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wurzelgummidge 106 points a year ago

Do either Israel or it's enablers care?

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wurzelgummidge 86 points a year ago

And this is a country whose people have been fed heavily pro-Israel propaganda since the day they were born. What does the rest of the world think ?

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wurzelgummidge 80 points 7 months ago

Talks like shit

Looks like shit

Smells like shit

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wurzelgummidge 62 points a year ago

Global Times, a major Chinese propaganda tabloid,

The Daily Mail, đŸ€Ł

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wurzelgummidge 62 points a year ago

When has Israel ever honoured a ceasefire?

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wurzelgummidge 53 points 8 months ago

The IOC said in a statement it was also cutting off all discussions about any potential Olympic Games bid by Indonesia until the government provided assurances that all athletes, irrespective of nationality, would be eligible to compete there in future.

And yet the IOC bans Russian athletes

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wurzelgummidge 53 points a year ago

I can't remember where I copied this from originally but it seems pertinent here

Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. they know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism.’

Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions.

This is is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores.

An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete.

They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone too irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover).

One might think that a people who once rebelled against the mightiest empire on earth on the principle of no taxation without representation would not meekly accept taxation without adequate government services.

But we accept what we have become used to, I suppose. Even so, one has to ask, what state apparatus in the “free” world could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return, solely in order to enrich a piratically overinflated military-industrial complex and to ease the tax burdens of the immensely wealthy.

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wurzelgummidge 43 points 6 months ago

Wow, have they only just noticed? They also need to take a look at Farage and some of their own media. It's not an accident that fascism is on the rise.

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wurzelgummidge 43 points a year ago

I think it's time for the ICC to start issuing arrest warrants for US leaders, their backers and their repugnant little think tanks

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wurzelgummidge 42 points 8 months ago

The world is being destroyed, physically, economically, and culturally by a small and malignant infestation of greedy parasites. There is little hope for future so why would people want to bring their children into it?

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wurzelgummidge 40 points a year ago

But the once controversial theory has been gaining ground among some intelligence agencies

ie someone at the CIA who wont put their name to it, and a couple of corporate owned German newspapers who they fed it to

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wurzelgummidge 37 points a year ago

Arguing about who said what at this stage is pointless. Did Biden halt arms sales, or did he double down on sending them? If you are trying to stop a genocide you don't send thousands of tons of weapons to a genocidal maniac

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wurzelgummidge 32 points 2 months ago

Should probably avoid the US entirely.

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wurzelgummidge 32 points 7 months ago

Well, of course. If the judge was impartial there is a very real risk Palestine Action would win its case. We can't have that, can we?

Best regards,

The Government

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wurzelgummidge 30 points a year ago

as freedoms dwindle

More like, as US funding dwindles.

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wurzelgummidge 27 points 8 months ago

So German taxpayers are paying even more for American military excess

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wurzelgummidge 27 points a year ago

The idea is to create widespread addiction and societal breakdown.

Israel and their US backers are pure undiluted evil.

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wurzelgummidge 27 points a year ago

That is not a new plan, that has always been the plan.

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wurzelgummidge 27 points 8 months ago

Republicans largely harbor no such fears of Venezuela becoming a similar quagmire.

They harbor no such fears about any of the quagmires they get into because they are all heavily invested in the military industrial complex.

Their aim is not to liberate Venezuela, but to destroy it and steal the oil.

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wurzelgummidge 22 points 10 months ago

adversarial leader who launched the largest land war in Europe since World War II

You're on a roll, AP, don't forget to leave out the uncomfortable bits.

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