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I disagree that this was not calculated. There isn't a government in the world that doesn't calculate their actions. And as a historian of fascism, I can say with certainty that genocide is never immanent. It is planned.

i was mad about this throughout the NYC mayoral campaign for pure "View of the World from 9th Avenue" reasons

Agreed. I got sick of them 40 years ago.

at least a senator he will have some (minimal, 1/100) influence over foreign policy. It was triply annoying when they were doing it to Mamdani, a guy running for the job of filling the potholes on my block.

Because the zionist occupation exists entirely as an outpost for US interests. Everything the occupiers are doing is because the US wants it to.

Sounds like the interviewer is one of them

I didn’t mean to undermine the importance of the atrocities committed by Israel. Just that they’re using it as a cudgel to mute his real platform like you say

But AES also has to turn it back on the interviewer. After the second question he needs to redirect and challenge the interviewer to talk about other things as well. Reframe the debate. What ever you want to call it.

JFC it only took 2 years for people to finally realize that Israel is just another fucking wedge issue that the Right is using to try to divide and conquer the rest of the country *TBF WAR CRIMES 6000 MILES AWAY IS STILL IMPORTANT BUT NOT AS IMPORTANT AS UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE OR ENDING THE OLIGARCHY

Talking about housing is antisemitic

Yup.

Also we had a war about that exact problem a few hundred years ago

AES's responses have been good in that he consistently says "Israel is a foreign country doing evil shit and I'm here to solve American problems."

We need to figure out a way to monetize our problems, then this admin might consider helping us

None of you have ever heard of Hellenophobia. But antisemitism is a word that no one reading this has gone a single day of their posting life without hearing. And yeah, there are real historical reasons for that, but still.

“Do you believe Greece has a right to Enosis? Will you condemn North Macedonia?”

I like that you've used idiosyncratic discussion of the Greek state as an example in THIS couple of weeks out of all possible weeks of the movie calendar

Mr. Cooper, where do you stand on the question of olives? Are we adding enough to every dish?

Does Greece have a right to exist??

I also came here to mention Cyprus...

“They’d just buy Russian weapons” cool, Pantsirs are inherently lower quality, good fucking luck.

Pakistan sitting in a corner and seething.

The first Zionist State to get a nuclear weapon is probably the greatest threat to world stability.

he’s just being a racist prick. probably to appease Trump and/or Elon Musk

Pakistan?

It's not the same level i know but Greece sort of had its moment there for a while with "If we don't impose austerity and stop with 'the spending' we're gonna be like Greece. Greece, I tell you!" in every US economic discussion at least.

Many Maccabees are saying.

especially if Greece was busy committing genocide and every question was about how you don't love Greece enough

alternatively about as many people as the Chicago metro area, but on the other side of the world from America

And in that world they'd immediately label you anti-Hellenistic.

I think he's talking about population

bUt the socialist are pRomising FREE GYROS!!!

This would be a fantastic response.

My stalwart position that “Most Greeks are somewhat Turkish and most Turks are somewhat Greek, population exchange of 1923 be damned” would probably get in the way of me winning any of those seats 😢

I'm even annoyed with how much attention NYC gets in national news and it's part of America.

The only democracy in the middle east! (circa 594 BCE)

Israel is a country of fuckin moochers

As Joe Biden said, if there were no Israel, the USA would have to invent it.

they've been a toxic friend for decades now. the problem has been "how do we cut them out cold turkey *and* deal with the inevitable antisemitism roaring up as the trick Tel Aviv pulls reverses polarity?" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

i honestly think this is where like half of the normie pivot against Israel is coming from

Replace "tiny little" with "big fat" and you have Canada's opinion of the United States to a T. This is such an exhausting timeline...

a country the size of New Jersey

The media is focused on issues where democrats disagree. Once the party agrees on an issue, it’s no longer news.

Just like how their othodox are internally a drain on the country

don't forget that they stole the nuclear technology from us, just straight up stole it

On the nose distillation of our relationship with Israel

Amen!

Careful, you'll be accused of being an extremist radical communist antisemite.

right like I get why they'd want that, I just don't want to give it to them

You don't hold it against the genocidal ethno-nationalist baby crushers that they want more money for their baby crushing machine? Interesting phrasing.

I would go further and say the idea is to prevent people at all costs from voting on issues that actually affect them

Not really!

Apparently not.

Feels like a deliberate choice by the American populace to keep this obsession going They ignore war crimes and genocides all over the world They want to focus on this one country We all know why

Using right wing parlance, the US is Israel’s cuck.

It would be if that answer reflected reality in any way.

Yes, but the mainstream media serves non Jewish zionist masters and leftists are incentivized to use it as a wedge issue because the current Israel government is so villianously evil.

Historically, that's how these problems *were* solved by the sitting POTUS. So your position has some merit.

Over the last 20 years Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan are the Holy Trinity of not needing enemies because we have friends like this