• TomMasz@piefed.social
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    14 hours ago

    This is why I get a chuckle from guys like Ben Shapiro. He thinks he’s “one of the good ones”, but at its core, MAGA is profoundly antisemitic (by the original definition of the term). At some point, they’ll turn on him.

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      9 hours ago

      Too true. Shapiro, Crockett, Raichik, Fuentes and the rest of the pick me’s are tokens, and tokens always get spent.

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      13 hours ago

      Normally, I try to have sympathy for people who are having their face eaten by a leopard. As generally, most people are just victims of the right wing propaganda machine.

      In Ben Shapiro’s case, I will gladly eat popcorn and watch it.

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    That’s not funny. Unless she’s saying that because of the rumor Ben Shapiro is going to take over TPUSA. Then it would be very, very funny.

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      She’s referring to AIPAC. She seems to think Charlie was opening up to allowing other perspectives on the issue of Palestine besides unequivocally supporting Israel before he was shot. Now she’s afraid they will take control of tp usa and shut down any debate on the issue.

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        This isn’t unique to her, to MTG.

        Of course MTG just actually is an anti-semite, but we also have Candace Owens (I mean, also an anti-semite broadly, but still)… she’s saying that basically, Kirk snubbed an offer of a bunch of money from Israeli funders, because he did not want to be that beholden to that kind of positioning, and the right is currently ‘having a normal one’ arguing about this.

        Kirk knew that Israel isn’t popular with younger Republicans, that Fuentes types and other right wingers had been attacking him from the right, for being way too supportive of Israel.

        I am far from up to speed on any of this, but basically, its way more than just MTG being fucking crazy on her own, this is a thing the whole …sphere of right wing personalities is … yeah currently, as in literally right now, elsewhere on the internet/broadcast media… ‘having a very normal one’ over.

        I guess you could call this something like a split between the neocons, and the racists true patriots, basically?

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    Ahh, come, come. Get down and stay quiet.

    If you look over here it’s just astonishing. I had not seen one of these in ages.

    Here, we have just a textbook example of antisemitism!

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      Ages? It’s been a pretty consistent din: the Unite the Right of '17 was a big one, Greene’s own “space laser” comment. It’s not subtle, just a bit harder to make out with the clamor about Israel’s atrocities.

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    That makes sense because according to some in my “family”, the jews were catching on to Charlie Kirk and he staged his death to go into hiding since he refused to accept a $150 million bribe to talk up Israel…

    WTF is wrong with this world.

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    The quote in question in reference to AIPAC:

    Do not allow a foreign country, foreign agents, and another religion tell you about Charlie Kirk. And I hope a foreign country and foreign agents and another religion does not take over Christian Patriotic Turning Point USA.

    You were so close MTG , if you just dropped the Christian nationalist shit I’d agree with you. I guess this is the best you’re gonna get on the right, though, and most of the other right wingers are supporting Israel for other Christian anti-semetic reasons, so lesser of two evils, I guess

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      We’re never going to see eye to eye with people so far on the right, but if we can work together to stop foreign governments from buying our politicians, that is a good thing.

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    14 hours ago

    I don’t even know why I even bother paying attention to politics anymore. With a single-digit number of exceptions, pretty much everyone involved in this shitshow is somewhere on a spectrum between utterly insane and completely, unequivocally useless.