Silly Brit. This is American politics. Your definitions serve no purpose here! (Insert lotr meme)
This is true. We do have a bad habit of normalizing things that probably shouldn’t be normalized
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Only looney tunes are as yet willing to openly criticize Muslim practices in the US. It’s a touchy topic.
Our most right wing mainstream news source is fox news. They fired an anchor for the below comment. Back in the day you could look at any newspaper in America questioning whether John F Kennedy could be trusted to be loyal to the Constitution as a “Papist”. Same question, different times.
“Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran 33:59, tells women to cover so they won’t get molested. Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?” Pirro said last week.
You’re way too smart to actually believe this.
Fully willing to agree the below comment was the straw that broke the camel’s back though
Agree. It wasn’t even close. However, she would loose favor of many in her district, and that is important too.
Apparently she won 267K to 74K. That is a blow out.
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Absolutely. Most of their country doesn’t have it. My capital has whole enclaves of it, and it hasn’t, for my money, been a net positive.
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No, you can’t question it if you can do math and don’t fall for White Nationalist bullshit because it fits your antisemitic agenda.
Israel is way down the list in military aide – because they supply their own troops. Germany, Japan, and Korea are all rich countries – but the USA supplies the bulk of their real defense – with American troops and equipment.
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Moreover, the aide to Israel is spent in the USA on weapons (and other) systems, never to leave the country. It’s main purpose is to reduce the per unit cost of various weapons systems.
Further, Israel (the only modern and fair democracy in the ME) acts as a massive forward base for the United States – literally the lynch pin for all the USA’s activities in a very crappy area. Coupled with joint weapons research (e.g. Iron Dome), it’s been a damn good investment.
And so, yes, this kind of ill-informed crap – or just lies – about Israel is antisemitism, because there is no way anyone with a brain could make the statement you just made unless they have a nefarious agenda they try to hide as criticism of Israel.
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Don’t think you might be jumping to a shit ton of assumptions about me?
Also thanks for absolutely proving my point 100%. And I didn’t even question it. I just said the moment someone did they called you anti-Semitic. Which I didn’t even have to do for you to call me it. I was making a joke in the fact that when he said that people would say he hated Jews.
And FWIW you couldn’t be more wrong about me. My nefarious agenda is playing with my daughter tonight and watching the NBA games. I don’t think I’ve said a negative thing about a Jewish person my entire life nor would I.
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Bwop’ing for hilariousness.
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I just need someone to come in and tell me I hate our troops and I was one of the people Trump saw cheering in Jersey on 9/11 and the circle of both points will be complete.
Say the phrase “cut the defense budget” 3x while thinking of Obama. That’ll do it
Noooo! Don’t invoke Obama! You’ll create another ISIS!
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Well, since there are two options for spreading known lies about Israel: (1) being really stupid and ill-informed or (2) being antisemitic, and you claim to not be antisemitic, I guess that leaves option 1.
Would you mind quoting the lies he was spreading so I can join you in laughing at him?
Thank God I bet you can’t find a lie about Israel in my post. Just quit while you’re behind man. Attempting to attack my intelligence because you reacted to a joke wrong and invented something I didn’t say isn’t helping.
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This is a false dilemma, because more than two options exist.
The known lies you suggest he is spreading are debatable as well. One article from a source I’ve never heard of does not count as good supporting evidence.
Especially because he can’t seem to find them
Who are you saying is spreading them? He’s been quoting me and I didn’t say anything about Israel that could even be taken as a lie. I made a joke off your post when you asked if criticism of Israel is off the table. I responded to you saying people call you anti-semitic if you bring that up.
And my joke (which made absolutely zero judgements either way and was completely tongue-in-cheek) apparently was dead on because I was immediately called anti-semitic.
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We were not really even talking about us military money helping Israel. We were talking about money coming from Israel and ending up in US politics.
I don’t think I wrote my last post as well as I could have. I don’t think you have said anything that we would even debate as being a lie. I was trying to say that thefourthruffians assertions about what is or isn’t a lie need further evidence.
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Yeah, he is taking about something different than what we were discussing. I was just pointing out that his argument structure was silly.
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You can’t compare Israel with theocratic Gulf dictatorships, but it’s not exactly “fair”
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/05/middleeast/israel-druze-protest/index.html
How many US troops are stationed in Israel? Zero. What’s the point of Incirlik?
While you’re leveraging these frankly ridiculous accusations actual anti-semites both from the left and the right are running amok.
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