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Former President Barack Obama cautioned against ignoring the complexities of the Israel-Hamas war, warning that “all of us are complicit.”

“If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth. And you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,” he said in an excerpted interview with Pod Save America released Saturday.

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[–] masquenox -4 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Not answering the question, huh? The people who created Israel and runs it to this very day learned their white supremacist colonialism from the best in the game - France, Germany, Britain and, of course, the US - I guess it's just a pure coincidence that these countries, historical and traditional hotbeds of fundamentalist white supremacism and antisemitism, are also Israel's most generous backers, eh?

You don't have to answer - it's a question more and more people will be asking - and answering - no matter what you or your glorified Crusader state does.

Just admit you’re anti semitic

Don't project your (pretty typical) right-wing self-hatred onto me... I'm not the one apologizing for oppressors and mass-murderers. You are.

it’s a complicated

There's nothing complicated about white supremacist settler-colonialism - not for those who aren't willing collaborators, anyway.

that Israelites were there

Yes, the Palestinians have been there for a very long time. You know... in Palestine.

I don’t fuck with their racist ass shit either.

Which part of...

That’s who you share an ideological bed with.

...didn't you get the first time around?

You literally share the same ideological bed as the kind of people who perpetrated the Holocaust (who, incidentally, also considered forcefully displacing European Jewish people to Palestine - perfectly in-line with the beliefs of the antisemitic originators of the ideology of Zionism).

So yes... you are fully onboard with their "racist ass shit" white supremacism - their "racist ass shit" white supremacism is literally the only reason modern-day Israel can exist in the way that it does today. You didn't think that Israel funds it's vast murder-toy collection by selling the water it steals from Palestinians, did you?

[–] bustrpoindextr 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

I've already answered your "question" and it's based on a racist false premise you're continuing to perpetuate because you can't reconcile your own racist beliefs being racist. So you pin up this big strawman that I never said so your gymnastics can suit yourself.

Also

Yes, the Palestinians have been there for a very long time. You know... in Palestine.

You seem to bitch a lot about "white supremacist colonizers", but calling it Palestine is literally the white supremacist colonizer name for it. That's what the Roman empire decided to rename it after they took it over.

[–] masquenox -3 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I’ve already answered your “question”

No, you haven't. Here... I'll repost it to shake up your memory.

Good… now I can ask you directly - what does it feel like to play kapo for the very people that invented antisemitism?

There’s something I need you to explain for me… have you or have you not noticed that all of Israel’s enablers - all the countries that have proven so fond of the idea of Israel including England, where antisemitic Christians invented Zionism - are literally countries with deep histories of white supremacism, colonialism and… drumroll, please… antisemitism?

racist beliefs being racist.

Accusing everyone that's pointing out your white supremacist beliefs of "reverse racism" hasn't worked out that well for any of your other right-wing brethren... but maybe you'll be the exception, right?

the Roman empire decided

White supremacist ideology didn't exist back when the Roman empire was a thing - I guess we can also tack "doesn't understand what white supremacism is" to your PragerU-level lack of historical understanding, eh?

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good… now I can ask you directly - what does it feel like to play kapo for the very people that invented antisemitism?

I wouldn't know. Because I'm not.

There’s something I need you to explain for me… have you or have you not noticed that all of Israel’s enablers - all the countries that have proven so fond of the idea of Israel including England, where antisemitic Christians invented Zionism - are literally countries with deep histories of white supremacism, colonialism and… drumroll, please… antisemitism?

That's actually a subset of Israel's supporters. And by the fucking way I've never voiced support of what the current government is doing, I stated it was a complicated situation. And you decided that meant I gargle Netanyahu's balls.

Accusing everyone that's pointing out your white supremacist beliefs of "reverse racism" hasn't worked out that well for any of your other right-wing brethren... but maybe you'll be the exception, right?

  1. You're literally white washing an entire group of people and ignoring thousands of years of history just so you can claim actual racism as reverse racism. That's God tier racism, congrats.

  2. I'm sick of you calling me right wing. You don't know me, and it couldn't be farther from the truth. I do know however, that your entire spiel has been rife with racism, so you're likely the right winger here larping as liberal and you're not arguing in good faith.

  3. I'm not accusing everyone, I'm accusing you. For your racist overtones.

White supremacist ideology didn't exist back when the Roman empire was a thing

Bruh are you fucking kidding me? Us vs then supremacy has existed since the dawn of man. It existed back when the neanderthal were around, so it definitely existed back then

Roman empire was the first real go at White supremacy. Their whole thing was "you know, we're better than everyone else at things, let's take them over", moreover the reason the Romans renamed it was because they didn't like Jewish people. Tell me how that's different from your proud boy ass.

[–] masquenox -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t know. Because I’m not.

Yes - you fucking are. The modern-day state of Israel is a creation of western colonialism - you know... the exact same western colonialism that resulted in the Nazis looking for their precious "lebensraum" in the (so-called) "Jewish-Bolshevist" east? You know... the exact same (so-called) "western civilization" that invented antisemitism? Israel is a kapo state, doing the bidding of and being enabled by the same white supremacist and antisemitic powers that made Jewish life so damn difficult and next-to impossible in the west in the first place.

And here you are... running interference against the people that is pointing out this inconvenient truth out to you and everybody else.

So, again... what does it feel like to play kapo for the very people that invented antisemitism?

That’s actually a subset of Israel’s supporters.

Yeah, you're right - I left out quite a few. Canada, Australia, Apartheid-South Africa - man, the white supremacist rabbit-hole just gets deeper and deeper, doesn't it?

claim actual racism as reverse racism.

Sooo... you still don't understand squat about white supremacism. Nothing about that has changed.

I’m sick of you calling me right wing.

You can stop being a right-winger any time you damn well feel like it - it is a choice, you know.

I’m not accusing everyone, I’m accusing you

Clyde, you accusing people who are pointing out your investment in white supremacist propaganda doesn't make you unique. It's one of the go-to strategies of every white supremacist that learned their ideology watching Ben Shapiro videos.

Bruh are you fucking kidding me?

White supremacism didn't exist back when the Roman empire was a thing because white supremacism hadn't been invented yet. You know... the same reason the Romans didn't have M16 rifles? The "scientific racism" which underpins the modern-day ideology of white supremacism is a purely European invention that arose during the colonialist era starting with the (so-called) "Reconquista" in Spain. I hope this is not too difficult for you to understand.

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a lot of text just to show you don't know what you're talking about.

Okay, I'm sorry that you can't understand that white supremacy is still white supremacy even if the phrase didn't exist.

The concept still did ... Like, what do you call someone that enslaves other races for being lesser than them, takes over their land, changes shit because fuck them etc etc?

White supremacists, or ancient Romans.

They laid the ground work for all of it, and that's why you're so vehemently defending them, you alt right people love you some white supremacy that isn't called it.

Greeks and Romans did the racism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40023593

Clyde, you accusing people who are pointing out your investment in white supremacist propaganda doesn't make you unique. It's one of the go-to strategies of every white supremacist that learned their ideology watching Ben Shapiro videos.

But you're literally the racist POS here. You've done Jack shit to deny it other than try to play the uno reverse card, while I've pointed out your white supremacist bullshit.

All you've done is throw up a strawman and call that racism, the problem with a strawman is, I never said it or claim to agree with it.

Sorry you don't like people of color getting their ancestral land back. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on native Americans and African Americans 🙄 I bet you don't want them to get reparations.

[–] masquenox -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that white supremacy

You didn't have the foggiest clue how white supremacism works a while ago... you don't have the foggiest clue how white supremacism works now. Nothing has changed.

The concept still did

Clyde, read this part again, and read it carefully.

White supremacism didn’t exist back when the Roman empire was a thing because white supremacism hadn’t been invented yet. You know… the same reason the Romans didn’t have M16 rifles? The “scientific racism” which underpins the modern-day ideology of white supremacism is a purely European invention that arose during the colonialist era starting with the (so-called) “Reconquista” in Spain.

But you’re literally the racist POS here.

Again... you accusing people who are pointing out your investment in white supremacist propaganda of "reverse racism" doesn’t make you unique. It just makes you a run-of-the-mill, made-in-a-mold white supremacism apologist.

All you’ve done is throw up a strawman

Clyde, you apologizing for a white supremacist settler-colonialist state is not a strawman - it's you apologizing for a white supremacist settler-colonialist state. That's you... no amount of deflection changes that.

Sorry you don’t like people of color getting their ancestral land back.

The Palestinians will get their land back eventually - white supremacist settler-colonialist projects are as unsustainable in the middle-east as they proved to be in Africa. Your hoped-for genocide will fail.

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

An apple is still an apple regardless of whether you call it an apple.

If this sentence doesn't make sense to you, there's no need to proceed because you're just actively refusing logic.

And again, I don't support what the Israeli government is doing, that's more strawman out of you.

[–] masquenox -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An apple is still an apple regardless of whether you call it an apple.

A white supremacist settler-colonialist state is still a white supremacist settler-colonialist state regardless of how much white supremacist propaganda you peddle in a vain attempt to prove otherwise.

no need to proceed

Nobody is stopping you from scampering away from this, right-winger.

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're the right-winger. This is well established. You scoff at the face of objective truth, throw up strawman arguments that no one made and make a bunch of wildly racist comments then play "no u". You keep white washing an entire people, calling them colonizers, but that's our ancestral home, regardless of the atrocities that the government is currently doing. It's not the Palestinians ancestral home, but they've been there for such a long time that the correct action is a two state solution. Neither side wants that though. But all you want is to throw antisemitism around.

You've played every racist possible angle there is and then have the audacity to claim it's not racist, everyone else is. And you keep calling my liberal ass right-wing, because you proud boys love your LARPing.

Keep your tiki torches out of here.

[–] masquenox -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again... a white supremacist settler-colonialist state is still a white supremacist settler-colonialist state regardless of how much white supremacist propaganda you peddle in a vain attempt to prove otherwise.

Do you have any other "Big Lies" you wanna try hiding behind? Your current ones seem a bit... threadbare.

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's fascinating, but I've already disproven that claim. So you can keep saying it all you want but it doesn't make it true.

I'm not hiding behind any lies, stop trying to play the uno reverse card and come up with a legitimate true statement.

[–] masquenox -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s fascinating, but I’ve already disproven that claim.

Demonstrating your abject ignorance on the subject matter does not equate to you "disproving" anything, Clyde.

come up with a legitimate true statement.

Your wish is my command. Here goes...

A white supremacist settler-colonialist state is still a white supremacist settler-colonialist state regardless of how much white supremacist propaganda you peddle in a vain attempt to prove otherwise.

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No I said "legitimate true statement."

Not racist lies that you've tried to spread from the beginning.

You can't be a colonizer of your own land, and stop with your racist white washing of an entire people.

Like if native Americans were supported by the US government to take back land you'd be over here calling them white supremacist colonizers. Because that's the same fucking thing.

Both groups are people of color, both groups were forced out of their native lands, it's not like either group just said "oh yeah, totally come massacre us and take our land"

No, they were colonized, forcibly removed. To take your property back does not magically turn you white or into a colonizer. Holy fuck you're dense.

[–] masquenox -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can’t be a colonizer of your own land,

True... European Jewish people can't be colonizers in Europe.

Because that’s the same fucking thing.

No, no, no... if you wish to compare a white supremacist settler-colonialist state to something, you need to compare it with another white supremacist settler-colonialist state - you know, such as the US, for instance.

both groups were forced out of their native lands,

Yes, European Jewish people were forced out of their native lands - by Europeans.

No I said “legitimate true statement.”

Oh, oh... right. Let me check... here's one!

A white supremacist settler-colonialist state is still a white supremacist settler-colonialist state regardless of how much white supremacist propaganda you peddle in a vain attempt to prove otherwise.

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, you're back to ignoring history. Gotcha, right. So you know where they came from before they were forced to live in Europe right? ... Like, you understand they didn't start there right? Their native land, European Jews, African Jews all Jews, have a native land in Israel. You can test our fucking blood. That's where we came from before we were forced out.

So it's exactly the fucking same. Soooo, try again maybe, but this time try to make a factual statement. Because, I can back my claim with science.

[–] masquenox 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because, I can back my claim with science. You can test our fucking blood. Blah, blah, blah...

ROFLMAO!

"Scientific racism" is not a science, Clyde - did you forget that "Jewish" is not a "race?"

European Jewish people are native to Europe. African Jewish people are native to Africa. To suggest they aren't is about as antisemitic as antisemitism gets.

So... again - what does it feel like to play kapo for the very people who invented antisemitism? You know... the very same people whose "race science" you have so obviously bought into?

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're a fucking disgrace of a human being.

How do you manage to shit on finding the lost tribes of Israel? We can prove that the lemba tribe in Africa came from Israel, they were kicked out by the ancestors of the Palestinians, we can prove the European Jews came from Israel, they were kicked out of Israel by the Romans.

We found our fucking family, after all the colonizers and genocides and you're trying to shit on that. You're objectively an asshole and can fuck yourself.

This is scientifically proven that we are a family. And you're trying to take that from us, you're not the first that has tried, but fuck yourself.

[–] masquenox 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re a fucking disgrace of a human being.

Again... don't project your right-wing self-hatred onto me, right-winger. You are the one apologizing for a white supremacist settler-colonialist state - not me.

We can prove

You can't prove squat.

We found our fucking family,

Again... “scientific racism” is not a science, Clyde - did you forget that “Jewish” is not a “race?”

And you’re trying to take that from us

ROFLMAO!

How can I be "taking away" that which your precious little white supremacist settler-colonialist state is actively throwing away?

Oh, bother... a white supremacist settler-colonialist state acting like... drumroll, please... a white supremacist settler-colonialist state.

Absolutely nobody could have foreseen this, eh Clyde?

[–] bustrpoindextr 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Again... don't project your right-wing self-hatred onto me, right-winger. You are the one apologizing for a white supremacist settler-colonialist state - not me.

I'm not the right wing asshole, you are.

I'm not apologizing for a white supremacist colonialist state, BECAUSE THAT DOESN'T EXIST YOU FUCKING RAGING RACIST ANTI SEMITIC PIECE OF SHIT ASSHOLE.

there, did I say it loud enough for you? You're the racist here.

Again... “scientific racism” is not a science, Clyde - did you forget that “Jewish” is not a “race?”

You're fucking dumb. "Race" is a social concept, "DNA proven relationship" is a science backed fact. So you shit posting racist ass bullshit is irrelevant.

Stop being an anti semitic piece of shit, that's all anyone can ask.

Put out your tiki torch proud boy, your time is done.

[–] masquenox 0 points 1 year ago

I’m not the right wing

Oh look... a fan of white supremacist settler-colonialism doesn't want to own being a fan of white supremacist settler-colonialism.

Yawn.

“DNA proven relationship” is a science backed fact.

The belief that DNA "proves" any kind of real-world "relationship" is text-book "race science," right-winger.

Again... yawn.

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