US Senator Lindsay Graham has just tweeted an article titled “Greta Thunberg sets sail with Gaza flotilla that aims to break Israeli naval blockade,” adding the comment, “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”

Australian Zionist think tanker Arsen Ostrovsky somehow outdid Graham, tweeting “Oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla…”

There’s not a lot that can shock me about Israel and its supporters these days. But if you’d traveled back in time a few years ago it would be hard to explain to someone how we got to a timeline that includes Israel supporters openly advocating the assassination of Greta Thunberg.

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      Uh, yeah, because that would make you basically hitler. Saying we should protect blonde haired blue eyed youths? How far off the 14 words is that really, dude?

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    I gotta say I’ve gotten scared a few times these past couple of days with so many posts about Greta reaching the front page. Hearing about the boat that she decided to not be on getting attacked, her going there with another boat and them threatening her. And then opening Lemmy and seeing several different posts with her face as the thumbnail just thinking “please, no, don’t be bad news” and then being relieved she’s not dead, been taken hostage, or anything else bad. We need her.

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      She was on a boat that got bombed, survived, and went back out. She has balls of steel, but I fear that she’s setting herself up to be a martyr. There has to be some reasonable way for her to headline and lead resistance that doesn’t end in her likely overlooked death. The people who her passing would activate are already mostly active.

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    I was asked why I got radicalised. This would’ve been another event to radicalise me if I wasn’t already

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    That’s how you now you’re on the right side of history, when you want to kill somebody trying to bring food to starving humans.

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      I don’t think they give a fuck about being on the right side of history. They just care about being on The Right.

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        True Zionists legitimately believe they are fighting a righteous holy war with the lord on their side. They believe they will be vindicated by God. To them, people like Greta are agents of evil.

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          They’re also brainwashed to believe that Palestinians are all subhuman terrorists who want all Israelis dead.

          Not that much different to post-9/11 anti-Muslim campaigns leading into Iraq and Afghanistan, Red Scare propaganda, Nazi antisemitic propaganda, etc.

          Israel’s government is basically being run by Dick Cheney’s clone. If Netanyahu actually cared about Israelis, then this genocide would have never happened.

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          The fucking ten commandments sau Thou shall not kill. Literally written in fucking stone. I wish it was real just so they could all go straight to hell and be fucking tortured for entirety.

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            I mean you say that and then God had them murder the Canaanites

            That the Hebrews and Canaanites were actually the same people and none of it actually happened is an interesting wrinkle though

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              But then there’s all the apocalypse bullshit and the modern interpretation that thermonuclear war in Jerusalem (or thereabouts) is going to get these fuckwads raptured.

              Meanwhile young men in the US are increasingly joining fundamentalist churches (like Catholics that wear veils), and claiming it’s because it gives them something “real and true” unlike social media I guess?

              I’ll probably be dead before it collapses and surely before it recovers. But it all feels so avoidably dumb.

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            Different sects of the same religion hate each other (catholics and protestants, shia and sunni muslims, hasidic jews and every other jew, etc). It’s not that much of a stretch that different religions under the same umbrella also hate each other.

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            They have different interpretations though, which is where their problem is

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      those Christians should celebrate that the Romans tortured and murdered jesus for giving away bread and fish.

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      When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.

      Hélder Câmara, who was in the resistance and liberation of Brazil from the military dictatorship

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      I hope they realize that she’d instantly become a martyr and her death would only galvanize the resistance against them.

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        Will it though? They’ve been killing civilians for decades and ramped up recently to include medics, journalists and even diplomats…
        Mango Mussolini’s in the White House so their asses are covered and supplied, as always, now more than ever.
        The media and many governments have been turning to the right.

        She’ll be news for a couple of days and then it’s business as usual. Some instances will issue even more stern “don’t be naughty” BS and… nothing will happen.

        I really hope i’m wrong though.

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    I’m getting real tired of mods defending Nazis and suppressing any comments about how to defend against them.

    Americans are fucking pussies.

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      It is illegal to call for violence online.

      Except if you call for for the full mass murder of two million brown people including 1 million children. That is totally normal and accepted in Western society. And the murder of Greta Thunberg of course.

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        The poors don’t matter, their lives don’t matter, the poor browns might as well be cockroaches.

        But wouldn’t you think of the humanity of the healthcare CEO, their friends, family and loved ones? All life is precious??

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      Boycott .world by getting an account on a different instance. They dont deserve the popularity they have.

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      The politics mod on that community was accusing people of being Nazis, when your pointing out Jewish donors were behind censorships at universities, and well known actors like Seinfeld and his wife was funding those efforts

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        They removed anything calling out Gaza, calling anyone who is anti-genocide a useful idiot, and why everything bad has happened in America/the world.

        They are okay with murder if it gets them what they want. .world is zionist to the core.

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    If I posted the same words about Lindsey Graham as he posted about Thuneberg, there would be an investigation, if not an outright arrest.

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      Lady g’s closeted nature, only kept afloat by the gop because he’s a useful senator from a state that needs a Senate majority

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      There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

      If anyone here made the same “joke” about him, the secret service would knock on our doors.