• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    "In a video, Mast can be seen calmly telling the demonstrators, “It would be better if you kill all the terrorists and kill everyone who are supporters.”

    When asked if he has seen the images of Palestinian babies killed in Israeli attacks, Mast says, “These are not innocent Palestinian civilians.”

    “The babies?” the activists asks in astonishment.

    Mast then says that the “half a million people starving to death” should have elected a pro-Israel government.

    When one protester points out that much of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed, Mast says, “And there’s more infrastructure that needs to be destroyed.”

    “Did you not hear me? There’s more that needs to be destroyed,” he says again for emphasis."

    This guy has no business being anywhere near public office. Fucking Florida again.

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      Ah yes, they should have elected a pro-Israeli government in the checks notes 2006 election when over half of Gaza’s pre-genocide population either wasn’t born yet or wasn’t old enough to vote.

      Fuck this fucking pro-genocide bastard.

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        Also, why the fuck would they vote for a “pro-Israel” government after that state has violently oppressed them, to the point of genocide, for several decades at that point?

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        Not to mention that even back then, they had already been depriving them of food and supplies, taking their territory, killing or imprisoning them randomly without charge, uprooting their olive trees and other forms of livelihood, killing their civilians wars, etc for 50 years. Neither Fatah or Hamas or the PFLP support Israel, that wasn’t an option in that election because no one would’ve fucking voted for that!

        It would be like saying if the most recent generation of Native Americans didn’t want to die, their parents should have all elevated pro-American colonies chiefs after years of genocide had been already ongoing. In what universe would that make sense?

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        Lots of us would love if about half our government played buckshot roulette with each other but it’s real tough to get anything done with wave after wave of “Be afraid, Be angry” propaganda every 30 minutes.

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    “I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”

    Not that this is at all the point of any of this, but yes we very much fucking would, and did. Ministers in the UK government pushed back against Churchill’s desire to bomb German civilians in retaliation for the bombing of London, saying it would “put us on the same plane morally as they are.” Eventually of course there was bombing of non-military targets in Germany, including the infamous firebombing of Dresden, and the British war government faced some fiery criticism at home because they were killing innocent people, and many of the British people understood that deliberately killing innocent people isn’t a part of legitimate war strategy, whatever it is that the guilty people were doing that you’re “retaliating” for.

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      Yeah but we’re talking about the US here and uhh…

      Inconspicuously steps in front of footage of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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      I think it’s also worth pointing out the inherent falseness of the analogy. They were innocent German civilians, not Nazi civilians. By equating Germans with Nazis, Mast is equating Palestinians with Hamas.

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      LordHardThrasher has been doing an excellent series on YouTube on the failures of the Allied bombing campaign, and why it shows democracies are better than dictatorships.

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      If Israel killed pregnant Palestinian women the GOP would find a way to blame the mother for being in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

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      Honestly I’m just surprised they aren’t embracing forced abortions on anchor babies at this point.

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      Why do you think they are so angry and crazy all the time - all that cognitive dissonance rattling around in those hat racks has to really hurt after a while.

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    It’s true, guys! Hamas has a baby brigade trained to infiltrate Israeli barracks at night and wake them up by crying ridiculously loudly until someone feeds them.

    Diabolical!

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        It could make a great “comedy of errors”/social satire style movie. Have the kid’s mischief mistaken for a terrorist cyber attack.

        By the end of it all, the kid is “rescued” from the “attack” and hailed as an American hero; a symbol of perseverance.

        Call the kid Chauncey Gardener or something…

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        He agrees with you regarding the genocide you support.

        You said you weren’t gonna post in this community anymore.

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            You’re following me into communities you proclaimed you would no longer post in just to lob abuse at me because you’re mad at me.

            This is some reddit shit.

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              The fallacy won’t land because remeber, you don’t even know how to read like you did wirh the issue about the democrats.

              I am not mad I am just pointing out that your fallacy is bad because you lack the understanding what you read. And that is what makes you angry.

              So vark whatever you want, it won’t change the fact that you defend the republicans while screaming bOtH sIdEs, and I never said that you claim I said just because you don’t understand what you read like with the democrats behind something with a really bad name, that you claim it was bad but didn’t try to read what it was about because of your ignorance

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                  Lol, you find 30 bad things to say about the democrats in a post about the republicans doing bad things… but yeah bOtH sIdEs hahahah

                  But the funniest thing is that you don’t say anything about your lack of understanding while comprehension about what you fail to read hahahaha

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    Remember: One side doesn’t care about dead babies. The other reacts with glee.