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- DogPeePoo ( @DogPeePoo@lemm.ee ) 73•6 months ago
The comments by US House representative Tim Walberg of Michigan drew condemnation from progressive political quarters, including from some who expressed disbelief that a former Christian pastor would advocate for what they called the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
WWJD: Love thy brother. Nuke thy neighbor.
Christians are fucked in the head.
- BewitchedBargain ( @BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com ) English39•6 months ago
WWJD: Love thy brother. Nuke thy neighbor.
Not only that, but nuke the region that was the home to Jesus.
- sin_free_for_00_days ( @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ) 25•6 months ago
End-of-world evangelicals want the world to end. Global pollution, climate change, human rights, et al. don’t matter because rapture or some crazy shit like that.
- Doxatek ( @Doxatek@mander.xyz ) 33•6 months ago
God sometimes when I read stuff like this as a post I reflexively down vote because I hate it so much until I remember it’s just a post calling attention to someone being a piece of shit and not agreeing with them. I up voted again to fix it lol
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 2•6 months ago
Yep. I reach for the Disagree button before I realize it’s a valuable/valueless button. And this shit is of immense value for history.
- ristoril_zip ( @ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip ) English24•6 months ago
It just occurred to me that there are probably people who look at those bombings - after the war was effectively over BTW - not as evil (my view), nor as a regrettable but necessary way to avert American deaths, but as an actual heroic act.
Jesus, how do I live in a world where there are people like that running around having normal lives…?
- stewie3128 ( @stewie3128@lemmy.ml ) 10•6 months ago
That continues to be my parents’ view (I suspect the same is true for many of our parents). It’ll be a few generations before the fiction around Hiroshima gets wiped away. Hell, the '21 Tulsa massacre is only now getting some actual cultural awareness, and that’s only because it was depicted in the first scene of The Watchmen.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English5•6 months ago
but as an actual heroic act
They’ve been doing it since at least 2014:
Israelis Watch Bombs Drop on Gaza From Front-Row Seats
(Sorry for the nyt article, here’s the guardian as well)
- hydroptic ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) 19•6 months ago
Least genocidal conservative
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English18•6 months ago
It’s always projection (when they say genocide Joe).
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 23•6 months ago
The Palestinian people are very much in danger of being final solutioned, under our sitting president.
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English6•6 months ago
Exhibit A.
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 16•6 months ago
That your head is in the sand? Sure.
- _lunar ( @_lunar@lemmy.ml ) 15•6 months ago
“any opposition to our guy must be from republicans and republicans are 100% bad therefore our guy’s genocide is 100% good” -you, apparently
- _lunar ( @_lunar@lemmy.ml ) 18•6 months ago
lmao the people calling him genocide joe are not republicans, if the original post somehow didn’t make that very clear to you already
what a reddit-brained reply
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English7•6 months ago
Oh yeah we’d nevvvveer have a bunch of the “I used to be Democrat voter until event _____, now I’m all in Republican” people show up with their new attempted catchline. Noooo, would nevvvver happen. Not online.
- _lunar ( @_lunar@lemmy.ml ) 15•6 months ago
you haven’t encountered very many actual leftists, have you?
edit: you’re a lot closer to being one of those republicans you hate so much than any leftist who wants to hold both of your war-mongering parties accountable for their role in a genocide btw
- Eyck_of_denesle ( @Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ) 16•6 months ago
A lot of citizens also say that. Why do Americans think their election is an Angel vs satan. It’s just bad vs worse.
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 8•6 months ago
Truth.
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English11•6 months ago
I don’t think anyone who says “genocide joe” agrees with what Joe is doing quietly nor what Tim Walberg is saying out loud.
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English14•6 months ago
Doesn’t the congressman know that you aren’t supposed to say the plan outloud? You are just supposed to provide all the bombs and arms required no strings attached. These new republicans just don’t understand decorum.
- jonne ( @jonne@infosec.pub ) 9•6 months ago
It’s not like anyone in the Israeli government was hiding the fact that their plan was genocide either. It’s only the state department and mainstream media that are pretending to be shocked that there’s ‘collateral damage’.
- istanbullu ( @istanbullu@lemmy.ml ) 12•6 months ago
American Nazi
- Doods ( @Doods@infosec.pub ) 6•6 months ago
Average American power holder
- Sanctus ( @Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 10•6 months ago
I don’t think the Man from Galilee would appreciate any of this.
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 1•6 months ago
I thought it was a magic dragon.
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 7•6 months ago
Asshole.