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The background is Blue.

The words are MAGA.

I wonder if there is a term for this.

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

The term is "fucking traitor that needs to be censured and primaries". Get this MAGAt wannabe out of office, but first get him out of any democratic positions/appointments.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 35 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Same logic evangelical Christians use to oppress LGBTQ folks here at home, Chuck. But you knew that, which is why you don't care about that either, beyond your performative outrage to get votes.

These crusty old dirt worshipers need to go. Every last one of them.

[–] Back_it_up@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

so... third party this time?!?!

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Nah. Just guns at this point.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

Wow, I knew things were bad but I didn’t realize it was this bad.

[–] analoghobbyist@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago

Schumer is really letting the mask slip lately. Time for him to go.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 27 points 14 hours ago

There's a mid term for this

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Sorry I'm told I'm not allowed to criticize Democrats so call me John Banner.

/s

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look at what he stands for.

Look at what he caves on.

Genocide is centrism's only actual policy.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 12 points 21 hours ago

Even if you take what he says at face value, his conclusion still doesn't even follow logically.

[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 87 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I recently did some wiki digging into the formation of Israel and it legitimately surprised me how illegitimate the country is. They were given land (not a state) and welcomed by Palestinians, then they flipped their shit over time and took everything. They were not oppressed but radicalized over imaginary oppression and used it as a tool to oppress Palestine.

The whole world is complicit or gaslit into buying this garbage. Insane that the two state solution is seen as compromise to Palestinians when it should be considered the only compromise given to Israel.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

When I started to learn about it i thought it was the first account I had heard of documenting precisely why a country should never allow unchecked immigration... -Not that the palestinians were given much of a choice by their british colonizers.

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This prompted me to do a wiki dig. TIL Israel was founded by an actual Jewish Nazi group and they even named a military ribbon after them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_%28militant_group%29?wprov=sfla1

In April 1948, Lehi and the Irgun were jointly responsible for the massacre in Deir Yassin of at least 107 Palestinian Arab villagers, including women and children. Lehi assassinated Lord Moyne, British Minister Resident in the Middle East, and made many other attacks on the British in Palestine. On 29 May 1948, the government of Israel, having inducted its activist members into the Israel Defense Forces, formally disbanded Lehi, though some of its members carried out one more terrorist act, the assassination of Folke Bernadotte some months later, an act condemned by Bernadotte's replacement as mediator, Ralph Bunche. After the assassination, the new Israeli government declared Lehi a terrorist organization, arresting some 200 members and convicting some of the leaders. Just before the first Israeli elections in January 1949, a general amnesty to Lehi members was granted by the government. In 1980, Israel instituted a military decoration, an "award for activity in the struggle for the establishment of Israel", the Lehi ribbon. Former Lehi leader Yitzhak Shamir became Prime Minister of Israel in 1983.

[–] Lupo@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Dug up something called Banner of the Zionist Gang so I googled it and these are the first two images.

On the left is standard Soviet propaganda, racism included, and on the right is the symbol of the actual Jewish Nazi gang being sold on fucking Amazon

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is Schumer's district mostly Jews? That fucker needs to go. I hope there are sane people in his district with an open mind.

[–] cooperativesrock@lemm.ee 8 points 11 hours ago

Jews are very divided on Israel in general and heartbreakingly on whether or not it's cool to genocide. Chuck is in the genocide is cool as long as it's not against Jewish people camp, many of us stand firm on our no genocide no matter what. He's also a senator so represents all living in NY state, so short answer is no.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 162 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just wrote a book that says that Chuck Schumer's house is on my ancestral homeland, because my deity says so. That makes it Chuck's fault when I drop bombs on it.

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it have to be written in a book to qualify? I'm pretty sure there are several Native American tribes that might have something to say about this.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's insane how many people have died because of arguments over who has the best Invisible Friend.

[–] moody 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's even worse is they all have the same invisible friend, it's just their rules that are different. God, Allah, Jehovah, Jah, YHWH, whatever you wanna call him, all the same guy. But somehow all the rules about what you're allowed to do and how you need to worship, those are all in different books written by different people at different periods in history.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 130 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Just a reminder, no, the torah explicitly says jews have no nation because they offended god. Until god himself comes down and reverses that decision, jews adhering to their religion cannot be members of government for a state owned and controlled by jewish people.

Zionism is antisemitic, and the opposite of the jewish religion.

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[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

If this chucklefuck showed up to your door and said that your home is now part of the Jewish state because the Torah said so, I think we know how most people would respond.

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And if I say your book is blasphemy? Jesus, no pun intended, these religious weirdos just can't take the hint that maybe their religious texts are total BS. They truly don't believe in religious freedom.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The worst part, there’s no speaking sense to them. Their views are unimpugnable, as god himself wrought them. No earthly authority can alter their course

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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This man has a mental illness.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wish people wouldn't call moral failure a mental illness.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

So if I find an older book that says Israel belongs to me and only me they have to leave and I can turn the Wailing Wall into a sick half pipe?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I found an older book that says their copper ingots are of insufficient quality.

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[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Religion is a monstrous evil.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago
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