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My foundational belief is that there are only two kinds of people, bosses and the rest of us, the bosses are the enemy and the only good Nazi is an ex Nazi. Everything else flows from there filtered through Schoolhouse Rock.

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · Sep 15

l.smartnews.com/p-6d3Pt1UA/i...

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 45m

Or the 3/5ths compromise.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 22h

The billionaires who bought the MSM didn't spend all those billions for them to do a good job of informing the public.

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 23h

Ok genocide enabler.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 23h

Honestly we shouldn't let anyone be that rich period.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 23h

You're so full of shit.
The reality remains that there were Palestinians who were living there when the Zionists hatched and enacted their ethnostate and those people were either murdered or displaced by force, you don't get to do that shit then claim self defense.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

Based on criteria supplied by Israel.
Give it up. For more than 70 years Israel has been displacing and brutalizing the indigenous population.
What do you expect them to do, just lay down and die?

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm describing the objective situation. What else do you call it when every bit of access to the wider world is controlled by another group?

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

Isreal should not exist in its current form. It's a fascist ethnostate that has been engaged in ethnic cleansing from the moment of its inception.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

One if is a full fledged nation state backed by the US government the other are effectively prisoners in a ghetto. Fuck off with that false equivalency bullshit.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

Gfy

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

They haven't been properly dealt with or punished because they are doing what the Zionists in Israel want them to be doing.
Israel is a real government with actual command and control of their military and police forces they have no excuse for not even attempting to bring their irregulars to heel.

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

Pedocon theory remains unfalsified

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

Effectively countering a terrorist organization starts with understanding whatever their underlying grievance is.
The Palestinians' grievance is legitimate. Israel owes recompense for the territory they stole.
Instead they impoverish undermine and provoke doing the little crybully bullshit

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

It was Israeli terrorists that killed Rabin in order to kill Oslo. At every step Israel has been the one in political control of their militants.
Israel has refused to punish Israeli terrorists while engaging in reprisal against Palestinian civilians.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interco...

You are correct it started prior to 1920 as well, but prior to 1948 it was basically gang warfare, the establishment of Israel is when it became an ethnic cleansing.
Also Gaza isn't the only place Israel is doing ethnic cleansing.
Israel are the not victims here.

Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

No group should be targeted because of immutable characteristics. Period, whether they are Jewish or Nigerian or whateverian. Including being Palestinian.
This conflict didn't start on October 7th, it started with the Nakba in 1948.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

Nakba - Wikipedia

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

The specific target of the National Socialists isn't what makes them so despised. It's the mass murder. It's the genocide. It's ethno-nationalism.
White Supremacy is the model for Aryan Supremacy. Zionism is just Jewish Supremacy.
They're all fucking Nazis.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

No extreme chauvinism is the defining characteristic, that and a sense of entitlement.
Extreme antisemitism was specific to the Hitler's fascism. But ethnic supremacy was built into all Axis states.
What made the Nazis unique was that they industrialized genocide not their targets.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing revisionist about understanding what they did, as well as who they did it to. Yes the Nazis targeted Jews. Jews were a convenient scapegoat because they were able to leverage existing anti-jewish sentiments however Jews were not the only minority targeted.

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

Teapot dome? Oh this is so much worse, at least during the first fucking Gilded Age they had the decency to try to hide it and didn't announce it on White House letterhead.

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

Oh you're one of those dipshits who think that the antisemitism was the defining characteristic of the Nazis.

It wasn't. It was their irrational desire to return to a more pure time. The Jews were just a convenient scapegoat. They also went after communist, trade unionists and Roma among others.

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

He's pissed about being called out as a AIPAC shill and genocide apologist.

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shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 1d

You suck.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 2d

That list describes MAGA pretty accurately tbh.

shawnburks.bsky.social @shawnburks.bsky.social · 2d

I hold Rahm Emmanuel personally responsible for all of this shit because he couldn't wait to get to alienating his base after we sent Obama to the white house with a fucking supermajority he couldn't wait to get to hippie punching.

Fuck Rahm Emmanuel he should crawl in a hole forever.