting place for the KKK in the 50s, and in the 80s my grandmother had led the movement to resegregate the black and white Baptist congregations in our city, which was successful as I don't think I ever saw a black person in our church. One of the Republican state senators who wrote my state's anti-trans 'bathroom bill' was a prominent member of our church

    This is all to say that I had no idea what a Palestinian was until maybe 2010. I've learned a lot since then.

    (I am going to continue a little later. Full sending this first half before my screen goes blank.)

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    39 minutes ago

    So I assume all the settlers will be moving out of the US and back to Europe immediately? After all, the Native American peoples were there first.

  • vegeta1 [none/use name]
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    1 hour ago

    "Want to kill Israelis" hundreds of thousands of palestinians are dead. Famine so bad IPC classification It estimates that 677,000 people, or 32% of all Gazans, are in “catastrophic” conditions today and a further 41% are in “emergency” conditions. It expects fully half of Gazans, more than 1 million people, to be in “catastrophe” or “famine” within weeks. "comparison, the worst famine on the IPC record books struck Somalia in 2011, through a combination of war, drought and a shutoff in aid. At its nadir, 490,000 people were in “catastrophe” conditions with a larger number in “emergency” conditions. An estimated 258,000 people perished over 18 months."

    "Make israel uninhabitable " "It could take 350 years for Gaza to rebuild if it remains under a blockade, UN report says

    Shut up

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    2 hours ago

    Those are Zionist talking points to justify colonialism, there’s no connection to the current settlers occupying Palestine.

    Also, Bill “Epstein” Clinton should stop breathing.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 hours ago

    If people ever wonder what Germany would have been like today if the Nazis had won, all you have to do is to look at America.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 hours ago

    Bill Clinton just endorsed unlimited genocide on americans because they weren't there first.

  • pancake@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 hours ago

    So if one calls a country "Roman Empire" that means they were there before and have a right over the entire Mediterranean?

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 hours ago

    epstein I'm still blackmailed to death by Pissreal so you have to support them too!

    Berating people for the crime of compassion. Bold move, Cotton. Idk if I were kamala-coconut-tree I'd try to keep the Esptien particles as far away from my campaign as possible. But this is Kopmala so......

  • regul [any]
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    4 hours ago

    They are telling you loudly and clearly that they do not want your vote.

  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 hours ago

    Its funny to me that people think being a Rhodes Scholar is a prestigious thing. Every one I know of is a complete idiot ghoul

  • Andrzej3K [none/use name]
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    4 hours ago

    If blood and soil mattered — which it shouldn't unless you are a literal fucking fascist ffs I mean jfc — the Palestinians have the best claim to being the descendents of those tribes anyway.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    3 hours ago

    Monica Lewinsky did nothing wrong unlimited blue dresses on the Clinton household

    • Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 hour ago

      This but unironically. She was sexually assaulted by her insanely powerful boss who should be rotting in the clink instead of standing at the podium