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[–] [email protected] 98 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know, a rational thing for any empathetic human to do.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I am beginning to think the lizard people are actually real. please help.

[–] ours 18 points 5 months ago

It's sadly more boring than that. Not lizard people, just sociopaths.

I was trying to find a word for a government ruled by sociopaths but I guess "fascism" fits fine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

With how well the “every accusation is a confession” adage seems to hold up, I’m pretty darned sure that lizard people are real at this point.

[–] NewNewAccount 68 points 5 months ago

Former US ambassador to the UN and potential running mate for Trump.

This is what represents us on the world stage.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just want to say that the most disturbing part of this is not that she did this. It's that this is the message and image that she has carefully decided will help her achieve her career and personal goals.

Perhaps what could be worse is if she's right.

I don't think she is. I see a lot of signs of the left failing in ways that make me nervous. but recognition of the senselessness of imperialism is not one of these. I think there is a very strong, clear, growing consensus that our foreign policy is terrible. Many people don't care that it's terrible for people in other countries, only that it's terrible for them, but that's still a win.

I don't love the concept of "isolationism" per se, but between that in empire, I'll choose isolationism every time. I know there is a liberal establishment that finds isolationism more shocking that defunding the police, and I'm glad that they're upset. This whole global domination thing that Haley and Biden and Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi and Hilary Clinton are obsessed with is just fucking terrible.

God, I will freely admit: it can get so much worse than Biden.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I just want to say that the most disturbing part of this is not that she did this. It’s that this is the message and image that she has carefully decided will help her achieve her career and personal goals.

I just want to say that the most disturbing part of this is supporting Genocide. The reasons why any individual would support a Genocide don't really matter, it's not a justifiable position anyways. But the act of supporting it, totally does matter and that's the problem.

[–] tsonfeir 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What. The. Fuck? Have some class, bitch.

[–] Linkerbaan 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Such a massive surprise. Wonder wh..

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“What America needs to understand is if Israel’s fighting our enemies, how can we not help them,” said Haley, whose missile message also carried the words “America loves Israel”.

I'M SORRY?

[–] FlyingSquid 18 points 5 months ago

if Israel’s fighting our enemies

As far as I know, Hamas has never attacked the U.S. They are not America's enemies. They are terrorists, they are not to be praised or lauded, but they are not America's enemies.

It's certainly not a defense for killing innocent Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Nikki Haley, the failed Republican presidential nominee, signed Israeli artillery shells with the inscription “Finish Them!” on a Memorial Day visit to Israel.

The former South Carolina governor’s graphic display of support came on a trip to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where she was accompanied by Danny Danon, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and a noted hawkish member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in the Knesset.

Talking to reporters, Haley was unapologetic, criticising Joe Biden’s administration for temporarily withholding weapons as a means of discouraging an Israeli attack on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and aiming barbs at the international criminal court (ICC) – which is seeking Netanyahu’s arrest – and the international court of justice (ICJ), which is considering charges of genocide against Israel.

Haley, like Danon a former ambassador to the UN, last week said she would vote for Trump in November’s presidential election, despite having previously denounced him as “dangerous” and unfit to serve.

Danon proudly recorded Haley’s show of support, which also included a trip to southern Israel to meet survivors of Hamas’s 7 October attack in which about 1,200 people were killed and another 253 were taken hostage, on his X account.

According to one Israeli peace activist, Alon-Lee Green, Haley also visited settlements in the West Bank, which are not recognised under international law.


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[–] 0nekoneko7 4 points 5 months ago

Genocidal mentality, Filled with Hate and disgust.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Where is everyone calling you a Russian shill now, @[email protected]? LOL

edit: My point is that people only give @[email protected] shit when he post's anything mildly critical of Biden, but not when he posts anything else. Wasn't calling him a Russian shill.

[–] return2ozma 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They like to pick and choose

[–] CaptainKickass 1 points 5 months ago

You post every day, all day.

It's almost like it's your job..... 🤷

[–] Womble 1 points 5 months ago

The same reason people dont go around harassing nazis when they are talking about football, most people arent terminally online enough to recognise usernames and build up a profile of them in their head and just judge whats in front of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Ratios man. Ratios. Check their post history. It’s all there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] LotrOrc 2 points 5 months ago

What's that have to do with anything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

We dont want that trash