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[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 14 points 14 hours ago

This is disgusting. 🤮

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 35 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"Here's a symbolic reminder of our terror attack that killed lots of innocent people"

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago

Even if it had hurt or killed only the intended targets (who were correctly identified and all), and no one else, you'd have to be some kind of sociopath to celebrate something like this.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 38 points 23 hours ago

These beeper gifts are insane. How would Japan react if the US gave them a fake atomic bomb as a gift on the anniversary of the first atomic bomb drop?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

And then the beeper exploded his arms off like a Palestinian/Syrian child

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Haha, war crime momentos make such wholesome gifts. It can go on the shelf next to gold plated box cutters from 9/11 and a gold plated shower head from WWII.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

A beeper... Dude,.don't EVER accept beepers from the Israeli government, not if you like your life.

Having said that, you're all a bunch of shit Nazis so go ahead and get yourself killed, it's not like I'll carry anymore

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

Ladies and gentlemen: your new rotating villain and the excuse the Democrats will use for why they can't do anything for the next several years.

[–] cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So he’s given a free pass to wear a sloppy hoodie and no doubt shorts when meeting a head of state, but Zelenskyy gets shit for wearing tidy fatigues…

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A fucking Carhartt no less...

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

The official sponsor of magats everywhere™

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 105 points 1 day ago (2 children)

John fetterman, who once held an innocent black jogger at gunpoint with a loaded shotgun because someone set off some fireworks nearby, who was elected to gentrify his town and mainly did his “amazing projects” because his rich dad suddenly was willing to dump a ton of money into the town now that his kid was mayor (on top of paying his kid 50k a year since the mayor gig paid dick)

Also his second election he literally abused his power to release confidential arrest records on his opponent to smear his record. And he only won the first time by a single vote.

He was placed in the mayor gig to gentrify the town and remove “undesirables”. He is a class traitor from the beginning. He is a rich daddy’s boy who never did any serious work and was bank rolled by privilege. He was happy to take his generational wealth and use that to uproot people from “his” town that he felt didn’t meet the “target demographic”. Neolibs loved this because on paper he raised property values! He lowered crime! But he didn’t do this by addressing any systemic issues or helping the community in any real way. He did it by sweeping problems under the rug

Fuck John fetterman. I unironically hope that pager blows up

[–] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 day ago

And here he is celebrating a terror attacks that killed civilians in multiple countries.. Fuckerman can fuck off in his fake working class outfit

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow that is so disgusting. This is why I don’t have heroes.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I forgot to mention he not only has never apologized for mistakenly holding the black jogger at gunpoint (when he had no reason to do so other than being suspicious of black folk in “his” town) he has actively refused to do so. This became a problem during his senate run because of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, which was essentially the same exact scenario except two dipshit white idiots that egged each other on into murdering the innocent jogger they kidnapped for no reason.

The dnc actively worked to downplay the fact that their new wunderkid was a racist shithead because he polled well, aligned with Israel, was a class traitor, etc. they fuckin love fetterman. Now he’s the heel that lets them get gop bullshit pushed through which they love even more (so much that their fucking leadership does it)

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah he fooled many of us Penn residents. The media failed to report this. I’m looking at you John Oliver.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What a fucking shame.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have a look at the things Brian Blessed and Christopher Lee have done. Each is worthy of being your hero.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I’ve got such a crush on Brian blessed.

[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago

What a couple of ghouls

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 118 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course not! That would be promoting terrorism.

State violence isn't terrorism, so it's fine to celebrate it.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I can't believe it was this guy or Dr. Fucking Oz. There is something deeply wrong with Pennsylvania.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 22 hours ago

Dr. Oz just made Fetterman look normal.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

He was portraying himself as a younger sanders like progressive. Right wing politicians keep getting elected by pretending to be left wing populists

Makes me really glad that America is economically and strategically isolating itself.

[–] whaleiam@lemm.ee 73 points 1 day ago

Wow WTF, the beeper thing is creep as fuck.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 41 points 1 day ago

Netanyahu previously gifted a golden pager to President Donald Trump in February during a meeting at the White House.

Can't wait for that one to go off

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

John, I highly recommend that you do not use that beeper.

Or do.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 31 points 1 day ago

Do it. I don’t give a fuck at this point. Fucking class traitor piece of shit.

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's the message? I would feel threatened if I received a pager as a gift in that context. Does it signal 'Bro, we are friends, trust me'? How can this be seen in a positive way?

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

What's the message?

" Look at how little we care. We think so little of what you think that we're going to commemorate the time that we blew up a whole bunch of people with communications devices and we're going to give it as a victory trophy to this brownshirt shithead that pretends to be a working mans politician."

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 points 1 day ago

“Have this commemorative from when we killed lots of people”

Sick fucks probably get off over that

[–] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Hitler gives tall guy explosives

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“That was a great operation,” replied Trump, who gave Netanyahu a signed photo of the two of them together in return.

Joking about war crimes aside, it’s astounding that trumps return gift is a picture of himself.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

You just can't make this up. Satire is dead.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

This reads more like a threat coming from him.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

John Naziman

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Imagine they were exact replicas.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago

I swear that week has broken something and revealed so much pent up cruelty towards my part of the world from American shitheads specifically. Didn’t even know they’d care to remember where we are on a map.

And to think I’ve been eying the US as a possible new home not that long ago. Just so icky

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Hopefully it's one of the real ones.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago

What the shit.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 12 points 1 day ago

Shame the stroke didn’t fucking kill him.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

May your votes ever be in our favour.... or else.

[–] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Fetterman admired the pager before responding, “You know, when that story– when that story broke, I was like, ‘Oh I love it. I love it,’ and now it’s like, thank you for this.”

[–] psycocan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Looks like a b!tch

[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Dude is a clown unfortunately