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It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

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[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, just like in 2001 when 'radical Islam' hated our freedom so we had to invade Iraq? You can say the same about the goal for Israeli leadership, they have long made it clear they don't support a solution that allows Palestine to exist, they want the idea and the people gone. If they got rid of Palestine you don't think they'd have new targets?

What do you even mean Jordan is next?

[-] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually though it wasn't them that rejected the two state solution, Arafat and now Hamas have been very clear 'from the river to the sea' they will not accept a two state solution or any form of existence for Israel

Edit - downvoting literal facts won't change them

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

Dude, we invaded Iraq in 2003.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The righty think-tank justifications and quasi intellectual support for the war began immediately after 9/11, before even. Shhhhiiit, we already done it once.

[-] S_204@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Except for the fact Iraq wasn't calling for the death of all Americans as part of their charter. It's nothing alike, this is more like if Mexico started attacking America every single day and said it wouldn't stop until every American was dead.

The leadership of Hamas has said clearly that Israel is the start, they intend to take Jordan next. They've already tried and failed in Jordan.

Israel has offered something like a dozen internationally backed peace agreements. Each one has been rejected by the Palestinians who refused to acknowledge Israel as a country. What do you mean they've long made it clear? They've made offers over the past twenty years.... they left Gaza entirely in that time. They're not trying now, but they've certainly tried plenty over the years.

Considering Israel has returned land that it's acquired in conflicts, they've shown they're not interested in crossing into Jordan, Egypt and the like. I don't think I've ever seen an argument they're trying to be expansionist beyond the west bank or what their hard right would consider their biblical borders, that's a weird one. Their push to the river is clearly a defensive maneuver to rid itself of a threat that can strike its capital. Peace would eliminate that argument and most Israelis are in favor of leaving the wb and the strip entirely.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

People downvoting.... Where is the lie?

[-] S_204@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

No lie, just Jew hate. People refuse to accept that the propaganda they've swallowed isn't backed by the historical record.

Mother fuckers out there claiming Jesus was a Palestinians Arab FFS. Dude died before Islam was even a thing. It's wild watching the disinformation flying around these days.

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