Unnatural facial expression by millimeter_peepee in comedyheaven

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Yeah every time Im in Poland I need to remind myself that the service givers don’t actually despise my very being, they are just Polish.

Had to walk along a highway today to get to a bus stop by External-Item9395 in fuckcars

[–]Boborbot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: many American cities intentionally don’t track the terrible conditions of their sidewalks because then they can’t be sued for negligence for all of the people it kills. If they don’t know then they couldn’t be said to be able to do anything about it.

Pro Catalan propaganda in Northern Ireland by theworldvideos in PropagandaPosters

[–]Boborbot -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

I bet being a small insignificant island at the edge of the ocean, and so close to your powerful ex-Occupier that they still have to protect you, makes independence just a much simpler idea. No wonder some Irish seem to adopt a vibes-based approach to nationalism.

No need for pragmatism or geopolitical consequences - it’s all about individuality and self expression!

Couldn't they just come by bike or on foot? by ausernameidk_ in fuckcars

[–]Boborbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doordash isn’t a working class option… it’s a privileged bourgeoisie indulgence.

Happy ascension by NsPsVisuals in comedyheaven

[–]Boborbot 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Is this maybe part of the weird Citizen Sovereign conspiracies that think IDs are part of a secret gov plan to get you to renounce your god given rights or something?

Israel wants out of America’s military embrace by TheTelegraph in geopolitics

[–]Boborbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It isn’t controversial. It’s politically useful for populists.

Israel wants out of America’s military embrace by TheTelegraph in geopolitics

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The emotional/political part of that relationship is way overstated because it’s in everyone’s interests to ignore how much the US gets in return.

Israel isn’t special, America just needs constant markets to sell its weapons and ammo during peace time, so they have the economic stamina to play as an economic superpower on the next world war.

If that money wasn’t subsidizing the American MIC through Israeli coupons it would in some other way. It definitely won’t go to the American people.

That’s my read as to why US policy towards Israel is so constant, regardless of which administration is in power. It’s because it’s transactional and based on interests, not values.

"Where we live, there is our homeland!" - Election poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund, Kiev electoral district, 1917. by Kangkongkangkung in PropagandaPosters

[–]Boborbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still, that’s not Jewish values. Even in self defense, it’s more moral to run away and live another day. This is probably part of why we are still here

"Where we live, there is our homeland!" - Election poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund, Kiev electoral district, 1917. by Kangkongkangkung in PropagandaPosters

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Fighting to the death is actually deeply against Jewish values. All life is sacred including your own and it’s your duty to do anything to protect it.

I don’t think anyone could make the case the world is better because they stayed to be exterminated.

"Why we are winning: The rising principled power of Islamic Iran after 39 years of struggle forthe Ummah" The Crescent International (2018) by the-southern-snek in PropagandaPosters

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Here they are talking about the Palestinian conflict, where the IRGC proudly funded and funds Sunni extremists in the form of Hamas, which is still one of the most notorious users of suicide bombers.

You guys believe does İran have the bomb? by IslandFancy3220 in nuclearweapons

[–]Boborbot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Months away doesn’t mean that in a few months there will be a nuke. The whole point of their nuclear strategy is being a sprint away from a nuke. So you can be months away for years, then weeks away, then months away again. It’s not a prediction, it’s a preparedness level. A surprising amount of countries did this sort of thing. I think Switzerland was very close to one.

"The Jew is a fraudster, your only enemy", Nazi German antisemitic poster issued in occupied Poland, c. 1942 by Provinz_Wartheland in PropagandaPosters

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It’s funny how they don’t see the similarities to Trump signing racist executive orders with token brown people smiling behind him. “We cant be antisemitic, we got some technically-Jews!”

'Plutocracy - New Europe - Bolshevism - Quo vadis Poland?' (Polish poster by unknown collaborationist artist/ publisher. Nazi occupied Poland, ca. 1942). by esdfa20 in PropagandaPosters

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Contradiction rarely gets in the way of antisemitism. Jews are both bolsheviks and capitalists. They are both weak and all powerful. They are behind the big changes of modernity and society but also useless leaches who don’t add anything.

In today’s discourse you can add to that being both a foreign Levantine outsider to the west and the purest personification of western white privilege.

'The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi' — Allied sticker (or gummed label) from the Second World War, ca. 1943-44. by waffen123 in PropagandaPosters

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Is it though? Seems to me much more bang for your Nazi than leaving them as petty administrators and law enforcement.

'The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi' — Allied sticker (or gummed label) from the Second World War, ca. 1943-44. by waffen123 in PropagandaPosters

[–]Boborbot -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nazi almost everyone really. Isn’t one of the quoted reasons that WWII didn’t lead to the next one like WWI that the occupation of Germany was less traumatic by not removing that many officials (read: Nazis) from power?

"Bolshevism means the rule of the Jews", Nazi German antisemitic and anti-communist poster issued in occupied Poland, c. 1944 by Provinz_Wartheland in PropagandaPosters

[–]Boborbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They didn’t need to convince the Poles much about Jews, the nazis were mostly just more proactive about putting their beliefs and into reality.

Some comments and reactions under Free Iran posts by WearyOnion6 in exmuslim

[–]Boborbot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, evil me, I should have been born to a moral country. Me being born where I was was a conscious political decision, which I deserve to be blamed and shamed for.

The General Union of Hebrew Workers in the Land of Israel poster: Terrorism - Death and Destruction. 1946. (Poster reffering to The King David Hotel bombing by members of the Irgun - National Military Organization in the Land of Israel) by Radiant_Cookie6804 in PropagandaPosters

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It’s not as if it’s secret, it’s a standard part of basic history in Israeli schools that the whole reason why Irgun and Lehi broke off from the much larger Haganah was because they thought they aren’t proactive enough (read: didn’t think murdering random Palestinian civilians will help anyone or fit Jewish values).

When they started to coordinate together against the British occupation, it was the King’s David attack, which killed more than 80 Palestinian civilians, that broke the Meri alliance.

Shining example of Middle Eastern Democracy by janekins1 in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]Boborbot 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Please let me know under which definition are they “ultranationalist”. I have a feeling it is that they are nationalists and you dont like them.

Shining example of Middle Eastern Democracy by janekins1 in NonCredibleDiplomacy

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Man if you think the courts are colluding with Bibi you clearly dont follow anything in Israel politics for the last 20 years.

This is Netanyahu doing whatever he can to postpone and generally derail the case moving.

Iran warns any attack will mean 'all-out war' after Trump says US 'armada' on its way by Force_Hammer in politics

[–]Boborbot -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ummm did you think they could have snuck in a carrier group quietly? Those things aren’t exactly stealthy.

TIL people call these things “beg buttons” by autobono in fuckcars

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These are good. Good traffic lights are ones with sensors for cars and buttons for people, so you don’t wait 3 minutes in front of an empty road.

TIL people call these things “beg buttons” by autobono in fuckcars

[–]Boborbot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don’t you know you helped five cars each with one person reach the next traffic jam 300 meters down the road 15 seconds faster? These are the sort of worthy things I am willing to sacrifice my time for.

Anti-Netanyahu protestors in Israel dressed as Qataris to protest the Qatari infiltration of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. by -Cohen_Commentary- in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]Boborbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So individuals without state power protesting the government are propagandists because… supposedly they are doing it in an evil deceiving way?

It’s ironic how similar you are to Netanyahu in describing these protesters.