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"Free Palestine" is a dog whistle which actually means "death to America and Israel"


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Does this mean that every single person who's uttered the phrase wants to see America and Israel destroyed? Likely not. It may be as little as 90% of people saying that with those objectives. But, overwhelmingly, that is exactly what "Free Palestine" protests are about. They are protests of capitalism; the police; jails; international borders; inequivalent outcomes; the sex binary and the concept of merit-based advancement.

Of course, a pedant might "fact check" this and say "False. 'Free Palestine' makes no reference to any of the above." But that same pedant would probably also say "Let's go Brandon" has nothing to do with Joe Biden.

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4 hours ago, Nolebull813 said:

This terrorism is supported by not just the radical left but the mainstream left as well. 

I sort of disagree. Perhaps you could say it is tolerated because it's not really being punished or thoroughly denounced. The valid criticism of the mainstream left is the same as that of the mainstream right: Neither side will fully condemn the radicals on their side for fear of losing their votes. The left has been engaged in particularly egregious gaslighting around the radical left.

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8 hours ago, Nolebull813 said:

Was this photo taken in Tehran? Nope it’s Washington DC in the Divided States of America. 
 

 

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Hmmmm, if you zoom in, there's a number of obese people in that crowd.   Not that it means anything, it just seems strange.

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On 7/25/2024 at 9:46 AM, Atticus Finch said:

The Onion on X: "Study Links High Standardized Test Scores To Being  45-Year-Old Man In Propeller Hat Pretending To Be Fifth-Grader  https://t.co/X5Ul5rFwte https://t.co/uysPK2nS73" / X

From today’s actionists at Columbia: “Divestment is not an incrementalist goal. True divestment necessitates nothing short of the total collapse of the university structure and American empire itself. It is not possible for imperial spoils to remain so heavily concentrated in the metropole and its high-cultural repositories without the continuous suppression of all populations that resist the empire's expansion; to divest from this is to undermine and eradicate America as we know it”

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

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