the empire has no clothes

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drolex@sopuli.xyz · 151 pts · 337d (18 replies)

Hey he's not a terrorist! He's a war criminal and a genocider. Please.

dessalines@lemmy.ml · 83 pts · 337d (4 replies)

He is absolutely a terrorist also. He fits every definition of one.

Side point but where does this "one-upper" tendency come from? Just let people describe things in terms that make sense to them.

drolex@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 337d (3 replies)

I would think that genocide is some order of magnitude worse than terrorist (which is obviously very shitty to begin with), so I would like to make it clear that Bibi is somewhere at the top of my personal ranking of shit people.

But terrorist is fine (if I may say so), too.

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 337d

It's not an "either/or" scenario. He can be both.

Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 337d (1 reply)

He is responsible for a genocide in Gaza and possibly in the West Bank but also a terrorist in the other countries they are attacking like the pager attacks that killed children and other innocents in collateral damage.

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 337d

Israel: rigs consumer electronics to explode

Also Israel: throws a fucking tantrum over boycotts directed at them

Assassassin@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 337d (5 replies)

I mean, blowing up aid vans and air striking refugee encampments is pretty terrorist-y

drolex@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 337d (4 replies)

Fair enough. Terrorist and war criminal and genocidist then

Assassassin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d (3 replies)

And his haircut is shit.

trolololol@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d (1 reply)

Ok he's a terrorist and war criminal and genocidist and wears a bad hair cut. Anything else?

Assassassin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d

Probably has bad taste in music. Huge fan of U2, I'd bet.

Zerush@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 337d

It's legit to call this asshole and all his supporters what ever you want, except animal names to not insult these

Greddan@feddit.org · 32 pts · 337d
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culprit@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 337d (2 replies)

It is just different levels of specificity really. I found the meme and didn't think to edit it. I think terrorist would be applicable especially for the pager attack, Doha strike on negotiators, attacks of Iranian scientists, etc. Maybe you should look up the Mossad use of terrorism if you are not aware.

degen@midwest.social · 7 pts · 337d

Was about to bring up the pagers cause that's literal state sanctioned terrorism any way you look at it. It's still surprisingly unsurprising that we're cool with it.

drolex@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 337d

The man has many talents, I have to admit

alaphic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d (2 replies)

Hey, hey, hey... That's fucked up; you can't just call someone a 'genocider' lile thaf...

It's genocid*-ist*

drolex@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 337d (1 reply)

I was wondering what's the right word? It's bizarre, it's like genocides happen without a cause à la "thousands of people have been taken in a genocide" - oh well these things happen you know, no one to blame 🤷‍♂️

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 337d

I've been using genocidier.

carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 337d (1 reply)

america when it sees a terrorist:

Stock photo of a white man looking at himself in a mirror

Xanthobilly@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 337d

Haha, like they’d ever be that fit.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 337d (5 replies)

Whats the bottom pic?

culprit@lemmy.ml · 99 pts · 337d (4 replies)

Mass UN walkout when Netanyahu started speaking.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 64 pts · 337d

For others wondering this happened today:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/netanyahu-un-speech-israel-gaza-b2834372.html

This dude is such a clown. THE CURSE -> Shows a bunch of countries that his country has been committing warcrimes against for decades.

Pothetato@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 337d (2 replies)

What's the top pic?

dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 41 pts · 337d

Netanyahu addressing the US Senate

culprit@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 337d

joint session of US Congress (Senate and House of Representatives)

Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 337d (3 replies)

Netanyahu claimed foreign leaders who “public condemn us privately thank us. They tell me how much they value Israel’s superb intelligence services that have prevented, time and again, terrorist attacks in their capitals.” He did not say which countries’ leaders had privately thanked him.

“So Benjamin, are those leaders in the room with us right now?”

Even the US pulled their senior diplomats who’d normally be there and sent the interns instead lmao

Tidesphere@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 337d (2 replies)

He's not trying to say that their Intel service has helped. He's trying to emphasize "privacy" and "Israeli intelligence service" to remind people that Mossad has dirt on them, without literally saying that, imo

Kornblumenratte@feddit.org · 8 pts · 336d

He's talking to his domestic audience, trying to reassure them that his genocide in Gaza is not destroying the international support Israel needs to survive.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 337d

How about we all agree to bomb Israel and see if they have any intelligence left after that?

Intergalactic@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 337d (3 replies)

It took them a really long time to realize. I remember getting ridiculed by dems last year for criticizing Israel.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 337d (1 reply)

Now you just get arrested for it. Progress

zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d

Hey, at least we didn't elect the "soft on Israel laughing Camella"!

Instead we got "raise the place and build a Resort/Casino" Orange fascist to make sure the genocide is done quickly and effectively.

It's what we voted for.

/S?

Zerush@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 336d

We getting ridiculed in pro.Palestine dems more than 50 years ago. Israel occupy since 70 years illegal palestinian territory

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 337d

Where is that parody video of the top event where they announce Netanyahu as a baby killer

t_var_s@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 336d

That's a fascist.

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 337d (13 replies)

I’m not yet ready to cede the term “American” to those who would support genocide.

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 337d (3 replies)

Yeah, I use USAmerican to differentiate it from the rest of the American nations.

AmeriKKKan is also acceptable.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 337d (1 reply)

Also Yankee if they're from one of the places that get really mad when they're called Yankees.

nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 337d

In Australia we call them Seppos.

Yank > Septic Tank > Seppo.

It also works in that they’re both full of shit.

parody@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 337d

USA has a horrible history of genocide and disruption and imperialism and all that of course—still have found “AmeriKKKa” to be cringe for some reason IDK why

Maybe cuz folks who’ve used it haven’t been eloquent or something? Seriously not sure here, again USA has committed countless crimes and def has Ku Klux Klan in its history

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 337d (5 replies)

Did you miss, like, the last 500 years or something?

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 337d (4 replies)

It wasn’t Americans who invaded America…

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 337d (3 replies)

How many genocided peoples called it America before the colonizers started killing them?

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 337d (2 replies)

I mean… Japan isn’t called Japan in Japanese either. Unfortunately we don’t speak Mayan, or Incan, or Cherokee, or etc.…

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 337d (1 reply)

I'm fairly certain they wouldn't collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 337d

My point was that it’s the only word we have in English.

culprit@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 337d

If you are paying taxes, you support it whether you wish to or not. Don't you love living in a great democracy?

shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 337d

This has to be satire.

catscape@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 337d

when are liberals going to drop the nationalism and admit that america has always been like this

TopsickPilgrim@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d (1 reply)

That's not all Americans just the people they pay to represent them. Also I think the other half remained seated, or refused to show up.

that_one_guy@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 337d

When everyone else is willing to get up and leave sitting instead of standing kind of doesn't hit as hard.