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@lemmy.wtf

VikingHippie 180 points 3 years ago

This smells really fishy. They quote her directly when it comes to her taking the side of Palestinians in general (aka, the oppressed population) but when it comes to her supposed support of Hamas in particular, all there is in the article is a paraphrase of THEIR version, not a direct quote.

Sounds like a political hit job.

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VikingHippie 122 points 2 years ago

Poor guy! Suffering the consequences of his own actions like some non-rich person!

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VikingHippie 110 points 3 years ago

Lemmynsfw: spread the load, you say? I just posted a video of that.

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VikingHippie 102 points 3 years ago

Not every day you see someone flexing about being an irrational coward 😂

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VikingHippie 101 points 3 years ago

Add Johnson to this

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VikingHippie 93 points 3 years ago

Not true. They post hate speech from right wing politicians verbatim all the time.

As for the tweets being somewhere else, it seems that it's this:

Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal

To the inattentive and/or wilfully misinterpreting, that might come off as an endorsement of Hamas as "freedom fighters", but note that she doesn't mention Hamas by name and that Hamas aren't usually the ones filming any of their atrocities.

Add her clarification from a few days later and it's clear she's talking about regular people filming the atrocities of the Israeli oppressors and isn't referring to terrorism at all, unless you define it broadly enough to include the Israeli state terrorism:

I just want to make it clear that this statement in no way shape or form is [inciting] spread of violence," she said. "I specifically said freedom fighters because that's what the Palestinian citizens are... fighting for freedom every day

As I suspected, she didn't do what they said she did. She just had the temerity to speak up against the apartheid regime.

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VikingHippie 90 points 3 years ago

I, too, like to immediately violate the likely terms of plea deals keeping me out of prison in exchange for cult clout!

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VikingHippie 90 points 2 years ago

Whoever is still claiming that Bernie doesn't speak truth to power anymore hasn't been paying attention for the last month or two. Better late than never to return to being the chief advocate for what the people wants but most of Washington doesn't! ✊️

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VikingHippie 85 points 2 years ago

Fun fact: when my country transitioned to a new public authentication app, the default way was to use your passport to register. My passport was expired, though, so I had to show up in person with my birth certificate and social security card equivalent.

To get my birth certificate, I had to show up at the local office with, you guessed it, my passport.

Lucky for me that they accepted it in spite of being expired (none of the pertinent information such as my face, name and birth date had expired, after all), or I would probably be trapped in the loop to this day, years later.

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VikingHippie 82 points 3 years ago

Oh no, did the two huge companies hoarding the rights to the vast majority of popular music in the world while underpaying artists and overcharging everyone else lose some potential revenue?!

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VikingHippie 81 points 3 years ago

No. Absolutely not. Watermarked memes are the scourge of online culture, no matter what you watermark it with.

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VikingHippie 79 points 3 years ago

The initial source (or at least the one linked to in the reddit post) is the vastly inferior microblogging version of xvideos though, so skipping reddit would have been even worse 🤷

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VikingHippie 78 points 2 years ago

I like that the article consistently refers to Meta as what it is, an adtech giant that also runs social media platforms rather than the other way around.

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VikingHippie 77 points 3 years ago

AOC speaking truth to power again ✊️

AIPAC is a bigoted propaganda apparatus for an apartheid state and an endorsement from them should be considered as toxic as an endorsement from the KKK or Rick Snyder who deliberately poisoned the drinking water of Flint, Michigan and then lied about it.

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VikingHippie 75 points 3 years ago

Chuck Norris is a Republican senior citizen, though. He wouldn't feel safe in ANY city.

The "throw police at problems mostly caused by poverty and inequality" reaction tracks too, though.

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VikingHippie 74 points 3 years ago

Why, you ask?

Because the system is corrupt by design. Politicians rely on legal bribes to stay in power and enrich themselves and the people and corporations who oppose treating workers fairly are the ones with the deepest pockets.

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VikingHippie 70 points 3 years ago

If you're not disrupting anything, your protest will invariably be ignored.

The "I support the right to protest as long as it doesn't inconvenience anyone" reeks of a "negative peace" ploy to stifle dissent while appearing to be reasonable in the eyes of other Enlightened Centrist hypocrites.

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VikingHippie 69 points 3 years ago

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VikingHippie 68 points 2 years ago

If you think THIS is distasteful, you should see what priests do..

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VikingHippie 67 points 3 years ago

usually without being arrested by the police

That's the good part, though. Problematic drug use is a health problem and should be treated as such rather than a criminal and moral one.

And that's not even mentioning what often happens when cops interact with members of any marginalized group..

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