Speaking of which, I was at the beach yesterday. There was a white lesbian woman with a black trans man. As they were leaving, I noticed the white woman was wearing a shirt that said, "Palestine". <Eye roll> Palestine and Palestinians have become a proxy for every far-left grievance. Worse yet, Trump is a complete disaster and we're on the verge of ecological collapse and all the far-left can do is obsess over a Jewish state. Then, you wonder why people think it's anti-semitic. (I'm Christian fwiw.) If any of you had a set, you'd be on the streets fighting against Trump and fighting for our environment. Instead, you're stuck over-identifying with a group of brown people half a world away in a conflict which really has little impact on most people in this country, which makes it safer for you all than fighting for our own country... because you know white people bad, brown people good. /s |
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/27/the-israel-lobby-works-for-the-us-military-industrial-complex/
Counterpunch - Israeli Lobby is in cahoots with the military industrial complex. Tl;dr: It's a very convenient vehicle to get money into the pockets of the Pro-Israel politicians and the MIC also gets to have their business with those forever wars in the middle east. Trillions of dollars worth of money for wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen etc were all pushed by Israel. See Netanyahu’s Clean Break policy and book on terrorism. |
Huh? I’m white, married to a Jewish man |
| Thank you. I have nothing against the Jewish religion or Jewish people. But I have no desire to support Israel. They are not the same. |
Got to love the Huh? response. That's not an effective comeback. It's nowhere near as disarming as you clearly think. |
+1,000,000 — Israel is very wealthy thanks to our zillions of our tax dollars. |
And Cory. I agree with all of that but I don’t think it hit people as clearly as it does now. |
You’re kinda boring so let’s stop now. |
These ways of silencing people are not effective. Just because you can't tolerate a viewpoint outside your own doesn't make me boring. It makes you intolerant. |
American Politicians defeated by AIPAC because they wanted a more balanced approach to the Middle East. Some really famous names in this list: 1. J. William Fulbright defeated by Dale Bumpers, 1974 2. Charles H. Percy defeated by Paul Simon, 1984 3. Cynthia McKinney defeated by Denise Majette, 2002 4. Earl Hilliard defeated by Artur Davis, 2002 5. Dennis Kucinich defeated by Marcy Kaptur, 2012 6. Marie Newman defeated by Sean Casten, 2022 7. Andy Levin defeated by Haley Stevens, 2022 8. Donna Edwards defeated by Glenn Ivey, 2022 9. Nina Turner defeated by Shontel Brown, 2022 10. Jamaal Bowman defeated by George Latimer, 2024 11. Cori Bush defeated by Wesley Bell, 2024 |
DP Not all viewpoints deserve equal airtime. Some deserve none. For example, radical extremism. I don’t give a single F to hear what you have to say. - Radical, extremist Zionists - Radical, extremist Islamists - Evangelicals and Born Again Christians - Members of the political class who subjugate themselves to any of the first three groups Those four birds of a feather can F right the F off the nearest bridge. No use for them, no time for them, no interest in pretending that their views matter. |
How can we reduce AIPAC’s ownership of our politicians? -American conservative |
I'm so sick of extremists. The people obsessed with Gaza are just like MAGA. |
| Let's stop pretending this is about average people and their viewpoints. This is about monied interests in our politics and about corruption. That is what AIPAC is; legalized corruption on behalf of a foreign country. |