Theoretic question. Do you think if Jews made a moonbase and lived there people would leave them alone? Or do you think we’d start hounding them through the far reaches of space?

Because I think mankind would fixate on it and try to destroy them there too.

When your statement is so silly even Matt Yglesias can't go along with it.

https://xcancel.com/mattyglesias/status/2059579854572372134#m

There are tons of unhinged anti-Israel takes out there but it’s clearly the case that the presence of millions of Palestinians living under Israeli rule is a major factor in external perceptions of the Jewish state — paranoia is not helpful.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Sometimes though, you spot a unicorn of an old white bald dude. How did you live through such times and come out with at least 1 good opinion?

[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

@michael leon on twitter visit hexbear.net :chavez-salute:

[–] jack@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this is pretty close to the standard opinion of amerikkkans I speak to today

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it really? Eh, probably for more nationalist reasons than empathetic tho

[–] free_casc@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Among Democrat voters it is a 90-10 issue, with Republicans its like 50-50.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of that one Engerland Fan in he qatar world cup that was chanting pro Palestine stuff

[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

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[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago

The fact that Wu has drawn a clear binary between “Jews” and “People” leaves no guesswork to who the antisemite is.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could it be that my settler colonist genocide project is bad?

No, it's antisemtism.

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

space antisemitism

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

I will flee to the only place that hasn't been corrupted by antisemitism, space curry-space

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think it's more antisemitic to be like "Let's put the Jews somewhere else" than to be like "Yo goober, don't steal people's shit and kill them"

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If Israel had done what New Zealand had done, they literally would have been an example for every other settler colonial state and would have had the support of the global South, but their prime ministers have literally been members of terror organizations; the Hagana, the Irgun and the Lehi brigade; the IOF were literally formed by those groups.

Comparisons to Nazi Germany are funny as well because from the documentaries I've seen, Germany was a failure in how they ran their country and how they ran their wars (not merely losing, but also in the amount of wasted materials and wasted hardware); Israel would be similarly poorly run but they've been on excellent life support from Western powers and outside funding, otherwise they would've collapsed ages ago. Apparently a lot of West Bank settlers are literally living in wooden shacks and they're there specifically to take up land and prevent Palestinians from living in the area. End outside support for Israel and they won't need their neighbors to put a stop to them, they'd simply collapse.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If Israel had done what New Zealand had done, they literally would have been an example for every other settler colonial state

Can you elaborate? What did New Zealand do?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As far as I'm aware (admittedly maybe this was the writings of the kiwis themselves), they apparently decided to live alongside the Maori and accept them as fellow citizens; this wasn't done out of kindness of course, it was done because they would've lost in a war against them; not a good reason, but better a bad reason for a good action, than a bad reason for a horrific action.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

Yeah but the Israelis and the Palestinians did have a war, and thanks to the combined might of the west supporting them, they won. Colonizing Brits in the 18th and 19th centuries could never rely on the same sort of support from the rest of the empire, as far away as it was.

[–] daniyeg@hexbear.net 27 points 3 days ago

sure send israelis to the moon see if i care. "getting mad about hypotheticals i made in my mind" aah post

[–] Mutalisk@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The zionist urge to kill all of humanity as revenge for when people made fun of you on Twitter, lmao

“Is it absolutely true that a large rock fired into Earth from the moon using propellants would be more powerful and 100s of nuclear weapons,” Brianna Wu, a video game developer who is running to unseat Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), wrote on Twitter early Tuesday morning.

That tweet was eventually deleted from Wu’s Twitter account.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

She just finished watching The Expanse.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yet another case of Do Not Invent the Torment Nexus.

A lunar mass-driver is a major part of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Edit: As pointed out, I'm a liiiiiittle bit (completely) wrong. The mass-driver was a good thing in the book (a tool of exploitation turned into a weapon of liberation). So it's closer to "Please Invent the Freedom Nexus".

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is the lunar mass-driver a bad thing in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Because if it is then Heinlein did some inventing the torment nexus of his own given that he was advising the Reagan administration on... well, sci fi weapons, along with Larry Niven and jerry Pournelle

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The lunar mass driver was a good thing in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, it allowed the inmates of the lunar penal colony to gain their independence from earth

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh, true! Uh, hm, uh. I didn't think over the connections I was drawing very well, and just jumped to the meme categorisation instead of a better explication of the idea - that they'd gotten the concept from Heinlein and thought they were just like the protagonists.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago

MoonraKKKer

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

I do believe that if Palestinians made a moonbase and lived there, zionists would still be obsessed with them

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

I think she may have internalized the wrong message from the end of Mel Brooks's History of the World: Part I

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Can we test this with zionists? Please, let's test this.

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

if there was Zionist moon base it would definitely be some creepy secret miltiary torture laboratory so yeah, blow it up.

Also the moon is not "far reaches" of space, it's literally the closest natural object. Go colonize the Oort cloud of you want to be left alone.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Depends on if they leave the Clangers alone

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

jewish space lasers but woke