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Screenshot of a chain of tweets: @LegitTayUpdates (Taylor Swift Updates): 💬| UPDATE|| As most of you know, I haven’t been very active in the past couple of months because I was in prison :/
I’m back now though :) more Taylor Swift updates coming soon!

@ali_ansel: omg why

@LegitTayUpdates: 💬| I refused to join the IDF Imao

      • Norah (pup/it/she)
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        2 months ago

        You do know that Israel and the IDF have been murdering Palestinians for a long, long time before Oct 7, right?

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          Exactly - it was well after there was a reason to hate them, but well before hating them was cool.

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                I’m really talking about the last 80 years or so that the Israeli Defence Force has existed, I’m not necessarily talking about Israel or Zionism. They have always committed human rights abuses. I’ve personally hated the IDF since I was but 7 or 8 during the Second Intifada. When you’re too young to understand propaganda or media bias, but can see civilians being murdered on the news, that radicalises you to believe the people killing civilians en masse are evil.

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                  2 months ago

                  Actually this is a common psychology campaign. In war they make you treat your enemy as less than human because it’s easier for some to pull the trigger. Articles using key terminology spins the web a certain way.

                  • Norah (pup/it/she)
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                    2 months ago

                    I mean, yeah, I know that. But when you’re young, autistic and think every single person deserves basic human rights, that kind of propaganda does not work.