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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 4h

Can't believe there's still about 40% of Americans witnessing dissolution of their institutions and government into a fascist police state and believing its a good thing.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 1d

Public education is the bane of fascists.

"Fascism should better be called corporatism because it is the merging of state and corporate power" Mussolini

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

...It was only once the Nakba started that the Jewish communities in many of those countries were ousted. I believe that the attrition currently underway is primarily about land, culture and an ethnostate cleansing indigenous people on behalf of Western power, not Judaism vs Islam.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

I tend to disagree on that one. A census of Palestine from 1895 discovered Jews comprised about 6-7% of the population, and from dozens of accounts of the time, both lived in harmony, as did pockets of Jewish communities across the MENA region...

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks. Genuinely holding thumbs for a peaceful coexistence ahead, but there is endless work to do.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

Hamas did not start this, as of 6 October 2023, Israel was on track to kill more Palestinian kids than any year to date. Peacefully protesting on the border in 2018 resulted in 8000 Palestinians getting shot, most in the stomach and knees. This started in 1948.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

Also blocked. The ICC ruling must have stung. I'll take your word for it.

Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure what the Israeli link you've posted states, because they block my country from reading it, but here is the question and the results. More than 50% were untroubled with Gaza being starved.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

No it's not that one, it's this one, where 2/3rds of Israelis believed that they should not face charges, and another poll that found a similar number didn't believe Israel should follow the law in the direct wake of the rape riots. www.middleeasteye.net/news/majorit...

Majority of Israeli Jews believe prison rape suspects shouldn't face criminal charges

65 percent believe army punishment is enough for reserve officers accused of sexual assault at Sde Teiman prison

www.middleeasteye.net

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) published a poll showing that 4 out of 5 Jewish Israelis – 79% – are not troubled by the famine in Gaza.

Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

Tel Aviv University's International Program in Conflict Resolution and the Israel Democracy Institute in 2023 found for intensifying the bombing by ~60% of the pop. National Security Studies (INSS) study found 65% did not want consequences for the gang rape of a prisoner...

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

Polls of the Israeli population confirmed that most wanted heavier bombing, were fine with starvation as a weapon and were opposed to judges limiting the right to rape prisoners, so the rot goes well beyond Bibi.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

I'm here for the redemption arc George

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

A combine harvester for stripping cash out of the hands of the MAGA faithful

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 2d

It's quintessentially crypto, a ponzi scheme build due to a glut of global liquidity and not enough real things to buy. It's good for humanity because hopefully it hastens Bitcoin's demise.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 3d

Top dogs making off like bandits.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 3d

It's not a fight for democracy, it's a CIA led, decades long effort to overthrow a leftist government.

Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 4d

This is American values pointed inwards instead of outwards for a change.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking we need to get our guests to do that Jackass thing like 'I'm Condaleeza Rice and this is kill a million innocent people'

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to scare people. But it won't work. No one looks scared to me anymore. And it's power in numbers. All the TV hits in the world won't change the fact that when Americans see the sheer number of people out there, absolutely no one will believe anything these guys say.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 5d

Seems to me to be a plan to resist violent reprisals. No one wants to be filmed beating on a frog.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 5d

Same question regarding every foreign US base.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 6d

Oligarchs want him in and will use their influence to achieve it. Democracy in the current moment is a farce.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 6d

Table of Nazis broadcasting who the good guys are.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 7d

You're objectively a moral void.

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