• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    Netanyahu: “Please stop withholding weapons and support, please seriously guys cut it out”

    TIME Magazine: “Is Netanyahu dragging out the conflict for political benefit?”

    Biden: “There is every reason for people to draw that conclusion.”

    Kamala Harris: “I will not be silent.”

    Hexbear: “Congress gives Netanyahu Standing Ovation, blood on hands of every US lawmaker, US President personally responsible for tens of thousands of deaths directly.”

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      Did you watch the video?

      Republicans gave Netanyahu a standing ovation.

      Dozens of Democrats abstained, the ones who attended remained seated, and Rashida Tlaib held up a sign that said “war criminal.”

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          As you should. I saw all the memes before watching the video, and was happy to see that it wasn’t the “four-minute standing ovation” I kept hearing about when I finally watched it.

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          Sure, fuck hexbear…but congress literally did give a standing ovation to a mass murderer, there is no getting around that reality. That’s not me, it was literally on NPR. Biden is a staunch supporter of mass murder who has blood on his hands.

          Hexbear being full of tankies doesn’t make it ok to support genocide.

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            Apart from all the members of congress who remained seated, as was already mentioned. I’m guessing neither AOC nor Bernie Sanders stood up and applauded if they were there.

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          Ah yes, the truest sign of liberal enlightenment, casual homophobia,

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            Sucking cock is a fantastic thing to do for your fellow human, and a true friend loves and appreciates you for it.

            But sucking the cocks of dictators, that’s something sensible people everywhere disapprove of. Pretty much every dictator has awful anti-LGBT+ rhetoric and inhumane anti-LGBT+ policies.

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              Don’t be dense. The poster above me was using “cocksucker” as an insult, which is a go-to homophobic insult, and I called it out. There’s no nuance or subtlety or dictionary lawyering that perfectly clearly expressed sentiment into being anything other than what it is.

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                Yes, but is there anything in what I said that you actually disagree with?

                See, I think we agree, it’s just that I’m being more light hearted about it than you are. Good cop, bad cop, that sort of thing. You’re all “you’re nasty homophobe!” and I’m all “heyy, man, you should appreciate the blow jobs, not hate on them! But blow jobs are not for dictators.”

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                  “it’s just a joke! i’m just joking! you need to lighten up!”

                  I never actually called you or anybody else a nasty homophobe, I called out a single comment for expressing a casual homophobic sentiment.

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                    I think I’m frustrating you by being too flippant, and I didn’t mean to, so sorry about that.

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              “it’s not homophobia, it’s misogyny!” is not the defense of the above comment you think it is.

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                Bruh. I meant that you assumed that cocksucking is exclusively done by gay men. So it’s actually neither. Calling someone a motherfucker doesn’t mean that they actually have sex with their mothers. Insults like these are usually detached from their literal meaning.

                Improve your reading comprehension skills. English is literally my third language.

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                  The insult “cocksucker” did not fall out of a coconut tree. It exists in the context of all that has come before it, which in this case is decades of being the go-to insult of homophobes.

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                Recognizing that sex exists and people engage in it is neither homophobic nor misogynistic, chill the fuck out

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      Democrats give lip service after months of ongoing escalating protests while continuing to arm Israel. Leftists in shambles.