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[–] [email protected] 103 points 6 months ago (3 children)

"In a video, Mast can be seen calmly telling the demonstrators, “It would be better if you kill all the terrorists and kill everyone who are supporters.”

When asked if he has seen the images of Palestinian babies killed in Israeli attacks, Mast says, “These are not innocent Palestinian civilians.”

“The babies?” the activists asks in astonishment.

Mast then says that the “half a million people starving to death” should have elected a pro-Israel government.

When one protester points out that much of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed, Mast says, “And there’s more infrastructure that needs to be destroyed.”

“Did you not hear me? There’s more that needs to be destroyed,” he says again for emphasis."

This guy has no business being anywhere near public office. Fucking Florida again.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Ah yes, they should have elected a pro-Israeli government in the checks notes 2006 election when over half of Gaza's pre-genocide population either wasn't born yet or wasn't old enough to vote.

Fuck this fucking pro-genocide bastard.

[–] prole 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also, why the fuck would they vote for a "pro-Israel" government after that state has violently oppressed them, to the point of genocide, for several decades at that point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It worked for Nelson Mandela.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not to mention that even back then, they had already been depriving them of food and supplies, taking their territory, killing or imprisoning them randomly without charge, uprooting their olive trees and other forms of livelihood, killing their civilians wars, etc for 50 years. Neither Fatah or Hamas or the PFLP support Israel, that wasn't an option in that election because no one would've fucking voted for that!

It would be like saying if the most recent generation of Native Americans didn't want to die, their parents should have all elevated pro-American colonies chiefs after years of genocide had been already ongoing. In what universe would that make sense?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Those babies are clearly Hamas supporters!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is the kind of stuff that makes me hate America.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lots of us would love if about half our government played buckshot roulette with each other but it's real tough to get anything done with wave after wave of "Be afraid, Be angry" propaganda every 30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey I've got the perfect gun they could play with too. It's about 120 years old, and single-shot.

Perfect for playing roulette all the way down the aisle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Don’t be stupid.

I have a 1911 they can borrow, takes all the fun out of the game if it is single shot.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Only WASP life with a little Catholic included but just a little 😘

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Potato europe, not tomato europe, and only the ones west of the old communist bloc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, Potato Europe includes the Irish...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The English took their potato status a while back

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

“I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”

Not that this is at all the point of any of this, but yes we very much fucking would, and did. Ministers in the UK government pushed back against Churchill's desire to bomb German civilians in retaliation for the bombing of London, saying it would "put us on the same plane morally as they are." Eventually of course there was bombing of non-military targets in Germany, including the infamous firebombing of Dresden, and the British war government faced some fiery criticism at home because they were killing innocent people, and many of the British people understood that deliberately killing innocent people isn't a part of legitimate war strategy, whatever it is that the guilty people were doing that you're "retaliating" for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but we're talking about the US here and uhh....

Inconspicuously steps in front of footage of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[–] prole 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You fool, that footage is playing on a projector! Stepping in front of it merely made it larger and displayed it on your chest and penis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So that's why the kids are calling it a mushroom cloud these days!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

No step out of in front of it so people can learn from our mistakes instead of repeating them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think it's also worth pointing out the inherent falseness of the analogy. They were innocent German civilians, not Nazi civilians. By equating Germans with Nazis, Mast is equating Palestinians with Hamas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

LordHardThrasher has been doing an excellent series on YouTube on the failures of the Allied bombing campaign, and why it shows democracies are better than dictatorships.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

End US support for genocide.

Israel must end apartheid.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"The inherent sin of being born brown and non-Christian"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

jesus?

You mean that woke liberal terrorist?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Needs to be eating his own feces

[–] prole 4 points 6 months ago

Somehow easier to look at than an actual photo of Donald Trump.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I swore this could have been a Onion article

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's true, guys! Hamas has a baby brigade trained to infiltrate Israeli barracks at night and wake them up by crying ridiculously loudly until someone feeds them.

Diabolical!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, give my toddler a screwdriver, put him under the fence, and he could bring the Pentagon to its knees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It could make a great “comedy of errors”/social satire style movie. Have the kid’s mischief mistaken for a terrorist cyber attack.

By the end of it all, the kid is “rescued” from the “attack” and hailed as an American hero; a symbol of perseverance.

Call the kid Chauncey Gardener or something…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@CollisionResistance I can't believe my eyes. How did he became a Congressman?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I had to check I wasn't on Not The Onion for a second....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Remember: One side doesn't care about dead babies. The other reacts with glee.

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

Free will abounds with evil babies. They choose to be evil babies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That tracks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Man that's ridiculous

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