what horseshoe theory does to a mf
There’s a heart warming lack of libs both sideing in these comments, at least so far, though. So that’s nice
It’s because the latest Reddit refugee wave have been exposed to uncensored news for more than five days, breaking a personal best.
When one side unironically complains that the other has kidnapped a soldier from his tank… We’ve been conditioned to ignore atrocities I think, as humans, because those of us who survive still have to live. And further out, people have no sympathy for people they’ve never been shown are people too. But the tank soldier kidnapping thing is just making fun of their own sympathizers to their face. I’m sure there’s a kind of person who picks up on these things and goes from being a “reasonable” “centrist” to looking at both sides and understanding what they’re really looking at. It’s really not complicated
Proud of you, new joiners, I see you.
How much glue did someone huff before making this?
I saw this post right before I saw an article about Israel dropping a bomb on a school in Palestine
Because hamas are hiding in hospitals and schools to spark outrage when israel attacks
Why doesn’t the US army just drop a JDAM on an elementary school when there’s an active shooter in there?
Significant threat
And what are you supposed to do? Why should you play fair when your enemies don’t
Filed under four-panel memes I was actually hoping would be loss
If you replace the hammer and sickle for an American flag it makes sense … if you replace the Palestinian flag for a star of David, it makes a lot of sense.
And to clarify, it doesn’t mean I am antisemitic … it means I am anti-zionist
It’s best not to bring up the star of David at all, except in condemning the state of Israel for co-opting it for the purposes of Zionist propaganda.
I prefer the star of Ninja, it’s less violent
It’s a controversial subject but it is one we should all have on a regular basis seeing as the debate is actually costing the lives of thousands of people … but I wanted to ask …
Besides the star of David, how would you symbolize the zionist movement.
As far as I know, there are no commonly recognized symbols for Zionism aside from the star of David, and this does a great disservice to non-Zionist Jews and anti-Zionist Jews, to the point putting them in danger, because it conflates Judaism and Zionism. You might use the Israeli flag, but again this is fraught because of its insidious co-optation of the star of David.
And they have a British nanny and French maid.
Fucking Sikes-Picot
But why two panels of fucking? That just feels a bit thirsty.
If you prefer we could make it one wide panel
Maybe the first one implies it wasn’t initially consensual?
So communism and nazism gave birth to Palestine? Wtf!? I’m having a really big mental block…
The first panels alright
The relationship between actual 1930s nazis and the arab world was kind of complex for obvious geopolitical reasons, but Palestinians pretty much generally denounced nazis. Also back when it might’ve been good strategy not to.
12,000 Palestinians fought against the Nazis in WWII
Couple quotes from the article
One has to wonder why no organization was ever established to commemorate the actions of these Palestinian volunteers. “Many of them were killed and many others are still listed as missing. But no memorial has ever been established for them,” says Abbasi. In fact, the records of the Palestinian volunteers, along with much of their personal archives and papers, have disappeared, much of it lost in the War of Independence.
So who were the Palestinians who volunteered for the British Army to fight the Nazis? Abbasi says they mostly came from the Palestinian elite and that, contrary to what many think, represented “an important and central part of the Palestinian public.” A part of the public that believed it was necessary to stand by Britain at this time, and to temporarily put aside the Palestinian national aspirations – akin to the Jewish idea to “fight Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and fight the White Paper as if there were no Hitler.”
Ah yes, because the eastern front never happened
First they came for the Communists.
And they made lots of love and had a baby called Palestine the end.
First they came. (For the communists)
TBF, communists are really hot and good in bed.
Turns out caring for others leads to amazing experiences
It’s an interesting choice to put the communist on top.
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i idea if I should downvote or upvote it, im angry anyways
At first I thought “Nazis wouldn’t take communist dick”, but then I remembered Trump and Putin.
(The baby isn’t Palestine, though, it’s the global trade war Trump is starting or Elon Musk or JD Vance or something.)
Is Putin a communist now? I thought he dismantled communism into capitalist oligarchy.
You are completely correct. Putin used to work for the KGB back when Russia considered itself communist. Many, many things are broken, including this meme and my attempt at a reinterpretation of it.
“The whole universe is mostly knackered, babes” – 15th Doctor Who (2023)
