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[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

All people's nationalities are made up.

Just like all nation state borders.

Just like all religions.

Hell, someone pulled your vaunted, family crest owning last name directly out of their asshole at some point in your ancestry. It's all just ego stroking bullshit.

The problem, as always, is that people take these made up bullshit designations seriously, to the point of mass murder.

We are all actually the same species, capable of similar highs and lows of emotion, of pain, of hunger.

Too bad most everyone refuses to start and end with that, because if we're all equally deserving of empathy and resources, how can I get mooooooaaaaar than those other people I'm clearly better than? Because my Parents, President, and Priests said I deserve more than those bad people that live in the wrong place and suck the wrong imaginary friend's imaginary dick.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Am Canadian.

Canada didn’t exist a few hundred years ago.

Are we made up people too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Have you seen Canadian money? Its like Monopoly bills.

And maple syrup doesn't exist. Who even believes you can get sugar from a tree?

/s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Genuine question: To all the Democrats who chose not to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Palestinian issue, what's your thought process?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

thanks for not voting. that was really smart

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’ve already commented but sorry I got to say

“The first ever mention of an ancient land called Israel was by an Egyptian Pharaoh, Merneptah, 3429 years ago,” reads a meme that has made the rounds on Facebook. “The first ever mention of an ancient land called Palestine was by an Egyptian opportunist, Yasser Arafat, 57 years ago.”

Literally the Do you have a flag argument.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Didn't the Romans call it Palestine after crushing a Jewish uprising? So no not 57 years ago.

Anyways the Arab voters made their bed by voting for Trump and not genocide joe or whatever they called Harris.

Good luck with that now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Doubly insane when the first mention of what's thought to be the Palestinians was by Ramesses III, 3199 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's as if "first" has become a legitimate argument for existence

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

The entire United States has some problems if "was there thousands of years ago" indicates who should be allowed to control and oppress people now.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Face palm. It's fucking tragic what is about to escalate for the Palestinians. I hope all the people that blathered on with nonsense about "Genocide Joe" are able to do some self-reflection.

FFS.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Narrator: They aren't.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Surprising no one they all vanished back into nothing.

Like the "swift boat veterans for truth"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

That should make things better for the Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I wish it wasn't so tragic, so I could laugh at people who couldn't vote for Harris because Biden didn't single-handedly stop the genocide.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Today they were kinda proved right, though. After having imposed another deadline on Israel and that deadline having again expired they again won’t stop sending arms to Israel. Even when this is the last fucking chance before Trump is taking over. You can’t just ignore this shit.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (11 children)

The great majority of those people aren't on here talking about it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Well, the Russian trolls aren't needed anymore now that Trump won.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I didn't expect Biden to stop the genocide.

I expected him to try.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

"Made up" people or made up "people"? Quotes matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hey look, Mormon Jesus really did appear to Joseph Smith and told him to start a church and sell spots in heaven for any family that wed their daughter to him.

[My father] asked me if I would be sealed to Joseph ... [Smith] said to me, 'If you will take this step, it will ensure your eternal salvation & exaltation and that of your father's household & all of your kindred.['] This promise was so great that I willingly gave myself to purchase so glorious a reward.

  • Helen mar Kimball, who was 14 at the time they married.

Sounds all very legit, daughter for heaven. Mormon Jesus is just cool like that.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I, for one, am shocked. Shocked I tell you.

Who could have guessed Trump would appoint somebody who doesn't recognize the victims of genocide as real people? It's not like Trump called pro-Palestinians protestor "pro-Hamas thugs" and "jihad sympathizers" or said "I will give Israel the support that it needs to win but I do want them to win fast" or called attempts by Biden to negotiate a cease fire an attempt to "tie Israel's hand behind its back".

How could anybody have known? By looking at how he handled conflicts in the area during his first administration? What are we? A nation of nerds that try to make educated decisions about our political leaders?

/s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What real difference does this make though? I honestly don't see what actually is going to change in Gaza. Yes, Biden isn't overtly racist against Palestinians, but he doesn't consider them human beings either. He's given Israel a complete blank check to do whatever they want. And I expect that to continue unchanged under Trump. As a practical matter, I really don't see what Trump can do that Biden already hasn't. Trump will just be a lot ruder about it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

If you call yourself anything but a human being, youre making it all up

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Americans voted for this, especially if they blew off voting.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

The whole world is about to take an L because of us

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

"See, it's not genocide, because they aren't actually people."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Mike lookin a lot older since I last saw him, hope he dies soon 🤲

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